This 9/11 in Manhattan: A Time to Confront the Racists
This 9/11 in Manhattan: A Time to Confront the Racists
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Not since the massive Klu Klux Klan marches of the 1920s have white nationalists strutted their stuff so proudly. The “media-validated” Tea Partyers are on a roll, and are even getting physical with Black folks in lower Manhattan, where they plan a national rally on 9/11. The anti-racist opposition will also be out in strength, in solidarity with Muslims and, hopefully, to strongly encourage white supremacists to find someplace else to gather.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“1:pm, lower Manhattan is the right time and place to respond.”
Most days, there are lots of better things for progressives to do than follow the Tea Party around. The largely media-made “movement” already gets outsized attention, drawing cameras, as author Paul Street says, any time one hundred white guys gather at a car dealership in suburban Chicago. The NAACP and Al Sharpton seek to circle Black wagons around Barack Obama’s corporate White House by pointing to the Tea Party, rather than Wall Street’s death spiral economy, Black mass incarceration and Obama’s wars, as the gravest danger to Black America. The Tea Party can be a huge diversion, an excuse to avoid confronting real power.
But Saturday, September 11, lower Manhattan is the right time and place to respond, not just to mounting provocations from the white nationalists of the Tea Party, but to those “mainstream” politicians, including Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who have made disastrous concessions to the forces of racism.
Every utterance that urges organizers of the Cordoba House, a proposed community center with room for prayer, to respect the “sensitivities” (or, sometimes, “sensibilities”) of Muslim-haters, represents a great leap backward in U.S. history, to a time when the typical white American believed Blacks should not attempt to integrate neighborhoods and schools that did not want them. Such intrusions on white turf and hearth, although conceded as possibly within Black people’s legal rights, were deemed grossly “insensitive” to the feelings of whites. The onus was on the Black intruder, whose legal rights were morally trumped by white people’s right to be unmolested by the repugnant and scary presence of Negroes.
“’Mainstream’ politicians, including Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, have made disastrous concessions to the forces of racism.”
There is not an iota of difference between such Thirties-, Forties- and Fifties-era attitudes, and Sen. Reid’s judgment that Cordoba House “should be built some place else.” Reid, of Nevada, fits right in with the 67 percent of New Yorkers surveyed in a recent New York Times poll who said the “mosque” planners should find “a less controversial location” – that is, someplace that, theoretically, wouldn’t upset the Muslim-haters.
Cleverer politicians question the “wisdom” of being Muslim in certain places. "I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there," said President Obama, back-peddling from earlier declarations of Muslim’s absolute right to worship two blocks from the former World Trade Center. The onus remains on the Muslim, whose judgment and “wisdom” are in doubt, rather than the racist, who comes in for no such critique (Obama doesn’t believe in racists or ghosts of Mississippi).
Anti-Muslim hysteria – which is really anti-people of color hysteria – seems to have acted as a time machine, transporting the nation back two, three or more generations. But of course, there are no time machines, and we are forced us to recognize that much of the vaunted racial “progress” (in white attitudinal changes) of the past half-century never actually occurred, or simply sloughed off like old skin.
“We are forced us to recognize that much of the vaunted racial ‘progress’ (in white attitudinal changes) of the past half-century never actually occurred.”
September 11, 2001, marked the end of an era that had seemed to have been marked by great progress in fighting racial profiling – or, at least, in making the practice disrespectable. Even Republican politicians denounced racial profiling as unacceptable and “un-American.” Morally and legally, Blacks and Latinos had won significant victories against the profilers – rare good news in the criminal justice arena. Then the Twin Towers came down, and profiling was instantaneously back with a vengeance, as if decades of work had never happened. Clearly, whatever changes occurred in most white people’s minds during the pre-9/11 era must have been ephemeral. Now, the other racist shoe is dropping, as the media-validated Tea Party white nationalists plant their racist flag in downtown Manhattan, with a national rally scheduled to prevent the “Islamicization of America.”
The term that is actually on their minds is “Niggerization,” since the home-grown model of white American racism remains relentlessly operative and is the only kind these crackers can actually navigate. That’s why a thirtyish Black man was surrounded a few weeks ago by white thugs at the Tea Party’s lower Manhattan outpost, presumably because his hat and shirt appeared…Muslimish. It turned out the non-Muslim, African American passerby was a construction worker at Ground Zero.
To be frank about it, the Tea Party, and racists in general, need to be put back in their place – at least in Manhattan, where that can theoretically be accomplished.
The Emergency Mobilization Against Racism and Anti-Islamic Bigotry rally begins at 1:pm Saturday, September 11, at City Hall, and then marches to the Muslim community center site a few blocks away. Over a hundred organizations and individuals have endorsed the event, including lots of Black ones. Bring energy and anger.
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com.






















Comments
FETISHISING 9-11
Aint no lynch mob like a northern lynch mob, cause a northern lynch mob uses more sophisticated excuses to justify its actions. UGLY, UGLY, UGLY. It's hard to believe that those clowns in NYC really intended to have 9-11 trials among people like that. I hereby formally invite all of those people living in Manhattan and the other four boroughs of New York City, as well as any others from other parts of the United States who also believe that the events of 9-11 are the only large scale atrocity ever to have occurred in that area, or that Muslims or other non-Christian religions have a monopoly on evil, to take a short walk from ground zero to the nearby federal building which sprawls over a site called the Old Negro Burial Ground. After you pass through security, I invite you to stand in the foyer of the federal building and look at the walls and at the mosaic floor and if you can, to pause to reflect on what happened there and to think deeply about things such as evil, justice, vengeance, and forgiveness. Ask yourself why you believe that blood of some victims is more valuable than others, why personal responsibility only applies to those whom you dislike, and whose historical memories matter. While you're at it, spend some time pondering history and its consequences. When you have finished gaining some perspective, please feel free to holler back. I would love to catch your feed-back. Fetishising 9-11, while ignoring and/or trivializing other atrocities including those which occurred within the same geographical area, cheapens the legitimate sense of grief and outrage by telling the world that this reaction is immoral because it would be quite different or even non-existant, if the identities of the perpetrators and victims were different.
Jews As Terrorist And 9/11
Should the Jew, with the aid of his Marxist creed, triumph over the people of this world, his Crown will be the funeral wreath of mankind, and this planet will once again follow its orbit through ether, without any human life on its surface, as it did millions of years ago.
Adolf Hitler
Standing on sacred (or shaky??) ground
After careful and painstaking research I've concluded that there are a few sacred places near "Ground Zero," hallowed ground if you will. I will sacrifice life and limb for true First Amendment expression. Give me Pussy Cat Lounge or give me death! LOL
Here's one:
http://www.nydollsclub.com/
and here's the other,
http://pussycatlounge.com/
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0824/Sex-shop-and-strip...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=garXkBsWrlg
It's time to confront the racists, next thing you know they'll want to remove the adult section at Family Video. "aaarggh" When our Captains of Industry and Titans of Finance have spent a long day, robbing us blind and extorting the government, don't you think they deserve a break? Don't be such sticks-in-the-mud. You've got Family Video afterall. Sheesh.
p.s. "Pssst." "How much is that doggy in the window?"
Update #1:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/strip-club-nyc-mosque-site-means-bloc...
Strip club near planned NYC mosque means block not ‘hallowed’ ground, imam Rauf argues.
I completely agree with the Iman, I beg to differ in one respect, the strip club stage and what's on that stage is certainly "hallowed" ground..well.. that pole in the middle of the stage is if nothing else. lol
(Apparently the Iman knows little about the sexual proclivities of red-blooded Americans, has he seen that Reebox commerical lately??). Makes you want to "Just Do It." LOL
http://www.examiner.com/endurance-sports-in-national/video-reebok-easyto...
Ground Zero Hype-ocracy_Islam Center Furor-Strip-Club Tolerance
The more you learn about this not-Ground Zero non-Mosque hype the more you know its really about HYPE-ocracy. First it turns out that the WTC was built on an old slave grave site [& probably Native Americans too] - no one thought that was sacrilegious. Now it turns out that near ground-zero are at least 2 strip clubs featuring hot hoochie-coochie momas strutting their stuff. Not a word about this ‘affront’ to the ‘HOLY/Revered’ Ground Zero from hypers like Newt Grinch-witch, FOX-Noise, etc. Only when alleged Islamic 'terrorist' sympathizers of the mis-named ground-zero Mosque [its not at ground-zero, nor is it a mosque] wanted to build a culture center did the Hype-ocrits take full poly-trickal advantage. And the gall of guys like: FOX Noise hyping that Obama isn't a real American & a socialist - while FOX's owner is a native Aussie & married to a woman from Communist China; Newt Grinch-witch - the guy who helped hype-up Slick Willie & Monica - while he was carrying on a torrid adulterous affair at the same time; John ‘Bomb Bomb Bomb’ Cain who kicked his first wife [who was badly injured & in rehab at the time] to the curb after having an affair w his current wife who is 20 yrs younger & a multi-millionairess; Rude Fooliani [Giuliani]- married 3 times- the first ended w him cheating on his 1st wife w his 2nd wife & DITTO w the 2nd & 3rd wives; the so called conservative_family values Tea-Partiers selecting a candidate for NY governor who was OUTed for forwarding racist & pornographic [including Beastiality] emails; etc, etc, etc. With guys like this representing the 'Moral Majority' no wonder they can hype the NOT-Ground-Zero non-Mosque as being an affront to the ‘sanctity’ of ground-zero, but say nothing about Strip-Clubs nearby - some of them might be clients.
The "friend of my friend" : US style
If the United States is sooo alarmed by raving, lunatic, bomb-laden, American-hating, be-heading-loving Muslims, then why are arming them to the teeth? Food for thought for those of you stuck in your little Manichean Universe.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870462120457548836114962505...
The Obama administration is set to notify Congress of plans to offer advanced aircraft to Saudi Arabia worth up to $60 billion, the largest U.S. arms deal ever, and is in talks with the kingdom about potential naval and missile-defense upgrades that could be worth tens of billions of dollars more."
Didn't most of the so-called "9/11 Hijackers" come from Saudi Arabia? Isn't this the "kingdom" whose treatment of women we decry? Maybe you bigots need to line up outside of the halls of Congress or the Pentagon. Seems your vaunted government is playing you for suckers. But you can't blame them because that's what you are, "suckers." Sucking your thumbs while the Oligarchs transfer your wealth.
Not to worry your little fear-mongering heads, look at the bright side, it's a "jobs-creation bill" right? More "stimulus" Obama-style. Sort of reminds me of when the Israelis sold weaponry to Iran during the Iran/Iraq War. Or did you "rigorous" arm-chair historians conveniently forget the "Iran-Contra" scandal. (That was a classic "two-fer, funding Iran and Death Squads in Latin America) Did your darling Lt. Oliver North convince you that was an aberration of sorts?
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1889.html
I've never seen a country so stuck on stupid. Duh United States of America. LOL
p.s. Note to "rigorous students of ahistorical bullshit." Eventually the "notorious contra" Daniel Ortega, was DEMOCRATICALLY elected to power in Nicaragua, and (outside of US meddling) Nicaragua seems to be doing fine. The "Communist Horde" apparently didn't invade the US. Who won "that" Cold War fight?
Here's also a footnote for you "feministas" so concerned with the fate of women in repressed society (or so you say):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua
In 1990, Nicaragua elected Violeta Chamorro as its president, making it the first country in the Americas and in Latin American history to democratically elect a female head of state and the second country in the Western Hemisphere to do so, following Iceland's democratic election of Vigdís Finnbogadóttir.[13]
Stop getting your third grade version of history from Palin, Newt and Beck, and the bullshitters on talk radio, plying you like the cheap recorder you learned music on in 3rd grade. Read a friggen book.
Just who REALLY were the 9-11
Just who REALLY were the 9-11 hijackers?
The following story appeared on rt.com (Russia Today)
Nine years on, 9/11 jury is still out
11 September, 2010, 09:13
On the ninth anniversary of the worst terror attacks to strike the US mainland, many questions remain unanswered, not least of all concerning the true identities of the perpetrators.
Three days after the events of 9/11 came crashing into our living rooms, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported the identities of the hijackers of the four US commercial aircraft. This was certainly record time for cracking the biggest crime case of modern times. However, the FBI may have jumped the gun, so to speak, on rushing to identify the perpetrators so quickly. As things turned out, this would be no small oversight – and even a bit of an embarrassment – since several of the accused terrorists were quickly reported to be alive and well.
One of the alleged terrorists on 9/11 was identified as Waleed Al Shehri, who the FBI accused of helping to hijack and crash American Airlines flight 11 into the World Trade Center together with four other individuals.
There was just one problem, however: Waleed Al Shehri is alive and at the time of the 9/11 attacks was employed as a pilot for Saudi Arabian Airlines.
Moreover, Al Shehri is not the only individual who appears to have been a victim of identity theft on 9/11. Indeed, less than two weeks after 9/11, British media reported that “the identities of four of the 19 suspects accused of having carried out the attacks are now in doubt.”
“The men – all from Saudi Arabia – spoke of their shock at being mistakenly named by the FBI as suicide terrorists,” reported the Telegraph of London. “None of the four was in the United States on September 11 and all are alive in their home country.”
One of the men, Abdulaziz Al Omari, was employed at the time of the attacks as an engineer with Saudi Telecoms. He told Arab media about the shock he felt when he saw his name on the terrorist list.
"I couldn't believe it when the FBI put me on their list,” Al Omari told Arab media. “They gave my name and my date of birth, but I am not a suicide bomber. I am here. I am alive. I have no idea how to fly a plane. I had nothing to do with this."
The other exonerated “terrorists” were identified as Saeed Al-Ghamdi, who works as a pilot with Saudi Arabian Airlines; Salem Al-Hamzi, who is employed at a petrochemical complex; and Ahmed Al-Nami, an administrative supervisor with Saudi Arabian Airlines.
Of the 19 alleged terrorists, seven of the men have subsequently been confirmed as being alive, yet their names remain on the official list of hijackers. Meanwhile, none of the names of the suspected terrorists were ever found to have been included on the official (original) passenger manifests of the hijacked flights. No explanation has ever been given for this oversight. When media reports do provide names of the passengers, however, they fail to say if the manifest was obtained from the airlines or not.
To date, the only piece of tangible evidence that any one of the 19 accused hijackers were actually on board any of the four hijacked aircraft was discovered on a sidewalk near the site of the World Trade Center complex.
Following the attacks, a passport belonging to Satam al Suqam, one of the alleged hijackers, was miraculously discovered in the vicinity of Vesey Street, near the World Trade Center.
"It was a significant piece of evidence for us," said one investigator.
So now the obvious question: How did the flimsy passport of one of the suspected hijackers emerge practically unscathed from the World Trade Center inferno, which was powerful enough to melt steel, and turn up on a New York City sidewalk?
The Guardian, for one, was highly skeptical: "The idea that [al Suqam's] passport had escaped from that inferno unsinged [tests] the credulity of the staunchest supporter of the FBI's crackdown on terrorism."
A look at the perpetrators
So who were the hijackers? The official story is that 15 of the 19 individuals accused of pirating United Airlines 93, United Airlines 175, American Airlines Flight 11 and American Airlines Flight 77 were Saudi Arabian citizens, trained in Afghanistan and, of course, fanatical Muslims born and bred on the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed.
The problem, however, is that the main terrorists on 9/11, namely Muhammad Atta, the alleged ringleader, and Abdulaziz Alomari behaved in a way that would not be considered normal for two dedicated Muslims who are about to commit suicide against "the infidel."
“It is the afternoon of September the 10th,” says Moni Ovadia, an Italian actor who provides narration in the film Zero: An Investigation into 9/11. “The next day will be the most important day in the two men’s’ lives. A day on which they cannot make any mistakes. But what do they do? They go on a trip to Portland! They spend the night there and they attract attention to themselves with their noisy revelry. They also pay with credit cards in their names. They do everything they can to leave traces of their presence there.”
At 6 AM on the fateful morning of 9/11, the two men fly to Boston. The plane that they are supposed to hijack, American Airlines Flight 11, which eventually crashes into the North Tower of the WTC, is scheduled to depart just 30 minutes after their arrival. This is cutting things extremely close.
The one piece of evidence that attempts to prove that these two individuals were on board this flight comes courtesy of CCTV video footage, photos that were beamed around the world as definitive proof of their involvement. The only problem, however, is that the grainy video grabs show the alleged hijackers boarding at Portland, not in Boston as widely believed.
But perhaps the most baffling details to emerge about the 9/11 terrorists is their inability to operate even the smallest aircraft, to say nothing of large commercial aircraft. Every flight instructor who had ever trained any of the alleged hijackers had nothing but negative remarks for their abilities to fly a plane.
Hani Hanjour, for example, who has been identified as the pilot who flew Flight 77 into the Pentagon, was said to have had problems landing even a small Cessna 172. Newsday reported that, “Even though Hanjour showed a federal pilot’s license…chief flight instructor…refused to rent him a plane.”
So on the basis of such poor piloting skills, how can we believe that Hansour was able to perform a flight maneuver with a lumbering Boeing 757 into the Pentagon that even a highly maneuverable fighter jet would have had trouble performing?
According to an article in the Washington Post, "The unidentified pilot executed a pivot so tight that it reminded observers of a fighter jet maneuver."
Meanwhile, the flight instructor who worked with Muhammad Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari, the two who were responsible for piloting American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower, described them as “dumb and dumber” when it came to their flying skills.
The mystery of the mastermind
One of the most incriminating pieces of evidence that is said to link Al Qaeda to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 apparently comes straight from the mouth of the terror mastermind himself, Osama bin Laden.
Following the 9/11 attacks, US soldiers stumbled upon a videotape in an abandoned house in Afghanistan that had allegedly sheltered Al Qaeda militants. According to the American translation of what is said on the tape, Osama bin Laden claims responsibility for the 9/11 attacks.
Marina Montesano of the University of Genova, however, provides a strikingly different opinion in the film Zero.
“A German TV network gave an alternative translation,” Montesano says. “It is completely different from the one given by American investigators. They (Al Qaeda) are not, apparently, claiming a role in the September 11th attacks. They are simply talking about what happened on September 11th.”
Montesano goes on to say that other videos containing Osama bin Laden are also inaccurate in their translations.
“Many of the other videos of Osama bin Laden have…a person speaking, and an audio track that does not correspond, or that corresponds very little, to what his lips are actually saying,” she claims.
Meanwhile, Giulietto Chiesa, a former member of the European Parliament and the producer of the film Zero, provided an incredible account of how the image of Osama bin Laden was manipulated to great effect during a European security meeting.
“People often ask me,” says Chiesa: “‘How can you doubt the official version [of 9/11] when Osama bin Laden himself appeared several times on television to say, ‘I did it.’”
Chiesa explains in his film: “In the summer of 2005, the Commission of the European Parliament for Security and Defense, of which I am a member, was invited to a special screening created by the Washington Center for Strategic Studies. We were asked to watch a film that depicted what would happen in Europe if Brussels was hit by a nuclear bomb – 50,000 deaths and 100,000 injured.”
The image that next appeared on the huge screen clearly took Chiesa by surprise, as well as the other European officials in attendance.
“Suddenly, footage of Osama bin Laden claiming responsibility for a nuclear attack on NATO headquarters comes on screen," Chiesa recounted. "All members of the Parliament, myself included, were rendered speechless. American experts from the Center for Strategic Studies were on hand to explain the action on screen.
“Then a parliamentarian finally said, ‘Today, we were shown a convincing demonstration of how Osama bin Laden’s image can be completely manipulated.'”
The experience allowed Chiesa to consider the possibility that “all of the Osamas we have seen over the years may have never existed. Just as a nuclear attack on NATO headquarters in Brussels has never taken place.”
Finally, incredible as it may sound, even the FBI remains unconvinced about Osama bin Laden’s participation in the events surrounding 9/11. Although he is a wanted man for other heinous crimes, including the bombings of the United States’ Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, which killed over 200 people, bin Laden is not wanted in connection with the attacks of 9/11.
On June 5, 2006, the Muckraker Report contacted the FBI Headquarters and asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on the FBI's web page. Rex Tomb, the FBI's Chief of Investigative Publicity, is reported to have commented, "The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Osama bin Laden's Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11."
On the basis of that comment, some may be rightly wondering exactly why US and NATO forces are battling the Taliban in Afghanistan, which the US accused of “harboring terrorists” on the very same day that the events broke on 9/11, despite there being little or no evidence to connect Osama bin Laden to 9/11.
Perhaps once Osama bin Laden is finally captured, he can shed some light on these nagging inconsistencies, otherwise the international community may be theorizing about 9/11 for a long time to come.
I ALREADY ANSWERED THIS QUESTION BELOW
"Just who were the 9/11 hijackers?"
Short answer: Nobody, because it's basically a certainty that nothing was hijacked that morning.
Longer answer: As I explained in my post below, the people accused of being "suicide hijackers" (aside from the handful of victims of identity theft who weren't involved at all) were almost certainly C.I.A. assets who had been led to believe that they were undertaking flight training so they could become C.I.A. drug smuggling pilots to fly cocaine into Florida. Obviously this was a ploy to maneuver them into position so they could at the appropriate time be disposed of then framed up as "Islamic terrorist hijacker pilots" by virtue of them having Muslim names and undertaking rudimentary flight training. Only this explains all the otherwise inexplicable questions like "Why would they behave like heathens yet purportedly be so devoted as to be willing to die for what they allegedly thought was an Islamic cause?" Because they weren't willing to die for it and they were just westernized C.I.A. hacks who were no more Islamic than Woody Allen. For the C.I.A.'s frame-up purposes they didn't need to be, as the average ignorant American isn't going to put it all together and simply having an Islamic surname would suffice. Or "How could they pull off the complicated maneuvers they did if they were such lousy and incompetent pilots in small propellor planes let alone jumbo jets?" Easy. They didn't. The plan wasn't for them to hijack and fly anything, or even need to board an airliner, instead to be killed off and blamed for it.
"Perhaps once Osama bin Laden is finally captured, he can shed some light on these nagging inconsistencies..."
Or perhaps not, considering bin Laden is both 1.dead since late 2001 and 2.not responsible for the 9/11 attacks in the first place.
Jerking off in lobby while your safe deposit box is ransacked
WAKE UP PEOPLE!!. While we are having conniptions about the "Clash of the Civilizations" we are being robbed blind. Let's go back to 2001.
http://benfrank.net/patriots/node/125/print
Rumsfeld Sept 10, 2001: The Pentagon cannot account for $2.3 TRILLION
By BenFranklin2006
@BBF mail: Murder, rape, mayhem and repression
are equal opportunity endeavors.
Nobody has a monopoly on evil, which is precisely my point... among others.
Some of these terrorists would exist without encouragement or interference by the US like wasp and hornets exist in our backyard. Problem is, the US and it's fellow colonial powers have made whacking the wasp nets a fundamental component of US and/or Imperial policy. The US and Europe FOMENTS terrorism whether it's Latin American death squads, African "peace keepers," or "Freedom Fighters" in Eurasia. Al Qaeda (which according to the US own intelligence sources number in the measly hundreds in Iraq and Afghanistan) would not exist without US and Europe assistance.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/president-obamas-secret-100-al-qaeda-now-a...
We've created the Frankenstein monster,-- armed them, trained them, weaponized them, propagandized them. Isn't it clear we are dealing with an exaggerated threat?
Any one who believes that this is about religion and freedoms is frankly nuts. All wars are RESOURCE WARS. This phony WOT is about the Eurasian "Great Game" and who will control the world's energy supplies.
The Elites could give a shit about radical Islam which they help to incite and create, they likewise could give a shit about the murder of Christians, Buddhists, or.... you fill in the blank. We need to stop casting this discussion in terms of "radical Islam," or "East v. West" and focus on the on-going (soon-to-be jacked up) RESOURCE WARS raging across the planet.
This "my God is bigger or better than your God" bullshit needs to stop. What the hell are we doing spending Trillions of dollars to fight a few hundred "extremists?" Does that make any sense to you? Can't you see this is about transferring wealth from taxpayers to well-connected "contractors" (in addition to being a resource war?
There are people dying all over this world, wars and repression not even mentioned or reported, conflicts invisible to the American insomniacs, or ones they don't simply care about, all fought in the name of some twisted concept of my deity being better than your deity. All of it's wicked.
Wowsers!
@E.C.
Look what I found:
Untangling the Bizarre CIA Links to the Ground Zero Mosque
By Mark Ames
September 10, 2010 | 2:36 p.m
http://www.observer.com/2010/politics/untangling-new-intrigue-behind-gro...
The American Inquisition
America's Holy Crusade against the Muslim World.
By Michel Chossudovsky
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20818
The American Inquisition
A "war of religion" is unfolding, with a view to justifying a global military crusade. In the inner consciousness of many Americans, the "holy crusade" against Muslims is justified. While President Obama may uphold freedom of religion, the US inquisitorial social order has institutionalized patterns of discrimination, prejudice and xenophobia directed against Muslims. Ethnic profiling applies to travel, the job market, access to education and social services and more generally to social status and mobility.
The American Inquisition as an ideological construct which is, in many regards, similar to the inquisitorial social order prevailing in France and Spain during the Middle Ages. The inquisition, which started in France in the 12th century, was used as a justification for conquest and military intervention. (See Michel Chossudovsky, 9/11 and the "American Inquisition", Global Research, September 11, 2008).
The arrests, trials and sentences of so-called "homegrown" terrorists" (from within America's Muslim community) on trumped up charges sustain the legitimacy of the Homeland Security State and its inquisitorial legal and law enforcement apparatus.
An inquisitorial doctrine turns realities upside down. It is a social order based on lies and fabrications. But because these lies emanate from the highest political authority and are part of a widely held "consensus", they invariably remain unchallenged. And those who challenge the inquisitorial order or in any way oppose America's military or national security agenda are themselves branded as "conspiracy theorists" or outright terrorists.
Beyond the process of inquisitorial arrests and prosecution, which outdwarfs the Spanish inquisition, an expedient extrajudicial assassination program sanctioned by the White House has been launched. This program allows US special forces to kill American citizens and suspected homegrown terrorists:: "A shortlist of U.S. citizens specifically targeted for killing"? (See Chuck Norris, Obama's US Assassination Program? "A Shortlist of U.S. Citizens specifically Targeted for Killing"?,. Global Research, August 26, 2010)
The objective is to sustain the illusion that "America is under attack" and that Muslims across the land are complicit and supportive of "Islamic terrorism".
The demonization of Muslims sustains a global military agenda. Under the American inquisition, Washington has a self-proclaimed holy mandate to extirpate Islam and "spread democracy" throughout the world.
What we are dealing with is an outright and blind acceptance of the structures of power and political authority. America's holy crusade against the Muslim World is an outright criminal act directed against millions of people. It is a war of economic conquest.
More than 60% of the World's oil and natural gas reserves lie in Muslim lands. "The Battle for Oil" waged by the US NATO Israel military alliance requires the demonization of the inhabitants of those countries which possess these vast reserves of oil and natural gas. (See Michel Chossudovsky, The Demonization of Muslims and the Battle for Oil, Global Research, January 4, 2007)
Manhattan
Well, I will say that I am so happy that I am not anywhere near Manhattan. This is a sacred day to many, the anniversary of the most frightening day of America and all these battle yet continue to rage.
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This is all a distraction from 9/11 truth
The Imam is the arab Al Sharpton. He's a paid agent provocateur and informant. The Saudi Prince bankrolled this muslim center and he owns Fox News with Rupert Murdoch. Which means they're stoking the flames of hatred from both, the white and arab end. Divide and rule:
News Corp’s number-two shareholder funded ‘terror mosque’ planner
By John Cook
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100820/bs_yblog_upshot/news-corps...
Let me get this straight...
Fox News demonizes Muslims while a radical wahhabist, neo-feudalistic, Islamofascist, Shari'ah law Shiekdom -with links to the Carlyle Group and Osama bin Laden- owns Fox (and Citigroup) ?
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Former US Senator Mike Gravel (D-AK) and Richard Gage, AIA, Founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth Discuss Scientific Findings
National Press Club, Washington DC, 2:00 pm, Thursday, September 9, 2010
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 -- On Thursday September 9, 2010, Gravel and Gage will host a central press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, presenting hard evidence that all three WTC skyscrapers on September 11, 2001, in NYC were destroyed by explosive controlled demolition.
Senator Gravel notes, "Critically important evidence has come forward after the original government building reports were completed."
This press conference will be webcast at AE911Truth.org and hosted concurrently in cities throughout the world.* Following the conference, there will be a mock debate during which public statements made by government investigators and other defenders of the official account will be presented and responded to in multimedia format. "They refuse to debate us in person," says Gage, "so we will let their public statements represent them."
Gage will release a media-friendly summary of his organization's findings, which are based on forensic evidence as well as video and eyewitness testimony that were omitted from official reports. He will show evidence that the WTC Twin Towers were not destroyed by jet plane impacts or fires, but by pre-set explosives and incendiaries. The non-profit organization, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, will also call for a grand jury investigation of government report lead engineers Shyam Sunder and John Gross of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. "They were in a position to know the evidence we have been presenting," says Gage.
Also speaking will be Florida State Professor Lance deHaven-Smith, who coined the academic term State Crimes Against Democracy (SCAD). Prof. deHaven-Smith has appeared on Good Morning America, the Today Show, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, CBS Nightly News with Dan Rather, and other national TV/radio shows.
My freedom fighter your terrorists
9/11 ANALYSIS: From Ronald Reagan and the Soviet-Afghan War to George W Bush and September 11, 2001
by Michel Chossudovsky
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20958
This article summarizes earlier writings by the author on 9/11 and the role of Al Qaeda in US foreign policy. For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, America's "War on Terrorism", Global Research, 2005
"The United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings....The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books,..", (Washington Post, 23 March 2002)
"Advertisements, paid for from CIA funds, were placed in newspapers and newsletters around the world offering inducements and motivations to join the [Islamic] Jihad." (Pervez Hoodbhoy, Peace Research, 1 May 2005)
"Bin Laden recruited 4,000 volunteers from his own country and developed close relations with the most radical mujahideen leaders. He also worked closely with the CIA, ... Since September 11, [2001] CIA officials have been claiming they had no direct link to bin Laden." (Phil Gasper, International Socialist Review, November-December 2001)
Racism?
Look I realize that many Afri-Americans have converted to Islam, but do you really believe that someone like Mohammed Ali really understands Sharia law and do you think he really wants to behead someone who doesn't agree?
I think the majority of AA's converted because they felt left out and wanted to make a statement.
This has nothing to do with racism.
This us about understanding that the way Islam is configured right now us incompatible with the US Constitution
Typical American Exceptionalism tripe
The question isn't whether Ali understands Sharia law,the question is whether YOU understand it? (Other than the "enlightenment" you probably got from Newt or Glen Beck)
In case you didn't have time to take a break from hiding under your sheets or changing your diaper from fear of the "Muslim Horde" (or a possible beheading) you might have noticed over 1/4 of the world's population is Muslim and there are no daily beheadings, are there?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_world
Quote: "I think the majority of AA's converted because they felt left out and wanted to make a statement."
What a crock; now you are claiming the ability to read the minds and hearts of hundreds of thousands of African Americans who are Muslim. No small feat. And one totally oblivious to history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States
Excerpt: Many of the slaves brought to colonial America from Africa were Muslims[30][31]. By 1800, some 500,000 Africans arrived in what became the United States. Historians estimate that between 15 to 30 percent of all enslaved African men, and less than 15 percent of the enslaved African women, were Muslims. These enslaved Muslims stood out from their compatriots because of their "resistance, determination and education" [32]
It is estimated that over 50% of the slaves imported to North America came from areas where Islam was followed by at least a minority population. Thus, no less than 200,000 came from regions influenced by Islam. Substantial numbers originated from Senegambia, a region with an established community of Muslim inhabitants extending to the 11th century.[33]
Next time, put your false fears aside to do some homework...or real thinking. Wikipedia is weak in terms of scholarly value, but even someone with half a brain or curiosity could have consulted it before making sweeping, UNFOUNDED statements.
For the record, ALL religions are incompatible with the Constitution that's why the CONSTITUTION mandates separation of church and state. Duh.
That makes us "a Christian Nation," sorry. NOT!!!
In fact, given the majority of Slaves from Africa who were Muslim, maybe we're actually a Muslim nation, huh?
Funny how you talk about incompatibility with the Constitution when that very document has been shredded to attack Muslim countries, to rendention them to Black Sites around the world, to torture them, to assassinate them, bomb them, leave depleted uranium to poison them, destroy their civil societies, and then after committing war crimes such as these, deny them due process of law, often by invoking the cloak of "States Secrets." Secret my ass, the cat's been let out of the bag.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/09/08/obama/index...
You "Exceptional Americans" would be funny if you weren't so dangerous. Your fear is only matched by your stupidity. I'd be willing to compare the number of innocent people, namely poor and Black, wrongfully executed in this country, the one with the largest prison population on the planet, with the number of beheadings taking place in the Muslim world.
Update:
http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/09/army-12-soldiers-killed-afgh...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20913
MUSLIMS ARE MURDERING CHRISTIANS IN MANY COUNTRIES
Somali Christian Killed, Four Children Kidnapped
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 7 (CDN) — Another member of an underground Christian movement in Somalia has been murdered by Muslim insurgents in a continuing campaign to eliminate converts from Islam.
Area sources said al Shabaab militants entered the house of Osman Abdullah Fataho in Afgoi, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Mogadishu in Shibis district, at 10:30 the night of July 21 and shot him dead in front of his wife and children.
Fataho was a long-time Christian deeply involved in the activities of the small, secret Christian community, sources said. Area Christians said they suspected someone had informed the insurgents of Fataho’s faith.
The assailants abducted his wife and children, later releasing her on the condition that she surrender the little ones to be trained as soldiers, sources said.
“We know they have taken the children to brain-wash them, to change their way of life from Christian to Muslim and to teach them the Quran,” said one source. “Al Shabaab was aware that her husband was a Christian, but they were not sure of her faith.”
Abducted were 5-year-old Ali Daud Fataho, 7-year-old Fatuma Safia Fataho, 10-year-old Sharif Ahmed Fataho and Nur Said Fataho, 15.
A Christian leader who attended Fataho’s funeral on July 22 said that one of the slain man’s relatives noted that the insurgents had targeted him because he had left Islam. The al Shabaab militants are said to have links with al Qaeda.
The incident has spread fear among the faithful in the lawless country, much of which lies in the grip of ruthless insurgents intent on rooting out any person professing Christianity. Leaders of the Christian underground movement have been forced to flee their homes to avoid being killed by the insurgents, said one leader who together with seven others has temporarily moved to an undisclosed area.
The leader added that he was unable to go to his office for fear of falling into the hands of the hard-line Islamic insurgents.
Al Shabaab, which controls large parts of central Somalia, recently banned radio stations from playing music and outlawed bell ringing that signals the end of school classes “because they sound like church bells.”
In 2009 Islamic militants in Somalia sought out and killed at least 15 Christians, including women and children. This year, on Jan. 1 al Shabaab insurgents murdered 41-year-old Mohammed Ahmed Ali after the Christian had left his home in Hodan, on the outskirts of Mogadishu.
On March 15, al Shabaab rebels shot Madobe Abdi to death on March 15 at 9:30 a.m. in Mahaday village, 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Jowhar. Abdi’s death was distinctive in that he was not a convert from Islam. An orphan, Abdi was raised as a Christian.
On May 4, the militants shot Yusuf Ali Nur to death in Xarardheere, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Jowhar. The 57-year-old Nur had been on a list of people al Shabaab suspected of being Christian, sources who spoke on condition of anonymity told Compass.
The transitional government in Mogadishu fighting to retain control of the country treats Christians little better than the al Shabaab insurgents do. While proclaiming himself a moderate, President Sheikh Sharif Sheik Ahmed has embraced a version of sharia (Islamic law) that mandates the death penalty for those who leave Islam.
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http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/pakistan/24862/
Article about Christians murdered in Pakistan.
see www.compassdirect.org for additional articles on the murders of Christians in Nigeria.
Tit for tat is not an analysis of the REAL PROBLEM
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/selflabeled-christian-counterpart-osa...
Self-labeled ‘Christian counterpart of Osama bin Laden’ allegedly planned clinic bombing
Of course Muslims are murdering Christians, Christians are murdering Muslims, Jews are murdering Muslims, Hindus are Murdering Muslims, Muslims are Murdering Hindus. What's the point???
Hopefully that EXTREMISM is dangerous no matter the person.
Signs of the Rise of White Nationalism
Glen Ford @ BAR uses the term 'White Nationalism' to describe what so many hardcore FOX Noise [News] types say directly & indirectly when they rant & rave on these issues. Thus they will say let's take our country back [from whom??? Not the Corp_Wall St Banksters' control of corrupt politicians.] Funny how they didn't say this during the Bush/Cheney Neo-Con Regime's assault on the civil liberties & the 'Rule of Law' - only now during Obama's Admin. Or that the US was founded on Christian principles [not true- many / most of the so-called founding fathers weren't even 'traditional' Christians] even though it’s written in the Constitution 'Separation of Church & State' & forbids State operated Churches. So when they use this mythology one must suspect that they really mean that the US is supposed to be a WASP [IE: for White, English Speaking, Christians] nation [IE: White Nationalism]. Thus they attack all Islam & all Mosques as breeding grounds for terrorism; but Horrifically TERROR-ble Illegal Wars Based on Lies are called the 'War on Terror [Islam]'. They also seek to militarize the Mexican border & write laws that 'legally' mandate the police to racially profile Hispanics. Now they even want to repeal the 14th Amendment. And they can find- not just Democrat politricksters - but even some spot-lighted NEGROES to jump on their band wagon [because: We're all Americans- Till We say you're not]. Such NEGROES either have historical amnesia &/or are just political prostitutes. The 13th, 14th & 15th amendments were written to try & negate the constitutionally enshrined notion that Blacks [who were slaves at that time] were only 3/5s of a Human Being & the dreadful Dread Scott ruling that Blacks had no rights that Whites had to respect. The AZ law mandates police to do the kind of racial profiling that Blacks & Browns have been assaulted / insulted w every day for decades across the US. Corp sell-out politicians both DEMs & GOPs [IE: Reagan, the Bushes, Slick Willie] had Corp 'friendly' policies that broke Unions, suppressed wages, shipped jobs overseas [NAFTA, GATT], while destroying the agricultural sector & Economies of countries like Mexico & Haiti, which lead to an increase of easily exploitable immigrant labor. But the reaction of the WASPs is not to change / repeal NAFTA, GATT, WTO, IMF, etc; but to change / repeal the 14th amendment & to demand that the US Gov pay Mercenaries [IE: Blackwater whose owner Erik Prince says he's a {'white'} Christian Crusader] to militarize [terrorize] the Mexicans at border. Further the first time I [like many Blacks my age] heard of Islam was via the NOI from which came such notables of the Black Freedom Struggle as: Elijah Muhammed, Malcolm X, Minister Farrakhan, & Muhammad Ali. And sports legends like: Kareem Abdul Jabar, Ahkeem Olajuwan, & Ahmad Rashad, etc are Muslims. Any so-called Black who eagerly joins up w FOX Noise Types in their WASP rantings- is either DUMB &/or a SELLOUT.
AND… If the 911-Truthers are even half right that - 19 Muslim guys w box-cutters [most of whom shouldn’t have even been able to get in &/or stay in the US in the first place & half of them shouldn’t have been able to get on those planes that day] successfully outwitted a Trillion-$ defence-security-intelligence network while being directed by a Muslim ‘Phantom Menace’ in an Afghan cave who was hooked-up to a dialysis machine – just doesn’t make a lot of sense & there’s probably more to this story… Then blaming (all or any) Muslims for the 9-11 attacks may be completely off target.
nobody hijacked anything that morning
" If the 911-Truthers are even half right that - 19 Muslim guys w box-cutters [most of whom shouldn’t have even been able to get in &/or stay in the US in the first place & half of them shouldn’t have been able to get on those planes that day] successfully outwitted a Trillion-$ defence-security-intelligence network..."
Nixakliel, we can be pretty certain that nobody hijacked anything that morning. Several of the accused "hijackers" turned up alive and well several days later, wondering why their photos and names were being falsely connected to an attack which, with them being alive, they obviously had nothing to do with.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1559151.stm
For another thing, of the accused "hijacker pilots" they were not very skilled in flying even small propellor planes like Piper Cubs, and had no experience whatsoever in flying any jet engine aircraft, let alone large passenger aircraft like Boeing 757s and -767s. Alhazmi and Almihdhar were described by a flight instructor at Sorbi's Flying Club as: "It was like Dumb and Dumber," he told the New York Times. "I mean, they were clueless. It was clear to me they weren't going to make it as pilots."
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2001/Oct-26-Fri-2001/news/1730994...
Another article quotes the instructor as saying "they had no idea what they were doing".
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2002/national-reporting/works/093001.html
And bear in mind, this is on small propellor planes. Yet supposedly Alhazmi and Almihdhar were the first two selected as pilots by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: "KSM trained the first two suicide operatives recruited - Saudi nationals Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3813997.stm In fact, though usually Hani Hanjour is the one accused of piloting the Pentagon strike as per the official myth, an article in the San Jose Mercury News, here reprinted on JihadWatch, Alhazmi is claimed to be the "pilot" when it says: "The terrorist believed to have flown a hijacked airliner into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, obtained a California driver's license without providing the required Social Security number for identification, officials are acknowledging for the first time. Nawaf M.S. Alhazmi then used that license when he registered for the flight training that enabled him to pilot the doomed airliner." http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/004937.php And that was an article written in February 2005, so it is unclear why at that late date they still wouldn't have the official myth's details fully received and "plugged in". Regardless of whether it is an oversight or deliberate, there is no way Alhazmi, Almihdhar or Hanjour could pilot a Boeing 757 with their lack of skills in much smaller aircraft and having never flown a jet before. But you aren't supposed to think of that.
Atta and Al-Shehhi were not much good either: "In early October [2000], the two failed a Stage I exam for an instruments pilot rating."
http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/atta_and_shehhi_enroll_a...
Ziad Jarrah was little better than they were, and was denied being able to fly solo: "Because Hortman deemed Jarrah unfit to fly solo, he could fly this route only with an instructor.134 Hanjour, too, requested to fly the Hudson Corridor about this same time, at Air Fleet Training Systems in Teterboro,New Jersey, where he started receiving ground instruction soon after settling in the area with Hazmi."
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/9/11_Commission_Report/Chapter_7
The one who had the most difficult job of all, flying an "airliner" into the Pentagon, Hani Hanjour, was the worst of them all, absolutely terrible. The 9/11 Commission report also states about Hanjour that: "Hanjour flew the Hudson Corridor, but his instructor declined a second request because of what he considered Hanjour’s poor piloting skills." Then when he was in Bowie, Maryland "He took three flights with the instructors in the second week of August, but flew so poorly he was rejected for the rental, said Marcel Bernard, chief flight instructor at Freeway."
http://www.newsline.umd.edu/justice/specialreports/stateofemergency/airp...
Yet the task he is accused of performing would have required considerable skill for even a qualified airline pilot, let alone a flight school washout. His maneuver is described thusly: "After the attacks, for example, aviation experts concluded that the final maneuvers of American Airlines Flight 77 -- a tight turn followed by a steep, accurate descent into the Pentagon -- was the work of "a great talent . . . virtually a textbook turn and landing," the law enforcement official said."
http://www.siteinstitute.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=news902&Category=news&S...
Elsewhere described as: "The hijacker-pilots were then forced to execute a difficult high-speed descending turn. Radar shows Flight 77 did a downward spiral, turning almost a complete circle and dropping the last 7,000 feet in two-and-a-half minutes. The steep turn was so smooth, the sources say, it's clear there was no fight for control going on. And the complex maneuver suggests the hijackers had better flying skills than many investigators first believed."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/09/11/national/main310721.shtml
Here's a diagram of that manouevre: http://911research.wtc7.net/planes/evidence/docs/aa77_final_maneuver.png
This from a guy that couldn't fly a small plane well enough to be allowed to rent it and fly solo??
Clearly they didn't hijack anything and fly it into buildings. The other main problem with the "hijackers" is that not only were they nowhere near skilled enough, they were also nowhere near Muslim enough. Remember, these are nineteen people accused of being so devoutly Muslim that they were perfectly willing to sacrifice their own lives to take some "infidels" with them. But they behaved like the exact opposite of devout Muslims, or even PRACTICING Muslims. Many of them drank alcohol. Heavily. "Agents in Hollywood showed employees at a downtown restaurant, Shuckums, photos of two men. Manager Tony Amos said yesterday he identified a man in a photo with the name Mohamed on the bottom.
"The guy Mohamed [Atta] was drunk, his voice was slurred and he had a thick accent," Amos said."
http://www.nj.com/specialprojects/index.ssf?/specialprojects/huntevil/fl...
At another bar, Marwan Alshehhi is described as: "Marwan would talk to you; he enjoyed being in the bar," she said. "He enjoyed company." The article also says they frequented the bar (Outlook): "When Lizsa Lehman saw the 19 mugshots of the 9/11 terrorists displayed prominently in the newspaper, she found two familiar faces starring back at her -- Marwan al-Shehhi and Mohamed Atta. She got to know them both when they bellied up to her bar at the Outlook in Venice after their flying lessons a few miles away."
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060910/NEWS/60...
That they were hard drinkers is confirmed by the accounts of bartenders at Shuckums among other places: "Tony Amos, the manager of Shuckums Oyster Bar and Restaurant in Hollywood, just north of Miami, was interviewed by the FBI and he and his barman and a waitress all identified Atta and his cousin as some hard drinkers who propped up the bar last Friday. Atta's bill for three hours of vodka drinking came to $48 (£33)."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/14/whunt114...
Another article says "They were wasted," said Idrissi".
http://www.sptimes.com/News/091301/Worldandnation/FBI_seizes_records_of....
The night before 9/11 Atta and Alshehhi (which later "revisions" of the official myth put in Portland, Maine that night) were at a strip club in Daytona Beach, Florida, where they were getting hammered drunk and making threats: "In Daytona Beach, Kap said he told FBI investigators the men in his bar spent $200 to $300 apiece on lap dances and drinks, paying with credit cards. Kap said he gave the FBI credit card receipts, photocopied driver's licenses, a business card left by one man and a copy of the Quran - the sacred book of Islam - that was left at the bar." (convenient little bit of "evidence" left behind isn't it?). Bear in mind, Islam forbids both drinking alcohol AND nude debauchery. It also says "They were talking about what a bad place America is. They said 'Wait 'til tomorrow. America is going to see bloodshed,"' said John Kap, manager of the Pink Pony and Red Eyed Jack's Sports Bar. Kap said they made the claims to a bartender and a patron."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/09/14/national/main311268.shtml
Another article notes the contradiction between Islamic fundamentalism and hard drinking, yet doesn't try to explain it away: "It happened at Shuckums, a raw bar on Hollywood's Harrison Street. Al-Shehhi and Atta knocked back drinks -- forbidden by the Islamic teachings they so zealously embraced." (Obviously they DIDN'T "so zealously embrace" Islamic teachings!).
http://web.archive.org/web/20010922164519/www.miami.com/herald/special/n...
They also did (other) drugs, said elsewhere by Amanda Keller, Atta's supposed girlfriend, to be cocaine, and alluded to here: ""They were gone for three days," said Tony LaConca. "They didn't sleep -- it was a continuous party." LaConca said Mohamed footed the entire bill for the weekend including buying Keller and the unnamed employee new clothes, alcohol, drugs and hotel stay."
http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/091401/tp4ch14.htm
Apparently they also smoked pot: "The students reportedly smoked a strange tobacco which smelled like marijuana, Kyser said."
http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/091401/tp1ch11.htm?date=091401&st...
Then consider that Mohamed Atta and Ziad Jarrah both had girlfriends, and both lived with their girlfriends at times, Atta in Florida, and Jarrah when he was in Germany. This is strictly forbidden for unmarried couples to be living together. A Muslim friend of Jarrah's from Germany said "I used to criticize him for living with her. By our religion, this living together before marriage is not allowed," recalls Abdullah Al-Makhadi". http://www.aldeilis.net/english/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&i...
"Ziad Samir Jarrah didn't fit the profile of an Islamic terrorist. He liked women. He drank. He didn't pray or attend a mosque. He didn't wear a beard. He acted more like a Westerner than someone from the Middle East, according to published reports on his background. Jarrah, 26, of Lebanon, was able to travel between the United States and Middle East even though his name was on a watch list of suspected terrorists. And twice, law enforcement authorities had him in their grasp and let him go." http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_90401.html Also, in addition to live-in girlfriends and going to strip bars, some of the "devout Islamic hijackers" sought the services of prostitutes: "While preparing to unleash their twisted ``holy war'' on America, some of the suicide hijackers set aside strict religious beliefs to whet their lusty appetites, partying with a high-priced hooker in Hub hotel rooms. A driver for a pair of local escort services told the Herald yesterday that he drove a call girl to the Park Inn in Chestnut Hill on Sept. 9 around 10:30 p.m. where she bedded down with one of the mass murderers. It was her second trip to the terrorist's room that day." http://web.archive.org/web/20011010224657/http:/www.bostonherald.com/att...
Another one, Khalid Moqed, went into two different adult book/movie stores: "An employee of an adult bookstore next door to the motel said he identified one of the suspects, Khalid Moqed, from photographs shown to him by FBI agents. In August, Moqed came into another adult bookstore, in Beltsville, where the same employee also works. When he first saw Moqed, he thought he was a police officer because of his short haircut and muscular build, said the employee, who refused to give his name. The man looked nervous and ''he didn't say anything, he just looked around at magazines and movies and left,'' the employee said."
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/091901/ter_124-7573.shtml
Atta and other "hijackers" took at least five trips to Las Vegas, the most sinful city in the world, and indulged in lapdances from strippers and plenty of gambling, both off-limits to faithful Muslims: "engaged in some decidedly un-Islamic sampling of prohibited pleasures in America's reputed capital of moral corrosion." "He spent about $20 for a quick dance and didn't tip more." "Samantha remembers the killer settling into the crushed red velvet chair, staring blankly up at her while she undulated her hips inches from his face." "Some of the girls here remember a couple of those guys coming in here in August, too" ""True Muslims don't drink, don't gamble, don't go to strip clubs," said Dr. Osama Haikal, president of the board of directors of the Islamic Foundation of Nevada. "These things are a sin" "If the hijackers copped a lap dance or even a watery scotch in most strict Islamic countries, they would be flogged, Haikal said"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/1...
So knowing these things about the unskilled, un-Islamic "hijackers" it becomes pretty damned difficult to believe they did what the official myth accuses them of.
So if they weren't "Islamic fundamentalist suicide hijackers" what were they and what was their purpose? We can get some ideas as to the possible answer from some of the following clues. Consider: Several of them apparantly lived on U.S. military bases at one time or another. CNN's mention of it can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yghzekjXS90 Pensacola Naval Air Station, the cradle of U.S. Navy aviation was listed as the residence of two of them. Maxwell Air Force Base was another. Brooks Air Force Base also. One supposedly attended the Defense Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base. At least one of them lived on Tyndall Air Force Base.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_55522.html
Atta supposedly trained in some capacity at Norfolk Naval Air Station. http://911digitalarchive.org/crr/documents/1320.pdf
First the DoD said "It may just be a case of mistaken identity"
http://greenvilleonline.com/news/2001/09/20/2001092012469.htm
Then they claimed to have looked into the matter and found discrepancies in the biographical data, such as their ages, that meant they were different people.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentI...
But the DoD won't provide the biographical data so that it can be independently verified that they aren't the same individuals. If they had nothing to hide they would be leaping at the chance to prove "hijackers" weren't in any way connected to U.S. military bases. Their refusal speaks volumes. Then consider: Two of the "hijackers", Alhazmi and Almihdhar, lived for a while with an F.B.I. informant in San Diego.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/09/attack/main521223.shtml The F.B.I. went to great lengths to prevent the 9/11 Commission from being able to interview this informant http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0524,mondo1,64920,6.html
directed by Aukai Collins, a C.I.A. and F.B.I. (yes both) informant who infiltrated Chechen Islamic guerilla forces in the 1990s, lived in Phoenix, Arizona and claimed to have known Hani Hanjour.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,344146,00.html
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2002/07/17/collins_interview/ind...
Then consider the areas in the U.S. where the "hijackers" lived, undertook rudimentary training etc. Florida especially, San Diego, Phoenix area, and greater Washington D.C. area. All four of those are very important hubs of the military-industrial complex. Why on earth would firstly these "hijacker pilots" be undertaking their "training" in the U.S. instead of somewhere in the Middle East where they would be sure to arouse less suspicion, and secondly, upon making the inexplicably risky decision to train in their target country, why on earth would they go out of their way to live in the areas most likely to be saturated with intelligence and military personnel? Florida has been of critical importance to the C.I.A. for a long time with its close proximity to Cuba and its excellent location for importing cocaine from south America via the Caribbean. Also a haven for Cuban exiles, a group intimately connected to the C.I.A., as is the mafia, who ALSO heavily represented in Florida. They couldn't have picked a worse state for C.I.A. activity excepting Virginia, which they ALSO picked which I will address in a moment. Florida has a ton of military bases also, including the headquarters of both Special Operations Command and Central Command (the entity mostly responsible for fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan), at MacDill A.F.B. Where they spent most of their time in Florida was in the congressional districts of Katherine Harris and Porter Goss (later Director of Central Intelligence of the C.I.A.). The Bush family has a winter retreat on Boca Grande. The rest of their time in Florida was spent in the district of Bob Graham of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Graham was having breakfast with Porter Goss and the director of the ISI on the morning of 9/11. On CNN's timeline it quotes him, saying: "4:20 p.m.: U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, D-Florida, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, says he was "not surprised there was an attack (but) was surprised at the specificity." He says he was "shocked at what actually happened -- the extent of it." http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/chronology.attack/ San Diego is enormously important to the defense industry, as well as having very important military bases there with a large Navy base and the Marines' west coast recruit depot. It was also the congressional district of corrupt Randy "Duke" Cunningham. Phoenix is also an important hub. Scottsdale has huge General Dynamics plant. Honeywell, Raytheon and L-3 Communications (who bought Titan) are in Phoenix. The C.I.A. had or has more than one airstrip in the area for its proprietary airlines. The Phoenix area is the congressional district of John McCain. In the greater Washington D.C. area they lived in Vienna, Virginia, within spitting distance of C.I.A. headquarters. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/graphics/attack/hijackers.html
Others lived in Laurel, Maryland, literally right outside the gates of the N.S.A. headquarters.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/2033791...
They even ate frequently at a pizzaria that was an N.S.A. hangout!
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_10-6-2002_pg4_7
Starting to see a pattern here?
The "hijackers" were nothing more than C.I.A. patsies who presumably thought they were in flight training to be C.I.A. drug smuggling pilots, flying coke into Florida. Needless to say they were surely killed off and disposed of. The ones who turned up alive were nothing more than victims of identity theft whose passports were stolen abroad either by the C.I.A. or Mossad so as to have extra "hijackers" to pad out their list to make it seem more plausible. Nothing that happened on 9/11 happened in the way in which the official MYTH would have you believe.
But, but, but....
How do you reconcile those "sub-human" Muslims being so witty as to outwit the Multi-Trillion dollar defense system? I thought they were "barbaric" and believed in supernatural shit inconsistent with logic or the scientific method? Weren't they all graduates of madrassas in some desolate stretch of Saudi Arabia or Asia Minor, learning the Koran by rote? Maybe that's it, maybe they DO have supernatural powers?!
Oh shit, the Christians are screwed, their God is bigger than your/my God!!!!
Excellent post.
p.s. All bullshit aside, if this country ever get's to the real truth behind 9/11 it could get bery, bery interesting....Food for thought: Maybe the 9/11 hijackers had the same passport processor as the Nigerian "Panty-Waist" Xmas Bomber whose Rich, Important Daddy called the CIA before the youngster boarded? Can anyone get me a contact number?? I just found out I have a once in a lifetime opportunity to go to Aruba this weekend and I hear it normally takes 4 to 6 weeks to get a passport or 2 to 3 if expedited. Thanks in advance.
Passport
Depends on where you are...
If you live in a state that has a federal passport office you can get your passport in one day.
Have nice trip*
Will this be suppressed as much as the Pakistan flood tragedy?
1,270 Architects/Engineers Reveal Hard Evidence of Explosive Demolition at World Trade Center on 9/11
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-10481-0-20-20--.html
Senator Gravel notes, "Critically important evidence has come forward after the original government building reports were completed."
On Thursday September 9, 2010, Gravel and Gage will host a central press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, presenting hard evidence that all three WTC skyscrapers on September 11, 2001, in NYC were destroyed by explosive controlled demolition.
This press conference will be webcast at AE911Truth.org and hosted concurrently in cities throughout the world.* Following the conference, there will be a mock debate during which public statements made by government investigators and other defenders of the official account will be presented and responded to in multimedia format. "They refuse to debate us in person," says Gage, "so we will let their public statements represent them."
Gage will release a media-friendly summary of his organization's findings, which are based on forensic evidence as well as video and eyewitness testimony that were omitted from official reports. He will show evidence that the WTC Twin Towers were not destroyed by jet plane impacts or fires, but by pre-set explosives and incendiaries. The non-profit organization, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, will also call for a grand jury investigation of government report lead engineers Shyam Sunder and John Gross of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. "They were in a position to know the evidence we have been presenting," says Gage.
II.
The Great Pakistani Deluge Never Happened
Tomgram: Juan Cole, The Media as a Security Threat to America
http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175292/
"The Great Deluge in Pakistan passed almost unnoticed in the United States despite President Obama’s repeated assertions that the country is central to American security. Now, with new evacuations and flooding afflicting Sindh Province and the long-term crisis only beginning in Pakistan, it has washed almost completely off American television and out of popular consciousness."
"Here, here!"
Great piece.
And for those of you "purests" who claim that Islam or Muslims is "not my problem," or can cite some historical wrong by Muslims committed against Africans, think again.
The Nigerian "Panty-Waist" bomber, a Muslim, looked like the kid from "around the way," say Steven from the Bronx or Rakim from Harlem. He's got the large white "T" and everything, (including Jay-Z on the iPod?? Betcha he was wearing Timberlands).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Farouk_Abdulmutallab
And in case you didn't catch it, check out this "would be Muslim" at the last "Ground Zero" anti-"mosque" jerk off.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/08/23/park51/inde...
Here's the telling excerpt:
"The episode in the video begins when, as John Cole put it, "some black guy made the mistake of looking Muslimish and was harassed and nearly assaulted by the collection of lily white mouth-breathers at the event . . . At about 25 seconds in, he quite astutely points out to the crowd that 'All y'all dumb motherfuckers don’t even know my opinion on shit'." As this African-American citizen (whom the videographer claims is a union carpenter who works at Ground Zero) is instructed to leave by what appears to be some sort of security or law enforcement official, the crowd proceeds to yell: "he musta voted for Obama," "Mohammed's a pig," and other assorted charming anti-mosque slogans. I really encourage everyone to watch this to see the toxicity this campaign has unleashed:"
It's appropriate that the title of the above piece by Greenwald says it all:
The "mosque" debate is not a "distraction"
Remember that when you start mumbling " why should we care about the Muslims, they enslaved Africans."
Well, yes they did, but, that was then, this is now.
I remember falling out of my chair, laughing at the stupidity of John McInsane when (according to the lying corrupt US media) Russia invaded Georgia. McCain famously said, "we are all Georgians now." NOT!
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/08/mccain-to-georgian-president...
Never mind that it turns out the little punk in charge of Georgia was behind the provocation, and Russia responded by kicking their little asses. (Of course the corrupt media never dispelled the notion). Some of yall probably still "Georgians." LOL
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=1sMwD7ehgzM&feature=watch_response
Now McCain won't come out and say it, but I will, (hate to borrow from McInsane), but "we are all Muslims now." Ignore their plight and your ass is up next. Haven't I just demonstrated that you Negroes and Muslims are indistinguishable???
Go ahead, cut off your nose to spite your face. You'll be satisfied in your smugness until the xenophobes and natavists declare a "jihad" on your ass too.
I'm still confused......
is this a picture of Michael, the HVAC tech who attends my church, or Muhammad, who attends the neighborhood mosque?
Maybe you Negroes need to go back to wearing dashikis so I can "distinguish" you from the "evil" Muslim horde? Or maybe not? After all, that dashiki might engender confusion between you and the Nigerian "Panty-Waist" Bomber? (It's a damn shame a Brother can't floss in kinte cloth no mo.)
Hell, I give up! Perhaps the Tea Party and Glenn Beck will help "us" draw distinctions.... or not? Maybe they're confused to....or not?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/us/09secrets.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
I know...
I know I don't have to inform Enlightened Cynic who owns the leader of Georgia, how that leader openly stated this when referring to his advisors. You know I'm not talking about the US. One look at the face of that leader and you know what he does for his owners, virtually or not. I don't want get nasty on BAR. You let the cat out the bag, Enlightened Cynic. We'll learn more than we would if I went off and started quoting Mason Verger.