Flight School Lantana, Florida and Jones Aviation at the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport,Vero Beach.
October 5, 2001 Thomas Inglesby, John Hopkins Institute is interviewed in the article:
"Exploring Whether Humans Have an Anti-Anthrax Gene".
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsbio022399575oct05.
October 5, 2001: Afghanistan "has significant oil and gas deposits. During the
Soviets' decade-long occupation of Afghanistan, Moscow estimated Afghanistan's
proven and probable natural gas reserves at around five trillion cubic feet and
production reached 275 million cubic feet per day in the mid-1970's."
Nonstop war since has prevent further exploitation, but that soon changes. [Asia Times, 10/5/01] The country may also have as
much copper as Chile, the world's largest producer, and significant deposits of
coal, emeralds, tungsten, lead, zinc, uranium ore and more. Estimates of
Afghanistan 's natural wealth may even be understated, because surveys were
conducted decades ago, using less-advanced methods and covering limited
territory. [Houston Chronicle, 12/23/01
Mon Oct 7, 2001 (Sniper) 8:08 a.m.: 13-year-old boy wounded arriving at school at Bowie,
Md. [CBC News]
October 7, 2001: Military operations with aerial bombardment began in Afghanistan
Air
raids by the United States and its coalition partner, Great Britain, begin
against Taliban and al-Qaeda targets in Afghanistan, after the Taliban refuse
to hand over alleged terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden and his associates.
The raids are intended to "…disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist
base of operations and to attack the military capability of the Taliban
regime," according to U.S. President George Bush. (Reuters) The US administration has now seized upon the
September 11 attacks on New York and Washington to press ahead with its long-held
designs on Central Asia. Without providing any evidence, Bush immediately held
bin Laden responsible for the devastation in the US and issued a series of
ultimatums to the Taliban regime: hand over bin Laden, shut down Al Qaeda
installations and give the US access to all "terrorist training
camps". When the Taliban rejected his open-ended demands, Bush gave his
generals the signal to unleash thousands of bombs and cruise missiles on
Afghanistan, with the openly avowed aim of bringing down the regime.[The
Taliban, the US and the resources in Central Asia] Bin Laden had been living in
Sudan since 1991. The Sudanese government collected a "vast intelligence
database on Osama bin Laden and more than 200 leading members of his al-Qaeda
terrorist network... [The US was] offered thick files, with photographs and
detailed biographies of many of his principal cadres, and vital information
about al-Qaeda's financial interests in many parts of the globe." In April
1996, the US again rejects Sudan's offer of the files. An American involved
in the secret negotiations later says that the offer was blocked by another arm
of the federal government: "I've never seen a brick wall like that before.
Somebody let this slip up... We could have dismantled his operations and
put a cage on top. It was not a matter of arresting bin Laden but of access to
information... and that's what could have prevented September 11. I knew it
would come back to haunt us." Sudan again offers the US the files in May
2000, and again is turned down. In 1996 Sudan also offers their files to
British intelligence, and are also rebuffed. Sudan makes a standing offer to
the British to take the information at any time, but the offer is not taken up
until after 9/11. The US begins bombing Afghanistan. Note that shortly after
9/11 former Pakistani Foreign Secretary Niaz Naik claimed that in July 2001 he
was told by senior US officials that a military action to overthrow the Taliban
in Afghanistan would "take place before the snows started falling in Afghanistan,
by the middle of October at the latest." [cooperativeresearch.org]
At first
he (Osama bin Laden) denied involvement, saying "that dozens of terrorists
organizations from countries like Israel, Russia, India and Serbia could be
responsible" (i.e., it was the work of Satan) and "insisted that al
Qaida does not consider the United States its enemy."
But a week
later he (bin Laden) issued a video tape where he said "God Almighty hit
the United States at its most vulnerable spot....When Almighty God rendered
successful a convoy of Muslims, the vanguards of Islam, He allowed them to
destroy the United States. I ask God Almighty to elevate their status and grant
them Paradise."
This
latter statement was pre-recorded and released immediately after the U.S.
government started bombing Afghanistan, that is, precisely when Mr. Bush needed
the emotional impact of just such a statement in order to 'justify' yet another
illegal war; (3)
[http://emperors-clothes.com/news/probestop-i.htm]
October 7, 2001 saw reports that British scientists were planning to exhume the bodies
of 10 London victims of the 1918 type-A flu epidemic known as the Spanish Flu.
An October 7 report In The Independent, UK said that victims of the Spanish Flu
had been victims of "the world's most deadly virus." British
scientists, according to the story, hope to uncover the genetic makeup of the
virus, making it easier to combat. (in four months (on2/8/02) Rockefeller
scientists will perfect a method of reviving dead cells by rebuilding the DNA)
October 8, 2001 Second Anthrax Case confirmed in co-worker of Bob Stevens. Ernesto
Blanco, a 73-year-old Cuban American in the mailroom of American Media office
building in Boca Raton. After 4 days ignoring a connection to Mohammad Atta,
the Media writes that, Bob Stevens lived 1 mile from Palm Beach County Park
Airport, where Atta took flight lessons at a simulator. Since today no one
wonders about that coincidence. Finally the FBI announces at 4:30 PM that the
anthrax Incidents is a result of terrorism or criminal action, Attorney General
John Ashcroft said .
October 8, 2001 Wall Street Journal (subscription):
"
Chevron Texaco Corp. world's fourth-largest publicly held producer of oil and
gas, with $116.9 billion in combined revenue last year. But while the company
would be far bigger than the major independent oil companies, Chevron's $38
billion acquisition of Texaco ... still would leave it considerably smaller
than the so-called super majors, including leader Exxon Mobil Corp., which had
$232.7 billion in revenue last year." ...
"...
the relative smaller size of Chevron Texaco is prompting some analysts to
speculate that the company would try to make an additional acquisition to vault
the company to true super-major status. Analysts say Unocal Corp., an oil and
gas producer based in El Segundo Calif., might be attractive, in part because
of its assets in Southeast Asia, where Chevron and Texaco aren't especially
strong. Among the other possibilities: Conoco Inc., Marathon Corp. and Anadarko
Corp., all of Houston."
Sun Oct 8, 2001: In the early morning, Balitmore police find a man sleeping in his
Chevrolet Caprice parked on a city street. The driver, John Muhammad, presents
his Dictrict of Columbia driver's licence and identifies his passenger as John
Lee Malvo. The police take down the driver's name and his New Jersey licence
plate numbers. They conduct a background check, find no outstanding warrants
for Muhammad and let them go. [CBC News]
Wednesday
OCTOBER 9 a cosmically significant day in the conspirousy
October 9, 2001: Very potent anthrax letters to Senators Daschle and Leahy were being
mailed in Trenton NJ on October 9
Tom
Daschle (Nebraska) Senate Majority Leader, "top Democrat". Opposed
proposed "Anti-Terror Bill" which would have
permitted indefinite jailing of non-Americans suspected of terrorist offenses,
would have permitted law enforcement agencies to share wire-tap information
without a court order, etc. Senator Leahy was highly visible on this issue as
he worked to negotiate acceptable alternatives that wouldn't violate the rights
of all Americans. At this same time, Attorney John D. Ashcroft was forcefully
declaring that the legislation was vital to preventing another terrorist
attack. A person obsessed with stopping bioterrorism would certainly see
quibbling over civil rights as being absurd when terrorists could strike again
at any time. Sending anthrax to Senator Leahy (and Daschle) would be sending the
"right" message, showing them very clearly how easy it was for a
bioterrorist to create havoc.
Senator
Leahy (Vermont) high-ranking member of the Senate
Appropriations Committee - which approves spending on government
projects. He's also known to be an environmentalist, and environmentalists are
seen by some as enemies of bioweapons research. The terrorist's motive for
targeting Senator Leahy could be key to this case.
Oct 8 –9 , 2001: The Ames, Iowa strain of anthrax, determined to be the one mailed from
Trenton to Florida and Washington's capitol, had been suspiciously selected for
destruction.(49,50) Iowa State officials suddenly confessed that they were
ordered by CDC and FBI officials to destroy all of the remaining Ames, Iowa
anthrax strain on or about October 8-9.
October 9, 2001: Senator Feingold (D) blocks an attempt to rush the USA Patriot Act to a
vote with little debate and no opportunity for amendments. Feingold criticizes
the bill as a threat to liberty. [AP, 10/10/01] One day earlier, in the story
"Cracks in Bipartisanship Start to Show," the Washington Post
reports, "Congress has lost some of the shock-induced unity with which it
first responded to the [9/11] attacks." [Washington Post, 10/8/01] Also on October 9,
identical anthrax letters are postmarked in Trenton, New Jersey, with lethal
doses to Senators Daschle and Leahy. Inside both letters are the words:
"Death to America, Death to Israel, Allah is Great. [South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 12/01]
October 9, 2001 (B): US Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain meets with the
Pakistani oil minister. She is briefed on the gas pipeline project from
Turkmenistan, across Afghanistan, to Pakistan, which appears to be revived
"in view of recent geopolitical developments." [Frontier Post, 10/10/01] FTW Deutsche Bank and the Terror Money
Trail," Bank Handling terrorist funds for Al-Qaeda. October 9, 2001,
stating that 10 accounts linked to Al Qaeda had been found at the bank, holding
$1 million. [CNN]
October 9,
2001, as reported by The Times of India: "While the Pakistani Inter
Services Public Relations claimed that former ISI director-general Lt-Gen
Mahmud Ahmad sought retirement after being superseded on Monday, the truth is
more shocking. Top sources confirmed here on Tuesday that the general lost his
job because of the "evidence" India produced to show his links to one
of the suicide bombers that wrecked the World Trade Centre. The US authorities
sought his removal after confirming the fact that $100,000 were wired to WTC
hijacker Mohammed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the instance of
Gen Mahmud. Senior government sources have confirmed that India contributed
significantly to establishing the link between the money transfer and the role
played by the dismissed ISI chief. While they did not provide details, they
said that Indian inputs, including Sheikh's mobile phone number, helped the FBI
in tracing and establishing the link."
October 9, 2001 Royal Dutch/Shell announces that it will
acquire Texaco's interests in two U.S. refining ventures, Motiva Enterprises
and Equilon Enterprises, for $2.1 billion in cash, $1.4 billion in debt, and
$300 million in pension liabilities. Texaco agreed to sell the companies as
part of an agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in order to
complete its merger with Chevron. Motiva will be wholly owned by Shell, and
Equilon will be majority owned by Shell and minority owned by Saudi Refining.
Motiva and Equilon own over 20,000 gasoline stations and eight refineries in
the U.S. (DJ)
Wed. Ocober 9, 2001: (Sniper) 8:18 a.m.: Dean Harold Myers, 53, killed
filling gas tank near Manassas, Va.
October 10, 2001 Oil & Gas Journal: Chevron and Texaco complete long-delayed, $35 billion
merger.
"Texaco
Inc. and Chevron Corp. said their stockholders approved the $35 billion merger
of their companies, which was completed later Tuesday."
October 10, 2001 CONGESSIONAL MEETING (one month after Sept 11)
THE CAUCASUS AND CASPIAN REGION: UN-DERSTANDING U.S.
INTERESTS AND POLICY
Mr.
Gilman: " I am--concerned about the likelihood that the current effort
against terrorism and the Taliban is attracting hitchhikers, thus we will be
asked to overlook problems in democracy and human rights and the like among our
allies no matter how impor-tant or unimportant their contribution." (hours
of discussion followed about the geopolitical situation effect on oil and gas
pipelines and how to solve it. )
October 10-11, 2001: The FBI allows the original batch of the Ames strain
of anthrax to be destroyed, making tracing the anthrax type more difficult.[New York Times, 11/9/01, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 12/01]
Orders to
destroy that particular strain were issued by FBI and CDC officials. This
strongly suggests a conspiracy at the highest levels of the federal government.
Incriminating is the fact that this one strain, of more than 1,000 anthrax
strains available, had been used in various labs for decades. Allegedly by
mistake, these two agencies-the FBI and CDC-simultaneously urged/approved the
strain's destruction. http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/anthrax/anthrax_espionage.html
October 10, 2001 TN Senator Dr Bill Frist, peddles biofear (on TV)
Dr.
Frist's family business, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), America's
largest cartel of hospitals, paid the largest criminal fine in US history after
caught stealing $1-Billion from the US gov't in racketeering and organized
crime via Medicare fraud sending several of his executives to prison. Who knows
how many more billions it got away with stealing? Frist's business was also
sued by stockholders for insider trading (included below), sued by gov't for
predatory antitrust monopolies, bankrupting competing hospitals and price
gouging of hospital patients and insuarance policy holders (included below),
prosecuted by the IRS for tax fraud (included below), and sued by families of
murder victims for deadly medical malpractice committed for profit (included
below). Currentling in England, a medical doctor stands trial as England's most
prolific serial killer, prosecuted with over 400 homicides of his hospital
patients—has Dr. Frist killed more in the name of profiteering?
However,
medical experts, both MDs and research scientists, explain that anthrax is
useless as a bioweapon of mass destruction. Most cases of anthrax are not
lethal, unlike the Pentagon's helpers allege. Unlike farm animals that eat
their food with their faces in the dirt, humans are not exposed to enough
spores to get sick. Bioweapons that fail to deliver the required 10,000 spores
to each intended victim will simply fails to cause disease. Only huge factories
with hundreds of millions of dollars to play with can produce the lethal forms
of anthrax. Only USA and Russia are rich enough to waste money on anthrax
production, and USA has 300 universities playing around with it for benifit of
tax welfare from the Pentagon. If an anthrax "mist" were ever sprayed
over a city, anyone indoors is safe, and anyone outdoors is safe unless
directly under an anthrax cloud (and without a $1 dust mask). It would appear
the hype is an intention to manipulate stock prices at BioPort Corp, Lansing,
Michigan, and to salvage the Pentagon's limp sales of anthrax vaccine, which
itself is more dangerous—and more deadly—than anthrax. Pentagon's anthrax
vaccine is linked to Gulf War Syndrome, the disabling disease affecting 200,000
veterans and their families. The aluminum content of the vaccine is perhaps the
deadly ingredient for humans, since aluminum is linked to such dreaded diseases
as Alzheimers and Parkinsons.
October 11, 2001 Rumours about Small Pox at VICE Magazine, New York. Evacuation and
tests. No media involved.
Oct. 11, 2001 Sniper: 9:30 a.m.: Kenneth H. Bridges, 53, killed filling gas tank near
Fredericksburg, Va.
October 11, 2001, Colonel Edward M. Eitzen testified as follows: "...I mentioned at
the start of my statement, that potential biological terrorism is really a
spectrum of possible events - from a letter with an inert powder and a threat
in it...."
http://intelligence.house.gov/PDF/eitzen101101.pdf
http://intelligence.house.gov/PDF/eitzen101101.pdf
October 11, 2001 President Bush puts Malaysia on the list of countries, who harbours
terror organisations He also decides to send an anti-terror-team to Philipines.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/10/11/phil.ustroops/index.html
October 12, 2001 2nd "Malaysia"-story on that day: Microsoft office in Reno,
Nevada gets an envelope from from Malaysia All Employees tested negative.
October 12, 2001: Sun Sentinel still wonders, why the FBI sees no link between Mohammad
Atta and the anthrax attack. American Media Editorial Director Steve Co
speculates: "..We know Mohamed Atta was within three miles of the
building, we know he was within a mile of Bob Stevens house.." AME told by
FBI not to mention "too much details." A few 911-skeptics speculate,
that the "masterplan" was already changed in these weeks. The
connection 911 terrorists-anthrax" was sabotaged by the OSI, CIA + Co.
October 13, 2001: American Media Editorial Director Steve Coz said he thinks the anthrax
found at the Boca Raton building was placed there as part of a bioterrorist
attack. It arrived on Bob Stevens' desk," Coz said Friday on ABC's Good
Morning America http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-ami13oct13.
story?coll=sf
la-home-headlines
October 13, 2001: Jim Woolsey, CIA director from 1993 to 1996, recently visited London
on behalf of the hawkish Defence Department to 'firm up' other evidence of
Iraqi involvement in 11 September. Some observers fear linking Saddam to the
terrorist attacks is part of an agenda being driven by US hawks eager to
broaden the war to include Iraq, a move being resisted by the British
government. The hawks winning the ear of President Bush is assembled around
Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his deputy Paul Wolfowitz, and a think tank,
the Defence Policy Advisory Board, dubbed the 'Wolfowitz cabal'.
[www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0%2C1361%2C573908%2C00.html]
Monday Oct 14, 2001: (Sniper) 9:15 p.m.: Linda Franklin,
47, killed outside a store in Falls Church, Va.
October 14, 2001 Story in Sunday Times gives a new bizarre twist: Now it looks like,
"..the wife of Bob Stevens's boss rented an apartment to Atta while he was
doing his flight training in preparation for the attacks. The FBI is also
investigating reports that Atta visited a local pharmacy and asked for medicine
for a skin complaint..."
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/14/stiusausa02038.html
October 15, 2001: Senator Daschle's office opens the letter mailed October 9, containing
a lethal dose of anthrax. Senator Leahy's similar letter is misrouted to
Virginia on October 12, and isn't discovered until November 17. [South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 12/8/01] The BBC says
"Bush has pointed the finger at Osama bin Laden" for the anthrax
attacks. Bush states, "There may be some possible link. We have no hard
data yet, but it's clear that Mr. Bin Laden is an evil man." [BBC, 10/16/01]
October
15, 2001 CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) Meeting
"China, the WTO, and U.S. Interests"
Speaker: Kevin G. Nealer Senior Fellow, Forum for International Policy
Speaker: Jeffrey Fiedler Consultant, Food and Allied Service Trades (FAST), AFL-CIO
Speaker: Robert D. Hormats Vice Chairman, Goldman, Sachs International
Presider: David E. Sanger White House Correspondent, New York Times
[www.cfr.org]
"China, the WTO, and U.S. Interests"
Speaker: Kevin G. Nealer Senior Fellow, Forum for International Policy
Speaker: Jeffrey Fiedler Consultant, Food and Allied Service Trades (FAST), AFL-CIO
Speaker: Robert D. Hormats Vice Chairman, Goldman, Sachs International
Presider: David E. Sanger White House Correspondent, New York Times
[www.cfr.org]
October 15, 2001 (C): According to the Moscow Times, the Russian
government sees the upcoming US conquest of Afghanistan as an attempt by the US
to replace Russia as the dominant political force in Central Asia, with the
control of oil as a prominent motive: "While the bombardment of
Afghanistan outwardly appears to hinge on issues of fundamentalism and American
retribution, below the surface, lurks the prize of the energy-rich Caspian
basin into which oil majors have invested billions of dollars. Ultimately, this
war will set the boundaries of US and Russian influence in Central Asia - and
determine the future of oil and gas resources of the Caspian Sea." [Moscow Times, 10/15/01]
October 15, 2001 The first tanker loading of the new
$2.5-billion Kazakh-Russia Pipeline takes place. This is a trial run that
informally inaugurates the pipeline. Initial capacity of the pipeline is
expected to be 28.2 million metric tons per year (around 560,000 barrels per
day). The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), led by ChevronTexaco, runs the
pipeline. (Reuters)
Tengiz gamble starting to pay off. Chevron-led
operation ready to deliver yield from showcase project. "Last week the
first tanker ship laden with Tengiz oil left the gleaming new terminal near
Novorossiysk, on the Russian coast of the Black Sea. The oil traveled there
through a new 990-mile pipeline costing $2.8 billion, known as the Caspian
Pipeline Consortium, or CPC. Chevron invested $750 million in the partnership
that built a 990-mile pipeline around the top of the Caspian and across the
North Caucasus to the Black Sea." Houston Chronicle
From Walter Kessinger: Broken Links (a young gas/oil tech guy journal notes on his
website)
> Over
the last three weeks my access logs have contained a lot of refers from search
engines with inquiries like "Bush Unocal stock, Afghanistan
pipeline." I started poking around, and discovered that there is currently
a conspiracy theory out there (way out there)
that Dubya Bush and Dick Cheney are trying to take over Afghanistan so that
some oil company can build an oil pipeline across it.
> I'm a
little hazy on the conspiracy details, though. Do they think Unocal (or
Chevron?) recruited the terrorist suicide bombers?
October 16-17, 2001: 28 congressional staffers test positive for anthrax.
The Senate office buildings are shut down, followed by the House of
Representatives. [South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 12/8/01]
October 16, 2001 Over the last couple of months BIOPORT has failed countless US
inspections and are NOT permitted to produce any vaccine for civilian use.Today
as reported by CNN they have asked the US gov't for permission to start mass
producing for the public. But the Health Control FDA didn't renew their license
twice in the last three years. Government tried to give new contract for
DynCorp , but failed because under big media pressure of the Anthrax attacks.
BAYER got the ok for the distribution. Some 911 sceptics wonder if they had
been sabotaged on purpose to avoid investigative reports about them
Oct. 17,2001: (sniper) in an angry telephone call from a man claiming to be the
sniper. Law enforcement officials say the man on the phone furiously insisted
to a startled employee of the Montgomery County police, "I am God! . . .
You know who you're dealing with? Just check out the murder-robbery in
Montgomery if you don't believe me!"
October 17, 2001 CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) Meeting
"If Not Kyoto, What?"
Speaker: James L. Connaughton Chairman, White House Office on Environmental Quality
Speaker: David Hawkins Program Director of Air & Energy, Natural Resources Defense Council
Speaker: Paul Portney President, Resources for the Future
Presider: Jessica T. Mathews President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
[www.cfr.org]
"If Not Kyoto, What?"
Speaker: James L. Connaughton Chairman, White House Office on Environmental Quality
Speaker: David Hawkins Program Director of Air & Energy, Natural Resources Defense Council
Speaker: Paul Portney President, Resources for the Future
Presider: Jessica T. Mathews President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
[www.cfr.org]
October 18, 2001: Canada overrides Bayer's patent for Cipro and orders a million tablets
of a generic version from another company. The US says it is not considering a
similar move. Patent lawyers and politicians state that adjusting Bayer's
patent to allow other companies to produce Cipro is perfectly legal and
necessary. [New York Times, 10/19/01] The New York Times
notes that the White House seems "so avidly to be siding with the rights
of drug companies to make profits rather than with consumers worried about
their access to the antibiotic Cipro," and points out huge recent
contributions by Bayer to Republicans. [New York Times, 10/21/01]
Fri, Oct 18, 2001 (sniper) the caller made at least two phone calls to priests -- one in
Ashland, Va., and the other in Bellingham, Wash. -- in an effort to enlist a
messenger to establish his credibility with the police, the officials say. They
say the caller told the priest in Ashland that investigators should check the
murder in Montgomery, this time specifying that he meant Montgomery, Ala.
Sat. October 19, 2001: Sniper8:00 p.m.: 37-year-old man shot
outside a Ponderosa restaurant in Ashland, Va.
Sun Oct 20, 2001: Investigators act on an apparent
boast from the sniper and contact the police chief in Montgomery, Ala. about a
liquor store robbery on Sept. 21 in which one person was killed and another
wounded. A gun magazine from the scene has fingerprints from John Lee Malvo, a
Jamaican national living in Tacoma, Wash., whose prints are on file for an
immigration violation.
Tue October 22, 2001: Sniper 5:56 a.m.: Conrad Johnson, a
35-year-old bus driver, shot in the abdomen in Silver Spring, Ma. He later died
of his injuries.
Oct. 23, 2001: Arthur Andersen auditor, David B. Duncan, orders the destruction of
documents. ("Andersen LLP Firing Enron Auditor",(
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020115/ts/enron_auditor_11.html ) Two weeks
later, in a desperate e-mail, his assistant said, ``Stop the shredding.'' A day
before that, Andersen had received a federal subpoena for the documents...
Duncan called an urgent meeting on Oct. 23 to organize an ``expedited effort''
to destroy documents, Andersen said, a few days after he learned that the SEC
had requested information. The SEC sent a letter to Enron on Oct. 17 asking for
information after the company reported hundreds of millions of dollars in
third-quarter losses. The fact that Andersen employees destroyed documents
after learning of the SEC inquiry ``is more than just unethical. It could be
criminal as well,'' said Ken Johnson, spokesman for Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La.,
chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Wed Oct 23, 2001: Police investigate the Tacoma, Wash.
home where Malvo and Muhammad lived nine months previous. They remove a tree
stump neighbours claimed Muhammad used for target practice, as well as other
items from the home's yard. Investigators run a check on Muhammad's name and
find the Baltimore police report from Oct. 8. Authorities issue a federal
arrest warrant for Muhammad for firearms violations and say he may be
travelling with a juvenile, Malvo. Police in the D.C. area search for a blue or
burgundy 1990 Chevrolet Caprice with New Jersey licence plates, the vehicle
Muhammad may be travelling in.
October 24, 2001 New Scientist writes, that the anthrax bacteria is likely to be US
military strain
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991473
Congress
shut down and evacuated on eve of its vote for Bush's
"anti-terrorism" bill to create Police-State USA
Thur Oct 24, 2001: As midnight approached on Wednesday, the Montgomery County police chief,
Charles Moose, was once again on national television, delivering the latest
cryptic message to the sniper -- "You asked us to say, 'We have caught the
sniper like a duck in a noose' " -- but also to announce that the police
were interested in speaking with Muhammad as part of their investigation. The sighting
of the Caprice with the sleeping pair came in less than two hours.
A motorist
spots the Caprice at a rest top near Myersville, Md. around 1 a.m. Police find
Muhammad and Malvo sleeping in the car. Members of the sniper investigation
team arrest the two men shortly after 3:30 a.m. on the firearms warrant and as
material witnesses in the sniper case. Police report finding a .223-calibre
Bushmaster rifle in the car. They believe the two men are those responsible for
the sniper attacks. Officials say ballistic tests on the rifle seized from
Muhammad's car match the weapon to the bullets in all but three of the 14
Washington-area shootings. Initial reports showed no direct link between the
arrest of Williams, a.k.a. John Allen Muhammad, and the sniping. ABC internet
news even specifically mentioned in an early article that no weapon was
found in the Chevrolet Caprice when the two were captured. Soon thereafter the
story suddenly changed, with officials (and all subsequent news stories)
claiming that a .223 caliber XM-15 assault rifle, plus scope and tripod, had
been found in the vehicle. Later on Thursday, the FBI ballistics lab (which has
a history of falsifying reports) determined this rifle matched the sniper
bullets recovered from victims. Case closed.
There are
gaping holes in this story, the strange telephone confessions with priests and
police hotlines and notes left behind by the supposed sniper. For instance, a
caller to the sniper tip line claimed responsibility for not only the DC area
attacks, but also the Sept. 21 shooting in Montgomery, Ala., in which one woman
was killed and another wounded. It is strange that this cool and savvy sniper
would confess to a separate deed that would just happen to open up a paper
trail leading back to himself, but this is the assertion by the news reports. A
piece of paper at the scene of the Alabama shooting was found to bear the
fingerprints of Malvo. Police traced Malvo to a Tacoma, WA, home where he had
been living with John Allen (Muhammad) Williams. This week police searched the
premises in Tacoma and hauled away a tree trunk with bullets imbedded. During
another call, the sniper supposedly requested a toll-free number to speak with
police, $10 million and wanted the police to say, "We have caught the
sniper like a duck in a noose." Such erratic demands contrast sharply with
the sophisticated way in which the sniper conducted his attacks. On the other
hand, if the real sniper team wanted to finger a patsy to take the blame,
this would have been an excellent way to point the police in the wrong
direction.
The media
put together a surprisingly extensive background dossier on Williams in less
than one day. Robert Holmes, said Williams showed him his Bushmaster rifle,
along with a scope and a silencer, and said, "Can you imagine the damage
you could do if you could shoot with a silencer?" The media source was a
set of court papers filed by the FBI earlier this week, indicating that
they knew about this guy long before yesterday. The quote indicates Williams
doesn’t know anything about silencers or sniping. Silencers only work on
bullets traveling at subsonic speeds. The .223 travels in excess of 3,000
fps and would make a very loud sonic crack after leaving the silencer. In fact,
Williams’ military training was as an engineer, so he had no formal sniper
training, although he shot "expert" class with the M-16 which is
noteworthy, but not that difficult. Williams is also being touted by various
former friends as a "sympathizer" with the 9/11 attackers. This will
undoubtedly lead to an "al Qaeda connection," boosting the
administration’s illusory crusade against domestic terror. The media even tried
to tie this story to a training camp in Alabama with presumed ties to terrorist
groups. In point of fact, the camp is owned and operated by one of the numerous
private government contractors, with CIA connections, which train law
enforcement personnel (and some other secretive groups given the nod by the
CIA).
Witnesses
cited a number of getaway vehicles used in the sniper attacks: a white box
truck, a late model white Chevy van with a top rack, and a white Ford Econoline
van. The 1990 Caprice was not among the vehicles witnesses saw. The number of
vehicles involved indicates there were multiple shooters involved. Even if
Williams and Malvo were among them, they were probably not the main ring
leaders. Williams’ impoverished condition would preclude access to multiple
modern vehicles for use as getaways. Williams’ has traffic convictions, but no
felony convictions, his military record is clean, and his ex-military friends
have attested that they never noticed any psychopathic tendencies in him. While
he has some minor domestic violence charges against him (which led to the
arrest warrant for his having purchased a weapon in contravention of a court
restraining order--a standard proceedure in the US), he doesn’t seem the type
of guy capable of this kind of indiscriminate, random killing. But, it does
match the M.O. of agent provocateurs
fingerprint.
Like all gun control laws, this proposal wouldn’t stop crime, but simply
restrict legal gun ownership. The Montgomery
County location brought one particular sheriff into national focus: Charles A. Moose, a poorly spoken,
black American Chief of Police transplanted from Portland, Oregon. He came to
Montgomery County in the wake of a trumped up case against the county during
the Janet Reno years, charging police officials with racial profiling of blacks
(too many blacks were getting traffic tickets). In October of 1999 Janet Reno
threatened Montgomery County with harassment and/or lawsuits if the police
didn't reverse racial profiling. Bill Lann Lee, an attorney for the NAACP,
which brought these trumped up charges against Montgomery County, was illegally
appointed head of the DOJ Office of Civil Rights by Bill Clinton and Janet Reno
while this case was pending. His first task was to take over the federal
investigation of the charges he had created from inside the NAACP – an obvious
conflict of interest. Lee forced Montgomery County into a "voluntary"
agreement to require racial identification of all traffic stops in a vain
effort to statistically improve the driving habits of blacks. It didn’t work
however, so the county recruited Moose to defuse the charges. They figured he,
being a black cop from Portland, would be immune from further harassment. He
was, to a large extent (although blacks continue to garner a high percentage of
traffic violations), and now he appears to be in the process of being promoted
for something else. I wouldn’t be surprised if he becomes a national spokesman
for ballistic fingerprinting.
Gun
control is high on the agenda of Homeland Security for disarming Americans. Our
federal police forces would like nothing more than to ensure that Americans are
completely dependent on police and military task forces to counter violent
crime. But despite all the anti-gun propaganda, gun sales in Virginia have
skyrocketed. Honest citizens have realized the police cannot protect them from
crime or terror. What these task forces do is shut down all traffic for so long
as to make living in DC a veritable hardship. During 9/11, there was no good
reason for the FAA to shut down the entire air traffic system for more than a
few hours. They could have simply done a more thorough check on Middle Eastern
passengers, and sent everyone on their way, with fighters monitoring the skies
for more highjackings. Instead, they nearly bankrupted the airline system and
destroyed billions in commerce--not to mention the terrible inconvenience in
the lives of those stranded for weeks. [THE DC SNIPER: UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
WORLD AFFAIRS BRIEF October 25, 2002 Copyright Joel M. Skousen ]
October 24, 2001: The House of Representatives passes the final version of the USA
Patriot Act and other previously unpopular Bush projects: Alaska oil drilling,
$25 billion in tax cuts for corporations, taps into Social Security funds and
cuts in education. [CNN, 10/25/01] Republican Congressman Ron Paul
states: "It's my understanding the bill wasn't printed before the vote -
at least I couldn't get it. They played all kinds of games, kept the House in
session all night, and it was a very complicated bill. Maybe a handful of
staffers actually read it, but the bill definitely was not available to members
before the vote." It is later found that only two copies of the bill were
made available in the hours before its passage, and most House members admit
they voted for the Act without actually reading it first. [Insight, 11/9/01] Two days later, the Senate
passes the final version of the USA Patriot Act. Anthrax targets Senators
Daschle and Leahy now support the bill. Bush signs it into law the same day. [Fox News, 10/26/01] Were the anthrax attacks a
deliberate plot to help pass the USA Patriot Act, and whip up public support?
October 25, 2001 Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Tommy
Thompson also asked Congress for another $500 million to produce enough of
Acambis's smallpox vaccine "so every American will be assured there is a
dose with his or her name on it if it is needed" Many argue, that the
vaccines are reported with various side effects, including a sudden death.
Fri Oct 25, 2001: Prosecutors from Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., debate over
where trials should be held. Filing multiple charges, both Virginia and
Maryland say they may seek the death penalty, but the latter can't execute
Malvo because he's considered a juvenile. Authorities in Alabama say they're also
planning to seek the death penalty, naming Muhammad in the September 21 killing
of Claudine Parker at a Montgomery liquor store. Louisiana also lays charges,
issuing its own arrest warrants after tests showed the rifle found on the
suspects was the same as the one used in the September 23 murder of Hong
Ballenger outside her beauty supply shop in Baton Rouge.
October 26, 2001 http://www.cjr.org/owners/disney.asp Confirmation that Bentonite isn't
the indicator for the Anthrax Spores, but Seneca, as used in the States. Iraq
was falsly accused by ABC News and their "four well-placed and separate
sources" to be the only country to use Bentonite and writes wrong, that
the spores had been indicated with bentonite.
http://www.cjr.org/owners/disney.asp
Bentonite, Hydrated (Intestinal) is a natural clay that comes from volcanic
ash. It is often used as a thickener in facial masks as it absorbs excess oil
and dirt from the skin.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/WTC_Investigation.html
Between
October and November the media pushes various reports about new control
systems, surveillance camera systems, Opinion Mining, Wireless Biometry,
Nanosatellites, Face Recognition, Chat- and Boardsniffer, Brain Scans, the
National ID, The Pentagon Smart ID, the VeriChip or other Tracking Tools. Other
special magazines reveal news about Skin color spectrum monitor programs or
Nanobarcodes.
October 26, 2001 Daily Telegraph,who is owned by Top Pentagon advisor Richard Perle
(Hollinger Inc.) starts with a series of articles about a possible connection
of Mohammed Atta and an iraqi diplomacy. The paper quotes also his best friend,
James Woolsey (ex-CIA director): "I doubt very seriously if this was
simply a social relationship or that they liked to drink Czech beer together."
This story was picked up by other british papers and reached the States within
a few days. The story was finally debunked as false in late November 2001, but
often reappared again in 2002.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2
F2001%2F10%2F26%2Fwirq26
.xml
On the 26th
of October The Daily Telegraph tried to promote the Iraq-October-anthrax
theory: Hollinger Inc owns the Daily Telegraph, the Sydney Morning Herald, the
Chicago Sun Times and. On the board of Daily Telegraph is Henry Kissinger,
ex-CIA-Director James Woolsey, Newt Gingrich, former Admiral David Jeremiah,
Dan Quayle, former US-ministers James Schlesinger and Harold Brown. The
Director of Hollinger Inc. is Richard Perle. Perle is also Head of the Defense
Policy Board, Department of Defense which advises the Pentagon. Hollinger
Digital also owns Onset Technology which cooperates with spy messenger software
of Comverse and Odigo. Hollinger Inc. owns more than 400 newspapers worldwide
and controls almost 50% of the Canadian press. They are the third largest
newspaper chain in the Western world, after Gannett and Rupert Murdoch's News
Corporation. Chairman and CEO of Hollinger is Conrad Black who controls about
78% of Hollinger through a private holding company.
Sat Oct 26, 2001: The FBI says a third man has been arrested in connection with the
Washington-area attacks. Nathaniel Osbourne is not considered a suspect in the
actual killings, but he's being held as a material witness after police found
him listed as the co-owner of the Caprice found with Malvo and Muhammad.
October 27, 2001: Growing concern within Europe over the direction of the US campaign
and a fear that the US will be the sole beneficiary of the war. The official
reasons for targeting Afghanistan have given rise to a number of reports that
depart from invocation that the ongoing military campaign is a war against
terrorism. The most significant of these reports was an item on the The Gulf
War was largely about oil., this one is too. Halligan called oil an important
subtext to the struggle over Afghanistan. The US, is the worlds biggest
importer of oil, consuming 22 million barrels a day. The US relies heavily on
the Gulf states, such as Saudi Arabia, which produces seven million barrels a
day.
Oil and Gas International: Japanese JV to shoot 3D on Azadegan.
"The
Azadegan Field is believed to be one of the largest discovered in the Middle
East, with more than 26 billion bbl of oil in estimated reserves. It lies in
western Iran near the Iraqi frontier."
October 29, 2001 ExxonMobil announces a consortium it leads
will spend $4 billion over 5 years to develop large offshore oil and natural
gas fields in Russia's far eastern Sakhalin region. The fields are estimated to
contain 2.3 billion barrels of oil and 17 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
ExxonMobil will be the operator and own a 30% interest in the fields. Sakhalin
Oil and Gas Development of Japan will own 30%, ONGC Videsh of India 20%,
Sakhalinmorneftegas-Shelf of Russia 11.5%, and RN-Astra of Russia 8.5%. The
total investment could grow to $12 billion over the 30-40 year project life.
This is the single largest foreign investment in Russia, as Russia continues to
undertake market reforms. (WSJ, NYT)
CFR
Monday, October 29, 2001
"Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War"
Speaker: William Broad
Science Writer, The New York Times
Speaker: Stephen Engelberg
Investigations Editor, The New York Times
Speaker: Judith Miller
Senior Writer, The New York Times
Presider: Charlie Rose
Executive Producer and Host, Charlie Rose Show
Related Project(s): America's Response to Terrorism
"Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War"
Speaker: William Broad
Science Writer, The New York Times
Speaker: Stephen Engelberg
Investigations Editor, The New York Times
Speaker: Judith Miller
Senior Writer, The New York Times
Presider: Charlie Rose
Executive Producer and Host, Charlie Rose Show
Related Project(s): America's Response to Terrorism
Oct 29, 2001: (Sniper) The U.S. federal government
levels a 20-count complaint against Muhammad, accusing him of using a firearm
in an extortion scheme, after identifying the handwriting on a note requesting
$10 million US, found at the scene of a Virginia shooting. Tacoma, Wash., police
believe they can tie Muhammad to the February killing of Keenya Cook, whose
aunt worked at Muhammad's auto repair business and sided with his estranged
ex-wife after a bitter break-up.
October
30, 2001 CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) Meeting
"The WTO and the New Global Trade Round: What's at Stake?"
Speaker: Robert B. Zoellick U.S. Trade Representative
Presider: C Fred Bergsten Director, Institute for International Economics
[www.cfr.org]
"The WTO and the New Global Trade Round: What's at Stake?"
Speaker: Robert B. Zoellick U.S. Trade Representative
Presider: C Fred Bergsten Director, Institute for International Economics
[www.cfr.org]
October 2001: James Woolsey (ex CIA Director).. wanted a war against the Taliban for
years, but was even more interested in a war against Iraq. The Iraqi National
Congress, the exiled group that opposes Saddam Hussein, said in October 2001
that it held meetings in London with Mr Woolsey. Administration sources have
said his trip was funded and approved by Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy Defense
secretary. But Woolsey made no comment about the exact nature of his brief. He
told The Telegraph: "I was in London and that's it." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F10%2F26%2Fwirq26.xml
Unocal & Afghanistan
(10/29/01) There can be no doubt that the tragic terrorist attack on New York City and Washington requires apprehension and bringing to justice those responsible. They and their organization were in all likelihood led by the terrorist linchpin Osama bin Laden, who is harbored in Afghanistan, from which he is believed to have directed, trained, and financed this and other terrorist acts. And there can be no question that the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan are aiding and abetting him and his al-Qaida organization. But, despite how much this terrorist and his henchmen and the Taliban themselves are despised by most of the civilized world and the majority of Afghans themselves, can that be a justification for the present bombing of the country and soaring number of innocent casualties? Or, as is being said throughout the Middle East, is there an ulterior motive? Is it to put another regime in power that may be more favorable to the West?
Author Ahmed Rashid has revealed that since 1995, Unocal has sought to build US$1.9 billion, 790-mile oil and gas pipelines from the 25 Tcf Dauletabad Field in Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistani ports on the Arabian Sea as an alternate route for transporting Caspian region oil and gas to the enormous Indian subcontinent markets and perhaps beyond to Southeast Asia. But, Rashid points out, this requires an agreeable administration in Afghanistan, which the Taliban no longer is.
Unocal tried courting Taliban leaders after they took Kabul in 1996, taking them to Houston, where they were treated royally. They were offered US$.15 per 1000 cf of gas that passed through Afghanistan, and they agreed after US Assistant Secretary of State Robin Raphael lobbied them for the Unocal pipeline. During their first year running the country.
The Taliban were unopposed by the US government. Rashid says in 1997, he was told by an American diplomat, "The Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis did. There will be Aramco, pipelines, an emir, no parliament, and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that." But when the Taliban began to enforce strict sharia edicts, particularly against women, policies began to change. Nevertheless, Rashid says, Unocal told a 1998 US congressional hearing that Asian energy demands and the sanctions against Iran made Afghanistan "the only other possible route" for its proposed million b/d pipeline, but when the Taliban demanded more than the $100 million a year in rent for the pipeline route in the form of the construction of roads, water supplies, telephone lines, and electricity power lines, as well as a tap in the pipeline to provide oil and gas for Afghanistan, Unocal balked, and finally dropped its plans after the East Africa embassy bombings.
The US Energy Information Agency says, "Afghanistan's significance from an energy standpoint stems from its geographical position as a potential transit route for oil and natural gas exports from Central Asia to the Arabian Sea. This potential includes the possible construction of oil and natural gas export pipelines through Afghanistan."
If the Taliban is overthrown, terrorism may take a major blow, but in doing so, the primary stumbling block to the Caspian-Pakistan pipeline will also be removed. In the Middle East, where oil has always dominated political decisions, this is the rationale for the US-led strike against Afghanistan. The question is asked, if bin Laden were still in Saudi Arabia, would the same punishment be given that country?
(10/29/01) There can be no doubt that the tragic terrorist attack on New York City and Washington requires apprehension and bringing to justice those responsible. They and their organization were in all likelihood led by the terrorist linchpin Osama bin Laden, who is harbored in Afghanistan, from which he is believed to have directed, trained, and financed this and other terrorist acts. And there can be no question that the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan are aiding and abetting him and his al-Qaida organization. But, despite how much this terrorist and his henchmen and the Taliban themselves are despised by most of the civilized world and the majority of Afghans themselves, can that be a justification for the present bombing of the country and soaring number of innocent casualties? Or, as is being said throughout the Middle East, is there an ulterior motive? Is it to put another regime in power that may be more favorable to the West?
Author Ahmed Rashid has revealed that since 1995, Unocal has sought to build US$1.9 billion, 790-mile oil and gas pipelines from the 25 Tcf Dauletabad Field in Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistani ports on the Arabian Sea as an alternate route for transporting Caspian region oil and gas to the enormous Indian subcontinent markets and perhaps beyond to Southeast Asia. But, Rashid points out, this requires an agreeable administration in Afghanistan, which the Taliban no longer is.
Unocal tried courting Taliban leaders after they took Kabul in 1996, taking them to Houston, where they were treated royally. They were offered US$.15 per 1000 cf of gas that passed through Afghanistan, and they agreed after US Assistant Secretary of State Robin Raphael lobbied them for the Unocal pipeline. During their first year running the country.
The Taliban were unopposed by the US government. Rashid says in 1997, he was told by an American diplomat, "The Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis did. There will be Aramco, pipelines, an emir, no parliament, and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that." But when the Taliban began to enforce strict sharia edicts, particularly against women, policies began to change. Nevertheless, Rashid says, Unocal told a 1998 US congressional hearing that Asian energy demands and the sanctions against Iran made Afghanistan "the only other possible route" for its proposed million b/d pipeline, but when the Taliban demanded more than the $100 million a year in rent for the pipeline route in the form of the construction of roads, water supplies, telephone lines, and electricity power lines, as well as a tap in the pipeline to provide oil and gas for Afghanistan, Unocal balked, and finally dropped its plans after the East Africa embassy bombings.
The US Energy Information Agency says, "Afghanistan's significance from an energy standpoint stems from its geographical position as a potential transit route for oil and natural gas exports from Central Asia to the Arabian Sea. This potential includes the possible construction of oil and natural gas export pipelines through Afghanistan."
If the Taliban is overthrown, terrorism may take a major blow, but in doing so, the primary stumbling block to the Caspian-Pakistan pipeline will also be removed. In the Middle East, where oil has always dominated political decisions, this is the rationale for the US-led strike against Afghanistan. The question is asked, if bin Laden were still in Saudi Arabia, would the same punishment be given that country?
October 31, 2001 OPEC President (and Algerian Oil Minister)
Chakib Khelil states that OPEC oil producers are prepared to cut supply to get
weak oil prices back up to the group's $25-per-barrel target price. OPEC member
Kuwait states that it will support any move that OPEC makes. (Reuters)
October 31, 2001 almost all british and US-papers ignored another article, first released
as a radio report about a meeting of Bin laden and CIA agent Larry Stevens in
June 2001, by Richard Labevierre (Radio France International, "Terror
Dollars" (2000, about illegal Al-Quaida accounts), which was picked up on
same day by ananova, yahoo singapore, GROUND ZERO Forum NYC, Le Figaro, DER
SPIEGEL and DrudgeReport.
Late
October 2001
Johnson + Johnson now wants to give away their
product Levaquin,
an anti anthrax sirup, for free. They got ignored.
Other companies like Pfizer start to work on their
drug Vibramycin.
GlaxoSmithKline und Aventis promised to offer other
drugs for other bio weapon diseases or symptoms.
End October 2001
The FBI
claims, they have visited Dr. Tsonas (Holy Cross) to ask him something about
some hijackers.
Now, let's
go back to the Oct. 31 story by Le Figaro -- the one that has Osama bin Laden
meeting with a CIA officer in Dubai in July 2001.The story says,
"Throughout his stay in the hospital, Osama Bin Laden received visits from
many family members [There goes the story that he's a black sheep! --MCR] and
Saudi Arabian Emirate personalities of status. During this time the local
representative of the CIA was seen by many people taking the elevator and going
to bin Laden's room. "Several days later the CIA officer bragged to his
friends about having visited the Saudi millionaire. From authoritative sources,
this CIA agent visited CIA headquarters on July 15, the day after bin Laden's
departure for Quetta. "According to various Arab diplomatic sources and
French intelligence itself, precise information was communicated to the CIA
concerning terrorist attacks aimed at American interests in the world,
including its own territory. "Extremely bothered, they [American
intelligence officers in a meeting with French intelligence officers] requested
from their French peers exact details about the Algerian activists [connected
to bin Laden through Dubai banking institutions], without explaining the exact
nature of their inquiry. When asked the question, What do you fear in the
coming days?' the Americans responded with incomprehensible silence. "On
further investigation, the FBI discovered certain plans that had been put
together between the CIA and its 'Islamic friends' over the years. The meeting
in Dubai is, so it would seem, consistent with 'a certain American
policy.'" Even though Le Figaro reported that it had confirmed with
hospital staff that bin Laden had been there as reported, stories printed on
Nov. 1 contained quotes from hospital staff that these reports were untrue. On
Nov. 1, as reported by the Ananova press agency, the CIA flatly denied that any
meeting between any CIA personnel and Osama bin Laden at any time. Who do you
believe?
October 31, 2001: The Bush White House drafted an unprecedented executive order
sealing presidential records including those of prior administrations. October
31, 2001, the French daily "Le Figaro" reported that Osama bin Laden
had met with a high-level CIA official in July 2000. At that time, bin Laden
was already being sought for trial for his involvement in two U.S. embassy
bombings and the U.S.S. Cole attack. The meeting was held in bin Laden's
private suite in a Dubai hospital. Though he was eligible for elimination,
according to President Bill Clinton's intelligence findings, on July 14th he
was let go and left Dubai on his private jet.
November 1, 2001: Bush signs Executive Order 13233 restricting public access to papers
of former presidents.
November 2, 2001: Crude oil production begins at BP's
Northstar field located off Alaska's north shore. Production of 65,000 barrels
per day is expected by next quarter. Northstar is the first field to be
successfully developed in federal waters off Alaska's North Slope, coming
online 18 years after it was initially discovered. The Northstar production
module is the largest ever built in Alaska, with 22 wells planned. Recoverable
crude oil reserves are estimated at 175 million barrels. (OD)
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