Can connections be made between the following:
• Saudi Arabia (majority of the 11 September 2001 hijackers were Arabs),
• 15 (Saudi Arabian)
• 1 (Egyptian)
• 2 (United Arab Emirates)
• 1 (Lebanese)
• source: ??? their visa record?
• Afghanistan (Afghanistan was the first place the U.S. invaded after 9/11)
• the opium poppy field is grown in Afghanistan
• the bond market, Cantor Fitzgerald
• the first plane striked between the 93rd and 99th floors (1 world trade center).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor_Fitzgerald
Cantor Fitzgerald's corporate headquarters and New York City office,[7][8] on the 101st–105th floors of One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan (2–6 floors above the impact zone of a hijacked airliner), were destroyed during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
• The impact zone was between the 93rd and 99th floors (1 world trade center).
• it is written that the impact zone of the first airplane is the location of Cantor Fitzgerald's data center for securities and bond trading. (source: ???)
http://www.fact-index.com/c/ca/cantor_fitzgerald_securities.html
Cantor Fitzgerald Securities is an investment bank specializing in bond trading.
• World Trade Center buildings (the hijackers first targets)
• what are the connections, if there are any, between Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, the bond market, Cantor Fitzgerald, the World Trade Center building 1, 2, 3, and 7, and the United States of America (U.S. Government, The Pentagon, U.S. businesses at the World Trade Center buildings).
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• Flight 11
• American Airlines Flight 11 , Boeing 767-223ER, registration number N334AA
• alleged hijackers:
• Mohamed Atta (Egyptian)
• Waleed al-Shehri (Saudi Arabian)
• Wail al-Shehri (Saudi Arabian)
• Abdul aziz al-Omari (Saudi Arabian)
• Satam al-Suqami (Saudi Arabian)
• Flight 175
• United Airlines Flight 175, Boeing 767-200, registration number N612UA
• alleged hijackers:
• Marwan al-Shehhi (United Arab Emirates)
• Fayez Banihammad (United Arab Emirates)
• Mohand al-Shehri (Saudi Arabian)
• Hamza al-Ghamdi (Saudi Arabian)
• Ahmed al-Ghamdi (Saudi Arabian)
• Flight 77
• American Airlines Flight 77 , Boeing 757-223 (registration N644AA)
• alleged hijackers:
• Hani Hanjour (Saudi Arabian)
• Khalid al-Mihdhar (Saudi Arabian)
• Majed Moqed (Saudi Arabian)
• Nawaf al-Hazmi (Saudi Arabian)
• Salem al-Hazmi (Saudi Arabian)
• Flight 93
• United Airlines Flight 93 , Boeing 757–222, registration N591UA
• alleged hijackers:
• Ziad Jarrah (Lebanese)
• Ahmed al-Haznawi (Saudi Arabian)
• Ahmed al-Nami (Saudi Arabian) (B-1/B-2 visa in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
• Saeed al-Ghamdi (Saudi Arabian) (B-1/B-2 visa in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
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• Khalid al-Mihdhar (Saudi Arabian)
• Nawaf al-Hazmi (Saudi Arabian)
• Flight 77
• American Airlines Flight 77 , Boeing 757-223 (registration N644AA)
• Flight 77 was crashed into the Pentagon
• American Airlines' daily scheduled morning transcontinental service from Washington Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California.
• alleged hijackers:
• Hani Hanjour (Saudi Arabian)
• Khalid al-Mihdhar (Saudi Arabian)
• Majed Moqed (Saudi Arabian)
• Nawaf al-Hazmi (Saudi Arabian)
• Salem al-Hazmi (Saudi Arabian)
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• Khalid al-Mihdhar
• Nawaf al-Hazmi
Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi (9/11 hijackers supposedly id by Able Danger; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Danger)
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• Khalid al-Mihdhar, p.32, James Bamford., The shadow factory, 2008
• Nawaf al-Hazmi, pp.16-17, James Bamford., The shadow factory, 2008
James Bamford., The shadow factory : the ultra-secret NSA from 9/11 to the eavesdropping on America, 2008
pp.16-17
NSA had had Nawaf's full name and other detail in its database for nearly a year, no one thought to do a computer search before sending a report
the report went out with first name only.
three suspects were suddenly on the move to another part of the world.
State department
Jedda, American embassy in Jedda, Saudi Arabia
p.19
FBI watchlist
Central Intelligence Report (CIR)
without Wilshire's approval, Miller could not pass on the information, even verbally
Wilshire, deputy chief of Alec station
(1 of 3) Miller, FBI agent attached to Alec station
Mark Rossini, FBI
State department watch list
p.32
Mihdhar (identified as “Khalid” in NSA intercepts)
(The shadow factory : the ultra-secret NSA from 9/11 to the eavesdropping on America / James Bamford., 1. united states. national security agency──history., 2. intelligence service──united states., 3. electronic surveillance──united states.
4. united states──politics and government──2001─, UB256.U6B38 2008, 327.1273──dc22, 2008, )
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• Khalid al-Mihdhar, p.195, p.204, George Tenet, At the center of the storm, 2007
• Nawaf al-Hazmi, p.197, p.197, p.204, George Tenet, At the center of the storm, 2007
George Tenet with Bill Harlow, At the center of the storm : my years at the CIA, 2007
p.160
Six days later, on September 10, a source we were jointly running with a Middle Eastern country went to see his foreign handler and basically told him that something big was about to go down. The handler dismissed him. Had we known it at the time, however, it would have sounded very much like all the other warnings we received in June, July, August, and early September ── frightening but without specificity.
p.195
CIR (Central Intelligence Report)
What never happened was a formal transmission to the FBI, in a report called CIR (Central Intelligence Report), documenting what everyone believed had already occurred, the sending of al-Mihdhar's photo and visa data. An FBI officer assigned to CIA, known as a “detailee”, in fact initiated the drafting of the formal report, but it was never cleared for transmission.
p.196
NSA report on some of the Malaysia meeting's participants,
p.196
CIA should have placed them on a watchlist that might have prevented their entering the United States.
p.196
We later discovered that there was inadequate staff training on how to handle watchlist submissions. Officers in the field, where primary responsibility for watchlisting resided, thought headquarters would do it, and vice versa.
p.197
connected the name Nawaf al-Hazmi with the meeting of 8 weeks before.
p.197
linking Khallad to the phone number in Yemen that had been associated with the Kuala Lumpur meeting.
p.197
Kuala Lumpur meeting
p.197
By the end of November 2000, CIA and FBI both knew Khallad's full name, Khallad bin Attash, had his picture,
p.197
Khalid al-Mihdhar (who was at the Malaysia meeting the previous January)
p.204
The famous Phoenix memo, outlining concerns about terrorists being trained at flight schools, was not shared.
p.204
CIA did not watchlist al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar until August 23, 2001.
George Tenet with Bill Harlow, At the center of the storm : my years at the CIA, 2007
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Can connections be made between the following:
• Saudi Arabia (majority of the 11 September 2001 hijackers were Arabs),
• 15 (Saudi Arabian)
• 1 (Egyptian)
• 2 (United Arab Emirates)
• 1 (Lebanese)
• source: ??? their visa record?
• Afghanistan (Afghanistan was the first place the U.S. invaded after 9/11)
• the opium poppy field is grown in Afghanistan
• the bond market, Cantor Fitzgerald
• the first plane striked between the 93rd and 99th floors (1 world trade center).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor_Fitzgerald
Cantor Fitzgerald's corporate headquarters and New York City office,[7][8] on the 101st–105th floors of One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan (2–6 floors above the impact zone of a hijacked airliner), were destroyed during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
• The impact zone was between the 93rd and 99th floors (1 world trade center).
• it is written that the impact zone of the first airplane is the location of Cantor Fitzgerald's data center for securities and bond trading. (source: ???)
http://www.fact-index.com/c/ca/cantor_fitzgerald_securities.html
Cantor Fitzgerald Securities is an investment bank specializing in bond trading.
• World Trade Center buildings (the hijackers first targets)
• what are the connections, if there are any, between Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, the bond market, Cantor Fitzgerald, the World Trade Center building 1, 2, 3, and 7, and the United States of America (U.S. Government, The Pentagon, U.S. businesses at the World Trade Center buildings).
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• The connections: maintain US dollar (USD) hegemony [as the World Reserve Currency][instead of the alternative denomination, for example, a weighted basket of currencies] for US deficits to be viable, fossil fuel (oil & gas), and petrodollar cycle.
source #1:
William R. Clark, Petrodollar warfare, 2005 [ ]
p.115 (pdf - page 136/289)
There were only two credible reasons for invading Iraq: control over oil and preservation of the dollar as the world's reserve currency.
-- John Chapman, “The Real Reasons Bush Went to War”,
the Guardian (UK), July 2004 88
p.20 (pdf - page 41/289)
David Spiro's book, The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony
pp.20-21 (pdf - page 41/289)
In typical understatement Spiro noted that, “clearly something more than the laws of supply and demand ... resulted in 70 percent of all Saudi assets in the United States being held in a New York Fed account.”42
40. David E. Spiro, The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony: Petrodollar recycling and International Markets, Cornell university press, 1999, pp. 121-123.
41. Ibid, p. x.
42. Ibid, p. 125.
p.120 (pdf - page 141/289)
Secret, unilateral US agreements with Saudi Arabia in 1974 thwarted movement toward a basket of multiple currencies for international oil trades.
2003 invasion of Iraq is the first major proxy battle in the new, third phase of securing American dominance.
According to page 28 of Clark’s book (William R. Clark, “Petrodollar warfare”):
On September 24, 2000, Saddam Hussein allegedly “emerged from a meeting of his government and proclaimed that Iraq would soon transition its oil export transactions to the euro currency.”
On page 31, Clark adds:
“CNN ran a very short article on its website on October 30, 2000, but after this one-day news cycle, the issue of Iraq’s switch to a petroeuro essentially disappeared from all five of the corporate-owned media outlets.”
Was America’s goal to bring “democracy” to Iraq actually a guise for making an example of Iraq for threatening the petrodollar system? I don’t claim to know. However, the more that you consider the data, the more compelling the argument becomes.
(Petrodollar warfare : oil, Iraq and the future of the dollar, William R. Clark, 2005, )
source #2:
George Tenet with Bill Harlow, At the center of the storm : my years at the CIA, 2007
p.302
Paul Wolfowitz, Doug Feith, and Richard Perle were among 18 people who had signed a public letter from a group they named “The Project for the New American Century” calling for Saddam's ouster.
p.303
America's promise to topple Saddam remained the law of this land from halfway through Bill Clinton's second term right up until U.S. troops invaded in March 2003.
p.306
To his amazement, Feith said the words to the effect that the campaign should immediately lead to Baghdad.
p.310
“C”, “intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy”
p.345
Despite the fact that some of our analysts felt we had gone too far, many in the administration, such as Paul Wolfowitz and Scooter Libby, believed that the “Murky Relationship” paper had not gone far enough.
p.347
Feith's team, it turned out, had been sifting through raw intelligence and wanted to brief us on things they thought we had missed. Trouble was, while they seemed to like playing the role of analysts, they showed none of the professional skills or discipline required. Feith and company would find little nuggets that supported their beliefs and seize upon them, never understanding that there might be a larger picture they were missing. Isolated data points became so important to them that they would never look at the thousands of other data points that might convey an opposite story.
p.420
U.S. troop strength was sufficient to defeat the Iraqi army, but woefully inadequate to maintain the peace ── just as Gen. Rick Shinseki, the former army chief of staff, had predicted.
p.425
Iraq's history of foreign occupation, first the Ottomans then the British, has left Iraqis with a deep dislike of occupiers.
p.473
CIA's involvement with attempts to get the yellowcake [uranium and uranium oxide] information out of presidential speeches.
p.474
Apparently, we had earlier raised our concerns and were trying to persuade them to drop that segment of the speech.
p.474
I don't believe that this earliest attempt to get the yellowcake information in the president's mouth has ever been publicly mentioned before.
p.474
Either people overwhelmed with data and meetings had simply forgotten, or, for the White House speechwriters, the third time was the charm.
p.474
the fact that Iraq's effort to procure the yellowcake was not particularly significant to its nuclear ambitions because the Iraqis already had in inventory a large stock, 550 tons, of uranium oxide.
George Tenet with Bill Harlow, At the center of the storm : my years at the CIA, 2007
source #3:
William R. Clark, Petrodollar warfare, 2005 [ ]
p.28 (pdf - page 49/89)
The answer is simple: the dollar's unique role as a petrodollar has been the foundation of its supremacy since the mid 1970s. The process of petrodollar recycling underpins the US' economic domination that funds its military supremacy. Dollar/petrodollar supremacy allows the US a unique ability to sustain yearly current account deficits, pass huge tax cuts, build a massive military empire of bases worldwide, and still have others accept its currency as medium of exchange for their imported good and services. The origins of this history are not found in textbooks on international economics, but rather in the minutes of meetings held by various banking and petroleum elites who have quietly sought unhindered power.
([ look for articles, papers, and books about the secret back room deal between bankers and oil executives ])
([ transition the dollar as World Reserve Currency to a basket of currencies ])
([ list of other stable currencies ])
p.30 (pdf - page 51/89)
By January 1974 the price of OPEC's benchmark oil stood at $11.65 per barrel (up from $3.01 in early 1973). Furthermore, it is also a matter of historical record that, during this time, the US had engaged in secret negotiations with the Saudi Arabia Monetary Authority to establish a petrodollar recycling system via New York and London banks.
p.39 (pdf - page 60/89)
Eurasia
Anglo-American alliance
Oil and gas are not the ultimate aims of the US [in Iraq]. It's about control. If the US controls the sources of energy of its rivals ── Europe, Japan, China, and other nations aspiring to be more independent ── they win.
── Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, January 2002
p.40 (pdf - page 61/89)
In essence, the Iraq war was about dollars, euros, oil, and geostrategic power in the 21st century.
(Petrodollar warfare : oil, Iraq and the future of the dollar, William R. Clark, 2005, )
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Mihajlo Mesarovic and Eduard Pestel, Mankind at the turning point, 1974 [ ]
1973
p.178
(see Table III C-1).*
Table III C-1
Cost in U.S. Dollar
Technical
Energy source capital cost unit cost
Persian Gulf 100-300 0.10-0.20
Nigeria 600-800 0.40-0.60
Venezuela 700-1000 0.40-0.60
North Sea 2500-4000 0.90-2.00
Large deep-sea reservoirs over 3000? 2.00-?
New U.S. reservoirs (not too remote) 3000-4000 2.00-2.50
Easy part of Alberta tar sands 3000-5000 2.00-3.00
High-grade oil shales 3000-7000 3.00-4.50
Gas synthesized from coal 5000-8000 3.00-6.00
Liquid synthesized from coal 6000-8000 3.00-6.00
Liquid natural gas (landed) 6000-9000 3.00-6.00
* A. B. Looius, "Energy Resources," paper at the UN symposium on population, resources, and environment, Stockholm, 1973.
(Mankind at the turning point, Mihajlo Mesarovic and Eduard Pestel, The Second Report to The Club of Rome, 1974, p.178)
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William R. Clark
A Macroeconomic and Geostrategic Analysis of the Unspoken Truth
by William Clark
Original Essay January 2003
-Revised March 2003
-Post-war Commentary January 2004
https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/RRiraqWar.html
https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/RRiraqWar.html
Background on Hydrocarbons and US Geostrategy
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