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WAKING UP FROM OUR GLOBAL NIGHTMARE

“Getting it” About the Importance of this Election

By Wayne Madsen

http://www.lebanonwire.com/0411/04110201LW.asp


Last week I had the opportunity to visit the United Nations Headquarters
in New York for the first time since my parents took me there for my
12th birthday in 1966. In 1966, the UN Building was an amazing place.
Popularized in fiction by the television show “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”
and the movie “North by Northwest,” the UN Building is quintessential
1950s modern architecture -- its delegates’ lounge with a huge window
facing the East River more resembles the airport waiting lounges inside
the old Idlewild (now JFK Airport) or Washington National Airport
terminals. In 1966, it was amazing to see delegates from the four
corners of the world wearing various traditional clothing and engaging
one another in both jocular and serious conversations. One had the sense
that the UN was doing what the leaders of the Allies in World War II
wanted it to do -- preserve the peace and prevent another war.

But something is now very wrong at the UN Building. The carpets in the
building are threadbare and stained. The d****s adorning the large plate
glass windows are faded. And just days before the U.S. presidential
election, the demeanor of the UN staff was apprehensive and jittery.

George W. Bush accomplished what so many recent dictators tried to
accomplish – the honorable idea of a post-World War II community of
nations to create an international body to preserve the peace through
negotiation and reason was laid to waste. The UN is no longer a gleaming
glass and marble symbol of hope on the East River. Because of the rise
to power in Washington of a cabal of unilateralist right-wingers
adhering to a crypto-Nazi and fascist ideology developed by an unholy
alliance of apocalyptic Christian fundamentalists, Leo Straussian
neo-conservatives, a smattering of former Trotskyites and Vladimir
Jabotinskyite Zionists, the UN is now a dismal and gray place where the
world’s dominant power – the United States – has all but ignored the
international body at the expense of international law and diplomacy.

George W. Bush’s Texas Republican Party demands in its platform for the
United States to withdraw from the UN and expel it from the U.S.
territory. This was the demand of the farthest extremes of the right
wing in the 1950s and 1960s and it just shows how far out of the
political mainstream Bush and his political cronies have gone. Texas
Republican Governor Rick Perry even refused to sign a recent pro forma
proclamation honoring the UN on its anniversary.

Walking down the corridors of eerily quiet, empty, and drab UN was right
out of a scene from the nuclear war apocalypse movie “On the Beach.” The
General Assembly, Security Council, and Economic and Social Council
rooms were completely empty – their effectiveness curtailed by the Bush
war regime. Vital decisions affecting war and genocidal status quo civil
war stalemates are now made by a dangerous cabal inside the White House,
Pentagon, and Number 10 Downing Street.

The nightmarish image inside the UN is equally matched by the
armed-to-the-teeth storm troopers who now surround the White House, the
U.S. Congress, and the Supreme Court. The Bush regime, headed by a
megalomaniac who decides to spring his long-awaited “October Surprise”
by producing a videotape made by an old and valued Bush family Saudi
business partner just four days before the presidential election is just
further proof that Bush and his regime are traitors to the United States
of America and anathema to everything it stands for.

After three years of investigating the events of 9/11 on three
continents, I can now report that the Saudi led terrorist attack,
supported by wealthy members of governments and the top business
communities of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and which was
known in advance by an off-the-shelf Israeli intelligence operation
supported by Israeli-Russian criminal gangs who helped to further
inflame passions by posing as celebrating Arabs in and around New York
City after the twin attacks on the World Trade Center, was also known by
key members of the Bush administration, including Vice President ****
Cheney, his chief of staff Scooter Libby (a one time lawyer shill for
international crime boss Marc Rich), and the cabal of neo-conservatives
serving in the Pentagon under Donald Rumsfeld. In fact, the leader of a
group of Israeli “movers” of Eastern European descent, who had advance
knowledge of the 9/11 attacks from their base of operation in Weehawken,
New Jersey, was implicated by the FBI as being in league with the Al
Qaeda hijackers in an official FBI 911 suspect list.

The pre-911 “shadowing” activities of Israeli “movers” and “art
students” in close proximity to the Arab hijackers in Hollywood,
Florida; Irving, Texas; and Jersey City, New Jersey now appears to have
been an “off-the-shelf” intelligence operation tied closely to the
activities of the Offices of Special Plans within the Pentagon and Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon’s office. Shortly after the 911 attacks, former
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed the opinion that the
attacks were good for Israel. The inseparable ties between Cheney’s
office, Netanyahu’s and Sharon’s private intelligence operatives,
Rumsfeld’s neo conservative shop in the Pentagon, and the hijackers and
their financiers are as clear as day. Moreover, these ties are known by
a number of CIA, FBI, Justice Department, and other federal agents who
have been stymied in their attempts to bring ALL the perpetrators of
911, Arabs and Israelis alike, to justice. In addition, it is time to
bring charges against the Israeli operatives who were based in New
Jersey and who were responsible for the anthrax mailings that contained
letters that suggested Arabs were the perpetrators. They and their
liaisons at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious
Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland should be the focus of a new FBI
investigation unen***bered by the interference of Attorney General John
Ashcroft, an individual who was on the take of Kansas City and St. Louis
organized crime syndicates when he was Attorney General and Governor of
Missouri.

To cover their tracks, the Israelis managed, working through high tech
database, networking, and communications companies in which they have a
controlling interest, to destroy critical evidence concerning their role
in not only failing to warn the United States of what was being planned
for September 11, 2001 but in stoking the flames of anti-Arab tensions
by posing as Arabs and appearing to threaten the Holland and Lincoln
Tunnels and the George Washington and Brooklyn Bridges. Critical police
and other computerized records throughout north Jersey and Trenton have
been scrubbed by entities tied to the Israelis and possibly to the
former New Jersey Homeland Security chief Golan Cipel, an Israeli
citizen and alleged agent who is now being investigated by the FBI.
Cipel, who reportedly “honey trapped” Democratic Governor Jim McGreevey
in a series of homo***ual trysts, may have used his influence to cover
up pre- and post-911 activities of the Israeli agents in New Jersey,
particularly in Jersey City, Weehawken, Union City, Edgewater, Secaucus,
Fort Lee, and at Liberty State Park.

Like Sears and Roebuck, Binney and Smith, Horn and Hardart, and Barnes
and Noble, the Bush and Bin Laden families are a long standing business
team but one that has been involved in various dubious joint ventures in
the Middle East and around the world since the 1950s. And contrary to
Saudi propaganda, the Bin Laden family never disinherited or otherwise
excommunicated Osama from their midst. Such an act requires an elaborate
ceremony in which the family gathers in the desert and at sunset and
publicly banishes the subject family member in the presence of an imam
who do***ents the ritual in the same manner as a priest do***ents a
baptism or christening. According to the highest levels of Israeli
intelligence, such a do***ent does not exist because no such required
ceremony ever occurred.

So the fact that Osama bin Laden is still a cherished member of the same
family that has engaged in joint business activities for two generations
with George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Marvin Bush, Neil Bush, Jeb
Bush, and Bush family consigliore James Baker and Bush’s multibillion
dollar slush fund activity, The Carlyle Group, gives his recent
videotaped commentary on the U.S. presidential election more weight.
Osama Bin Laden always comes to the rescue of George W. Bush when the
chips are down. In August 2001, Bush was sinking in the polls amid
continuing charges that his presidency was an illegal contrivance
engineered by his brother in Florida, Florida’s Secretary of State
Katherine Harris, and five partisan members of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Then, like a true and trusted business partner, Bin Laden delivered the
911 attacks while Bush was being read book excerpts about a pet goat in
a Florida elementary school. Like two friendly business chums cracking
jokes on the golf course, Bin Laden chided Bush about the pet goat story
in his recent videotape.

Bin Laden, whose family was aided by the Bush’s during the 1970s and
1980s in acquiring airports, aircraft, secret bank accounts, front
companies, and real estate throughout Texas for the purpose of weapons
smuggling and money laundering, came through for Bush by launching the
very kind of “Pearl Harbor-level” attack called for by Bush’s
ideological allies serving with the Israeli-Russian Mafia-funded Project
for the New American Century (PNAC). Bin Laden financial help to Bush’s
various failed oil ventures, including Arbusto, Spectrum 7 and Harken
totaled $1 million over the years. **** Cheney, whose wife Lynne
receives Israeli-Russian Mafia funds to support her $125,000 chair at
the American Enterprise Institute, immediately used the 911 attacks to
consolidate the Bush regime’s hold on power, generate windfall war
profits for his old company Halliburton and take the nation’s attention
of the biggest corporate collapse in the history of the United States –
the Enron implosion.

Bush’s friends and partners in the United Arab Emirates arranged for
$109,500 to be transferred to the joint Sun Trust Bank account in
Florida used by hijackers Mohammed Atta and Marwan al Shehhi. Florida
Governor Jeb Bush has extensive personal financial ties to Sun Trust.
The wire transfer originated in Dubai and was transferred through
Citibank in New York. Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill privately
complained to the Emirates during a March 2002 visit to Dubai about the
use of Dubai by the Al Qaeda terrorists prior to and after the 911
attacks. For example, hijacker Ziad Jarrah transited Dubai in January
2001 on his return to Florida after spending time at Al Qaeda training
camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Hijackers Wail and and Waleed al
Shehri, who were brothers, arranged to use special phone cards in the
United States that could only be used to call Dubai.

O’Neill crossed swords with the Bush-Bin Laden partnership when he
renewed the aggressive approach to UAE and Saudi involvement with
terrorist money laundering begun by Clinton’s National Security Adviser
Sandy Berger. The Bush regime scrapped Berger’s policies after it took
office but O’Neill decided to take a hard line against the Saudis and
Emiratis after 911. In December 2002, O’Neill was fired. It was not
because of his skepticism over Bush’s planned war against Iraq (we did
not know about that until well after he was sacked), but it was
O’Neill’s decision to shut down the financial activities of Al Qaeda and
its allies that earned him the wrath of the Bush-Bin Laden partnership
and what led to his ultimate firing. Obviously, his distaste for the
Iraqi invasion also did not endear O’Neill to the Israeli-Russian
influenced neo-conservatives and PNACers.

And Bush has done much for Osama. After 911, Bush sufficiently delayed
an attack on Afghanistan enabling Bin Laden and his family and closest
cohorts to evade the eventual attack. After the U.S. invaded, it allowed
Bin Laden to escape Tora Bora by using former Bin Laden-allied local
warlords to supposedly try to capture him. Bush, in essence, allowed Bin
Laden and his party to escape. After Bush geared up to attack Iraq’s
Saddam Hussein, Bush publicly stated that he did not care about Osama
any longer. Until October 2004 when polls showed Kerry surging ahead.
Bingo! – Osama cuts a videotape on his view of the presidential
election. Walter Cronkite and I share the belief that this video was
engineered by Karl Rove. Beyond that fact, the video was yet another
example of the teamwork between the Bush and Bin Laden partners when one
or the other partner is threatened in some manner.

Immediately, PNAC adherent former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who
has made handsome profits in the security business as a result of 911,
began making statements that Bin Laden was parroting allegations
contained in Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 911.” It was that film that
introduced many Americans for the first time to the business
relationship between the Bushes and Bin Ladens. Osama’s video was used
by Bush's people to discredit Moore, and thus, the John Kerry campaign.

When I arrived at the UN Building in the late afternoon of October 29, a
group of staffers were having a small Halloween party but were also
transfixed on a television airing the video of Bin Laden. Eerily, I had
just left a meeting in midtown Manhattan with a colleague who told me
that Bin Laden was receiving kidney treatment in Qatar, which hosts a
major U.S. military base where Saddam Hussein was once imprisoned. Then,
bam! -- Bin Laden is on TV broadcasting from what was deemed by a number
of TV technicians to be a professional studio. Then the tape ends up in
the hands of Al Jazeera, which is also based in Qatar. Walter Cronkite
smelled a Karl Rove rat with that tape and so do I. It is a continuation
of past Bush-Bin Laden teamwork in matters of making tons of money and
bringing about global mayhem – all for the bottom line.

In July 2001, just weeks prior to 911, the French media reported that
Osama Bin Laden was in hospital at the American Hospital in – you
guessed it – Dubai, where he was receiving kidney treatment. The French
media also reported that a rather dodgy local American named Larry
Mitchell, who was attached to the U.S. Consulate General and said to be
the CIA station chief, visited Bin Laden at the hospital. More evidence
of the Bush-Bin Laden team in action.

On November 2, we must put and end to the most damaging and menacing
administration in the history of our republic. The sinister Bush family
and their bastard operatives are the most dangerous collection of
demagogues and hate mongers to have achieved power since the days of
Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. It’s time for them to go. Let a Kerry
administration begin the process of indicting the Bush-Bin Laden cartel
criminals for their treacherous acts against our nation. Let there be no
mercy, pardons, or clemency for these truly evil people.

Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based journalist, author, and
commentator. He is the author of the forthcoming (but suppressed) book
“Jaded Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops, & Brass Plates.” He served in the
National Security Agency (NSA) during the Reagan administration and has