America preparing a war for the Gulf oil in 1973

Was America preparing a war for the Gulf oil in 1973?
Papers released under the 30-year rule show Britain worried about Middle East conflict and what to buy for a royal wedding

By Cahal Milmo

U.S. Planned to Seize Oil in '73 Crisis

Independent UK -01 January 2004

The British Government believed America was preparing for a lightning war in the Middle East to end the 1973 oil crisis, including an invasion of Kuwait, documents released today to the National Archives show.

The Joint Intelligence Committee, the body that acts as the link between the intelligence services and Downing Street, warned the Prime Minister, Edward Heath that Washington was planning to seize oil fields in Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait to secure the Western economies.

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July 5, 2001: "[s]omething really spectacular is going to happen here"
(Richard Clarke, top counter-terrorism official)

"...So many, many questions. Why did World Trade Center 7 collapse? No airplane hit that building, and before September 11, no steel skyscraper had ever collapsed because of a fire..."

On September 12, 2003, the widow Ellen Mariani filed a civil RICO suit in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania naming George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Norman Mineta, Peter G. Peterson, Condoleezza Rice, George H.W. Bush and Kenneth Feinberg

Nine hundred and Eleven Missing Pieces
What don’t we know, and why don’t we know it?

NY Press -Title Story 2003/53

The Southern Solstice has passed, and with it the deadline for 9/11 families to file their claims with the "Feinberg Fund," as it has come to be known. Of an official death toll of 2976, claims have been filed by for 2,851. The claim involves signing off on any future litigation against the government, the airlines, the airports or any security firms.

One hundred and twenty-five claims remain outstanding, but little has been written about any of these families. Where is the coverage of those insisting on finding out what really happened on that day before they sign away their "claims?"

First to stand up were five widows: Kristen Breitweiser, Patty Casazza, Mindy Kleinberg and Lorie van Auken. Breitweiser’s husband was killed in his office at Fiduciary Trust on the 94th floor of the South Tower, while Casazza, Kleinberg and van Auken are Cantor-Fitzgerald widows. They began lobbying for answers early in 2002, navigating the labyrinth of American bureaucracy and hammering the bureaucrats for direct answers to direct questions. In September 2002, Breitweiser testified at the first televised public hearing before the Joint Intelligence Committee Inquiry (JICI) in DC.

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Ashcroft Recuses Self From CIA Leak Probe

AP -December 30

Attorney General John Ashcroft will recuse himself from an investigation into who leaked the name of a CIA operative, Justice Department sources said Tuesday.

The investigation will be headed by the U.S. attorney in Chicago, Patrick Fitzgerald, who will report to Ashcroft's new deputy, James Comey, the officials said. It was not immediately clear why Ashcroft made the decision.

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Transcript Updates (12/30)

Newsday -December 29

NEW YORK -- Minutes after hijackers slammed into the World Trade Center, police alerted airport control towers that they considered it "a criminal act," according to newly released Port Authority transcripts.

The agency on Monday released the final set of transcripts from emergency communications during the Sept. 11 terror attack. The disclosure comes four months after the Port Authority released 2,000 pages of documents detailing what was said in thousands of other emergency calls that day.

In the newly disclosed transcripts, a caller from the Port Authority police desk tells Chris McCary, a La Guardia Airport control tower employee, that "they are considering it a criminal act."

"We believe that, and we are holding all aircraft on the ground," McCary answers. The exchange, reported at 9:10 a.m., came seven minutes after the second plane struck the twin towers.

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Top Ten 9/11 Truth Movement Activist Kit for 2004

Serendipity (Mirror 1)

1. Support the US and worldwide "Stop the 9/11 Cover-up" protest march

   On Saturday, February 7th, 2004, New York will open with a protest march against the 9/11 Cover-up. To support this march and any other protests on that weekend, please sign in at 9/11 Meetup, find four other supporters and team up with local activists in your area for that event. We need also other Meetups in Amsterdam (Dutch intelligence was monitoring Hamburg Cell suspects) and Berlin (to support the German 9/11 authors who filed lawsuits against German TV shows) and Sydney (to protest against Australian Prime Minister John Howard)

   2. Educate "newbie"-9/11 skeptics with a 9/11 media kit

   Check out CommunityCurrency and Nancho.Net for 9/11 books and movies and DeceptionDollar.com, 911Review, Paul Thompson's Timeline and GFP 9/11 Archive for other researchers and original sources. Organize 9/11 investigative film screenings and look out for new 9/11 skeptic movies.

   3. Become the media

   Currently GlobalFreePress supports two weekly shows, SGTV and INN World Report. SGTV is an ongoing 9/11 documentary which will be screened at the Sundance Film Festival and the MoveOn.org contest. SGTV is constantly looking for new spots on Public Access Channels and FreeSpeech TV. Please vote and watch out for our videos (30 sec to 30 min) and Thursday TV Shows.

   Alert: The public vote for the Bushin30Seconds-Movies will end on New Years Eve.

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Conspiracy theories abound in 9/11 probe

Update: Story picked up by more U.S. papers (01/04)
Update: "Theories"? -St. Petersburgh readers demand an immediate and thorough investigation into 9/11

Photo: Gore Vidal

Cleveland.com -01/04
Kansas City Star -December 30, 2003
NJ.com -Monday, December 29, 2003

BY ROBERT COHEN

WASHINGTON -- One theory contends that the Bush administration was warned about the 9/11 attacks but did nothing to stop them. Another says an American missile fired by the U.S. military struck the Pentagon, not a hijacked jetliner. Yet another hypothesis says the Israelis orchestrated the attacks to force the United States into a war against the Arabs.

More than two years after terrorists hijacked four airliners and killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, conspiracy theories abound about what happened on Sept. 11, 2001.

A 9/11 widow recently filed a lawsuit accusing President Bush of allowing the attacks to gather support for the war on terrorism.

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Anthrax drill shows weaknesses, officials say

CNN -Sunday, December 28, 2003

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A drill testing U.S. agencies' ability to distribute and administer antibiotics in the event of an anthrax attack found the federal government unable to respond quickly enough to prevent large numbers of deaths, officials said Sunday.

The simulation -- held in mid-November and dubbed Scarlet Cloud -- demonstrated that perhaps thousands of fatalities might have occurred had such a widespread attack been real, according to a Department of Homeland Security official.

"It's an exercise to find our weaknesses, our vulnerabilities," the official said. "We did. It showed us how to determine where to apply our different efforts and energies.

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