Palast, New York Times, firing squad, BBC, Khan, PM Lubbers etc.
Here comes today's Palast, which is quite informative, and avoiding the usual, which is a pity. But, below is some further interesting information.
RELATED - DUTCH FORMER PM: 'THE CIA TOLD US TO LET HIM JUST GO ON'
TOLD ’TO BACK OFF’ SO THE CIA COULD FOLLOW AND CONTROL KHAN’S SPY ACTIVITIES IN HOLLAND
FPF - June 28th 2006 - The fact that I'm very critical of Greg Palast sometimes, doesn't mean he's wrong all the time. But always check the well you're drinking from, and know that the BBC is a full time propaganda channel for the Group in London and a huge part of the inhuman 'Project for a New American Cemetery'. (PNAC). The caption below forms a question which is reasonable, but capital punishment should be avoided, because that is stooping as low as those predators of humanity: killing to punish a killer? What's next? Raping a rapist?
Related to today's Palast story below, the following may be very interesting to know: 'CIA ALLOWED NUKE SPY TO CONTINUE' - Wednesday 10th August 2005 - Former Dutch Prime Minister: nuclear proliferation to Libya, Iran and North Korea by the CIA tolerated Pakistani top spy Dr. Kahn. - by Henk Ruyssenaars - Url.: http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/08-09-05/discussion.cgi.16.html
I'M NOT AIMING AT THE MONKEY IN THE STREET BUT AT THE MEN WHO GRIND THE ORGAN
The Group which is responsible for the genocides must be stopped, and the involved creatures and their collaborators and propagandists - of all nationalities - must be jailed for life as soon as laws are valid again. The New York Times is by the way one of the worst and warmongering despicable rags I know. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/kypgj
PALAST, KHAN'S NUKES & the BBC:
TREASON: “FIRING SQUAD” FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES? - By Greg Palast - below.
June 28, 2006 - The Right Wing has gone hog-ass wild over the New York Times' "shocking" report that the Bush Administration is actually tracking terrorists' money transfers. Oh my!
The fruitcakes are in flames! "Stand them in front of a firing squad or put them in prison for the rest of their lives," says one pinhead on Fox TV.
For what? The stunning news that the government is hunting the source of al-Qaeda's cash? "Osama! You must stop using your ATM card! Condi Rice is reading our bank statements!"
Somehow, I suspect bin Laden already assumes his checkbook is getting perused.
It is worth noting that the fanatic screeching for a "firing squad" is a guy who claims to be a former CIA agent. No one can confirm his claim of course, but this character, Wayne Simmons, has made his career blabbering away juicy intelligence secrets to sell himself as an "expert," stuff far racier than the Times' weak report. Well, hypocrisy never stood in the way of the Foxes in the news house.
You want to talk "treason"? OK, let's talk treason. How about Dick Cheney telling his creepy little hitman 'Scooter' Libby to reveal information that led to the naming of a CIA agent? Mr. Simmons, do you have room in your firing squad schedule for the Vice-President?
And no one on Fox complained when the Times, under the by-line of Judith Miller, revealed the secret "intelligence" information that Saddam was building a bomb.
Yes, let's talk treason. How about this: Before the 9/11 attack, George Bush's intelligence chieftains BLOCKED the CIA's investigation of the funding of al-Qaeda and terror.
THE "BACK-OFF" DIRECTIVE
On November 9, 2001, BBC Television Centre in London received a call from a phone booth just outside Washington. The call to our Newsnight team was part of a complex pre-arranged dance coordinated with the National Security News Service, a conduit for unhappy spooks at the CIA and FBI to unburden themselves of disturbing information and documents.
The top-level U.S. intelligence agent on the line had much to be unhappy and disturbed about: what he called a "back-off" directive.
This call to BBC came two months after the attack on the Pentagon and World Trade Towers. His fellow agents, he said, were now released to hunt bad guys. That was good news. The bad news was that, before September 11, in those weeks just after George W. Bush took office, CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) personnel were told to "back off" certain targets of investigations begun by Bill Clinton.
The agent said, "There were particular investigations that were effectively killed."
WHICH ONES? HIS REPLY WAS NONE TOO COMFORTING: KHAN LABS.*
On February 11, 2004, President Bush, at an emergency press briefing, expressed his shock -- shock! -- at having learned that Dr. A. Q. Khan of Pakistan was running a flea market in fissionable material. But, we knew that from the agent's call -- nearly three years earlier. As the intelligence insider told us, the Khan investigation died because the CIA was not allowed to follow down the money trail ... to Saudi Arabia.
Apparently, the Saudis, after Saddam Hussein attacked Kuwait in 1991, switched their funding for an "Islamic bomb" from Iraq to Pakistan. Dr. Khan used the Saudi loot to build and test his bomb -- then sell off the blueprints and bomb-fixings to North Korea and Libya. This was, one might say, a somewhat dangerous situation. But Bush's spymasters made it a policy to "See No Saudi Evil" -- so the investigation died.
WHAT YOU "OUGHT NOT TO KNOW."
Closing the agencies eyes to the Khan bomb was not the only spike. That same week in November 2001, unhappy FBI agents "accidentally" left an astonishing dozen-page fax on the desks of our NSNS colleagues. It was marked, "199-I -- WF" and "SECRET."
The code "199-I" means "national security matter" in FBI-speak. It was about what the FBI deemed "a suspected terrorist organization." What made the document special -- and earned the anger of the two agents who "lost" it for us -- is that it indicates that the "suspected terrorist" activities were not investigated until September 13, 2001, despite a desire by agents to investigate these characters years earlier.
Who was exempt from investigation? That was on page 2 of the 199-I document. The FBI was hunting in Falls Church, Virginia, for "ABL," Abdullah bin Laden, nephew of Osama. They were also seeking another relative, Omar bin Laden (or "Binladden" in the alternative translation of the Arabic name). But by September 13, when the restrictions on agents were removed, the bin Ladens were gone.
Why did buildings have to fall before the FBI could question the bin Ladens? Because, frustrated agents noted, the "suspected terrorist organization" was funded directly by the Saudi Royal family.
The suspect group, the World Association of Muslim Youth, operated soccer clubs -- and a whole lot more. For example, there was its shuttle operation for jihadi warriors to Bosnia and, foreign intelligence agencies told us at BBC, alleged involvement of WAMY members in bombings.
In the face of these accusations, the Saudi supreme dictator, King Abdullah, praised WAMY, saying, "There is no extremism in the defending of the faith." That's his opinion.
Abdullah bin Laden brought WAMY to the USA where, in a summer camp in Florida, little kids were given instruction in baseball and in the glories of hostage-taking (no kidding).
But the FBI's investigation of the bin Ladens and their group was out of the question so long as the Bush Administration kept intelligence agencies from following the funds transfers of the House of Saud.
That November night in 2001, when we were about to televise the 199-I memo, my BBC producer, Meirion Jones, sought out the FBI's comment, assuming we'd get the usual, "It's baloney, a fake, you misunderstand, it ain't true."
But we didn't get the usual response.
Rather, FBI headquarters in Washington told us: "There are lots of things the intelligence community knows and other people ought not to know."
"Ought not to know"?!?
We ran the story of the Bush Administration's impeding investigations of the funding of terror. BBC ran it at the top of the nightly news in Britain and worldwide. It hit the front pages of newspapers around the globe -- except in the USA. In America, the New York Times and our other news outlets were still accepting the Bush Administration's diktat that intelligence "information" -- that is, news of disastrous intelligence failures -- was something the Times' readers, "ought not to know."
So I'm tempted to say that, Yes, the New York Times has committed treason -- not by reporting on what Bush's spies are doing, but on failing to report on what Bush's spies did not do: a deadly failure to follow the money before September 11 because the House of Bush chose to protect the House of Saud.
[andend] - Story Url.: http://www.gregpalast.com/treason-firing-squad-for-the-new-york-times#more-1434
HR: What about the CIA and Khan?
This may be quite interesting:
CIA ALLOWED NUKE SPY TO CONTINUE
Former Dutch Prime Minister: Nuclear proliferation to Libya, Iran and North Korea by the 'CIA tolerated' Pakistani top spy Dr. Kahn.
by Henk Ruyssenaars
FPF - The Netherlands - August 9 - 2005 - "We were not allowed by the american intelligence service CIA to arrest Pakistani top spy Dr. Abdul Khan, whom we knew was stealing nuclear secrets from us for years." This accusation was made today by the former Prime minister of the Netherlands Ruud Lubbers, in an investigating program - Argos - on Dutch national radio.*
Ex PM Lubbers was - in his usual frank way - blaming the CIA for Pakistani proliferation of stolen nuclear knowledge. The program was made in cooperation with Japanese TV, remembering the unnecessary atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.*
This revelation is - to say the least - as usual ’very underreported’ by the international neocon ’information’ agencies. Dutch minister of Justice P. H. Donner, when earlier explicitly asked about possible CIA action concerning Khan, did not tell the truth and told parliament: ’’that nothing of the kind has happened, the CIA had nothing to do with it’’. A discussion in the pro neocon Dutch parliament, run by speaker mr. Weisglass and again concerning Donner’s lies about the CIA activities has been announced. Nobody expects anything; except more lies. [Nothing came out of it - HR - 2006]
TOLD ’TO BACK OFF’ SO THE CIA COULD FOLLOW AND CONTROL KHAN’S SPY ACTIVITIES IN HOLLAND
According to the often very outspoken former prime minister and ex United Nations Refugee High Commissioner* Lubbers: "Under the influence of the so called ’Cold War’, all ’western’ intelligence services were ordered around by the CIA, and were told ’to back off’ so the CIA could follow and control Khan’s spy activities in Holland’’. For all those years the CIA wanted Khan to go on with his spying, which ultimately was used to get US ally Pakistan atomic weapons too, Lubbers said.
"Just let him go, we’ll follow him, and that way get more information", the permanently in Holland stationed CIA spooks told the servile Dutch secret service, which for decades - apart from the CIA etc. - also cooperates with the Israeli Mossad. Dutch ’National Airport’ Schiphol serves as an airport for the Israeli airline ’El Al’, and as a major Mossad base in Europe. Dutch Attorney General Vrakking testified already on Jan. 29, 1999, that the El Al security detachment at Schiphol was a branch of Mossad. This information is never repeated in the Dutch media.
Schiphol airport has become a hub for secret weapons transfers, charged Henk van der Belt, an investigator working with the Bijlmer survivors. [after the crash of an El Al airliner, see Url.]. Dutch authorities have no jurisdiction over Israeli activities at the airport. A TV Amsterdam (TVA) report identified Schiphol ’’as one of several European airports that allows El Al to transfer cargo without supervision.’’ [El Al/Mossad - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yurk6]
EUROPEAN FIRMS WERE EAGER TO DO BUSINESS*
The result of the CIA’s ’handling’ and supervising the situation was clear to anybody involved, and resulted in the following, as described by Christopher Clary last year: " Khan skillfully maneuvered around international export controls. He later said, "My long stay in Europe and intimate knowledge of various countries and their manufacturing firms was an asset. Within two years we had put up working prototypes of centrifuges and were going at full speed to build the facilities at Kahuta."
The European firms were eager to do business: "They literally begged us to buy their equipment," Khan recalled. It was an impressive feat, something which Khan was well aware of. He boasted, "A country which could not make sewing needles, good bicycles or even ordinary durable metalled rods, was embarking on one of the latest and most difficult technologies. We devised a strategy whereby we would go all out to buy everything that we needed in the open market to lay the foundation of a good infrastructure." [Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9kptv]
Khan - and his South African wife Henny with a British passport - at the end of 1975 - when working at the Dutch ’Ultra Centrifuge Project’ in the laboratories of Urenco in the dutch city of Almelo - understood that he was watched, and took a very long weekend of which he didn’t return.
The fact that the CIA forbade the Dutch secret service BVD (now AIVD) to arrest or stop Khan in any other way, made him within some years the "Father of the Pakistani Bomb’.
Khan is also blamed - by the US - for selling nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya, a proliferation the CIA in this case must be held responsible for.
THE CIA TOLD US TO LET HIM JUST GO ON
Lubbers - in 1975 minister of Economy: "When asked, the CIA told us to let him just go on, and not to arrest or stop Kahn working at or visiting the Urenco centrifuge factory, as we had in mind." A court in Amsterdam condemned Khan in 1983 in his absence to four years in jail for his nuclear spying, but the verdict strangely enough later on was annulled ’because of a procedural error’. That was the only explanation given.
In 1986, when Ruud Lubbers was prime minister of the Netherlands, he again tried to get the American government and the CIA to ’do something’ about Khan’s dangerous activities, but was told: "let the services take care of this; the Americans and the CIA do not want to interfere’. By not interfering and ’just following’ Dr. Khan, he was helped by the CIA to become the rich Pakistani proliferation hero he is now: the ’Father of the Pakistani Bomb.’
Another bitter fact to chew in those days and to remember, when commemorating the hideous war crime which totally unnecessary destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the same inhuman possibility which ’thanks’ to the CIA and Dr. Khan, has spread.
Khan keeps a small menagerie of pets. Each day at sunrise, he takes a sackful of peanuts when he walks into the wooded Margala Hills across from his home and feeds the monkeys. Declared Khan, the day after his country exploded another nuclear device, "I am the kindest man in Pakistan.
I feed the ants in the morning. I feed the monkeys."
And the mainstream media feed us...
Henk Ruyssenaars
Story about Khan and the Dutch CIA connection - Url.: http://www.bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7509
HR: 'SCAPEGOAT BUSH' TO BE SILENCED BY A FIRING SQUAD? - Url.: http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/11-03-05/discussion.cgi.19.html
* ROME TRIBUNAL ON WAR CRIMES AND MEDIA: Held Guilty of Deception - The tribunal said mainstream media reportage on Iraq also violated article six of the Nuremberg Tribunal (set up to try Nazi crimes) which states: "Leaders, organisers, instigators and accomplices participating in the formulation or execution of a common plan or conspiracy to commit any of the foregoing crimes (crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity) are responsible for all acts performed by any persons in execution of such a plan." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/68jws
* US SENATOR BOB GRAHAM, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence -
[http://tinyurl.com/manno] - regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks: AT LEAST ONE FOREIGN COUNTRY ASSISTED THE 9/11 TERRORISTS - The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, on PBS, reported. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/m4duy
FPF/HR - STRONGLY RELATED LINKS - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gkgrb
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RELATED - DUTCH FORMER PM: 'THE CIA TOLD US TO LET HIM JUST GO ON'
TOLD ’TO BACK OFF’ SO THE CIA COULD FOLLOW AND CONTROL KHAN’S SPY ACTIVITIES IN HOLLAND
FPF - June 28th 2006 - The fact that I'm very critical of Greg Palast sometimes, doesn't mean he's wrong all the time. But always check the well you're drinking from, and know that the BBC is a full time propaganda channel for the Group in London and a huge part of the inhuman 'Project for a New American Cemetery'. (PNAC). The caption below forms a question which is reasonable, but capital punishment should be avoided, because that is stooping as low as those predators of humanity: killing to punish a killer? What's next? Raping a rapist?
Related to today's Palast story below, the following may be very interesting to know: 'CIA ALLOWED NUKE SPY TO CONTINUE' - Wednesday 10th August 2005 - Former Dutch Prime Minister: nuclear proliferation to Libya, Iran and North Korea by the CIA tolerated Pakistani top spy Dr. Kahn. - by Henk Ruyssenaars - Url.: http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/08-09-05/discussion.cgi.16.html
I'M NOT AIMING AT THE MONKEY IN THE STREET BUT AT THE MEN WHO GRIND THE ORGAN
The Group which is responsible for the genocides must be stopped, and the involved creatures and their collaborators and propagandists - of all nationalities - must be jailed for life as soon as laws are valid again. The New York Times is by the way one of the worst and warmongering despicable rags I know. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/kypgj
PALAST, KHAN'S NUKES & the BBC:
TREASON: “FIRING SQUAD” FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES? - By Greg Palast - below.
June 28, 2006 - The Right Wing has gone hog-ass wild over the New York Times' "shocking" report that the Bush Administration is actually tracking terrorists' money transfers. Oh my!
The fruitcakes are in flames! "Stand them in front of a firing squad or put them in prison for the rest of their lives," says one pinhead on Fox TV.
For what? The stunning news that the government is hunting the source of al-Qaeda's cash? "Osama! You must stop using your ATM card! Condi Rice is reading our bank statements!"
Somehow, I suspect bin Laden already assumes his checkbook is getting perused.
It is worth noting that the fanatic screeching for a "firing squad" is a guy who claims to be a former CIA agent. No one can confirm his claim of course, but this character, Wayne Simmons, has made his career blabbering away juicy intelligence secrets to sell himself as an "expert," stuff far racier than the Times' weak report. Well, hypocrisy never stood in the way of the Foxes in the news house.
You want to talk "treason"? OK, let's talk treason. How about Dick Cheney telling his creepy little hitman 'Scooter' Libby to reveal information that led to the naming of a CIA agent? Mr. Simmons, do you have room in your firing squad schedule for the Vice-President?
And no one on Fox complained when the Times, under the by-line of Judith Miller, revealed the secret "intelligence" information that Saddam was building a bomb.
Yes, let's talk treason. How about this: Before the 9/11 attack, George Bush's intelligence chieftains BLOCKED the CIA's investigation of the funding of al-Qaeda and terror.
THE "BACK-OFF" DIRECTIVE
On November 9, 2001, BBC Television Centre in London received a call from a phone booth just outside Washington. The call to our Newsnight team was part of a complex pre-arranged dance coordinated with the National Security News Service, a conduit for unhappy spooks at the CIA and FBI to unburden themselves of disturbing information and documents.
The top-level U.S. intelligence agent on the line had much to be unhappy and disturbed about: what he called a "back-off" directive.
This call to BBC came two months after the attack on the Pentagon and World Trade Towers. His fellow agents, he said, were now released to hunt bad guys. That was good news. The bad news was that, before September 11, in those weeks just after George W. Bush took office, CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) personnel were told to "back off" certain targets of investigations begun by Bill Clinton.
The agent said, "There were particular investigations that were effectively killed."
WHICH ONES? HIS REPLY WAS NONE TOO COMFORTING: KHAN LABS.*
On February 11, 2004, President Bush, at an emergency press briefing, expressed his shock -- shock! -- at having learned that Dr. A. Q. Khan of Pakistan was running a flea market in fissionable material. But, we knew that from the agent's call -- nearly three years earlier. As the intelligence insider told us, the Khan investigation died because the CIA was not allowed to follow down the money trail ... to Saudi Arabia.
Apparently, the Saudis, after Saddam Hussein attacked Kuwait in 1991, switched their funding for an "Islamic bomb" from Iraq to Pakistan. Dr. Khan used the Saudi loot to build and test his bomb -- then sell off the blueprints and bomb-fixings to North Korea and Libya. This was, one might say, a somewhat dangerous situation. But Bush's spymasters made it a policy to "See No Saudi Evil" -- so the investigation died.
WHAT YOU "OUGHT NOT TO KNOW."
Closing the agencies eyes to the Khan bomb was not the only spike. That same week in November 2001, unhappy FBI agents "accidentally" left an astonishing dozen-page fax on the desks of our NSNS colleagues. It was marked, "199-I -- WF" and "SECRET."
The code "199-I" means "national security matter" in FBI-speak. It was about what the FBI deemed "a suspected terrorist organization." What made the document special -- and earned the anger of the two agents who "lost" it for us -- is that it indicates that the "suspected terrorist" activities were not investigated until September 13, 2001, despite a desire by agents to investigate these characters years earlier.
Who was exempt from investigation? That was on page 2 of the 199-I document. The FBI was hunting in Falls Church, Virginia, for "ABL," Abdullah bin Laden, nephew of Osama. They were also seeking another relative, Omar bin Laden (or "Binladden" in the alternative translation of the Arabic name). But by September 13, when the restrictions on agents were removed, the bin Ladens were gone.
Why did buildings have to fall before the FBI could question the bin Ladens? Because, frustrated agents noted, the "suspected terrorist organization" was funded directly by the Saudi Royal family.
The suspect group, the World Association of Muslim Youth, operated soccer clubs -- and a whole lot more. For example, there was its shuttle operation for jihadi warriors to Bosnia and, foreign intelligence agencies told us at BBC, alleged involvement of WAMY members in bombings.
In the face of these accusations, the Saudi supreme dictator, King Abdullah, praised WAMY, saying, "There is no extremism in the defending of the faith." That's his opinion.
Abdullah bin Laden brought WAMY to the USA where, in a summer camp in Florida, little kids were given instruction in baseball and in the glories of hostage-taking (no kidding).
But the FBI's investigation of the bin Ladens and their group was out of the question so long as the Bush Administration kept intelligence agencies from following the funds transfers of the House of Saud.
That November night in 2001, when we were about to televise the 199-I memo, my BBC producer, Meirion Jones, sought out the FBI's comment, assuming we'd get the usual, "It's baloney, a fake, you misunderstand, it ain't true."
But we didn't get the usual response.
Rather, FBI headquarters in Washington told us: "There are lots of things the intelligence community knows and other people ought not to know."
"Ought not to know"?!?
We ran the story of the Bush Administration's impeding investigations of the funding of terror. BBC ran it at the top of the nightly news in Britain and worldwide. It hit the front pages of newspapers around the globe -- except in the USA. In America, the New York Times and our other news outlets were still accepting the Bush Administration's diktat that intelligence "information" -- that is, news of disastrous intelligence failures -- was something the Times' readers, "ought not to know."
So I'm tempted to say that, Yes, the New York Times has committed treason -- not by reporting on what Bush's spies are doing, but on failing to report on what Bush's spies did not do: a deadly failure to follow the money before September 11 because the House of Bush chose to protect the House of Saud.
[andend] - Story Url.: http://www.gregpalast.com/treason-firing-squad-for-the-new-york-times#more-1434
HR: What about the CIA and Khan?
This may be quite interesting:
CIA ALLOWED NUKE SPY TO CONTINUE
Former Dutch Prime Minister: Nuclear proliferation to Libya, Iran and North Korea by the 'CIA tolerated' Pakistani top spy Dr. Kahn.
by Henk Ruyssenaars
FPF - The Netherlands - August 9 - 2005 - "We were not allowed by the american intelligence service CIA to arrest Pakistani top spy Dr. Abdul Khan, whom we knew was stealing nuclear secrets from us for years." This accusation was made today by the former Prime minister of the Netherlands Ruud Lubbers, in an investigating program - Argos - on Dutch national radio.*
Ex PM Lubbers was - in his usual frank way - blaming the CIA for Pakistani proliferation of stolen nuclear knowledge. The program was made in cooperation with Japanese TV, remembering the unnecessary atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.*
This revelation is - to say the least - as usual ’very underreported’ by the international neocon ’information’ agencies. Dutch minister of Justice P. H. Donner, when earlier explicitly asked about possible CIA action concerning Khan, did not tell the truth and told parliament: ’’that nothing of the kind has happened, the CIA had nothing to do with it’’. A discussion in the pro neocon Dutch parliament, run by speaker mr. Weisglass and again concerning Donner’s lies about the CIA activities has been announced. Nobody expects anything; except more lies. [Nothing came out of it - HR - 2006]
TOLD ’TO BACK OFF’ SO THE CIA COULD FOLLOW AND CONTROL KHAN’S SPY ACTIVITIES IN HOLLAND
According to the often very outspoken former prime minister and ex United Nations Refugee High Commissioner* Lubbers: "Under the influence of the so called ’Cold War’, all ’western’ intelligence services were ordered around by the CIA, and were told ’to back off’ so the CIA could follow and control Khan’s spy activities in Holland’’. For all those years the CIA wanted Khan to go on with his spying, which ultimately was used to get US ally Pakistan atomic weapons too, Lubbers said.
"Just let him go, we’ll follow him, and that way get more information", the permanently in Holland stationed CIA spooks told the servile Dutch secret service, which for decades - apart from the CIA etc. - also cooperates with the Israeli Mossad. Dutch ’National Airport’ Schiphol serves as an airport for the Israeli airline ’El Al’, and as a major Mossad base in Europe. Dutch Attorney General Vrakking testified already on Jan. 29, 1999, that the El Al security detachment at Schiphol was a branch of Mossad. This information is never repeated in the Dutch media.
Schiphol airport has become a hub for secret weapons transfers, charged Henk van der Belt, an investigator working with the Bijlmer survivors. [after the crash of an El Al airliner, see Url.]. Dutch authorities have no jurisdiction over Israeli activities at the airport. A TV Amsterdam (TVA) report identified Schiphol ’’as one of several European airports that allows El Al to transfer cargo without supervision.’’ [El Al/Mossad - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yurk6]
EUROPEAN FIRMS WERE EAGER TO DO BUSINESS*
The result of the CIA’s ’handling’ and supervising the situation was clear to anybody involved, and resulted in the following, as described by Christopher Clary last year: " Khan skillfully maneuvered around international export controls. He later said, "My long stay in Europe and intimate knowledge of various countries and their manufacturing firms was an asset. Within two years we had put up working prototypes of centrifuges and were going at full speed to build the facilities at Kahuta."
The European firms were eager to do business: "They literally begged us to buy their equipment," Khan recalled. It was an impressive feat, something which Khan was well aware of. He boasted, "A country which could not make sewing needles, good bicycles or even ordinary durable metalled rods, was embarking on one of the latest and most difficult technologies. We devised a strategy whereby we would go all out to buy everything that we needed in the open market to lay the foundation of a good infrastructure." [Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9kptv]
Khan - and his South African wife Henny with a British passport - at the end of 1975 - when working at the Dutch ’Ultra Centrifuge Project’ in the laboratories of Urenco in the dutch city of Almelo - understood that he was watched, and took a very long weekend of which he didn’t return.
The fact that the CIA forbade the Dutch secret service BVD (now AIVD) to arrest or stop Khan in any other way, made him within some years the "Father of the Pakistani Bomb’.
Khan is also blamed - by the US - for selling nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya, a proliferation the CIA in this case must be held responsible for.
THE CIA TOLD US TO LET HIM JUST GO ON
Lubbers - in 1975 minister of Economy: "When asked, the CIA told us to let him just go on, and not to arrest or stop Kahn working at or visiting the Urenco centrifuge factory, as we had in mind." A court in Amsterdam condemned Khan in 1983 in his absence to four years in jail for his nuclear spying, but the verdict strangely enough later on was annulled ’because of a procedural error’. That was the only explanation given.
In 1986, when Ruud Lubbers was prime minister of the Netherlands, he again tried to get the American government and the CIA to ’do something’ about Khan’s dangerous activities, but was told: "let the services take care of this; the Americans and the CIA do not want to interfere’. By not interfering and ’just following’ Dr. Khan, he was helped by the CIA to become the rich Pakistani proliferation hero he is now: the ’Father of the Pakistani Bomb.’
Another bitter fact to chew in those days and to remember, when commemorating the hideous war crime which totally unnecessary destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the same inhuman possibility which ’thanks’ to the CIA and Dr. Khan, has spread.
Khan keeps a small menagerie of pets. Each day at sunrise, he takes a sackful of peanuts when he walks into the wooded Margala Hills across from his home and feeds the monkeys. Declared Khan, the day after his country exploded another nuclear device, "I am the kindest man in Pakistan.
I feed the ants in the morning. I feed the monkeys."
And the mainstream media feed us...
Henk Ruyssenaars
Story about Khan and the Dutch CIA connection - Url.: http://www.bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7509
HR: 'SCAPEGOAT BUSH' TO BE SILENCED BY A FIRING SQUAD? - Url.: http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/11-03-05/discussion.cgi.19.html
* ROME TRIBUNAL ON WAR CRIMES AND MEDIA: Held Guilty of Deception - The tribunal said mainstream media reportage on Iraq also violated article six of the Nuremberg Tribunal (set up to try Nazi crimes) which states: "Leaders, organisers, instigators and accomplices participating in the formulation or execution of a common plan or conspiracy to commit any of the foregoing crimes (crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity) are responsible for all acts performed by any persons in execution of such a plan." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/68jws
* US SENATOR BOB GRAHAM, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence -
[http://tinyurl.com/manno] - regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks: AT LEAST ONE FOREIGN COUNTRY ASSISTED THE 9/11 TERRORISTS - The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, on PBS, reported. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/m4duy
FPF/HR - STRONGLY RELATED LINKS - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gkgrb
* FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.: http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/17/107.html
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Editor: Henk Ruyssenaars
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