Way in over my head

But this 9/11 thing is way too important to be swept out of the public mind. "The world was changed" on 9/11 - so we've heard. Nothing will ever be the same. That's for sure. The "War on Terror" was officially declared because of the events of 9/11 - and it is a war without end. So let's be sure we know the truth about what happened. And let's know it sooner than later after more countries find themselves the new battlegrounds.

It appears that there will indeed continue to be obstacles in the 9/11 investigation. Even as the panel is making a racket about White House stalling, two members of the original congressional investigation team, Senator Bob Graham and Representative Peter Goss, it turns out were, just prior to 9/11, meeting with the Pakistani intelligence officer (since "retired") who had sent $100,000 to the WTC hijacker Mohammed Atta.

Back in July there was supposed to be a report. A Knight Ridder article has this interesting bit:

The two chairmen from Florida who oversaw the investigation, Sen. Bob Graham and Rep. Porter Goss, have pushed for months for more disclosure.

Graham, a Democrat running for president, has said the administration was using the excuse of national security to block "embarrassments" to the government. Goss blamed the declassification battle on traditional resistance from intelligence officials.

Thanks (I think) to JungleGeorge via La Belle Soeur Jean for the following article from the Centre for Research on Globalisation.

Only seventeen months before, a former London schoolboy by the name of Omar Saeed Sheikh was first exposed as the 9/11 paymaster, acting under the authority of a Pakistani general who was in Washington D.C. on September 11, meeting with the very two lawmakers who would subsequently preside over the "official" 9/11 congressional inquiry. Omar Saeed, as reported back then by CNN, was acting under the alias of...Mustafa Ahmed. So where is Omar now? Sitting in a Pakistani prison, awaiting his execution for the kidnapping of Daniel Pearl - while another man fills the shoes of his pseudonym.

Although in the first days following 9/11 there were plenty of claims of incriminating documents, FBI Director Robert Mueller said on April 30, 2002, "The hijackers left no paper trail...In our investigation, we have not uncovered a single piece of paper...that mentioned any aspect of the Sept. 11 plot."...[But] by April of 2002 - when Mueller made his "paper trail" declaration - Raissi would go free for want of evidence.

As we will shortly see, Raissi was being set up to play his part in a prearranged drama, one in which a definitive money trail leading to al-Qaida would be announced just in time for the October 7, 2001 launch into Afghanistan. Yet a brief, almost innocuous, article in the October 9 Times of India would lay havoc to this plan, necessitating a massive cover-up and a search for an alternative smoking gun that would unveil itself before a skeptical world audience on December 13, 2001 as the Official Bin Laden Videotape Confession.

...In short, the Times of India revealed that Omar Saeed was acting under the direct orders of the head of Pakistani intelligence and not Osama bin Laden. That in itself could perhaps have been explained away, as it was widely acknowledged that Islamic elements in the ISI were sympathetic to the Taliban and their al-Qaida guests. Yet tracing the "smoking gun" money trail to General Ahmad created an entirely new smoking gun that led straight back to Washington, D.C.

The somewhat lengthy article follows lots of convoluted connections between people and organizations tying them to the 9/11 terror attacks. I simply cannot follow it all, and I think that is where we have trouble getting to the bottom of all the corruption and crime, and perhaps why most Americans just don't want to be bothered with it. It's so incredibly complex. And global.

As we shall see, the various elements of the 9/11 Legend were assembled with the help of a number of international players. Through the Pakistani ISI (an organization, in fact, with close historical ties to the CIA and British intelligence), the Taliban were armed and installed as the resident overlords of Afghanistan. Under the watchful eye of German intelligence, lead hijacker Mohamed Atta would set up his Hamburg "cell" of conspirators, sharing a flat with senior al-Qaida operative Ramzi Binalshibh. Through French authorities, particularly with the assistance of Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere (a friend of John O'Neill), Zacarias Moussaoui (arrested August 2001) and senior Al-Qaida leader Abu Zubaydah (the first "big fish" captured in March 2002) would work their way into the official 9/11 Legend. By way of Spanish Police Chief Juan Cotino (who was also a senior figure in Europol), other al-Qaida cells were discovered as further proof of bin Laden's global reach....Finally, the United Kingdom served as a major transit point, educational center, and source of "evidence" pointing to the hijackers and various al-Qaida operatives...

Thus, the very countries that were so prominent in furnishing the various elements of the 9/11 Legend...also happened to be the same countries that served as senior partners in the War On Terror.

Now, that does sound like a bit much to accept. That all these countries were involved. On the other hand, even as I admit my head swims with all the pieces of information, and I wonder some times how any investigator or jury ever figures anything out (maybe they don't - maybe they just toss coins), if all these details prove out, it seems to me to add weight to my own assertion that it's not the various political administrations that define our foreign policy, but rather principals connected to (profiting from) the multinational war industries. It's not that all these countries' governments were involved in a grand scheme - but that there are powerful war profiteers - representatives of the multinationals - in all these countries pulling the strings. And the goal is, and has been for many years, perpetual war. The final coup delivered to you (at least from the American hand) at long last by Butthead Bush.

The author provides his opinion that this is indeed a global "conspiracy", but he doesn't point to any specific organization.

Fortunately, one need not re-invent the proverbial wheel in constructing a list of the main suspects - for if the Official 9/11 Legend can most coherently be interpreted as a global project, then surely it would be reasonable to posit a globally connected network acting behind the scenes, one that would consist of a supra-national grouping of intelligence operatives acting in conjunction with a globally interconnected network of political, corporate, and media elites. In short, one would need to look at the global political/corporate infrastructure as it presently exists.

It is not within the scope of this paper to map out comprehensively the full contours of this global network - nor, admittedly, could it properly be done with the available evidence at hand (despite the claims of those researchers who give the impression that the so-called New World Order is a fully exposed agenda with a ready-made membership list available for viewing). Rather, there is circumstantial evidence of a covert global network working in concert to choreograph a wide-ranging 9/11disinformation campaign. Whether this network operates specifically through global entities like the World Bank, the United Nations, or the Bilderberg Group - or instead is comprised of an insular group of global elites who happen to be influential within these institutions - is a question that can not be definitively answered at this point. And whether the 9/11 disinformation campaign has been conducted for the purposes of a truly new world order, or simply for oil, geopolitical stability, monopolization of utilities, water, food, or population control by way of viral threats - any one specific agenda at this time cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt (in the fullest legal sense). Perhaps an intended new order encompasses all of the above, involving an intersection of a number of common interests.

While I simply could not read and digest the entire article, I believe it can still support my idea. And I still want to know whether Senator Graham and Representative Goss are intentionally covering up something. They were meeting with Atta's "paymaster" just prior to 9/11, and then, conveniently (?) sitting on the congressional investigating committee, in July of 2003 Graham was accusing the White House of obstructing the investigation and Goss was blaming it on intelligence officials.

So okay, I'm way in over my head here - you come up with a better explanation than the perpetual war agenda. And "it's the work of evil terrorists who don't believe in the real god, they kill just for the thrill of killing, and they hate us" is not acceptable.

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....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.