Dear Dirk,
I do not know how I happen to have come onto your mailing list. Anyway,
as it is within the scope of my interest and work, I do not really mind.
BUT, you seem to worry a lot just about stories planted intentionally
into the anarchic internet, ideal medium getting gossip and disinformation
around the world. It would be helpful if you and other easy believers of
such stories got to the sources of such articles before they disseminate
them themselves, become part of the smokescreen put up by interested circles
or just by some madmen or madwomen.
As far as I have seen, the story about the imaginary 4000 Israelis working
at WTC, has been traced back by some members of other serious lists, and
has been dismissed as one of those planted make ups. The same - with some
variants - holds true for some of the other stories recently spread unwillingly
through some more or less hysterical peace movement lists and some lists
of the anti-sanctions movement. And by the time I am writing this perhaps
some more made up stories have been traced back and dismissed by some rational
people who detest the lies of the solidarity movements as much of those
of governments. I understand very well that Saddam Hussein's son Odeh is
using his internet portal uruk etc. for spreading such disinformation,
but I do have no patience with well intentioned people getting unwillingly
and ignorantly instruments of the snowballing system used by those interested
sides.
So, please, Dirk, do what we all ask of our governments, our press and
our populations: to stay sane, calm, take well founded decisions after
getting together the facts first.
Best regards,
Alexander Sternberg
Dirk Adriaensens wrote:
Hello all,here
are some articles I copied from www.manartv.com
. They are puzzling me. So much is written and there is so much speculation
about who is responsible for the attacks on 11/9, that it is interesting
to know that it is not sure if it were Muslims who carried out the attack.
So it's good to be very careful to convict the Arab and Muslim community
for this attack, without any proof.And, by the way:
the story of CNN:"CNN USING 1991 FOOTAGE of celebrating Palestinians to
manipulate you" by the Brazilian student can not be confirmed, so it probably
isn't true. I'm sorry for that.Dirk Adriaensens. Former
US Air force Pilots Behind WTC, Pentagon Attacks: Iranian Daily
The Iranian Kayhan evening newspaper revealed that the
perpetrators of Tuesday’s attacks in New York and Washington were former
pilots in the US Air Force, and that hijacking in fact did not take place
but was used to cover the real scenario of the incidents. Kayhan cited
from American reports that the pilots’ not using the alarm button, usually
used in emergency or danger circumstances, is still considered one of the
most obscure clues in this case. This indicates, according to the newspaper,
that the four pilots carried out the suicide operation in purpose, and
that the hijacking story is not correct. The report disclosed that three
of those pilots were former Vietnam veterans, while the brother of the
fourth died in that war. The report listed the names of the pilots as follows:
Charles Berlingim, Flight 77’s pilot. He ploughed his plane into Pentagon
where he worked for several years. Jason Dahil, Flight 93’s pilots. His
plane was shot down over Pennsylvania. His brother (Kenneth) killed in
Vietnam in 1971 at an age of 20 years. Joe Agotawski, Flight 11’s pilot.
He ploughed into the World Trade Center’s first tower. Victor Sarasini,
Flight 75’s pilot. He ploughed into the second tower. The newspaper referred
to the clear contradiction in the information disclosed by the two airline
companies, American Airlines and United Airlines, and the one disclosed
by the FBI. Three days after the incident, the FBI issued a list of the
passengers’ names including the names of the 19 alleged Arabs whose names
were not in the companies’ list issued a day after the incident. However,
Kayhan stopped at journalistic reports that indicated no trails of a plane
being crashed at the Pentagon. Also it focused on the fourth plane that
was shot down by US warplanes in Pennsylvania and that the pilot did not
plough the plane by himself in defiance to hijackers’ request to head to
a populated area. The newspaper based its information on what the French
Agency mentioned that pieces of the plane were found four miles away from
crash site, which means the plane was blown out in the sky by missiles
fired from US warplanes, according to the newspaper. Second
Saudi Named by FBI as one of the Hijackers Is Alive, Well
A Saudi pilot named by Washington as one of the suspects
in last week’s plane bombings is alive and well and living in Tunisia.
The London-based Asharq al-Awsat paper said on Tuesday that Said Hussein
al-Ghamdi has been in Tunisia for nine months training with colleagues
from state carrier Saudi Arabian Airlines. It said he had seen his own
photo on CNN after being fingered by the United States as a suspect in
the September 11 attacks. US officials said he was believed to have hijacked
United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania. The FBI said
it had gotten his photo from a flight school where he supposedly trained
in Florida. Asharq al-Awsat said al-Ghamdi has twice visited the United
States- studying there for a year beginning in October 1998, and for around
six weeks after August 2000. The paper published an interview Monday with
another alleged Saudi suspect, Abdelaziz al-Omari, who said he too is alive
and well, and that he was an engineer who had no idea how to fly a plane.
Al-Omari said his passport was stolen in the United States in 1995. In
the wake of this arbitrary accusations, US Attorney General John Ashcroft
has warned that a support network for the hijackers could still be in the
country. Ashcroft said he and FBI Director Robert Mueller had also met
with congressional leaders over the past two days to finalize a comprehensive
package of legislative measures that would make it easier to spy on terrorist
suspects. Meanwhile, more than 170 people are wanted for questioning. An
FBI official said those people may have information that could be helpful
to the investigation, but he hastened to add that those on the list were
not considered suspects. Agents have searched hotels, motels and apartment
complexes nationwide for clues, following up on leads received since the
crashes. Warrants have also been issued in the United States for two more
potential material witnesses. The probe has expanded internationally, with
law enforcement looking into possible links to a network believed to be
masterminded by Saudi-born Osama bin Laden- named by Washington as the
prime suspect in the onslaught. Nineteen homes have been searched in Germany
for clues on the activities of three foreign students whose names appeared
on the passenger lists of the planes: Mohammed Atta, Marwan Al-Shehhi,
and Ziad Amir Jarrah. Bild newspaper meanwhile reported that there was
a worldwide hunt for Said Bahaji, born in Germany of Moroccan descent and
holding German citizenship, alleging that he disappeared from Hamburg shortly
before the attacks. According to the newspaper, he had either gone to ground
in Pakistan or died in the plane that crashed near Pittsburgh, but his
wife, says he is in Pakistan. In Britain, the Daily Mail newspaper reported
on Tuesday that at least five of the 19 men who hijacked the four airliners
had lived in Britain for a time. The Mail said FBI agents are also questioning
Mufti Mohammed Khan, who was held at London’s Heathrow Airport coming from
New York hours after the attacks. A 33-year-old man of of Franco-Algerian
origin, Habib Zacaria Moussaoui, who is currently being held in the United
States, also spent time in Britain. According to the Mail, French police
link Moussaoui to Osama bin Laden. And in Tokyo, a report said Tuesday
that Japanese authorities are on the lookout for 19 men who may have entered
the country in early September. Spokesmen from the foreign ministry and
national police agency would not comment on the reports nor confirm whether
an investigation was underway. 4000 Israeli
Employees in WTC Absent the Day of the Attack
With the announcement of the attacks at the World Trade
Center in New York, the international media, particularly the Israeli one,
hurried to take advantage of the incident and started mourning 4000 Israelis
who work at the two towers. Then suddenly, no one ever mentioned anything
about those Israelis and later it became clear that they remarkably did
not show up in their jobs the day the incident took place. No one talked
about any Israeli being killed or wounded in the attacks. Arab diplomatic
sources revealed to the Jordanian al-Watan newspaper that those Israelis
remained absent that day based on hints from the Israeli General Security
Apparatus, the Shabak, the fact which evoked unannounced suspicions on
American officials who wanted to know how the Israeli government learned
about the incident before it occurred, and the reasons why it refrained
from informing the U.S authorities of the information it had. Suspicions
had increased further after Israeli newspaper Yadiot Ahranot revealed that
the Shabak prevented Israeli premier Ariel Sharon from traveling to New
York and particularly to the city’s eastern coast to participate in a festival
organized by the Zionist organizations in support of the "Israel". Aharon
Bernie, the commentator at the newspaper, brought up the issue and came
up with a negative conclusion, saying “no answer”. He then asked about
the clue behind the Shabak’s position in preventing Sharon’s participation,
and again without giving an answer. Bernie added that Sharon, who was delighted
for having his speech on top of the festival agenda, asked the head of
the organization to mediate and convince the Shabak to change its position,
but his attempts were in vein. The next day after Sharon’s secretary officially
announced that Sharon would not participate the incident took place. For
its part, the Israeli Ha’aretz newspaper revealed that the FBI arrested
five Israelis four hours after the attack on the Twin Towers while filming
the smoking skyline from the roof of their company’s building. The FBI
had arrested the five for “puzzling behavior”. They are said to have been
caught videotaping the disaster in what was interpreted as cries of joy
and mockery. Israeli Mossad May Lie Behind
Attacks on US: Syrian Daily
A Syrian ath-Thawra paper on Wednesday cast doubts over
the involvement of Osama bin Laden in the September 11 attacks on the United
States, saying "Israel’s" secret service Mossad was a more likely culprit.
Ath-Thawra said, “Why not suspect Mossad of having sought to shake the
United States and the world, upon directives from Ariel Sharon who wants
to divert attention away from his aggressive plot, and link the attacks
to the Arabs, the Muslims, and Osama bin Laden”. “If Osama bin Laden really
had at his disposal such fantastic capabilities, sophisticated electronic
talents and a meticulous organization, as the Americans claim, he would
have directed all that against Israel for the simple reason that it is
closer,” the paper argued.
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