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Dramatic Confirmation From Indian Government
The web site of the Indian Embassy in Washington contains dramatic
confirmation for these positions. On September 4, 2000, B. Raman,
Director of India's Institute for Topical Studies wrote an open letter
to the U.S. Congress entitled Pakistan's Noriega's. That eight-page
article exposed the depth of Pakistani government involvement in the
drug trade. It may be viewed at
www.indianembassy.org/int_media/saag_september_04_2000.html.
The letter said, in part:
"For more than a decade, the people of India have been living in a state
of half-war and half-peace due to the depredations of a large number of
terrorists, outrageously called jehadists, who have been trained, armed
and funded and infiltrated into the State of Jammu & Kashmir and other
parts of India by Pakistan in order to make the people of India and its
security forces bleed in the name of religion.
"More people belonging to different religions -- Hindus, Muslims,
Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and others -- have been killed in India by
these mercenary-terrorists sponsored by the State of Pakistan than by
any other terrorist groups anywhere else in the world"
"Many other States have suffered and have been suffering due to the
depredations of terrorists, made in and exported from Pakistan and the
Taliban-controlled Afghanistan -- [these include] Algeria, Egypt, Saudi
Arabia, the Central Asian Republics, the Chechnya and Dagestan areas of
Russia, the Xinjiang province of China, Bangladesh, the Arakan area of
Burma and the southern Philippines..."
"After his [1993] removal, [as official head of Pakistani intelligence,
trusted advisor to Pakistani leader Gen. Pervez Musharraf] Lt. Gen.
Nasir traveled to Somalia, Chechnya, Dagestan, the Central Asian
Republics, China, and the Southern Philippines as a preacher and helped
Islamic organizations, including the group which killed U.S. troops in
Somalia."
"It was he, who, during his tenure as the DG [Director General] of the
ISI has entered into an agreement with the LTTE of Sri Lanka [which
secured] LTTE's assistance in smuggling Afghanistan produced heroin in
its ships to West Europe, the USA and Canada"
"Another reason for the ISI's helping the LTTE, despite its anti-Muslim
policies, was to use it for smuggling heroin to West Europe, the U.S.
and Canada. During Zia-ul-Haq's regime in the 1980s, heroin had become a
major source of extra revenue not only for the State of Pakistan,
especially the ISI and Pakistan's nuclear and missile establishment, but
also to many senior officers of the Pakistan Army, including [Musharraf
et al]"
"The way Mr. Sharif before October 1999 and Gen. Musharraf since then
have been using the heroin money to prevent the Pakistani economy from
collapsing has not received due attention in the U.S. ..."
"If one goes purely by economic indicators, Pakistan's must be in as bad
a shape as that of Russia, or even worse, since Russia has been in
receipt of Western and IMF assistance"
"Where does the money come from? From the smuggling of heroin to West
Europe, the U.S. and Canada. The U.S. Government might have stopped
economic assistance from the taxpayers' money. But why should the
Noriegas of Pakistan be worried when they get billions of dollars from
the heroin sale in the U.S.? "
Vice President Dick Cheney's recent comment that the CIA needs to get in
bed with "unsavory characters" is a joke. That's a bed that the CIA has
never left. And it's a marriage vow that President Bush has just
reaffirmed for all the world to see. ___
An Economic Conspiracy?
FTW - [Expanded from an initial report dated 9-13-01] - On Sept. 11,
2001 the two most visible symbols of American economic and military
power -- the World Trade Center (WTC) and the Pentagon -- were
simultaneously hit in a well-planned and well financed attack that will
have enormous and permanent impact on the world economy and American
culture. Just a day after the attacks, which brought the planet to a
halt, both CNN and Reuters - after interviewing many financial experts -
reported the likelihood of a worldwide recession. This prediction has
apparently been confirmed with the reopening of U.S. markets as the Dow
Jones Industrial average lost 684 points or 7% of its value on Monday
September, 17th. Americans have not yet grasped the implications for
their jobs, pensions plans, home equity or future income.
As major central banks have acted swiftly, with as much as $70 billion
in instant cash infusions to stem immediate spikes in oil and gold
prices, their subsequent actions in multilateral agreements between the
Federal Reserve, British banks and the European Central Bank, indicate
that this policy will continue. But it cannot last forever and its
long-term effectiveness is in question.
Just two days before the attacks we had issued an urgent electronic
bulletin warning that, as a result of many years of manipulation of gold
prices by the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and major investment banks,
and a $30 trillion derivatives bubble on the verge of bursting, the U.S.
economy was in peril of an immediate and cataclysmic crash. That crash
now has a convenient -- if untrue -- explanation.
It is then, perhaps, coincidental that on 9-11, the day of the attack,
there was a meeting in Basel Switzerland at the Bank for International
Settlements (BIS). The BIS is known as the bank for world's central
bankers - is also the world "policeman" of the gold trade. All G-10
central banks were represented on the day of the attack. Federal Reserve
Chairman Alan Greenspan was there, safely out of harm's way. Another
telling coincidence is that a critical hearing in a suit brought by the
Gold Anti Trust Action Committee (GATA) -- which alleges BIS collusion
in the rigging of gold prices was scheduled to be heard in U.S. District
court in Boston on October 9th.
In another coincidence, the headquarters of Comex, the precious metals
trading exchange, was destroyed in the attacks, along with whatever
records were kept there. The central banks of many nations also had WTC
offices and some also had vaults in the basement. Estimates of the
amount of gold stored in the WTC range from a low of $100 million to a
high of $16 billion. The status of the gold is unknown at this time.
What is known is that there are futures options on gold amounting to
roughly five times the actual amount of physical gold in existence.
The destruction of records in the attacks was not limited to banking
records. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) maintained
investigative offices at the WTC. At the time of the attack the SEC was
investigating, among others, Credit Suisse -- a major player in the gold
trade -- for massive irregularities connected to the Wall Street Bubble.
The Wall Street Journal on September 13 reported the destruction of the
regional enforcement office of the SEC, located in 7 World Trade Center:
"The collapse of [building] No. 7 on Tuesday took with it documents and
computer records focused on hundreds of investigations, as well as
records related to broker-dealers. The New York office is well-known for
handling numerous insider-trading cases, as well as small-company stock
manipulation cases involving organized-crime families."
"According to an unnamed Journal source, there are off-site copies of
some of these records, but 'other material is lost forever, including
many raw notes taken by SEC lawyers during their investigations and
audiotaped evidence that was not shared with the U.S. Attorney's office
or other government investigators.' The SEC believes all staff was
evacuated, but the regional director said, 'It's going to be a
monumental task getting back in operation.'"
bin Laden, et al
In a number of media appearances beginning on the evening of September
11, former CIA Director James Woolsey has now begun pointing the finger
at "state sponsorship," - the prime suspect being Iraq. FTW strongly
suspects eventual finger pointing and military action at the one Arab
country known to sponsor terrorism that has not been mentioned in any
press reports - Libya. Militarily, it is an easily conquered enemy with
shores on the Mediterranean and its oil reserves would quickly lower
pressures on the U.S. markets.
Continuing revelations as to the complexity of the attacks continues to
suggest logistical, intelligence and financial resources beyond bin
Laden's known abilities. In addition, bin Laden's lineage, as a protg of
the CIA from the Afghan conflict of the 1980s, threatens to raise
serious questions which the American government might not want answered.
As some American news outlets, including MS-NBC and the Houston
Chronicle demonstrate great courage by looking into bin Laden's past
links to CIA and the Bushes, the most compelling leads are the flight
training schools attended by many of the pilots involved in the attacks.
FTW has begun a major investigation into links between these schools and
U.S. interests and even Newsweek has issued a report on Sept. 14 showing
that some of the pilots may have received training at U.S. military
installations.
Dispelling One Rumor
As speculation ran rampant in the first hours after the attacks, reports
that explosives had been placed in the World Trade Center spread
rapidly. We quickly concluded, based upon expert opinions and a BBC
report, that this was not a plausible theory. Jet fuel, burning at 2000
degrees Fahrenheit, some 400 degree hotter than the temperature required
to melt steel, cascaded quickly down elevator shafts and engulfed
critical support pillars placed in the center of the building. A BBC
diagram of the building showed that the main elevator banks and air
shafts were centrally located. This would explain why the building
seemed to collapse inward as the interior columns melted.
This opinion was shared by retired Air Force General Ben Partin who has
spent his career studying the destruction of various structures by
military attack. Additionally, the placement of explosives in the
building could only have been carried out before the air attacks and
that would have run counter to known procedures for covert operations.
WTC employees had experienced a bomb in 1993 and were conditioned to
look for explosives. So many explosives would have been required that
the likelihood of discovery before the plane crashes would have
increased. And evacuation of the buildings before the attack would have
greatly diminished their symbolic victory.
Quo Vadis?
World confidence in the security of US markets and the economy has been
shattered. FTW correspondents in Moscow report a divergence between
public and official government reaction. Three people reported from
Moscow on Wednesday, an immediate move by Russian citizens to sell US
dollars - the most common form of savings in the economically battered
country - resulting in a dramatic plunge in public exchange rates from
29:1 to as low as 15:1 overnight. However a Russian government source
told FTW on Thursday that rates on MICEX (The Moscow International
Currency Exchange) have remained stable. In early trading the Russian
stock exchange lost 5% of its value.
Of a certainty, consumer confidence -- recently touted as the savior of
the US economy -- has been demolished around the globe. Asian economies,
already venturing deeper into recession, had been looking for increased
US orders, based upon consumer confidence, to boost exports as a life
preserver. That life preserver has evaporated. A CNN story today quoted
Asian financial expert Andy Xie of Morgan Stanley as saying that
consumer confidence had "tipped over."
"We are going down to the bottom," Xie said. "no one knows where that is."
Reuters quoted a Chief Economist at Wells Fargo as saying, "A full-blown
global recession is highly likely."
It is interesting to note that the plan for globalization of the world's
economy has been greatly aided by recent events. On September 17, 2001
the World Trade Organization (WTO) announced that China would be
immediately admitted as a member country. If announced at any other time
this move would have drawn widespread criticism and perhaps large scale
demonstration's.
A fine line is called for in the walk between panic and precaution,
especially in a New World that has not been defined and needs to be
explored even as it reveals itself to us. The very real possibility of a
global conflict that will claim millions of lives, perhaps more, is
before us. At the moment my best recommendation is buying physical gold
- even in the form of jewelry - and keeping extremely vigilant. And we
can pray that a free press will find its strength and purpose, and that
people all over the globe will find the will to keep the madmen from
driving the planet off a cliff. ___
FTW's Warning - Two Days Before The Attack
On September 9, just two days before the World Trade Center attack FTW
issued an electronic subscriber bulletin, warning of an imminent
economic collapse. That collapse was to have been triggered by a huge
bubble on Wall Street that was already bursting, a huge manipulation in
world gold prices and the overselling of gold by central banks, and an
estimated $20-30 trillion derivatives bubble that was also on the verge
of an immediate implosion. We attached a shocking economic expose with
that bulletin which had been published on the website
www.lemetropolecafe.com. We regret that space limitations prevent us
from placing that article here. To obtain a better understand of the
gold issue, previously covered in FTW we also strongly recommend that
you visit www.gata.org .
[As published on Sept. 9, 2001] I cannot overstate the importance of
this post in helping to understand the economic precipice on which we
are all perched. More importantly, there is also a huge socio-political
precipice that is just as dangerous because of the fact that trust in
government institutions is at an all time low. Every time there is a
police shooting these days, whether as corrupt as those revealed in
Miami recently; as indicative of bad judgement and poor training as the
one in Santa Clarita; or as justified as those in Indiana; the
"automatic" reaction of many now is that the cops are always wrong. This
"barometer" of public trust indicates that average people are beginning
to have a first reaction that government and major institutions are "the
enemy" rather than that they should be trusted. Right or wrong, the
implications for society as a whole are ominous when emotion overrides reason.
"Let them eat cake."
It is this mix of economic and socio/political nitroglycerin that scares
me. I am joined by many "thinkers" now in sensing the possibility of a
"Reign of Terror," or mindless bloodletting. It would have nothing to do
with justice, good and evil, right or wrong and it would not subside
until the fear and revenge quotients just below the surface of the
collective consciousness have spent themselves. This is especially true
for the nations of the world whose populations have suffered under US
economic bullying and globalization for many decades.
The sooner corrective action is taken the better. The more it is
postponed, the more certain is the bloody abyss, as emotional and
rational "account balancings" occur at the same time as the economic ones.
Read this posting carefully and then consider two points: Since the 1998
Russian economic collapse was triggered by the "looting" by Harvard and
Goldman Sachs and THAT in turn triggered the collapse of LTCM [Long Term
Capital Management], were we looking at a system of greed out of control
where competing pyramids fight each other for diminishing capital
streams? Would Goldman and Harvard wage war against LTCM or
JPMorganChase knowing that it could destroy the world economy and create
a global depression? If true, that implies a pending financial and
economic donnybrook, that could "Hiroshima" the economy of the entire
planet. The lunatics are officially running the asylum now. As the DOW
plummets - and I expect that it may be in the 8,000s or below by the end
of October - I have now come to the conclusion that it is POSSIBLE, IF
NOT LIKELY - that the Bowers shootdown in Peru this Spring was an
intentional move. Reason: the immediate and total suspension of drug
interdiction flights -- an apparent easy capitulation by the CIA -- that
has since allowed drug smuggling to multiply in the intervening months.
I have read some estimates indicating that cocaine smuggling to the US
is up 30% this year as a result. Add to that the fact that the
eradication efforts in Colombia have not reduced coca production but
have instead, increased it by 15-20% or more. What better way to pour
additional billions in drug money into markets on the brink of collapse
while trying to maintain a public image that fewer and fewer people are
buying anyway?
There's a reason why people in this country no longer get motivated by
individual cries for justice or any single human interest story, whether
the victim lost a house or $250 million. In the panic of a fire in a
crowded movie theater, no one gives a shit. We're all going to burn.
Mike Ruppert
"From The Wilderness"
www.copvcia.com
"Reprinted with permission, Michael C. Ruppert and From The Wilderness
Publications, www.copvcia.com, P.O. Box 6061-350, Sherman Oaks, CA,
91413.
818-788-8791. FTW is published monthly, annual subscriptions are $35
per
year."
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