ugnet_: CONDOLEEZZA RICE'S BIG LIE EXPOSED

[Edward Mulindwa]

Rice's Big Lie Exposed By 1994 Plane Incidents From Dan Perez 4-8-4 KEAN: I've got a question now I'd like to ask you. It was given to me by a number of members of the families. Did you ever see or hear from the FBI, from the CIA, from any other intelligence agency, any memos or discussions or anything else between the time you got into office and 9-11 that talked about using planes as bombs? RICE: Let me address this question because it has been on the table. I think that concern about what I might have known or we might have known was provoked by some statements that I made in a press conference. I was in a press conference to try and describe the August 6th memo, which I've talked about here in my opening remarks and which I talked about with you in the private session. And I said, at one point, that this was a historical memo, that it was _ it was not based on new threat information. And I said, No one could have imagined them taking a plane, slamming it into the Pentagon _ I'm paraphrasing now _ into the World Trade Center, using planes as a missile. As I said to you in the private session, I probably should have said, I could not have imagined, because within two days, people started to come to me and say, Oh, but there were these reports in 1998 and 1999. The intelligence community did look at information about this. To the best of my knowledge, Mr. Chairman, this kind of analysis about the use of airplanes as weapons actually was never briefed to us. I cannot tell you that there might not have been a report here or a report there that reached somebody in our midst. Part of the problem is _ and I think Sandy Berger made this point when he was asked the same question _ that you have thousands of pieces of information -- car bombs and this method and that method _ and you have to depend to a certain degree on the intelligence agencies to sort to tell you what is actually relevant, what is actually based on sound sources, what is speculative. RICE: And I can only assume or believe that perhaps the intelligence agencies thought that the sourcing was speculative. All that I can tell you is that it was not in the August 6th memo, using planes as a weapon. And I do not remember any reports to us, a kind of strategic warning, that planes might be used as weapons. In fact, there were some reports done in '98 and '99. I was certainly not aware of them at the time that I spoke. " ----------------- If Rice couldn't have imagined planes being flown into buildings, why did she call up San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown on the night of September 10th and warn him not to fly the next day? I guess she missed the hijacking of an Air France plane in 1994, which was all over the media, where there were fears the plane would be crashed into the Eiffel Tower in Paris or into buildings in New York if the plane was allowed to come to the U.S.; http://www.africast.com/article.php?newsID=9134&strRegion=North "A radical group of Algerian insurgents who hijacked an Air France plane in 1994 planned to blow up the aircraft over the Eiffel Tower before their plot was foiled, a former top militant was quoted as saying. A commando of 10 insurgents planned to hijack a plane leaving Algiers in December 1994, blowing it up over the French capital, Omar Chikhi, a former leader of the Armed Islamic Group, said in an interview published Saturday in El Youm newspaper. The aircraft never reached Paris. The group hijacked the plane on Christmas Eve 1994, killing three passengers, but the operation ended in Marseille when a French intervention squad stormed the plane and killed the hostage-takers." -------- I guess she also missed the mass media news stories of the nutcase who stole a Cessna plane on the night of September 11th, 1994, and flew it(some say it was remote controlled) into the White House; http://www.geocities.com/roboplanes/cessna.html  "According to the mainstream media, at about 2300 hrs on 11 September 1994, Frank Eugene Corder stole a single-engine Cessna 150L plane from an airport north of Baltimore, then headed south to Washington, flying over the National Zoological Park and down to the Mall, probably using the Washington Monument as a beacon. As he neared the famed obelisk, he banked a tight U-turn over the Ellipse, came in low over the White House South Lawn, clipped a hedge, skidded across the green lawn that girds the South Portico and crashed into a wall two stories below the presidential bedroom." ------ The only way Rice couldn't have imagined a "plane crashing into a building" scenario is if she has no contact with the outside world and is totally out of touch with reality. http://wid.ap.org/transcripts/rice.html Rice's Many Gross Misrepresentations Rice Misrepresents Facts On No-Fly Zone And Bush Assassination Attempt By Lynn Landes [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4-8-4 The gross misrepresentations in Condoleezza Rice's testimony to the 9/11 Commission are manifold, but I would like to briefly mention two: the No-Fly Zone & Bush Assassination Attempt. These are perhaps not the most important misrepresentations Rice made, but should be discredited nonetheless since they are so often repeated by politicians and the press. Rice gave the 9/11 Commission two reasons for the Bush Administration's singular focus on and eventual invasion of Iraq. Interestingly, she didn't mention WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction). That ship has sunk. Instead, Rice justified the Administration's obsession with Iraq because American military planes were being shot at by the Iraqis in the no-fly zone. What she doesn't say is that the no-fly zone was illegally established by the U.S.. The Iraqis had every right to defend their territory. There's quite a bit of corroboration of this fact readily available online, but Libertarian leader, Jacob Hornberger, published an interesting and very succinct article on this issue in November 21, 2002: "The no-fly zones were unilaterally established by the U.S. government after the Persian Gulf War, supposedly to enforce UN resolutions on Iraq. There was one big problem, however: The United Nations never authorized the no-fly zones to be established. U.S. officials have always claimed that the U.S. government, as a member of the United Nations, has the right to unilaterally enforce any resolution of the United Nations. Such a position, however, is patently fallacious. Enforcement of an organization's rules and regulations belongs to the organization itself, not to each and every individual member of the organization....Several years ago, the U.S. government knowingly, intentionally, and deliberately imposed an illegal embargo against Nicaragua. The case reached the World Court, which ruled in favor of Nicaragua and against the United States. As part of its judgment, the World Court awarded reparations to Nicaragua....That official court judgment is still outstanding and remains unsatisfied. The U.S. government has continually refused to comply with the judgment and has even blocked attempts of the UN Security Council to enforce it." http://www.fff.org/comment/com0211h.asp. Secondly, Rice once again claimed that Sadam attempted to assassinate the former President George H. W. Bush. However, there is no credible evidence to back up that claim. In a November 1, 1993 article in The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh wrote: "Someone gave a Boston Globe reporter access to a classified C.I.A. study that was highly skeptical of the Kuwaiti claims of an Iraqi assassination attempt. The study, prepared by the C.I.A.'s Counter Terrorism Center, suggested that Kuwait might have "cooked the books" on the alleged plot in an effort to play up the "continuing Iraqi threat" to Western interests in the Persian Gulf. Neither the Times nor the Post made any significant mention of the Globe dispatch, which had been written by a Washington correspondent named Paul Quinn-Judge, although the story cited specific paragraphs from the C.I.A. assessment... A senior (Clinton) White House official recently told me that one of the seemingly most persuasive elements of the report had been overstated and was essentially incorrect. And none of the Clinton Administration officials I interviewed over a ten-week period this summer claimed that there was any empirical evidence"a "smoking gun""directly linking Saddam or any of his senior advisers to the alleged assassination attempt. The case against Iraq was, and remains, circumstantial." http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?020930fr_archive02  What can any of us say? As the lies pile up, the credibility of U.S. politicians and the press sinks to new lows.  The Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"             Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"