12.18.99 Did FBI Nab Fed Provocateur/Patsy In Seattle? --'Megiddo' Setup Suspected Only yesterday a number of MOST unusual news articles, based on press releases from the federal government, stated that although widespread, disruptive failures of vital services due to ramifications of the Y2K computer bug are NOT expected, the feds were suddenly (with 2 weeks to go) now VERY concerned about outbreaks of domestic terrorism at the beginning of 2000; enacted by a wide-ranging and varied list of purportedly dangerous elements, including but not limited to fundamentalist Christians, fundamentalist Moslems, fundamentalist Jews, survivalists, "white" supremacists and many other assorted "extremists." And now, appearing as if on cue, and coincidentally enough right in Seattle, the city in which a test-run of martial law and suspension (or is that abolition?) of human, civil and constitutional rights has just occurred, the FBI claims to have nabbed an Arab national entering the U.S. near Seattle with a trunkful of "Oklahoma City Bomb"-type "explosive" materials. Included among the materials confiscated at the time of arrest were some vials of a liquid feds claimed was nitroglycerin when presenting it as evidence. But then, over defense objections, federal prosecutors asked the judge to order the material destroyed and the judge complied; a move which forever prevented any possibility of having fed claims about the substance verified. Other confiscated materials supposedly included fertilizers like urea. The whole thing really appears pretty fishy; and the location and timing of the incident, both in relation to the recent Seattle anti-World Trade Organization protests AND to the upcoming new Millennium, make it even more suspicious--especially in light of warnings just issued by feds about terrorism at the New Year. We feel it's a strong possibility that the person arrested was either a paid and/or mind-controlled provocateur, or was set up to either wittingly or unwittingly transport certain possibly hazardous materials into the U.S. just so the feds could make the bust and "get a case" to bolster their blizzard of warnings about millennial terrorism both within the United States and abroad. The post below from Citizens For a Constitutional Washington makes some very good points about this case. NewsHawk� Inc. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Subject: Seattle's version of Project Megiddo? Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 23:34:34 -0800 From: "CCW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NewsHawk, et. al., NOTICE in this story below how Magistrate Wilson orders the "amber liquid" destroyed ... before it's even identified or tested ... is this odd or what? How do we know it's nitroglycerine? NOTICE that the public defender wants a one-week delay in order to have the material tested ... apparently the public defender doesn't believe the government agent, Lesley Jackson. Is FBI Agent Jackson a chemist? Remember how they destroyed all of the evidence of the OKC bombing ... carted all of the debris away, buried it and placed an armed guard at the site? The government DESTROYED evidence! Why? Who's hiding what? So what that some liquid was sensitive to motion or heat? Water in the form of coffee is sensitive to motion, especially if it's hot and it spills in your lap because of careless handling in a car that's moving! ... and if you heat water it will eventually boil, so water is also sensitive to heat. What kind of meaningless statements are these but to confound, condition and sell fear to the sheople watching the stupid tube and a media all too willing to go along for its part of the charade! I wouldn't be surprised if Mr. Ressam is one of THEIR people, an agent provocateur, set-up with phony ID and airline tickets ... the whole nine yards, and paid to carry out this little Hegelian trick so the FBI can lay claim to its Project Megiddo in Seattle. And Magistrate Wilson destroys the evidence to "protect the public"? ....Rubbish! We're not buying this story at all. And by the way, we distinctly heard first reports of this individual coming across by ferry to Port Angeles, and the Customs & FBI Agents clearly stated in the initial press release that the powdered material was NOT explosive in nature ... and now a day afterwards it's all of a sudden 100 lbs, and then 200 lbs of explosives, plus a Casio watch and a 9-volt battery? Let me see now, in Oklahoma they started out with a "car bomb" and the next thing we knew it was all of a sudden 4,800 pounds of fertilizer, i.e., a "poop bomb" that went off in a Ryder truck parked outside the Murrah building. And despite Time Magazine's attempt to sell the sheople the front-page story of a "crater" beneath where the Ryder truck had been parked ... there wasn't one! Lies ... and more lies! /s/ John R. Prukop, Legal Researcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] FBI taking over border-arrest case, man carrying urea, nitroglycerine By LAURENCE M. CRUZ The Associated Press 12/17/99 8:42 PM Eastern SEATTLE (AP) -- A man who entered the United States on a ferry from Canada, driving a rented car with more than 100 pounds of potentially explosive material in the trunk, was charged Friday with bringing nitroglycerine into the country. Ahmed Ressam, 32, an Algerian national, was apprehended Tuesday after raising suspicions with border officials. According to charging papers released at a Friday hearing, Ressam had a reservation Wednesday on American Airlines Flight 408 from Seattle to New York, with a stop in Chicago, and a ticket for a connecting British Airways Flight 116 to London. Ressam also was charged Friday with having false identification and making false statements to U.S. Customs Service officials. Magistrate David E. Wilson scheduled an arraignment and detention hearing Wednesday before Magistrate John L. Weinberg. Friday's proceeding took nearly an hour as each stage of the process was translated into Arabic for Ressam, a small, slim man with a 2-inch scar on his left cheek. The primary concern of defense attorneys -- Tom Hillier and Mike Filipovic from the public defender's office -- was that he understand what was happening to him. When Ressam was asked whether he understood the charges he faced, he, his attorneys and the translator went into an extended huddle before the translator declared: "Yes." Wilson also authorized destruction of two 22-ounce jars of nitroglycerine, now in a bomb-disposal truck near Port Angeles, where Ressam entered the country on a ferry from Victoria, British Columbia. Federal officials have taken samples, and the amber liquid is highly volatile and dangerous, FBI Agent Lesley Jackson told the court. "It is sensitive to motion, it is sensitive to heat," she said. "We would like the opportunity to test it for ourselves," said Filipovic, arguing for a one-week delay. But Wilson approved its disposal, citing public safety and the safety of federal agents who have been icing the material. Also found in Ressam's rented vehicle were 10 plastic bags containing 110 pounds of a white powder identified as urea, used to make explosives and fertilizers; two plastic bags containing about 14 pounds of sulfate, used as a dessicant to absorb water and keep things dry; and four small black boxes containing homemade timers -- a circuit board with a Casio watch and a nine-volt battery. "Preliminary analysis disclosed that when these materials are combined with a detonator, it would produce a large explosive device," charging papers said. Ressam had reserved a room Tuesday in a downtown motel just blocks from the Space Needle and the Seattle Center, site of the city's huge millennial New Year's Eve bash. He was arrested Tuesday in Port Angeles, on the Olympic Peninsula about 60 miles northwest of Seattle, when he fled U.S. Customs Service agents who sought to question him on his arrival on the ferry Coho. His itinerary, which showed he was heading to Seattle, raised the inspector's suspicions, said agency spokesman Pat Jones in Washington, D.C. Seattle is a 140-mile drive from Vancouver that does not require a trip to Vancouver Island, a ferry ride or a stop in Port Angeles. When the inspector asked about his roundabout route, Ressam became nervous, Jones said, and was told to get out of his car. Inspectors searched his car. When they found the plastic bags of white powder, he fled, Jones said. He was caught several blocks away and held at the Clallam County Jail until Friday morning, when he was flown to Seattle. The timing of the man's arrival -- shortly before the millennial New Year's Eve -- "is very interesting," Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent and spokesman Jesse Chester said Thursday. "It raises a lot of questions in a lot of our minds as far as motive." Chester said the incident was "of great concern" to the ATF. "Reason obeys itself; and ignorance does whatever is dictated to it." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man ("Conclusion") "All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void." --Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (2 Cranch) 137 (1803) CCW Coalition: Citizens For A Constitutional Washington John R. Prukop, Executive Director TEL: (253) 840-8071 FAX: (253) 840-8074 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
