edited 6 October 2007
Franklin Freeman
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The 'belt-bandits' of pharmaceutical contractors around Washington may also contain those who worked for the anthrax terror of autumn 2001. Further removed is Fort Detrick, in the town of Frederick, Maryland, where the non-weaponized form of the strain used in the attacks was kept. Steve Hatfill, a former government scientist with connections to the army and the CIA, was subsequently touted by Attorney General Ashcroft as a "person of interest" in connection with the case. He lived at Frederick, and has been several times 'interviewed' by the FBI, but is not officially classed as a suspect by them. He may have been set up as a patsy by the cabal, to 'fill the hat' of the 'socially-inadequate loner' of the FBI's phoney profile. It is not clear why a government-based conspiracy would want to make its own weaponized anthrax (i.e. the aerially-dispersable version) from the non-weaponized form held at Fort Detrick. There was a ready-weaponized supply at the army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah — and it was of a type identical with that used in the attacks on Democratic Senators in autumn 2001.
The "Able Danger" team, which in the winter of 1999-2000 "discovered" leading "9/11 hijackers" Mohammed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, was stationed at SOCOM HQ. (It moved to Texas at some time in 2000. ["Inside Able Danger ...", Government Security News, Aug. 2005])
CENTCOM is responsible for the deployment of US forces in the horn of Africa, much of the Middle East (from Iraq to Pakistan), and the ex-Soviet central Asian republics (including Kazakhstan). Its zone covers most of the Middle-eastern oil reserves. CENTCOM'S leader was, until his retirement in 2003, General Tommy Franks. CENTCOM was in charge of the Afghan and Iraq campaigns. It is an essential tool for the US cabal's construction of a Middle-eastern oil empire.
In Miami is located the HQ of SOUTHCOM, the US military 'commandery' covering central and south America.
Some of the alleged Sept. 11 hijackers, including their supposed leader Mohammed Atta, were based in Florida. Atta and his "second-in-command" Marwan Al-Shehhi lived in Coral Springs (and held passports from the United Arab Emirates)... ( BBC news report, 13 Sept. 2001). Three or four of the 'hijackers' were said to have received flight training at the secure Pensacola Naval Air Station in the 1990s. ("Alleged Hijackers May Have Trained at U.S. Bases", Newsweek, MSNBC, 15 Sept. 2001; "Pensacola NAS link faces more scrutiny ...", Pensacola News Journal, 17 Sept. 2001) Hijackers etc were supposed to have enquired about crop-spraying aircraft in Florida. And local Florida police supposedly found a group of Middle Easterners with plans of a nuclear power station on them, then 'let them go' (autumn 2001).
The first anthrax attack was on a Florida media office, at Boca Raton on the south-east coast (a preliminary 'field experiment'?). A number of hoax anthrax letters were mailed from St. Petersburg, not far from Fort McDill; this happened before the anthrax mail attacks had become public knowledge, and was evidently part of the actual anthrax campaign. ( CNN report, 13 Oct. 2001; Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, 'Analysis of the Anthrax Attacks', Feb. 2002, on the Federation of American Scientists website.) (The St. Petersburg mailings could of course have been an attempt to incriminate SOCOM and/or CENTCOM.)
Florida was also the cliffhanger state in the presidential election in winter 2000-2001, whatever this might have to do with it. That election came down to a sordid legal scrabbling, between the (Democratic) Florida supreme court, (Republican) Florida governor (Jeb Bush, the president's brother) and the (Republican) Federal Supreme Court, over the last nose-picking chad. (Is this how 200 years of American democracy has finished up?) In autumn 2000 Bin Laden suggested, in a Pakistani newspaper, that September 11 was Florida Jews' revenge for making Bush president. Perhaps it was Florida Republicans (amongst others).
The Al-Jazeera TV station was set up in Qatar in 1996 (by "defecting" BBC World Service staff) and has been financed by the Qatari government since then. Since Sept. 11, 2001, it has shown a number of "bin Laden" / "al-Qaeda" videos and other productions of dubious quality and authenticity.
( Gary C. Gambill, 'Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV: The Power of Free Speech', Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, vol. 2, no. 5, 1 June 2000; 'Al-Jazeera goes its alone', BBC News online, 8 Oct. 2001)
"Yosri Fouda is [ref. October 2006] the chief investigative reporter for Al Jazeera Television Pictures: The Sunday Times [sic]". In this month he published articles in the Sunday Times about a "newly-surfaced video" of "9/11 hijackers" Mohammed Atta and Ziad Jarrah, allegedly made in Afghanistan in January 2000. Atta is seen reading a document marked in Arabic "the will". The video is stated to come from impeccable but unnamed sources, and is "verified" by al-Qaeda and US sources. But "The tape has no soundtrack and a US source said lip readers had tried without success to decipher what was being said." (Fouda, Sunday Times (UK), 1 Oct. 2006:- "The laughing 9/11 bombers", and "Focus: Chilling message of the 9/11 pilots" (main article; link to video broken).)
(As internet video messaging has developed, Al-Jazeera's propaganda work has largely been taken "in house", by the US front organizations IntelCenter and the SITE Institute.)
CENTCOM's service headquarters was being moved from Saudi Arabia (where the Saudis were no longer keen to host it) to Qatar, according to news reports in March 2002. Qatar has the longest runway in the region (at 15,000 feet), and would make a good base for bombing missions during an attack on Iraq, as well as a station for some of the American troops in the region. For an update, see 'Qatar Is Becoming A U.S. Military Hub', Salt Lake Tribune, 1 July 2002.