NOTES
An alert about problematic URLs. Although I have doublechecked and triplechecked my coding, some of the links cited here seem already to have been disabled. Some lead to the correct Websites; some only to an error notice. I suspect the problem is the notorious volatility of many news and commentary sites, which waste no time in moving "live" articles into the archives (often pay archives) and in so doing change their URLs.In addition, the coding for the links in Notes 13 and 41 does not work. That has something to do with their astronomical length, even though HTML coding is usually very forgiving to being broken across lines. Persistent readers may wish to cut and paste the URLs, as they appear on the page, into their browser's location window.
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1. In regard to the treatment of Taliban prisoners, the Office of Legal Counsel of
the Justice Department has opined that the "Taliban and its forces were, in fact,
not a government, but a militant, terrorist-like group."
Rowan Scarborough, "Powell urges POW status," Washington Times, January
26, 2002,
2. Michael Kinsley, "The War Keeps Growing," Washington Post, February 8,
2002, p. A31,
3. Chris Matthews, "Who hijacked our war?," San Francisco Chronicle,
February 17, 2002,
4. Robert Novak, "The war President," January 31, 2002,
5. Patrick Martin has written an excellent series of articles on this issue on the
World Socialist Web Site:
6. The United States has established a pliable government under Musharraf
Karzai, who is already talking of developing the pipeline. See "Musharraf,
Karzai agree major oil pipeline in co-operation pact," The Irish Times,
February 16, 2001,
7. Actually the condition of the Palestinians is far worse than that of South
Africa's Blacks in the Bantustans of the former white-ruled South Africa.
Compared to the Bantustans, the preserves for the Palestinians are tiny and are
lacking the necessary elements for survival — most crucially water. In
reality, the Palestinian reserves fall somewhere between a Bantustan and a
Nazi concentration camp, sans homicidal gas chambers.
8. Stratfor.com, the intelligence Website, devoted an article to showing how
Israel was the big winner from the Sept. 11 tragedy: George Friedman, "The
Israeli Dimension," September 11, 2001. The piece cannot be accessed gratis at
Stratfor (www.stratfor.com), but it is posted in the news groups.
9. David Hirst, "Israel thrusts Iran in line of US fire," The Guardian, February
2, 2002,
Also see "Iran, Israel and Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East,"
10. The pro-Zionist American media have recently been presenting anti-Iranian
stories implying that Iran has actually protected al Qaeda members. If true, that
would be quite ironic since Iran fought the Taliban for years.
11. Jim Lobe, "Hawks Take Aim at Iraq," November 30, 2001,
"US Hawks Say Taliban Is Not Enough," November 9, 2001,
Jude Wanniski, "Israel and the Terrorist Attack," October 10, 2001,
12. Bill Press, "Bill Press: Making political hay out of 9/11," January 23, 2002,
13. Julian Borger, "Washington hawks get power boost," The Guardian,
December 17, 2001.
Borger writes: "The mostly casualty-free military successes in Afghanistan have
significantly boosted the power of Washington's 'super-hawks' — a tight-
knit group of former Cold Warriors who have returned from more than a
decade in policy exile to grasp the levers of power once more.
"'It's taken us 13 years to get here, but we've arrived,' the evening's host, Frank
Gaffney, the head of a hawkish Washington thinktank, declared to applause
and murmurs of agreement":
14. Members of these two groups can, of course, also be proponents of the
interests of Big Oil or of Israel.
15. Howard Kurtz, "The Reluctant Scrutiny of 9/11," Washington Post,
February 7, 2002,
Kurtz, of course, tries to account for this improbability in his
own way.
16. Brian Williams, "Instant Messages to Israel Warned of WTC Attack,"
Newsbytes, September 27, 2001,
17. Chris Blackhurst, "Mystery of terror 'insider dealers,'" Independent, October
14, 2001,
18. Don Radlauer, " Black Tuesday: The World's Largest Insider Trading Scam?,"
The International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism, September 19, 2001,
19. Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross, "Willie Brown got low-key early warning
about air travel," San Francisco Chronicle, September 12, 2001,
20. "Rushdie claims US authorities knew of attack ," HindustanTimes.com,
September 27, 2001,
21. "26 Reasons Why 'White Collar Terrorists' Are to Blame for 'America's New
War' and the Impending World War III,"
22. Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, "Aftershocks," CounterPunch,
September 14, 2001,
23. Simon Marks, "Asleep at the switch," Society of Professional Journalists,
24. "Egypt Leader Says He Warned America," AP, December 7, 2001,
25. September 15, 2001 MSNBC interview with Vladimir Putin cited in Nevada
Democratic News,
26. Ned Stafford, "Newspaper: Echelon Gave Authorities Warning of Attacks,"
Newsbytes, September 13, 2001,
27. "German police confirm Iranian deportee phoned warnings," Ananova,
September 14, 2001,
28. Robert Novak, "Tom Ridge's challenge," September 27, 2001,
29. Raymond C. Burgos, Acuin Papa, and Dave Veridiano, "Plot to use planes in US
attacks uncovered in RP," Inquirer News Service, September 12, 2001,
30. Mark Fineman and Judy Pasternak, "Suicide Flights and Crop Dusters
Considered Threats at '96 Olympics," Los Angeles Times, November 17, 2001,
31. Jacquelin Magnay, "Jet crash on stadium was Olympics nightmare," Sydney
Morning Herald, September 20, 2001,
32. FAA Office of Civil Aviation Security, Criminal Acts against Civil Aviation,
2000,
33. Steve Fainaru and James V. Grimaldi, "FBI Knew Terrorists Were Using Flight
Schools," Washington Post, September 23, 2001, p. A-24,
34. Mohammed Heikal, "'There isn't a target in Afghanistan worth a $1m missile,'"
Guardian, October 10, 2001,
35. Richard Sale, "Making cyberwar on Bin Laden," United Press International,
February 8, 2001.
36. Michael Hirsh, "'We've Hit the Targets,'" Newsweek, September 13, 2001,
37. David Crary and Jerry Schwartz, Associated Press, September 11, 2001, "World
Trade Center collapses in terrorist attack,"
38. John Diamond and Jill Zuckman, "Leak of CIA data angers officials," Chicago
Tribune, September 14, 2001,
39. Bob Drogin and Eric Lichtblau, "Search for Suspects Was on for Weeks," Los
Angeles Times,
40. John Crewdson, "Hijacker held, freed before Sept. 11 attack," Chicago Tribune,
December 13, 2001,
41. Martin Bright, et al., "The Secret War: Part 2," The Observer, September 30,
2001,
42. George Lardner Jr., "Lawyers Say Terrorist's Entry into U.S. Could Have Been
Barred," Washington Post, October 28, 2001, p. A-8,
43. Aditya Sinha, "In need of cash to pay for army, Taliban dump opium," October
3, 2001,
44. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2001/nf2001104_7412.htm.
Patrick Martin, "The strange case of Zacarias Moussaoui: FBI refused to
investigate man charged in September 11 attacks," World Socialist Web Site,
July 5, 2002,
45. Patrick Martin, "The strange case of Zacarias Moussaoui: FBI refused to
investigate man charged in September 11 attacks," World Socialist Web Site, January 5, 2002,
46. Bob Drogin, Eric Lichtblau, and Greg Krikorian, "CIA, FBI Disagree on
Urgency of Warning," Los Angeles Times, October 18, 2001,
47. Evan Thomas and Mark Hosenball, "Bush: 'We're at War,'" Newsweek,
September 24, 2001, p. 26.
48. David Shippers, "Government Had Prior Knowledge," The Alex Jones Show, October, 10, 2001,
49. "German Minister's Interview Rips 911 Case Open," Tagesspiegel, January 13,
2002,
50. Robert Fisk, "'The time of fun and waste is gone,'" The Independent, September
29, 2001,
51. Michael C. Ruppert, "A White Knight Talking Backwards /
Spy Case in Canadian Courts Suggests US Naval Officer Had Foreknowledge
of 9-11,"
52. Det. Rick Pengelly of the Toronto police said that Vreeland "seems to exist
solely by committing frauds." Tom Godfrey, "Cops Catch Up with Artful
Dodger," Toronto Sun, January 13, 2001.
53. "U.S. Knew of Attacks in Advance?",
54. Greg Palast and David Pallister, "FBI and US Spy Agents Say Bush Spiked Bin
Laden Probes before 11 September," The Guardian, November 7, 2001,
55. O'Neill expressed this view in an interview for a recent book by French authors Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, Bin Laden: La Verite Interdite (Bin Laden: The Hidden Truth). Laura Marlowe, "US efforts to make
peace summed up by 'oil,'" Irish Times, November 19, 2001,
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020126-76636371.htm.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42674-2002Feb7.html.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-Bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/17/IN167643.DTL.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20020131.shtml.
http://www.wsws.org/sections/category/news/terr-us.shtml.
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2002/0209/448097021FR09KARZAI
.html.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,643734,00.html.
http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/menukes.cfm.
http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/commentary/0111hawk_body.html;
http://www.atimes.com/c-asia/CK09Ag01.html; and
http://www.supplysideinvestor.com/showarticle.asp?articleid=1670.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/01/23/column.billpress/; and
Mark Halperin, "Bush Adviser KARL ROVE Suggests Republicans Benefit from War,"
ABCNEWS.com, January 18, 2002.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38059-
2002Feb7.html.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170583.html.
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=99402.
http://www.ict.org.il/.
http://www.sfgate.com/today/0912_chron_mnreport.shtml.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/270901/dLAME64.asp;
Joseph Farrah, "The failure of government," WorldNetDaily.com, October 19,
2001,
http://apll.freeyellow.com/farrah.html.
http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/apocalypse/26_reasons.html.
http://www.counterpunch.org/aftershocks.html.
http://www.spj.org/quill_issue.asp?ref=233. [Membership site — ed.]
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/LEB112A.html;
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http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/news/usnews/?disp_feature=68aav2.var.
http://www.nevadademocraticnews.com/page361976.htm.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170072.html.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_398414.html?menu.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20010927.shtml.
http://www.inq7.net/nat/2001/sep/13/nat_4-1.htm;
Doug Struck, Howard Schneider, Karl Vick, and Peter Baker, "Borderless Network of Terror, Bin
Laden Followers Reach across Globe," Washington Post, September 23, 2001,
p. A1,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-
dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A10543-2001Sep22;
Maria Ressa, "U.S. warned in 1995 of plot to hijack planes, attack buildings,"
CNN, September 18, 2001,
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/18/inv.hijacking.philippines/index.html.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-
111701threat.story.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/20/world/world20.html.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-
dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A10840-2001Sep22;
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25, 2001, p. A8.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4273924,00.html.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/627963.asp#BODY.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/terroristattack/MGB6TPN1IRC.html. [Link may have expired — ed.]
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http://www.webcom.com/hrin/magazine/la-search.html.
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Post, January 2, 2002, p. A1,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-
dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A49567-2002Jan1;
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Minneapolis Star-Tribune, December 21, 2001,
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1576/913687.html.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jan2002/mous-j05.shtml.
http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2D101801cab
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http://www.englishfirst.org/13166/terrornotetransaltion1001.htm.
http://www.copvcia.com/free/ww3/01_25_02_revised_012802_vreeland.html;
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Intelligence Digest,
http://www.watchmanjournal.org/000245.html.
http://www.sweetliberty.org/audio/.
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=103&row=1;
Greg Palast, "BBC: Did Bush Turn a Blind Eye to Terrorism?," BBC Newsnight, November
6, 2001,
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=104&row=1.
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2001/1119/wor8.htm;
"Three reviews of Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth by Jean-Charles Brisard and
Guillaume Dasquie,"
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/wot/bl_tft.htm.