Cover-up News Summary: Bali bombing, Avian flu

Source: wanttoknow.info

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Fred Burks for the WantToKnow.info Team

Former language interpreter
for Presidents Bush and Clinton

Homeland
Security to be lead in flu crisis
October 11, 2005, MSNBC
https://msnbc.msn.com/id/9654456/

If the nightmare
of an avian flu pandemic emerges from the dark chapters of doomsday scenarios,
it will fall to the Department of the Homeland Security, not the medical establishment,
to manage the crisis, according to federal documents and interviews with government
officials. Under the National Response Plan, which also plans for actions in
case of pandemics, DHS assumes top authority when an “incident of national significance”
is declared. The first such “incident of national significance” was declared
in August after Hurricane Katrina hit; however, federal coordination among agencies
and state and local governments broke down on so many levels that even President
Bush was forced to acknowledge that the plan was flawed. Federal officials have
been role playing different flu outbreak scenarios for the past several months.
Last year’s plan called for closing of schools, restricting travel and…lock-down
quarantine measures. Those extreme measures jumped into the spotlight…when
President Bush suggested that federal military troops — not just the National
Guard — may have to be called in to enforce a quarantine.

Note:
Isn’t it interesting how the government seems to be predicting that the avian
flu, which has killed less
than 100 people worldwide, is going to mutate and cause massive deaths?
How do they know this? Could this be another way of pushing us into fear and
giving up our civil liberties?

Bush
wants right to use military if bird flu hits
October 4, 2005, ABC/Reuters

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1183192

President George
W. Bush asked Congress on Tuesday to consider giving him powers to use the military
to enforce quarantines in case of an avian influenza epidemic. “If we
had an outbreak somewhere in the United States, do we not then quarantine that
part of the country? And how do you, then, enforce a quarantine?” Bush
asked at a news conference. The active duty military is currently forbidden
from undertaking law enforcement duties by the federal Posse Comitatus Act.

Health
Officials Vigilant for Illness After Sensors Detect Bacteria on Mall
October 2, 2005, Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/01/AR2005100101209.html

Federal health
officials are still testing the samples from air sensors on the Mall and in
downtown Washington that collected a small amount of the tularemia agent. Health
officials in the Washington area were notified Friday that the filters on biohazard
sensors that make up the BioWatch network detected the bacteria Sept. 24, when
tens of thousands of people were on the Mall for antiwar demonstrations. The
naturally-occurring biological agent — which is on the “A list” of
the Department of Homeland Security’s biohazards, along with anthrax, plague
and smallpox — was detected in small amounts. Detection of the bacteria
turned into an incident with nationwide implications, because thousands of protesters
had come from throughout the country. Police said that more than 100,000
people attended the rally; organizers put the figure at 300,000.

Note:
Isn’t it interesting that this very rare occurrence coincided perfectly with
a huge antiwar demonstration?

Possible
police role in 2002 Bali attack
October 12, 2005, Sydney Morning Herald
(Australia’s leading newspaper)

https://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Possible-police-role-in-2002-Bali-attack/2005/10/12/1128796591857.html

Indonesian
police or military officers may have played a role in the 2002 Bali bombing,
the country’s former president, Abdurrahman Wahid says. In an interview with
SBS’s Dateline program, on the third anniversary of the bombing that killed
202 people, Mr Wahid says he has grave concerns about links between Indonesian
authorities and terrorist groups. While he believed terrorists were involved
in planting one of the Kuta night club bombs, the second, which destroyed Bali’s
Sari Club, had been organised by authorities. Asked who he thought planted the
second bomb, Mr Wahid said: “The orders…came from within our armed forces
not from the fundamentalist people.” Timsar Zubil, who set off three bombs
in Sumatra in 1978, told the program intelligence agents had given his group
a provocative name – Komando Jihad – and encouraged members to commit illegal
acts. “We may have deliberately been allowed to grow,” he said. Another
terrorism expert, George Aditjondro, said a bombing in May this year that killed
23 people…had been organised by senior military and police officers.

Note:
This information strengthens my own whistleblower testimony in a Jakarta terror
trial last January reported in the international press. For more: https://www.WantToKnow.info/powerofnightmares

25
questions about murder of the Big Easy
October 2, 2005, San Francisco Chronicle

https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/02/INGSHEVHR31.DTL

The most toxic
debris in New Orleans isn’t the sinister gray sludge that coats the streets…,
but all the unanswered questions that have accumulated in the wake of so much
official betrayal and hypocrisy. Where outsiders see simple “incompetence”
or “failure of leadership,” locals are more inclined to discern deliberate
design and planned neglect — the murder, not the accidental death, of a great
city. Here are 25 of the urgent questions that deeply trouble the local people
we spoke with on a trip to New Orleans and South Louisiana. Until a grand
jury or congressional committee begins to uncover the answers, the moral (as
opposed to simply physical) reconstruction of the New Orleans region will remain
impossible. 20. Who is responsible for the suspicious fires that have swept
the city? Why have so many fires occurred in blue-collar areas that have
long been targets of proposed gentrification? 23. Why isn’t FEMA scrambling
to create a central registry of everyone evacuated from the greater New Orleans
region? Will evacuees receive absentee ballots and be allowed to vote in the
crucial February municipal elections that will partly decide the fate of the
city?

Blackwater
Down
September 22, 2005, CBS

https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/22/opinion/main878822.shtml

The men from
Blackwater USA arrived in New Orleans right after Katrina hit. The company known
for its private security work guarding senior U.S. diplomats in Iraq beat the
federal government and most aid organizations to the scene. About 150 heavily
armed Blackwater troops dressed in full battle gear spread out into the chaos
of New Orleans. When asked what authority they were operating under, one guy
said, “We’re on contract with the Department of Homeland Security.”
Then, pointing to one of his comrades, he said, “He was even deputized
by the governor of the state of Louisiana. We can make arrests and use lethal
force if we deem it necessary.” Says Michael Ratner, president of the Center
for Constitutional Rights, “These private security forces have behaved
brutally, with impunity, in Iraq. To have them now on the streets of New Orleans
is frightening and possibly illegal.” Blackwater is operating under
a federal contract…[that] was announced just days after Homeland Security
Department spokesperson Russ Knocke told the Washington Post he knew of no federal
plans to hire Blackwater. With President Bush using the Katrina disaster
to try to repeal Posse Comitatus (the ban on using U.S. troops in domestic law
enforcement)…the war is coming home in yet another ominous way. As one Blackwater
mercenary said, “This is a trend. You’re going to see a lot more guys like
us in these situations.”

UCLA
Engineers Pioneer Affordable Alternative Energy Resource
October 10, 2005, UCLA News

https://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6518

Solar Energy
Cells Made of Everyday Plastic. In research published today in Nature Materials
magazine, [several researchers] showcase their work on an innovative new plastic
(or polymer) solar cell they hope eventually can be produced at a mere 10 percent
to 20 percent of the current cost of traditional cells, making the technology
more widely available. The price for quality traditional solar modules typically
is around three to four times more expensive than fossil fuel. Independent tests
on the UCLA solar cell already have received high marks. The nation’s only authoritative
certification organization for solar technology, the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory (NREL), located in Golden, Colo., has helped the UCLA team ensure
the accuracy of their efficiency numbers. The plastic solar cell is still a
few years away from being available to consumers, but the UCLA team is working
diligently to get it to market.

Note:
Why is it that ABC was the only
one of the mainstream media to pick up this important article, and even
ABC’s
report appears to belittle the development as much as it gives an optimistic
outlook.

Ex-FBI
Chief On Clinton’s Scandals
October 6, 2005, CBS

https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/06/60minutes/main923095.shtml

When President
Bill Clinton appointed Louis Freeh director of the FBI, he called Freeh “a law
enforcement legend.” But it also turns out that no FBI director had a more strained
relationship with the president who had appointed him. Now he’s written a book,
My FBI, and speaks out for the first time about his years as director,
and his toxic relationship with Bill Clinton. Here’s how he wrote about the
former president: “The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals…never
ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in
the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst
out.” Former Chief of Staff John Podesta says Clinton always referred to
the FBI director as ‘Effing’ Freeh…[After] the 1996 Khobar Towers terrorist
attack in Saudi Arabia, where 19 U.S. servicemen died and more than 370 were
wounded, President Clinton had sent the FBI to investigate and promised Americans
that those responsible would pay. But Freeh says the President failed to keep
his promise. The FBI wanted access to the suspects the Saudis had arrested.
Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar said the only way to get access to prisoners
would be if the president personally asked the crown prince for access. [Freeh]
writes…: “Bill Clinton raised the subject only to tell the crown prince that
he understood the Saudi’s reluctance to cooperate, and then he hit Abdullah
up for a contribution to the Clinton Presidential Library.”

Countdown
with Keith Olbermann
October 6, 2005, MSNBC

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9619419/

Let’s call in
Craig Crawford, MSNBC analyst and author of “Attack the Messenger.” Good evening,
Craig. CRAWFORD: Hi, there. You’re sounding a bit skeptical tonight. OLBERMANN:
Yes, and I’m going to raise this question as skeptically and bluntly as I can.
It’s not a question that doubts the existence of terror, nor the threat of terrorism.
But we’ve cobbled together in the last couple of hours a list of at least
13 occasions…on which—whenever there has been news that significantly impacted
the White House negatively, there has been some sudden credible terror threat
somewhere in this country. How could the coincidence be so consistent? CRAWFORD:
It is a pattern. One of the most memorable was just after the Democratic Convention
in the 2004 election, when they talked about the threat to New York and even
the…World Bank, and it turned out that was based on intelligence that was
three years old.

Note:
For more on the suspicious timing of terror alerts on the CBS website:

https://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2005/10/07/publiceye/entry924555.shtml

Sources:
NYC Subway Threat Info Not Substantiated
October 11, 2005, Fox News

https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,171917,00.html

The claims of
a terrorist plot to blow up New York subways made public last week were not
substantiated, administration and federal law enforcement sources confirmed
to FOX News on Tuesday. The administration official told FOX News on Tuesday
that “there was a lot of doubt” about the informant who led the U.S.
military to the three suspects in Iraq. The informant who had been credible
in the past and was known to the Defense Intelligence Agency appears to have
pulled some of the names and information “out of nowhere,” sources
told FOX News. The federal law enforcement source even suggested that the
informant’s motivation may have been financial, since he had been paid in the
past for information.

Note:
For more excellent information on the fabrication of fear reported by BBC:
https://www.WantToKnow.info/powerofnightmares

Britain
now faces its own blowback
September 10, 2005, The Guardian (One
of the UK’s leading newspapers)

https://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,1566919,00.html

Omar Sheikh…at
the behest of General Mahmood Ahmed, head of the ISI [Pakistan’s secret service],
wired $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, the leading 9/11 hijacker, before the New York
attacks, as confirmed by Dennis Lormel, director of FBI’s financial crimes unit.
Yet neither Ahmed nor Omar appears to have been sought for questioning by the
US about 9/11. Indeed, the official 9/11 Commission Report of July 2004 sought
to downplay the role of Pakistan with the comment: “To date, the US government
has not been able to determine the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks.
Ultimately the question is of little practical significance” – a statement
of breathtaking disingenuousness. All this highlights the resistance to getting
at the truth about the 9/11 attacks and to an effective crackdown on the forces
fomenting terrorist bombings in the west.

The
President’s ‘Pit Bull’
October 4, 2005, Los Angeles Times

https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-profile4oct04,0,7005879.story

After they
left Texas for Washington following the 2000 presidential election, Miers assumed
such an insider role that in 2001 it was she who handed Bush the crucial “presidential
daily briefing” hinting at terrorist plots against America just a month
before the Sept. 11 attacks.

Note:
No other major media reported this significant fact on the topic of U.S. Supreme
Court nominee Harriet Miers. The respected Editor and Publisher had this
to say: “On its front page Tuesday, The New York Times published a
photo of new U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers going over a briefing
paper with President George W. Bush at his Crawford ranch “in August 2001,”
the caption reads. USA Today and the Boston Globe carried the photo labeled
simply “2001,” but many other newspapers ran the picture in print or on the
Web with a more precise date: Aug. 6, 2001. The
PDB [Presidential Daily Briefing] was headed ‘Bin Laden Determined to Strike
in U.S.,’ and notes, among other things, FBI information indicating ‘patterns
of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings
or other types of attacks.’ ” For the entire article, see:
https://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001221205

Kennedy
Assassination Revelations
September 25, 2005, Google Video/Alex Jones Productions

https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4315024059102108031&q=bush

(Ed’s note 17/8/19 video no longer available)

Note:
This intriguing 90-minute video produced by controversial conservative talk-show
host Alex Jones is filled with fascinating facts and details. I normally don’t
recommend controversial sources, but this video, available for free viewing,
repeatedly gives solid sources for their information with plenty of original
video and photos of original documents related to the JFK assassination.
Though rather hard-hitting and accusatory in tone, the revealing footage includes
excellent clips from Oliver Stone’s movie JFK, which opened many people’s eyes
to the possibility that there is much more to the Kennedy assassination than
most people know. Many thanks to Google for making this video available on their
website!