(Mike Ruppert, 49, was born in Washington, D.C. An Honors
graduate of UCLA
in Political Science, he comes from a family rooted in
intelligence and the
military. As an undergraduate he interned for LA Police
Chief Ed Davis and
worked at 5 LAPD Divisions before graduating and becoming an
officer in
1973.
During Mike's five plus years of active service, he received
thirteen
citations and four commendations. Twice the CIA attempted to
recruit Mike:
the first time just before he graduated and again after he was
a highly
praised field officer and budding narcotics investigator. In
1977 he
discovered CIA bringing drugs into the U.S. through New
Orleans in an
operation supervised by his then fiancée, a CIA agent. He
began to speak out
and was forced out of LAPD in November 1978 after being shot
at and
threatened. He has been speaking out publicly ever since. In
1981 he spoke
out about CIA and drugs inside the White House during a
visit to his college
classmate Craig Fuller. Fuller later served as Chief of
Staff to Vice
President Bush.
As a freelance writer in the 80s he was published in The Los
Angeles Times.
Other stories include more than 30 on drug and alcohol
dependence. Mike is a
past member of the Board of Directors of the National
Council on Alcoholism
for the San Fernando Valley.
In 1992, after speaking with Ross Perot during the course of
his
investigations, Mike served as the LA County Press Spokesman
for the Perot
Presidential Campaign. This led to an appearance in the
Feature Documentary
THE LAST PARTY with Robert DowneyJr., Sean Penn.
Mike's highly publicized confrontation with CIA Director
John Deutch on
11/15/96 resulted in his being interviewed by the
Intelligence Committees of
both Houses of Congress.
He publishes From The Wilderness magazine which deals with
the effects of
illegal covert operations on our society. FTW is read by more than 500
subscribers including professors at nine universities, 10
members of
Congress and many authors. Mike is divorced and lives in
Sherman Oaks, CA.)
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FTW, November 2, 2001 - 1200 PST -- On October 31, the
French daily Le
Figaro dropped a bombshell. While in a Dubai hospital
receiving treatment
for a chronic kidney infection last July, Osama bin Laden
met with a top CIA
official - presumably the Chief of Station. The meeting,
held in bin Laden's
private suite, took place at the American hospital in Dubai
at a time when
he was a wanted fugitive for the bombings of two U.S.
embassies and this
year's attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Bin Laden was eligible for
execution
according to a 2000 intelligence finding issued by President
Bill Clinton
before leaving office in January. Yet on July 14th he was
allowed to leave
Dubai on a private jet and there were no Navy fighters
waiting to force him
down.
In 1985 Oliver North - the only member of the Reagan-Bush
years who doesn't
appear to have a hand in the current war - sent the Navy and
commandos after
terrorists on the cruise ship Achille Lauro. In his 1991
autobiography
"Under Fire," while describing terrorist Abu Abbas,
North wrote, "I used to
wonder: how many dead Americans will it take before we do
something?" One
could look at the number of Americans Osama bin Laden is
alleged to have
killed before September 11 and ask the same question.
It gets worse, much worse. A more complete timeline listing
crucial events
both before and after the September 11th suicide attacks,
which have been
blamed on bin Laden, establishes CIA foreknowledge of them
and strongly
suggests that there was criminal complicity on the part of
the U.S.
government in their execution. It also makes clear that the
events which
have taken place since September 11th are based upon an
agenda that has
little to do with the attacks.
One wonders how these events could have been ignored by the
major media or
treated as isolated incidents. Failing that, how could
skilled news agencies
avoid being outraged, or at least even just a little
suspicious?
1. 1998 and 2000 - Former President George H.W. Bush travels
to Saudi Arabia
on behalf of the privately owned Carlyle Group, the 11th
largest defense
contractor in the U.S. While there he meets privately with
the Saudi royal
family and the bin Laden family. [Source: Wall Street
Journal, Sept. 27,
2001. See also FTW, Vol. IV, No 7 - "The Best Enemies
Money Can Buy," -
http://www.copvcia.com/members/carlyle.html. ]
2. Feb 13, 2001 - UPI Terrorism Correspondent Richard Sale -
while covering
a trial of bin Laden's Al Q'aeda followers - reports that
the National
Security Agency has broken bin Laden's encrypted
communications. Even if
this indicates that bin Laden changed systems in February it
does not mesh
with the fact that the government insists that the attacks
had been planned
for years.
3. May 2001 - Secretary of State Colin Powell gives $43
million in aid to
the Taliban regime, purportedly to assist hungry farmers who
are starving
since the destruction of their opium crop in January on
orders of the
Taliban regime. [Source: The Los Angeles Times, May 22,
2001.]
4. May, 2001 - Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, a
career covert
operative and former Navy Seal, travels to India on a
publicized tour while
CIA Director George Tenet makes a quiet visit to Pakistan to
meet with
Pakistani leader General Pervez Musharraf. Armitage has long
and deep
Pakistani intelligence connections and he is the recipient
of the highest
civil decoration awarded by Pakistan. It would be reasonable
to assume that
while in Islamabad, Tenet, in what was described as "an
unusually long
meeting," also met with his Pakistani counterpart, Lt.
General Mahmud Ahmad,
head of the ISI. [Source The Indian SAPRA news agency, May
22, 2001.]
5. July, 2001 - Three American officials: Tom Simmons
(former U.S.
Ambassador to Pakistan), Karl Inderfurth (former Assistant
Secretary of
State for South Asian affairs) and Lee Coldren (former State
Department
expert on South Asia), meet with Taliban representatives in
Berlin and tell
them that the U.S. is planning military strikes against
Afghanistan in
October. Also present are Russian and German intelligence
officers who
confirm the threat. [Source: The Guardian, September 22,
2001; the BBC,
September 18, 2001.]
6. Summer 2001 - According to a Sept. 26 story in Britain's
The Guardian,
correspondent David Leigh reported that, "U.S.
department of defense
official, Dr. Jeffrey Starr, visited Tajikistan in January.
The Guardian's
Felicity Lawrence established that US Rangers were also
training special
troops in Kyrgyzstan. There were unconfirmed reports that
Tajik and Uzbek
special troops were training in Alaska and Montana."
7. Summer 2001 (est.) - Pakistani ISI Chief General Mahmud
(see above)
orders an aide to wire transfer $100,000 to Mohammed Atta,
who was according
to the FBI, the lead terrorist in the suicide hijackings.
Mahmud recently
resigned after the transfer was disclosed in India and
confirmed by the FBI.
[Source: The Times of India, October 11, 2001.]
8. June 2001 - German intelligence, the BND, warns the CIA
and Israel that
Middle Eastern terrorists are "planning to hijack
commercial aircraft to use
as weapons to attack important symbols of American and
Israeli culture."
[Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 14,
2001.]
9. Summer 2001 - An Iranian man phones U.S. law enforcement
to warn of an
imminent attack on the World Trade Center in the week of
September 9th.
German police confirm the calls but state that the U.S.
Secret Service would
not reveal any further information. [Source: German news
agency "online.ie",
September 14, 2001.]
10. August 2001 - The FBI arrests an Islamic militant linked
to bin Laden in
Boston. French intelligence sources confirm that the man is
a key member of
bin Laden's network and the FBI learns that he has been
taking flying
lessons. At the time of his arrest the man is in possession
of technical
information on Boeing aircraft and flight manuals. [Source:
Reuters,
September 13.]
11. Summer 2001 - Russian intelligence notifies the CIA that
25 terrorist
pilots have been specifically training for suicide missions.
This is
reported in the Russian press and news stories are
translated for FTW by a
retired CIA officer.
12. July 4-14, 2001 - Osama bin Laden receives treatments
for kidney disease
at the American hospital in Dubai and meets with a CIA
official who returns
to CIA headquarters on July 15th. [Source: Le Figaro,
October 31st, 2001.]
13. August 2001 - Russian President Vladimir Putin orders
Russian
intelligence to warn the U.S. government "in the
strongest possible terms"
of imminent attacks on airports and government buildings.
[Source: MS-NBC
interview with Putin, September 15.]
14. August/September, 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial
Average drops nearly
900 points in the three weeks prior to the attack. A major
stock market
crash is imminent.
15. Sept. 3-10, 2001 - MS-NBC reports on September 16 that a
caller to a
Cayman Islands radio talk show gave several warnings of an
imminent attack
on the U.S. by bin Laden in the week prior to 9/11.
16. September 1-10, 2001 - 25,000 British troops and the
largest British
Armada since the Falkland Islands War, part of Operation
"Essential
Harvest," are pre-positioned in Oman, the closest point
on the Arabian
Peninsula to Pakistan. At the same time two U.S. carrier
battle groups
arrive on station in the Gulf of Arabia just off the
Pakistani coast. Also
at the same time, some 17,000 U.S. troops join more than
23,000 NATO troops
in Egypt for Operation "Bright Star." All of these
forces are in place
before the first plane hits the World Trade Center.
[Sources: The Guardian,
CNN, FOX, The Observer, International Law Professor Francis
Boyle, the
University of Illinois.]
17. September 6-7, 2001 - 4,744 put options (a speculation
that the stock
will go down) are purchased on United Air Lines stock as
opposed to only 396
call options (speculation that the stock will go up). This
is a dramatic and
abnormal increase in sales of put options. Many of the UAL
puts are
purchased through Deutschebank/AB Brown, a firm managed
until 1998 by the
current Executive Director of the CIA, A.B.
"Buzzy" Krongard. [Source: The
Herzliyya International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism,
http://www.ict.org.il/, September 21; The New York Times;
The Wall Street
Journal.]
18. September 10,
2001 - 4,516 put options are purchased on American
Airlines as compared to 748 call options. [Source: ICT -
above]
19. September 6-11, 2001 - No other airlines show any
similar trading
patterns to those experienced by UAL and American. The put
option purchases
on both airlines were 600% above normal. This at a time when
Reuters
(September 10) issues a business report stating,
"Airline stocks may be
poised to take off."
20. September 6-10, 2001 - Highly abnormal levels of put
options are
purchased in Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, AXA
Re(insurance) which owns 25%
of American Airlines, and Munich Re. All of these companies
are directly
impacted by the September 11 attacks. [Source: ICT, above;
FTW, Vol. IV,
No.7, October 18, 2001,
http://www.copvcia.com/members/oct152001.html. ]
21. It has been documented that the CIA, the Israeli Mossad
and many other
intelligence agencies monitor stock trading in real time
using highly
advanced programs reported to be descended from Promis
software. This is to
alert national intelligence services of just such kinds of
attacks. Promis
was reported, as recently as June, 2001 to be in Osama bin
Laden's
possession and, as a result of recent stories by FOX, both
the FBI and the
Justice Department have confirmed its use for U.S.
intelligence gathering
through at least this summer. This would confirm that CIA
had additional
advance warning of imminent attacks. [Sources: The
Washington Times, June
15, 2001; FOX News, October 16, 2001; FTW, October 26, 2001, -
http://www.copvcia.com/members/magic_carpet.html; FTW, Vol.
IV, No.6, Sept.
18, 2001 - http://www.copvcia.com/members/sept1801.html;
FTW, Vol. 3, No 7,
9/30/00 -
www.copvcia.com/stories/may_2001/052401_promis.html.
22. September 11, 2001 - Gen Mahmud of the ISI (see above),
friend of
Mohammed Atta, is visiting Washington on behalf of the
Taliban. [Source:
MS-NBC, Oct. 7.]
23. September 11, 2001, For 35 minutes, from 8:15 AM until
9:05 AM, with it
widely known within the FAA and the military that four
planes have been
simultaneously hijacked and taken off course, no one
notifies the President
of the United States. It is not until 9:30 that any Air
Force planes are
scrambled to intercept, but by then it is too late. This
means that the
National Command Authority waited for 75 minutes before
scrambling aircraft,
even though it was known that four simultaneous hijackings
had occurred - an
event that has never happened in history. [Sources: CNN,
ABC, MS-NBC, The
Los Angeles Times, The New York Times.]
24. September 13, 2001 - China is admitted to the World
Trade Organization
quickly, after 15 years of unsuccessful attempts. [Source:
The New York
Times, Sept. 30, 2001.]
25. September 15, 2001 - The New York Times reports that
Mayo Shattuck III
has resigned, effective immediately, as head of the Alex
(A.B) Brown unit of
Deutschebank.
26. September 29, 2001 - The San Francisco Chronicle reports
that $2.5
million in put options on American Airlines and United
Airlines are
unclaimed. This is likely the result of the suspension in
trading on the
NYSE after the attacks which gave the Securities and
Exchange Commission
time to be waiting when the owners showed up to redeem their
put options.
27. October 10, 2001 - The Pakistani newspaper The Frontier
Post reports
that U.S. Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain has paid a call on
the Pakistani oil
minister. A previously abandoned Unocal pipeline from
Turkmenistan, across
Afghanistan, to the Pakistani coast, for the purpose of
selling oil and gas
to China, is now back on the table "in view of recent
geopolitical
developments."
28. Mid October, 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average,
after having
suffered a precipitous drop has recovered most of its
pre-attack losses.
Although still weak, and vulnerable to negative earnings
reports, a crash
has been averted by a massive infusion of government spending
on defense
programs, subsidies for "affected" industries and
planned tax cuts for
corporations.
Now, let's go back
to the October 31 story by Le Figaro - the one that has
Osama bin Laden meeting with a CIA officer in Dubai this
June.
The story says that, "Throughout his stay in the
hospital, Osama Bin Laden
received visits from many family members [There goes the
story that he's a
black sheep!] and Saudi Arabian Emirate personalities of
status. During this
time the local representative of the CIA was seen by many
people taking the
elevator and going to bin Laden's room.
"Several days later the CIA officer bragged to his
friends about having
visited the Saudi millionaire. From authoritative sources,
this CIA agent
visited CIA headquarters on July 15tth, the day after bin
Laden's departure
for Quetta
"According to various Arab diplomatic sources and
French intelligence
itself, precise information was communicated to the CIA
concerning terrorist
attacks aimed at American interests in the world, including
its own
territory."
"Extremely bothered, they [American intelligence
officers in a meeting with
French intelligence officers] requested from their French
peers exact
details about the Algerian activists [connected to bin Laden
through Dubai
banking institutions], without explaining the exact nature
of their inquiry.
When asked the question, "What do you fear in the
coming days?' the
Americans responded with incomprehensible silence."
"On further investigation, the FBI discovered certain
plans that had been
put together between the CIA and its "Islamic
friends" over the years. The
meeting in Dubai is, so it would seem, consistent with 'a
certain American
policy.'"
Even though Le Figaro reported that it had confirmed with
hospital staff
that bin Laden had been there as reported, stories printed
on November 1
contained quotes from hospital staff that these reports were
untrue. On
November 1, as reported by the Ananova press agency, the CIA
flatly denied
that any meeting between any CIA personnel and Osama bin
Laden at any time.
In the most ironic twist of all, FTW has learned that Le
Figaro is owned by
the Carlyle Group, the American defense contractor which
employs George Bush
Sr., and which had as investors - until they sold their
stake on October 26
- the bin Laden family.
Who do you believe? In coming stories FTW will prove to you
that this war,
which according to Dick Cheney, may not end in out
lifetimes, has been in
the works for at least four years.
Mike Ruppert