12/27 in Houston?

Finally, here's something I hestitate to post, but will, and will likely regret it. Because it's probably, hopefully, entirely bullshit.

Several days ago on the web board of Godlikeproductions, a new poster appeared calling himself "German Guy." (Here is the thread, but be warned: because he is unregistered anyone is able to post under the name, and he has attracted several obvious copycats and hoaxers. Also, the thread is now well over 1,000 posts long, most of them chaff and nonsense.) He said he was a recently retired agent of the BND, with sensitive information regarding an impending staged nuclear attack on American soil. Specifically, Houston, December 27, perpetrated by what he called the "Hidden Hand" faction of the CIA, Mossad and SAS.

I should note right now that at least two respondents on "German Guy"'s thread have already, and separately, taken this threat warning to the FBI.

The website went down Friday night, and at the time of this posting is not up again. It's likely something as innocuous as a problem with the server. However, as I was reading German Guy's posts, I entertained the possibility that he really was BND, and weighed the chances of the site remaining up in that event. So I archived the thread.

I know it may appear otherwise, but I don't mean to be unduly alarmist. The thing is, how do we know what's "unduly"? It's not like the sky isn't falling.

Even if not genuine, German Guy makes a fascinating read - doom porn, I guess that would make it - and he's clearly done his cloak and dagger homework.

Here are some excerpts:


http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/

I read about this earlier today, VERY disturbing stuff...

Living nearby, I know that it would be an easy target.

If the elder Bush's are out of town, I just wonder. Hmm...

wouldnt be the funniest to read this. k, so how many miles does a nuclear destruction go. i am pretty far, up in the panhandle. wind would probably blow it to louisanna

feeling safe here

sorry houston

there have been other supposed just gonna happen events. all in the now. cant do more than that. would be looking at papa bush itinerary, but then georgie has papa issues, so i dont know if that is a good indicator

I certainly hope not but it would explain why I've always had a strong aversion to the place. For years, I thought it was because of the other bushy beast. Or maybe it's all those levels of natural gas lines, come to think of it the National Geographic channel is doing a special on the sewer fires in Guatemela that left 15,000 homeless.
We all deny the possibility of the impending disaster just like certain people did just before 9/11.

I was at this site earlier and was following his threads.
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/bbs/message.php?message=55725&mpage=1&topic=3&showdate=12/17/04

German Guy sort of believable...

....The British invest heavily in power politics because they have an agenda that cannot be supported by their military. Instead, they use the American military to achieve these goals.

In fact, if the truth was known, many Americans would be horrified to learn that the American military serves the interests of the British and Israelis first and American interests last.

Tony Blair is not really a prime minister in the democratic sense. He is a rubber-stamped (by the people) Crown place-man who is really the prime minister of the City of London, which is the centre of the Anglo-Saxon financial and political empire.

....

corporations. It has ever been so since shortly after the revolution. We all know that 'of the people, by the people, for the people' is now total bullshit. It's gov't of, by, and for the corporation.

This is what I always keep in mind when I visit Godlike Productions.


Between posters like Nancy Lieder and Barbara Brown (aka Wiolawa), there is hours of schizophrenic reading fun on this site (do a search, and you'll see what I mean).

Honestly, I wouldn't take anything read on this site seriously.

Whoah!!!

12/27/2004

Houston would really be bad because of the refineries!!!

Nice knowing ya.

:tinfoilhat:
I wouldn't worry, your Houston will be fine. Except for the air pollution, you guys really should do something about that.

"Combined distillation capacity of the states 26 refineries totals nearly 4.5 million barrels per calendar day, equaling about 26 percent of the nations refining capacity."

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/state/tx.html

Not sure how much of that is in Houston per se, but I'll bet it's a lot, esp. as Houston, Galveston, Freeport, Baytown, Deer Park, and Texas City are all within spittin' distance of each other, and Port Arthur and Beaumont aren't that much farther away.


Refining & Marketing (Downstream)

Refineries: Distillation capacity of 4,467,610 Barrels Per Calendar Day (BCD) (2004)
Age Refining, Inc. (San Antonio @ 9,112 BCD)
Alon USA LP (Big Spring @ 61,000 BCD)
Atofina Petrochemicals Inc. (Port Arthur @ 175,068 BCD)
BP Products North America, Inc. (Texas City @ 437,000 BCD)
Citgo Refining & Chemical Inc. (Corpus Christi @ 156,000 BCD)
ConocoPhillips (Borger @ 145,800 BCD)
ConocoPhillips (Sweeny @ 217,000 BCD)
Crown Central Petroleum Corp. (Pasadena @ 100,000 BCD)
Deer Park Refining LTD Ptnrshp (Deer Park @ 333,700 BCD)
ExxonMobil Refining & Supply Co. (Baytown @ 557,000 BCD)
ExxonMobil Refining & Supply Co. (Beaumont @ 348,500 BCD)
Flint Hills Resources LP (Corpus Christi @ 259,980 BCD)
Haltermann Products (Channelview @ -0- BCD*) *880 BCD idle as of 1/1/04
La Gloria Oil & Gas Co. (Tyler @ 55,000 BCD)
Lyondell Citgo Refining Co. LTD (Houston @ 270,200 BCD)
Marathon Ashland Petro LLC (Texas City @ 72,000 BCD)
Motiva Enterprises LLC (Port Arthur @ 250,000 BCD)
Premcor Refining Group Inc. (Port Arthur @ 255,000 BCD)
South Hampton Refining Co. (Silsbee @ -0- BCD*) *Asphalt plant
Trigeant LTD (Corpus Christi @ -0- BCD*) *Downstream capacity only
Valero Energy Corp. (Sunray @ 155,000 BCD)
Valero Energy Corp. (Three Rivers @ 90,000BCD)
Valero Refining Co. Texas (Corpus Christi @ 134,000 BCD)
Valero Refining Co. Texas (Houston @ 83,000 BCD)
Valero Refining Co. Texas (Texas City @ 204,250 BCD)
Western Refining Co. LP (El Paso @ 99,000 BCD)

"Why did Mr Wolfowitz pressure John Ashcroft to order an FBI closure of the investigation of the murder of nuclear physicist John Mullen, who, as we already know, had been briefed by a network contact man to provide an hypothetical schematic of a remote-controlled nuclear device to be detonated in an 'hypothetical' city 'the size of Houston'?"

Dec 14, 2004: Scientist's Death Blamed On Poisoning
The death of a well known Chesterfield scientist has been ruled a murder.

In June, Dr. John Mullen complained that he didn't feel good. He was rushed to the hospital and within hours, the 67 year old was dead.

Dr. John Mullen was a nuclear physicist and a former McDonnell Douglas research scientist.

Toxicology reports are back and investigators have released the findings. They say high levels of arsenic were found in Mullen's system.
http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=71601


"Why did Mr Wolfowitz ask Avner Meir to provide Kamran Akhtar with video equipment and explicit instructions to film public buildings and vital civilian infrastructure in Houston, Atlanta and Dallas?"

Oct 8, 2004: Pakistani videotaper to plead guilty
Kamran Akhtar, detained in July after a police officer spotted him videotaping Charlotte's skyscrapers, has agreed to plead guilty in a deal with prosecutors that could keep him behind bars for up to six months, his attorney said Thursday.

Other tapes in Akhtar's possession showed buildings in the downtown areas of Atlanta, New Orleans, Dallas, Houston and Austin, Texas, authorities said.

The charges Akhtar faces carry maximum punishments of up to 33 years in prison. If federal authorities can link his activities to terrorism, the charges would be punishable by up to 55 years' imprisonment. But Akhtar has no criminal record, Miller said, and will likely only face a maximum of six months in prison.
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/9865070.htm


"Mossad has committed a large number of crimes in Germany and we have been able to prove it. But our political masters always prevent us from finishing the job. You may have heard about Uwe Barschel who ran foul of Mossad? Murder made to look like suicide that was a classic Kidon killing. Or the Free Democrat leader Jürgen Möllemann who suffered an unfortunate accident when his parachute failed to open?"

1987: Uwe Barschel "suicide"
CDU-politician, Uwe Barschel, was, according to ex-Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky, murdered in 1987 by a Mossad hit team in a Swiss Hotel. According to Ostrovsky, Barschel had to die because he disturbed Israeli arms trade with the Iranian regime and an Israeli training programmes for Iranian fighter pilots on the soil of "Schleswig-Hostein" (German state of which Uwe Barschel was Prime Minster, comparable with a US-governor). The murder of Uwe Barschel, despite Ostrovsky's revelations in his book "The Secret Mossad-File", is still today called "suicide".
http://globalfire.tv/nj/03en/jews/sec_moellemann.htm

June 5, 2003: German politician in death plunge
One witness, who jumped from a plane at the same time as the politician, said all the group's parachutes had opened normally.

Mr Moellemann was "easily recognisable by the big letters JWM on his blue and yellow parachute," he said.

Then suddenly the chute broke free from Mr Moellemann's body, said the witness, himself an experienced skydiver.

"He must have detached it. At that stage in the descent that's all that could happen. There is no other possibility."

Mr Moellemann's spare chute then failed to open, and an automatic safety system, which would open it even if the parachutist had lost consciousness, did not activate it, the witness said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2965952.stm


"Why did Mr Wolfowitz order the assassination of an undercover CIA operative, Kamel Derwish, who had worked so faithfully for him by recruiting and importing Mossad-trained al-Qaeda agents under the codename 'Operation Haeremai'? Was it because Kamel Derwish was under investigation by dedicated FBI agents and thus exposed Wolfowitz to charges of treason and material conspiracy in planning acts of terrorism against the American people?"

Nov 13, 2002: In a show of superpower might, the CIA kills a Qaeda operative and his American ally in Yemen.

Had the United States taken out the terrorists with a well-aimed Hellfire missile? By Tuesday morning, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz was not only confirming the story, he seemed to be boasting about it.

The story took a surprising twist when Yemeni officials told reporters that one of the men blown away by the Predator was a U.S. citizen. Kamel Derwish grew up in the grim industrial suburb of Lackawanna, N.Y., migrated with his family to Saudi Arabia, became swept up in radical Islam – and returned to upstate New York in the late 1990s.
http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au/bulletin/EdDesk.nsf/0/d29179a57a3e83b3ca256c6e000cafd8?OpenDocument


"Why has Mr Wolfowitz provided Mossad super-spy Rafi Eytan with a free pass into the United States, despite a long-standing prohibition?"

Feb 14 2003: "Dirty" Rafi Eytan
Rafi Eytan was once the controller of Jonathan Pollard, and there is a standing warrant for his arrest accordingly in the United States.

According to an Israeli source who has previously proven to be reliable, this Sharon henchman last week snuck into the United States under a phony Canadian passport and landed in Las Vegas, proceeding from that city to an unknown location in Ohio on Saturday.

His mission is suspected to be the setting up of a false-flag "Islamic" terrorist attack to drive the American populace over the edge with fear and so aid the "chickenhawk" faction in Washington and London to get their desperately desired Iraq war off the ground. Skeptics are asked to consider previous acts of betrayal by our alleged "allies" in the Mossad, who are responsible for the Lavon affair of the 1950s, and the above-mentioned Pollard affair.
http://www.russia.com/forums/showthread.php3?threadid=12921

Aug 17, 2003: Rafi Eitan Plotting New 9/11?
On July 30, United Press International intelligence correspondent
Richard Sale reported that Rafi Eitan, the Israeli spymaster who
recruited Jonathan Jay Pollard to spy against the United States, ``has
reemerged on American soil and is being scrutinized by the FBI.'' Sale
elaborated, ``According to federal law enforcement officials, Eitan
has, for the last year or so, been traveling to the United States on
an Israeli passport, but using an alias.

These sources told UPI that Eitan lands at Columbus, Ohio, and then
moves about the Midwest, to cities such as Indianapolis. Eitan has
been seen and photographed in the company of `known dealers who belong
to a ring dealing in the drug ecstasy,' one federal law enforcement
official said.''

In a followup UPI story on Aug. 7, Sale wrote, "U.S. officials said
Eitan, at first described by former Israeli officials as being
'sidelined' and 'in mothballs' as far as Israel is concerned, has, in
fact, been brought back into government life by Sharon who is
employing him as a counter-terrorism adviser... 'We all thought he he
was in disgrace,' a federal law enforcement official said. 'We were
wrong.''

Sale quoted from a June 1997 interview with Eitan by the Israeli
newspaper Yediot Aharonot, in which the former chief of Mossad
operations in Europe said, "I failed in the Pollard affair, just as I
failed in other intelligence operations behind enemy lines. That is
the lot of the intelligence officer who runs complex operations.''
Note Eitan's reference to the United States as "behind enemy lines.''
http://www.security-talk.org/Rafi_Eitan_Plotting_New_911-4852470-4809-a.html


"Why did Mr Wolfowitz authorise a 120,000 dollar transfer to Frank Riley (also known as Terence Lawley) via the CIA-backed Mara Salvatruchas syndicate on April 14, 2004?"

Dec 14, 2004: Terror at the Border
Earlier this month, border patrol agents working near Brownsville arrested 14 people who entered the country illegally from Mexico. Why was this collar different from others? Among the group taken into custody was a man named Fakhrul Islam, who comes from the Muslim nation of Bangladesh.

Moreover, according to a report in the Brownsville Herald, federal court records indicate that a man arrested in the same group as Mr. Islam belongs to Mara Salvatruchas, a violent Salvadoran gang. U.S. law enforcement officials believe the gang is working with al-Qaeda to smuggle its operatives into the United States across the Mexican border.

U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz, a Democrat who represents the Corpus Christi and Brownsville areas, called the arrests alarming. Aside from serving as an entryway for terrorists, our porous border with Mexico could be a conduit for deadly materials. Time magazine has cited a report circulating among U.S. officials that quotes a top al-Qaeda prisoner as saying the terrorist group is trying to smuggle nuclear material across the U.S. border.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/121504dnediborder.4f4a.html


Sept 10, 2004: Can Terrorist Gang Members be Found in Mexican Prisons?
They are called the Mara Salvatruchas. A gang from El Salvador. Its' members are said to be dangerous and vicious.

They, along with Honduran gangs are reportedly being trained by al Qaeda terrorists to infiltrate the U.S. through Mexico.

But there is no doubt they are in the U.S. The tell tale signs can be see on walls in many U.S. cities. The gangs initials M.S. followed by the numbers 13, 14 and 18.

Despite the conflicting reports Mexican authorities here tell us they will keep the United States advised if they see anyone coming from central America who are members of a gang or any other suspicious characters.
http://www.team4news.com/Global/story.asp?S=2283000


Houston has been primed for months via deliberate mismanagement, incompetence, corruption and embezzlement at its FEMA-independent Emergency Center. The police and fire services have been deliberately and systematically sabotaged and thrown into administrative chaos so as to ensure maximum fatalities in the aftermath of the detonation. However, the existence of the center will provide the Bush administration with a "we did everything we could" excuse.

Dec 12, 2004: Mismanagement and system failures at the Houston Emergency Center are creating a crisis

After more than a year of operation, a project that was touted to become another of the our city's shining jewels has turned out to be just another hyped-up monument to mismanagement and malfeasance.

The Houston Emergency Center was conceived as a multimillion dollar, state-of the-art, high-tech, low-maintenance emergency communications center. But it has been a deep and bitter disappointment.

The promoted cost savings anticipated by consolidating all emergency dispatch functions under one roof are, for all practical purposes, nonexistent. The dispatch center, bought (or more accurately, leased) and paid for, remains, as one Houston City Council member described it, a work in progress.

Why is the problem-plagued dispatch center still a center of controversy? Why has the local affiliate of the largest police labor organization in the nation refused to lift last year's vote of no confidence? Why have veteran dispatchers, call takers and supervisors chosen to retire early or seek employment elsewhere in droves?
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/2943078

By the way, about the Columbus connection. It makes perfect sense (I live there). Two men have been arrested as terrorists. One claimed to have met OBL himself and to have trained with A-Q. The other, a Somali who I believe had absolutely no record and was known as a peaceful man, was supposed to have threatened to blow up a shopping mall here.

The funny (not funny, exactly) thing is, Columbus has a large Somali population that mostly resides in one area of town, where there was a decrepit old shopping mall called "Northland." It was vacant at the time of the supposed threat, waiting for demolition, and although it wasn't disclosed which mall was threatened, I could easily imagine this scenario:

Agent posing as militant Islamic Somali: I hate America! We must strike them at their heart!

Poor dupe: Yes, let us blow up Northland! (hee hee)! That will show them! (snort!)

The guy was of course arrested and I believe there was some business about his mental state and then it dropped completely from the news here. Poof! Poor guy's probably locked up in Gitmo banging his head against the wall and thinking "I'll never make a joke again!" That is, if he's even alive. You know, your post has spurred me to search the Dispatch archives to try to find out what really happened.

I think that the mall threat happened either late last year or early this year. The whacko I-270 shooter came later in the mayhem timeline. He was genuinely schizophrenic, though.

The Somali case happened just this June. Here's a link to an article by our Columbus Free Press heroes, Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, on the subject:

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0621-01.htm

Still haven't discovered what's happened since June, although it was widely reported that the two "terrorists" were registered to vote; in fact, there were some lies spread by right wing pundits that they had been registered by ACORN (which really got smeared in the press before the election, BTW).

Anyone else know what has since happened to Abdi and Faris?

Here's a tidbit I picked up just now:

http://www.chicagorcfl.org/52.shtm



A Statement from CGRCFL Director Rick Voss Regarding Suspected Terrorist Nuradin Abdi

I want to commend Sgt. David Knutson, an Examiner on detail to the CGRCFL from the Will County Police Department, for his work with the Southern Ohio Joint Terrorism Task Force. This multi-agency operation includes agents and officers from 15 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.

Sgt. Knutson provided expert computer forensics support into the investigation of Nuradin M. Abdi, 32, a Somali national, living in Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Abdi was recently indicted by a federal grand jury in Columbus for providing material support to al Qaeda, as well as obtaining and using fraudulent travel documents.

Although Examiners working in the RCFL Program are primarily available to law enforcement agencies in their specific service area, on occasion, they are called into national service. Such was the case with the Pentagon bombing, Enron, and now this investigation. The CGRCFL is doing our part to protect national security, and is especially proud of Sgt. Knutson's contributions to this important and vital effort.

the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minn., which one of six medical facilities for males operated by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.

http://www.wbns10tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1969331

Unfortunately, I can't find a date for the article, but it seems to be the last MSM report, anyway.

too close for comfort to Houston.
I hope it's not true.Why would they do this to their own people?But then 9/11 happened,why not Houston.This is too twilight zonish.

Still have it up and copying it before it disappears.

Fascinating read. The guy knows what he's talking about and the details he brings up are frightening, because for many of us who have been following events very closely and digging where they do not want us to dig, they're right on track with what we found.

Not sure about the Houston thing but it wouldn't be a surprise. We are overdue for a "terrorist" attack to rally around the ole' flag pole and start chanting Sieg Heil again.

The British government is currently under orders to erase all their e-mails... the order was given just as the ICC said they were investigation criminal actions on the part of the government re the Iraq war. Oh yes, Bush inc. needs a diversion bad.

Will it ever end?

Then all the profits from Christmas sales would take a dive. 12/27 makes sense when you take corporate profits from Christmas sales into consideration.

Anyhow, IF Houston 12/27 happens; I'm heading for D.C. locked and loaded. Their's a point when you say enough's enough.

:wow: :scared:

Oooo Ooooo! Everybody stay scared! Pass your scariness along to your friends. Who's agenda does that serve? The president & his right wing stooges.

Ferget it! No nukes are gonna happen here and ruin my Christmas vacation.

(um, but somebody bookmark this post of mine for the irony of it, just in case it turns out I'm wrong)

It seems of only passing interest to German Guy, too. The point of it all comes down to his provocative questions for Wolfowitz, which he repeated in his apparent final post. Perhaps the Dec 27 date is merely a speculative hook for us to pay attention to what else he's saying. Because when Houston is still there on Dec 28, the points he raised will still deserve attention.

Winds of Change:Troubled Waters Ahead For the Neo Cons
by
Wayne Madsen

The neo-con attack on Shaw was predictable considering their previous attacks on Ambassador Joe Wilson, his wife Valerie Plame, former U.S. Central Command chief General Anthony Zinni, former counter-terrorism coordinator Richard Clarke, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, CIA counter-terrorism agent Michael Scheuer (the "anonymous" author of Imperial Hubris who has recently been gagged by the Bush administration), fired FBI translator Sibel Edmonds (who likely discovered a penetration by Israeli and other intelligence assets using the false flag of the Turkish American Council and who also has been gagged by the Bush administration), and all those who took on the global domination cabal. But Shaw showed incredible moxie. When he decided to investigate Pentagon Inspector General Reports that firms tied to Perle and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz were benefiting from windfall profit contracts in Iraq, Shaw decided to go to Iraq himself to find out what was going on. When Shaw was denied entry into Iraq by U.S. military officers (yes, a top level official of the Defense Department was denied access to Iraq by U.S. military personnel!), he decided to sneak into the country disguised as a Halliburton contractor. Using the cover of Cheney's old company to get the goods on Cheney's friends' illegal activities was yet another masterful stroke of genius by Shaw. But it also earned him the wrath of the neo-cons. They soon leaked a story to the Los Angeles Times claiming that Shaw actually snuck into Iraq to ensure that Qualcomm (on whose board sat a friend of Shaw's) was awarded a lucrative cell network contract.

But nothing could be further from the truth. Shaw, who worked for Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, represented the Old Guard Republican entity that in August 2003 set up shop in the Pentagon right under the noses of Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Feith to investigate the neo-con cabal and their illegal contract deals. The entity, known as the International Armament and Technology Trade Directorate, was soon shut down as a result of neo-con pressure. Not to be deterred, Shaw continued his investigation of the neo-cons. Although the neo-cons told the Los Angeles Times that the FBI was investigating Shaw, the reverse was the case: the FBI was investigating the neo-cons, particularly Perle and Wolfowitz, for fraudulent activities involving Iraqi contracts. And in worse news for the neo-cons: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was giving the Inspector General's and Shaw's investigations a "wink and a nod" of approval.

The financial stakes for the Pentagon are high - the Iraqi CPA's Inspector General recently revealed that over $1 billion of Iraqi money was missing from the audit books on Iraqi contracts. For Shaw and the FBI, it was a matter of what they suspected for many years - that Perle, Wolfowitz, and their comrades were running entities that ensured favorable treatment for Israeli activities - whether they were business opportunities in a U.S.-occupied Arab country or protecting Israeli spies operating within the U.S. defense and intelligence establishments.

Shaw certainly must have recalled how, during the Reagan administration, an Israeli spy named Jonathan Pollard was able to steal massive amounts of sensitive U.S. intelligence over a long period of time and hand it over to his Israeli control officer, a dangerous and deadly agent provocateur named Rafael "Rafi" Eitan. That had disastrous effects on U.S. intelligence operations throughout the world because some of the documents were handed by the Israelis to the Soviets in return for letting more Soviet Jews emigrate to Israel.

more
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/081104_winds_change.shtml

an understanding of the players and their games. Thanks.

Defense Official Probed on Contracts

Los Angeles Times
July 07, 2004
T. Christian Miller

Washington -- A senior Defense Department official conducted unauthorized investigations of Iraq reconstruction efforts and used their results to push for lucrative contracts for friends and their business clients, according to current and former Pentagon officials and documents.
John "Jack" Shaw, deputy undersecretary for international technology security, represented himself as an agent of the Pentagon's inspector general in conducting the investigations this year, sources said.

In one case, Shaw disguised himself as an employee of Halliburton Co. and gained access to a port in southern Iraq after he was denied entry by the U.S. military, the sources said.

In that investigation, Shaw found problems with operations at the port of Umm al Qasr, Pentagon sources said. In another, he criticized a competition sponsored by the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority to award cell phone licenses in Iraq.

In both cases, Shaw urged government officials to fix the alleged problems by directing multimillion-dollar contracts to companies linked to his friends, without competitive bidding, according to the Pentagon sources and documents. In the case of the port, the clients of a lobbyist friend won a no- bid contract for dredging.
more
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/unitedstates/democracy/2253.html


DoD Statement on Jack Shaw and the Iraq Telecommunications Contract

For several months there have been allegations in the press that activities of John A. Shaw, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for International Technology Security, were under investigation by the Inspector General of the Department of Defense (DoD IG). The allegations were examined by DoD IG criminal investigators in Baghdad and a criminal investigation was never opened.

Furthermore, attempts to discredit Shaw and his report on Iraqi telecommunications contracting matters were brought to the attention of the DoD IG and were accordingly referred to the FBI.

Shaw carried out his duties in the investigation of Iraqi telecommunications matters pursuant to the authorities spelled out in the Memorandum of Understanding between the DoD IG and the Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics. Shaw provided a copy of his report to the DOD IG and, at the request of the Coalition Provisional Authority, to the Iraqi National Communications and Media Commission.

Shaw is not now, nor has he ever been, under investigation by the DoD IG. Any questions concerning FBI activities should be addressed to the FBI.
http://www.dod.mil/releases/2004/nr20040810-1103.html

Why not all of Texas?

Cheapskates.

speech today? Which puts him conveniently "on vacation" from today?

Xmas in the Crawford Bunker?

On Houston.



Dec. 15, 2002
By MICHAEL HEDGES and RACHEL GRAVES
Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle

"The nuclear bomb is small enough to be hidden in a briefcase, but its force levels downtown Houston, flattening most of the 58 skyscrapers and killing about 130,000 workers.

Stunned and injured, those who can walk among the approximately 15,000 survivors downtown stagger away from ground zero covered with invisible and deadly particles of radiation and dust from crumbled buildings.

The bomb explodes outside City Hall, destroying that building, the Houston Police Department's headquarters and the Harris County administrative offices. It kills most local leaders and law enforcement officials, crippling the city's immediate ability to respond to the disaster.

The wind drags the deadly radioactive cloud through the East End and beyond the Loop, killing 10 percent of those in its stream and sickening thousands more.

This doomsday scenario comes from a computer model used by the Defense Department called the Consequences Assessment Tool Set. Officials use the software to calculate the impact of catastrophes and figure out how to respond.

The Center for Media and Public Policy of the Heritage Foundation, a Washington think tank, acquired the software and programmed in real-time data for Houston. Using factors such as local weather, wind patterns and number and type of buildings, the Heritage computer analysts determined for the Houston Chronicle the impact of catastrophic events if unleashed on a typical recent day."

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:3GTAWVl4LbEJ:www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/1702158+&hl=en

More...
http://www.geointelmag.com/geointelligence/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=78900&sk=&date=&pageID=2#

I think not. Isn't Enron in Houston? No better way to get rid of THAT little nuisance, killing many birds with one stone!

On a somewhat related note, I read somewhere else that OPEC expects US oil consumption to drop dramatically within the next 6 months (possibly related because of the concentration of oil companies in Houston). If this exercise were to be carried out, you think they'd declare martial law, and would it be nationwide or limited in scope?

that if something like this were to happen, a major reason would be to instill nationwide martial law, setup the draft, etc..

The Neo-Cons in these Washington think tanks are not dumb, they understand the principles outlined by Dr. Bartlett.
http://news.globalfreepress.com/movs/Al_Bartlett-PeakOil.mp4

One way or the other there will be a population crash in the not too distant future, and the quality of life for those who remain (at least in the western world) will diminish. Control of the remainder of the world's oil reserves is the name of the game now, at ANY cost.

I think you hit it.

They've known for decades it's coming. And I think they've chosen to "manage change" by precipitating it.

Hell, the renamed Enron Field to Minute Maid Park (where the Astros play).

Houston has so many reasons why it could be targeted. Papa and Babs live here, the chemical plants/oil refineries, the ship channel, you name it!

that all the Enron criminals are still in Houston even if the corporation no longer exists...

Enron the corporation does still exist, and still has employees trying to clean up the mess. I met one a few weeks ago, trying to work through the many many many cases of litigation and unscramble the financial stuff. I said, "Is it like a ball of yarn, trying to find the end of it?" She said, "It's more like 57 balls of yarn, scrambled together."

Very few Enron criminals are in jail - mid level Ben Glisan, Jr. is. I think Leah Fastow has started her short sentence. Skilling and Lay and Lou Pai and Thomas White and most of the rest are still running the streets.

But, hey, the county that contains Houston has 3.5 million people - the size of Iowa and Vermont put together. Only 4500 people worked at Enron in the Houston office. You want all 3.5 million exposed to nukes because of the actions of a few hundred at Enron?

Thanks, and Merry Christmas to all.

the links on "annotated german guy" post,

then the link to "nuclear suitcase bomb" in Houston

my thoughts went from laughing, and thinking this guy should be writing like Ludlum, to wow, at least he has researched his stuff, to whoa! this doesn't sound good at all.

Lots of nay-sayers about "conspiracy theorists" would stop laughing quickly enough if they did what you did.

Just happy to read your post!

I will certainly be nowhere near Houston
I will fill my tank on the 26th and tell friends to do the same
I will pray that nothing this horrible will happen

but it is an interesting group of postings from this German guy and the annotations seem very supportive of what he's saying.

so he should either be writing novels, or he's for real

he could be right and we'd never know it. If this news about Houston is becoming known, there's no way that cabal will go through with it this way. They'll change their plans.

Stay safe :)

maybe we are thwarting a terra attack by the BFEE cabal

It's not from your blog, but from the excerpts.

"It seems that a grouping of international corporate entities and financial institutions have decided that America at this late stage is only good for projecting military force, and so it will use up American resources to advance its own agenda until there is not much left of American power and credibility."

dang. another lie.

seriously, though, this sort of thing has ALWAYS been possible. We've only suffered under the delusion of relative safety for decades.

I'll see if I can find the link.

"Bin Laden watchers determine next al Qaeda attack due Dec. 21, after calculating that each of his last three operations took place exactly 53 days after release of tapes. His last tape aired on Oct. 29th"

They also report:

"Iran is preparing simultaneous bombing, hostage-taking strikes against Israel’s diplomatic missions in several countries including US. FBI caught Iranian spies scouting Israeli Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston consulates."
http://www.debka.com

Translation:

"Wolfowitz watchers determine next al'CIAda attack due Dec. 21, after calculating that each of his last three operations took place exactly 53 days after release of tapes. His last tape aired on Oct. 29th."

They'll delay it so the Christians can enjoy one last holiday before the shit hits the fan.

"Mossad is preparing simultaneous bombing, hostage-taking strikes against Israel’s diplomatic missions in several countries including US. FBI caught Mossad spies scouting Israeli Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston consulates."

Yeah, I know, Mossad is Israeli. These people are cannibals, for sure...nothing detracts them from their cause.

How to get people to understand this without sounding like a nutcase?

I don't put anything past that guy. He's a monster, same as his buddy Richard "Prince of Darkness" Perle and the rest of those Neo-con bastards.

Of course, you must realize that it probably won't be Houston, or on December 27 since this info is out on the net. It will almost certainly be another city, probably a major port city like Los Angeles or Las Vegas (i.e. SIN city), or possibly a major airPORT like Atlanta, and come about two weeks later.

or maybe someone else did saying that all of bin Laden's attacks came 53 days after a video was released.

But no, 27th is next Monday

just in case, I'm filling my gas tank Sunday night!~

The Mosul attack might have been it. An arm of al Qaeda is claiming responsibility:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1089792

19 American soldiers dead by Queda

Just one day before...hope his flight gets home on time. Thanks for the warning.

It's a red state and the center of power for the BFEE types.

Second is that could really actually damage the US strategically unlike 9-11. Our main port for oil is there and the pipeline that feeds the whole country is there as well. It would be like blowing up our gas station.

Were mentioned in German Guys posts. He also said December 27th but that could change up to a week or so.
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Someone mentioned December 21 here......and that that was the day Mosul was hit. That could be IT. Rumsfeld has been hammered of late....no no friend of mine the man is evil BUT Wolfowitz is just drooling and waiting in the wings for Rummy's job. What a disaster that would be for this country.
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Rumsfeld has said he wants out of Iraq, Israel wants the US to stay forever. Why they are anxious to give Rummy the boot.
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Back to the German Guy. I to did some research on some of what he said but not near the supurb job done on this board. Everything checks out that he said.
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When, where are perhaps now up in the air owing to the arrests of posible players.....they will recoup bit the band will play on.
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Wolfowitz and his neocon buddies will stop at nothing to achieve their plan of invading Iran and Syria....they care nothing about America or its people.
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Be afraid, be very afraid.
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As said Houston, Dallas, or Atlanta but that could change. He did say nukes had already been planted.

I feel qualified to relate the following observation:

When the movie "Independence Day" first came out in the mid-'90's, I went to see it here in Houston. If you've seen that movie, you know that there is a scene in it where the government nukes a city to try to get rid of the aliens. That city is Houston. When that scene played out on the screen, many people in the theater cheered. Yeppers, Houston, the city we love to hate. :eyes:

The same thing happened. I had the feeling that the cheering was more "we'll kick alien butt here" than people cheering because Houston was being nuked. It was quiet in the theater when it was obvious that the nukes didn't work.

Either way, I hope this information is wrong, because I still have family and friends who live there.

(Apologies if that was the wrong city - archives not searchable at the moment). It was said to come from some guy in prison in Canada, I think. Did anyone ever explain why they took it seriously enough to post - and keep the rumour alive?

Can we apply the lessons we learnt from that experience to this?

I still have some problems with this:
1) Houston seems an unlikely target. A blue state coastal city seems a better target for this type of attack -- although this could be exactly the "cover" -- to do something that appears unlikely (in that Texas is Bush's "home" state).
2) Why would the attack occur before the reinforcements are fully in place in Iraq?
3) Sometimes weapons have a signature. (Think of Anthrax.)
4) The "administration" could just attack (bomb) Iran whenever they want to -- who could stop them? Of course, if nuclear weapons were to be used in this attack, then some serious provocation might be desirable. Still a lesser provocation might well suffice, given the insanity that grips much of the country. (I hear from some of my trucker friends: "Why don't we just nuke those damn Iraqis?" -- Say what?)
5) If an Israeli "hand" were discovered (and publicized), then all the Jews in the world couldn't stop the inevitable retribution... And this retribution could well extend beyond the state of Israel.

On the other hand:
1) There has been some preparation to expect a nuclear "terrorist" attack.
2) Al Qaeda might claim responsibility for an attack it had nothing to do with.
3) Treason and treachery are nothing new to the neocons.

At first blush, this seems like an anti-Israel piece, predisposing one to look at Israel as the source of the next "terrorist" attack (along with at least one prominent neocon). -- I also seem to remember claims that "the Jews did it" after 9/11. But considering how little most Americans understand the ties between the Israeli far right and the neocons, I expect little impact from this -- if indeed, blame redirection is the intention.

And I guessing that somebody believes that the next "terrorist" attack will be nuclear.

In any event, it is something different to supplement our diet of the same old propaganda.

Some variety is nice -- but it would also be nice if we could tell exactly what we were being served.

(I was preparing this post as a response to another thread here, but that thread got locked. There is additional descriptive text in that thread.)

again

Now this is REALLY starting to scare me.

Do you know about Michael Meiring?

He's an American who is wanted in the Philippines for his part in bombing a hotel, and possibly in waging a false-flag terror campaign to justify a US military presence, who was spirited out of the country by the FBI after having been wounded in a premature explosion.

The Philippine Star is reporting today that "the Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking the United States to locate its two nationals — Michael Meiring and his friend, Stephen Hughes — and conduct an investigation into their alleged participation in the bombing of a hotel in Davao City on May 16, 2002."

"'Since both are US citizens and wanted by the Philippine authorities in connection with the bombing of the Evergreen Hotel in Davao City, which clearly appears to be an act of terrorism, I am certain the US government will not tolerate this terrorist act,' Gonzalez said. The DOJ chief sought the support of the US, through the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security, to track down Meiring and Hughes."

And look at this:

"Gonzalez was furnished a copy of an investigation report on Meiring made by 11 News, a media organization in Texas, that said the suspected terrorist had been in Houston."
http://www.philstar.com/philstar/News200412229902.htm

I wrote about Meiring on my blog in October:

Meiring is an American national and self-described "fortune hunter," who was seriously injured May 16, 2002 in an explosion in his Davao City hotel room on the Phillippine island of Mindanao. Screaming in pain, his legs mangled, Meiring told police someone had lobbed a grenade through his window. Actually, the explosion had originated inside a metal box with which Meiring had checked in.

Just three days later, an FBI team arrived at his hospital room and spirited him stateside before the matter could be investigated, despite arrest warrants, an order that he not leave the country, and "without the knowledge of any police, military or government official in the city or region," in the words of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, who called Meiring's FBI-aided flight an "affront to Philippine sovereignty."

From The Minda News excellent three-part series on the Meiring mystery:

The circumstances behind Meiring’s sudden departure from the hospital, inspite of his serious condition, raised questions about his real identity. A number of officials in ‘for background only’ interviews, speculated Meiring may have been an agent of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Meiring himself, according to those who had spent some time with him, refered to himself as CIA although he would qualify that to mean “Christ In Action.”

Four months after the incident, Davao City Prosecutor Raul Bendico announced that findings from the investigation of the case indicated that the accident occurred when Meiring was attempting to set up explosives intended to blow up the Evergreen Hotel.

More here.

This guy's been on the US government payroll for a while.

In the Phillipines, wasn't he working as an officer in the "National Liberation Front"?

Yep... Just went and googled him quickly. Blast from the past here:


Date: Sun Nov 10, 2002 12:23 am
Subject: CIA CAUGHT FAKING TERROR IN PHILIPPINES

The following set of three articles below unmasks both the Bush-Cheney
regime and its principal local partner, the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo-Angelo
Reyes government, of their lies that they are seriously fighting terrorism
here in the Philippines. For these articles show that *they themselves are
the ones coddling the terrorists in our midst.*

Michael Meiring, an American with British and South African references who
was seriously hurt by a blast caused by high-powered explosives *in his own
possession* last May 16 in Davao, has been exposed as a terrorist by a true
advocate of good government, Davao City Prosecutor Raul Bendico.

And what did the US Embassy here, the NSA (National Security Agency of the
US), the CIA, and the FBI do? They immediately gave Meiring full protection
from Davao police authorities last May; gave him the attention of an expert
doctor assigned by the US embassy; the local US vice consul paid his bills
in Davao; and they whisked him pronto to a naval base in San Diego, where
these alphabet soup agencies desperately hope he won't be followed by the
trail of terrorism he left behind.

And that is how the US government *actually* handles terrorists caught
red-handed: with tender loving care! Obviously, both Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo and Angelo Reyes did not mind that this terrorist got
away. (They never raised a hoot!) They *clearly did not mind that this
terrorist--and, more importantly, his partners in crime here in the
Philippines, both American and Filipino, both in and out of government,
both at low and high levels--are not dragged into the searing light of
public scrutiny and indignation!*

But their actions on this case run awfully afoul of the widespread yearning
of Filipinos and Americans from all walks of life to be freed of this
scourge. A scourge that is *actually fostered at the highest levels of both
the Bush-Cheney and Arroyo-Reyes regimes.* A scourge that is *part and
parcel of the insidious covert action apparatus worldwide of the
21st-century power-mad Reich with Dubya Bush and Cheney as its crime-soaked
figureheads.*

Unless Meiring is brought to court and prosecuted for his crime, unless we
support Davao City Prosecutor Raul Bendico's and Davao Mayor Rodrigo
Duterte's courageous efforts against Meiring and his handlers, we might
never begin to untangle the web of terrorism that stalks our land today,
and we will remain hostage to the Agenda of Chaos, Fear, Unhappiness and
Mass Disempowerment of these Masters of Terror and War.

(snip)

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2002/11/22253.php

THE WHITE HOUSE RESCUES A TERRORIST
What is unusual about the case, The Manila Times reported, is that Meiring
was whisked out of Davao, past the Philippine National Police guarding him
at the hospital, and on to a chartered plane, accompanied by what
Immigration officials described as agents of the US National Security
Agency and agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The National Security Agency intervention, confirmed by Immigration Deputy
Commissioner Daniel Queto, sparked intense local speculation as to why an
agency that reports directly to the Office of the President of the United
States would send an entourage of bodyguards to speed Meiring to a hospital
in Manila.

Security tightened around the wounded man immediately. Press were told that
only his doctor—handpicked by the US Embassy—had access, and Meiring was
promptly airlifted to San Diego, home to a US naval base. The American
Embassy has refused comment. Vice-consul Michael Newbill settled the
hospital bills in Davao City.

The Manila Times quoted a friend of Meiring who said he was told by a
Filipino in Davao, carrying a message from the US Embassy that Michael
would never be charged with a crime in connection with the explosion. The
investigation will end up as a stonewall. Michael will be protected
and...the incident will be shortly forgotten, if you're willing to forget it.

Officials in Davao City will not forget. The suspicious blast took place
during a wave of terror bombings across Mindanao as US and Philippine
troops conducted anti-terror exercises. President Arroyo threatened to
declare a state of emergency and demanded that lawmakers rush through her
tough new anti-terror bill. Rush it through they did.

(snip)
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2002/11/22253.php


CIA WHISKS AWAY BRIT-AM BLAST VICTIM; NOW IN US
Edith Regalado July 9, 2002
(archived at http://www.philstar.com)

WHO IS MICHAEL MEIRING?

Here is the `confusing background' of the American terror bomber handled by
the National Security Agency of the Bush White House, compiled by Dorian
Zumel-Sicat and Jeannette Andrade for a three-part Manila Times
investigation that ran May 29-31, 2002.

Meiring was born in 1932 in South Africa and later became a naturalized US
citizen. His wife Angela is a nurse at a 7th Day Adventist hospital in Loma
Linda, California. He has been described as a surgeon, a con-man, a student
of medicinal herbs, a treasure hunter and, most recently, a terror bomber.

(reluctant snip)

He first came to the Philippines in 1992, where he spent almost a year in
Metro Manila and North Luzon in the company of agents of the National
Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and under the protection of Ricardo Diaz, the
NBI Chief of Interpol.

In and out of Davao City for the past 10 years, Meiring had close ties to
well-placed government authorities in southern Mindanao, national
government officials and Philippine National Police officials like Colonel
Segundo Duran. Others in the circle: former Moro National Liberation Front
(MNLF) chairman Nur Misuari, Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chief
Hashim Salamat and suspected New People's Army (NPA) leader Father Navarro.
Meiring also has close ties with `shady people' like MNLF Commander Tony
Nasa and others in Cotabato who acted as `front men' for his dealings with
the Abu Sayyaf.

He spent millions of dollars while in the Philippines, the source of his
funds unknown. According to The Manila Times, "his trail leads back
to...boxes supposedly containing US Federal Reserve notes and bonds
obtained from the Abu Sayyaf."

(snip)

A close friend of Gould from Fremont, California, Nina North maintained
contact with Obado from 1990-92. The Manila Times reports that North was
linked to the CIA, involved with ?back door? transfers of gold bullion from
the Philippines and regularly dealt with representatives of Osama Bin Laden
and high officials in the Mid-East.

So, to answer the question directly:
Michael Terrence Meiring is a Manila-controlled CIA-connected White
House-protected explosives expert who spent the last ten years in the
southern Philippines hanging out with Filipino intelligence and police
brass, Muslim rebels and other `shady people'.


(snip)

More here: http://la.indymedia.org/news/2002/11/22253.php

on edit: Properly formatted, easier to read version here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2002/8/prweb43861.htm

:kick:

US Embassy help sought on 2 Americans

Updated 07:33am (Mla time) Dec 26, 2004
By TJ Burgonio
Inquirer News Service


JUSTICE Secretary Raul Gonzalez has asked the United States Embassy in Manila to help locate two Americans suspected of being involved in the May 2002 bomb explosion in a Davao City hotel so they could face prosecution here.

...

Meiring, whose ID card identified him as a leader of the Moro National Liberation Front's Bangsamoro Armed Forces, "surreptitiously disappeared" after reports claimed he was spirited away by embassy agents from a local hospital, he said.

...

Citing information provided by a media personality in the US, Gonzalez said Meiring had changed his name to Van De Meer and was living in Houston, Texas. The source also said that Hughes was teaching at the North Surry High School in Mount Airy, North Carolina.

"Since both are US citizens, and wanted by the Philippine authorities in connection with the bombing of the Evergreen Hotel in Davao City which clearly appears to be an act of terrorism, I am certain the US government will not tolerate this terrorist act," he said.

http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=1&story_id=22375

For more than two years, Philippine officials say they've wanted to arrest Michael Meiring. The problem? They couldn't find him, but then the 11 News Defenders took a look.

...

"How is he able to do this?" asks Ron Hatchett, a world famous counter-terrorism expert formerly with the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency. "How is he able to walk around freely within our society using the name that is on the arrest warrant for him."

"It's not somebody I'd like to have even in my state or my country," says Hatchett.

And why? Hatchett says there are too many questions, too many red flags.

First the explosion itself. "What we do know for sure is that he had a bomb in his hotel room that exploded," says Hatchett.

Then there's that I.D. card listing him as an officer in a Muslim rebel group "that is used to identify himself as a bonafide member who shares their objectives and shares their perspective in this war on terrorism," says Hatchett.

And Hatchett says that Meiring's group works with other more militant Muslim splinter groups like the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, and Abu Sayyaf.

"They share information, they share money, they share training," says Hatchett. And Hatchett says all of these groups, "use explosives against the Philippines government and against the U.S."

...

So where is Meiring now?

The Defenders tracked him to a phone number with a California area code. He denied the charges, refused an on-camera interview and would not comment on the record.

Except for this: "If this harms me in any way, you will find my power then, and you'll find out who I am. But I will come for you. You harm me I will not let you off the hook," said Meiring.

...


The Defenders spoke with top justice officials in the Philippines and they say they've asked the U.S. government for help in locating Meiring, but have not received a response. A spokesman for the FBI in Houston, Bob Dogum, says they aren't aware of any Philippines request but that they are aware of the explosion at the Evergreen Hotel. They did not know Meiring was in Houston until now.


Free registration required:
http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou041202_jt_defenders.184ee72.html

c'mon, people. I don't see any reason for a staged attack right now. The BFEE are still polishing off their brand new election "win". * has taken his place beside Hitler and the Ayatollah as Time's "Person of the Year". The US media are igonoring Iraq to focus their attention on the Social Security "crisis", Jacko, Robert Blake, and the theft of christmas.

Doesn't add up, people.

Terrorists don't give forewarning. They claim culpability after the fact.

Thanks to Gandalf for getting me up to speed.

Raful, Ex-Chief of Staff, Drowns in Ashdod Port
16:03 Nov 23, '04

The popular and outspoken former IDF Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan, known as Raful, drowned this morning at the Ashdod port. He was 75.

Raful arrived at the Ashdod seaside early this morning, as he did every day, to oversee the continued construction of the new HaYovel Port. He drove up to the site, and while standing on the breakwater, was either overtaken by a large wave or slipped into the sea for other reasons. Only after an hour or more did his car attract attention, and a search began. A helicopter helped in the search efforts, and his body was found close to 8 AM. Resuscitation efforts by Magen David Adom teams failed to revive him.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=72487

FORMER ISRAELI ARMY C-O-S RAPHAEL "RAFUL" EITAN MURDERED

On November 24, the wide circulation newspaper Yediot Ahronot published two photos on pages one and two. They are herein attached. The question of the breakwater was answered in both the photos published by Yediot Ahronot. Eitan was on the protected side of the harbor. Big waves could not get in. The photo where Eitan parked his car showed that the whole bay was dead calm. Barely a ripple could be seen. Outside the harbor, the sea was nasty. But inside where Eitan was, it was quiet. Had he actually fallen in, he could have swum to shore in seconds. But that wasn't the biggest revelation in those photos. The state of the car was the shocker. I sent the car photo far and wide, observing:

{photo on site}

Now look at the damage to his car. Observe the smashed windshield, the collapsed roof, the near total destruction of the right hand side of the vehicle. Now if anyone is crazy enough to think that a wave caused the wreckage, note the damage on the left hand side of the car as well. That car was rammed by something sharp there, by something powerful and blunt on the other side, and it appears that a fifty pound boulder fell on the roof.

Even if a magic tsunami raced over the breakwaters and headed straight for the car, it could not have caused the kind of damage we see in the photo. But the point is moot, because no giant waves occur where the car was parked. That observation was reinforced by the photo in Attachment Two: Eitan's body is on a pier in the Navy base, 1.5 km. distance. The pier is located on a far more exposed part of the harbor, yet the waves don't come close to reaching the top of it. And considering the still waters where Eitan parked his car, Israelis are asking how his body floated such a distance. The most likely scenario thus, is that Raful tried to escape his assailants in his car and was violently prevented from doing so. As for motive: No one knew more about Sharon's murky past than Eitan. Lately he had come out strongly against Sharon's Gaza disengagement plan. In his last interview, to Tel Aviv Magazine, he stated, "This disengagement plan is a historical error and I can prove it." In Israel today, that can get you killed.

Whatever the motive, the evidence of foul play was so strong in the public mind, that the government ordered an investigation on the day of Eitan's demise. It met for a few hours and declared that a wave had towed Eitan into the Harbor where he drowned. The issue of the still waters, the contradictions in testimony regarding the time of the "accident," and the state of Eitan's vehicle were not discussed. In Israel today, this passes for justice.

http://barrychamish.4t.com/html/raful.html

This is the same guy recently reported in Houston? Maybe for 12/27?
Sounds to me like it could be a fake up to give an alibi.

Eytan was said to have re-entered the US in 2002, but I haven't read that he was reported in Houston.

But I'm sure,in all of this, I saw Rafi's referenced with Houstonj too.
Trying to remember........

I hope you are talking about a hoax and if you are, thanks.

This thread has had me very upset. I have lived
in Houston all of my life and was born after the Texas City
Disaster..but have known enough folks that lived through it and
have always taken the possibility of another disaster occurring
very seriously.

It was a beautiful place for me as a kid in the 50's and
so much smaller..

Bay City nuke plant did not exist and Houston was not so
close in population/bldgs and had about 1 million pop. if
not less.

The sky was blue and you could see the stars so easily.

I understand why the thread was started, but we who cannot
leave and have to live with the possibility of many kinds of
(mostly chemical) disasters...why, just the other day....
oh.. never mind.

Some of us are more vulnerable than others,(me being one)
to what could occur.

Please hear me, I love all of you who care enough to warn us.

I guess I am scared, because I have made plans.
I will not leave.

How can we have a happy holiday?...it is bad enough that the election was a fraud...again

Just like others say here, if something happens to us please promise you will never give up.

Love,
eb
and Jack?...I lived in Edinburg (for a few months)
back in the 70's...where you are, looks like heaven to me. ;>

I've been around here a while, and have been freaked out repeatedly with warnings of events like this that never (thankfully!) materialized.

Interesting thread. Although, I think some of this escapes me. It would be nice if someone could summarize this. Has there been more on this? This is either the most paranoid thread I think I've ever read here or one of the wackiest. In any event, it was fun to read.

funny thing....i have a good friend living in Houston. He works for N.A.S.A. and has many German friends in the Intelligence field. i received a holiday e-mail from him yesterday. He has unexpectantly taken an overseas trip with his family citing "security concerns". He advised me to leave New York City this holiday and "get some sun". He has always been tightlipped about his work at N.A.S.A. - he holds a very high position - and his e-mail is monitored. Still, his actions and advice to me struck me as odd....he hates to travel and it's unthinkable he would consider travelling over the holidays. i'm buying a ticket out of the U.S. tomorrow - i advise you to do the same.
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/12/annotated-german-guy.html#comments

I should say again, I don't expect 27/12 in Houston will be an exceptional day. I'm coming to suspect this is disinfo of a high order, possibly to discredit "alternative" channels which may be conduits of genuine foreknowledge. But studying disinfo has its own merits.

what if, Gods forbid, something does happen in houston(or anywhere) on the 27th. will that be used as the excuse to label anyone a terroism suspect who dared even speculate about the day in question on forums like this one?I'll bet the fbi's net snooping people could find out who we all are pretty quickly. Woldn't we be part of the "chatter" they always use as an excuse to raise the alert level?

Whenever the next attack happens, if foreknowledge leaks out through alternate channels I bet that'll be part of the gameplan.

In the unlikely event there is a 12/27 plot against Houston, I doubt it will be derailed by posting about it on the Net. Consider what we know about 9/11 foreknowledge, and how little of it has managed to receive an honest airing in the mainstream press. And since German Guy implicates, in part, the Mossad, this would be a difficult topic to say the least.

FYI, over the last couple of days, someone posting as "Ears" has contributed a multi-part analysis of German Guy's messages. Worth reading by anyone interested in the story.

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/bbs/message.php?page=1&topic=3&message=60041&mpage=1&showdate=12/25/04

John Mullen

"The average person cannot easily get ahold of a potent form of arsenic," Tominack said. "It's not common."


http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/E6DCB029F4D53C7686256F6A001A3A66?OpenDocument&Headline=Arsenic+is+cited+in+death+of+man

:hi:

How Al Qaeda might strike the US by sea

...

The issue is serious enough that on May 6 the Department of Defense held a little-noticed "Impending Storm" exercise that simulated several kinds of shipborne attacks on US cities. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz participated, as well as high-level intelligence and Coast Guard officials and congressional representatives from coastal districts.

...

Other officials confirm that US intelligence believes Al Qaeda controls at least 15 ships. Representative Bell says he's gravely concerned about port security. He represents Houston, which has an inland port with many lightly defended petrochemical plants near the water. "If one of those is bombed, and those toxic chemicals are released into the atmosphere - with that much exposed coastline the threat becomes very apparent," he says.
http://csmonitor.com/2003/0515/p02s02-usgn.html?related

On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, I participated in a Strategic Policy Forum crisis-simulation exercise, codename: Impending Storm, which was sponsored by the National Strategic Gaming Center at the National Defense University in Virginia. These exercises were conceptualized and developed by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to provide senior government officials insights into the nuances and complexities of emerging global security challenges. These demonstrations allow us to evaluate our readiness to deal with a major terrorist incident and to provide suggestions on how to improve our ability to stop a pending attack.

Tuesday's scenario focused on a major terrorist attack against our Nation's maritime transportation system. The scenario involved multiple incidents that affected sea, land, air and rail transportation. As such, in addition to the thirteen other members of Congress present for the demonstration, I joined with the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, the Transportation Security Administrator, Admiral Loy, along with representatives from the U.S. Coast Guard, FBI, Dept. of Homeland Security, U.S. Northern Command, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Although, this exercise pointed out some areas in which improvement is needed, I am very pleased by what I witnessed on Tuesday. Only through constant preparation and evaluation will we be ready in the horrible event that our country is attacked again.
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/nj01_andrews/92503.html


Staged attack offers lesson in port security
BY RON MENCHACA

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Brown said Charleston's port was hit by a "dirty bomb," resulting in a major blockage of its shipping channels. An oil tanker blew up in Houston's port, he said.

In the end, most of the group agreed that sealing off seaports would be a bad idea, Brown said. "If you close for one day, it takes 10 days to catch back up."

Tuesday's simulation, called "Impending Storm," was part of an ongoing effort by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to teach members of Congress about the nuances of national security, Haas said, adding that it included terrorism incidents at some landside transportation sites.

Those participating included Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and Asa Hutchinson, Homeland Security's undersecretary for border and transportation security.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/050703/loc_07game.shtml

:hi:

Geez, must be all that extra barium in my diet!


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Minstrel Boy -- the www.godlikeproductions link?

Can you summarize?

The link still works for me:
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/bbs/message.php?page=1&topic=3&message=60041&mpage=1&showdate=12/25/04

Briefly, his analysis argues that the posts represent a backdoor, public yet deniable warning from German intelligence to the Wolfowitz network to back off possible "al Qaeda" attacks in Europe, or factions within the BND and other European intel agencies are prepared to disclose what they know of the complicity of American elements in 9/11. In "Ears"' understanding the Houston scenario is unlikely, and the purpose of the posts was to blackmail "the far side of the CIA and Mossad" to leave Germany alone.

Some excerpts:

Very little in intelligence communications is straightforward language. Pseudonyms, symbols and codes are usually worked out ahead of any communications in operational development. The objects to which they point will later be understood by initiated communicators, but not by outsiders who are listening in. The significance of “December 27, 2004” or 12272004 may be something entirely different than what the superficial meaning suggests. Although Gg does state a preference for telephone interception and for informal direct briefings, he did not say that the information about the 12/27 Houston plot was sourced in that way. On the contrary, he indicated in his first message that in this case the information was compiled from chatter. Gg’s remark that the 12/27 plotters have “verified in advance every aspect of operational integrity” sounds definitive enough, but it still is only an impression based on what the Gg group heard without benefit of the code keys.

One needs to give some credit to the planners of clandestine operations, particularly if they happen to be CIA/Mossad operatives. It is unlikely that the specifics of a planned event would have been broadcast without regard for security. The 12/27 Gang surely knew that there is an abundance of domestic and foreign listening capability that must not learn of their plans, or if they do, then at least only a disguised version. Gg obviously knows that items like dates and locations are generally codes for something else, just as a military name like, say, Task Force Olympia does not refer to the Olympic Games or to a landscape in Greece.

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The reference to a “remote-controlled nuclear payload” having already been “concealed” makes the “Mossad/al-Qaeda/SAS” type operation in the “Houston area” unlikely. Such an operation would be more suited to a conventional attack rather than a remote-detonated nuclear device. Detonating an already concealed device hardly requires the services of “Mara Salvatruchas” in “protecting and running cover for rogue ex-SAS Britisch assassin… Frank Riley.” Gg is broadcasting these Wolfowitz contacts because they certainly raise red flags all over the place. Now that they are on the web, it will be far more difficult for Wolfowitz to use these assets in any capacity.

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Eighth paragraph: “The far side of the CIA and Mossad have been ordered to drop any plans they may have had for bombing the financial district of Frankfurt, including the European Central Bank.” This has not yet happened. It is the ultimatum given by Gg on behalf of the German government. This is what Germany demands in return for not spilling everything that the BND knows about goings on in the “Wolfowitz network.” Had the order to drop plans against Germany already been given, we would not be hearing these things from Gg in the escalating fashion in which they are being presented.

Ninth paragraph: Gg’s pointing to “intercepts” and “disclosures” that “the American people are being set up for another, but even more devastating, 9-11 tragedy” is a shot across the bow. Gg is threatening the 12/27 Gang that Germany will broadcast these details also if it is not immediately given reliable signs of safety.

Thanks -- the link is still Forbidden for me.

That is quite interesting, thanks for including it, Minstrel Boy.

Wow, I hadn't really thought about where Germany plays in this whole mess. It's previously become clear that (um, like Florida) it is a center for terrorist activities (whether those terrorists are employed by secret services or not).

The question remains, though -- if GWB & Co. think there is even a slim chance their election thievery will be challenged and exposed, the arrow in their arsenal is to cause a terrorist attack, yes? Distraction potential, plus their (probably illusory) hope that the same public will fall in behind the administration as happened as after 9-11. Plus, an attack allows there to be some new enemy blamed, and perhaps attacked.

and assumed that this was a device for inciting fear of Zionists although the details of the players are very realistic.

I saw articles by Robert Fisk and John Pilger at the front page of a site which gave me a sense of its credibility that was unwarranted. I didn't look close enough at the rest of the articles.

After a friend of mine posted the GG warning on DU and was blasted as a racist for some unknown reason, I looked closer at the site and noticed a high incidence of anti-Israeli news stories. Looking at the next page I found Holocaust denial stories and realized why the site had upset some DU-ers so severely.

I decided that the GG warning story was European disinformation designed to alarm the alarmable against the Zionist hawks in the PNAC and some old-fashioned Jew-haters with a website called TheTruthSeeker.co.uk had picked up on it for their poisonous purposes.

However, the players and details mentioned have the ring of veracity.

The analysis of an inter-intelligence biz warning against a second 'event' taking place in Germany makes too much sense for comfort.

n/t

Century 1, Quatrain 87
Earth-shaking fire from the center of the earth.
Will cause the towers around the New City to shake,
Two great rocks for a long time will make war,
And then Arethusa will color a new river red.

(Arethusa is a river nymph and the river maybe Mississippi)
Just a guess!!!

More blue than the rest of the state. Would seem like a target for fundies of whatever persuasion.

Home of the SuperBowl

I don't know It will close down Barge traffic thats for sure.

with everybody blabbering on the internet about it, can they?

:shrug:

I'm not biting wholeheartedly, but I want to keep track of this until tomorrow is over.

My tin foiled brain wants to link this with Kerry's projected more public entry into the Ohio vote count--as in, if Houston does happen it will be because the BFEE wants to divert attention from that story. :tinfoilhat:

:kick:

Some guy posted a "confession" on the internet that all the astronomers had confirmed an asteroid was going to hit the earth and destroy it in two weeks, but the governments of the world were covering it up to prevent panic.

It spawned dozens of websites and blogs and thousands of messages in the few weeks until the event didn't happen, and was mostly forgotten

They'd kill two birds with one stone. No way Kerry could survive questioning the election in the aftermath of a "terrorist" attack.

Texas rules America now. I don't think they'd destroy their home base.

I know it looks that way, but I don't think so.

What rules America is a global network of kleptocrats, arms merchants, narco-criminals and moneylaunderers. They don't owe allegiance to the US, let alone Texas.

Having said that, I still expect Houston to be there on 12/28.

Houston is a big place, it would have to be one hell of a firecracker to get it all.

I don't think anything out of the ordinary will happen tomorrow.

But a dirty bomb smuggled in on a container ship could cause a lot of panic & do a lot of damage--but not destroy the city as a whole. The Ship Channel passes through a vast array of petrochemical plants. However, nobody "important" lives near the Ship Channel.

Babs & Bush Sr own a house built after he was President--but it's in Tanglewood. Last I heard, Neil & his new wife are still living in the fine house she got out of her 1st marriage--again, far from the Ship Channel. I wonder if all Bushes in Houston are elsewhere celebrating the holiday?

Not that I expect anything out of order today...

I hope not. It appears that our overseas assets are easier targets for them.

...a global network of kleptocrats, arms merchants, narco-criminals and moneylaunderers. They don't owe allegiance to the US, let alone Texas. -- Minstrel Boy

Ha, maybe I should add YOUR branches of "government" to my list!

These are NOT the three branches of government I learned in school: (1) fundamentalist, apocalyptic Christians; (2) neocons and American empire promoters; (3) globe-trotting corporate Mafia.

I'm sure if anything does happen, it will be after we've gone to work in the morning.


Kickin this for the morning crowd

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:-)

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I am still here and kicking.

9 AM and still here!

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Still breathing Houston's polluted air.

Such are the ways of the internet.

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Unless they got the date wrong......

I have lost my faith in humanity