Another "Suicide" IL rail chief -Warnings of Brian Jenkins/RAND False Flag?

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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/05/07/ill_rail_chief_dies_in_apparent_suicide_by_train/

Ill. rail chief dies in apparent suicide by train

In this photo February 2010 photo provided by Metra is Metra Executive Director Philip Pagano. In a news release Friday, May 7, 2010, the agency said that Pagano has died. Last week, Metra announced that it had placed Pagano on paid administrative leave from his $269,000-a-year job as the agency looked into allegations he may have received unapproved compensation. (AP Photo/Metra)

]By Caryn Rousseau
Associated Press Writer / May 7, 2010
CHICAGO—The executive director of the Chicago area's Metra commuter train service died of an apparent suicide Friday after he stepped into the path of one of his agency's trains, authorities said.

 
Phil Pagano, 60, was on paid administrative leave at the time of his death after Metra began investigating allegations that he received an unapproved $56,000 bonus.

McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren said a train engineer put on the emergency brakes when he saw Pagano on the tracks about 50 miles northwest of Chicago Friday morning but was unable to stop. Pagano died instantly, he said.

"He stood on the tracks and he faced the train as the train was coming toward him," Nygren said.

Pagano's death came just hours before the Metra board of directors was scheduled to have an emergency meeting to discuss the investigation. Metra later canceled the meeting.

Two written notes were found, one in Pagano's pocket and one at his home, Nygren said.

"They're the type of note that would lead us to believe that this was an intentional act on the part of the deceased," Nygren said. "We have no reason to believe there's anything criminal involved in this."
Metra, a commuter train system that serves Chicago and its suburbs, announced on April 30 that Pagano was under investigation and that he had been placed on paid administrative leave from his $269,000-a-year job. Metra had hired an attorney to investigate allegations that the Metra executive director of 20 years had received an unauthorized $56,000 bonus. No further details were immediately available.

Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said Friday that he had asked the inspector general at the Department of Transportation to investigate what happened to federal funds that were sent to Metra and make sure they were spent properly.
"It's certainly something the taxpayers would expect and the 300,000 people who use Metra everyday want more federal dollars coming in, so we wanted to make sure that we'd done everything we were supposed to do with those dollars," Durbin said. No further details were immediately available.

Phone messages and e-mails left with Metra officials seeking comment about the investigations were not returned. Pagano's attorney George Jackson III said Friday that he had no comment.

"Phil served this agency with distinction for many years," Metra said in a statement. "We shall remember the good work he achieved with our board of directors and the men and women of Metra. He was dedicated to our passengers and he always considered the men and women of Metra his family.

The McHenry County Coroner Marlene Lantz said an autopsy was tentatively scheduled for Saturday. Pagano's wife and daughter were notified earlier Friday, the sheriff said.

Police said none of the 24 passengers and three employees aboard the Metra train were injured.

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NLE10?

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NLE10?

he might have known something, Kroll Associates Black Operations has completely infiltrated Mineta's Transportation Agency and they were a big part of the Phoenix Program in Vietnam as well as false flags. To think that they now run big chunks of the US Transportation system should scare the shit out of everyone. This is why they conducted the DC multiple subway explosion exercise recently which coincidently occured at the exact same time the Russian subway bombing occured.

John Biden: "Don't take the subways"

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Next false flag being planned at the Mineta Transportation Institute?

Mineta Transportation Institute
Established by Congress in 1991
http://transweb.sjsu.edu/

MTI was created by Congress in 1991 and named for our founder, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta, who held the position from 2001 until his retirement in 2006.

We are a national University Transportation Center and a Center of Excellence specializing in policy studies related to surface transportation. We also offer accredited graduate education programs through our affiliation with San Jose State University.

On the MTI site, you can learn about our latest academic research, download transportation research reports and symposia transcripts, find the latest news and opinions about transportation issues, learn how to obtain a Master of Science in Transportation Management degree, link to other transportation resources, and much more.


Although this intitute is named after patriot Norm Mineta, it is now headed up by a former Kroll Associates and RAND executive.

What a deceitful web they spin.

Security Research Reports     Back to Top
The Role of Transportation in Campus Emergency Planning   

June 2009
   Edwards & Goodrich    2727
Selective Screening of Rail Passengers    February 2007    Jenkins & Butterworth    2501
Designing and Operating Safe and Secure Transit Systems: Assessing Current Practices in the United States and Abroad    November 2005    Taylor, Sideris, Liggett, Fink, Wachs, Cavanagh, Cherry & Haas    2301
Saving City Lifelines: Lessons Learned in the 9-11 Terrorist Attacks    September 2003    Jenkins & Winslow    2114
Protecting Public Surface Transportation Against Terrorism and Serious Crime: Continuing Research on Best Security Practices    October 2001    Jenkins & Gersten    9805
Terrorism Overview    October 2001    Jenkins   
Protecting Surface Transportation Systems and Patrons from Terrorist Activities    December 1997    Jenkins   
         
Security Symposium and Forum Reports    Back to Top
Rail Passenger Selective Screening Summit    October 2009    MTI    2891
The Fourth National Security Summit: Approaches to Passenger Screening    March 2007    MTI    2654
Third National Transportation Security Summit: rail security--a symposium on terrorism and business continuity    September 2005    MTI    2353
California Transportation Security Summits   

April 2003
   MTI    2118
National Transportation Security Summit    October 2001    MTI    2110
Terrorism in Surface Transportation - A Symposium   

March 1996.
   

MTI
   
         
Transportation Finance Research Reports    Back to Top
"Green" Transportation Taxes and Fees: A Survey of Californians   

June 2009
   Agrawal, Dill & Nixon    2701
Transportation Financing Opportunities for the State of California    October 2006    Agrawal, Dill, Goldman, Hall, Holtzman, Recker & Goodwin    2427
Factors Influencing Voting Results of Local Transportation Funding Initiatives with a Substantial Rail Transit Component: Case Studies of Ballot in Eleven Communities    October 2001    Werbel & Haas    9904
Why Campaigns for Local Transportation Funding Initiatives Succeed or Fail: An Analysis of Four Communities and National Data   

June 2000
   Haas, Massey, Valenty & Werbel   
Analysis of Policy Issues Relating to Public Investment in Private Freight Infrastructure.   

December 1999
   Evans & Kelley   
         
Transportation Finance Symposium and Forum Reports    Back to Top
The Fourth National Security Summit: Transportation Finance: Tough Choices Down the Road   

October 2006
      2651
Lessons Learned: Tax Referenda and Why They Succeed or Fail   

November 2001
      2101       
Our Transportation Crisis: Who Will Pay?   

November 1998
   

http://transweb.sjsu.edu/mtiportal/research/publications.html#Security%20Research%20Reports

ABSTRACT

The threat of another major terrorist attack in the United States remains high, with the greatest danger coming from local extremists inspired by events in the Middle East. Although the United States removed the Taliban government and destroyed al Qaeda’s training camps in Afghanistan, events in Europe and elsewhere have shown that the terrorist network leadership remains determined to carry out further attacks and is capable of doing so.

Therefore, the United States must systematically conduct research on terrorist strikes against transportation targets to distill lessons learned and determine the best practices for deterrence, response, and recovery. Those best practices must be taught to transportation and security professionals to provide secure  surface transportation for the nation.

Studying recent incidents in Europe and Asia, along with other research, will help leaders in the United States learn valuable lessons—from preventing attacks, to response and recovery, to addressing the psychological impacts of attacks to business continuity. Timely distillations of the lessons learned and best practices developed in other countries, once distributed to law enforcement, first responders, and rail- and subway-operating transit agencies, could result in the saving of American lives.

This monograph focuses on the terrorist risks confronting public transportation in the United States—especially urban mass transit—and explores how different forms of passenger screening, and in particular, selective screening, can best be implemented to reduce those risks.


http://transweb.sjsu.edu/MTIportal/about/InstitutePersonnel.html

Brian Michael Jenkins
Director, National Transportation Security Center of Excellence
bmjenk@ix.netcom.com

As a leading authority on terrorism and sophisticated crime, Brian Michael Jenkins works with government agencies, international organizations and multinational corporations. He has directed MTI’s continuing research on protecting surface transportation against terrorist attacks. He is also a senior advisor to the president of RAND. From 1989-1998, Mr. Jenkins was deputy chairman of Kroll Associates, an international investigative and consulting firm. Before that, he was chairman of RAND’s Political Science Department where he also directed RAND’s research on political violence.

Mr. Jenkins has a B.A. in fine arts and a Masters Degree in history, both from UCLA. He studied at the University of Guanajuato in Mexico and at the University of San Carlos in Guatemala where he was a Fulbright Fellow and received a fellowship from the Organization of American States.

Commissioned in the infantry, Mr. Jenkins became a paratrooper and a captain in the Green Berets. He is a decorated combat veteran having served in the Seventh Special Forces Group in the Dominican Republic and with the Fifth Special Forces Group in Vietnam. He returned to Vietnam as a member of the Long Range Planning Task Group, receiving the Department of the Army's highest award for his service.

Since then, he has served on numerous U.S. and international task forces investigating terrorist attacks. In1996, President Clinton appointed Mr. Jenkins to be a member of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security. He served as an advisor to the National Commission on Terrorism and has served on the U.S. Comptroller General's Advisory Board.

Mr. Jenkins is the author of several articles, reports and books, including International Terrorism: A New Mode of Conflict and

Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?.

WTF?

Look at the list of people on that page, how does this guy belong there? He is a serious Rand/Kroll terrorism architect.  uggghhhhh


Brian Michael Jenkins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Michael_Jenkins

Brian Michael Jenkins, born in 1942 in Chicago,[1] is an expert on terrorism and transportation security.[2] During his nearly four decades of analysis, Jenkins has advised governments, private corporations, the Catholic Church, the Church of England, and many other[weasel words] international organizations on terrorist threats.

Jenkins joined the army at 19. He served with the 7th Special Forces Group in the Dominican Republic and with the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam. He subsequently served as a civilian with the Long Range Planning Task Group advising General Creighton Abrams, commander of military operations in Vietnam.[3]

From 1989 to 1998 he was deputy chairman of security firm Kroll Associates.[4]

Jenkins is the author of many books, including Unconquerable Nation (2006) and Will Terrorists Go Nuclear? (2008).

Brian Jenkins currently serves as Senior Advisor to the President of the RAND Corporation and Director of the Mineta Transportation Institute's Transportation Security Center. He also served as a member of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security, 1996-97 and as an advisor to the National Commission on Terrorism, 2000. He has served as an advisor to the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and other government agencies.
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Quotes
"Terrorism is Theater"[citation needed]
"Terrorists want a lot of people watching, not a lot of people dead" (1975)[citation needed]
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References
^ Profile of Jenkins from Omni Magazine, November 1994
^ Newsweek, July 21, 2005
^ Greg Krikorian, (2008-01-31). "Confronting terror, calmly". The Los Angeles Times.,
^ "Statement of Brian Jenkins to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States March 31, 2003".
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External links
RAND bio

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TRANSPORTATION PROTOCOL:
"Trap passengers in with murderers to create more theater"

NYPD tell conductor to seal passengers in with murderer
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/nypd-conductor-seal-passengers-murderer/
By Ron Brynaert
Monday, November 23rd, 2009 -- 10:38 am


In the remade-twice film "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3," armed men take passengers on a New York City subway train hostage.

On Saturday, the NYPD effectively informed a train conductor to seal passengers in a subway car with a murderer.

Apparently, creating potential hostage situations is a new crime stopping tactic.

"Nearly 30 petrified passengers were trapped on a Midtown hell train yesterday with a knife-wielding madman and the blood-soaked body of a straphanger he just stabbed to death in a senseless argument over a seat," The New York Post reported Sunday. "The Bronx-bound D train came to a screeching halt at around 2 a.m. in the tunnel between the Rockefeller Center and Seventh Avenue stations when a rider yanked the emergency cord after watching the carnage unfold."

The paper adds, "The group of riders were stuck in the car behind locked doors as a pool of blood began to form around the dying man and the suspect, Gerardo Sanchez, 37, of The Bronx, coldly stood over him. Eventually, Sanchez strolled to one end of the car, and the rest of the passengers fled to the opposite end."

The Post reports, "Cops relayed word to the operator to keep the car sealed until they arrived — leaving horrified straphangers trapped in with the killer and the body for about five minutes until the doors opened at the station, the sources said."

Monday, the Post seem to be blaming the situation on passengers, warning readers to "think before you pull chord."

Chuck Bennett advises, "If a passenger witnesses a crime or a passenger becomes ill, the cord can be pulled if the train is still at the station but not when it's already departing."

"You can't get help to anyone if the train is between the stations," NYC Transit spokesman Charles Seaton tells the NYC tabloid.

Angry commuters unloaded on the NYPD in Monday's Daily News.

"[They] gambled with a lot of lives," said Richard Kaye, 45, of Morrisania, when asked whether keeping passengers locked inside was the right call.

"God forbid he had stabbed four more people."

"If you lock us in the train, he could go crazy and start killing us, start slashing us," said Gloria Whyte, 34, of Long Island City.

"I wouldn't want to be one of those people stuck in the train with someone who commits murder," said Anne-Marie Christensen, a 28-year-old social worker from the upper East Side. "He's already in a heightened state, so it's dangerous to leave people alone with him."

"What if he'd had a gun?" asked Jonathan Gack, 19. "That would have made everything 10 times worse."

The Daily News notes that only one of the passengers sealed in with the murderer thanked the police for doing "the right thing."

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Mr. Jenkins is the author of several articles, reports and books, including:

International Terrorism: A New Mode of Conflict and

Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?


WILL THE RAIL CHIEF'S MURDER BE INVESTIGATED?

WE HAVE BEEN CONDITIONED TO ACCEPT A JAMES BOND / DR. STRANGELOVE SCENARIO FOR DECADES!

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Brian Michael Jenkins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Michael_Jenkins

Works for:

RAND CORPORATION
KROLL ASSOCIATES
MINETA TRANSPORTATION

Does security for:

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
CHURCH OF ENGLAND


"Terrorism is Theater"
"Terrorists want a lot of people watching, not a lot of people dead" (1975)


He knows his shit because he just happens to be connected to numerous terrorist activities all over the world. What a coincidence.

Brian Jenkins currently serves as Senior Advisor to the President of the RAND Corporation and Director of the Mineta Transportation Institute's Transportation Security Center. He also served as a member of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security, 1996-97 and as an advisor to the National Commission on Terrorism, 2000. He has served as an advisor to the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and other government agencies.

So as you can see the next 9/11 assisted by Brian, RAND, Kroll, DoD, DoE, etc. may involve TRANSPORTATION!

deerrrrrrrrrr

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(Pretty close to verbatim quote IIRC):

"Northcom is preparing to bomb police stations that don't go along with the globalists agenda."

-Alex Jones

(He said this way before even that 1st patsy in Michigan (which it is no coincidence that they did NOT mention "al-CIA-da", but were trying to re-legitimize their other angle of fake terror, that being "radical extremism/Jihad"( was talked about with "bombing police stations" psyops. These will all have the effect of mini OKC false flags.

Note to police:

All of your surveillance systems are running on a backdoored EA framework, directly able to be manipulated in real time by people that work for the terrorist industrial complex (like illegal black ops Northcom).  Stop believing your bosses lies.

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Brian Jenkins is controlling the narrative concerning the Times Square NLE10 exercise flase flag patsy:



Are Al-Qaeda and Taliban running out of intelligent recruits in anti-American terrorist campaign
http://www.examiner.com/x-33594-LA-International-Affairs-Examiner~y2010m5d5-Are-AlQaeda-and-Taliban-running-out-of-intelligent-recruits-in-antiAmerican-terrorist-campaign
May 5, 3:42 PMLA International Affairs ExaminerBob Brill

Judging by recent bungled bombing attempts it would seem as if terrorist organizations are scraping the bottom of the barrel and maybe have run out of reasonably intelligent terrorist bombers. Of course "reasonably intelligent" and "terrorist bomber" don't necessarily go hand in hand. The attempt by Faisal Shahzad to bomb Times Square and run, failed miserably. Even the "run" part of the equation didn't work too well. Add the botched job by another terrorist in Detroit on Christmas Day and you have the makings of some either weak links in the terrorist chain or some pretty dumb folks.

"Clearly overall Al-Qaeda is facing a quality control problem as they exhort individuals to carry out violence and recruit some of these individuals," said Brian Jenkins, a terrorist expert who recently completed a study for the Rand Corporation on the make up of terrorists in custody. "They are not necessarily going to get the most qualified people and I'm not sure what qualifies a terrorist, one does not have to have a high SAT score to be a terrorist."

In Jenkins study of those placed in custody he points out since 9-11 most were high school drop outs or had entry level jobs at best, 16 had some university education, 11 had military training, 24 had training in terrorist camps and 16 had previous criminal records.

"They got their training on the street basically," added Jenkins.

It would seem some of the targets of Jihadist recruiting don't think dozens of virgins in the afterlife is worth giving up life on earth anymore. The number of suicide bombings seems to be less and in the United States (aside from the terror of 9-11) we've really not seen suicide bombers like in Iraq and Afghanistan or Pakistan. Even the first WTC bombers stayed alive and were caught when they returned to pick up the deposit on their Ryder Truck. Life in America could readily turn a prospective terrorist away from suicide certainly. The Great Satan as the Ayatollah Khomeini declared the USA, does offer a lot of fun and unique possibilities to a young man making his way in the world. Still there is a continuing wave of recruiting going on.

"The real problem for us is these extremist ideas and the people they are recruiting now either natural born or naturalized Americans," said Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) who heads up the congressional terrorism committee dealing with Internet security. "In just the past year since President Obama took office we have killed 600 terrorists yet those Al-Qaeda who still exist are able to recruit more people, especially on the Internet."

The good news is while they continue to try they continue to fail to succeed at their ultimate mission; death and destruction. The bad news is they continue to try and continue to cause panic and havoc among the population. Some would say in doing the latter they are completing their task and reaching their goals.

Another difference is these new terrorists have broken the terrorist code of not talking. In fact they are blabbing quicker and more often suggesting a lack of commitment to the cause as well as to their leaders. The FBI used a little known rule in the Miranda Rights to get information out of Shahzad called "the public safety exception to Miranda."

"In this case 'public safety' would mean he had other confederates out there who information was out there about them and they could commit more attacks," said CBS legal consultant Andrew Cohen on KNX News radio in Los Angeles. "After he was Mirandized he evidently just kept talking and giving information."

The bottom line might be the terrorists have tried for nearly a decade to get the US out of the Middle East by using suicide bombers and terrorist tactics but the US remains in more places than when the war began. If Al-Qaeda and the Taliban are having more difficulty finding recruits, whether home grown in the USA or from the region in question, it may be because the US has resolved to stay the course. The US is still there despite the terrorism.

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67 Minute Video by Brian Jenkins:
Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?

http://fora.tv/2008/09/29/Brian_Jenkins_Will_Terrorists_Go_Nuclear

Highlights:

Brian Jenkins - American Anxiety Over Terrorism 04 min 56 sec

Brian Jenkins: Nuclear Terrorism vs. Nuclear Terror 04 min 09 sec

Brian Jenkins - The Case of the Missing Suitcase Bombs 04 min 34 sec

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This is the type of "suicides" that should kinda freak everybody out in my opinion.

When you look at the person's background, the background almost "collates with the matters at hand with relevance of the times".

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Congressional Report:

http://homeland.house.gov/SiteDocuments/20070614135541-13761.pdf

Jun 14, 2007 Brian Michael Jenkins, “Building an Army of Believers"

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Broken Arrow.

Nukes and trains.

The old MX shuffle.

Nuke, nuke -- where's the nuke.

Chicago was high on my list already.

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24 and the War on Terror: Can Truth Learn from Fiction?
http://24.wikia.com/wiki/24:_The_Official_Companion:_Season_6_DVD

The 24 panel L to R: Gregory Itzin, Jean Smart, Kiefer Sutherland, Evan Katz, Howard Gordon, the host, Joel Surnow.

This feature is footage of a public conference held in Los Angeles in 2007, entitled "24 and the War on Terror: Can Truth Learn from Fiction?".

Featured at the conference is Jack Weiss, LA City Council in charge of terrorist threats, David Crane, Former JAG and war crimes prosecutor, Morten Halperin, former government official, and the Director of Security and Peace Initiative, Brian Jenkins, RAND terrorism expert, Joel Surnow, co-creator, Howard Gordon, executive producer, Evan Katz, executive producer, Kiefer Sutherland, Jean Smart, and Gregory Itzin.

The panel talk about 24 and the different political views that are present in the show, how relevant CTU is to real life, reactions to things on the show and others. Afterwards, they are asked questions by audience members.

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He is on the 9/11 Commission:


The Attackers, Intelligence, and Counterterrorism Policy
http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_App.htm
Daniel Byman, Georgetown University
Abraham D. Sofaer, Hoover Institution
Brian Jenkins, RAND Corporation
Magnus Ranstorp, University of St.Andrews

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EXPERT WITNESS ON THE 9/11 COMMISSION OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION
http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing1/witness_jenkins.htm

First public hearing of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
Statement of Brian Jenkins to the
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
March 31, 2003

While our attention understandably is focused on the war in Iraq, the worldwide war against al Qaeda and affiliated terrorist enterprises continues. Unlike the fighting in Iraq, the campaign against the terrorists does not provide the continuing flow of televised images or battlefield displays. It is a war fought largely in the shadows. We measure its progress in the periodic arrests of terrorist leaders and the passage of time without a major terrorist attack.

It has been nearly 19 months since September 11, 2001. Since then, we have made considerable progress in destroying al Qaeda's base in Afghanistan and in disrupting its operational capabilities, but much remains to be done. Our efforts to destroy al Qaeda and its successors will take years.

My remarks today will address three issues: (1) the nature of the current terrorist threat, (2) goals of a counter-terrorist strategy, and (3) the use of intelligence in dealing with terrorism. My remarks derive partly from research at the RAND Corporation, but my observations and conclusions are entirely my own.

THE NATURE OF THE TERRORIST THREAT

Understanding the nature the threat we face from al Qaeda means first understanding what al Qaeda is and how it operates and then understanding the current and future threat it poses.

What Is Al-Qaeda and How Does It Operate?

Al Qaeda is more than just an organization. It is a global network of relationships, a system for transforming the frustrations and discontents of Islam-natives, marginalized immigrants, the militant sons of immigrants-into a violent expression of jihad. Destroying Al Qaeda will not end the social and political forces that feed it.

Al Qaeda provides connectivity, training, and financial support to an extensive galaxy of terrorists enterprises, stretching from North Africa to the southern Philippines.

Al Qaeda has indicated specific political grievances-the presence of American forces in Saudi Arabia, the oppression of the Palestinians, the suffering of Iraqi civilians under UN sanctions, or now, an American-led war-but such grievances are primarily used to recruit adherents to its cause. [WHAT THE F ?!?!?!]

Al Qaeda reflects a change in the quality of terrorist violence, as ideologies based on religion have replaced political ideologies and specific national goals. The self-imposed constraints on terrorists anxious to maintain group cohesion and not alienate perceived constituents eroded as the word of god became the driving force of conflict. Large-scale indiscriminate violence has increasingly become the reality of contemporary terrorism.

Al Qaeda may be destroyed but will not quit. Terrorism provides status, power, recruits, psychological rewards. Religious conviction gives its members strength, but the continuation of the armed struggle is what holds them together. They see their activities as a lifetime commitment. They measure success and failure in different terms.

What Current and Future Threat Does Al Qaeda Pose?

In terms of current threat, today's al Qaeda is different from the al Qaeda of September 11th. It is more decentralized, and its operations now depend more on local initiative. It will continue to adapt to changes in its operational environment.

The terrorist attacks and thwarted plots we have seen since September 11th have all been below the level of the September 11th scenario. Car bombs, assassinations, suicide bombings (although not on the scale of those seen in Israel), limited chemical and biological attacks, small-scale "dirty bombs," the use of surface-to-air missiles are all within the range of today's terrorists.

In terms of future threat, al Qaeda is determined to acquire weapons of mass destruction. The September 11th attack was aimed at killing tens of thousands. It succeeded in killing thousands. For the time being, its capabilities trail its ambitions, but attacks aimed at causing large-scale casualties possibly involving chemical, biological, or radiological weapons must be presumed.

In sum, the United States will remain the principal target of al Qaeda. We will confront individual jihadists, small local conspiracies with or without foreign assistance, and potentially large-scale plots involving foreign-based teams.

GOALS OF COUNTER-TERRORIST STRATEGY

Over the past 20 years, a succession of government commissions have redefined the threats we face and the measures required to meet them. Long before September 11, 2001, two major threats were identified: Terrorists were moving toward higher registers of violence, and a growing number of countries known to support terrorists were developing weapons of mass destruction. The commissions pointed out that from the standpoint of intelligence, government, organization, strategy, security, and response, we were not prepared for these new threats to our national security. We have taken action. We have begun to make organizational changes. Our strategy is a work in progress. What goals should guide that strategy as it progresses?

Keep the focus on terrorism. America's battle against terrorism has been broadened into a "war on terror." The change in language signals a broadening of mission from destroying terrorist groups to disarming rogue governments possessing or seeking weapons of mass destruction. This reflects valid fears, heightened by 9-11, but it is a very ambitious undertaking, for which the United States will find few allies. Reality may oblige us to carefully pick our fights, look for other ways to achieve our objectives, and even accept a level of residual risk.

Keep the focus on destroying Al Qaeda. There are several dimensions to our counter-terrorist fight. We are at war with al Qaeda. However, we actively oppose many other terrorist enterprises, from Hizbollah to the Abu Saayaf organization. The destruction of al Qaeda represents the most significant current terrorist threat. Its destruction must remain the primary aim of the American campaign. While we cannot inflict a single decisive victory on this dispersed and amorphous terrorist foe, we can over time assure its absolute destruction, which also will serve as a deterrent to other terrorist enterprises.

Decide how we will deal with other terrorist groups. The United States has not attacked groups like Hizbollah or Hamas with the same intensity that we have gone after al Qaeda. Some in government have argued that we will take down all of these terrorists groups one after the other. A key policy question is whether we will go after each one in turn or base U.S. actions on their future behavior.

Rely on international cooperation. International cooperation is a prerequisite for success in dealing with the threat posed by al Qaeda and like-minded terrorists. We may appropriately use the term "war" here, although the global campaign will involve the orchestration of intelligence, law enforcement, and, at times, military force.

Combating terrorism is a broader concept. For more than 30 years, the United States has led an international effort to combat terrorism, with some success. September 11th gave a new sense of urgency to this effort, which has been formally stated in UN Resolution 1373 requiring all nations to cooperate in these efforts.

This is not a campaign to destroy any particular terrorist group; instead, it is a campaign aimed at facilitating international cooperation and making the operational environment more difficult for terrorists. It will be an enduring task.

If we are correct in viewing global terrorist enterprises as the kind of threat we are likely to confront for the foreseeable future, then current efforts to destroy al Qaeda must be simultaneously aimed at building the institutions and creating the machinery, domestic and international, that will enable like-minded nations to effectively oppose this new kind of foe. Specifically, new networks must be created to exploit intelligence across frontiers.

Seek to prevent terrorism from becoming an effective mode of economic warfare. The September 11 attack produced cascading economic effects that directly and indirectly have cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars. We cannot allow terrorism to become an effective mode of economic warfare. Nor can we allow the threat of terrorism to drag down our own economy. Our strategy and our security measures must be not only effective but efficient. Homeland defense strategy must support infrastructure and systems that are resilient and able to quickly recover.

Seek to resolve conflicts that are breeding ground of terrorism. Beyond using increased intelligence, security, law enforcement, and when necessary, military force, America should continue its efforts to prevent the creation of environments that could provide fertile ground for future terrorism as in Bosnia and Kosovo, and help resolve conflicts that give rise to terrorism such as that in Northern Ireland and the Middle East. At the same time, we must accept the limits of American diplomacy, even armed intervention, when local parties are determined to fight.

That said, there is little convincing evidence to demonstrate that addressing the so-called root causes of terrorism-oppression, poverty, lack of education-has a causal impact on reducing terrorism. These are noble goals, which we ought to pursue anyway, even while realizing the difficulty and disruptive effects of such pursuit.
Accept that we will live with some level of risk for years. That terrorists are planning further attacks and may strike again, perhaps soon, should not be breathless news. The United States cannot eliminate all sources of terrorist danger. Americans must accept that we will live with some level of risk for years.

Ensure that whatever strategy we pursue is consistent with American values. Rules may be changed. Every liberal democracy confronted with terrorism has been obliged to increase intelligence collection, enact new laws, broaden police powers, and change trial procedures. They have done so while remaining democracies. New rules must be clearly set forth, widely discussed, endorsed by legislation, accepted by the public, and regularly reviewed.

USING INTELLIGENCE IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM

We depend on intelligence as our first line of defense against terrorism. What are some issues surrounding its use?
Using intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks is very difficult. There are no troop mobilizations to watch for, no ships, no aircraft to track. Knowing what terrorists might do depends largely on human sources-undercover agents and informants. Penetrating small terrorist groups may take months, years.

Moreover, the looser organization of today's terrorists makes it even more difficult, because there are fewer identifiable groups. Instead, galaxies of like-minded fanatics spawn ad hoc conspiracies or engage in "leaderless resistance."

As a result, the threat picture is murky. Information is fragmentary. When terrorists are not engaged in actual operations, the volume of noise is high. Terrorists are prone to spend their time talking about possible attacks. Much of this is fantasy, and most of the attacks they talk about will never occur outside their own imagination. Still, all must be reported, resulting in numerous warnings and alerts. We have learned since September 11th that communicating threat information poses a major challenge.
However, intelligence can be used to prevent terrorist attacks and to solve cases after the fact. Intelligence can lead to the identification, location, and apprehension of terrorist leaders and operatives and thereby disrupt terrorist operation, as we have seen many times since 9-11. Good intelligence can act as a deterrent. Intelligence can be critical in assessing terrorist threats.

Intelligence is also important in solving cases--intelligence operations were involved in more than 60 percent of the terrorist-related cases according to a RAND study done in the 1980s. Informants allowed the successful apprehension of the conspirators in the 1993 post-World Trade Center bombing plot in New York, the prevention of an attack on government buildings in Phoenix by domestic extremists, and the discovery of plot to blow up propane storage attacks in California.

Institutional intelligence capabilities need to be rebuilt. Over the years, intelligence capabilities and constraints have changed in accordance with the political environment. In the 1960s, the goal of domestic intelligence gathering was prevention, but there was a loss of focus and control that led to abuses. New rules were put into place in the mid-1970s. Files were purged. New constraints were imposed. Intelligence shifted from proactive to reactive. These rules clearly impaired collection and by the early 1980s, the constraints were somewhat reduced, but a declining terrorist threat and the high political risks associated with domestic intelligence collection led to a reduction in resources and even the dismantling of some intelligence units. Growing terrorism in the 1990s increased concerns, but collection capabilities remained low. September 11 pushed the pendulum back toward prevention. The rules were changed, but institutional capabilities will take years to rebuild.

Building more effective local-level intelligence-collection might be better than creating another federal entity. We have great potential at the local level. Local police know their territory. Recruited locally, their composition better reflects local populations. They may have more native-fluency foreign-language speakers. Unlike any federal force, they don't rotate to a different town every few years. And local police operate under locally elected political leaders, which may make intelligence operations more acceptable to the local community, although local departments are just as prone to abuses if not closely managed.

For example, the New York Police Department, one of the most effective in the country, has assigned about a thousand officers, 2.5 percent of its strength to intelligence collection and analysis. The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department has taken the lead in setting up an early warning group where local police jurisdictions and representatives of federal agencies come together to exchange vital intelligence on terrorism.

If departments across the country were to dedicate a similar portion of their strength to intelligence, we would have a domestic intelligence force of about 15,000 officers. And unlike MI-5, they would have arrest powers. What they need is better training, a common curriculum, and technology. And they would need to be linked so that information could be quickly transmitted across the network. It's not that difficult. Corporations now do this very well.

They are ready to go. We would not have to wait years to fully develop a new federal agency. We don't even have to build a new building in Washington.

Brian Jenkins, a senior advisor at RAND, is one of the world's leading authorities on political violence and sophisticated crime. From 1989 to1998, was the deputy chairman of Kroll Associates. Prior to that, served as chairman of RAND's Political Science Department and directed RAND's research on political violence.

Served as a captain in the Green Berets in the Dominican Republic and later in Vietnam (1966-1970). In 1996, was appointed by President Clinton to be a member of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security. Has served as an advisor to the National Commission on Terrorism (1999-2000) and in 2000 was appointed as a member of the U.S. Comptroller General's Advisory Board. Is also a special advisor to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and a member of the board of directors of the ICC's Commercial Crime Services.

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"Served as a captain in the Green Berets in the Dominican Republic and later in Vietnam (1966-1970)"

The banking and royal elites are begging the sub-elites to initiate the Phoenix program in the US.

Every sub-elite would do humanity a favor by reading this book to understand the ramifications:


http://www.american-buddha.com/phoenixprogtoc.htm

THE PHOENIX PROGRAM

INTRODUCTION

It was well after midnight. Elton Man- zione, his wife, Lynn, and I sat at their kitchen table, drinking steaming cups of coffee. Rock 'n' roll music throbbed from the living room. A lean, dark man with large Mediterranean features, Elton was chain-smoking Pall Malls and telling me about his experiences as a twenty-year-old U .S. Navy SEAL in Vietnam in 1964. It was hot and humid that sultry Georgia night, and we were exhausted; but I pressed him for more specific information. "What was your most memorable experience?" I asked. Elton looked down and with considerable effort, said quietly, "There's one experience I remember very well. It was my last assignment. I remember my last assignment very well.

"They," Elton began, referring to the Navy commander and Special Forces colonel who issued orders to the SEAL team, "called the three of us [Elton, Eddie Swetz, and John Laboon] into the briefing room and sat us down. They said they were having a problem at a tiny village about a quarter of a mile from North Vietnam in the DMZ. They said some choppers and recon planes were taking fire from there. They never really explained why, for example, they just didn't bomb it, which was their usual response, but I got the idea that the village chief was politically connected and that the thing had to be done quietly.

"We worked in what were called hunter-killer teams," Elton explained. "The hunter team was a four-man unit, usually all Americans, sometimes one or two Vietnamese or Chinese mercenaries called counterterrorists-CTs for short. Most CTs were enemy soldiers who had deserted or South Viet- namese criminals. Our job was to find the enemy and nail him in place- spot his position, then go back to a prearranged place and call in the killer team. The killer team was usually twelve to twenty-five South Vietnamese Special Forces led by Green Berets. Then we'd join up with the killer team and take out the enemy."

But on this particular mission, Elton explained, the SEALs went in alone. "They said there was this fifty-one-caliber antiaircraft gun somewhere near the village that was taking potshots at us and that there was a specific person in the village operating the gun. They give us a picture of the guy and a map of the village. It's a small village, maybe twelve or fifteen hooches. 'This is the hooch,' they say. 'The guy sleeps on the mat on the left side. He has two daughters.' They don't know if he has a mama-san or where she is, but they say, 'You guys are going to go in and get this guy. You [meaning me] are going to snuff him.' Swetz is gonna find out where the gun is and blow it. Laboon is gonna hang back at the village gate covering us. He's the stoner; he's got the machine gun. And I'm gonna go into the hooch and snuff this guy

"'What you need to do first,' they say, 'is sit alongside the trail [leading from the village to the gun] for a day or two and watch where this guy goes. And that will help us uncover the gun.' Which it did. We watched him go right to where the gun was. We were thirty yards away, and we -watched for a while. When we weren't watching, we'd take a break and go another six hundred yards down the trail to relax. And we did that for maybe two days- watched him coming and going-and got an idea of his routine: when he went to bed; when he got up; where he went. Did he go behind the hooch to piss? Did he go into the jungle? That sort of thing.

"They told us, 'Do that. Then come back and tell us what you found out.' So we went back and said, 'We know where the gun is,' and we showed them where it was on the map. We were back in camp for about six hours, and they said, 'Okay, you're going out at o-four-hundred tomorrow. And it's like we say, you [meaning me] are going to snuff the guy, Swetz is going to take out the gun, and Laboon's going to cover the gate.'"

Elton explained that on special missions like this the usual procedure was to "snatch" the targeted VC cadre and bring him back to Dong Ha for interrogation. In that case Elton would have slipped into the hooch and rendered the cadre unconscious, while Swetz demolished the antiaircraft gun and Laboon signaled the killer team to descend upon the village in its black CIA-supplied helicopters. The SEALs and their prisoner would then climb on board and be extracted.

In this case, however, the cadre was targeted for assassination.

"We left out of Cam Lo," Elton continued. "We were taken by boat partway up the river and walked in by foot-maybe two and a half, three miles. At four in the morning we start moving across an area that was maybe a hundred yards wide; it's a clearing running up to the village. We're wearing black pajamas, and we've got black paint on our faces. We're doing this very carefully, moving on the ground a quarter of an inch at a time-move, stop, listen; move, stop, listen. To check for trip wires, you take a blade of grass and put it between your teeth, move your head up and down, from side to side, watching the end of the blade of grass. If it bends, you know you've hit something, but of course, the grass never sets off the trip wire, so it's safe.

"It takes us an hour and a half to cross this relatively short stretch of open grass because we're moving so slowly. And we're being so quiet we can hardly hear each other, let alone anybody else hearing us. I mean, I know they're out there-Laboon's five yards that way, Swetz is five yards to my right-but I can't hear them.

"And so we crawl up to the gate. There's no booby traps. I go in. Swetz has a satchel charge for the fifty-one-caliber gun and has split off to where it is, maybe sixty yards away. Laboon is sitting at the gate. The village is very quiet. There are some dogs. They're sleeping. They stir, but they don't even growl. I go into the hooch, and I spot my person. Well, somebody stirs in the next bed. I'm carrying my commando knife, and one of the things we learned is how to kill somebody instantly with it. So I put my hand over her mouth and come up under the second rib, go through the heart, give it a flick; it snaps the spinal cord. Not thinking! Because I think 'Hey!' Then I hear the explosion go off and I know. the gun is out. Somebody else in the corner starts to stir , so I pullout the sidearm and put it against her head and shoot her. She's dead. Of course, by this time the whole village is awake. I go out, waiting for Swetz to come, because the gun's been blown. People are kind of wandering around, and I'm pretty dazed. And I look back into the hooch, and there were two young girls. I'd killed the wrong people."

Elton Manzione and his comrades returned to their base at Cam Lo. Strung out from Dexedrine and remorse, Elton went into the ammo dump and sat on top of a stack of ammunition crates with a grenade, its pin pulled, between his legs and an M-16 cradled in his arms. He sat there refusing to budge until he was given a ticket home.

***
In early 1984 Elton Manzione was the first person to answer a query I had placed in a Vietnam veterans' newsletter asking for interviews with people who had served in the Phoenix program. Elton wrote to me, saying, "While I was not a participant in Phoenix, I was closely involved in what I think was the forerunner. It was part of what was known as OPLAN 34. This was the old Leaping Lena infiltration program for LRRP [long-range reconnais- sance patrol] operations into Laos. During the time I was involved it became the well-known Delta program. While all this happened before Phoenix, the operations were essentially the same. Our primary function was intelligence gathering, but we also carried out the 'undermining of the infrastructure' types of things such as kidnapping, assassination, sabotage, etc.

"The story needs to be told," Elton said, "because the whole aura of the Vietnam War was influenced by what went on in the 'hunter-killer' teams of Phoenix, Delta, etc. That was the point at which many of us realized we were no longer the good guys in the white hats defending freedom-that we were assassins, pure and simple. That disillusionment carried over to allother aspects of the war and was eventually responsible f9r it becoming America's most unpopular war."

***

The story of Phoenix is not easily told. Many of the participants, having signed nondisclosure statements, are legally prohibited from telling what they know. Others are silenced by their own consciences. Still others are profes- sional soldiers whose careers would suffer if they were to reveal the secrets of their employers. Falsification of records makes the story even harder to prove. For example, there is no record of Elton Manzione's ever having been in Vietnam. Yet, for reasons which are explained in my first book, The Hotel Tacloban, I was predisposed to believe Manzione. I had confirmed that my father's military records were deliberately altered to show that he had not been imprisoned for two years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in World War II. The effects of the cover-up were devastating and ultimately caused my father to have a heart attack at the age of forty-five. Thus, long before I met Elton Manzione, I knew the government was capable of concealing its misdeeds under a cloak of secrecy, threats, and fraud. And I knew how terrible the consequences could be.

Then I began to wonder if cover-ups like the one concerning my father had also occurred in the Vietnam War, and that led me in the fall of 1983 to visit David Houle, director of veteran services in New Hampshire. I asked Dave Houle if there was a part of the Vietnam War that had been concealed, and without hesitation he replied, "Phoenix." After explaining a little about it, he mentioned that one of his clients had been in the program, then added that his client's service records-like those of Elton Manzione's and my father's-had been altered. They showed that he had been a cook in Vietnam.

I asked to meet Houle's client, but the fellow refused. Formerly with Special Forces in Vietnam, he was disabled and afraid the Veterans Administration would cut off his benefits if he talked to me.

That fear of the government, so incongruous on the part of a war veteran, made me more determined than ever to uncover the truth about Phoenix, a goal which has taken four years to accomplish. That's a long time to spend researching and writing a book. But I believe it was worthwhile, for Phoenix symbolizes an aspect of the Vietnam War that changed forever the way Americans think about themselves and their government.

Developed in 1967 by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Phoenix combined existing counterinsurgency programs in a concerted effort to "neu- tralize" the Vietcong infrastructure (VCI). The euphemism "neutralize" means to kill, capture, or make to defect. The word "infrastructure" refers to those civilians suspected of supporting North Vietnamese and Vietcong soldiers like the one targeted in Elton Manzione's final operation. Central to Phoenix is the fact that it targeted civilians, not soldiers. As a result, its detractors charge that Phoenix violated that part of the Geneva Conventions guaranteeing protection to civilians in time of war. "By analogy ," said Ogden Reid, a member of a congressional committee investigating Phoenix in 1971, "if the U won had had a Phoenix program during the Civil War , its targets would have been civilians like Jefferson Davis or the mayor of Macon, Georgia."

Under Phoenix, or Phung Hoang, as it was caned by the Vietnamese, due process was totally nonexistent. South Vietnamese civilians whose names appeared on blacklists could be kidnapped, tortured, detained for two years without trial, or even murdered, simply on the word of an anonymous in- former. At its height Phoenix managers imposed quotas of eighteen hundred neutralizations per month on the people running the program in the field, opening up the program to abuses by corrupt security officers, policemen, politicians, and racketeers, all of whom extorted innocent civilians as well as VCI. Legendary CIA officer Lucien Conein described Phoenix as " A very good blackmail scheme for the central government. 'If you don't do what I want, you're VC."'

Because Phoenix "neutralizations" were often conducted at midnight while its victims were home, sleeping in bed, Phoenix proponents describe the program as a "scalpel" designed to replace the "bludgeon" of search and destroy operations, air strikes, and artillery barrages that indiscriminately wiped out entire villages and did little to "win the hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese population. Yet, as Elton Manzione's story illustrates, the scalpel cut deeper than the U.S. government admits. Indeed, Phoenix was, among other things, an instrument of counterterror-the psychological warfare tactic in which VCI members were brutally murdered along with their families or neighbors as a means of terrorizing the neighboring population into a state of submission. Such horrendous acts were, for propaganda purposes, often made to look as if they had been committed by the enemy.

This book questions how Americans, who consider themselves a nation ruled by laws and an ethic of fair play, could create a program like Phoenix. By scrutinizing the program and the people who participated in it and by employing the program as a symbol of the dark side of the human psyche, the author hopes to articulate the subtle ways in which the Vietnam War changed how Americans think about themselves.

This book is about terror and its role in political warfare. It will show how, as successive American governments sink deeper and deeper into the vortex of covert operations- ostensibly to combat terrorism [...] insurgencies-the American people gradually lose touch with the democratic ideals that once defined their national self-concept.

This book asks what happens when Phoenix comes home to roost.


New Phoenix Program:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4361536536898115029

[Guns Equal Freedom]

Sane, are you a speed reader?

Kinda cool if you are.

Some of stuff you highlight in bold is halfway down the article sometimes.

[citizenx]

There is scuttlebutt about an Israeli attack before Aug.  Personally, I think the window might be the next 12-18 months on the outside.

The Americans will naturally be expected to "support".

To get them ready and motivated, another litlle joint CIA/Mossad/(British Intel?) False Flag is probably in order before then, hence the NLE time table.  The next three months may be crucial.

Lord know the admin. has enough corrupt Chicago connections to make that a prime target.  Wouldn't want to be in the "Windy City" this summer -- or, anywhere downwind. (I'm from Detroit, 262 miles to the east.)

Re. possible time table for Iran attack:
http://original.antiwar.com/2010/05/05/a-timetable-for-war/

[citizenx]

Correction:

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/05/05/a-timetable-for-war/

Re. possible Israeli attack on Iran bef. Aug.

Link originally found at Mike Rivero's whatreallyhappened.com

[Dig]

Sane, are you a speed reader?

Kinda cool if you are.

Some of stuff you highlight in bold is halfway down the article sometimes.

reread it, I went back and highlighted what I thought was the most important wording.

Everything he said years ago is the objective.

The MIAC report, etc. They built a terrorist matrix in the united states to deal with citizens.

He specifically says if you are against the genocide of the Palestinian people, if you are against the US bombing of Iraqi civilians, if you are "frustrated" with the government then you are considered an Al-Qaeda sympethizer or an operative. This is so in your face and explains why Cynthia McKinney gets arrested overseas and the US does not defend her, Cindy Sheehan's arrest for protesting the war, the assassination of Reuters reporters, the assassination of Daniel Perl and Nick Berg, etc.

This testimony given OVER 7 YEARS AGO lays it all out.

Unfricking believable!

[Guns Equal Freedom]

67 Minute Video by Brian Jenkins:
Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?

http://fora.tv/2008/09/29/Brian_Jenkins_Will_Terrorists_Go_Nuclear

Highlights:

Brian Jenkins - American Anxiety Over Terrorism 04 min 56 sec

Brian Jenkins: Nuclear Terrorism vs. Nuclear Terror 04 min 09 sec

Brian Jenkins - The Case of the Missing Suitcase Bombs 04 min 34 sec

When was this made?

I am looking at the Comment Section.

Some of them say 2008 on them.

I ask, because the guy talks about "The Stock Market being down 700 points" in the video.

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When was this made?

I am looking at the Comment Section.

Some of them say 2008 on them.

I ask, because the guy talks about "The Stock Market being down 700 points" in the video.

Sep 29, 2008

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BRIAN JENKINS AND RAND CORPORATION PREDICTED 9/11 "COMMERCIAL PLANES INTO MAJOR CITIES" TERRORIST PLOT IN 1989

March 1989: Possibility of Suicide Attacks Using Planes Is ‘Nightmare’ of Governments, Paper Says
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=brian_michael_jenkins_1
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a0389jenkinspaper#a0389jenkinspaper

Authorities are aware of, and concerned about, the possibility of a suicide attack using a hijacked plane, according to a paper on the threat of terrorism against commercial aviation by Brian Michael Jenkins of the RAND Corporation. “The nightmare of governments is that suicidal terrorists will hijack a commercial airliner and, by killing or replacing its crew, crash into a city or some vital facility,” the paper says. “It has been threatened in at least one case: In 1977, an airliner believed to have been hijacked, crashed, killing all on board. And in 1987, a homicidal, suicidal ex-employee boarded a commercial airliner where he shot his former boss and brought about the crash of the airliner, killing all 44 on board. Fear of such incidents is offered as a powerful argument for immobilizing hijacked aircraft on the ground at the first opportunity and also, some argue, for armoring the flight deck.” The paper asks: “What are we likely to see in the future? Perhaps fewer but deadlier and more sophisticated terrorist hijackings.” [Jenkins, 3/1989, pp. 10-11] The 1987 incident refers to Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, which is believed to have been hijacked on its way from Los Angeles to San Francisco by a disgruntled former employee. [Time, 12/21/1987] Jenkins will repeat his warning of terrorists possibly using a plane as a weapon in a threat assessment for the New York Port Authority in 1993 (see After February 26, 1993)

[Guns Equal Freedom]

reread it, I went back and highlighted what I thought was the most important wording.

Everything he said years ago is the objective.

The MIAC report, etc. They built a terrorist matrix in the united states to deal with citizens.

He specifically says if you are against the genocide of the Palestinian people, if you are against the US bombing of Iraqi civilians, if you are "frustrated" with the government then you are considered an Al-Qaeda sympethizer or an operative. This is so in your face and explains why Cynthia McKinney gets arrested overseas and the US does not defend her, Cindy Sheehan's arrest for protesting the war, the assassination of Reuters reporters, the assassination of Daniel Perl and Nick Berg, etc.

This testimony given OVER 7 YEARS AGO lays it all out.

Unfricking believable!

That "Enemy Belligerent Bill" John McCain and Joe Lieberman "came up with" is some scary stuff right there.

[Amos]

I want to know what program do you use to process your documents

[citizenx]

Re. "Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?"

I think it is possible such an attack could be biological or radiological as well, or something else, but casualties would need to be fairly massive (thousands at least) in order to register with the significance of a 911/"Pearl Harbor" type event, so the real deal if it goes down would definitely be a significant terrorist (false-flag) event.

Wouldn't count anything out just yet, but nukes make a whole lot of sense.

[Guns Equal Freedom]

BRIAN JENKINS AND RAND CORPORATION PREDICTED 9/11 "COMMERCIAL PLANES INTO MAJOR CITIES" TERRORIST PLOT IN 1989

March 1989: Possibility of Suicide Attacks Using Planes Is ‘Nightmare’ of Governments, Paper Says
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=brian_michael_jenkins_1
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a0389jenkinspaper#a0389jenkinspaper

Authorities are aware of, and concerned about, the possibility of a suicide attack using a hijacked plane, according to a paper on the threat of terrorism against commercial aviation by Brian Michael Jenkins of the RAND Corporation. “The nightmare of governments is that suicidal terrorists will hijack a commercial airliner and, by killing or replacing its crew, crash into a city or some vital facility,” the paper says. “It has been threatened in at least one case: In 1977, an airliner believed to have been hijacked, crashed, killing all on board. And in 1987, a homicidal, suicidal ex-employee boarded a commercial airliner where he shot his former boss and brought about the crash of the airliner, killing all 44 on board. Fear of such incidents is offered as a powerful argument for immobilizing hijacked aircraft on the ground at the first opportunity and also, some argue, for armoring the flight deck.” The paper asks: “What are we likely to see in the future? Perhaps fewer but deadlier and more sophisticated terrorist hijackings.” [Jenkins, 3/1989, pp. 10-11] The 1987 incident refers to Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, which is believed to have been hijacked on its way from Los Angeles to San Francisco by a disgruntled former employee. [Time, 12/21/1987] Jenkins will repeat his warning of terrorists possibly using a plane as a weapon in a threat assessment for the New York Port Authority in 1993 (see After February 26, 1993)

That right there says alot, when The Government "played dummy" when it came to 9/11.

Brian Jenkins worked for The Government as a "Special Agent".

BTW, technically, The Declassified Document "Operation Northwoods" did say a lot of stuff in it that coincidently happened on 9/11 before 1989.

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I want to know what program do you use to process your documents

uh, my eyes...

[Dig]

That right there says alot, when The Government "played dummy" when it came to 9/11.

Brian Jenkins worked for The Government as a "Special Agent".

BTW, technically, The Declassified Document "Operation Northwoods" did say a lot of stuff in it that coincidently happened on 9/11 before 1989.

RAND corporation which sets much policy and influences the war games knew of this in 1989.

And the person who laid out the plan for RAND is now heading out transportation systems.

This is just fricking nuts.

I need to listen to some Bill Hicks and remember that this is just a ride.  sheeesh

[Amos]

uh, my eyes...

do you just type in this program, change font size, color, insert hyper links, or do you have a word processor other than this format, that is concussive to this sites format

[Guns Equal Freedom]

RAND corporation which sets much policy and influences the war games knew of this in 1989.

And the person who laid out the plan for RAND is now heading out transportation systems.

That is why I never mention "coincidences" to people, because they will think you are a "conspiracy theory nut job".

[Dig]

I do not support everything the Hawk's Cafe talks about, but they expose much of the pre-planning for 9/11.

IMO, we are seeing very similar pre-planning.


911 the criminal enterprise and its pattern.mp4
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3962883610962556504
22:41  - 2 years ago

hawks cafe unseen forensic economists expose the pattern of the crime for 911 at the 5 murder sites, including WTC7 which was brought down ... all » in controlled demolition at 5:21PM in the afternoon of 911 apparently vaporizing the body of Master Special Officer Craig Miller with the secret service New York field office on loan from Washington DC

[Dig]

do you just type in this program, change font size, color, insert hyper links, or do you have a word processor other than this format, that is concussive to this sites format

just use some buttons above or just type in the tags sometimes. we could probably move that conversation to "questions about the forum"

[citizenx]

I do not support everything the Hawk's Cafe talks about, but they expose much of the pre-planning for 9/11.

IMO, we are seeing very similar pre-planning.


911 the criminal enterprise and its pattern.mp4
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3962883610962556504

Interesting, the Clinton/Canada connection to 911 pre-planning. Never knew that. Clinton doesn't surprise me though.

[Guns Equal Freedom]

I just mixed up the wrong people on who "committed suicide" if anybody read my last post I deleted.

[Dig]

Interesting, the Clinton/Canada connection to 911 pre-planning. Never knrew that. Clinton doesn't surprise me though.

again, i do not know all of what can be proven and these guys try and blame clinotn/obama for most problems in the world.

but even if they are only 50% right (or 5%), there is so much pre-planning evidence it is ridiculous. And it shows the key critical areas that get compromised. During wargames like NLE10 (especially given it involves a nuke attack) all sorts of alarm systems will either be manipulated to turn off, manipulated to shock the system with so many that defenders are paralyzed, or will be regarded as just part of a drill.

Given that we have so many NLE type activities going on and now the murder of a key person at a key area of defense, WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT NLE10?

WTF?

[Dig]

Most of the evidence of the CSIS / NLE /DHS / DARPA / NRO control over all systems for supposed "behavioral evaluation" can be found in the later parts of this thread:

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=170113.0

[Dig]

Here is the murdered victim's 2003 testimony on some funding stuff, seems like a seriously knowledgable guy concerning rail lines, infrastructure, government and private sector, mordernization, interoperability, etc. Why was he murdered during NLE10?


Testimony of Phil Pagano, Metra Executive Director,
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works,
http://epw.senate.gov/108th/Pagano_040703.htm
Chicago, IL, Monday, April 7, 2003

Good morning, I’m Phil Pagano, Executive Director of Metra. I’m grateful for this opportunity. I’m always eager to talk about Metra’s role in the mobility of northeastern Illinois. I’m especially eager to talk about what we need in order to play our role even better in the future.

Before I go into details about the federal transportation legislation, let me first review our current status. Metra is a true regional passenger railroad. We connect a dynamic, urban core with a fast-growing ring of communities. I am proud to say that we are recognized as the premier commuter rail system in the United States.

In terms of ridership, Metra is the second largest commuter railroad in the United’ States. Last year, more than 80 million commuters rode Metra.

In terms of network, Metra is the largest commuter railroad. We operate 11 lines within a service territory of 546 route miles in a traditional hub and spoke pattern focusing on the Chicago Central business district. We own and directly operate four of those lines. We contract with two major freight railroads for service on four other lines. And through trackage agreements, we directly provide service on three more lines.

We operate this network with an industry-leading on-time performance record, averaging 96 percent last year.

Since 1970, the number of metropolitan areas served by commuter rail systems has increased from 11 to 18, with many more cities creating or considering commuter frail systems. This success in growth can be attributed to a number of factors, including the existence of rail rights-of-way, and the need for communities to alleviate traffic congestion, reduce air pollution, and provide reliable transportation alternatives for a growing number of commuters. All of this can be accomplished by commuter raill.

One central issue currently facing the commuter and rail industry in general is the subject of grade separations. It’s a topic that I’d like to expand on here.

Metra has been a leading advocate in the region for an aggressive grade separation program. In fact, we’ve identified 225 grade crossings that would be key in enhancing the mutual flow of traffic and productivity of operations for commuter rail and freight operations. These targeted grade separation projects are critical for the communities we serve. So much of our territory is experiencing growth. That growth inherently delivers more traffic on the busy roads that cross our system.

As we continue to plan for growing customer demand for our service, it is critical that we accomplish these grade separation projects. They would greatly improve the flow of traffic on roads and streets, and increase the safety and productivity of both commuter and freight services. This program is a true win-win concept.

Wherever a road or highway intersects a Metra line at grade, motor vehicle traffic can be delayed as trains pass. When vehicles block the tracks, trains are also delayed. More important, all too frequently motorists and pedestrians ignore crossing gates and warning signals, and are killed as they attempt to cross in front of a train. While most motorists are cautious, this is an imperfect solution.

All proposed grade separations would, of course, be discussed and coordinated with the relevant local community.

Grade crossing replacements would naturally be executed over an extended period of time. The cost for a program of this dimension will be approximately $2.5 billion. The permanent, long-range benefit of this initiative will provide for enhanced personal mobility, and more livable communities, in addition to greater safety for both commuters and motorists.

Metra would strongly support a Department of Transportation-wide program that can provide grants, loans, bonding authority, tax incentives and other components to address high-priority grade separations. We feel that would go a long way to improving the safety and efficiency of the nation’s transportation system.

The landmark TEA-21 legislation has been enormously helpful in providing a significant, dedicated funding stream for transit.

Metra has benefited greatly from TEA-21. Three of our current project expansion projects - the SouthWest Service, Union Pacific West, and North Central were all’, authorized under the New Start section of TEA-21.

A big highlight came in November 2001 when Metra received Full Funding Grant Agreements for the three aforementioned projects. We were delighted that the U.S. Department of Transportation recognized the importance of our program to a region where there is serious gridlock.

I’d like to reiterate our appreciation and thanks to the entire Illinois delegation, led by Speaker Hastert, for helping pave the way. Without such support, these projects would not exist.

Under TEA-21, a great deal of significant progress will be made on growing the system, upgrading the infrastructure, and enhancing the system to attract new riders. While clearly much has been accomplished by Metra to date, it is equally certain that Metra faces a new set of challenges as we wage a continuing capital-intensive battle to reclaim, modernize, and expand the region’s rail infrastructure.

With the reauthorization of TEA-21, Metra intends to build on its past record of success, and its responsible and productive expenditure of available resources, by continuing on core capacity improvements and strategic system expansion.

Population forecasts and leading economic forecasts point to continuing and growing demand for high quality commuter rail service. For Metra, the mission remains twofold: preserve and enhance its core network of service while at the same time expanding and upgrading the system in order to meet future ridership and service requirements.

Accordingly, Metra has identified five TEA-3 projects which will enhance and significantly improve service reliability and operational performance, as well as offer new service opportunities for thousands.

The proposed new lines, known as the STAR Line and the SouthEast Service Line, would provide service to northwest and southeast Cook County, Kane, DuPage and Will counties.

In addition to the proposed routes, infrastructure initiatives on the Union Pacific Northwest and West lines, and the A-2 Interlocker will help improve service for more than 60 percent of our customer base.

We look forward to the continued leadership of the Illinois delegation throughout the TEA-3 reauthorization process. Simply put, the impact of this legislation cannot be overstated.

Metra supports two key principles being included in the next reauthorization bill: (1), increasing the amount of funds for “New Start” projects; and (2), ensuring that older systems continue to be eligible for “New Start” funding.

In addition, we would also support efforts to ensure that funding levels recommended in full-funding grant agreements for a given year are honored, so that the projects can receive the funding necessary to remain on schedule.

As with the New Starts program, commuter rail also has significantly benefited from the fixed guideway modernization program. This program has brought stability to commuter rail, allowing systems to make needed upgrades and improvements.

We believe the current structure and formula allocations work and do not need changing. However, because of the increase in the number of commuter systems and the critical funding needs, we support an increase in funding for rail modernization.

Rail infrastructure improvements will allow the overall system to run more effectively and safely. These improvements will attract new riders, provide better service to existing riders, and will reduce train congestion and interference between freight and commuter trains. All these factors will positively benefit the economy at large.

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2 days ago Senator Dick Durban ordered a whole fricking surveillance and oversigfht task force on this guy.

HOW DID THEY NOT HAVE A FULL AND CLEAR PICTURE OF THE SITUATION? HE WAS UNDER TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS SURVEILLANCE!

$56K BONUS (WHEN YOU ARE MAKING $270k A YEAR) DOES NOT CAUSE YOU TO SUICIDE YOURSELF IN AN OBVIOUS ILLUMINATI SCENARIO..."RAIL CHIEF JUMPS ON RAIL" - ILLUMINAZI/SKULL AND BONES ALL THE WAY.


Feds order extra oversight of Metra
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May 5, 2010 10:31 PM | No Comments

Federal officials are imposing stricter oversight on how Metra spends millions of dollars in U.S. funds amid allegations of possible financial irregularities by the commuter line's suspended executive director.

Federal Transit Administration chief Peter Rogoff said Wednesday that he has ordered extra scrutiny of Metra's ability to spend federal money while a misconduct investigation into longtime Metra Executive Director Phil Pagano is conducted.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., also asked federal investigators to look into whether any federal funds received by Metra in past years were misused.

Metra's directors placed Pagano on administrative leave with full pay last Friday and hired a special counsel to investigate allegations of "serious official misconduct" against him.

The inquiry was initiated by Metra Chairwoman Carole Doris after she became aware that Pagano had received an unauthorized $56,000 "bonus" atop his $269,625-a-year salary.

Doris and the special counsel, attorney James Sotos, said the probe may run deeper than just the bonus. Pagano has declined to comment on the matter.

Rogoff told Doris that the FTA will conduct its own review of whether any federal funds have been improperly spent or are at risk as a result of alleged improprieties at Metra.

Until that review is complete, Metra is required to give the FTA documentation to back up all spending. Rogoff's orders to Doris were outlined in a letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Tribune.

On average, Metra receives about $150 million in federal funds a year, officials said.

Prompted by the FTA action, Durbin asked the U.S. Department of Transportation's inspector general to investigate whether any federal funds given to Metra were misused.

"Federal funding appropriated by Congress has helped repair and expand Metra's system for the more than 300,000 daily passengers using the system," Durbin wrote in a letter to Inspector General Calvin Scovel. "These passengers deserve to know their tax dollars are being spent wisely."

Doris said Wednesday that Metra would work with the FTA and the inspector general.

"Metra will comply with any enhanced reporting requirements deemed appropriate by the agency," Doris said in a statement. "We are determined not to allow any adverse impact on critical commuter rail service to this region."

The Regional Transportation Authority, which under state law has financial oversight over Metra, said it has taken no role in the inquiry.

"This was something initiated by the Metra board," spokeswoman Diane Palmer said. "We're obviously watching and seeing what unfolds."

--Richard Wronski