Foreign troops in NYC on 9/11??

[Pressed_Rat]

I was just watching something on YouTube called '9/11 The Explosive Reality', which is a compilation of media footage (some very rare) from that day.  Well, I just stumbled upon something very strange and pretty alarming.  At approximately 33 seconds into the clip, you see what appears to be a foreign soldier dressed in fatigues shoving the news camera away, saying in broken English and a heavy accent "building's about to collapse... nothing information."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P--ksg1JVRU

Please watch this and let me know what you think.  Does anyone know what that accent is??

[Dig]

I was just watching something on YouTube called '9/11 The Explosive Reality', which is a compilation of media footage (some very rare) from that day.  Well, I just stumbled upon something very strange and pretty alarming.  At approximately 33 seconds into the clip, you see what appears to be a foreign soldier dressed in fatigues shoving the news camera away, saying in broken English and a heavy accent "building's about to collapse... nothing information."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P--ksg1JVRU

Please watch this and let me know what you think.  Does anyone know what that accent is??

I remember seeing this around a year ago and thought it was such an explosive video.  It clearly shows that foreigners were around with special knowledge about the situation.

I have not heard much follow up, but the video is quite ominous.

[Ford]

It looks like U.S. Army Jungle Summer BDUs, I sure would like to get a better look at his unit patch. I would say this was just an immigrant national guardsman, but him having forknowledge of the collapse is disturbing.

[DM]

Nothing informations!

[Dig]

has anyone verified the video with the actual archived video?

[Pressed_Rat]

has anyone verified the video with the actual archived video?

Yeah, that's what I would like to know.  If it is indeed legit, then this is massive!

[Dig]

It looks like U.S. Army Jungle Summer BDUs, I sure would like to get a better look at his unit patch. I would say this was just an immigrant national guardsman, but him having forknowledge of the collapse is disturbing.

That was not a foreign national guardsman with minimal training.

He was highly assertive.

Reacted to the scene as if he was comfortable with all of the chaos.

Made sure to cover the camera.  why would a soldier cover a camera?  covert ops do that shit.

He knew the building was going to blow up and also seemed to be repeating orders telling people "no information"

The guy was like some senior ex-KGB operative.

He was also in full gear and seemed pretty comfortable in it.

Look at videos of the national guard around Katrina.  Most were shy/confused and could hardly move an inch without an order.  They also realized the chaos and acted humanly around it.  This guy was a well trained robot with highly tuned abilities to manage a very complex situation.

[Ford]

   

That was not a foreign national guardsman with minimal training.

He was highly assertive.

Reacted to the scene as if he was comfortable with all of the chaos.

Made sure to cover the camera.  why would a soldier cover a camera?  covert ops do that shit.

He knew the building was going to blow up and also seemed to be repeating orders telling people "no information"

The guy was like some senior ex-KGB operative.

He was also in full gear and seemed pretty comfortable in it.

Look at videos of the national guard around Katrina.  Most were shy/confused and could hardly move an inch without an order.  They also realized the chaos and acted humanly around it.  This guy was a well trained robot with highly tuned abilities to manage a very complex situation.

National guardsman go through the same training as the regular army. I can't speak for the ones in New Orleans, but the guardsmen at the disasters I have been witness to were highly professional. We had standing orders not to talk to the press, to refer everything to headquarters.

Other than that point, I agree with your post. The guy was assertive to the point of being rude, and he had inside information on the collapse.

But why would a covert op be in full battle rattle?

National Guardsmen are civilian soldiers, in an emergency they are contacted at home or at work, then they go to the sight of the Emergency. In a "surprise" disaster like 9-11 you would think they would show up in battle rattle at the earliest sometime that evening, not hours after the event.

I don't have the answers, it's a mystery.

[Dig]

   

National guardsman go through the same training as the regular army. I can't speak for the ones in New Orleans, but the guardsmen at the disasters I have been witness to were highly professional. We had standing orders not to talk to the press, to refer everything to headquarters.

Other than that point, I agree with your post. The guy was assertive to the point of being rude, and he had inside information on the collapse.

But why would a covert op be in full battle rattle?

National Guardsmen are civilian soldiers, in an emergency they are contacted at home or at work, then they go to the sight of the Emergency. In a "surprise" disaster like 9-11 you would think they would show up in battle rattle at the earliest sometime that evening, not hours after the event.

I don't have the answers, it's a mystery.

few other things:

I did not see many guardsmen at all.  not American guardsmen.  And our troops are not getting much training and the shock and awe of 2 110 story buildings being blown to kingdom come is not something anyone is trained for.

I heard that the called up some guardsmen and that some UN troops were called up as well (of course this is a whole other issue).

I will try and find the articles.

[Dig]

few other things:

I did not see many guardsmen at all.  not American guardsmen.  And our troops are not getting much training and the shock and awe of 2 110 story buildings being blown to kingdom come is not something anyone is trained for.

I heard that the called up some guardsmen and that some UN troops were called up as well (of course this is a whole other issue).

I will try and find the articles.

having trouble finding anything on this.

BTW - as far as covert ops and being in full gear...

looks like some guys were set up to be plains clothes witnesses, some were surveillance experts, some might have been dressed as guardsmen, and some might have been dressed as construction workers.

there was a large group of people that knew WTC 7 was coming down.

There was zero investigation into this.

[A K]

The accent sounds like Israeli.  Maybe Russian, but more like Israeli to me.  Not Arabic, and the man does not look Arabic, he looks white European descent, Russian or Israeli.

[Dig]

The accent sounds like Israeli.  Maybe Russian, but more like Israeli to me.  Not Arabic, and the man does not look Arabic, he looks white European descent, Russian or Israeli.

Israeli sounding? 

The guy sounded Eastern European all the way.  He could be Israeli just as much as he could be Canadian.  But the accent is Eastern European, most likely Russian.

Compare this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=sDqSb5zNDWU with this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=1Z9g7jN3Kso

[A K]

Sane - I agree.

Many Israeli's are recent immigrants from Russia.

Maybe I lean in that direction because of the arrest of Israeli's around the fringes of the 9-11 events.

Prof. Peter Dale Scott has written a little noticed article about a Russian company called Far West Ltd., which he believes is an international partner with VP Cheney's former firm Halliburton KBR, and a firm called New Bridges which is now run by the head of FEMA on 9-11 Joe Allbaugh.  And this company is run by former Russian KGB, Army and narcs who made their bones (and their money) in Afghanistan.  And he shows evidence this company was involved with the FSB (new KGB) in the false flag Moscow apartment bombings, covered by AJ and PP, which boosted Putin to power and gave a pretext for the Chechen war.  This company is involved in the arms, mercenary, security and drugs business in Afghanistan, Iraq, (Soviet) Georgia and Columbia.  He also shows evidence they connect to some of the potential players in the 9-11 attacks - Cheney, Albaugh, Pakistani ISI, Israeli Mossad.

And how in the world would National Guard be activated BEFORE WTC 7 falls?  Maybe there is an innocent explanation but it seems strange.

[Dig]

Prof. Peter Dale Scott has written a little noticed article about a Russian company called Far West Ltd.

you have a link to the article?

[MikiQuick123]

AK, I believe this is what you were referring to?

http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/articles/global-drug.htm

[A K]

The article is massive - 18,000 words - so I will post some excerpts, and the site for hard core researchers.

I think the network Scott identifies ties in to the group that Sibel Edmonds states she heard on the FBI wiretaps, neocons like Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith, Grossman, Franklin, Solarz, Hastert doing business with a Turkish-Israeli-Pakistani drugs/arms smuggling and money laundering group.  It also ties into what former FSB agent Litivenko was talking about before he was murdered.  And it certainly ties into the fact that in 2001 the Taliban had reduced the Afghan opium crop to an all time low of 70 tons, costing these groups and these people billions of dollars, and now that Afghanistan is safely in the hands of the CIA/ISI and their cronies and puppets, the 2007 opium crop was almost 9,000 tons.

Excerpts:

The Global Drug Meta-Group:
Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11



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By Peter Dale Scott (18,734 words) 10/29/05
See also A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11

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(I wish to acknowledge the invaluable assistance in the preparation of this essay from N, a Russian who for the time being prefers to remain anonymous.)
Tajik authorities have claimed repeatedly that neither the US nor NATO exerts any pressure on the drug warlords inside Afghanistan. "There's absolutely no threat to the labs inside Afghanistan," said Avaz Yuldashov of the Tajikistan Drug Control Agency. "Our intelligence shows there are 400 labs making heroin there, and 80 of them are situated right along our border ... Drug trafficking from Afghanistan is the main source of support for international terrorism now," Yuldashov pointed out last year.[1]



I. The Meta-Group, the Russian 9/11, and Kosovo
Violence and the Political Requirements of the Global Drug Traffic

In the last three decades, three important facts have emerged about the international drug traffic. The first is that it is both huge and growing.

Narcotics are estimated to be worth between $500 billion and $1 trillion a year, an amount, according to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in remarks to a United Nations General Assembly session in June 2003, that is greater than the global oil and gas industry, and twice as large as the overall automobile industry.[2]
The second is that it is both worldwide and above all "highly integrated."[3] At global drug summits such as the one in Armenia in 1993, representatives of the Sicilian Mafia, the Brighton Beach Organizatsiya, and Colombian drug lords, have worked out a common modus operandi, with the laundering of dirty money entrusted chiefly to the lawless Russian banks.[4]

The third important fact, undeniable since the 1980 U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, is that governments with global pretensions will avail themselves, in pursuit of their own political ends, of the resources, both financial and political, of the drug traffic. It was striking in the 1980s that the CIA, in its choice of Afghan mujahedin leaders to back against the Soviet Union, passed over those with indigenous support in favor of those, notably Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who dominated the heroin trade. The result was to enhance Hekmatyar's power until he became a leading heroin trafficker, not just in Afghanistan but in the world.[5]

Three more important features of the global drug traffic have been less noticed; thus although I regard them as facts I shall refer to them not as facts but as propositions to be tested against evidence. The first proposition is that the highly integrated drug traffic industry, in addition to serving the political ends of world powers, has its own political as well as economic objectives. It requires that in major growing areas there must be limited state control, a condition most easily reached by fostering regional rebellion and warfare, often fought by its own private armies. This is the on-going situation of designed violence in every major growing area, from Lebanon to Myanmar, Colombia to Afghanistan.

Once the local power of drug armies was enough in itself to neutralize the imposition of state authority. But today there are increasing signs that those at the highest level of the drug traffic will plot with the leaders of major states to ensure, or even to stage, violence that serves the power of the state and the industry alike.

Thanks to extensive research in Russia, we now have initial evidence of a second and even more significant proposition: There exists on the global level a drug meta-group, able to manipulate the resources of the drug traffic for its own political and business ends, without being at risk for actual trafficking. These ends include the creation of designed violence to serve the purposes of cabals in political power – most conspicuously in the case of the Yeltsin "family" in the Kremlin, but allegedly, according to Russian sources, also for those currently in power in the United States.

One piece of evidence for this consists in a meeting which took place in July 1999 in southern France near Nice, at the villa in Beaulieu of Adnan Khashoggi, once called "the richest man in the world." Those at the meeting included a member of the Yeltsin cabal in the Kremlin and four representatives from the meta-group, with passports from Venezuela, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Germany. Between them they allegedly enjoyed excellent relations with:

1) Ayman al-Zawahiri, the acknowledged mastermind of 9/11 and senior mentor to Osama bin Laden.

2) Soviet military intelligence.

3) the FARC, the Colombian revolutionary group that has become increasingly involved in the drug traffic.

4) the Kosovo Liberation Army, a similarly involved group.

5) (according to a well-informed Russian source) the CIA.

The third important proposition is that a meta-group of this scale does not just help government agencies make history. I hope to show that it, and its predecessors, are powerful enough to help make history themselves. However they do not do so overtly, but as a hidden Force X whose presence is not normally acknowledged in the polite discourse of academic political scientists. On the contrary, as we shall see, references to it are usually suppressed.

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A clear predecessor was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), a drug-laundering bank which was of use to CIA Director William Casey precisely because of its corrupt global reach. As a Washington insider said to two Time reporters covering BCCI,

They were the only way we could talk to certain folks, and they were the only vehicle available for some transactions. Who else could wire something together to Saudi Arabia, China, Israel, and the U.S.?[6]
It is worthy of note that Khashoggi has enjoyed intimate connections to both, as well as to western intelligence and western politicians.

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One of the alleged purposes of the meeting at the villa – but not the only one – was to give the Yeltsin "family" what it supposedly needed: a Russian 9/11.

The "Russian 9/11" in 1999: Bombings and Plans for War

Russia has been familiar for some time with charges that the bombings in Moscow in 1999, and an accompanying invasion of Russian Dagestan that rekindled the ongoing war in neighboring Chechnya, were both planned by representatives of the Islamist element in the Chechen resistance, in collusion with a representative of the Russian Kremlin.

Read synoptically, these stories indicate that the well-connected drug-trafficking meta-group, with connections to both the Kremlin and the CIA, arranged in advance for the bombings and invasion at the meeting in July 1999, at a French villa owned by the superrich arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi. The group allegedly operated with support from Saudi Arabia and organized global drug trafficking, some of it probably through Kosovo.

The group's business front, Far West, Ltd., is said to have CIA-approved contractual dealings with Halliburton for geopolitical purposes in the Caucasus, as well as dealings in Iraq with Diligence LLC, a group with connections to Joe Allbaugh (the FEMA chief in 2001) and to the President's younger brother Neil Bush. The head of Far West recently told a Russian outlet that "a well-known American corporation... is a co-founder of our agency."[10]

The evidence for this western face of the group is laid out in an article by a so-called Yuri Yasenev, which is clearly a compilation of extracts from intelligence reports, on a Russian website.[11] The article is cited – very selectively – as authoritative by a reputable Hoover Institution scholar, John B. Dunlop.[12] But Dunlop completely ignores, one might say, suppresses, Yasenev's case as I have summarized it above. He uses the article instead to document a more familiar case: that in 1999 the Yeltsin "family" in the Kremlin dealt with this same group to create what might be called the "Russian 9/11."

When I say that Dunlop suppresses certain details, I do not mean to suggest that he does so conspiratorially, or even consciously. My notion of deep politics, which I have developed elsewhere, posits that in every culture and society there are facts which tend to be suppressed collectively, because of the social and psychological costs of not doing so.[13] Like all other observers, I too have involuntarily suppressed facts and even memories about the drug traffic that were too provocative to be retained with equanimity.[14]

The drug traffic is often the beneficiary of this suppression, which leaves it more free to act without interference. In Deep Politics I referred to the pervasive influence of a U.S. government-drug collaboration which I called "Operation X," looking at it from the perspective of a parapolitical manipulation of the traffic by the government.[15] I wish now that I had written of a "Force X," a force which was no longer under total government control, and indeed could influence government behavior for its own ends.[16]

Dunlop's thesis is in itself an alarming one. It is that men of influence in the Kremlin, building on the connections established by the wealthy oligarch Boris Berezovskii, were able to arrange for staged violence, in order to reinforce support for an unpopular Russian government. This staged violence took the form of lethal bombings in the capital and an agreed-upon incursion by Chechens into Russian Dagestan.

This credible thesis is even more alarming when we consider that both Khashoggi and Berezovskii have purchased significant political influence in the West as well. In 2003 Khashoggi was negotiating with Richard Perle, a member of the Cheney-Rumsfeld clique who at the time was still Chairman of the U.S. Defense Policy Board, to invest considerable Saudi money in Perle's company Trireme.[17] Berezovskii is a shareholder in the software company, Ignite, of President Bush's delinquent brother Neil Bush.[18]

More significantly, Khashoggi and his connections have shown in the past their ability to influence, even distort, U.S. foreign policy, to the detriment of the latter. An important example was the ill-fated so-called Ghorbanifar initiative during Iran-Contra, to sell arms to the mullahs in Iran in exchange for the release of American hostages:

Ghorbanifar was not acting alone. Although he led us to believe he was using Iranian money, his forward purchases and bridge deposits were actually being bankrolled by Adnan Khashoggi [and BCCI]....Khashoggi had an on-and-off relationship with Israel for many years and evidently had been in the loop as Ghorbanifar's backer from the very beginning.[19]
Ghorbanifar could never have caused such embarrassment to the Reagan Administration if he had not been backed by deeper, hidden forces.

By the "Russian 9/11" I mean the bombings of Russian apartment buildings in 1999,

accompanied by the pre-arranged (and partly staged) second Russian invasion of Chechnya. For some time the West has heard versions of the claim that both events were planned at the time by Russian intelligence. For example Patrick Cockburn reported as follows in the Independent:

Boris Kagarlitsky, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Comparative Politics, writing in the weekly Novaya Gazeta, says that the bombings in Moscow and elsewhere were arranged by the GRU (the Russian military intelligence service). He says they used members of a group controlled by Shirvani Basayev, brother of the Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, to plant the bombs. These killed 300 people in Buikask, Moscow and Volgodonsk in September.[20]
Cockburn's source, Boris Kagarlitskii, also accused Russian intelligence agents of planting at least one of the bombs.

Boris Kagarlitsky, a member of the Russian Institute for Comparative Politics, stated: "FSB officers were caught red-handed while planting the bomb. They were arrested by the police and they tried to save themselves by showing FSB identity cards." The first man to enter the basement, Police Inspector Andrei Chernyshev, related: "It was about 10 in the evening. There were some strangers who were seen leaving the basement. We were told about the men who came out from the basement and left the car with a licence number which was covered with paper. I went down to the basement. This block of flats had a very deep basement which was completely covered with water. We could see sacks of sugar and in them some electronic device, a few wires and a clock. We were shocked. We ran out of the basement and I stayed on watch by the entrance and my officers went to evacuate the people." Despite the arrest of the FSB officers by the police, they were quietly released when the secret service's Moscow headquarters intervened. The Observer reports that the next day, in an attempt to cover-up the discovery, "the FSB in Moscow announced that there had never been a bomb, only a training exercise."[21]
Western scholarly analyses have seen the bombings and war as part of a stratagem to boost the popularity of the Kremlin, and particularly the little-known new Prime Minister Putin, for the coming presidential elections in November 1999. The most thorough study, by John Dunlop of the Hoover Institution, blames the plotting on three protégés of the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovskii – Valentin Yumashev, Alexander Voloshin, and Roman Abramovich – who at this point were members of Yeltsin's "Family" in the Kremlin.[22] (As for Berezovskii himself, Dunlop writes that by mid-1999 "all of his real but beginning-to-dwindle political influence was obtained through the intercession of D'yachenko [Yeltsin's daughter] and Yumashev.")[23]

[changedname]

Just before the guy said the building is about the collapse did you notice another guy said the building was about to "BLOW UP"?? I think that point is significant also!! Watch again and note the guy saying "BLOW UP"!!

[A K]

III. Allegations of Drug-Trafficking and Far West, Ltd
Yasenev links Saidov, Surikov, and others to their former service in a drug-interception group in Afghanistan, under a Leonid Kosyakov who now headed a company called Far West, Ltd.:

Leonid Leonidovich Kosyakov, b. 1955, Ukrainian citizen. Until 2005 resided in Arab Emirates and Switzerland. Citizen of Ukraine. Retired from the service in May 1993. Presently the president of Far West Ltd. In 1983-85 Kosyakov was in command of a special group in Shindand (Afghanistan), assigned to intercept caravans with drugs. In different times under his direct command served Filin, Lunev, Likhvintsev, Surikov, Petrov, as well as Saidov[76]
Yasenev also presents testimony that this group developed into what the Russians call an OPS (an Organized Criminal Society) responsible for massive drug-trafficking:

These accusations were made by the former officer of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine Sergei Petrov (alias Serge Rodin, French citizen).
According to his testimony:
"The OPS [organized criminal society] was involved in drug trafficking since the beginning of 1990s:
-from 1995 the OPS transports heroin (produced in Afghanistan) from Tajikistan to European countries via Russia with the assistance of the Russian Defense Ministry.
- from 2000 the OPS is involved in smuggling Colombian cocaine to Russia through the seaports of Novorossiysk and St. Petersburg under the disguise of import shipments from Latin America.
Among the OPS contacts in Novorossyisk is Saidov; in St. Petersburg it used to be Roman Tsepov.
Received profits are used for personal enrichment of the OPS leaders, the officials at the Ministry of Defense who provide them with "the roof" [protection], and for financing extremist activities."
In November of 2003, Rodin contacted the law enforcement agencies of Germany and France. Their investigation did not result in any actions against Filin, Likhvintsev, and their partners.
In January 2004, Rodin was blown up in his car in South Africa.
Yasenev's charge of a military organized crime group under Filin had been reported a year earlier by Russian journalist Nikita Kaledin:

There is a powerful military organized crime community which from 1992 through to the present has controlled substantial drug flows from Afghanistan to Russia and Europe and is also involved in laundering "dirty" money and is actively involved in Russia's political life. The community is controlled by former intelligence officers, Afghan war veterans, and now drugs barons Vova Filin and Lesha Pribalt. The former lives in Switzerland, the latter in London. Both make quite frequent trips to Moscow, Dushanbe, Nazran, and Khankala....
Filin and Pribalt literally flooded Russia with heroin. The Kremlin could not tolerate this abomination any longer and ordered a mighty "Chekist raid" [i.e., ordered the FSB to shut down the operation] against the narcobarons. However, it is rumored that the raid has ended up with the agreement that the latter would 1) share their profits; 2) help in the facilitating the peaceful referendum on the constitution in Chechnya; 3) bring some order to the drug market by liquidating the leaders of ethnic criminal groups."[77]

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Far West, Ltd, Halliburton, Diligence LLC, New Bridge, and Neil Bush

The connection to Far West, Ltd, of Filin, Likhvinsky, Surikov, and Saidov (along with Alfonso Davidovich) has since been stunningly corroborated by a news story on the Pravda-info website about Far West, Ltd, and Kosyakov's resignation from it.

At a meeting of its stockholders on 2 May in the Hotel Ritz Carlton in Dubai "Far West Ltd." accepted the retirement of the president of the Agency Leonid Kosiakov, who moved to government service in Ukraine. Vladimir Filin, member of the Editorial Board of "Pravda-info," was elected the new president, at the same time retaining his previous position as executive director. The meeting of stockholders, in accordance with its charter, selected new members of the board of directors of "Far West Ltd.," which will now contain 9 members. Besides Vladimir Filin, Anatolii Baranov and Anton Surikov, it will include four more members if the Editorial Board of "Pravda-info": Audrius Butkevicius, Aleksei Likhvintsev, Natal'ia Roeva, and Ruslan Saidov, and also Valerii Lunev,[79] a veteran of the Armed Forces, and Alfonso Davidovich, a political scientist from Venezuela.
Far West, the story said,

specializes in consulting work on questions of security in conducting business in regions of the world with unstable environments and hiring personnel for foreign private military companies [last three words in English]. Its head office is located in Switzerland. In addition, the Agency has a network of representatives in OAE [United Arab Emirates], Afghanistan, Colombia, the autonomous region of Kosovo, the autonomous republic of Crimea, Georgia, and the Volga Federal District of the RF [Russian Federation].[80]
Recently Filin gave Pravda.info some details about Far West's work, and revealed that the firm had been co-founded by "a sub-division of a well-known American corporation." He said that the company's new contract is

connected with the secured transport of commercial shipments from Afghanistan, where we have an office, to ports on the Black Sea. In Afghanistan there is a well-known U.S. air base in Bagram. It is connected by an aerial bridge with a number of other US air bases. For example, with the largest base in Frankfurt-on-Main, that's in Germany, with an intermediary landing in Chkalovsk, in the Moscow area. But the most commercially attractive route seems to be that from Bagram to the US air base in Magas, in Kyrgyzstan. By the way, it is quite near the Russian air base in Kant. A significant flow of shipments passes through Magas, there is a niche there for commercial shipments too. This is very profitable. It is much more profitable than routing commercial shipments from Afghanistan through Tajikistan. Therefore last year we completely withdrew from all shipping through Tajikistan and closed our office in that country.
Who are your partners?

Who our partners are is a commercial secret. I can say that they are four private firms from three countries, Turkey, Russia, and the USA,which engage among other things in shipping. One of these firms is a sub-division of a well-known American corporation. This firm is a co-founder of our agency.[81]

We can assume that Pravda.info is an inside source for information about Far West, for the two organizations seem in fact to be two different manifestations of the same group. Among the directors of Far West on the masthead of Pravda.info we find first of all Anton Surikov, followed by Anatolii Baranov, Aleksei Likhvintsev, Ruslan Saidov, Vladimir Filin, Natal'ia Roeva, and Audrius Butkevicius.[82]

Also on the Pravda.info masthead is Boris Kagarlitskii, who as we saw at the outset is a main source for the Western accounts of the meeting in southern France, by Patrick Cockburn, Nafeez Ahmed, and John Dunlop.[83] Many of the Far West directors, notably Anton Surikov, are or have been also associated with Kagarlitskii at the Russian Institute for Globalization Studies (IPROG).[84]

Although Filin and Pravda.info did not identify the foreign private military companies with which it worked, another source did:

Filin and Likhvintsev do business with foreign private military companies (PMCs):
- «Meteoric Tactical Solutions» (South Africa) – in Angola;
- «Kellogg, Brown &Root» (KBR Halliburton) – in Colombia, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Georgia, and Iraq.
- «Diligence Iraq LLC» (controlled by the Kuwaiti Mohammed as-Sagar) – in Iraq."
Their cooperation with these companies began in the end of 1994 in Angola on the initiative of Victor Bout, who was involved in the shipments of Soviet-made arms to the antigovernment group UNITA in exchange to raw diamonds.[85] Apparently, Bout became interested in Likhvintsev's contacts (L. worked in Angola in 1986-87). Later, in October of 1998, Filin, Likhvintsev's wife Liudmila Rozkina (b. 1966) and Anton Surikov (at that time he worked in the Russian government) established the company Far West Ltd., with the office in Lausanne, which officially does security consulting for business ventures in countries with unstable regimes. De facto, this is a legalized form of recruiting mercenaries for PMCs.[86]
Furthermore Yasenev claims that some of Far West's work with Halliburton is apparently approved by the CIA for geopolitical purposes:

In 2003-2004, Filin and Likhvintsev worked on the Georgian project, financed by KBR Halliburton, apparently, with the approval of the CIA. The project had the goal of weakening the competitors of Halliburton in the oil business and, in a broader context, of facilitating the geopolitical objectives of the United States in the Caucasus. The OPS man in Georgia is Audrius Butkevicius, former Lithuanian minister of defense, presently advisor to Badri Patarkatsishvili.[87]
Some of Yasenev's information about Diligence Iraq is corroborated by a Press Release from Diligence itself.[88]

Diligence LLC, a private military company (PMC), could be described as a CIA spin-off:

Diligence was founded by William Webster, the only man to head both the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Mike Baker, its chief executive officer, spent 14 years at the CIA as a covert field operations officer specializing in counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations. Whitley Bruner, its chief operating officer in Baghdad, was once the CIA station chief in Iraq.[89]
Its partner in Diligence Middle East (DME) is New Bridge Strategies, whose political clout was described by the Financial Times:

New Bridge was established in May [2003] and came to public attention because of the Republican heavyweights on its board – most linked to one or other Bush administration [officials] or to the family itself. Those include Joe Allbaugh, George W. Bush's presidential campaign manager, and Ed Rogers and Lanny Griffith, former George H.W. Bush aids.[90]
Joe Allbaugh, the co-chairman of the company, was also head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), on the day of the 9/11 attacks, and indeed until March 2003, the month that the U.S. invaded Iraq.

The Financial Times wrote that the success of New Bridge in securing contracts had to do with their relationship to Neil Bush, the President's brother:

Two businessmen instrumental in setting up New Bridge Strategies, a well-connected Washington firm designed to help clients win contracts in Iraq, have previously used an association with the younger brother of President George W. Bush to seek business in the Middle East, an FT investigation has found.
John Howland, the company president, and Jamal Daniel, a principal, have maintained an important business relationship with Neil Bush stretching back several years. In Mr Daniel's case, the relationship spans more than a decade, with his French office arranging a trip for Mr Bush's family to Disneyland Paris in 1992, while his father, George H.W.Bush, was president.
On several occasions, the two have attempted to exploit their association with the president's brother to help win business and investors.
Three people contacted by the FT have seen letters written by Neil Bush recommending business ventures promoted by Mr Howland, Mr Daniel and his family in the Middle East. Mr Daniel has also had his photograph taken with the elder Mr Bush. Such letters and photographs can be valuable props when doing business in the Middle East.
Mr Daniel's Houston investment fund, Crest Investment Corporation, employs Neil Bush as co-chairman. Crest Investment also helped fund Neil Bush's Ignite!, an educational software company. Mr Daniel sometimes introduces himself as a founding backer of Mr Bush's company, a Middle-Eastern businessman who has met him said, and has persuaded the families of prominent leaders in the region to invest.[91]
Until recently, news stories about the international backers for Neil Bush's firm ignite have focused on Taiwanese businessmen, and Middle East billionaires, such as Defense Minister and Crown Prince of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum.[92] But it was a surprise to learn in September 2005 that "Exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky was in Riga along with Neil Bush, the brother of the U.S. president, to discuss an educational project with Latvian businessmen."[93] In an interview with Interfax, "Berezovsky pointed out that he is one of the shareholders of Ignite! Inc., an educational software company. U.S. President George W. Bush's brother Neil Bush is the company's chairman and chief executive."[94]


There have been reports in mass media about the involvement of the U.S. military in Afghanistan in drug trafficking. I asked the well-known political scientist and specialist on organized crime Vladimir Filin to comment on this.
-Vladimir Ilyich, is it true that Americans are involved in drug business?
-Yes, they are in ideal situation for this. They control the Bagram airfield from where the Air Force transport planes fly to a U.S. military base in Germany. In the last two years this base became the largest transit hub for moving Afghan heroin to other US bases and installations in Europe. Much of it goes to Kosovo in the former Yugoslavia. From there the Kosovo Albanian mafia moves heroin back to Germany and other EU countries.
-Why such a complex arrangement?
Drug traffickers enjoy relative safety in military bases. There is no serious control there. German police cannot work there. However, outside of military bases German law-enforcement is in effect. True, any police can be bought. But the level of corruption in Germany is not as high as, say, in Russia. This is why it is more convenient for Americans to establish distribution centers in other places. I believe that, in time, such centers will move to their military installations in Poznan, Poland, and also in Romania and Bulgaria. Poland is already a EU member. Romania and Bulgaria are expected to be in 2007. Corruption in these countries is almost as high as in Russia.
-How big is American drug traffic to Europe and who is behind it?
-About 15-20 tons of heroin a year. When Poznan become open, I think it could rise to 50, even 70 tons. Behind this business are the CIA and the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency). Actually, this is what they did already in Indochina in the 1960s-70s and in Central America in the 1980s.[96]
Under the circumstances I consider Filin to be no more reliable than his opposite number, Joseph D. Douglass, the author of Red Cocaine: The Drugging of America and the West. But legitimate questions abound as to why the USA empowered the KLA to take over Kosovo.


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AK:  THIS NEXT PART IS KEY
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A test of the Bush Administration's true intentions in the War on Terror came as early as November 2001. The Americans had learned, correctly, that Osama bin Laden was holed up in the caves of Tora Bora. While storming the caves was a difficult military challenge, surrounding and isolating them was well within the capacity of U.S. military strength. However General Franks, the United States commander, entrusted the task of capturing bin Laden to two local commanders: Hazrat Ali and Haji Zaman.

As we have seen, Hazrat Ali and Haji Zaman were not only drug lords, they were earlier part of the 1980s heroin trail to Soviet troops that had been organized "with the blessings of the CIA." Thus the U.S. could hardly plead ignorance as to these men's activities and interests, which clearly involved making sure that the writ of Kabul would never extend to their own Nangahar Province. For the drug trade to thrive in Afghanistan, it was necessary that the influence of Osama and the Taliban be preserved, not extinguished.

The folly of using Hazrat Ali and Haji Zaman was brought to Franks' attention at the time:


Military and intelligence officials had warned Franks and others that the two main Afghan commanders, Hazrat Ali and Haji Zaman, couldn't be trusted, and they proved to be correct. They were slow to move their troops into place and didn't attack until four days after American planes began bombing – leaving time for al-Qaida leaders to escape and leaving behind a rear guard of Arab, Chechen and Uzbek fighters.[110]
The failure to use U.S. troops cannot be attributed to the motive of appeasing local sentiments:


Pir Baksh Bardiwal, the intelligence chief for the Eastern Shura, said that he would welcome a massive influx of U.S. troops. He believed that the Pentagon planners were making a grave mistake by not surrounding Tora Bora.[111]
A U.S. journalist who was there, Philip Smucker, claims that the treachery of the local commanders went beyond their slowness to surround Tora Bora. He describes hearing how one lower level commander


whom Ali had assigned to guard the Pakistani border, had acted as an outright escort for al Qaeda.... "Ilyas Khel just showed the Arabs the way out of the country into Pakistan".....That Ali had entrusted [Khel, who had once served under the military commander of Osama's friend Younis Khalis] suggested to us that the escapes were part of a much broader conspiracy to assist al Qaeda right through to the end.[112]
How high up did this conspiracy go? Certainly Ali's failure to capture Osama could have been and was predicted. But if capturing Osama was indeed the U.S. goal (as announced at the time by Colin Powell), the real question is why the task was not entrusted to U.S. troops.

In the wake of 9/11, Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI translator, has claimed to possess information linking the American 9/11, and much else, to massive drug-trafficking which has corrupted high level U.S. officials. Among other things, she has claimed that the U.S. has never gone after top-level drug traffickers, because

this would upset "certain foreign relations." But it would also expose certain of our elected officials, who have significant connections with high-level drugs- and weapons-smuggling – and thus with the criminal underground, even with the terrorists themselves.....[113]
After Ms. Edmonds reported improprieties to her FBI employers, she was fired. She has appealed her firing, but the Bush administration has invoked the unusual claim of the "state-secrets privilege" to prevent the lawsuits she has filed from being heard in court. At this point we know little more than that what concerned her involved arms-dealing, drug-trafficking, and Turkey.

It is I think a matter of national priority to learn more about the American links to Far West, Ltd., the group accused of staging the Russian 9/11. It is a matter of more than purely historic interest to learn if that group's Islamist and American connections could have supplied a meeting-ground for staging the American 9/11 as well.

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Since first hearing about the meta-group's role in the Russian 9/11, I have pondered the question whether it could have played a similar role in the American 9/11 as well. At this point I have to say that I have found no persuasive evidence that would prove its involvement. The fact remains that two informed and credible witnesses, Sibell Edmonds and Indira Singh, have spoken independently of the importance of international drug trafficking in the background of 9/11.

The Bush Administration has paid Sibell Edmonds the tribute of silencing her on the grounds of national interest. She has nonetheless made it clear that what she would talk about concerns that part of the world where the meta-group has influence:

SE [Sibell Edmonds]: It's interesting, in one of my interviews, they say "Turkish countries," but I believe they meant Turkic countries – that is, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and all the 'Stans, including Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and [non-Turkic countries like] Afghanistan and Pakistan. All of these countries play a big part in the sort of things I have been talking about.
CD [Chris Deliso]: What, you mean drug-smuggling?
SE: Among other things. Yes, that is a major part of it. It's amazing that in this whole "war on terror" thing, no one ever talks about these issues.[120]
Indira Singh, who lost her high-tech job at J.P. Morgan after telling the FBI about Ptech and 9/11, was even more dramatic in her public testimony at a Canadian event:

I did a number of things in my research and when I ran into the drugs I was told that if I mentioned the money to the drugs around 9/11 that would be the end of me.[121]
The False Dilemmas of 9/11 Theories


I said earlier that by suppressing awareness of the role of drug-trafficking in our society, we give drug traffickers a de facto franchise to exert political influence without criticism or opposition. An example of this is the discussion of 9/11 in America, which usually fails to consider the meta-group among the list of possible suspects.

I have tried to suggest in this paper that in fact the meta-group had both motive – to restore the Afghan opium harvest and increase instability and chaos along the trade routes through Central Asia – and opportunity – to utilize its contacts with both al-Zawahiri in al Qaeda and the CIA in Washington. It is furthermore the best candidate to explain one of the more difficult anomalies (or indeed paradoxes) of the clues surrounding 9/11: that many of the clues lead in the direction of Saudi Arabia(AK - And more importantly Turkey and Pakistan), but some lead also in a very different direction, towards Israel.[122]

Here it is worth quoting again the well-informed remark of a Washington insider about the meta-group's predecessor, BCCI: "Who else could wire something together to Saudi Arabia, China, Israel, and the U.S.?"[123] The current meta-group fills the same bill, for it unites supporters of Muslim Salafism (Saidov) with at least one Israeli citizen (Kosman).

The meta-group's involvement in the Russian 9/11 of course does nothing to prove its involvement in the American one. However awareness of its presence – as an unrecognized Force X operating in the world – makes previous discussions of 9/11 seem curiously limited. Again and again questions of responsibility have been unthinkingly limited to false dilemmas in which the possible involvement of this or any other Force X is excluded.

An early example is Michael Moore's naïve question to President Bush in Dude, Where's My Country: "Who attacked the United States on September 11 – a guy on dialysis from a cave in Afghanistan, or your friends, Saudi Arabia?"[124] A far more widespread dilemma is that articulated by David Ray Griffin in his searching critique of the 9/11 Commission Report:

There are two basic theories about 9/11. Each of these theories is a "conspiracy theory." One of these is the official conspiracy theory, according to which the attacks of 9/11 were planned and executed solely by al-Qaeda terrorists under the guidance of Osama bin Laden....Opposing this official theory is the [sic] alternative conspiracy theory, which holds that the attacks of 9/11 were able to succeed only because they were facilitated by the Bush administration and its agencies.[125]

Griffin of course is not consciously excluding a third possible theory – that a Force X was responsible. But his failure to acknowledge this possibility is an example of the almost universal cultural denial I referred to earlier. In America few are likely to conceive of the possibility that a force in contact with the U.S. government could be not just an asset, but a force exerting influence on that government.

My personal suggestion to 9/11 researchers is that they focus on the connections of the meta-group's firm Far West, Ltd. – in particular those which lead to Khashoggi, Berezovskii, Halliburton and Dick Cheney, and Diligence, Joe Allbaugh, and Neil Bush.


AK:  And I would add, the information from Sibel Edmonds that this group ties into disloyal neocons like Feith, Perle, Wolfowitz, Grossman, Hastert and others, and their ties to the Turkish-Israeli-Pakistani drugs/arms smuggling and money laundering groups.  Also:  NOTE THAT CHENEY AND ALLBAUGH WERE RUNNING THE EXERCISES ON 9-11 THAT PUT E4-B'S IN THE AIR OVER DC, NY AND PENN/OHIO, AND SENT EAST COAST FIGHTER JETS TO CANADA, AND PUT FEMA MEN ON THE GROUND IN NYC ON 9-10-01.

[A K]

I tied to post what I think are the most important excerpts but the whole article is at the cite Miki gave or here:

http://crimesofthestate.blogspot.com/2007/05/peter-dale-scott-global-drug-meta-group.html

And yes our strange Russian (?) accented military man does say "blow up".

[trixi1]

At about 1:05 into it, they propagate the message that #7 WTC fell because of 'falling debris' from the twin towers. What a bunch of

[changedname]

C.R.A.P is right..Crimminals Responsible for Attacks and Propaganda!!!

[David Rothscum]

http://www.archive.org/details/abc200109131818-1900
The clip is from 25:23

http://www.911blogger.com/node/8980#comment

[trixi1]

C.R.A.P is right..Crimminals Responsible for Attacks and Propaganda!!!

Actually, that pretty much sums it up, doesn't it?

[L2Design]

OMGGGG

So can we BOMBARD the media and ask them when the nuke is going to go off and where?

[plantop14]

WTF, that sounded like a eastern European accent

[pac522]

Could that foreign troop be from an embassy? My next thought would have been some sort of UN or NATO troop. But it's definitely out of place what ever it is.

[UpsetBrit]

The Russian consulate is on the east side of central park, in the northern half of the island. The Ukrainian consulate is further south of that, closer to ground zero.

I don't think it's possible that troops would have been pulled from embassies though. Surely they would have secured their own premises and citizens incase of attack.

There's so many foreign troops in the US, there wouldn't have been a need to pull them from political buildings anyway. 

[revolutionary_suicide]

that footage looks like it may be out of context.. is there any way of verifying that the foreign troop was at the WTC7 location? if so this is highly implicating and i sure wonder under whos authority he was spouting off 'NO INFORMATIONS' like a good little 1984 drone.

[Pressed_Rat]

At about 1:05 into it, they propagate the message that #7 WTC fell because of 'falling debris' from the twin towers. What a bunch of

No.  That is the message the MEDIA was trying to propagate.  If you actually watched the entire video, you would see that is NOT what the video itself was trying to propagate.

[onehundredmonkeys]

Just before the guy said the building is about the collapse did you notice another guy said the building was about to "BLOW UP"?? I think that point is significant also!! Watch again and note the guy saying "BLOW UP"!!

Indeed a strange choice of words.
Comedown, collapse, fall yes but who would anticipate anything to 'blowup' let alone the entire building?

But then again, strange events make for strange reactions?

[ugaltme]

I totally agree with sane that it sounds and seems to be some sort of either KGB or russian op and had the sense enough to cover the camera.  Just because someone wears a certain uniform does not mean much as everyone knows the KGB often infiltrate covertly.

I swear this is true...check this out.

It was august of 2001 when a friend I had known from the internet called me one afternoon and said "you are not going to believe this but Ij ust saw a tank, a us military tank rolling down the friggin street up ere in long island !

That is the truth.

[smokecheck]

 It's Russian accent, but doesn't prove he is a foreign troop.

 

[ugaltme]

http://crimesofthestate.blogspot.com/2005/07/4-minutes-on-9-11.html
TO AK;

i went to the above link and wanted to see about this link on the page but it is not working???(ties to the spanish scurity)
In Spain, the Madrid railway bombings were perpetrated by "police informants"--
as
reported by BBC -- and these perpetrators had ties
to the Spanish security services of Aznar. 

[A K]

That link works for me.

I haven't studied it extensively, but from what I understand the Madrid bombing fits the pattern 9-11, the Moscow apartment bombings, the Bolgana railway bombings and (maybe) the London underground bombings - i.e., they were probable false flag attacks.  I understand that many implicated in Madrid were not Muslim fanatics but rather had backgrounds in low and mid level drug dealing and/or working as police informants.  These kind of people can be easily manipulated - "I need you to take this bag to the railway station" or "Meet up with these Muslims and pretend to join the group." 

Spain only had a small force in Iraq, so it seems strange for Al Queda to care so much about it to do a massive operation like Madrid.  But the Spainish voters didn't fall for it, and unlike the "rally around the President" effect of the Moscow, 9-11 and London bombings, they the right wing government out of power.

[Dig]

It's Russian accent, but doesn't prove he is a foreign troop.

 

correct, but who was he?  why was he in full gear?  how did he know what was going to happen?  why did he seem so calm during the most dramatic events of many people's lifetimes? how does the media not follow up on such an important piece of information?

those are the questions I am more interested in.