This ‘zeal for secrecy’ I am talking about – and I have barely touched the surface – adds up to a victory for the terrorists. When they plunged those hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon three years ago this morning, they were out to hijack our Gross National Psychology. If they could fill our psyche with fear – as if the imagination of each one of us were Afghanistan and they were the Taliban – they could deprive us of the trust and confidence required for a free society to work. They could prevent us from ever again believing in a safe, decent or just world and from working to bring it about. By pillaging and plundering our peace of mind they could panic us into abandoning those unique freedoms – freedom of speech, freedom of the press – that constitute the ability of democracy to self-correct and turn the ship of state before it hits the iceberg. Bill Moyers, speech Society of Professional Journalists 11th September 2004
Gladio: In 1980 a bomb exploded at Bologna Railway Station which killed eighty-six people. Six years later an official report revealed the existence of an invisible government in Italy run by the state secret services and groups of political terrorists. It also identified a military and civilian organisation under which neo-fascist groups were allowed to commit atrocities against civilians for political motives. Timewatch: Operation Gladio: The Puppeteers
On December 7th 1970 Prince Valerio Borghese organised neo-fascists in an attempt to overthrow the Italian government. The Italian ministry of the interior was to be captured. But after units had moved into position, a telephone call cancelled the entire operation. In the aftermath of the aborted coup, the existence of the parallel structures of Gladio was uncovered. ibid.
For forty years secret terrorist organisations, many trained by Western intelligence agencies, have manipulated the political control of European sovereign states by a campaign of terror and murder. Originally part of a secret network, these groups changed from being defenders of state security into attackers of the established political order. Until two years ago that secret network was generally known by the single word Gladio. Timewatch: Operation Gladio: The Ring Masters
As the Germans withdrew they left behind secret agents in the countries they’d occupied. The secret services called such groups ‘stay-behinds’. For the retreating Germans they were the staunchest believers. They were selected from the SS and fascist black legions. They would become the foot soldiers of the next war about to begin – the Cold War. ibid.
Secret Service documents from several member countries reveal Gladio to be a European-wide organisation including Denmark, Norway, Holland, Spain, Turkey and Greece. All Gladio’s secret information is coordinated in Brussels through the CPC – Clandestine Planning Committee – which meets periodically, with the chairmanship being handed from one country’s secret service to the next. The entire organisation is handled outside NATO. ibid.
On March 16th 1978 the Italian left-wing terrorists kidnapped the former Italian prime minister Mr Aldo Moro. On that day the Italian parliament was about to debate the inclusion of the Italian Communist Party in a government of national unity for the first time since 1948. Aldo Moro had long believed that this was the only solution for political stability in Italy. Timewatch: Operation Gladio: Foot Soldiers
The core distortion of the War on Terror under both Bush and Obama is the Orwellian practice of equating government accusations of terrorism with proof of guilt. One constantly hears US government defenders referring to ‘terrorists’ when what they actually mean is: those accused by the government of terrorism. Glenn Greenwald
Perspective is a ghost in American journalism. Last year acts of terrorism killed three to four hundred people, ranking it so far down the list of dangers ... it is barely visible. Lawrence Martin, former Washington correspondent
The main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism were US oil corporate interests. John O’Neill, FBI
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. Harry Truman, 1950
The Lavon Affair was an Israeli terrorist operation known in Egypt as Operation Susannah in which Egyptian, American and British-owned targets in Egypt were bombed in the summer of 1954. Missing Links – The Definitive Truth About 9/11
Terrorism they believe is against their faith. (Islam – What a Billion Muslims Really Think
They are as likely as the American public to reject attacks targeting civilians. ibid.
The primary victims of terrorists are Muslims. ibid.
Those terrorists that want to do harm to others are applying the true Islam that was practised by Muhammad and his followers. Abdullah Al-Araby
Over 300 hostages were killed including 156 children. The terrorists were Muslims and they carried out the attacks in the name of Islam. The Third Jihad: Radical Islam’s Vision for America, 2008
A strategy to infiltrate and dominate America. We all know about terrorism; this is the war you don’t know about. ibid.
The US government has stopped over 31 attacks against the US since 9/11. ibid.
Many so-called moderate Muslim leaders have been convicted on terror-related charges. ibid.
3/11 happened 911 days after 9/11. The Times of India headline 13th March 2004
Did you know that the Madrid train bombs were exploded 911 days after September 11th 2001? Chris Everard, Spirit World I
Each of the ten blasts would have required between 40 and 50 pounds of high-order military explosives in the C-4/SemtexH category. Such explosives have a very low specific gravity meaning they are exceptionally bulky for their given weights; therefore this would have required ten strong terrorists on the down platform at the same time, each lugging a huge haversack in the middle of the rush hour. Strange then that no eyewitnesses at Alcala de Henares remembers seeing any of them, for these bulky gentlemen would most certainly have stood out in the crowd and caused considerable suspicion among the commuters. 3/11 The Ripple Effect
Every one of the four trains were first serviced; that means each was making its first run of the day from its respective overnight depot after being serviced and cleaned ... We also know that the weapons were fitted to the rolling stock before the trains departed from their respective night yards or depots. ibid.
Why the components supposedly found in the analysis were hidden for three years? Why the trains’ wreckage from the HM attack was not sent to the scientific police? Why only two days after the terrorist attack did the judge allow the destruction of the trains? ibid.
The Spanish Federal Government Fools the Entire Western World On April Fool’s Day. ibid. ch9
ICTS Europe was also in charge of handling the security at London bus terminals and subways where the terror attacks on July 7th 2005 took place. ibid.
Spain’s Supreme Court Acquits Four Over Madrid Bombings. ABC News headline, cited 3/11 The Ripple Effect
Outright Terror: Bold & Brilliant. advertisement poster on side of bus at 7/7 bombsite
Algeria: 4 Islamist extremists are preparing to hijack an Air France plane. But this will be a hijacking with a terrible difference: no political demands, no negotiations over hostages. The hijackers are about to vent their fury on France. The plan foreshadows Osama bin Laden’s holy war against the West. 7 years before 9/11 the terrorists are planning to fly to Paris and crash the plane with over 200 passengers on board into the heart of the city. Peter Taylor, Age of Terror 3/4: The Paris Plot, BBC 2008
The hijackers were members of an extremist Islamist group called the GIA, a group notorious for its brutality. They were armed with guns, grenades and twenty sticks of dynamite. ibid.
The GIA had fed off decades of poverty, anger and political repression under Algeria’s corrupt military-backed regime. Algeria’s unemployed youth exploded in violent demonstrations. ibid.
The plane took off but not for Paris … The hijackers were not on French soil [Marseilles] and in French hands. ibid.
The assault team moved in at speed. ibid.
Friday, August 7th 1998: Two men in a delivery truck set off from a suburb of the Kenyan capital Nairobi. In the back, 1,600 pounds of explosives. 45 minutes later the truck pulls up at the rear entrance of the United States’ embassy … Over 200 were killed, thousands more were injured. Peter Taylor, Age of Terror 4/4: War on the West
This is the story of unheeded warnings, missed opportunities, the slaughter of innocence. Osama bin Laden’s war on the West is the latest bloody chapter in the Age of Terror. ibid.
A second truck bomb exploded at the US embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. ibid.