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Secret 9/11 documents
by Reverend Damuzi (05 Dec, 2002) Missing EU press releases show hidden history
If the White House went after knowledge about what happened in 9/11 with as much ferocity as it looks for nukes and biological weapons in Iraq, we might know what really happened by now. The fact that the White House hasn't done so is creating some wondering. With the White House appointment of the notorious Henry Kissinger as head of the 9/11 inquiry, it seems unlikely that the American public will ever know the truth. Kissinger - wanted in Paris, Chile and Argentina for questioning about the international terrorist network called Operation Condor, which in the 70's saw the slaughter of thousands of South American leftists, and paved the way for US-friendly dictatorships - was also enmeshed in the complex politics surrounding Middle East oil that led directly to 9/11.
In the midst of White House stonewalling, US Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham is calling for the declassification of 9/11 documents that he calls "the most important information that's come to the attention of the joint committee." It's such omitted pieces of knowledge which provide the real sources of mystery, the secret stories that historians and journalists yearn to discover. The very fact that they are hidden means they contain forbidden, potentially explosive knowledge, or even that they point in a direction of thought that our rulers would rather us not travel, making them all that much more enticing.
A few months ago, I stumbled on some missing pieces of 9/11: press releases from May 1998, once available to the public, that mysteriously disappeared from European Union online archives sometime in the last four years. Luckily, I saved these documents in CC archives four years ago, not realizing their import. Their absence from the EU archives is particularly conspicuous since other press releases, dated within days of the missing ones, are still available.
The missing press releases reveal, essentially, that in 1998 US and European Union (EU) officials signed a deal to aggressively cooperate on oil, drugs and questionable trade sanctions in the Middle East knowing it would provoke widespread terrorism. The deal was called the Transatlantic Economic Partnership (TEP), and was largely a free-trade style agreement, with Middle East oil and drugs thrown into the fine print. Although internet aficionados can still find a brief description of the TEP online at EU and US government sites, many important details that were revealed by the missing press releases are left out.
The missing press release, EU-US Summit reaches deal on sanctions, dated May 18, 1998, quotes EU officials criticizing US trade sanctions in the Middle East. EU officials openly admit that they once called US sanctions in the Middle East, "illegal and counterproductive" making "EU-US cooperation to curb terrorism more rather than less difficult." The EU was referring to the Iran Libya Sanctions Act. The EU's criticism of US policy had so far been a stumbling block to the TEP, but the EU was willing to let a little terrorism slip by in exchange for a piece of oil pie.
The problem with the Iran Libya Sanctions Act was that it threatened EU corporations with punishment for trading with Iran or Libya. The US convinced the EU to cooperate by promising protection for EU corporations, including large oil interests, and in exchange the EU agreed to sign the TEP and not to complain about punishments doled out to Middle Eastern countries. Such punishments included, in the case of Afghanistan, drug war decertification, which meant no foreign aid, no international bank loans and trade sanctions. Decertification was a big deal to the Taliban, who had taken - in their opinion - huge measures to curb poppy production in 2000. When Afghanistan wasn't recertified in March 2001, it was a blow to the Taliban, who had hoped they would finally qualify for an inflow of international dollars.
The second missing release - published on May 19, 1998 and titled EU-US Summit launches new trade initiative - heralds the ratification of the TEP and reveals what many critics of the US war in Afghanistan were pointing to since the beginning _ that the US and other western nations saw "multiple pipeline routes" from what the public would later discover was a massive Caspian Sea oil find as highly important to the West's "prosperity, energy security and regional stability." Because of the shapes of Middle Eastern countries and the region's geography, the best route for pipelines from the Caspian Sea was, and still is, directly through Afghanistan.
Why were the press releases missing? They point our minds toward the truth about a seemingly minor shift in US/EU relations that happened four years ago, and how it led directly to the deaths of thousands of people in New York when the twin trade towers collapsed. The TEP deal held the promise of Western prosperity, energy security and regional stability, and with such a hefty bribe stuffing its pockets, the EU agreed to support the US in the drug war, "illegal" trade sanctions, securing Caspian Sea oil, and in suppressing the terrorist retaliations that its officials knew would inevitably follow.
NOTE: The missing press releases were originally found at the online archive of the European Union website's press release archive, known as "RAPID" (www.europa.eu.int). To ensure that the documents were indeed erased, and not just lost somewhere in the EU's massive RAPID archive, which purportedly contains all press-related materials published by the EU, we contacted the site's webmaster, Nadia Ben Madjoub, but even the webmaster could not find them. They are reproduced below:
by Reverend Damuzi (05 Dec, 2002) Missing EU press releases show hidden history
If the White House went after knowledge about what happened in 9/11 with as much ferocity as it looks for nukes and biological weapons in Iraq, we might know what really happened by now. The fact that the White House hasn't done so is creating some wondering. With the White House appointment of the notorious Henry Kissinger as head of the 9/11 inquiry, it seems unlikely that the American public will ever know the truth. Kissinger - wanted in Paris, Chile and Argentina for questioning about the international terrorist network called Operation Condor, which in the 70's saw the slaughter of thousands of South American leftists, and paved the way for US-friendly dictatorships - was also enmeshed in the complex politics surrounding Middle East oil that led directly to 9/11.
In the midst of White House stonewalling, US Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham is calling for the declassification of 9/11 documents that he calls "the most important information that's come to the attention of the joint committee." It's such omitted pieces of knowledge which provide the real sources of mystery, the secret stories that historians and journalists yearn to discover. The very fact that they are hidden means they contain forbidden, potentially explosive knowledge, or even that they point in a direction of thought that our rulers would rather us not travel, making them all that much more enticing.
A few months ago, I stumbled on some missing pieces of 9/11: press releases from May 1998, once available to the public, that mysteriously disappeared from European Union online archives sometime in the last four years. Luckily, I saved these documents in CC archives four years ago, not realizing their import. Their absence from the EU archives is particularly conspicuous since other press releases, dated within days of the missing ones, are still available.
The missing press releases reveal, essentially, that in 1998 US and European Union (EU) officials signed a deal to aggressively cooperate on oil, drugs and questionable trade sanctions in the Middle East knowing it would provoke widespread terrorism. The deal was called the Transatlantic Economic Partnership (TEP), and was largely a free-trade style agreement, with Middle East oil and drugs thrown into the fine print. Although internet aficionados can still find a brief description of the TEP online at EU and US government sites, many important details that were revealed by the missing press releases are left out.
The missing press release, EU-US Summit reaches deal on sanctions, dated May 18, 1998, quotes EU officials criticizing US trade sanctions in the Middle East. EU officials openly admit that they once called US sanctions in the Middle East, "illegal and counterproductive" making "EU-US cooperation to curb terrorism more rather than less difficult." The EU was referring to the Iran Libya Sanctions Act. The EU's criticism of US policy had so far been a stumbling block to the TEP, but the EU was willing to let a little terrorism slip by in exchange for a piece of oil pie.
The problem with the Iran Libya Sanctions Act was that it threatened EU corporations with punishment for trading with Iran or Libya. The US convinced the EU to cooperate by promising protection for EU corporations, including large oil interests, and in exchange the EU agreed to sign the TEP and not to complain about punishments doled out to Middle Eastern countries. Such punishments included, in the case of Afghanistan, drug war decertification, which meant no foreign aid, no international bank loans and trade sanctions. Decertification was a big deal to the Taliban, who had taken - in their opinion - huge measures to curb poppy production in 2000. When Afghanistan wasn't recertified in March 2001, it was a blow to the Taliban, who had hoped they would finally qualify for an inflow of international dollars.
The second missing release - published on May 19, 1998 and titled EU-US Summit launches new trade initiative - heralds the ratification of the TEP and reveals what many critics of the US war in Afghanistan were pointing to since the beginning _ that the US and other western nations saw "multiple pipeline routes" from what the public would later discover was a massive Caspian Sea oil find as highly important to the West's "prosperity, energy security and regional stability." Because of the shapes of Middle Eastern countries and the region's geography, the best route for pipelines from the Caspian Sea was, and still is, directly through Afghanistan.
Why were the press releases missing? They point our minds toward the truth about a seemingly minor shift in US/EU relations that happened four years ago, and how it led directly to the deaths of thousands of people in New York when the twin trade towers collapsed. The TEP deal held the promise of Western prosperity, energy security and regional stability, and with such a hefty bribe stuffing its pockets, the EU agreed to support the US in the drug war, "illegal" trade sanctions, securing Caspian Sea oil, and in suppressing the terrorist retaliations that its officials knew would inevitably follow.
NOTE: The missing press releases were originally found at the online archive of the European Union website's press release archive, known as "RAPID" (www.europa.eu.int). To ensure that the documents were indeed erased, and not just lost somewhere in the EU's massive RAPID archive, which purportedly contains all press-related materials published by the EU, we contacted the site's webmaster, Nadia Ben Madjoub, but even the webmaster could not find them. They are reproduced below: