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Friday, April 2, 2010



Tiger’s Gambling Habits• Woods’s preferred place to stay in Las Vegas was the Mansion at the MGM Grand, where a one-bedroom suite costs $5,000 per night. He would gamble in the ultra-exclusive V.I.P. casino nearby. According to a source known as Robin Hood 702, “sometimes the only people in the place were me, Tiger Woods, and Michael Jordan. Each of us sat at our own private table and played big. Tiger plays big. Up to 30 grand a hand … and when you’re playing splits and doubles, you can have 150 grand on one hand.”
• “When Tiger showed up in Vegas, he was always with Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley,” according to Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Norm Clarke. Years earlier, however, John Merchant had warned Woods to avoid Jordan and Barkley, saying of Jordan, “Stay away from that son of a bitch, because he doesn’t have anything to offer to the fucking world in which he lives except playing basketball.” Merchant adds, “Are they his black role models? You’ve got to be kidding me.”
Ashley Dupre learned that posing for Playboy is more dangerous than meeting strange men in hotel rooms. One of the Stephen Wayda photos in an eight-page spread in the May issue shows her lying on the ground nude surrounded by candles. "A few strands of her hair caught on fire at one point because of all the hairspray," a source said. "The stylist, Jorge Serrano from the Chris McMillan Salon, was the first one to notice and rushed over to put it out with his hands." The shoot, at a 1920s mansion in Malibu, features Ashley, who writes about love and lust each Sunday in The Post, wearing either fake fur or lingerie.
Paramilitary Texas Nazi Judge Sentences Criminal To 65 Years In Prison For 1.3 Grams Of Crack!
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Same Crap, Different County: Another Small Texas Town Overpunishes Another Piddly Drug Offender
Think 35 years for a brick or so of pot is bad?Try this one on for size... In a case one local defense attorney has said showed "shades of Tulia," a Bay City man was sentenced to 60 years in prison for possessing 1.3 grams of crack.Melvin Johnson III, 35, was convicted of possession with intent to deliver in January at the Matagorda County Courthouse.His sentencing was held amid very tight security -- Johnson was shackled and extra deputies were brought in to conduct Johnson to and from the courtroom. According to the Bay City Tribune, observers feared violence because Johnson had refused to place his thumbprint on his judgment of guilt the court had entered an hour before.
At his trial, assistant DA Carla Post seemingly attempted to portray Johnson as the crack kingpin of Bay City. Under her direct examination, a Matagorda County sheriff told the court how his department had kept Johnson's alleged crack-peddling operation under surveillance and had acted on "the covert assistance of local citizens" in building their case. Using that information, they approached a local magistrate who signed a warrant.Three days after the warrant was signed, Johnson's home was stormed by a SWAT team as Johnson's teenaged son played basketball in the driveway. The Matagorda County cops explained the delay between the signing of the warrant and its execution on their needing time to bring in the SWAT team -- Johnson does have a felony conviction for retaliation on his record.After scouring the house, they found two crack-rocks weighing a total of 1.3 grams in the pocket of a jacket hanging on the door. That little pocketful of stones got Johnson six decades in TDCJ. (It bears mention that a United States dime weighs 2.2 grams. Crack kingpin Johnson was found to be in possession of one-half of a dime's weight in cocaine.)
The jury believed Matagorda County DA's Post and Steven Reis when they contended that there was no evidence that Johnson was manufacturing or using his tiny stash of cocaine. The two prosecutors stated that "all the evidence supported only the 'reasonable deduction and common-sense belief that Johnson possessed these drugs to sell them,'" and narcotics investigator James Nesbitt testified that "known crackheads" frequented Johnson's residence.
Cary Faden, one of Johnson's attorneys, asked Nesbitt if he could prove that Johnson was at home every time these known crackheads came calling. Nesbitt admitted that he could not. And Johnson's other defense lawyer, Michael Diaz, countered that there was no way to telepathically divine Johnson's intent.
The jury disagreed. Johnson was convicted. Since he had a felony conviction, and because intent to deliver is a more serious charge than simple possession, and maybe, just maybe, because Bay City is a merciless little town that lives up to the Texas stereotype about drugs and black defendants, Johnson was sentenced to 60 years.
"It's just pointless," says Scott Henson, of the award-winning state criminal justice blog Grits For Breakfast. "Even if you are the most law-and-order person in the world, there is simply no point in sending someone to jail that long for a gram of crack. All it does is make you feel good for being retributive."
Indeed, according to the Bay City Tribune, it did appear that the jurors felt pretty satisfied with what they had done. It was reported that after the proceedings, they palled around with the prosecutors. "We live in this town and raise our children in this town," one of the jurors told the DAs. "We want to help clean up our city."
And burden the rest of us with feeding and housing this guy until 2070. Henson believes that these kind of sentences are a "luxury" the state of Texas can no longer afford. He says that in 2007, many of the larger, more urban counties realized the magnitude of what was then a looming prison-bed shortage and have since availed themselves of greatly enhanced statewide diversion programs for drug offenders that have strong probation sentences as their centerpieces. Accordingly, the prison-bed shortage never materialized, as counties like Harris, Dallas, Tarrant and Travis scaled back the incarceration of low-level drug offenders.
But Henson thinks the smaller counties, like Smith (site of the 35-year pot sentence) and Matagorda, haven't got the memo yet. "These crazy-long sentences are still the culture there," he says. "These sentences were supposed to be thwarted by the diversion programs, but these places haven't got the message yet."
Matt Simpson, policy strategist for the Texas American Civil Liberties Union, points out that incarcerating Johnson for his full 60-year sentence will cost Texans over a million dollars. "How much drug education could you buy for a million dollars?" he asks. "How many rehabilitation programs could you fund for that money? Is this the highest and best use for the state's money in this case?"
And expenses like this take on greater import with the state and many municipalities facing budget shortfalls. Governor Perry has stated that he wants a five-percent budget cut for TDCJ.
Henson has an elegant little solution: an across the board discount in drug penalties. He would have them max out at what is now a second-degree felony instead of first. Less than a gram possession would be a Class A misdemeanor.
"Simultaneously, he writes, "they should invest a portion of the savings in stronger probation and reentry programs."
Besides just being fair and the right thing to do, the move would immediately reduce pressure on the prison system, allowing the state to save money by closing prison units or eliminating private prison contracts. Other states are considering similar measures in light of the budget crunch; most recently Colorado saw legislation filed along these lines.
The biggest complaint would come from overcrowded county jails don't want to deal with offenders currently sent off to so-called "state jails" for the equivalent of fourth-degree felonies. But those extra prisoners could be more than offset by similarly ratcheting down marijuana penalties in the misdemeanor range. That would make low-level pot possession cases (less than 2 oz) a Class C misdemeanor that generates ticket revenue instead of a Class B which clogs up misdemeanor courts and runs up unnecessary indigent defense bills, generating cost savings at all levels of government. (Where are the small government conservatives when you need them?)
Where indeed?
At his trial, assistant DA Carla Post seemingly attempted to portray Johnson as the crack kingpin of Bay City. Under her direct examination, a Matagorda County sheriff told the court how his department had kept Johnson's alleged crack-peddling operation under surveillance and had acted on "the covert assistance of local citizens" in building their case. Using that information, they approached a local magistrate who signed a warrant.Three days after the warrant was signed, Johnson's home was stormed by a SWAT team as Johnson's teenaged son played basketball in the driveway. The Matagorda County cops explained the delay between the signing of the warrant and its execution on their needing time to bring in the SWAT team -- Johnson does have a felony conviction for retaliation on his record.After scouring the house, they found two crack-rocks weighing a total of 1.3 grams in the pocket of a jacket hanging on the door. That little pocketful of stones got Johnson six decades in TDCJ. (It bears mention that a United States dime weighs 2.2 grams. Crack kingpin Johnson was found to be in possession of one-half of a dime's weight in cocaine.)
The jury believed Matagorda County DA's Post and Steven Reis when they contended that there was no evidence that Johnson was manufacturing or using his tiny stash of cocaine. The two prosecutors stated that "all the evidence supported only the 'reasonable deduction and common-sense belief that Johnson possessed these drugs to sell them,'" and narcotics investigator James Nesbitt testified that "known crackheads" frequented Johnson's residence.
Cary Faden, one of Johnson's attorneys, asked Nesbitt if he could prove that Johnson was at home every time these known crackheads came calling. Nesbitt admitted that he could not. And Johnson's other defense lawyer, Michael Diaz, countered that there was no way to telepathically divine Johnson's intent.
The jury disagreed. Johnson was convicted. Since he had a felony conviction, and because intent to deliver is a more serious charge than simple possession, and maybe, just maybe, because Bay City is a merciless little town that lives up to the Texas stereotype about drugs and black defendants, Johnson was sentenced to 60 years.
"It's just pointless," says Scott Henson, of the award-winning state criminal justice blog Grits For Breakfast. "Even if you are the most law-and-order person in the world, there is simply no point in sending someone to jail that long for a gram of crack. All it does is make you feel good for being retributive."
Indeed, according to the Bay City Tribune, it did appear that the jurors felt pretty satisfied with what they had done. It was reported that after the proceedings, they palled around with the prosecutors. "We live in this town and raise our children in this town," one of the jurors told the DAs. "We want to help clean up our city."
And burden the rest of us with feeding and housing this guy until 2070. Henson believes that these kind of sentences are a "luxury" the state of Texas can no longer afford. He says that in 2007, many of the larger, more urban counties realized the magnitude of what was then a looming prison-bed shortage and have since availed themselves of greatly enhanced statewide diversion programs for drug offenders that have strong probation sentences as their centerpieces. Accordingly, the prison-bed shortage never materialized, as counties like Harris, Dallas, Tarrant and Travis scaled back the incarceration of low-level drug offenders.
But Henson thinks the smaller counties, like Smith (site of the 35-year pot sentence) and Matagorda, haven't got the memo yet. "These crazy-long sentences are still the culture there," he says. "These sentences were supposed to be thwarted by the diversion programs, but these places haven't got the message yet."
Matt Simpson, policy strategist for the Texas American Civil Liberties Union, points out that incarcerating Johnson for his full 60-year sentence will cost Texans over a million dollars. "How much drug education could you buy for a million dollars?" he asks. "How many rehabilitation programs could you fund for that money? Is this the highest and best use for the state's money in this case?"
And expenses like this take on greater import with the state and many municipalities facing budget shortfalls. Governor Perry has stated that he wants a five-percent budget cut for TDCJ.
Henson has an elegant little solution: an across the board discount in drug penalties. He would have them max out at what is now a second-degree felony instead of first. Less than a gram possession would be a Class A misdemeanor.
"Simultaneously, he writes, "they should invest a portion of the savings in stronger probation and reentry programs."
Besides just being fair and the right thing to do, the move would immediately reduce pressure on the prison system, allowing the state to save money by closing prison units or eliminating private prison contracts. Other states are considering similar measures in light of the budget crunch; most recently Colorado saw legislation filed along these lines.
The biggest complaint would come from overcrowded county jails don't want to deal with offenders currently sent off to so-called "state jails" for the equivalent of fourth-degree felonies. But those extra prisoners could be more than offset by similarly ratcheting down marijuana penalties in the misdemeanor range. That would make low-level pot possession cases (less than 2 oz) a Class C misdemeanor that generates ticket revenue instead of a Class B which clogs up misdemeanor courts and runs up unnecessary indigent defense bills, generating cost savings at all levels of government. (Where are the small government conservatives when you need them?)
Where indeed?
Tuesday, March 30, 2010




LESSON HERE IS..., YOU BETTER WRAP THAT RASCAL!
Nearly Half of Black Women Have Herpes
Find out why the government thinks this group has been hit so hard by the disease.
Find out why the government thinks this group has been hit so hard by the disease.
The latest news out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is very troubling, to say the least.
A jaw-dropping 48 percent of black women between ages 14 and 49 have the virus which causes genital herpes, says the federal agency. Blacks in general are more than three times as likely as whites to have herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) (39.2 percent vs. 12.3 percent).
Why is it so much higher among black women? It is likely that biological factors make women more susceptible to genital herpes than men, says the CDC. American women in general are nearly twice as likely as men to be infected (21 percent vs. 11 percent). Then add on top of that socioeconomic factors that negatively affect blacks' general state of health, and it's no surprise that black women draw the short straw when it comes to getting genital herpes.
What's worse, most don't even know they've drawn that short straw. Up to 80 percent of genital herpes infections in the United States are undiagnosed. "Many individuals are transmitting herpes to others without even knowing it," said John M. Douglas Jr., director of CDC's division of STD prevention. "It is important that persons with symptoms suggestive of herpes-especially recurrent sores in the genital area-seek clinical care to determine if these symptoms may be due to herpes and might benefit from treatment."
Sores aren't the only sign you've been infected, and many people don't even experience them. Redness and itching are other symptoms, and the disease can still be transmitted without visible sores.
A jaw-dropping 48 percent of black women between ages 14 and 49 have the virus which causes genital herpes, says the federal agency. Blacks in general are more than three times as likely as whites to have herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) (39.2 percent vs. 12.3 percent).
Why is it so much higher among black women? It is likely that biological factors make women more susceptible to genital herpes than men, says the CDC. American women in general are nearly twice as likely as men to be infected (21 percent vs. 11 percent). Then add on top of that socioeconomic factors that negatively affect blacks' general state of health, and it's no surprise that black women draw the short straw when it comes to getting genital herpes.
What's worse, most don't even know they've drawn that short straw. Up to 80 percent of genital herpes infections in the United States are undiagnosed. "Many individuals are transmitting herpes to others without even knowing it," said John M. Douglas Jr., director of CDC's division of STD prevention. "It is important that persons with symptoms suggestive of herpes-especially recurrent sores in the genital area-seek clinical care to determine if these symptoms may be due to herpes and might benefit from treatment."
Sores aren't the only sign you've been infected, and many people don't even experience them. Redness and itching are other symptoms, and the disease can still be transmitted without visible sores.
The high rate of genital herpes infections among blacks may contribute toward the high rate of HIV in the black community by making transmission easier, says the CDC.
So what do we do? If you know you have genital herpes, you definitely should avoid sex when symptoms or sores are present. Remember that genital herpes can still be transmitted when sores are not present. Using condoms consistently and correctly, and limiting the number of people you have sex with are also important to limiting the spread of the disease.
For more information on the disease, check out the CDC's genital herpes fact sheet.
Sheryl Huggins Salomon is deputy editor of The Root.
For more information on the disease, check out the CDC's genital herpes fact sheet.
Sheryl Huggins Salomon is deputy editor of The Root.
1 In 6 Americans Have Genital Herpes
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported, yesterday, March 9, that about 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 have genital herpes which is incurable.
The CDC said about 21 percent of women were infected with genital herpes or herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) compared to about 11.5 percent of men.
It said about 39 percent of blacks were infected -- including 48 percent of black women -- and about 12 percent of whites.Genital herpes can cause recurrent and painful genital sores and greatly increases the likelihood of acquiring and transmitting the AIDS virus.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported, yesterday, March 9, that about 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 have genital herpes which is incurable.
The CDC said about 21 percent of women were infected with genital herpes or herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) compared to about 11.5 percent of men.
It said about 39 percent of blacks were infected -- including 48 percent of black women -- and about 12 percent of whites.Genital herpes can cause recurrent and painful genital sores and greatly increases the likelihood of acquiring and transmitting the AIDS virus.




THESE RELIGIOUS NUTS INSERTED THEMSELVES INTO A COMBAT MARINES' FUNERAL-HEARTLESS BASTARDS!
The father of a 20-year-old Marine who died fighting in Iraq has been ordered by the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to pay Fred Phelps' appeal costs.
On Friday the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered Albert Snyder of York, Pa., father of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder to pay Westboro Baptist Church's leader Fred Phelps $16,510.
Westboro Baptist Church is known for anti-gay protests and movements.
In 2006, the funeral of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder was targeted by Westboro Baptist Church. Phelps and six members of church gathered to picket the solemn affair with signs that read "America is doomed," "Matt in hell" and "Semper Fi fags."
The family sued the group after Phelps used his website to criticize Snyder.
The family won the first round in a Maryland court against Westboro Baptist Church, being awarded $5 million on the grounds of intrusion into a secluded event, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and civil conspiracy.
However, that award was overturned during appeal. The court ruled that the protesters were exercising their right of free speech.
Now, Snyder's family must pay the legal costs for Westboro Baptist Church.
Lawsuit against WBC – funeral pickets ruled protected speech
On March 10, 2006 WBC picketed the funeral of Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder.[72][73][74] On June 5, 2006 the Snyder family sued[75] Fred Phelps, WBC, and unnamed others for defamation, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. On October 31, 2007, WBC, Fred Phelps and his two daughters, Shirley Phelps-Roper and Rebecca Phelps-Davis, were found liable for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. A federal jury awarded Mr. Snyder $2.9 million in compensatory damages, then later added a decision to award $6 million in punitive damages for invasion of privacy and an additional $2 million for causing emotional distress (A total of $10,900,000). The organization said it would not change its message because of the verdict.[76][77][78]
The lawsuit named Albert Snyder as the plaintiff and Fred W. Phelps, Sr.; Westboro Baptist Church, Inc.; Rebekah Phelps-Davis; and Shirley Phelps-Roper as defendants, alleging that they were responsible for publishing defamatory information about the Snyder family on the Internet, including statements that Albert and his wife had "raised [Matthew] for the devil" and taught him "to defy his Creator, to divorce, and to commit adultery." Other statements denounced them for raising their son Catholic. Snyder further complained the defendants had intruded upon and staged protests at his son's funeral. The claims of invasion of privacy and defamation arising from comments posted about Snyder on the Westboro website were dismissed on First Amendment grounds, but the case proceeded to trial on the remaining three counts.[79][80]
Albert Snyder, the father of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder, testified:
"They turned this funeral into a media circus and they wanted to hurt my family. They wanted their message heard and they didn't care who they stepped over. My son should have been buried with dignity, not with a bunch of clowns outside."[81]
In his instructions to the jury U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett stated that the First Amendment protection of free speech has limits, including vulgar, offensive and shocking statements, and that the jury must decide "whether the defendant's actions would be highly offensive to a reasonable person, whether they were extreme and outrageous and whether these actions were so offensive and shocking as to not be entitled to First Amendment protection."[82] See also Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, a case where certain personal slurs and obscene utterances by an individual were found unworthy of First Amendment protection, due to the potential for violence resulting from their utterance.
WBC is seeking a mistrial based on alleged prejudicial statements made by the judge and violations of the gag order by the plaintiff's attorney.[83] An appeal is also likely. WBC has said that it is thankful for the verdict.[84]
On February 4, 2008 U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett upheld the ruling but reduced the punitive damages from $8 million to $2.1 million. The total judgment now stands at $5 million. An appeal by WBC is still pending.[85] Liens have been ordered on church buildings and Phelps' law office in an attempt to ensure that the damages are paid.[86]
On September 24, 2009, a federal appeals court ruled in favor of Westboro Baptist Church. It found their picket near the funeral of Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder is protected speech and did not violate the privacy of the service member's family, reversing a lower court's $5 million award.[87] On 8 March 2010 the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Snyder v. Phelps, (Docket No. 09-751, March 8, 2010).[88]
On Friday the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered Albert Snyder of York, Pa., father of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder to pay Westboro Baptist Church's leader Fred Phelps $16,510.
Westboro Baptist Church is known for anti-gay protests and movements.
In 2006, the funeral of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder was targeted by Westboro Baptist Church. Phelps and six members of church gathered to picket the solemn affair with signs that read "America is doomed," "Matt in hell" and "Semper Fi fags."
The family sued the group after Phelps used his website to criticize Snyder.
The family won the first round in a Maryland court against Westboro Baptist Church, being awarded $5 million on the grounds of intrusion into a secluded event, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and civil conspiracy.
However, that award was overturned during appeal. The court ruled that the protesters were exercising their right of free speech.
Now, Snyder's family must pay the legal costs for Westboro Baptist Church.
Lawsuit against WBC – funeral pickets ruled protected speech
On March 10, 2006 WBC picketed the funeral of Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder.[72][73][74] On June 5, 2006 the Snyder family sued[75] Fred Phelps, WBC, and unnamed others for defamation, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. On October 31, 2007, WBC, Fred Phelps and his two daughters, Shirley Phelps-Roper and Rebecca Phelps-Davis, were found liable for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. A federal jury awarded Mr. Snyder $2.9 million in compensatory damages, then later added a decision to award $6 million in punitive damages for invasion of privacy and an additional $2 million for causing emotional distress (A total of $10,900,000). The organization said it would not change its message because of the verdict.[76][77][78]
The lawsuit named Albert Snyder as the plaintiff and Fred W. Phelps, Sr.; Westboro Baptist Church, Inc.; Rebekah Phelps-Davis; and Shirley Phelps-Roper as defendants, alleging that they were responsible for publishing defamatory information about the Snyder family on the Internet, including statements that Albert and his wife had "raised [Matthew] for the devil" and taught him "to defy his Creator, to divorce, and to commit adultery." Other statements denounced them for raising their son Catholic. Snyder further complained the defendants had intruded upon and staged protests at his son's funeral. The claims of invasion of privacy and defamation arising from comments posted about Snyder on the Westboro website were dismissed on First Amendment grounds, but the case proceeded to trial on the remaining three counts.[79][80]
Albert Snyder, the father of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder, testified:
"They turned this funeral into a media circus and they wanted to hurt my family. They wanted their message heard and they didn't care who they stepped over. My son should have been buried with dignity, not with a bunch of clowns outside."[81]
In his instructions to the jury U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett stated that the First Amendment protection of free speech has limits, including vulgar, offensive and shocking statements, and that the jury must decide "whether the defendant's actions would be highly offensive to a reasonable person, whether they were extreme and outrageous and whether these actions were so offensive and shocking as to not be entitled to First Amendment protection."[82] See also Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, a case where certain personal slurs and obscene utterances by an individual were found unworthy of First Amendment protection, due to the potential for violence resulting from their utterance.
WBC is seeking a mistrial based on alleged prejudicial statements made by the judge and violations of the gag order by the plaintiff's attorney.[83] An appeal is also likely. WBC has said that it is thankful for the verdict.[84]
On February 4, 2008 U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett upheld the ruling but reduced the punitive damages from $8 million to $2.1 million. The total judgment now stands at $5 million. An appeal by WBC is still pending.[85] Liens have been ordered on church buildings and Phelps' law office in an attempt to ensure that the damages are paid.[86]
On September 24, 2009, a federal appeals court ruled in favor of Westboro Baptist Church. It found their picket near the funeral of Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder is protected speech and did not violate the privacy of the service member's family, reversing a lower court's $5 million award.[87] On 8 March 2010 the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Snyder v. Phelps, (Docket No. 09-751, March 8, 2010).[88]
Saturday, March 27, 2010




ANY GOOD INTEL OPERATIVE KNOWS THIS TYPE OF INFILTRATION MUST BE DONE TO GET "ACTIONABLE iNTELLIGENCE". MAYBE WIKILEAKS SHOULD TAKE MORE PRECAUTIONS AS THEY SEEK TO EASCAPE THE SCRUTINY OF MULTIBILLION DOLLAR INTEL AGENCIES WHOSE JOB IT IS TO BE THERE AS IT HAPPENS!
Fri Mar 26 08:44:46 UTC 2010
Over the last few years, WikiLeaks has been the subject of hostile acts by security organizations. In the developing world, these range from the appalling assassination of two related human rights lawyers in Nairobi last March (an armed attack on my compound there in 2007 is still unattributed) to an unsuccessful mass attack by Chinese computers on our servers in Stockholm, after we published photos of murders in Tibet. In the West this has ranged from the overt, the head of Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND, threatening to prosecute us unless we removed a report on CIA activity in Kosovo, to the covert, to an ambush by a "James Bond" character in a Luxembourg car park, an event that ended with a mere "we think it would be in your interest to...".
Developing world violence aside, we've become used to the level of security service interest in us and have established procedures to ignore that interest.
But the increase in surveillance activities this last month, in a time when we are barely publishing due to fundraising, are excessive. Some of the new interest is related to a film exposing a U.S. massacre we will release at the U.S. National Press Club on April 5.
The spying includes attempted covert following, photographing, filming and the overt detention & questioning of a WikiLeaks' volunteer in Iceland on Monday night.
I, and others were in Iceland to advise Icelandic parliamentarians on the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, a new package of laws designed to protect investigative journalists and internet services from spying and censorship. As such, the spying has an extra poignancy.
The possible triggers:
our ongoing work on a classified film revealing civilian casualties occurring under the command of the U.S, general, David Petraeus.
our release of a classified 32 page US intelligence report on how to fatally marginalize WikiLeaks (expose our sources, destroy our reputation for integrity, hack us).
our release of a classified cable from the U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik reporting on contact between the U.S. and the U.K. over billions of euros in claimed loan guarantees.
pending releases related to the collapse of the Icelandic banks and Icelandic "oligarchs".
We have discovered half a dozen attempts at covert surveillance in Reykjavik both by native English speakers and Icelanders. On the occasions where these individuals were approached, they ran away. One had marked police equipment and the license plates for another suspicious vehicle track back to the Icelandic private VIP bodyguard firm Terr. What does that mean? We don't know. But as you will see, other events are clear.
U.S. sources told Icelandic state media's deputy head of news, that the State Department was aggressively investigating a leak from the U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik. I was seen at a private U.S Embassy party at the Ambassador's residence, late last year and it is known I had contact with Embassy staff, after.
On Thursday March 18, 2010, I took the 2.15 PM flight out of Reykjavik to Copenhagen--on the way to speak at the SKUP investigative journalism conference in Norway. After receiving a tip, we obtained airline records for the flight concerned. Two individuals, recorded as brandishing diplomatic credentials checked in for my flight at 12:03 and 12:06 under the name of "US State Department". The two are not recorded as having any luggage.
Iceland doesn't have a separate security service. It folds its intelligence function into its police forces, leading to an uneasy overlap of policing and intelligence functions and values.
On Monday 22, March, at approximately 8.30pm, a WikiLeaks volunteer, a minor, was detained by Icelandic police on a wholly insignificant matter. Police then took the opportunity to hold the youth over night, without charge--a highly unusual act in Iceland. The next day, during the course of interrogation, the volunteer was shown covert photos of me outside the Reykjavik restaurant "Icelandic Fish & Chips", where a WikiLeaks production meeting took place on Wednesday March 17--the day before individuals operating under the name of the U.S. State Department boarded my flight to Copenhagen.
Our production meeting used a discreet, closed, backroom, because we were working on the analysis of a classified U.S. military video showing civilian kills by U.S. pilots. During the interrogation, a specific reference was made by police to the video---which could not have been understood from that day's exterior surveillance alone. Another specific reference was made to "important", but unnamed Icelandic figures. References were also made to the names of two senior journalists at the production meeting.
Who are the Icelandic security services loyal to in their values? The new government of April 2009, the old pro-Iraq war government of the Independence party, or perhaps to their personal relationships with peers from another country who have them on a permanent intelligence information drip?
Only a few years ago, Icelandic airspace was used for CIA rendition flights. Why did the CIA think that this was acceptable? In a classified U.S. profile on the former Icelandic Ambassador to the United States, obtained by WikiLeaks, the Ambassador is praised for helping to quell publicity of the CIA's activities.
Often when a bold new government arises, bureaucratic institutions remain loyal to the old regime and it can take time to change the guard. Former regime loyalists must be discovered, dissuaded and removed. But for the security services, that first vital step, discovery, is awry. Congenitally scared of the light, such services hide their activities; if it is not known what security services are doing, then it is surely impossible to know who they are doing it for.
Our plans to release the video on April 5 proceed.
We have asked relevant authorities in the Unites States and Iceland to explain. If these countries are to be treated as legitimate states, they need to start obeying the rule of law. Now.
—Julian Assange (editor@wikileaks.org)
Over the last few years, WikiLeaks has been the subject of hostile acts by security organizations. In the developing world, these range from the appalling assassination of two related human rights lawyers in Nairobi last March (an armed attack on my compound there in 2007 is still unattributed) to an unsuccessful mass attack by Chinese computers on our servers in Stockholm, after we published photos of murders in Tibet. In the West this has ranged from the overt, the head of Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND, threatening to prosecute us unless we removed a report on CIA activity in Kosovo, to the covert, to an ambush by a "James Bond" character in a Luxembourg car park, an event that ended with a mere "we think it would be in your interest to...".
Developing world violence aside, we've become used to the level of security service interest in us and have established procedures to ignore that interest.
But the increase in surveillance activities this last month, in a time when we are barely publishing due to fundraising, are excessive. Some of the new interest is related to a film exposing a U.S. massacre we will release at the U.S. National Press Club on April 5.
The spying includes attempted covert following, photographing, filming and the overt detention & questioning of a WikiLeaks' volunteer in Iceland on Monday night.
I, and others were in Iceland to advise Icelandic parliamentarians on the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, a new package of laws designed to protect investigative journalists and internet services from spying and censorship. As such, the spying has an extra poignancy.
The possible triggers:
our ongoing work on a classified film revealing civilian casualties occurring under the command of the U.S, general, David Petraeus.
our release of a classified 32 page US intelligence report on how to fatally marginalize WikiLeaks (expose our sources, destroy our reputation for integrity, hack us).
our release of a classified cable from the U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik reporting on contact between the U.S. and the U.K. over billions of euros in claimed loan guarantees.
pending releases related to the collapse of the Icelandic banks and Icelandic "oligarchs".
We have discovered half a dozen attempts at covert surveillance in Reykjavik both by native English speakers and Icelanders. On the occasions where these individuals were approached, they ran away. One had marked police equipment and the license plates for another suspicious vehicle track back to the Icelandic private VIP bodyguard firm Terr. What does that mean? We don't know. But as you will see, other events are clear.
U.S. sources told Icelandic state media's deputy head of news, that the State Department was aggressively investigating a leak from the U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik. I was seen at a private U.S Embassy party at the Ambassador's residence, late last year and it is known I had contact with Embassy staff, after.
On Thursday March 18, 2010, I took the 2.15 PM flight out of Reykjavik to Copenhagen--on the way to speak at the SKUP investigative journalism conference in Norway. After receiving a tip, we obtained airline records for the flight concerned. Two individuals, recorded as brandishing diplomatic credentials checked in for my flight at 12:03 and 12:06 under the name of "US State Department". The two are not recorded as having any luggage.
Iceland doesn't have a separate security service. It folds its intelligence function into its police forces, leading to an uneasy overlap of policing and intelligence functions and values.
On Monday 22, March, at approximately 8.30pm, a WikiLeaks volunteer, a minor, was detained by Icelandic police on a wholly insignificant matter. Police then took the opportunity to hold the youth over night, without charge--a highly unusual act in Iceland. The next day, during the course of interrogation, the volunteer was shown covert photos of me outside the Reykjavik restaurant "Icelandic Fish & Chips", where a WikiLeaks production meeting took place on Wednesday March 17--the day before individuals operating under the name of the U.S. State Department boarded my flight to Copenhagen.
Our production meeting used a discreet, closed, backroom, because we were working on the analysis of a classified U.S. military video showing civilian kills by U.S. pilots. During the interrogation, a specific reference was made by police to the video---which could not have been understood from that day's exterior surveillance alone. Another specific reference was made to "important", but unnamed Icelandic figures. References were also made to the names of two senior journalists at the production meeting.
Who are the Icelandic security services loyal to in their values? The new government of April 2009, the old pro-Iraq war government of the Independence party, or perhaps to their personal relationships with peers from another country who have them on a permanent intelligence information drip?
Only a few years ago, Icelandic airspace was used for CIA rendition flights. Why did the CIA think that this was acceptable? In a classified U.S. profile on the former Icelandic Ambassador to the United States, obtained by WikiLeaks, the Ambassador is praised for helping to quell publicity of the CIA's activities.
Often when a bold new government arises, bureaucratic institutions remain loyal to the old regime and it can take time to change the guard. Former regime loyalists must be discovered, dissuaded and removed. But for the security services, that first vital step, discovery, is awry. Congenitally scared of the light, such services hide their activities; if it is not known what security services are doing, then it is surely impossible to know who they are doing it for.
Our plans to release the video on April 5 proceed.
We have asked relevant authorities in the Unites States and Iceland to explain. If these countries are to be treated as legitimate states, they need to start obeying the rule of law. Now.
—Julian Assange (editor@wikileaks.org)
Thursday, March 25, 2010




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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Hal Turner’s first “Mission” for FBI
(http://family-of-hal-turner.blogspot.com/)Last week, we announced that we would begin telling you what the FBI paid Hal Turner to do. Today, we begin that process with a fascinating story about Israeli involvement with 9/11, and an FBI counter intelligence operation against the ADL and AIPAC.The information in this story comes from letters written by Hal Turner from federal prison before he got out on bail. He remains free, awaiting a third trial on charges he “threatened” 3 judges. Hal Turner is presently under a “gag order” imposed by the court. That order prevents him from speaking to the media and from using the internet. The information in this story was written in letters to us before that gag order was imposed on Hal. We, Hal’s family, are not subject to any such gag order, so we’ve decided to publish the letters Hal mailed to us from prison so you, the American people, can know the truth.In any case below where links to outside media sources are included in this story, these links were researched by us to corroborate information provided by Hal in his letters from prison. Here now, Hal Turner’s first “mission” as a National Security
Hal Turner’s first “Mission” for FBI
(http://family-of-hal-turner.blogspot.com/)Last week, we announced that we would begin telling you what the FBI paid Hal Turner to do. Today, we begin that process with a fascinating story about Israeli involvement with 9/11, and an FBI counter intelligence operation against the ADL and AIPAC.The information in this story comes from letters written by Hal Turner from federal prison before he got out on bail. He remains free, awaiting a third trial on charges he “threatened” 3 judges. Hal Turner is presently under a “gag order” imposed by the court. That order prevents him from speaking to the media and from using the internet. The information in this story was written in letters to us before that gag order was imposed on Hal. We, Hal’s family, are not subject to any such gag order, so we’ve decided to publish the letters Hal mailed to us from prison so you, the American people, can know the truth.In any case below where links to outside media sources are included in this story, these links were researched by us to corroborate information provided by Hal in his letters from prison. Here now, Hal Turner’s first “mission” as a National Security
Intelligence Operative with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.Just weeks after being recruited into the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, Hal Turner got a phone call from one of the top people inside the FBI to arrange a meeting. During that call, it was made clear to Turner that he was to keep this meeting secret from his regular FBI contacts, Agent Stephen Haug and Det. Leonard Nerbetski!The meeting took place a week or so later at a small diner on Market Street at the intersection of Flemming Street in Newark, NJ, just blocks north of the Newark Police Precinct. In attendance was a top level Special Agent in Charge and a Supervising Special Agent from FBI Newark.The FBI told Turner that they had been familiar with his show for quite some time and there were problems within the FBI and US Justice Department that Turner was in a unique position to help with. This didn’t make sense to Turner because by his own admission, he was a nobody. He had a relatively small internet webcast which at the time had maybe 20,000 listeners per night and his radio show was only carried on about two dozen radio stations throughout America.Even with the radio audience, Turner wasn’t even a blip on any media radar screen. Despite the small radio audience, Turner’s web site had about two million unique visitors a year and Turner didn’t see how he could possibly be in any position at all to help.The FBI went on to explain their thinking and the explanation astonished Turner. We think it will absolutely fascinate you too.
September 11 – FBI Newark Had Advance Warning The discussion began with the attacks of September 11 and how the FBI in Newark had been approached and warned about such attacks more than a full YEAR before the attacks took place.The FBI told Turner that in March of 2000, a Pakistani-born British citizen named Niaz Khan walked into the FBI’s Newark, NJ office and told them he had been recruited by Osama Bin Laden’s group to hijack airplanes and was now in the U.S. to carry out such a plan.Niaz Khan had been a waiter in a Curry restaurant in London, had become disgruntled at his life and became receptive to the preaching of a local Muslim Cleric. He learned about Jihad and decided that since his life was so miserable, he was willing to die for Allah.Bin Laden’s group trained him in hijacking techniques, how to smuggle weapons through airport security, how to overpower passengers and the like. They flew him from London, to Pakistan and elsewhere so he could familiarize himself with real life airport security procedures to prepare.Once he arrived at JFK Airport in New York, Al Qaida wired him about a quarter million dollars with instructions to recruit and train others for the attacks, but Khan got cold feet. Instead of using the money to recruit others, Khan travelled to Atlantic City and gambled away most of the money!Fearful that AL-Qaida would find him and kill him for what he’d done, Khan walked into the FBI office in Newark, NJ and spilled his guts. FBI Newark interviewed him for 6 weeks. They administered at least two separate lie detector tests and Khan passed both!Despite the evidence, a strange order came down from FBI Headquarters in Washington: Cut Khan loose. FBI HQ told FBI Newark to put Khan on a plane back to Britain and forget about him. FBI HQ said that British Intelligence, known as MI-5, would interview Khan once he arrived in Britain. So, despite the time and effort put into investigating Khan, FBI Newark complied with the instructions from HQ and sent Khan back to Britain.On September 11, 2001, the attacks Khan had warned about, took place. The FBI people told Turner they were devastated because everyone in FBI Newark instantly remembered Niaz Khan and realized the attacks could have been prevented. This motivated FBI Newark to go after the 9-11 investigation with a vengeance, but each time they tried, more strange orders came down from FBI HQ in Washington, telling FBI Newark to back off.Bear in mind that Hal Turner was being told all of this by the FBI in the summer of 2003 shortly after he was recruited by the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). More than a year later, this part of Hal Turner’s story was confirmed by main stream media sources when NBC News, the London “Guardian” Newspaper and The London “Independent” newspaper all published stories containing the facts laid out above.
The Israeli Connection to 9-11 The FBI went on to tell Turner that on September 11, 2001 a series of things took place in addition to the attacks themselves, which lead FBI Newark to believe the state of Israel was deeply involved in the events of that day.First, while the World Trade Center was under attack in lower Manhattan, a white Chevy van was directly across the Hudson River in Liberty State Park in Jersey City. A group of 5 men were with the van and they had set up video cameras before the attacks took place. When the jetliners slammed into the World Trade Center, witnesses in Liberty State Park watched in horror as the men with the white van cheered with joy as the attacks took place. The witnesses called police with a description of the van and of the men.Police issued a “BOLO” (Be On the Look Out) for the van. A couple hours later, a police officer in East Rutherford, NJ was patrolling Route 3 near Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands. This location provided a clear view of the World Trade Center which was about four miles to the east.The officer came upon a moving-van-type of truck parked on the service road next to the highway where a number of men were standing and cheering with joy as the World Trade Center towers collapsed. The officer confronted them men, who produced ID showing they were Israeli citizens. The answers they gave to the Officer’s questions raised great suspicion with the officer so he arrested all the men on “suspicion” of involvement with the attacks.The moving-van, from a company named Urban Moving Systems of Weehawken, NJ, was impounded and the FBI was notified. Bomb-sniffing dogs were brought to the van and they “alerted” to the presence of explosives. Packages inside the vehicle were x-rayed by portable x-ray machine, but none contained explosives.Found inside the van were maps of New York City with certain locations highlighted. FBI Newark obtained search warrants for Urban Moving Systems offices in Weehawken, NJ. But upon arrival, the offices were vacant; cleaned out. A check of company personnel revealed a majority of the company’s employees were . . . . . Israelis . . . . . and they had flown out of the country within days of the attacks. All of them flew to . . . . . Israel.
The FBI went on to tell Hal Turner that the Israelis who were arrested with the moving van were detained in jail and repeatedly questioned. Bear in mOne man refused a lie detector test for ten weeks and when he finally relented and took the test, he failed. Then, a strange order came down from FBI HQ in Washington: Let the men go.FBI HQ told FBI Newark that the men were Israeli intelligence agents from the Mossad (The Israeli version of the CIA) and they had been in the US to track militant Arabs. But FBI Newark didn’t believe that explanation. FBI Newark believed the men were part of the attacks of 9-11 and the whole story about them being in the US to track Arabs was merely a “cover story.” Hal Turner was being told this by the FBI in 2003. The main stream media confirmed this aspect of Hal’s story in June, 2002, when ABC News “20/20” ran a major story confirming the facts laid out above. The ABC News story can still be seen at: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123885&page=1Second, on the day of the 9-11 attacks, rumors swirled that some 4,000 Jewish people who worked in the World Trade Center, just happened to not show up for work on 9-11. This was also reported on AL-MANAR Television news in Beirut, Lebanon shortly after the attacks. FBI Newark began investigating that claim and a week or so later, another strange order came down from FBI HQ: Stop the investigation.Third, hours before the attacks of 9-11, an Israeli company named Odigo, allegedly received an instant message warning the attacks against the World Trade Center were going to take place that morning. Odigo alerted Israeli authorities but somehow, Israel “dropped the ball” and didn’t tell the US.The main stream media revealed this information just days after the attacks of 9-11. One such example of this coverage can still be found in the Israeli News Service called HAARETZ at: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=77744&contrassID=/hasBut as before, when FBI Newark began investigating the claims that ODIGO had gotten an instant message hours before the attacks, FBI HQ told FBI Newark to stop investigating.Last but certainly not least, ICTS an Israeli owned security company, sells services to every airport from which the hijacked 9-11 planes operated, including security, sometimes through wholly owned subsidiaries like Huntleigh USA Corporation.The FBI told Turner that such an incredible feat of hijacking four aircraft without a single arrest at the gate would require the resources of a nation-state. This is even more true with the revelation that at least one gun had managed to be aboard a hijacked plane.The one company that had inside access to all of the airports from which hijacked planes departed on 9-11, and to the airports used by Richard Reid, the shoe bomber was ICTS, an Israeli company.The FBI told Hal Turner that FBI Newark believed that it was no accident that Israel failed to pass along the pre-attack information from Odigo. They went on to tell Turner that FBI Newark believed that Israel knew the attacks were going to take place because Israel was involved in the attacks. The evidence, they said, is irrefutable.The two high-level FBI people who met with Hal Turner that day told him they believed the FBI HQ was compromised. They told Hal that anytime any investigation was opened into a possible Israeli connection to 9-11, FBI HQ squashed the investigation. It was clear to FBI Newark that FBI HQ had security leaks who were thwarting any investigation of Israeli involvement in 9-11 and they had a plan to plug those leaks.ADL and AIPAC Infiltration of US Law EnforcementThe FBI told Turner that the Israeli government maintains a vast spy network and major propaganda machines inside the United States. The “fronts” for that spy network and the source of the major propaganda are the Anti Defamation League (ADL) and the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).These groups promote themselves as being supportive of Jewish people and Jewish interests. They also tout themselves as guardians against “hate” and “anti-Semitism.” The reality, however, is quite different. The FBI explained that these groups are information –gathering networks and propaganda outlets. They seek-out anyone who espouses views contrary to Israel then smear and discredit such people as Anti-Semites, Bigots, Racists or even Nazis. In addition, whenever the state of Israel does something horrific, like bombing innocent Palestinians, invading another country or killing “militants,” ADL and AIPAC launch intense propaganda campaigns to smooth-over public relations.The FBI told Hal Turner that whenever members of these two groups identify a potential “threat” to Jewish or Israeli interests, they engage intense efforts to find out anything and everything they can about the “threat.” So whenever a media personality, media outlet or political candidate says or does anything which conflicts with the Israeli agenda, the ADL and AIPAC go into attack mode.The FBI explained that one way the ADL gets information about people they perceive as “threats” is by infiltrating law enforcement agencies in the USA to gain access to confidential police records. The ADL has a notorious history of doing this and has been caught several times accessing and possessing confidential police files. One such example of ADL illegally accessing police files, covered by the “Los Angeles Times” newspaper, can be read here: http://articles.latimes.com/1993-04-17/news/mn-24002_1_illegal-spyingThe FBI explained to Turner that AIPAC also has a very long history of actual espionage against the United States and provided Turner with un-redacted, classified documents for him to view proving what they claimed. You can read declassified or redacted versions of those same documents at this link: http://www.irmep.org/ila/economy/The FBI wanted to exploit this aspect of ADL/AIPAC conduct to identify leaks and plug them.Counter-Intelligence Operation The FBI told Hal Turner that the fastest way to achieve this goal was for the FBI to attach an electronic “symbol” to Turner’s FBI records. This way, whenever any law enforcement agency or someone inside the Justice Department made an inquiry into FBI files about Hal Turner, the FBI computer system would read the “symbol” and secretly generate a report to the Joint Terrorism task Force showing who made the inquiry, the agency they were with, and the date and time the inquiry was made. This would allow the JTTF to identify ADL/AIPAC infiltrators and plug the information leaks.This made sense to Turner, but he asked what he would have to do to make this system work? Why would the ADL or AIPAC even bother with him? The FBI told him to wait a few days until the FBI could put the electronic symbol on his files. Once Turner was notified that the symbol was in place, he was to go on the air and on the internet and ferociously attack jews and Israel with a level of vitriolic hatred akin to Josef Goebbels from the former Third Reich in World War 2 Nazi Germany. Turner agreed to do it but was warned in very strong terms to never reveal this operation to anyone, including to his primary JTTF contacts, Stephen Haug and Leonard Nerbetski. In order for the operation to work, he was told, no one could know about it, especially FBI HQ.About two weeks later, Hal Turner got a call from Special Agent Stephen Haug, his primary contact at JTTF. Haug told Turner that the FBI had decided to place an electronic symbol on his file to “make certain Hal wasn’t concealing any police troubles from the FBI during his time with JTTF.” That’s what Haug thought, but Turner knew the truth. That phone call was the signal for Turner to let loose with anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli venom for the counter-intelligence operation and he did so with gusto.Hal Turner went on the air and on his web site and let loose with every form of vitriolic filth imaginable about Jews and Israel. It didn’t take long for the ADL and AIPAC to take the bait.Astonishing results!Within weeks, dozens of unauthorized inquiries were being made into Hal Turner’s FBI files from law enforcement agencies around the country. Unauthorized accesses were made from within the Department of Justice, from within the FBI, from the Secret Service, from the US Marshal Service, from the US Capitol Police, from the Pennsylvania State Police and many other agencies. Each time an inquiry was made, a secret report of it went to the JTTF.Over the coming months, JTTF made personal visits to those agencies and took up the issue of unauthorized access. They knew which operator did it, from which agency, from which computer terminal and those people were called on the carpet. It was made clear that such accesses to FBI files were not to be done in the future unless they were part of a legitimate and documented police investigation. It was made very clear that if future unauthorized accesses were made, the agency itself could find its access to FBI databases CUT OFF and anyone making such unauthorized accesses would be criminally prosecuted! Word of this spread like wildfire within law enforcement circles.About 9 months later, in a casual phone conversation with the Special Agent in Charge of FBI Newark, it was revealed to Hal Turner that this operation netted “over 100” leaks. The FBI told Hal Turner that his work was the single most successful counter-intelligence effort in years and the nation owed Hal a debt of gratitude for cutting off unauthorized access to FBI files.Investigating 9-11 and Israel, the end result:With most of the pro-Israel leaks in the legal system plugged, FBI Newark was able to more thoroughly investigate what really happened on 9-11. The results? Well, let’s just say that when the real culprit behind 9-11 was properly identified by a preponderance of evidence, he was “dealt with.”You heard about it in January, 2006, but never made the connection between what you heard in 2006 and what happened on 9-11. What YOU heard was that Israeli leader Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke. Yea. Right. A “stroke.” . . . . . . .The truth is that Ariel Sharon was identified by US Intelligence Agencies as being the key to the attacks of 9-11. It was Israel and its intelligence agencies that funded and facilitated the Arabs who ultimately were duped into pulling-off the attacks.The problem was that politically, Sharon and Israel were untouchable. For years Israel has bought-off half the US Congress, so our elected officials damn sure wouldn’t take any action. Instead, a decision was taken within the US Intelligence Community to take action.Ariel Sharon had suffered a mini stroke in mid-December 2005 and at that time it was found he suffered from cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), a brain disorder which, in conjunction with anticoagulant medication prescribed after his first stroke, greatly increased his risk of cerebral hemorrhage.With this information in U.S. hands, and with all the evidence we needed pointing to Sharon’s involvement in the attacks of 9-11, medical folks within the US intelligence community were consulted. It was decided that the introduction of certain Amino acids with a concentrated dose of blood-thinners would guarantee Ariel Sharon would suffer an immediate cerebral hemorrhage. All it would take was a needle to the neck and Sharon would literally blow a gasket within hours.That needle was administered by US intelligence operatives who were able to surreptitiously gain access to Mr. Sharon at his Sycamore Ranch in the Negev region of Israel. He blew a gasket and suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage within minutes which basically resulted in brain death.As panic ensued at the Sycamore ranch as Ariel Sharon went into convulsions, the US Intelligence operatives quietly slipped away undetected.To all the world, it was a natural medical disaster that destroyed Ariel Sharon. To Intelligence Operatives like Hal Turner, the truth was quite different; and quite satisfying too.That was one small part of the price Israel was to pay for their role in helping to kill almost 3,000 Americans on 9-11. No war. No political haggling. No investigations. No court. No Trial by jury. Just (brain) dead; exactly the way Israel itself deals with its enemies.
We wonder how they like it now that its been done to them? Until publication of this blog page, no one else in the entire world has ever released this fact. Now, the whole world knows.Israel was to pay a further price for their role in 9-11 when they invaded Lebanon in 2007. We’ll talk more about that in an upcoming article describing what Hal Turner did for the FBI and the CIA during his trip to Brazil.The U.S. Intelligence Community isn’t finished punishing Israel yet. If Congress doesn’t like it, they can go fuck themselves because the intelligence community has all the dirt on them too. Any member of Congress who steps out of line knows his dirt would be dumped on national TV, so Congress will keep quiet and pretend nothing’s going on. The intel community will take care of this Israeli business and when it’s over, justice will have prevailed.Interesting Tid-BitOne interesting tid-bit of information about 9-11 that may be of interest to you is a law suit brought by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the year 1998. The Port Authority owns the World Trade Center and at that time in 1998, it became known to Port Authority engineers that the World Trade Center towers suffered from a serious design flaw: The exterior stainless steel of the two towers was attached directly to the interior structural steel girders.By attaching the stainless steel directly to the steel girders, in the presence of saltwater air from New York Harbor, caused oxidation of the structural steel to occur much more rapidly than anyone expected. Put simply, the steel girders holding up the two world trade center towers was disintegrating from this oxidation and ultimately, the two towers would have to be taken apart and fixed.The Port Authority filed a claim with its insurance company to have them pay for this design flaw. The Insurance company refused, so the Port Authority sued the Insurance company in the United States District Court in Newark, New Jersey. The case was heard before the Honorable John Bissell.Ultimately, Judge Bissell found in favor of the Insurance company. If anyone was going to pay to have the two towers taken apart and fixed, it would have to be the Port Authority itself. Look up the case on the US District Court’s PACER System. All the records are still there for everyone to see.Instead of fixing the world trade center towers, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey sold its leases for tenants inside the World Trade Center, to Larry Silverstein, an ardent pro-Israel real estate developer. Silverstein stood to make a billion dollars from buying the leases . . . . . until he found out that the two buildings were going to fall down from the oxidation of the steel structure.So with the WTC buildings headed for collapse anyway, and with billions at stake, the FBI speculated to Hal Turner that a plan was hatched to destroy the two buildings in an act of “terrorism.” This would get the government to foot the reconstruction bill, incense the American people into going to war, and ultimately, shift the war from terrorists to Saddam Hussein of Iraq, who was the biggest enemy of the State of Israel in the middle east.In one fell swoop, the World Trade center, which was falling down anyway, would be taken care of, America would go to war against Israel’s biggest enemy, and the American people would pay for it all with their lives and national fortune.The big government guys and their defense contractor buddies would get rich from bombing Iraq and Afghanistan back to the stone age, then double their money with government contracts to rebuild it all. No one in the nation had a clue as to how it all fit together. Until now.Now, you know the truthIn his role as a national security intelligence operative for the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, Hal Turner protected America and its citizens from people with foreign loyalties who were illegally misusing police records to achieve their political, social and cultural goals. He also became privy to incredible information from intelligence operations of many kinds. Hal revealed these things to us after his own government betrayed him. We have now revealed some of what Hal told us, to all of you.In doing what he did to plug the leaks of police information from pro-Israeli infiltrators, Hal begot powerful enemies in the ADL and AIPAC. Those groups had never been so cleverly outfoxed before. They had never faced this level of counter-intelligence operation and they fell for it hook-line-and-sinker. They got caught red-handed and a whole slew of their henchmen in law enforcement got straightened out, thus cutting-off (at least temporarily) the ADL/AIPAC flow of police information.Perhaps that’s why representatives from ADL have been attending Hal Turner’s recent trials. Clearly, they want to get back at Hal for so successfully cutting-off their access to law enforcement records. Too bad for the ADL and AIPAC that Hal Turner is a loyal American who puts America ahead of Israel.More than a year later, the FBI told Hal that the operation was so successful; they had another operation they needed him to do. This one would target the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, AL and its role in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.More on that in our next installment of “What the FBI Paid Hal Turner To Do.”Coming soon: Hal Turner’s Brazil Trip: How the FBI and CIA arranged for Hal Turner to deliver military satellite communication hook-ups to a man from Syria for the Lebanese Militia to defeat the Israeli Army months before Israel invaded Lebanon, and;Nuclear Theft: How Six U.S. Nuclear-tipped Cruise Missiles were successfully STOLEN from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and were to be used to destroy 6 American cities to usher-in the “New World Order” Thankfully, the theft was stopped even though those nuclear cruise missiles sat, unguarded and out in the open at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana for more than 12 hours. Guess whose White House authorization code was used to release the weapons for transport? Was it Dick Cheney’s? Maybe that’s why Cheney was in a wheel chair at Barack Obama’s inauguration – maybe someone beat the hell out of him for what he’d done. Check back to find out.BTW: We wonder if Assistant US Attorney William Hogan is glad he brought a case against Hal Turner now that a whole slew of dirty government inside-information is starting to pour out? Still think he’s a “street snitch?” Still think this is all a “Walter Mitty secret agent fantasy?” Congratulations Mr. Hogan! Rest assured, this is just the beginning. Oh, by the way Mr. Hogan, all the powerful interests that Hal Turner exposed to us in his writings from prison – mailed through his attorneys as “legal mail” so no one at the prisons could read it first - will have YOU and your boss, Patrick Fitzgerald, to thank for all their dirty laundry coming out in public. Ain’t “free speech” grand?(COPYRIGHT FOR THIS ARTICLE IS HEREBY WAIVED. 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