May 2001 - Secretary of State Colin Powell gives $43 million in aid to the Taliban regime, purportedly to assist hungry farmers who are starving since the destruction of their opium crop in January on orders of the Taliban regime. [Source: Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2001]
June 8, 2001 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) publishes a story headlined, "Central Asia: Charges Link Russian Military to Drug Trade." According to the article, figures for 1999 published in a report by the United Nations Drug Control Program (UNDCP) revealed that 80 percent of the heroin consumed in Western Europe originated in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The UNDCP report also revealed half of the drugs in that 80 percent traveled through Central Asia. A study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace published in March 2000 said Russian soldiers headquartered in Tajikistan were suspected of helping drug traffickers by providing them with transportation facilities. This was confirmed by a Russian intelligence officer who told the Moscow News weekly, "You can come to an arrangement [with custom officials] so that the search of military transport planes remains purely formal. The same goes for train convoys carrying military cargo [to Russia from Tajikistan]."
MOHAMMAD ATTA - The only listed
"hijacker" who could actually fly a plane - Was a drug runner in Florida. He was a CIA asset
A PATSY
New York Newsday January 24, 2002:
Mohamed Atta and two associates tried to get jobs with Lufthansa Airlines… on Feb. 15, 2001, according to "Netzwerke des Terrors (Networks of Terror)," a book published last month by Juergen Roth, one of Germany's top investigative reporters… Atta did not know that Lufthansa's personnel division had access to
law enforcement files that indicated he had once been under investigation for petty drug crimes and falsifying phone cards while a student at the Technical University at Hamburg-Harburg in 1995, the book reports, citing federal law enforcement sources. Atta didn't get the job.
NY Newsday
Mail on Sunday (UK) September 23, 2001:
The FBI is attempting to unravel the minds of the terrorists. One of the key witnesses they will be using is a British woman who learned to fly alongside Atta and fellow hijacker Marwan al-Shehhi at Huffman Aviation International Flight School in Venice, Florida. Anne Greaves, 56, an osteopath and former nurse… "I was told that Atta was a Prince from an Arab royal family and al-Shehhi was his bodyguard...
I didn't think terrorist, I thought they were perhaps learning to fly to run drugs... There were so many tell-tale signs…"...
"These guys were different," said a top FBI man on the Florida section of the manhunt. "They lived the good life... then blew it up in our face."
Mail on Sunday
The Daily Telegraph (London) September 25, 2001:
"There was no pleasure, no enthusiasm.
I thought there was an ulterior motive, maybe drug smuggling, although I never even considered terrorism." [said] Mrs Greaves, 56, a retired nurse from Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, is helping the FBI to put together a psychological profile of the attackers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/25/nfly25.xml
The Guardian (London) July 5, 2002:
Ann Greaves… watched the TV pictures of the smoking building and said to her husband: "My God, I hope this has nothing to do with those two Arabs at Huffman Aviation!" A feisty grandmother, Greaves had just fulfilled a lifelong ambition by learning to fly at the training school in Florida... As she spoke, a second plane smashed into the south tower… Greaves had been suspicious of Atta and his friend from the moment she met them… "I couldn't help but be suspicious as to why he was there," says Greaves... She decided at the time that Atta was probably a drug runner. Her suspicions were not shared by the male staff at Huffman. "We had no obligations to do a background check on them," says Rudi Dekkers, the Dutch owner of the flying school... but did not question further.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,749722,00.html
ATTA WAS NOT A DEVOUT MUSLIM DESTINED FOR PARADISE. He used drugs and used prostitutes and dated strippers.
He was an excellent flyer and worked for some time running drugs into Florida. He was a CIA asset.
The "Jihadists" Were CIA Assets
The "jihadists" that supposedly carried out these attacks were CIA assets. This is now declassified information. The CIA has admitted that Mohammed Atta and a few others were CIA assets.
Several of them, including Atta, had even received special U.S. military training. Atta, being a CIA asset would be under constant and secret surveillance.
Other CIA assets, including Susan Lindauer, have stated that it would have been utterly impossible for Atta and others to have been planning an attack of any kind without the CIA knowing about it.
Furthermore, Atta and others did not behave like Islamic fundamentalists. They were said to frequent bars and strip clubs. They chased women, and generally conducted themselves in ways that fundamentalist jihadists simply would not. If anything, Atta and friends were moderates - not fundamentalists intent on jihad.