Economy: The Ba'thist regime engages in extensive central planning and management of industrial production and foreign trade while leaving some small-scale industry and services and most agriculture to private enterprise. The economy has been dominated by the oil sector, which has traditionally provided about 95% of foreign exchange earnings. In the 1980s, financial problems caused by massive expenditures in the eight-year war with Iran and damage to oil export facilities by Iran, led the government to implement austerity measures and to borrow heavily and later reschedule foreign debt payments. After the end of hostilities in 1988, oil exports gradually increased with the construction of new pipelines and restoration of damaged facilities. Agricultural development remained hampered by labor shortages, salinization, and dislocations caused by previous land reform and collectivization programs. The industrial sector, although accorded high priority by the government, also was under financial constraints. 

Iraq's seizure of Kuwait in August 1990, subsequent international economic embargoes, and military action by an international coalition beginning in January 1991 drastically changed the economic picture. Industrial and transportation facilities, which suffered severe damage, have been partially restored. Oil exports remain at less than 5% of the previous level. Shortages of spare parts continue. Living standards deteriorated even further in 1993 and 1994; consumer prices have more than doubled in both 1993 and 1994. The UN-sponsored economic embargo has reduced exports and imports and has contributed to the sharp rise in prices. The Iraqi government has been unwilling to abide by UN resolutions so that the economic embargo can be removed. The government's policies of supporting large military and internal security forces and of allocating resources to key supporters of the regime have exacerbated shortages. In brief, per capita output in 1993-94 is far below the 1989-90 level, but no precise estimate is available.

"Although the Iraqi leader has increasingly been threatened, especially by the US administration, 
it appears he views himself as a somewhat immortal figure, a leader who could possibly outweigh
anything or essentially anyone. According to the Atlantic Monthly in its May 20022 edition, Saddam never sleeps in his palaces, instead, he moves from one secret bed to another. He wakes up at around three a.m. and sleeps for four or five hours per night. When he gets up, he swims in pools, which are located in all of his palaces and homes".  ("Saddam- An Inside Look'" -Albawaba.com)

 

 

Unfolding the secrets of Saddam's mind...

24-12-2002

As the Iraqi government accuses Washington of gearing up for "a world war," it seems the entire world is in anticipation to see what the next moves are in this seemingly never-ending saga between Iraq and the Bush administration. One can not escape from wondering these days, what is really going on in the mind of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, on the eve of a military strike that may be launched against his country. No-one really knows with certainty what is taking place in Saddam’s mind, or for that matter, what has kept him going from early on, but there is one man that has been systematically after Saddam’s psychological makeup for a long time, trying to unfold layer after layer of psychological structure and meaning. Psychiatrist Dr. Jerrold Post is actually Saddam Hussein’s shrink, even though the two have never physically met. As Saddam's “shrink”, Post’s mission is to assess what the Iraqi ruler’s next steps will be. This is perhaps one of those times in history when the personality and behavior of a political actor are of determinative importance on the course of future events. In order to build a framework for understanding the motivations, perceptions and actions of Saddam, an extensive political psychology profile must be developed, to better understand the composition of the Iraqi leader’s personality. United States government officials come to Post for insights into Saddam's state of mind. His diagnoses are listened to attentively because he is not only a psychiatrist, but also a former high-level Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official, who spent over two decades assessing the most inner workings of America's top foes. Post reaches his conclusions by deeply digging into the past of his “patients”, and with regards to Saddam, Post believes that the latter’s thinking involves a "wounded self", which dates back to his traumatic upbringing and his infancy and even beyond. Saddam was born in 1937 to a poor peasant family, and from his early years, he has chartered his own course and would definitely not accept limits. "It all goes back to his mother's womb," Post has recently told The Guardian. "During the mother's pregnancy with Saddam Hussein, his father died, and another son died when he was only 12 years old. She both tried to commit suicide and to have an abortion." Subha, Saddam's mother, was prevented from killing herself and her unborn child by a compassionate family of Iraqi Jews. As fate has its own course, that family is currently reported to be living in Israel... Back in 1930s Tikrit, situated in central Iraq, Subha, still in a state of deep depression, could not care for her newborn son. He was handed over to her brother, Khairalla Msallat, until he reached the age of three. However, even when little Saddam was reunited with his mother, her treatment of him hardly improved. She had remarried and allowed her new husband to abuse the little child. "His stepfather was brutal both physically and psychologically," Post claims. "His mother's failure to nurture him and his stepfather's abuse deeply wounded his self-esteem. In psychological terms, it is known as "the wounded self." "Typically, after such traumatic experiences, people can sink into despair and hopelessness. But it can also produce compensatory dreams of glory," Post explains. Uncle Khairalla, who was to become not only Saddam’s father figure, but his political mentor as well, provided such dreams. Khairalla took back responsibility for Saddam's care when he ran away from home at the age of eight and undoubtedly shaped young Hussein’s world perceptions, filling him with a hatred of foreigners. Khairalla, a bitter man in himself, whose career was ruined after he participated in a pro-Nazi revolt against British rule, told Saddam he would follow in the footsteps of the country's legendary heroes - - Nebuchadnezzar, the ancient king of Babylonia, and Saladin, who freed Jerusalem in 1187, by defeating the crusaders. When Saddam went to secondary school, a third name was added to the list – that of Nasser, the Egyptian nationalist leader of the 1950s, who eventually became an idealized model for Saddam. Saddam's rise to the top through coups, intrigue and assassination have persuaded him he has inherited the same myth-laden mantle of leadership - and that belief has strengthened with every layer of sycophantic followers who have gathered around him. "It has produced that most dangerous political personality - malignant narcissism," Post says. This particular type of personality disorder exhibits itself in an extreme lack of empathy for others, paranoia, the absence of conscience and a readiness to use violence to achieve goals. By the way, Post believes that Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is suffering from the same disorder. It is noteworthy to mention that this does not indicate that either man is "crazy", but rather both act with a cool rationality, which is primarily limited by the yes-men surrounding them. In his profile of Saddam, Post argues, "While he is psychologically in touch with reality, he is often politically out of touch with reality." Saddam’s “shrink” says the Iraqi leader’s world-view is narrow and distorted as he has scant experience outside the Arab world. Furthermore, he is surrounded by flatterers, who are afraid to contradict him. In a statement presented before the US House Armed Services Committee back in December 1990, on the brink of the US going to war with Iraq, Post said that according to an examination of Saddam’s leadership, a “judicious political calculator” is revealed, who is not irrational, but is indeed “dangerous to the extreme”. The label of “madman of the Middle East” is quite often attached to Saddam, but in fact, there is no proof he is suffering from a psychotic disorder. Post argues the Iraqi strongman is not impulsive, but acts only after consideration and can be extremely patient. While Hussein is not psychotic, he has a strong paranoid orientation and is ready for retaliation and, not without reason, sees himself as surrounded by enemies. According to Post, Saddam's practice of “revolutionary opportunism” has yet another important characteristic. Just as previous commitments must not be permitted to stand in the way of Saddam's messianic path, neither should one persist in a particular course of action if it proves to be counter-productive for him and his nation. When Hussein pursues a course of action, he pursues it fully, and if he meets initial resistance, he will struggle even more. However, if circumstances demonstrated that he miscalculated, he is capable of reversing his course. In these circumstances he does not acknowledge that he has made a mistake, but rather views himself as adapting flexibly to a dynamic situation. According to Post, in pursuing his goals, Saddam uses aggression instrumentally. He uses whatever force is necessary, and will, if he deems it expedient, go to extremes of violence, including the use of weapons of mass destruction. His unconstrained aggression is instrumental in pursuing his objectives, but it is at the same time defensive aggression, for his grandiose facade disguises underlying insecurity. "He is not a martyr. He is a quintessential survivor," the psychiatrist makes clear. But on the other hand, he will never give up his arsenal of mass destruction, which Post says are fundamental to his self-image as a world-class leader. "Big boys have big toys," Post conveys. "Without the weapons, he's nothing." Post believes Saddam will never give up his chemical and biological weapons, or his nuclear program, and will lash out with everything he has in his arsenal if he feels he is cornered, launching toxins and germs at invading US-British forces and at Israel as well. Threatened with extinction, Post predicts Saddam will probably both set fire to the Iraqi oilfields, as he did in Kuwait eleven years ago, and order the use of chemical and biological weapons against the invading troops and against Israel. This is also the CIA's analysis. Additionally, Post agrees with his former employers at the CIA in saying that, in the absence of an existential threat, it is not in Saddam's nature to loan out his “toys” to terrorists. "That would mean a loss of total control," he explains. Moreover, Saddam’s “shrink” believes that if the Iraqi leader was allowed to develop a nuclear weapon, he might not court martyrdom by using it, but its presence would back up his threats and fire his grandiose ambitions of dominating his region and following in Saladin's path towards Jerusalem. At this current stage, with the focus of international political attention on him, Saddam’s desire for glory has been enhanced and his survival instincts help shape the course of his actions. (Albawaba.com)

 

 

Iraq Calls For Suicide Squads
To Strike US Targets

Special Alert - Jihad and Terrorism Studies
Middle East Media Research Institute

9-10-2

Iraq Calls for the Formation of Suicide Squads to Strike American Targets and Interests   An editorial in the Iraqi weekly Al-Iqtisadi [The Economist], which is owned by Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday, called for the formation of suicide [fidaiyoon] squads to launch broad-based sabotage operations against the United States, its friends, and interests.(1) As an introduction, the weekly highlighted the growing Arab, regional, and international opposition to American threats against Arab and Muslim countries, and Iraq, in particular. The following are excerpts from the article:   "...The United States practices international terrorism against the whole world. By doing so, it turns peoples and governments into hostages, thereby causing the suspension of international activities and generating fears and instability in the international domain. This conduct has similarities with Hitler and Nazism which led the world to a world war."   "...It is unlikely that the United Nations will establish an international tribunal to prosecute the U.S., but it is not difficult for any country to indict it [the U.S.] internationally and to mobilize other countries to do so despite the ridiculous international decision that protects American forces from their crimes against others..." "...The confrontation with the aggressors should transcend the means of condemnation and rejection, particularly in the Arab and Muslim street. They should use all means-and they are numerous-against the aggressors, including boycott, closing air and sea ports to civilian ships and airplanes that belong to the U.S. and its allies, striking their economic interests and establishments, and considering everything American as a military target, including embassies, installations, and American companies, and to create suicide/martyr [fidaiyoon] squads to attack American military and naval bases inside and outside the region, and mine the waterways to prevent the movement of war ships..."(2)   Endnotes:   (1) Al-Iqtisadi, September 5, 2002. The editorial was signed by Munthir 'Aref. It should be recalled that the leadership of the Ba'ath Socialist Party [the ruling party in Iraq] as far back as last April called to "hit" American interests in the Arab homeland, Al-Hayat, April 8, 2002.   (2) This report is excerpted from MEMRI's Iraq News Wire No. 9. For more on Iraq, visit: www.memri.org/iraq.html.   ********************* The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is an independent, non-profit organization that translates and analyzes the media of the Middle East. Copies of articles and documents cited, as well as background information, are available on request.   The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) P.O. Box 27837, Washington, DC 20038-7837 Phone: (202) 955-9070 Fax: (202) 955-9077 E-Mail: memri@memri.org www.memri.org http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SA302

 

Legal Actions Pending Against Iraq

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Judicial Watch Suit:

IRAQ AND BIN LADEN SUED FOR SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACK

VICTIM ALLEGES TERRORIST PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN BIN LADEN AND SADDAM HUSSEIN

Press Conference
Where: E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse
333 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
When: 2:00 p.m.,Tuesday, December 4, 2002

(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today announced the filing of a lawsuit in Washington DC federal court on behalf of a victim of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The victim, who wishes to remain anonymous for security reasons, is suing the government of Iraq, Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, the government Afghanistan, and the Taliban for the murder of his wife, who was killed at the Trade Center on September 11. The lawsuit seeks damages under, among other causes of action, the Anti-Terrorism Act and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which exempts Iraq and Afghanistan from sovereign immunity for terrorist activity. A press conference announcing the lawsuit will take place at the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse, 333 Constitution Avenue, at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 4.

The lawsuit, based on a compilation of compelling evidence, describes a conspiracy between Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi government and Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terrorist network to implement a joint strategy for a terrorist campaign against America which resulted in the wrongful death of the victim, who is listed in the complaint as “Jane Doe.” Besides the well-known links between the Taliban and bin Laden, the complaint alleges:

* Iraq provided “material support and assistance” to bin Laden’s network to carry out the September 11 attacks.

* Al Qaeda terrorists were trained in terrorist techniques in Iraqi camps outside Baghdad.

* The September 11, 2001 hijackers and their co-conspirators met repeatedly with key Iraqi intelligence officials and that the CIA reportedly believes Iraqi intelligence provided passports for the hijackers.

“The evidence is overwhelming that Iraq was involved in the September 11, 2001 attack which murdered our client’s wife. We are confident that a jury will agree. Some in our government would ignore Iraq’s involvement in 9/11. Judicial Watch will not. Saddam Hussein will pay the price for his murderous conspiracy with Osama bin Laden,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.   Ref: Judicial Watch

 

IRAQ SUED BY OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING SURVIVORS

Judicial Watch Complaint Details Iraq’s Means, Opportunity and Motive
Action Brought Under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996

(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, said today that it has filed suit against the Republic of Iraq on behalf of 14 survivors of the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, OK. Judicial Watch’s co-counsel in this matter are John Michael Johnston, Esq. of Oklahoma City, and Jay D. Adkisson, Esq. of Irvine, California.

The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, is brought against Iraq, as a State Department designated terrorism sponsor, under the provisions of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, which addresses state sponsored terrorism and has a specific provision for retroactive application. Judicial Watch and its clients contend that other individuals, in addition to Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, were involved in the preparation for and execution of the attack on the Murrah Building. These individuals were operating as agents of the Republic of Iraq and took an active part in the planning, technical and/or financial activities of the bombing plot. The complaint details the involvement and complicity of Iraq by both direct and circumstantial evidence in classic application, i.e., means, opportunity, and motive.

The complaint, a copy of which can be found below, cites reporting from Philippine intelligence and law enforcement sources concerning meetings between convicted Murrah Building bombing accomplice Terry Nichols and Ramzi Youssef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, during Nichols’ travel to the Philippines between 1990 and 1994. Additional evidence obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveals Interpol’s efforts to apprehend two additional Oklahoma City bombing suspects and information in the agency’s files associating Ramzi Youssef with the attack. 

“It’s time the whole story about the Oklahoma City bombing is revealed, and that justice is done for the Iraqi’s state sponsorship of that brutal attack on American citizens,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.

“The survivors of the Murrah Building bombing and the people of Oklahoma City have waited a long time for the whole, unvarnished truth to come out concerning this horrific plot, and they won’t rest until that’s accomplished,” added attorney Mike Johnston.

Ref: Judicial Watch

COMPLAINT

COME NOW Plaintiffs, V.Z. Lawton, Stephanie Cook, Gloria J. Chipman, Joe Chickoraske, Virginia Fredman, Jane Graham, Tamara Greiner, Marla Hornberger, Rhonda Johnson, f/k/a Rhonda Griffin, Colleen Larney, Deborah Nakanashi, Linda Peterson, Sherril R. Stewart, and Sandra Teel, herein and for their cause of action against Defendant, The Republic of Iraq, allege and state as follows.

I. JURISDICTION AND VENUE

1. Subject matter jurisdiction arises in this Court pursuant to an exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. §§1602-1611, et seq., which exception was created as to Foreign States sponsoring terrorism in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. See 28 U.S.C. §1605(a)(7) and 28 U.S.C. §1605, note.

Although the events complained of herein occurred more than one year prior to the enactment of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Congress expressly directed the retroactive application of 28 U.S.C. §1605(a)(7) in order to further a comprehensive counterterrorism initiative by the legislative branch of government, to wit: “The amendments made by this subtitle shall apply to any cause of action arising before, on or after the date of the enactment of this Act [April 24, 1996].”

The Secretary of State of the United States designated Defendant, Republic of Iraq, as a state sponsor of terrorism pursuant to §6(g) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 on September 13, 1990. See 55 Fed.Reg. 37793-01.

2. Venue is proper in this jurisdiction as a permitted situs for the litigation under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.

3. Service should be effected by registered mail or on the United States Department of State for diplomatic service on Defendant in accordance with 28 U.S.C. §1608(A)(4), as well as (separately) on the Iraqi Interests Section, in care of the Embassy of Algeria, 1801 P. Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.

II. CAUSE OF ACTION

4. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act enables suits for monetary damages against foreign states that cause “personal injury or death . . . by an act of . . . extrajudicial killing . . .or the provision of material support or resources . . . for such an act.” See 28 U.S.C. §1605(a)(7). The Foreign Sovereignties and Immunity Act, as amended, provides liability for “money damages which may include economic damages, solatium, pain and suffering, and punitive damages if the acts were among those described in §1605(a)(7).” See also 28 U.S.C. §1605, note. The statute of limitations to bring an action under the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act is ten years. See 28 U.S.C. §1605(f).

III. PARTIES

5. The parties hereto are all Oklahoma citizens or former Oklahoma citizens who are either survivors of the Murrah Building bombing of April 19, 1995, or who lost loved ones in that terrorist attack. All Plaintiffs are citizens of the United States.

6. Defendant, The Republic of Iraq, is a foreign sovereign whose activities were outside the scope of immunity as provided by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. As noted, Defendant has been declared a state sponsoring terrorism since September 1990.

IV. STATEMENT OF THE CASE

7. The parties hereto, based on their collective knowledge and on the knowledge of other victims of the bombing of April 19, 1995, believe that the attack was not as simple as has been portrayed by the United States government during the criminal trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. Specifically, upon information and belief, Plaintiffs assert that other individuals were involved in preparation for and execution of the attack. Plaintiffs assert that the entire plot was, in whole or in part, orchestrated, assisted technically and/or financially, and directly aided by agents of The Republic of Iraq. Plaintiffs further assert that this attack was an illegal continuation of the Persian Gulf War. Plaintiffs herein assert that they or their loved ones are, in effect, civilian casualties of said Gulf War in a manner contrary to the Geneva Convention and other applicable international treaties. Plaintiffs assert that the involvement and complicity of Iraq can be proven by both direct and circumstantial evidence in classic application, i.e., means, opportunity and motive, to wit:

(A) Iraq Had the “Means” to Commit Terrorist Acts in the United States.

Prior to the Gulf War, Iraq had developed a covert network in the United States to acquire materials for weapons of mass destruction. After the Gulf War, Iraq converted that network into organized terrorist cells. Those covert Iraqi procurement and terrorist activities directly involved Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Procurement Activities.

8. Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti, a half brother of Saddam Hussein, attended a meeting in London in the fall of 1987 during which a fuel additive company in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was targeted for acquisition. Sabawi, at that time, played a key role in Iraq’s overseas procurement program. The London meeting also included Dr. Ihsan Barbouti, an Iraqi. Barbouti was later identified in official German government reports and by the United States as being a key procurement agent for both Libya and Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs. The Oklahoma City company that was targeted, TK-7 Fuel Additives, was desired by Iraq because Iraq believed that the fuel additive would extend the range of its scud missiles and because the U.S. company would provide an unwitting front for the acquisition of chemicals and materials useful in chemical weapons development and in the preparation of explosives.

9. Pursuant to the wishes of Iraq, Ihsan Barbouti approached the owner of the Oklahoma City fuel additives company about becoming an investor. The Oklahoma City owner was later asked by Barbouti to secure a shopping list of chemicals for purported shipment overseas. Barbouti’s list specifically included nitromethane and ammonium nitrate – the same two ingredients later mixed to make the Murrah Building truck bomb in April 1995. The list was ultimately entered into evidence, as Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 5, during a 1991 federal court trial against Barboutis (CIV-89-1264) in Oklahoma City. See Exhibit 1, attached hereto, which is incorporated herein by reference. During that same trial a chemical weapons consultant for the U.S. Army testified that Barbouti’s shopping list included precursors for nerve agents, mustard agents and also “types of compounds for producing various types of explosives.” The expert worried about terrorist applications of the materials that Barbouti sought.

Terrorist Activity.

10. On April 20, 1990, a Criminal Investigation Agent for the U.S. Customs Service authored a “Report of Investigation” including information from a confidential informant from Europe who revealed that Barbouti was a “conduit for. . .funds to terrorist organizations.” The Customs informant also noted that there was an individual working with Barbouti in his technology and weapons procurement efforts for Libya and Iraq. Said individual was identified in a 1991 Florida federal court case, i.e., testimony given two years before the first attack on the World Trade Center, as being “Ramzi Youssef.” Youssef was an Iraqi government agent.

11. In the time period before the Gulf War other witnesses met Ramzi Youssef, who was described as an “explosives expert” employed by the Iraqi National Oil Company, at Dr. Barbouti’s office in London. Indeed, Youssef was part of a team of Barbouti’s agents or employees who were to be “on the ground” in Kuwait, awaiting the Iraqi invasion in August 1990. They were tasked with assisting and cooperating with the Iraqi invasion force, especially in regard to oil field matters. Dr. Barbouti and Youssef had prior knowledge of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. See Exhibit 2, attached hereto, which is incorporated herein by reference. Later, during their occupation of Kuwait in 1990, Iraq created a false identify for Youssef using the identity of a dead Pakistani named Abdel Basit. This was done in order to hide Iraq’s involvement in an impending program of international terrorist attacks.

12. During this same time frame (1989-1990) Barbouti, on behalf of Iraq, also attempted to acquire controlling interest in a cherry flavors plant in Boca Raton, Florida. The cherry flavors plant, as redesigned by Barbouti, would also produce sodium cyanide as a waste by-product of the fruit pit processing. U.S. authorities later discovered that after the Boca Raton plant began operations in September 1989, a number of barrels of sodium cyanide were diverted from the plant. Seven barrels of the sodium cyanide – used to make hydrogen cyanide gas – were trucked from Florida to Houston, where Barbouti had a corporate headquarters for his U.S. operations. The seven barrels were then taken to Baltimore where they were shipped as the “personal effects” of a diplomat at the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, D.C. to the port of Aqaba, Jordan. From there, the cyanide was taken overland to Iraq. Other barrels of the sodium cyanide from the Boca Raton plant simply disappeared.

Three years later Ramzi Youssef attempted to use sodium cyanide to create cyanide gas to release into the ventilation system of the World Trade Center as part of the 1993 New York terrorist bombing. The attempted chemical attack was emphasized by Federal Judge Kevin Duffy at the May 1994 sentencing hearing for four men also convicted of the attack (Ramzi Youssef, the mastermind and bomb maker, was not yet in custody). Judge Duffy noted that the conspiracy’s aim was “to engulf the victims trapped in the North Trade Tower in a cloud of cyanide gas.” The bomb’s explosion luckily incinerated the gas. The source of the sodium cyanide – mixed by Youssef with sulfuric acid to produce hydrogen cyanide – used in the 1993 World Trade Center attack is unknown.

13. In addition to the activities of Ihsan Barbouti and his protégée, Ramzi Youssef, Iraq has promised and prepared for a continued war of terrorism against the United States since the Persian Gulf War in 1990, including:

(a) According to a U.S. Department of State dispatch dated November 5, 1990, Saddam Hussein had called, on September 13, 1990, for a Jihad or Holy War against those nations who supported the U.N. condemnation of Iraq.
(b) According to the same U.S. Department of State dispatch, Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz simultaneously warned that Baghdad was under no moral obligation to refrain from terrorism if threatened by United States, British or French governments.
(c) After the Gulf War cease fire, a promise was made by Saddam Hussein (personally) on November 3, 1992 in Ramadi, Iraq that “the mother of battles . . . has continued, and will continue.”
(d) There was an attempted terrorist plot by Iraqi agents to assassinate former President George H.W. Bush with a car bomb during his planned visit to Kuwait in April 1993, which was foiled by Kuwaiti intelligence. See Exhibit 3, attached hereto, which is an official fact sheet presented by the U.S. State Department to the U.N. Security Council on June 28, 1993, and is incorporated herein by reference.
(e) In June 1996, the UNSCOM 150 Team led by Inspector Scott Ritter discovered a terrorist training school in the southwest quadrant of Baghdad in the Abu Garie area run by Directorate M-21 of the Mukhabarat (Iraqi intelligence). In Ritter’s own words, “Document after document outlined an international program of terror.”
(f) According to UNSCOM reports, as well as Iraqi defector, Khidhir Hamza, Iraq had a chemical weapons testing facility at Samara and a biological agent testing facility at the Salman Pak in Iraq. Both facilities conducted lethal testing on human subjects.
(g) According to reports of the U.N. Special Commission and Iraqi defector Sabah Khodada, Iraq also has an elite international terrorist training camp at the Salman Pak located southwest of Baghdad.

14. In summary, Iraq has had the “means,” before and after the Gulf War, through individual agents like Ihsan Barbouti, Ramzi Youssef and Abdul Rahman Yasin , an indicted fugitive from the World Trade Center bombing currently hiding in Baghdad, to execute terrorist attacks against Americans in the United States and elsewhere. The Iraqi-inspired terrorist attacks that have occurred have often utilized those same materials (ammonium nitrate, nitromethane and cyanide) that Iraq had been attempting to procure since prior to the Gulf War.

(B) “Opportunity” to Commit the Murrah Building Bombing.

15. After masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Iraqi agent Ramzi Youssef was on the run. Youssef eventually returned to the Philippines, where he first visited in the summer of 1991. After setting up a base of operations in Manila during August 1994, Ramzi Youssef, Wali Khan Amin Shah and Abdul Hakim Murad (a foreign pilot licensed in the United States since 1992) began conceiving plans for conducting elaborate terrorist attacks-code named “Project Bojinka.”

In the Philippines as part of Project Bojinka, Ramzi Youssef, on behalf of Iraq, recruited conspirators to attempt to simultaneously bomb five or more U.S. 747 aircraft over the Pacific, using delayed timer tactics with many similarities to Barbouti’s 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103. Youssef also conceived of plans to highjack planes bound for the United States in order to dive them, in suicide attacks, into U.S. targets like CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, a tactic later adopted by Osama bin Laden. Youssef flew frequently from Manila to Cebu City in the Philippines in order to recruit potential terrorists at Southwest College in Cebu City. Plaintiffs assert that at some point in time Ramzi Youssef recruited a willing convert in the person of Terry Nichols who witnesses say went to the Philippines seeking technical help in learning to build a bomb. Meetings between Terry Nichols and Ramzi Youssef were witnessed by a Filipino government informant.

16. Terry Nichols took a number of trips to Cebu City in the Philippines between 1990 when he married a Filipino and 1994. Sometimes Nichols went with his Filipino wife and sometimes he went alone. On November 22, 1994 Nichols made his last trip to the Philippines. However, prior to that trip, for the first and only time, Nichols worried that he might not return. Indeed, Terry Nichols left a letter with his ex-wife for Timothy McVeigh to be delivered to McVeigh in case of Nichols’ death in the Philippines. The letter contained instructions addressing several things including the ammonium nitrate that Nichols had accumulated in a storage locker in Kansas. Said letter was introduced into evidence in McVeigh’s criminal case. After putting his affairs in order, Nichols flew to Cebu City, the second largest city in the Philippines, arriving on November 23, 1994. Nichols’ Filipino wife was already attending classes there at Southwest College.

17. Soon after Terry Nichols arrived in Cebu City, Ramzi Youssef also bought a one-way ticket to Cebu City, on December 9th, for travel aboard a December 11 flight from Manila on Philippine Airlines flight 434. Once on board, on December 11th, Youssef planted a bomb rigged with a Casio timer under his seat. The bomb was set to explode after Youssef disembarked in Cebu City. Two hours after Youssef got off the Boeing 747 in Cebu City his bomb exploded as the plane was on its way to Tokyo. The bomb killed one person and severely injured several others while blowing a hole in the floor of the plane and severing the aileron cables that controlled the plane’s flaps. The 747 successfully made an emergency landing in Okinawa. Intelligence sources in the Philippines believe that Youssef hid out for the next several weeks in a boarding house near Southwest College in Cebu City. Marife Nichols later moved into that same boarding house after Terry Nichols returned to the United States.

18. By January 6, 1995, Youssef was back in his apartment in Manila. At about 10:40 p.m. on the evening of January 6, Youssef and Abdul Hakim Murad were building one of the bombs to be used in the impending attacks on American 747 aircraft, when a small fire broke out in their apartment. The fire caused them to flee the apartment due to poisonous smoke. Firefighters arrived and extinguished the blaze but the bomb making equipment was obvious. Abdul Hakim Murad was arrested that same night when he returned to attempt to retrieve Ramzi Youssef’s laptop computer. The computer contained the Project Bojinka plans to simultaneously blow up five or more American 747 aircraft over the Pacific on the same day. The coordinated bombing was planned for January 21, 1995. Youssef’s computer also revealed that at least five people (identified by code names only) would participate with him in executing the attack. The identities of all of the prospective “Bojinka” bombing participants has never been definitively established but the evidence suggests that Terry Nichols planned to be one of them.

19. However, once Murad was arrested on January 6, 1995 and the bombing plot was discovered, both Ramzi Youssef and Terry Nichols quickly left the Philippines. Youssef flew to Hong Kong on January 7th and Nichols left Cebu City on January 16, 1995, seven days earlier than originally planned, for the United States. During the next several months, from January 31 until March 14, 1995, Nichols made numerous phone calls back to the Philippines, including 13 calls to “untraceable” Philippine numbers after his wife had already returned to the United States. In some of these instances Nichols called the boarding house near Southwest College. In some instances he called pay phones in the Philippines. He sometimes called from outdoor phone booths, in Kansas, during the dead of winter. Most tellingly, Nichols made repeated calls to the Philippines using a prepaid long distance debit card account under a fictitious name, Daryl Bridges, which federal prosecutors say was set up for the Murrah Building bombing conspiracy.

20. Three months later, when the Murrah Building was bombed, Abdul Hakim Murad, in a prison cell in New York City awaiting trial for his part in the plot to bomb five American 747 aircraft, admitted verbally on April 19, 1995 and in writing that Ramzi Youssef’s “liberation army” was responsible for the Murrah Building bombing! Murad’s conspiratorial admission of foreign involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing was revealed by an FBI 302 Report that was referenced in Timothy McVeigh’s March 1997 “Petition for Writ of Mandamus,” Case No. 97-1109 (10th Cir.). The 302 Report was sealed. Said conspiratorial admission, however, was never reported by the government to the bombing victims.

21. Due primarily to Ramzi Youssef’s involvement in planning both attacks, the bombing of the Murrah Building in April 1995 had dramatic similarities to the February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. In each instance, the bomb was a massive “fertilizer bomb.” The World Trade Center bomb was primarily composed of urea nitrate, although it did utilize a more sophisticated triggering device, i.e., nitroglycerin, and the Oklahoma City bomb was primarily composed of ammonium nitrate. Both bombs were delivered to their targets in rented Ryder trucks which had been rented in adjoining states. Both attacks were timed in order to inflict substantial casualties and to bring down the targeted buildings.

22. Tellingly, according to the sworn testimony of Michael Fortier, McVeigh and Nichols attempted in October 1994 to blow up a metal milk jug with a small ammonium nitrate device. That attempt merely fizzled. Six months later, and only three months after Nichols returned from the Philippines, the same two individuals (supposedly) were able to devastate the Murrah Building with approximately 5,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate and Nitromethane. Plaintiffs assert that this quantum leap in technical expertise occurred during Nichols’ last trip to the Philippines.

23. Freedom of Information Act records obtained from Interpol’s National Central Bureau on February 24, 2000 revealed that, long after Nichols and McVeigh were in custody for the Murrah Building bombing, Interpol was still trying to apprehend at least two other individuals, one a foreign national, somewhere overseas, who were “implicated in the bomb attack against the Oklahoma City federal building on April 19, 1995.” Also, the last (released) document contained in Interpol’s file regarding the Oklahoma City bombing was a New York Times article about the 1997 trial of Ramzi Youssef for the terrorist plots prepared in the Philippines during 1994 and early 1995. See Exhibit 4, attached hereto, which is incorporated herein by reference. Obviously, Interpol connected Ramzi Youssef to the Oklahoma City bombing. Neither of these things was ever revealed by the United States government to Plaintiffs, i.e., bombing victims, herein.

24. Plaintiffs further assert that Timothy McVeigh had additional Iraqi assistance in preparing the Murrah Building attack during the days leading up to April 19, 1995. This included, specifically, the assistance of Hussain Hashem Alhussaini, a former soldier in the Iraqi army during the Gulf War who had been allowed entry into the United States in 1994 through Boston from an interment camp in Saudi Arabia. Also, see Exhibit 5, attached hereto, which is a copy of an April 19, 1995 government memorandum documenting a report to the Washington Metropolitan Field Office of the FBI, made by a former high-ranking CIA official, and is incorporated herein by reference. Said CIA official (who had previously worked on the Pan Am 103 case) was passing on urgent information from a Saudi Arabian counterterrorism official in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The intelligence information was that “there was a ‘squad’ of people currently in the United States, very possibly Iraqis, who have been tasked with carrying out terrorist attacks against the United States.” One of the three targets specifically mentioned in the report was Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The existence of this memo was never communicated by the U.S. government to Plaintiffs herein, i.e., victims.

25. Plaintiffs also note that the U.S. News and World Report reported on October 29, 2001 that “a few top Defense officials think Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh was an Iraqi agent.” The Pentagon asserted that “McVeigh had allegedly collected Iraqi telephone numbers” prior to his arrest. The U.S. government never revealed information about McVeigh’s Iraqi phone numbers to Plaintiffs, i.e., the bombing victims, herein.

26. In March 1998, Timothy McVeigh penned a copyrighted “Essay on Hypocrisy” from federal prison in Florence, Colorado which defended Iraq’s right to “stockpile chemical or biological weapons” because the United States had also done so. In his essay, McVeigh returned again and again to the topic of Iraq:

. . . the people of the nation approve of bombing government employees because they are “guilty by association – they are Iraqi government employees. In regard to the bombing in Oklahoma City, however, such logic is condemned. * * * Do people think that government workers in Iraq are any less human than those in Oklahoma City? Do they think that Iraqis don’t have families who will grieve and mourn the loss of their loved ones?

* * *

I find it ironic to say the least, that one of the aircraft that could be used to drop such a bomb on Iraq is dubbed “The Spirit of Oklahoma.”

See Exhibit 6, attached hereto, which is incorporated herein by reference.

27. In summary, Iraq had the “opportunity” through its agent, Ramzi Youssef, and through other individuals to assist in both the technical planning, and in the execution of the Oklahoma City Murrah Building bombing. Having expended considerable resources in developing covert procurement and terrorist cells in the United States, Iraq did not forego the opportunity to provide training and support to domestic extremists, like Nichols and McVeigh, who were already pre-disposed to terrorism and to “acts of revenge” against the U.S. government.

(C) Iraq Had “Motive” to Attack the United States in April 1995.

28. When it became clear that Iraq was losing the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq repeatedly threatened revenge. Specifically, the Iraqi people will “avenge the pure blood that has been shed no matter how long it takes” as spoken by then First Deputy Prime Minister of Baghdad Domestic Service, Taha Yasin Ramadan on February 15, 1991. In November 1992, Saddam Hussein, himself, announced in Ramadi, Iraq that “the mother of battles . . . has continued and will continue.”

29. A number of events escalated in early 1995 leading up to April 19, 1995, to wit:

(a) The arrest in Pakistan of Ramzi Youssef on February 7, 1995. Iraq probably feared that its complicity in the first World Trade Center attack would soon be revealed, and that future attacks might be compromised.
(b) March 1995 – a U.S. inspired military effort was begun by the Iraqi government in exile (the Iraqi National Congress) in Northern Iraq involving 15,000 troops. Saddam Hussein eventually defeated it.
(c) The United States announced in March 1995 that it would veto any proposal in the United Nations to lift Iraqi sanctions. Iraq was desperate to get sanctions lifted.
(d) On April 10, 1995 the United Nations inspection team UNSCOM filed its official report (written in part by American, Scott Ritter) which revealed that Iraq still maintained a biological warfare program. This report “raised the prospects that sanctions could never be lifted due to U.N. Security Council Regulation 687.” Iraq was enraged.

In summary, Iraq had sufficient “motive,” and Saddam Hussein had previously demonstrated sufficient propensity, to execute a major terrorist attack against the United States in the spring of 1995, and certainly after the events of April 10, 1995.

COUNT I
(28 U.S.C. §1605(a)(7))

30. Plaintiffs reallege paragraphs 1 through 29 as if fully set forth herein.

31. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act enables suits for monetary damages against foreign states that cause “personal injury or death . . . by an act of . . . extrajudicial killing . . .or the provision of material support or resources . . . for such an act.” See 28 U.S.C. §1605(a)(7).

32. Plaintiffs assert that the entire plot to blow up the Murrah Building on April 19, 1995 was, in whole or in part, orchestrated, assisted technically and/or financially, and directly aided by agents of The Republic of Iraq.

33. As a proximate result, Plaintiffs suffered and continue to suffer substantial damages, including but not limited to physical, psychological, and economic damages suffered by each of the individual Plaintiffs; however, those Plaintiffs who are survivors of the bombing suffered personal injuries including pain and suffering (physical and mental) and, in some instances, economic damages. Those Plaintiffs who lost loved ones in the bombing suffered loss of solatium including mental and emotional trauma. Plaintiffs assert that the valuation of their damages should be consistent with other reported terrorist cases that have been adjudicated since the 1996 Act, including Cicippio v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 18 F.Supp.2d 62 (D.D.C. 1998); Anderson v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 90 F.Supp.2d 107 (D.D.C. 1998); Alejandre v. Republic of Cuba, 996 F.Supp. 1239 (S.D. Fla. 1997); Flatow v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 999 F.Supp. 1 (D.D.C. 1998); Daliberti v. Republic of Iraq, No. 96-1118 (LFO) (D.D.C. May 25, 2001); Higgins v. Islamic Republic of Iran, No. 1:99 CV 00377 (D.D.C. September 21, 2000). See Crowell & Moring LLP report to the Management Director of the September 11, 2001 Victims Compensation Fund, attached hereto as Exhibit 7, which is incorporated herein by reference.

WHEREFORE, Plaintiffs herein who are survivors of the bombing on April 19, 1995 seek actual damages in excess of $5 million each and Plaintiffs herein who lost loved ones in the attack seek actual damages in excess of $10 million each. Furthermore, Plaintiffs collectively seek in excess of $1.4 billion in punitive damages in order to punish and deter Defendant in regard to future actions of this magnitude and nature. Additionally, Plaintiffs seek costs of this action and such other or further relief as the Court may deem equitable and proper.

Respectfully submitted,


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ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFFS

Advanced Weaponry Potentials in the Middle East

Electric force field protects tanks    Monday 19th August 2002   UK NEWS

An electric force field that vaporises grenades and shells on impact has reportedly been developed by the Ministry of Defence. The electric armour would be used on tanks and military vehicles and would make them lighter and more manoeuvrable. It works on RPG-7 anti-tank grenades which fire a stream of copper into tanks at 1,000mph, reports the Daily Telegraph. The armour has a highly-charged capacitor connected to two separate metal plates on the tank's exterior. The outer plate, which is bullet-proof and made from an unspecified alloy, is earthed while the insulated inner plate is live. When the warhead fires its jet of molten copper, it penetrates both the outer plate and the insulation of the inner plate. This makes a connection and thousands of amps of electricity vaporise most of the molten copper. The rest of the copper is dispersed harmlessly against the vehicle's hull. In tests an armoured personnel carrier survived repeated rocket attacks from grenades that would normally have destroyed it. The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory developed the Pulsed Power System at its site at Fort Halstead, Kent. Prof John Brown said it was attracting a lot of interest. He added with the easy availability of RPG-7 rocket launchers "it only takes one individual on, say, a rooftop in a village to cause major damage or destroy passing armoured vehicles".

Laser developed to blast landmines and unexploded bombs 10th July 2002  UK NEWS

The US Army is about to start testing a laser which can blast landmines. A low power laser targets the device and then a high power version either burns off the explosive or detonates it. But the laser doesn't work on mines which are buried beneath the soil. The beam is fired from a turret on top of an armoured car which can stay up to 350 metres away from the target. Its 2,000-watt laser should also work on unexploded bombs, cluster bombs and other battlefield leftovers. Engineers say the most difficult part of the design was building in a portable cooling system for the heating element. The laser has been named Zeus and works in laboratory conditions, but field testing is expected to take place later this year. Zeus is being developed by Sparta, a firm based in Alabama, reports New Scientist.

Boeing confirms research to defy gravity  Monday 29th July 2002  UK NEWS

Boeing has confirmed it's carrying out tests on several anti-gravity devices which could allow almost fuelless aircraft and huge spacecraft. The company wants to join forces with a Russian scientist who claims to have developed a way to shield objects from gravity. Dr Yevgeny Podkletnov was ridiculed by sections of the science community when he released details of his research in 1996. He claimed objects above a spinning, superconducting disc lost weight, but other researchers say they have been unable to validate the results. A Boeing spokesman said: "We feel there is a basic science that exists for all this. We would very much like to work with the Russian scientist who is looking into all this." Nasa and the military wing of BAe Systems are also both working on anti-gravity research projects. Details of the Boeing project, called GRASP - Gravity Research for Advanced Space Propulsion - were revealed by Jane's Defence Weekly. The Boeing spokesman said: "We have conducted tests on a number of anti-gravity devices. These devices do not actually break the laws of physics. "We are trying to engineer the science in a way that produces something workable. It could help produce a transport system that works without fuel, or produce spacecraft."

US military shows off robot fighter plane  12 July 2002  UK NEWS

The US military has been showing off a robot plane designed to survive front line combat. Previous pilot-less drones haven't been up to the task and several have crashed or been shot down. The tailless X-45 cost £265 million to develop and is the first un-piloted plane to be developed specifically to carry weapons into combat. Other drones, such as the Predator now flying in Afghanistan, have been modified to carry missiles. Boeing has built two X-45s so far but only one has been test flown. The other will begin flight tests this autumn. The Y-shaped design incorporates an air intake instead of a cockpit canopy and boasts a 34-foot wingspan. It has been nicknamed the Stingray or the Shrike. A slightly larger production model will be able to carry more than 3,000 pounds of bombs and could be deployed by 2010.

 

 

 

Scientists 'step closer to Star Trek teleporting' 17th June 2002

Scientists say they've managed to send a message using the same principles as the Star Trek teleporter. The Australian team used a process called quantum entanglement to transport the laser beam message. They were able to disassemble an encrypted beam and simultaneously recreate a replica a metre away. Research physicist Dr Ping Koy Lam told The Australian the breakthrough could have a major impact on computers and communications. He says the team hasn't worked out how to 'beam up' a human yet, but Star Trek-style teleporting could be possible in the future. Using quantum teleporting for humans would see the original person destroyed to create a replica. Dr Lam said: "I think teleporting of that kind is very, very far away. We don't know how to do that with a single atom yet. But that doesn't mean that in the far future it's not possible. "What we have demonstrated here is that we can take billions of photons, destroy them simultaneously, and then recreate them in another place. "This technology would have tremendous potential for banks, financial institutions and governments who want to protect information." The team believe quantum teleportation could make coded information 100% secure because intercepted messages would be unreadable. It could lead to the creation of super fast computers which are able to solve problems millions of times faster than current models.

Iraq: World's First Scalar War?

With the Bush people rushing us toward war it is important for everyone to realize the true and rather frightening possibility that this war will involve the use of scalar electromagnetic weapons, by any of a number of possessors of such weapons. They are called "Longitudinal Wave Interferometers," or "Tesla howitzers", and use longitudinal (LW) electromagnetic (EM) waves to accomplish true action-at-a-distance.

These are the weapons Khrushchev spoke of 40 years ago, when he declared: 

"We have a new weapon, just within the portfolio of our scientists, so to speak, which is so powerful that, if unrestrainedly used, it could wipe out all life on earth. It is a fantastic weapon." Khrushchev, to the Presidium, Jan. 1960

These are also the weapons referred to in 1997 by Defense Secretary William Cohen, when he said:

"Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations...It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counter terrorism] efforts." - Defense Secretary William Cohen, 1997

One of the leading experts in the new science of scalar electromagnetics is scientist Thomas E. Bearden, and he has published many papers at his website Cheniere.Org. In a letter to a writer named "Russell" (Correspondence section) Bearden says, 

"In short, Russell, the Secretary of Defense of the United States confirmed that there are indeed novel kinds of EM weapons, right now and have been for some time, which have been and are being used to (1) initiate earthquakes, (2) engineer the weather and climate, and (3) initiate the eruption of volcanoes. We wrote about those exact uses of the weaponry decades ago. Several nations now have such weapons. Three of them (two on one side and the other on a hostile side) are even firing practice shots into Western Australia, as a convenient test range."

http://www.earthchangestv.com/ufo/0209gandor.htm

At Cheniere.org one can find Bearden's 1990 paper Historical Background of Scalar EM Weapons and see that certain possessors of these new superweapons have been developing them for several decades now. He traces the clandestine development through the sightings of anomalous phenomena all around the globe, by the statements Soviet leaders have made, and by the development of a new electromagnetic theory which restores certain "lost equations" which had been thrown out long ago in an attempt to "simplify things." Apparently the Russians were the first to restore the lost equations which uncover the domain of scalar electromagnetics.

The new Scalar Electromagnetic weapons utilize a new type of electromagnetic waves called "longitudinal waves" or "scalar waves." They are called by other names, as Bearden points out:

"We now visualize the formation of waves of pure stress in the spacetime medium (in the vacuum). These we call scalar EM waves, Tesla waves, electrogravitational waves, longitudinal EM waves, waves of pure potential, electrostatic/magnetostatic waves, and zero-vector EM waves. All these terms are synonymous. Each sheds its own particular light upon the nature of these waves or of their original discoverer, Nikola Tesla." 

Tom Bearden

http://www.cheniere.org/books/ferdelance/s23.htm

So there are a number of names for these newly discovered waves.

The big Tesla howitzers are aimed at their targets by using a worldwide electromagnetic pattern called the "Woodpecker Grid," begun by the Russians in 1976. You can even "hear" the Woodpecker Grid at Bearden's website.

Several times during the Cold War the Russians tried to get an agreement on limiting the use of these weapons, which Brezhnev said were "more terrible than anything the world has known." And at that time, Bearden points out, nobody in the West even knew what they were talking about.

The "Fer de Lance" Briefing

In his briefing "Fer de Lance"  Bearden describes what it would be like to operate one of these longitudinal wave interferometers and aim it at place on earth using the Woodpecker Grid. By placing a "marker beacon" at that target location (the glowing orbs of plasma that are being sighted all around the world) the system can "read" the location of the target area and obtain pin-point targeting. The "Fer de Lance" briefing is a must read for anyone wanting to know what is really going on in our world today. It is a set of graphics slides with Bearden's explanations.

Instantaneous effect

It is hard to imagine, but a strike with longitudinal wave weapon is instantaneous as the scalar waves do not go through our "3-space" world, but around it. As Bearden puts it:

"... it is possible to focus the potential for the effects of a weapon through spacetime itself, in a manner so that mass and energy do not "travel through space" from the transmitter to the target at all. Instead, ripples and patterns in the fabric of spacetime itself are manipulated to meet and interfere in and at the local spacetime of some distant target. There interference of these ripple patterns creates the desired energetic effect (hence the term energetics) directly in and through the target itself, emerging from the very spacetime (vacuum) in which the target is imbedded at its distant location." Bearden Fer-de-Lance

What Can These New Superweapons Do?

1. Exothermic mode

In what is called an "exothermic mode" the howitzers can cause a blast of heat at the interference zone, an explosion of near-nuclear proportions. It could topple buildings and cause other destruction. Or it could be set wide and heat the atmosphere in that region. Or it could be set to simply destroy all electronics in that interference (target) zone, or to destroy the hubs of the electric power grids of a very wide area. Although it seems unbelievable, the actual energy of the blast is not traveling through space to hit the target, but actually being made to emerge from the local vacuum in the interference (target) zone.

Using the exothermic mode it is possible to make any airplane drop from the sky, anywhere. It is possible to destroy any missile, in its flight path or in its silo. Bearden sites many instances of downed planes he believes were tests of the scalar weapons. (Gandor, Newfoundland)

"The Woodpecker grid/howitzer weapon system can be placed over the ocean and used against cruise missiles, naval surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missiles, submarine-launched ballistic and cruise missiles, etc. Placed over a carrier task force, it can also take care of the aircraft launched by the carrier as fast as they are launched. It can also handily take care of the missiles launched by guided-missile cruisers of the accompanying task force."

(Bearden http://www.cheniere.org/books/ferdelance/s65.htm  

 2. Endothermic mode

In a second howitzer mode called the "endothermic" mode, the howitzer sucks energy out of the target area, essentially creating a blast of cold at the distant target. It is even capable of freezing parts of the ocean. Bearden gives a number of cases where these "cold explosions" have been witnessed, mostly by airline pilots. April 9, 1984: 1 2 3 ) A huge mushroom cloud of mostly water is seen rising miles into the sky from out of the ocean, an awesome sight.

In the endothermic mode the sucked-out energy must go somewhere, so it is vented out at some other chosen spot on the earth. These endothermic plumes have been photographed by satellite. 

Bearden envisions the use of cold explosions in a scalar war:

"Cold explosions can be used to freeze tanks, personnel, and equipment. The equipment and tanks thaw out. The personnel thaw out too, but they are dead when they do." Bearden, Fer-de-Lance

Starting with this slide from Fer de Lance you can see a number of sightings of giant mushroom clouds of water vapor which Bearden believes were created by the Russians testing the howitzers in endothermic ("cold explosion") mode.  

3. "Mindsnapper" mode

In a third and very terrifying mode the longitudinal wave patterns can be adjusted to affect the human mind. Bearden has dubbed this mode the "Mind-snapper" mode. Use of scalar waves in this mode is also called "psychoenergetics" or "psychotronics." At low power the mind-snapper causes everyone in the interference zone to fall unconscious. At high power the mind-body connection is "snapped" and instant death occurs. Bearden describes the manner of death:

"Those hit by the scalar EM weapon, however, have a most peculiar death mode.

"Death comes-instantly and totally. There is no convulsion, no response. The entire nervous system is destroyed instantly. Every living cell in the body is killed instantly, including all bacteria, germs, etc.

"A body hit with this thing falls like a limp rag and lies where it falls. It doesn't decay in even 30-45 days. In a macabre fashion, it's been reduced to something like food irradiated with nuclear radiation; everything is killed, so the material is preserved for an extended period before any decay can set in."

http://www.cheniere.org/books/ferdelance/s81.htm

In psychoenergetics mode the weapons can also induce a kind of hypnogogic trance in the minds of anyone in the target zone. It this involuntary trance state one's mind would be completely open to suggestions and orders. Bearden believes that this is what happened in the case of one Captain Button who inexplicably flew his A-10 Warthog airplane into a mountain was a test of the scalar weapons, taking over a man's mind and controlling him from a distance.

"Remember Captain Button, flying his A-10 Warthog toward the range, suddenly peeled away from his companions and flew off cross country for over an hour? He ignored all radio messages, circled at one point (probably dropped his ordnance there), then flew until he crashed into the side of a mountain and was killed.

"That was a deliberate test in the mid-U.S. to demonstrate that a human could be controlled for one hour, while doing a technical set of tasks (flying an airplane), in a hypnogogic state, successfully. The test was a total success."

http://www.cheniere.org/misc/time.htm

4. Earthquake/Weather mode

As Secretary of Defense William Cohen pointed out, these same longitudinal wave interferometers can be used to create earthquakes in the distant target zone, as well as tornados and other storms, and the precipitation of volcanic eruptions. Weather can be manipulated by using the exothermic mode to heat the atmosphere in one place, and using endothermic mode to cool the atmosphere in another place. Even the jet stream can be pulled this way and that by these actions.

Anyone one who keeps watch of the weather radar date from an unretouched source like weatherTAP will have seen many anomolies which MAY indicate hits by the howitzers. According to Bearden the Russians (KGB) have been manipulating weather over North America for decades. Cheniere.Org has a number of pictures of such radar anomolies, as well as some unusual cloud formations which, Bearden says, MAY be showing the effects of the scalar wave patterns traveling the channels of the Woodpecker Grid. Keep your eyes on the skies. 

5. Death Ray

Nikola Tesla had envisioned a "Death Ray," and now it is a reality.

"Those hit by the scalar EM weapon, however, have a most peculiar deathmode.

"Death comes - instantly and totally. There is no convulsion, no response. The entire nervous system is destroyed instantly. Every living cell in the body is killed instantly, including all bacteria, germs, etc.

"A body hit with this thing falls like a limp rag and lies where it falls. It doesn't decay in even 30-45 days. In a macabre fashion, it's been reduced to something like food irradiated with nuclear radiation; everything is killed, so the material is preserved for an extended period before any decay can set in." 

http://www.cheniere.org/books/ferdelance/s81.htm

"Ordinary" Warfare Obsolete

Warfare has been changed forever by the development of these scalar energy longitudinal wave howitzers. Remember, the power for these weapons comes from the time domain, longitudinal EM waves in the vacuum of empty space, and the power is tremendous and mind-boggling. Being able to blast away at any target from a distant control booth is something that has never happened before. This is incredible power to be in control of and it divides the history of weaponry into "before" and "after." And the destructive power of these weapons is delivered instantaneously to the target from the local vacuum at the place of the target.
Bearden describes how the old-style machinery of war has been made obsolete. Planes can be dropped to the ground, tanks are obsolete. Bearden says of the whole "Star Wars" defense system (SDI) : "It's obsolete to Soviet scalar EM weapons that are already deployed and operationally tested in place!"

"Interference phenomena are key. One can get action at a distance -- even over hundreds of thousands of kilometers.
"One can engineer gravitational and inertial effects.
"One can engineer the nucleus, including transmute it, easily and cheaply. One could clean up all the nuclear wastes. Electromagnetic energy can be produced at a distant target, or extracted from a distant target. This is not energy transmission through space in the form of EM force fields. Instead, it is transmission through spacetime in the form of electrogravitational potentials. Conventional EM shielding is ineffective against scalar EM."
http://www.cheniere.org/books/ferdelance/s104.htm
The fact that these weapons can transmute atoms means they can have a metal softening effect, leaving one to wonder if it were a clandestine use of a scalar interfermeter which brought down the Twin Towers. We may never know, since THAT evidence was so quickly destroyed without study.

Tesla Domes

The Tesla howitzers can be used in a nearly impregnable defensive mode whereby they throw up a dome (Tesla Dome) or a sphere (Tesla Globe) of highly powerful electromagnetic energy, enough to "dud" or destroy missiles which try to penetrate them. Once again, this energy is not going through space from the howitzer, but being made to emerge from the local vacuum at the location of the shell. KGB tests of these domes have been witnessed by airline pilots around the world. Bearden gives many examples of the Tesla domes being sighted around the world in his briefing paper "Fer-de-Lance." (Russian dome test, another globe incident, yet another globe test). These giant electromagnetic domes can be hundreds of miles across, or narrowed down more to total impermeability. 

By using nested domes one can protect the domed area even against nuclear radiation itself. Tesla globes can be used to hit airborne targets by simply placing a globe of any chosen size in the flight path of the incoming missile. It does double duty because the missile hits it going in, and then the rubble hits it again going out the other side. 

Bearden cites a number of examples of these domes being tested around the world:

March 20, 1969 | March 24, 1977 | August 17, 1980 | June 17, 1966 | June 18, 1982  June 22, 1976

So while the Russians have arrived at a near perfect missile defense, the West is still messing around trying to hit an incoming missile with another missile. 

Lawsuit targets Iraq for OKC bombing
Judicial Watch, others claim Baghdad had key role in terror act
March 14, 2002

By Jon Dougherty
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com 

A noted Washington, D.C., public interest law firm says it plans to file a lawsuit today against the government of Iraq for that nation's alleged involvement in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. According to officials familiar with the suit, the legal watchdog organization Judicial Watch, along with local Oklahoma City attorney Mike Johnson, will file the suit in federal court in Washington. Charles Key, former member of the Oklahoma legislature and a primary member of the Oklahoma Bombing Investigation Committee, told WorldNetDaily last night that the suit had been in "a holding pattern" for some time. The lawsuit "holds Iraq responsible for the OKC bombing," he said, adding that the OKC bombing committee "was also involved" in the suit. He declined to provide further details. Johnson could not be reached for comment. 

Larry Klayman, chairman and lead counsel of Judicial Watch, said the evidence against Iraq is strong. "It's time that someone took action against Iraq. Talk is cheap," Klayman told WorldNetDaily, adding that Judicial Watch would be "developing more evidence" against Baghdad later. The Murrah building was partially destroyed April 19, 1995, killing 168 people. Army veteran Timothy McVeigh was executed June 11, 2001, for his role in the bombing. His accomplice, Terry Nichols, could face a similar fate in Oklahoma. The OKC bombing committee, along with former NBC affiliate reporter Jayna Davis, have long asserted there was a Middle East connection to the OKC bombing. Davis took her evidence – which she says includes hundreds of court records, 24 sworn witness statements and reports from law enforcement, intelligence and terror experts – to the FBI, which refused even to accept the material – a fact the FBI has confirmed. David says her evidence points to a Middle East terrorist cell in operation only blocks from the federal building, and maintains that an Iraqi national who formerly served in Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard was in contact with McVeigh the day of the bombing. That suspect, she alleges, arrived at the crime scene in a Ryder truck moments before the blast and sped away in a brown Chevrolet pickup truck immediately after. Clinton impeachment prosecutor David Schippers, who has examined Davis's evidence dossiers, told WND that he was "thoroughly convinced that there was a dead-bang Middle Eastern connection in the Oklahoma City bombing." And U.S. News & World Report reported last year that top Defense Department officials believe Timothy McVeigh, executed for his role in the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, was an Iraqi agent. 

Iraq link to OKC, Sept. 11 attacks?
Attorney will discuss 'mountain' of evidence against Baghdad 

April 18, 2002

By Jon Dougherty
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An Oklahoma City attorney says he and others have gathered a "mountain" of evidence that implicates Iraq in both the Oklahoma City bombings and the Sept. 11 attacks.  "On the seventh anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, a number of the victims of the Murrah Building tragedy wish to begin the process of informing the American people of an ever-growing mountain of evidence implicating the state of Iraq," said John M. Johnston, in a statement to be released during a press conference in Oklahoma City on Friday – seven years to the day after the OKC bombing. 

"Everyone knows what happened in Oklahoma City at the Alfred P. Murrah Building on April 19, 1995," Johnston said. "However, only a handful of people know that on that very day someone other than Tim McVeigh or Terry Nichols 'confessed' to being involved in the terrorist bombing plot that killed 168 people … ."  Johnston said Abdul Hakim Murrad, who was in federal custody in New York City awaiting trial for plotting to blow up airliners, told jailers – "and later the FBI" – that the OKC bombing "had been orchestrated by his former roommate in the Philippines, Ramzi Youssef," the "most wanted terrorist in the world until his capture in Pakistan in February 1995." 

He went on to say that Youssef was the "mastermind" behind the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, and that the evidence pointed to connections between him, Murrad and Nichols in the Philippines. Nichols' phone records show that he made 13 "unidentified calls" from his home in Kansas to the Philippines in early April 1995, Johnston said.  Johnston also said his evidence "will show that the Republic of Iraq and [President] Saddam Hussein were involved in funding and planning" the OKC bombing.  Evidence suggests that Youssef and Murrad are Iraqi agents, Charles Key, a former Oklahoma legislator and currently a primary member of the Oklahoma Bombing Investigation Committee, told WorldNetDaily yesterday.  The Oklahoma attorney, in his statement, claims that "certain elements of the United States government must have known" about the "foreign involvement all along," though he did not elaborate. 

"Indeed, in a recent Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking to obtain relevant information concerning" the alleged involvement of other unidentified bombers, "federal Judge Wayne Alley observed in written orders that, '… The FBI had maintained a shroud of secrecy around the entire bombing case since 1995,'" said the statement.  Johnston said the evidence supports his claim that the FBI was "ignoring substantial evidence of a major international terrorist offensive, conceived and planned in the Philippines sometime between 1991 and 1994," which "produced tragic consequences of its own."  He said by ignoring Youssef's plan, codenamed "Project Bojinka" or "Big Boom," the FBI "created a situation that resulted in less than complete justice for the victims of the OKC bombing." 

"Specifically, other major terrorist acts were revealed on Ramsey Youssef's laptop computer, which was seized by Philippine authorities in January 1995, as [Murrad] was arrested," Johnston said. "The most devastating of these new terrorist actions manifested itself on Sept. 11, 2001 … at a cost of almost 4,000 American civilian dead."  Johnston said the news conference is scheduled for 10 a.m. Central time at the "Christ Averting His Eyes" memorial, just west of the bombing memorial in Oklahoma City. The conference will begin 30 minutes after a memorial service for those killed in the attack.  Johnston's announcement follows other legal action attempting to connect Iraq to the bombing. 

In March, a class action lawsuit was filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C., by public interest law firm Judicial Watch against Iraq for that state's alleged involvement in the OKC bombing.  "Plaintiffs assert that the entire plot was, in whole or in part, orchestrated, assisted technically and/or financially, and directly aided by agents of the Republic of Iraq," the suit said. Federal officials have repeatedly said the attack on the Murrah Building was committed by former Army vet McVeigh – who was executed June 11, 2001 – and accomplice Nichols, now serving a life sentence for his role in the bombing. 

The FBI says the explosion, which destroyed nearly one-third of the building, was the result of a huge ammonium nitrate-laden truck bomb parked in front of the building. "We knew as early as 1995 that Iraq was likely involved in the bombing," Keys said. 

He said he and other committee members knew based on research done by Brad Edwards and Jayna Davis, who worked at the time for an NBC television affiliate in Oklahoma City. Davis, in March 2001, was the first reporter to publicly announce an alleged connection between al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden – wanted in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks – and the OKC bombing. 

Burton's panel finds links between Tim McVeigh to foreigners in Oklahoma blast

Indianapolis Star
August 24, 2002

The Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana, was back sniffing around Oklahoma City last week looking for reasons to believe that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols had help.  They found plenty. Committee lawyer Marc Chretien interviewed at least six people who claimed to have seen McVeigh keeping company with foreign-looking men in the days, even minutes, before the bombing on April 19, 1995.  What keeps Burton and others pursuing the theory that Nichols and McVeigh, who was executed at Terre Haute last summer for his role in the blast, weren't smart enough to have orchestrated such an abominable plot all by their lonesome? Three reasons: Jayna Davis, David Schippers and Larry Johnson, each a fascinating story in his/her own right.

Davis, an Oklahoma City mother and wife, was at ground zero within minutes of the 9:02 a.m. explosion. She was working as a top gun for NBC affiliate KFOR after a stint with KCRA in Sacramento, the network's No. 3 affiliate, and after graduation from the University of Texas as a class valedictorian. If Davis is no lightweight, neither are Schippers and Johnson. Schippers is a savvy Chicago lawyer who's risking his considerable reputation and, frankly, place in history by traversing the country to convince people of what Davis found.

Schippers has taken a huge gamble in lending his name to the declaration that foreigners -- most prominently an Iraqi national -- conspired with McVeigh, Nichols and "others unknown" (as the federal indictment proclaimed) to bring down the federal building killing 168. He is former chief investigative counsel for the House Judiciary Committee in the 1998 impeachment trial of Bill Clinton.

Johnson, former deputy director of the State Department's Office of Counter Terrorism, can't be easily dismissed either. He regularly appears on Fox news shows telling this story and has deeply placed law enforcement contacts who have confirmed his suspicions that the Department of Justice should reopen the case because he believes the Middle Eastern terrorist cell is still operational.

If it's true that Oklahoma bombing ties run all the way to Saddam Hussein, that would mean we go to war against Iraq.

So what is this slam dunk evidence that Davis has, over which high-powered men would wager their lofty careers? And why does our government, with the exception of a principled few like Burton, keep ignoring Davis, Schippers, Johnson, hundreds of Oklahomans and others across the country who are convinced of a broader bombing conspiracy?

Simply put, Justice has refused to pursue evidence that McVeigh and Nichols conspired with foreign nationals, specifically, a group of Middle Eastern-born men who had moved to Oklahoma City to work for a local property management company owned by a Palestinian ex-con in November 1994.

Here's a sample of Davis' evidence that the congressional committee is uncovering:

• Within 49 days of the bombing, despite the fact the FBI had blamed it on anti-government radicals McVeigh and Nichols, Davis nailed down eyewitnesses who had put disgruntled Gulf-War veteran McVeigh in a tavern drinking beer four days before the blast with a former Gulf War Iraqi soldier who worked for the property company.

• Davis has amassed 26 sworn affidavits from eyewitnesses who implicate eight Arab men who colluded with McVeigh and Nichols at various stages of the bombing plot; classified intelligence papers proving the U.S. suspected Middle Eastern involvement in the plot and had warned government agencies against a pending attack; as well as court documents, public records and statements from law enforcement officers that independently corroborate the eyewitnesses' testimony.

• Several of the witnesses directly link eight Middle Eastern men, most of whom are former Iraqi soldiers, to McVeigh and Nichols.

• Seven of those witnesses, through a photo lineup, link one of the soldiers in particular to McVeigh, the Ryder truck that exploded, the Murrah Building and a getaway pickup truck that sped away, for which police were looking moments after the blast.

Why are Burton's people spending time in Oklahoma? Who needs to ask?

Iraqi intelligence agents tie Terry Nichols
 

Insight Online World Exclusive
Posted April 19, 2002
By Kenneth R. Timmerman 

The retirement of career FBI Special Agent Danny Defenbaugh, accused by defense attorneys and plaintiffs in the Oklahoma City bombing case of withholding key evidence, wasn't the only dramatic development in the continuing controversies surrounding the April 19, 1995, attack that killed 168 people. Insight has learned that the widow of Philippine-government intelligence agent Edwin Angeles has provided audiotaped testimony to an investigator working for the American victims' families that directly ties Iraqi intelligence agents to Terry Nichols, the man sentenced in 1998 to life in prison for his role in bombing the Alfred P. Murrah Building seven years ago. Elmina Abdul is the 27-year-old widow of Angeles, one of the cofounders of the Abu Sayyaf group, a Muslim separatist terrorist organization in the Philippines whose members trained in Osama bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan. Her astonishing story, revealed in this exclusive story for the first time, could blow the lid off what a growing number of people believe is a U.S. government cover-up of vital evidence in the Oklahoma City bombing case. It also exposes an alleged plot ginned up by former Philippine president Fidel Ramos to manipulate Abu Sayyaf as a means of enhancing his personal political power.

With the knowledge that she was dying of liver disease, Elmina agreed to meet with Dorian Zumel Sicat, a Manila Times correspondent serving as an investigative liaison in the Philippines and the Pacific Rim for Oklahoma City lawyer Mike Johnston, who represents the victims' families. "I want to tell the truth of what I know of my late husband," she said in a taped audio statement. Angeles was "what they call a 'deep-penetration agent'" who was working for "some very powerful men in the DND," the Philippine national defense-intelligence agency, Elmina said. Angeles was arrested in 1995 after he had negotiated a deal to turn himself in to the Philippine authorities. By that point, the Abu Sayyaf he had helped create in 1991 with bin Laden protégé Abdurajjak Abu Bakr Janjalani had carried out a series of terrorist attacks. These included a failed assault on a U.S. Information Agency library in Manila in January 1991 that was part of a worldwide terrorist campaign against U.S. interests orchestrated by Iraq during the Persian Gulf War. 

"Does the name 'Ramzi Yousef' mean something to you, Mr. Sicat?" Elmina asked. Angeles had extensive meetings with Yousef and two Americans, including one whom he called "Terry" or "The Farmer," she said. Angeles ultimately was cleared of terrorism charges at trial, when documents proving he was working as a government agent were produced. He was released from prison in 1996 — but not before he provided astonishing details during a videotaped interrogation by Philippine police authorities of his activities with Abu Sayyaf, including the secret meetings with Iraqi intelligence agent Yousef, Nichols and the second American identified in the document as John Lepney.

The earliest meetings took place at a Del Monte canning plant in Davao in late 1992 and early 1993 — just prior to the first World Trade Center bombing. Later meetings with Nichols, Yousef and the second American — whose name has never been revealed until now — took place at Angeles' house in late 1994, according to a report on that interrogation which has been obtained by investigators working for attorney Johnston, who has been joined by Judicial Watch in representing families of those murdered in the Oklahoma City bombing. Angeles also revealed the meetings to Elmina, who became his third wife in 1997, "because he knew that he would soon be killed," she said in her audiotaped statement with Sicat, which was witnessed by a Philippine-government official. "He wanted me to know everything so that if anything happened to him I could tell others." Also present at those meetings was a half-brother of Yousef, who was using the pseudonym Ahmad Hassim, she said.

"They met almost every day for one week. They met in an empty bodega [warehouse]. They talked about bombings. They mentioned bombing government buildings in San Francisco, St. Louis and in Oklahoma. The Americans wanted instructions on how to make and to explode bombs. He [Edwin] told me that Janjalani was very interested in paying them much money to explode the buildings. The money was coming from Yousef and the other Arab."  When asked if Angeles had told her the results of those conversations, Elmina replied: "He told me that the Americans exploded one bomb in Oklahoma in 1995, after he was arrested and after we first met." Later in the interview, she chided Sicat for not knowing that Yousef was "representing Iraq and Saddam Hussein."

"Did Edwin tell you that?" Sicat asked.

"Not only Edwin, but others that were close to us, before he was killed," Elmina said. "One time, a [Philippine-army] soldier and Edwin were talking secretly. I was there because Edwin demanded [it]. The soldier ordered Edwin never to tell anybody about the Iraqis."

On Jan. 14, 1999, Elmina was waiting for her husband in an open-air market in Isabela, the provincial capital of Basilan province. Suddenly, as he emerged from a nearby mosque, she watched as two of his former associates walked up behind him and, with .45-caliber automatics, pumped six bullets into him. He staggered toward her and died in her arms. The video interrogation linking Nichols to Yousef, bin Laden and Iraq initially was obtained by Stephen Jones, the defense attorney who represented convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. But at the insistence of federal prosecutors, trial judge Richard P. Matsch refused to admit it into evidence. The judge also refused to admit into evidence the testimony of Yousef coconspirator Abdul Hakim Murad, who was a federal prisoner at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City. Murad was awaiting trial for his part in Project Bojinka, a plot hatched up by Yousef to blow up 11 U.S. 747 jetliners over the Pacific Ocean in 1995 (see "Iraqi Connection to Oklahoma Bombing," April 15). On the day of the Oklahoma City bombing he told his jailers that Yousef had orchestrated the plot.

"Why should Murad be believed?" Johnston asks rhetorically. "For one thing, Murad made his 'confession' voluntarily and spontaneously. Most important, Murad tied Ramzi Yousef to the Oklahoma City bombing long before Terry Nichols was publicly identified as a suspect."

Johnston informed Jones last week he would be serving him with a desk subpoena to obtain this and other materials that were either sealed by the court or not admitted as evidence in the McVeigh trial. Shortly after Johnston got off the phone with him, Jones received threatening calls from federal prosecutors in Denver and Oklahoma City, warning him not to release the materials, Insight is told by a close associate of the lawyer. Jones did not return several calls by press time. FBI spokesman Bill Carter tells Insight the FBI was unaware of a "foreign terrorist connection" to the Oklahoma City bombing. "There is no evidence of a foreign connection in our files," he says. "The Oklahoma City bombing was investigated thoroughly by the FBI; no evidence was found that would tie it to any foreign terrorist group. If we had found any evidence, it would have been presented."

That statement, like so many others from the government in this murky case, appears to be extraordinarily misleading to the families of victims still not convinced that they or the American public know the full story of what happened seven years ago. In the Philippines, the real story of the Abu Sayyaf and its ties to Iraq, bin Laden and to former president Ramos — who is planning a comeback into Philippine politics — is a dangerous topic.

In his videotaped interrogation, Angeles says Yousef first approached him in July 1989 as the "personal envoy" of bin Laden to set up a new base for regional Islamic expansion on the Muslim island of Mindanao. At the time, bin Laden's brother-in-law, Mohammad Jamal Khalifa, was operating commercial front companies in the Philippines for bin Laden. This apparently led to the creation of the Abu Sayyaf. A former CIA station chief in Manila confirms to Insight that bin Laden came to the Philippines personally in 1992 and was flown down to Mindanao in a government C-130 aircraft by then-president Ramos. "Bin Laden presented himself as a wealthy Saudi who wanted to invest in Muslim areas and donate money to charity," the former CIA officer says.

While Yousef was collecting money from bin Laden, he was taking orders from Iraq and is believed by U.S. intelligence officials to have carried out the June 20, 1994, bombing of a Shiite Muslim shrine in Mashad, Iran, on orders from Iraq. Yousef reportedly carried out that attack with help from his own father and a younger brother, Abdul Muneem, in conjunction with an Iraqi front group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization, also known as the People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran.

Angeles "knew he was going to be killed by his own people once he was released from jail," Sicat tells Insight in a telephone interview from Davao, a city on Mindanao. "The question is, who were his own people? Abu Sayyaf, or the cabal who had Angeles help set them up?" Angeles' second wife, who had prepared the meals for Nichols and Yousef, was gunned down during a government raid on an Abu Sayyaf safe house in 1996. Elmina died last month just days after giving her taped audio statements to Sicat, who tells Insight that he has received death threats and been shot at in recent weeks by unknown assailants. He recently has been given round-the- clock police protection by the government, which is investigating the attacks.

If the remaining witnesses live long enough, the only question left is whether the Bush administration will order the FBI to reopen its files. Or, as some of the lawyers in the case and their clients fear, the administration will endorse what they believe — and testimony now in hand suggests — was a wider conspiracy that was hidden by the Clinton administration and Janet Reno's Justice Department. It may require full and open congressional hearings if the current administration refuses to help or otherwise blocks the federal courts from re-examining the case to find out why the U.S. government shut down preliminary investigations into possible overseas links to the murder of Americans in downtown Oklahoma City.

Kenneth R. Timmerman is a senior writer for Insight magazine.

Read the deathbed confession:

Issue Date: May 6, 2002 
"Deathbed" Confession Transcript -- World Exclusive
Posted April 19, 2002

The following interview with ELMINA ABDUL, widow of EDWIN ANGELES, one of the cofounders of the ABU SAYYAF GROUP (ASG), and deep cover agent for the Defense Intelligence Group (DIG) of the Department of National Defense (DND), of the Republic of the Philippines, was taken on March 10, 2002, in the presence of CHRISTOPHER M. PUNO, Information Officer of the Province of Basilan, at BASCOM Hospital, in the general ward. 

TRANSLATED TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH ELMINA ABDUL, WIDOW TO EDWIN ANGELES TAKEN AT BASILAN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL GENERAL WARD ISABELA CITY, PROVINCE OF BASILAN REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES BY DORIAN ZUMEL SICAT NEWS CORRESPONDENT MANILA TIMES, OMEGA NEWS SERVICE (USA)

(After introduction to ELMINA ABDUL by Provincial Information Officer Christopher Puno)

NOTE: I interviewed ELMINA in Tagalog, she answered me in Chavacano and Cebuano, two of the local dialects spoken in Basilan. She did not speak in the indigenous dialect because she knew that I do not speak or understand that dialect.

DZS: Good morning Ms. Angeles 

DZS: How are you feeling this morning?

EA: Not very well.

DZS: Do you feel like talking with me?

EA: Yes, but not so long. I am tired.

DZS: I will try to be as short as possible. Did Chris tell you what I am here to talk to you about?

EA: Yes. And I am the one who asked him to look for you after I was told that you are interested in the truth about my husband.

DZS: Good. Okay. You are not Edwin's first wife, is that true?

EA: Yes. I am his third wife. For Muslim men, they can have even four wives, if each of the other ones approve.

DZS: How, when and where did you meet Edwin?

EA: We met when he was in the Provincial Jail here in Isabela, in 1995. I was then working for the government radio station, dxOS (Philippine Information Agency)/PIA.

DZS: That was after his capture?

EA: Yes.

DZS: When did you marry him?

EA: In 1997.

DZS: I am going to ask you some very sensitive questions now. Is that all right with you?

EA: Yes. I want to tell the truth of what I know of my late husband.

DZS: Did you know that he was one of those who founded the ASG, along with the late Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani, in 1991?

EA: Yes. I know also why he was one of them. 

DZS: Can you tell me why?

EA: Yes, I want to tell you why. I want now to tell the truth about my husband. I will die soon. I want you to know the truth. Will you write the truth, Mr. Sicat?

DZS: Yes. I will. I promise.

EA: You are not afraid?

DZS: More than you know, Mrs. Angeles.

EA: Good. Maybe you will stay alive and safe because of your fear. I will tell you that Edwin was ordered to do that.

DZS: Can you explain please.

EA: He was what they call a deep penetration agent or DPA.

DZS: Can you explain please?

EA: As I told you, he was given orders.

DZS: By whom?

EA: Some very powerful men in the DND.

DZS: Did he tell you why?

EA: No. Only that he was ordered to help to organize the ASG and to report all developments.

DZS: Did he tell you who it was?

EA: Not by names. But he told my only at the highest levels.

DZS: Did he ever tell you about his activities in the ASG before he met you?

EA: He told me everything. I do not believe that he would hide anything from me when we were talking alone.

DZS: Please do not be offended, but how do you know that?

EA: Not only because I was his wife, but because he knew that he would soon be killed. He wanted me to know everything so that if anything happened to him I could tell others.

DZS: Do you want to stop now?

EA: No. More water please.

DZS: Can I ask you about some things that happened back in the mid-90s? 1993, 1994?

EA: Yes. I will try to answer what you ask.

DZS: Did he ever talk to you about meetings with Arabs or Americans?

EA: Yes, once he had met with some Arabs and Americans in 1994, in Davao (City), or General Santos (City).

DZS: Did he tell you who they were?

EA: Does the name Ramsey Yousef mean something to you Mr. Sicat?

DZS: Ahmad Hassim. Does that mean something to you?

EA: He had met with them. And an American who he called Terry or the Farmer, and another American whom he did not name.

DZS: Was the American he named as Terry, Terry Nichols?

EA: He did not mention the surname. Only Terry.

DZS: Did he tell you why and how many times they had met?

EA: They met almost every day for one week. They met in an empty bodega (warehouse). They talked about bombings. They mentioned bombing government buildings in San Francisco, Saint Louis and in Oklahoma. The Americans wanted instructions how to make and to explode bombs. He (Edwin) told me that Janjalani was very interested in paying them much money to explode the buildings. The money was coming from Yousef and the other Arab.

DZS: Did he tell you when the bombs would explode; when they exploded?

EA: He told me that the Americans exploded one bomb in Oklahoma in 1995, after he was arrested and after we first met.

DZS: Did he ever tell you who was supplying the money for the bombing of the building, I mean who Yousef was working with or for?

EA: Mr. Sicat, you are the mediaman. Do you not know that Yousef was representing Iraq and Saddam Hussein? Do you not know that?

DZS: Did Edwin tell you that?

EA: Not only Edwin, but others that were close to us, before he was killed. One time, a soldier (Philippine Army) and Edwin were talking secretly. I was there because Edwin demanded. The soldier ordered Edwin never to tell anybody about the Iraqis.

DZS: Did you ever see that soldier before or after that time?