Of course, for Russia to be in a race for resources there would have to be other competitor/racers.
How many posts have I done on pipeline politics and the race/competition to control resources..? I can’t even answer that myself. But I am putting up, yet, another one! If you have been following along for more then five years now, you should be aware of this situation.
If you haven’t been following along and are unaware of this situation, where have you been?
And, boy have you got a lot of catching up to do!
The most recent posts talking pipeline politics can be found:
Since you are up to speed you will be aware, we have discussed the Mediterranean Basin resources.
And since I prefer, fact, reality and truth to propaganda...let me pile on some more info
I will be quoting from an opinion piece, published by Financial Post, written by Lawrence Solomon.
(Who this man is, I haven’t a clue) Since the FP is publishing his opinion he must be one of the connected, affiliated or approved talking heads
And he does brings out some interesting info, I will ignore as much of his propagandistic comments and stick to the "meat and potatoes"..
“Russia’s importance on the world stage today rests overwhelmingly on energy, its main source of foreign exchange and — because much of Europe utterly depends on Russian gas — a dominant source of its political influence. The gas is delivered by Gazprom, until this year the world’s most profitable company.
To maintain Gazprom’s dominance in the European market, Putin has been fighting off competitors on numerous fronts. First, to prevent Europe from acquiring gas from a proposed gas pipeline from Turkey, Putin directed Gazprom to pre-empt it by building an economically dubious rival pipeline to Europe”
Economically dubious? The pipeline he is referencing is the competitor pipeline to Nabucco, the Southstream pipeline. Problem with Mr Solomon’s claim is that from my understanding, it is Nabucco that is the economically dubious, ultra expensive and an impractical pipeline.
South Stream’s advantage is the fact that it has a ready supply of natural gas from Russia, Pamir said, while Nabucco suffers from a lack of suppliers”
Nabucco is utterly and totally useless without Iran. South stream already has a supply of gas. And will soon have more as Mr Solomon points out.
A new threat to Gazprom’s hegemony has emerged – ever-larger discoveries of natural gas in the eastern Mediterranean’s Levant Basin, much of which would ordinarily be destined for Europe. In response to these finds in the Levant Basin, which the U.S. Geological Survey believes could hold one of the world’s richest deposits, Putin is again acting to maintain Europe as his preserve, by ensuring that Gazprom has a say in Mediterranean gas deliveries.
Step One in Putin’s Mediterranean gambit involves Israel, by tying down its nine-trillion-cubic-foot Tamar field. ( Tying down it’s Tamar field? Pathetic language. He writes as if Israel was forced into dealing with Gazprom. Gazprom likely made the most generous offer)Under terms of a 20-year deal completed earlier this year, Gazprom will now be the exclusive seller of Tamar gas. Very likely, Gazprom will soon also secure rights to Israel’s even larger Levianthan field. Step Two involves Cyprus, by securing rights to its gas. This Gazprom seems set to do, largely by acquiring the Greek gas distribution company which will receive Cyprus gas.
Digressing briefly to the Greek deal: The agency head gave assurances that the winner will be the one who
offers the highest bid ensuring there is no pressure from the U.S. and
the EU on Greece with regards to the participation of Russian companies
in the privatisation.
Continuing with Mr Solomons' opinion piece
Steps Three and Four involve two other Levant Basin countries, Syria and its client state, Lebanon. By maintaining Assad in power — not least since Syria hosts Russia’s only naval base in the Mediterranean — Putin will have outsized influence over Levant Basin gas, and the plausible means to continue to keep Europe dependant on him.
In 2008, Gazprom, then worth $365-billion, predicted it would be worth $1-trillion by 2015, both by maintaining its dominance in Europe and by capturing much of the Asian market.
To keep Gazprom’s market share from falling further, Putin will need to play hard ball with all concerned. Given the stakes, and given Putin’s well-deserved strongman image, no one should be surprised at Putin’s single-minded determination to keep Syria’s Assad, and himself, solidly in power.”
Mr Solomon seems to take issue with the fact that Russia is outmaneuvering western oil companies, affiliated with the global bankster crowd ( a stroll down memory lane) and doing it all without bombing everyone into freedom and democracy.
Two members of the FBI’s elite counterterrorism unit died Friday while
practicing how to quickly drop from a helicopter to a ship using a rope,
the FBI announced Monday in a statement.
Did they forget the rope? Or a safety harness type device while practicing this new maneuver?
Last month, the team was involved in the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.
Two members of the FBI’s elite counterterrorism unit died Friday
while practicing how to quickly drop from a helicopter to a ship
using a rope, the FBI announced Monday in a statement.
The statement gave few details regarding the deaths of Special Agents
Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw, other than to say the
helicopter encountered unspecified
difficulties and the agents fell a “significant distance.”
Work place safety, while training is clearly at issue here (facetious) From the FBI press release linked above
FBI Mourns the Loss of Two Special Agents Killed in Training Exercise
Washington, D.C.
May 19, 2013
Two FBI special agents were tragically killed Friday
during a training exercise off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Special Agent Christopher Lorek and Special Agent Stephen Shaw were
members of the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team, part of the Critical
Incident Response Group based at Quantico, Virginia. The cause of the
incident is under review.
In a statement, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller said, “We mourn the
loss of two brave and courageous men. Like all who serve on the Hostage
Rescue Team, they accept the highest risk each and every day, when
training and on operational missions, to keep our nation safe. Our
hearts are with their wives, children, and other loved ones who feel
their loss most deeply. And they will always be part of the FBI Family.”
When I first read the news about this killing, my first thoughts were:
Timely. Convenient. And wondered is this about tying up loose ends? Dead men tell no tales.But, many tales can be told about dead men.
Interesting interview with friend:
-Ibrahim was supposed to go home to see his parents had he not been killed by the FBI agent
-The friend mentions FBI having had multiple previous meetings with Ibrahim. The difference being at this last meeting Ibrahim ended up dead. Just before he was going to leave the country to visit his parents in Chechnya.
- The FBI agent, named Chris, had set up multiple previous
meetings? Why? This time three additional agents came from Boston?
-The friend, is clearly giving first hand testimony of his conversation with Ibrahim, prior to Ibrahim's meeting with FBI agents.
- Ibrahim did not want to go to this meeting. He was scared. But, why? Why would Ibrahim be scared this time, when he had multiple previous meetings with an FBI agent named Chris in Florida?
A 27-year-old man reportedly acquainted with Boston Marathon bombing
suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot and killed by an FBI agent in the wee
hours of Wednesday morning in Orlando, Fla.
In the "wee hours of Wednesday morning"? How long were the FBI agents holding/interrogating Mr Todashev? How was this interrogation being conducted? Was there beatings or torture?
Khusen Taramov, who identified himself to WFTV as Todashev's friend, told the local TV station that Todashev had purchased a ticket "to go back home." CBS News reports Todashev was planning a trip to Chechnya, heightening the interest of authorities. (Why? Were they afraid he was not going to come back? Afraid of who he might talk to in Chechnya?)
According to Taramov, FBI agents "were pushing him, saying, 'Stay, don't
leave.' They said, 'We want to interview you one last time and talk to
you a last time.' And he decided to stay, and today's interview was
supposed to be the last time, and they said they were going to leave him
alone."
Taramov said his friend didn't know Tsarnaev very well. "Back in Boston,
they used to hang out," he told WFTV. "Not hang out, he just knew him.
He met them a few times because he was an MMA fighter, [and] the other
guy was boxer. They just knew each other that's it."
“The [FBI] agent along with two Massachusetts State Police troopers and
other law enforcement personnel were interviewing an individual.....
So, we have one guy alone, with minimally 4, perhaps more, law enforcement personnel. That much is clear.
Was he connected in a meaningful way to the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings? Did he play a role in the brutal murders of three people in Massachusetts who had their throats slashed?
Or was he, as his friends contend, a good guy who just happens to be Chechen — and for thatreason had attracted the attention of federal authorities?
Todashev was shot to death by a Boston FBI agent in an Orlando condo (in the wee hours of the morning) while being questioned about his connections to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects and a triple-slaying in Waltham, Mass. in 2011, federal law enforcement authorities said. Federal officials said he lunged at the agent with a knife during questioning, and the agent opened fire.
Little is known about Todashev — who federal sources said was in the U.S. legally — aside from the few details that emerged Wednesday through law enforcement, public records searches and interviews with friends.
The media is making mention of a previous arrest in which Todashev was charged with aggravated battery. That is being brought up to bolster the official narrative that Ibrahim Todashev was capable of attacking the FBI agent. This is spin. That Mr Todashev got into a fight with one other individual in a parking lot, a one against one fight, does not tell us he would act in the same manner, in the company of several heavily armed FBI agents. That kind of information is included to obfuscate the issue at hand. I find it unlikely that he would attack anyone in a situation where he was alone, scared and as mentioned confronted with multiple armed individuals.
The FBI questioned Todashev at least five times in person plus numerous times by telephone since the bombings, according to interviews with three of his four former roommates.
Where is his fourth room mate? Has the media interviewed this person?
They (all three friends) told the Orlando Sentinel the interviews and surveillance began two days after two Chechen brothers — 26-year-old Tamerlan and 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — were identified as the suspected bombers.
"They pretty much kidnapped him in front of his place," said 22-year-old Khusen Taramov.
The three friends said all of them — including Todashev — shared the same sense of outrage over the bombing in Boston. And none had heard of a triple-murder there a couple of years ago in which their friend was allegedly a suspect, they said.
None of the roommates considered Todashev a political or religious radical, saying simply that he was faithful to their shared religion.
“It's not clear whether Todashev lived in the Orlando condo where he was shot early Wednesday.
He has an address in Kissimmee, but friends there said Todashev's girlfriend lives in the Orlando complex and he stayed there frequently”
We know Todashev lived in Kissimee with his 3 roommates. They have all mentioned that fact.
Is the inclusion of the girlfriend resident in the condo complex being reported on to give reason to Mr Todashev being in the Orlando condo, he was shot to death in by the FBI?
Is it even the same condo? If not, how is this aspect relevant to the narrative being presented?
A girlfriend according to his friends. A wife according to the media?
Would his friends mistake a wife for a girlfriend and vice versa?
I find that a bit hard to believe..
I feel uncomfortable with "the wife"? The picture just seems off and her story... ?????
I don't know?
Syria's leading opposition group called on Wednesday for rebels across the country to send reinforcements to the strategic border town Qusair
George Sabra, acting head of the opposition National Coalition, called on fighters to send arms and men to the area
Seizing Qusair would also allow Assad to sever links between rebel-held areas in the north and south of Syria.
Rebel leaders have warned of sectarian revenge attacks against Shi'ites and Alawites on either side of the Syrian-Lebanese border if rebels lose Qusair.
The above highlighted sentence causes me a bit of consternation-
I read this sentence as rebel leaders aka NATO mercs , largely fanatical Sunni’s (wahabbi/salafi) threatening slaughter of the Shiites and Alawites on their way out the door.
Thinking realistically and rationally about this situation. That can be the only conclusion taken away from warnings made by rebel leaders. They will engage in mass slaughter. As they have done previously on innumerable occasions. (Has anyone forgotten the organ eating rebel?)
Location of the continuing battle: borrowed from here
Continuing on with the ‘rebel’ aka NATO mercs:
"If we lose Qusair, we lose Homs, and if we lose Homs, we lose the heart of the country," said Ahmed, a rebel speaking by Skype from Homs as explosions and gunfire crackled in the background.
One rebel source, who asked not to be named, said Assad and Hezbollah forces had cut most of the oppositions overland supply lines into Qusair. But he said the rebels were still able to bring some supplies and fighters in through secret tunnels.
An analyst close to Qatari officials said the Sunni Gulf state, which has funneled money and weapons to the opposition, was looking for new routes to send in supplies to Qusair.
Rebel forces from other parts of Syria appear to have taken seriously the call for support seriously.
The large Islamist Tawheed Brigade in the northern province of Aleppo published a video of a 30-car convoy it said was heading to Qusair.
Sedans and pickup trucks loaded with artillery and fighters sped down the highway, with rebels waving black Islamist banners ( AQ/ Al Nusra fighting on behalf of NATO?)
shouting "God is Great."
I would think Syrian army will be watching for such travelers? In the air and on the ground.
In the previous post Qatar and their role in all this mayhem was mentioned in the comments.
And yes, Qatar has been very important in the destruction of Syria. I have covered the reasons for that participation previously, so I won’t rehash all of that yet again.
I will limit my commentary to kick off this next section with this statement: Qatar would benefit immensely from Syria’s destruction so their starring role should be unsurprising. So lets talk Qatar and their so called "court intellectual". A man I find highly suspicious.
Financial Times: How Qatar seized control of the Syrian revolution Excerpts-
Qatar has emerged as a driving force: pouring in tens of millions of dollars to arm the rebels.
Yet it also stands accused of dividing them - and of positioning itself for even greater influence in the post-Assad era.
A short drive from the rising skyscrapers of Doha’s West Bay, emblems of the once-sleepy Qatari capital’s frenetic growth, the three-starred flag of the Syrian revolution can be seen fluttering over a modern villa guarded by police cars. The villa is the new Syrian Arab Republic embassy in Qatar, representing not the regime of Bashar al-Assad, but opponents fighting for his removal.
The opening of the Syrian Arab Republic embassy in Qatar, March 2013
The opening of the embassy was a theatrical expression of this small, massively rich country’s single-minded lurch into Syria’s crisis. When it comes to backing Syria’s rebels, no one can claim more credit than the gas-rich Gulf state. Whether in terms of armaments or financial support for dissidents, diplomatic manoeuvring or lobbying, Qatar has been in the lead, readily disgorging its gas-generated wealth in the pursuit of the downfall of the House of Assad.
In the shell-blasted areas of rebel-held Syria, few appear to be aware of the vast sums that Qatar has contributed – estimated by rebel and diplomatic sources to be about $1bn, but put by people close to the Qatar government at as much as $3bn.
Qatar’s role in Syria seems uncharacteristically prominent for a country that lacks the diplomatic experience and traditional heavyweight status of a more discreet Saudi Arabia.
Most of Doha’s neighbours in the Gulf are hostile to the Islamist trend in the region, but this is of little consequence to a state that takes pleasure in being contrarian. Nor are the al-Thanis embarrassed by the contradictions of an autocracy cheerleading for revolution.
In other words the al-Thanis are shameless. Big surprise.
The part below is most interesting. This is where we meet Azmi Bishari a man of influence in Qatar:
“One person who influenced the emir’s thinking at the time is Azmi Bishara, a prominent former Arab Israeli MP, exiled in Qatar (like many other Arab dissidents) after the Israeli government accused him of passing information to the Lebanese group Hizbollah during Israel’s onslaught on Lebanon in 2006 – a charge Bishara denies.
An adviser to the emir and the crown prince, Bishara has become something of a court intellectual in Doha.”
What is the background on this so called “exiled” Israeli MP? Was he exiled to give him credibility?
To make him appear as if he was hostile to Israel while he conducted business in such a way that was beneficial to Israel?
You decide for yourself. I have already made up my mind
Azmi Bishari
If this man is a so called “court intellectual” in Doha, then I get the Israeli role in all of this!
And if Israel really wanted this man.....they would have had him. Dead or alive.
Back to Qatar;The FT article concludes:
Whether Qatar’s venture into Syrian opposition politics will have any returns will depend on whether Syria survives as a country – something that is by no means assured. Perhaps for the Qatari emir, the demise of Assad will be sufficient satisfaction. In theory, Qatar could also emerge with multiple points of influence through Islamists and loyal brigades. But it has already created many enemies inside Syria, and not just among pro-regime supporters. So torn apart is the fabric of Syria’s society, and so radicalised and suspicious its battered population, that the Qataris are more likely to find that they are neither thanked – nor even wanted – there.
In blunt language marking a turn away from diplomatic caution.....
“We will not allow the area of the Golan Heights to turn into an easy target for Syrian attacks,” IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said.
Just a target for Israeli attacks from occupied territory into Syria, right? This cackling from Israel seems to have much to do with the Lebanese border town mentioned at the beginning of the post.
This town has to be very important in the whole scheme of things. A game changer as WP makes clear
Gaining control of Qusair could be a game-changer for Assad’s government.
I am getting this “Stalingrad” sort of feeling...close quarters, intense battles. Keeping in mind the invader (Germany) retreated from that battle. Both sides sustaining devastating losses.
Sigh...
Maybe a bit to dramatic?
On a more humourous note?
Why?
To believe this nonsense, is to suspend all sense of reality.
I mean, come on!
A federal appeals court Tuesday backed the U.S. government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos.
Correct me if I am mistaken, but, didn’t the US government release alleged dead Osama photos that were quickly demonstrated to be fakes? I recall seeing some.
The court said that it was undisputed that the government wasn't withholding the images to shield wrongdoing or avoid embarrassment, but rather to prevent the killing of Americans and violence against U.S. interests.
The court said “it was undisputed that the government wasn’t withholding images to shield wrongdoing or avoid embarrassment”
Well if the court said that, that must be the truth of it all.....(wink, wink)
That is a blatant, obvious, appeal to authority.
Because the government would never withhold any information to ‘cover their asses’ if it was to their benefit. And the court says that is undisputed?
Right? Right.........
And you just take the court’s word on that!
Russia said on Wednesday that the Syrian
opposition had not yet shown enough commitment to efforts, to arrange a peace
conference with President Bashar Assad's government.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov praised the Syrian
government's response to joint US-Russian efforts to seek a resolution to the
more than two-year-old conflict but said the opposition was too divided to
agree on its participation.
"We value the constructive reaction of the Syrian
leadership to this proposal," Lavrov said at talks with Syrian Deputy
Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad in Moscow.
"We also hope that a constructive reaction from
various opposition groups... will follow. So far, however, the news is not
hopeful."
Israel Air Force chief Maj.-Gen. Amir Eshel warned that Israel must be prepared for a "surprise war" developing.
Addressing
a national security conference in Herzliya held by the Fisher Brothers
Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies, Eshel stated that "a
surprise war can develop today in many forms. Isolated events can
escalate very quickly and require that we are ready in hours to act in
the full spectrum - and when I say the full spectrum, I mean activating
the full capabilities of the Air Force."
He said in a future war,the IAF will have to pave a path for the Ground
Forces through very heavy bombings that will hit the ground and turn a
ground offensive into something that is far easier and faster. "We must
be the central component in a ground maneuver, and we are dealing with
this a lot."
Is Israel suggesting they are going to massively bomb Syria and then send in the troops?
JP article ends:
Ya'alon played down the prospect of anyone on the Syrian side starting a
war with Israel "because they understand the heavy price they would
pay".
The surprise discovery may point to a new way of tackling this
increasingly hard-to-treat infection, the US study authors from Yeshiva
University
An estimated 650,000 people worldwide have multidrug-resistant TB.
Studies are now needed to see if a treatment that works using
the same action as vitamin C would be useful as a TB drug in humans.
While the findings of this study
appear promising, further research to confirm the observations would be
essential before Vitamin C can be used to supplement TB treatment”
In the laboratory studies,
vitamin C appeared to be acting as a "reducing agent" - something that
triggers the production of of reactive oxygen species called free
radicals. These free radicals killed off the TB, even drug resistant
forms that are untreatable with conventional antibiotics such as
isoniazid.
To bad that Codex Alimentarius is set to make it that much more difficult to access vitamins
Unless, of course, big pharma can find a way to manipulate the effect of the free radicals and make a very expensive pharmaceutical product. Notice the highlighted wording?
Because that is the agenda. Profits over your health.
Brief rant: Time to end that belief in government.... Government serves no one but itself and it’s masters..It is a self perpetuating, leech on society. Government is part of the illusion of choice and freedom.
Pop the illusory bubble.
Non-participation is the way Rant complete.
Turkey has been busy.
According to a comment left by a person privy to local happenings in Turkey, Erdogan may have moved some troops into Syria after the false flag bombing. Then moved them back. What to make of that? Testing the waters?Gauging the response? Most likely! Israel, looks to have engaged in the same type of activity today. Keep reading and you will get to that news, for now we are talking about Turkey.
Looked worth reading. So, I did. Just 3 pages. A brief overview is all. Sheds a bit of light on the Turkish Army. The conclusion is that Turkey’s military is not up to par and is most likely weaker then Syria’s....interesting.Turkey might be able to make a small incursion into Syria and perhaps secure some territory ,but, not without NATO support
Quoting:
Turkey is unlikely to be interested in a general invasion of Syria. Rather, Ankara’s strategy is likely to be aimed at getting forces to the border, conducting a limited incursion or incursions, and securing captured territory with the aim of providing humanitarian safe havens.
However, to do this risks open conflict with Syria, and in making such a move, Ank ra would want to secure the support – tacit or otherwise – of its NATO an Arab League allies in an attempt to portray any intervention in as passive a way as possible.
This would be unlikely to assuage Syrian anger at what would be a breach of its territorial sovereignty. It therefore remains difficult to see any form of military intervention in Syria being restricted in the way that Turkey and its allies undoubt edly hope and could actually rapidly escalate to a wider regional conflict (April 2012)
It seems the Turkish people have solid reasons for being angry with Erdogan and the hole he has dug and continues to dig for the country and the people resident in Turkey. He is putting many, many lives at risk to fight brother against brother.
A cross-border exchange of fire in the Golan Heights between the Israeli and Syrian armies early on Tuesdaytriggered a claim by the Damascus regime that a jeep manned by Israeli troops had entered Syrian territory and was destroyed.
The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) denied the claim, saying shots were deliberately fired at a patrol inside the Israeli-controlled the Golan Heights, causing minor damage and no injuries. "In response, IDF forces returned precise fire at the source and reported a direct hit," it said.
Smart money says Israel tested the waters. And they will try again.They have been upping the ante for quite some time now. Therefore, based on all that has gone on and the present agendas and aims, the Syrian version is credible and the Israeli version is not credible.
UN: Drop in Syrians Reaching Jordan, Unclear Why What “Syrians” are we referring to here? Are we talking ‘rebels’ being unable to cross back into Jordan? Or, here is a thought regarding regular Syrians who have been forced to flee due to NATO merc's laying seige to their homes. Perhaps with Syrian Army taking back towns from NATO mercs the real, actual, Syrian people feel safe and feel no need to flee from the murderous onslaught of NATO mercenary terrorists?It is possible. Why would you leave your home if you no longer have to?
On the night of April 13 things changed — largely because of an act of subterfuge from (Syrian Army) government soldiers.
The eastern half of Sahyan was in rebel hands, the western in the regime’s. Government soldiers, under cover of darkness, surrounded eastern Sahyan. They had changed out of their uniforms and had dressed into the mismatched civilian and military garb of many rebel fighters, rebel commanders tell TIME. Some even wore the black headbands proclaiming “There is no God but God” that some rebels wear. “The revolutionaries saw them, and thought they were of them, another group,” Suleiman says. “They were all gunned down, everybody in eastern Sahyan was killed, some 40 or 50 men.” In the Syrian war, the loss of that many fighters in one place represents a significant blow to any rebel unit.
The disguised loyalists continued up the road toward Babuleen, a small rebel-held town just a few kilometers from Heesh, where they waited until dawn, before setting up a similar ambush. “All told we lost between 100 to 107 martyrs,” Suleiman says. “I don’t know how many died from the army, but the fight continued for three or four hours.”
By April 15, the army had taken control of Babuleen, and more crucially, had retaken the road around Heesh, breaking the siege on Wadi Deif and allowing reinforcements to reach Zahlanee, Hamidiyeh and other smaller checkpoints. (The eastern part of Heesh is now inaccessible to the rebels. Their trenches are exposed to newly established nearby army positions that are on higher ground.)
I was taken, after reading this article entirely, not just with the bravery of these men in defending their home and families, but, also the adaptability of these soldiers. (Remember I am not a military strategist so situations such as this just don't occur to me) And the loyalty to their home land and people was obvious.
So much for the tales of mass defections and the Syrian army disintegrating that was being promoted so long ago.
The Syrian people are a brave stalwart lot, fighting off their NATO imperialists.
CNBC:
Why is this corporate newsworthy now?
I mean, it is nice to see mainstream, sure.
But is it acceptable, presently, all these years later, for the media to bring forward just one of the many, many 9-11 "inconsistencies" ?
It only reinforces the fact that the media, are nothing but the great regurgitators...
Then as now. Like Iraq. Like Syria. Like Libya. You get the idea?
NEW YORK, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- America first learned
of the 9/11 hijackings from Solicitor-General Ted Olson, who reported
two calls from his wife, well-known CNN commentator Barbara Olson.
Good thing she made her phone calls. She told us about hijacking by alleged Muslim hijackers
The famous "let's roll" drama of the passenger revolt on UA 93 was relayed by passenger Todd Beamer's 13-minute unrecorded seat-back call to GTE telephone
Therefore.... no way of knowing that Todd Beamer actually said anything. But it sure sounded like a ready made patriotic heart tugging public relations manipulation. We have witnessed oh so many of those since 9/11....
Oddly, the Verizon wireless record shows that 19 calls were made from Beamer's cell phone long after the crash of UA 93.
No one found that odd? 19 calls from Beamers cell phone? After the plane allegedly crashed?
Initial media reports and FBI interviews detailed more than a dozen cell phone calls from the planes at high elevation.
Yet in 2001, a telephone spokesperson stated that sustained mobile calls were not possible above 10,000 feet.
During the 2006 Moussaoui Trial, the FBI (under oath) reduced the number of cell phone calls to two calls made from 5,000 feet, and presented evidence of only one (not two) "unconnected" call from Barbara Olson, lasting "0 seconds."
Finally, although the FBI conducted a massive investigation into the calls, none of the telephone billing, nor any of the cell phone location data stored in standard phone company records has been publicly released.
