Mario deSantis agrees with U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
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Prince Turki al Faisal, Saudi ambassador to Great Britain, also the former Saudi intelligence chief who unexpectedly resigned twelve
days before September 11 on 31 August 2001, said today that America is a colonial power; that all this stuff about democracy for Iraq
is horsefeathers; that the (regrettably endlessly corrupt) Abu Ammar, Chairman Arafat, is a living martyr.
It was Prince Turki who recruited the group that later became al Qaeda to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. At war's
end, Prince Turki certainly didn't want the soldiers to come home to Saudi Arabia, so he started paying the group $300 million a year to
keep them elsewhere. A dozen years later, New York got the picture. Prince Turki al Faisal's remarks, impolitic by most standards,
probably advance the widely-held notion that one faction of the House of Saud has always utterly loathed the United States and considers
Americans to be servants.
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 NORTHWOODS PROJECT:
Los Angeles, Alta Califronia - October 28, 2002 - (ACN) La Voz de Aztlan has recentlyreported on our doubts that many of the terrorist attacks in the U.S. and around the world are the work of Islamic fundamentalists, Muslims or Arabs. There is ample evidence that these terrorist attacks are actually being committed by certain rogue elements of the U.S. and Israeli governments. In order to justify our doubts, we are making available to our readership below, the damning and shocking top secret "Northwoods Project" document that has been declassified and obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Even though the project was written and approved by the Joints Chiefs of Staff and approved by the Secretary of Defense to deal with Cuba in 1962, the plan "fits like a glove" to what is presently occurring in the "War Against Islam."
The diabolical Northwoods Project's principal architect was the than Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Zionist General Lyman Lemnitzer who many patriotic Americans claimed was a Jewish operative for Israel. The evil nature of the plan is almost identical to those of Ariel Sharon's military command. The once "Top Secret" Pentagon document, that can be accessed through our link below, will hopefully help wake up the American public.
The plan calls for, among other things, the staging of terrorist incidents that would provide "pretexts" and "justifications" to attack Cuba. It outlined how Cuba would first be "demonized" in the eyes of the world and in the eyes of the United Nations. It is exactly the same script being utilized against Iraq. It provided ways by which Cuba would be seen as "rash", "irresponsible", "unpredictable", and a "threat" to the peace of the Western Hemisphere.
Among some of the specific "staged" terrorist incidents the plan proposed were to "blow up" a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba, attack the U.S. Guantanamo base with "fake" Cubans, and use fake MIG type aircraft piloted by U.S. pilots to attack US surface ships and passenger airlines. One proposal made by the Northwoods Project, and this may explain the "phantom" AA passenger airline that supposedly hit the Pentagon on September 11, was to provoke the Cuban government to shoot down a U.S passenger airline that the CIA would substitute with a "drone." In addition, the plan called for producing U.S. citizen casualty lists in Florida and Washington D.C. that would be published in the media thus generating "indignation" by the American public.
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Saudi Envoy, Turki Al-Faisal: Iraq War Was 'Colonial' and About Oil
Mon May 24, 2004 07:16 AM ET
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was a colonial war and
there were some in the United States who saw it as a means of getting their
hands on Iraqi oil, a senior Saudi ambassador was quoted as saying Monday.
Prince Turki al-Faisal, ambassador to Britain and Ireland, told the Irish
Independent newspaper Washington's stated aims in going to war in Iraq
masked a more cynical reality.
"No matter how exalted the aims of the U.S. in that war, in the final
analysis it was a colonial war very similar to the wars conducted by the
ex-colonial powers when they went out to conquer the rest of the world ...,"
Prince Turki said.
"What we have heard from American sources they were there to remove the
weapons of mass destruction which Saddam Hussein was supposed to have
acquired."
Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. regional ally, opposed the war despite tensions
with Iraq since its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
"What we read and hear from our commentators in America and sometimes
congressional sources, if you remember going back a year ago, there was the
issue of the oil reserves in Iraq and that in a year or two they would be
producing so much oil in Iraq that, as it were, the war would pay for
itself," the envoy said.
" indicated that there were those in America who were thinking in those
terms of acquiring the natural resources of Iraq for America." Prince Turki
said U.S. pledges to bring freedom and democracy to Iraq remained "still
just aims."
"The individual Iraqi, until he can actually declare that his government is
truly representative of his wishes and aspirations must still consider
himself occupied," he said.
On the wider conflict in the Middle East, Prince Turki described Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat as "a living martyr," persecuted by an Israel "that is
ruthless and generally devoid of any human considerations (toward the
Palestinians)."
Critics of Saudi Arabia, cradle of Islam and the birthplace of Osama bin
Laden and 15 of the September 11 hijackers, have accused it of allowing
religious militancy to flourish.
The envoy described bin Laden's al Qaeda network as "not so much an
organization as a cult with a cult leader and a cult philosophy...."
"One of the main drawbacks of the operations in Afghanistan is that bin
Laden has not been caught," he said. "To bring bin Laden to justice will go
a long way to removing some of his mystique."
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For a current genealogy of the House of Saud, see
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On a more productive note, if that's the adjective in these early days of
asymmetrical world war:
Sept. 11 Families Sue Saudis, Sudan
August 16, 2002
"We will succeed because we have the facts and the law on our side."
Thomas E. Burnett Sr., father of Sept. 11 victim
(CBS) - Some 600 relatives who lost loved ones in the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks have filed a $100 trillion lawsuit against the Sudanese government
and Saudi officials, banks and charities, claiming they helped finance Osama
bin Laden's network.
However, lead attorney Ron Motley said Friday that the $100 trillion
complaint was being amended and would likely be scaled down asking for
damages in excess of $1 trillion in future filings.
"It's not the money. We want to do something to get at these people," said
Irene Spina, whose daughter, Lisa L. Trerotola, 38, died in the World Trade
Center in New York City. "There's nothing else we can do."
"This is the right thing to do," said Matt Sellito, father of Matthew Carmen
Sellito, 23, who also died at the World Trade Center. "If the odds are
stacked against us, we will beat them."
The 15-count federal lawsuit seeks to cripple banks, charities and some
members of the Saudi royal family as a deterrent to terrorist financing
schemes.
The suit was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., on
behalf of the families. The complaint charges the defendants with
racketeering, wrongful death, negligence and conspiracy.
Motley said the money likely would come largely from assets held by the
defendants in the United States. He said the plaintiffs were after more
institutions than those whose assets already have been frozen by the U.S.
and other governments.
Another attorney in the case, Allan Gerson, said Friday that one aim of the
lawsuit was to choke off the financial support for terrorist networks.
"Until now, sponsoring terrorism has been a cost-free operation," Gerson
said on CBS News' "The Early Show." He said "we intend to stop that."
The lawsuit is likely to cause post 9-11 friction between the U.S. and Saudi
Arabia, reports CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer.
The Bush administration has been careful not to blame the Saudi government
for the attacks in its drive to build a coalition for its war against
terrorism. But the relatives' lawsuit bluntly accuses Saudi officials and
institutions of supporting terrorists.
"That kingdom sponsors terrorism," Motley told reporters. "This is an
insidious group of people."
The complaint names more than seven dozen defendants, including the
government of Sudan, seven banks, eight Islamic foundations and three Saudi
princes.
Those listed include Prince Mohammed al-Faisal, former intelligence chief
Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Defense Minister Prince Sultan, Khalid bin
Salim bin Mahfouz of the National Commercial Bank and the Faisal Islamic
Bank.
Officials from the Saudi Embassy did not return a call for comment.
Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, said last week that the
70-year-old U.S.-Saudi alliance was as solid now as before the Sept. 11
attacks on the United States.
He said bin Laden, who was stripped of Saudi citizenship and is accused of
directing the al Qaeda attacks, had intended to drive a wedge between the
two countries when he chose 15 Saudi citizens to be among the 19 hijackers.
Several plaintiffs, fighting tears, said they would dedicate the rest of
their lives to punishing those who financed the hijackings and crashes of
four U.S. commercial jets on Sept. 11.
"We will succeed because we have the facts and the law on our side," said
Thomas E. Burnett Sr., whose son, Thomas E. Burnett Jr., led a passenger
revolt against the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 and died when it
plummeted to the ground in a southwestern Pennsylvania field.
"We have justice and morality on our side," he added.
Burnett's mother, Deena, said her son told her in a phone call that he was
"putting a plan together that he and others were going to take back the
airplane."
"And he said, 'You know Deena, I think we can do it. It's up to us,' she
said. "Those words resonate in my mind. And I think we're going to do
something, too. And this is a good start."
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