By JULIA PRESTON
Published: April 20, 2006
NY Times

More than four years after charges were filed, a Jordanian college student went on trial yesterday in Manhattan federal court, accused of lying to a grand jury that was investigating the Sept. 11 attacks. The trial tests the government’s practice of long detention of witnesses in terror cases.

The student, Osama Awadallah, is accused of misleading the grand jury about his dealings with two Sept. 11 hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Midhar, who were on American Airlines Flight 77, the plane that crashed into the Pentagon. When he first testified under oath in New York in October 2001, Mr. Awadallah said he did not know the name of Mr. al-Midhar and denied having written it in a school notebook.

“He made a choice: he decided not to honor his oath and he lied,” said Brendan McGuire, an assistant United States attorney, in his opening argument yesterday.

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Guide the planes in, then destroy the crime scene

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com | April 21 2006

Former Helmut Schmidt cabinet member, 25-year German Parliamentarian and global intelligence expert Andreas Von Bülow says that the 9/11 attack was run by the highest levels of the US intelligence apparatus using WTC Building 7 as a command bunker which was later demolished in order to destroy the crime scene.

Speaking to The Alex Jones Show on the GCN Radio Network, Von Bülow said that “the official story is so wrong, it must be an inside job.”

Von Bülow discussed the special software programs that allow the CIA to track suspicious stock market movements in real time. Record put options placed on United and American Airlines in the week before 9/11, a speculation that the stock would crash, clearly indicated inside foreknowledge of the impending attack.

“If the stock market has very strange movements immediately they take care of this and they had a lot of tapes and the lawyers told the people destroy these tapes.”

“The Bush administration is in a deep defensive [mode] and probably they would like to come out with a new offensive,” said Von Bülow as he considered whether a new staged false flag terror attack could be launched to further an interventionist agenda.

“I would hope that one ‘new Pearl Harbor’ is enough,” said Von Bülow, “but I cannot be sure.”

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$500K Seized; Strange Situation Reported At Nuclear Plant

POSTED: 8:49 am EDT April 19, 2006
UPDATED: 5:13 pm EDT April 19, 2006

SHIPPINGPORT, Pa. — Two workers looking for tools set off a security situation at a Beaver County nuclear power plant that drew a response from police and federal investigators, WTAE Channel 4’s Paul Van Osdol reported.

State police said the men drove up to the Beaver Valley Power Station in a tractor-trailer on Tuesday night to pick up two large containers of tools for a contractor for whom they worked.

Security guards stopped the men for a routine inspection, but they drove away, police said.

The guards became suspicious and called police, who pulled the truck over about a mile from the plant.

A state trooper got a warrant to search the vehicle and found a duffel bag, which he said contained $504,230 in mostly small bills.

The driver denied knowing anything about the money or who gave it to him, so the trooper seized it, police said.

A spokesman for the FBI confirmed that the Joint Terrorism Task Force responded to the situation in conjunction with state police, but he said they don’t think terrorism is involved. He would not give any other details.

The men, who are from Houston, said they picked up the bag in Chicago and had no knowledge of its contents, according to police.

Investigators think the cash may have a drug connection. A police dog picked up the scent of drugs in the sleeper cab of the truck where the bag was found, police said.

Both men were detained and later released. No charges have been filed.

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Also…

“…The truckers worked for a company hired by San Francisco-based Bechtel Corp…”

“… it was their [boss’s] money and he was going to buy a truck with it…”

“…But when the security workers called the truckers’ boss in Houston, he also said he knew nothing about the money. The security officers called police, but the truckers backed out of the plant and drove off…”
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“…The Department of Homeland Security said it won’t get involved in the investigation of a tractor-trailer that was pulled over near Beaver Valley Power Station last week…”
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“…According to Texas driving records, the rig and flatbed trailer were registered to Glenn E. Marsh, 37, also of Houston…”
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Glenn E. Marsh was stationed in Bosnia…

“…The exercise is designed to show the medics all the aspects of a medical situation in the field up to the point of placing the soldiers on an air MEDEVAC transport, said 1st Lt. Glenn E. Marsh, medical platoon leader for HHC…”
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Marsh was involved in a USAF accident…

“…This list of military members and civilians has been compiled from official documents and other sources. In many cases, reports or other documents on these individuals are available…”
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Glenn E. Marsh
Spouse: Michelle
4101 East Rancier APT 701
Killeen, TX 76543
254.953.3299 - Home (number registered to Sara Cooper @ 107 E Bobwhite Ln, Harker Heights, TX 76548)
254.287.2213 - Work (13th Corps Spt Cmd Coscom Killeen, TX 76544-0000)
grimjier@hotmail.com
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Marsh lives in Killeen, TX, home of Fort Hood. A recent blogpost of mine reads:

“…Jan 26th, 2006: I learn that a friend of mine, who’s enlisted in the US Army, will be leaving for Fort Hood, TX on Jan 29th, 2006 to participate in a “Containment Exercise”. Fort Hood is located 100 miles northwest of Houston, TX…”
(source: Impending Nuclear 9/11?)

In late January 2006, some speculated that Fort Hood and the outlying area could be the target of a False-Flag Nuke attack. I agree there is a possibility that this could be related to False-Flag terror ops, however it is more likely that it is related to drug trafficking.

Some are speculating that the driver “Donald R. Kingsby” is the same person in charge of running the Pine Gap CIA/NRO base in Australia. This is quite a stretch seeing as though he would have been running the base at the age of 22. (source: LENIN LIMBO v. JOHN ROBERT LITTLE)

Open threads on this topic are as follows:

democraticunderground.com…
Rigorousintuition.com…

-Culhavoc

April 21st, 2006
by Culhavoc
Deconstructing a False-Flag Operation

In a stipulation filed by Moussaoui’s counsel we learn that two FBI analysts are finding the alleged plans between Moussaoui and Richard Reid hard to believe:

“In this letter or last will and testament, Reid named Abu Khalid Sawahiri (Moussaoui) as the beneficiary of his belongings upon his “passing.” In the opinion of two FBI analysts, if Reid was to be part of the same martyrdom operation as Moussauoi, it is highly unlikely he would bequeath his belongings to Moussaoui.”
(source: stipulation regarding Richard Reid)

BBC doesn’t quote the stipulation verbatim, but it’s still worth a read…

No Moussaoui ’shoe bomber’ link
April 21st, 2006
BBC News

Al-Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui’s trial has heard there was no evidence to back his claim he planned a 9/11 attack with “shoe bomber” Richard Reid.

The FBI concluded there was no evidence that Reid had prior knowledge of 9/11, or that al-Qaeda had told him to work with Moussaoui, a statement said.

Defence lawyers want jurors at Moussaoui’s sentencing trial to spare his life, saying he is mentally ill.

The defence lawyers at the trial in Virginia have now closed their case.

British-born Richard Reid was sentenced to life in prison in January 2003 after being found guilty of trying to blow up an airliner with explosives hidden in his shoes.

Moussaoui testified last month that he and Reid had been due to hijack a fifth plane and fly it into the White House on 11 September 2001. Some 3,000 people died in the four attacks.

But a written statement, based on interviews with Reid and written by FBI analysts, on Thursday said he had had no advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks.

The statement drew no objections from the prosecution.

The document also said that Reid had bequeathed his belongings to Moussaoui, whom he met in Afghanistan, noting that, in the FBI’s view, he would not have done this if they had been destined for the same “martyrdom” operation.

It said the FBI had information linking Reid to a different operation, which was the attempt he made in December 2001 to blow up an airliner from Paris to Miami.

The prosecution is seeking the death penalty for Moussaoui, saying his “lies” in jail before the attacks kept federal agents from identifying and stopping some of the hijackers.

After the defence closed, prosecutors countered with evidence from a psychiatrist who said Moussaoui did not suffer from schizophrenia - as alleged by the defence.

Earlier, the court heard testimony from families of 9/11 victims opposed to executing Moussaoui.

Moussaoui’s lawyers called more than a dozen relatives to counter testimony by other victims’ relatives who appeared for the prosecution.

Marilynn Rosenthal, who lost her son Josh in the attack on the World Trade Center, said her family did not want to “get caught in a whirlpool of sadness and anger”.

Witnesses on either side are prohibited from giving their opinions on what sentence Moussaoui should face when jurors begin their deliberations next week.

Moroccan-born Moussaoui is the only person tried in the US in connection with the attacks on New York and Washington.

(source: bbcnews)

Also see: Shoe bomber denies role in 9/11 attacks

-Culhavoc

Staring at the Sun: The unanswered questions of 9-11

“Our mental image of September 11, 2001 is a little like the afterimage we get from looking at the Sun. This stupendous day was like a flash of light in which everything seemed so clear, but which actually blinded us to what we were seeing, leaving us with the impression that we had got the plot of this particular movie and knew exactly who the bad guys were.”

(read the full article)