Muad’Dib Arrested for Sending “7/7 Ripple Effect” DVD to Judge

February 11, 2009 - 23:56

Man sought by UK authorities over alleged sending of DVD

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0211/1233867931721.html

A MAN sought by the UK authorities for allegedly attempting to pervert the course of justice by sending a controversial DVD to a judge and jury foreman during a trial relating to bomb attacks in London in July 2005 has appeared before the High Court after being arrested in Co Meath.

Sheffield-born Anthony John Hill (60) was arrested by gardaí at his home in Carrick Street, Kells, early yesterday morning on foot of a European Arrest Warrant, Mr Justice John MacMenamin was told.

Mr Hill’s extradition is being sought in relation to his alleged actions during the trial of several people on conspiracy charges related to the attacks on July 7th, 2005, that took place on the London underground and a London bus.

It is alleged that, in May and June 2008, Mr Hill sent several copies of a DVD entitled 7/7 Ripple Effect to the judge and the foreman of a jury at the trial at Kingston Crown Court of people allegedly involved in assisting the 2005 bombings.

7/7 Ripple Effect is a film, available on the internet, which claims people accused of involvement in the bombings are innocent and that the bombings were an “inside job”, perhaps involving state intelligence agencies in either Britain or Israel.

The British authorities claim copies of the DVD were sent, in packaging with Irish postal marks, between September 2007 and December 2007 to five relatives of people who had been killed during the bombing.

In court yesterday, Sgt Seán Fallon said that when arrested at his Kells home at 8.14am, Mr Hill, when asked about the DVD, had said: “I sent it. I believe those men to be innocent.”

Sgt Fallon said Mr Hill had said that a friend of his had made the DVDs and that copies were made on his computer.

Gardaí took possession of computers at Mr Hill’s home yesterday and will apply to the court to send those computers to the British authorities.

The matter was adjourned by Mr Justice MacMenamin to February 18th and Mr Hill was remanded in custody.

Infowars article: http://www.infowars.com/man-arrested-for-sending-77-ripple-effect-dvd-to-judge/

George Flynn of Words of Freedom Welcomes Michael Wolsey of Visibility 9-11

MIchael talks to a local Colorado listening audience about the upcoming paper from Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice which details a "thermite fingerprint" in the 9/11 dust. Thanks to George Flynn and the great folks at KRFC in Fort Collins for getting this important information to a mainstream audience! Visibility 9-11 is committed to raising awareness around this exciting new scientific paper and will be featuring special broadcasts with Dr. Jones and Kevin Ryan in the near future.

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George Flynn of Words of Freedom Welcomes Michael Wolsey of Visibility 9-11 source: Visibility 9-11 Media

9/11 Commission Documents Available for Researchers

9/11 Commission Documents Available for Researchers

Submitted by Shoestring on Sat, 03/21/2009 - 10:46am.

9/11 Commission

This information has recently been posted at the History Commons Groups blog:

... Another contributor, paxvector, is doing yeoman work posting a tremendous number of obscure but important 9/11 Commission documents online:

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NY candidate: No death penalty for 9/11 plotters

March 20, 2009

ALBANY, N.Y. - Scott Murphy, the Democrat running for Congress in New York, says he opposes the death penalty, even for terrorists. Speaking on Talk 1300-AM, WGDJ, Murphy tells host Fred Dicker he opposes the death penalty in all cases, including for the Sept. 11 terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center and Washington, D.C. Murphy says the evidence may not be conclusive in many cases and guilt can't be guaranteed. He says the cost of making a mistake in a death penalty case is too high. A spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee calls Murphy's comments "dangerously naive and appalling."

Jim Tedisco, the Republican candidate in the March 31 special election in the 20th Congressional District, supports the death penalty. "Scott respects that people have deeply held beliefs about the death penalty," Murphy's spokesman, Ryan Rudominer, said in a prepared statement Friday. "He is against it. Scott was in New York City on 9-11, and understands the horrors of that day. Scott believes we need to round up the terrorists and lock them up for life and throw away the key." Source: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--nyhouse20-deathpe0320mar20,0,7034270.story

Developer of 9/11 Site Seeks Aid

By ALEX FRANGOS

NEW YORK -- The rebuilding of the World Trade Center site, already hobbled by years of delays and infighting, is facing fresh problems as private developer Larry Silverstein asks the government for crucial financial assistance, according to people familiar with the matter.

The result would be that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the government entity that owns the site, would take on more of the risk of the project at a time when the agency already faces budget restraints to pursue its core transportation and infrastructure missions.

The Port Authority, eager to prevent the project from stalling, is considering helping to finance at least one of Mr. Silverstein's planned three office towers, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Silverstein is requesting financing help on at least two of the three towers. The Port Authority would require concessions from Mr. Silverstein, including possibly giving up some of upside profits should the towers succeed in the long term.

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Construction on the World Trade Center site, shown here on Friday, could be delayed if developer Larry Silverstein doesn't get crucial financing.

The project, meant to be a symbol of the recovery after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, has been through years of costly delays and acrimony. The plan for the 16-acre site includes five skyscrapers, a memorial, a transit hub, a shopping mall and a performing-arts center. Much of that was recently expected to open between 2011 and 2013.

Those dates are in jeopardy and at least some elements are unlikely to be finished until the later part of the next decade. The memorial is set to open by the 10th anniversary of the attacks, but even it faces budget shortfalls and is pursuing federal stimulus money.

Despite the long-term financial problems, the site has been a beehive of activity after years of delay. The Freedom Tower, owned by the Port Authority, is poking above street level. The memorial is taking shape. And Mr. Silverstein recently installed a crane to begin foundation work on the smallest of his three towers.

But if construction of the office towers doesn't proceed, the entire site could be plunged into further delays and uncertainty. The planned $3.2 billion transit hub relies on Mr. Silverstein's office towers for ventilation and fire exits. The Port Authority's $3 billion Freedom Tower would be unable to open as planned because its delivery ramps tie underground into the part of the site that Mr. Silverstein jointly controls with the Port Authority.

Mr. Silverstein declined to comment through a spokesman, but in the past said he is committed to building as quickly as possible.

A Port Authority spokeswoman said: "We are continuing to discuss with Silverstein Properties how to best meet a changed market while ensuring the World Trade Center site is rebuilt in the best public interest."

Larry Silverstein

Mr. Silverstein originally planned to finance his three towers through a combination of insurance proceeds, government-subsidized bonds and commitments by the Port Authority and the City of New York to occupy part of one of the towers. He also hoped to attract private-sector tenants to anchor the towers. Before its sale to Bank of America Corp., Merrill Lynch was a possibility.

But with the economy in a tailspin, raising money to build the $7 billion of office space has been nearly impossible. Making things more difficult, Mr. Silverstein is obliged to pay the Port Authority $79 million a year in ground-lease payments, a legacy of his July 2001 agreement to buy a 99-year lease on the Twin Towers.

The ground-lease payments to the Port Authority act like a first mortgage on the properties. Any construction financing Mr. Silverstein tries to secure then becomes subordinate to the ground-lease payments, which is an unattractive prospect for lenders.

Those lease payments have drawn $800 million out of the $4.5 billion insurance settlement since 2001. (The Port Authority has said that money is earmarked for reinvestment into the site.)

In 2003, Mr. Silverstein used part of the insurance proceeds to pay back his and his partners' $125 million equity in the original 2001 purchase. An additional $563 million was used to pay off a mortgage on the Twin Towers. Much also has been spent on design and site preparation. Mr. Silverstein has less than $1 billion in insurance money left, said people familiar with the project.

The Port Authority, which derives almost all of its revenue from tolls and fees at its airports, ports and bridges and tunnels, had been wary of putting additional resources into speculative office buildings. Such a move will siphon resources from its other development needs.

An alternative financing strategy being floated among the parties is to build the towers only up to the first several floors, which are slated for retail space. That would allow the needed infrastructure to be built. The office parts of the towers would be built atop the pedestals when the economy revives. But that strategy has logistical challenges, such as finding retail tenants willing to reside in space that would have to be closed when construction above it resumed.

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While people familiar with the talks are hopeful a deal will be struck, Mr. Silverstein has legal leverage to stall the project in the courts, according to people familiar with the project. The Port Authority has failed to deliver parts of the site to Mr. Silverstein in a timely manner, according to the rebuilding agreement struck in 2006, and has incurred more than $70 million in penalties it pays to Mr. Silverstein. Mr. Silverstein could argue that the agency has made it impossible for him to build.

The Port Authority also has leverage over Mr. Silverstein regarding promises he made to complete the buildings by certain dates and could theoretically try to remove him from the project, according to government officials. But the agency, which reports to the governors of New York and New Jersey, is unlikely to want the project tied up in a protracted legal battle.

Write to Alex Frangos at alex.frangos@wsj.com

Denmark Chemtrails: "...I can kinda taste it in my mouth"

March 19 2009, video of chemtrals over Mølholm in Aalbor, Denmark Jeff says the Chemtrails look like LA smog and admits, "...I can kinda taste it in my mouth".

Condi Rice answers to Charlie Rose

A softer hair-do got rid of the "hair- helmet" but the brain inside remains pickled. Charlie Rose asks Rice why she is a Republican Rice says she never linked Iraq to 9/11

Richard Falk: Gaza attacks "would seem to constitute a war crime of the greatest magnitude"

UN envoy Richard Falk, who wrote the foreword for David Ray Griffin's New Pearl Harbor, and has also praised Peter Dale Scott's book, The Road to 9/11, was yesterday quoted by Haaretz speaking out strongly against Israel's attacks in Gaza as war crimes;

A United Nations human rights investigator said on Thursday that Israel's offensive against Hamas in densely populated Gaza appeared to constitute a war crime of the "greatest magnitude."

Richard Falk, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, said the Geneva Conventions required warring forces to distinguish between military targets and surrounding civilians.

"If it is not possible to do so, then launching the attacks is inherently unlawful and would seem to constitute a war crime of the greatest magnitude under international law"

Falk's assessment is bolstered by statements from IDF soldiers, recently debriefed in Tel Aviv. This was covered last night by UK's Channel 4;

And also covered by Russia Today, and Haaretz;

IDF in Gaza: Killing civilians, vandalism, and lax rules of engagement By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent - 19/03/2009

During Operation Cast Lead, Israeli forces killed Palestinian civilians under permissive rules of engagement and intentionally destroyed their property, say soldiers who fought in the offensive.

The soldiers are graduates of the Yitzhak Rabin pre-military preparatory course at Oranim Academic College in Tivon. Some of their statements made on Feb. 13 will appear Thursday and Friday in Haaretz. Dozens of graduates of the course who took part in the discussion fought in the Gaza operation.

The speakers included combat pilots and infantry soldiers. Their testimony runs counter to the Israel Defense Forces' claims that Israeli troops observed a high level of moral behavior during the operation. The session's transcript was published this week in the newsletter for the course's graduates.

The testimonies include a description by an infantry squad leader of an incident where an IDF sharpshooter mistakenly shot a Palestinian mother and her two children. "There was a house with a family inside .... We put them in a room. Later we left the house and another platoon entered it, and a few days after that there was an order to release the family. They had set up positions upstairs. There was a sniper position on the roof," the soldier said.

"The platoon commander let the family go and told them to go to the right. One mother and her two children didn't understand and went to the left, but they forgot to tell the sharpshooter on the roof they had let them go and it was okay, and he should hold his fire and he ... he did what he was supposed to, like he was following his orders."

According to the squad leader: "The sharpshooter saw a woman and children approaching him, closer than the lines he was told no one should pass. He shot them straight away. In any case, what happened is that in the end he killed them.

"I don't think he felt too bad about it, because after all, as far as he was concerned, he did his job according to the orders he was given. And the atmosphere in general, from what I understood from most of my men who I talked to ... I don't know how to describe it .... The lives of Palestinians, let's say, is something very, very less important than the lives of our soldiers. So as far as they are concerned they can justify it that way," he said.

Another squad leader from the same brigade told of an incident where the company commander ordered that an elderly Palestinian woman be shot and killed; she was walking on a road about 100 meters from a house the company had commandeered.

The squad leader said he argued with his commander over the permissive rules of engagement that allowed the clearing out of houses by shooting without warning the residents beforehand. After the orders were changed, the squad leader's soldiers complained that "we should kill everyone there [in the center of Gaza]. Everyone there is a terrorist."

The squad leader said: "You do not get the impression from the officers that there is any logic to it, but they won't say anything. To write 'death to the Arabs' on the walls, to take family pictures and spit on them, just because you can. I think this is the main thing: To understand how much the IDF has fallen in the realm of ethics, really. It's what I'll remember the most."

More soldiers' testimonies will be published in Haaretz over the coming days.

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Falk is taking on a lot of pressure with both his stance on 9/11 as well as Israel's nasty foreign policy. I hope that when calls for his removal or resignation from his UN position are noticed, advocates for 9/11 Truth will rise to defend this brave man as best they can.

SF Truth Action with Richard Gage

Eleventh Day action report:

Twelve dedicated activists made it out to the action in downtown San Francisco this March 11. We were delighted and inspired to have Richard Gage, AIA (founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth) join us on the streets to enlighten the passers-by.

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Richard Gage exposing the lies within the official 9/11 conspiracy theory, specifically regarding the "collapses" of the three WTC buildings that disintegrated that day:

We passed out information for about 7 hours, distributing 400+ fliers and 150 DVDs to interested, enthusiastic, or simply curious people. One SF local noticed us and exclaimed "Where have you been my whole life!?" (Or something to that extent). She then proceeded to pull out David Ray Griffin's 9/11 Contradictions and Debunking 9/11 Debunking from her backpack. We gave her a business card and will hopefully gain another dedicated activist. Every action counts!

Whistle-blower urges Iraq war public inquiry

Former diplomat tells of 'fundamental failure of transparency' in government

By Nigel Morris, Deputy Political Editor

Friday, 20 March 2009

 

Carne Ross: A lot of facts about the run-up to war have yet to come to light