RE: 911 Probe: Public Signatures Sought

Eric,
    Get a life you homo! You need some psych-help.

Greg Luce
Sebring, FL

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9-11 Widow Files rico Lawsuit

public signatures sought to support Investigation

PHILADELPHIA, Jan 6 -- Ellen Mariani, whose husband died in the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks when UAL 175 was flown into the
World Trade Center, has filed suit in a US District Court alleging Bush,
Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld and other co-defendents had sufficient
warning to stop the terrorist attacks but failed to either warn or
protect the public.





According to a recent CBS News, the Republican 9-11 Commission Chairman
agrees:



9/11 Chair: Attack Was Preventable

(CBS News -- December 18, 2003) For the first time, the chairman of the
independent commission investigating the Sept. 11

attacks is saying publicly that 9/11 could have and should have been
prevented, reports CBS News Correspondent Randall

Pinkston....



Appointed by the Bush administration, Kean, a former Republican governor
of New Jersey, is now pointing fingers inside the

administration and laying blame.



http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/17/eveningnews/main589137.shtml



Mariani's suit also charges the Bush Administration with burying
evidence of its failure and refusing to release vital information.



Philadelphia Attorney Philip J. Berg, who filed the suit on Mariani's
behalf, says the Administration must be held accountable. Berg launched
the suit on November 26, and has since put up a website explaining the
details of Mariani vs Bush, et al. The Bush Administration is currently
trying to have the charges dismissed in court.



Public support is critical, says Berg, who has posted an online
petition.  "We need at least a million signatures for them to take it
seriously." He added that mounting a class action is also being
considered. Concerned citizens are urged to read and sign the petition
here:

http://www.911forthetruth.com



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Related stories:


1.  <http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/16/politics/16INQU.html?> NY Times:
Bush Warned bin Laden Would Hijack Planes
"The White House said tonight that President Bush had been warned by
American intelligence agencies in early August that Osama bin Laden was
seeking to hijack aircraft..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/16/politics/16INQU.html


2.  <http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/15/bush.sept.11/index.html> CNN: Bush
briefed on hijacking threat before 9-11
"President Bush's daily intelligence briefings in the weeks leading up
to the September 11 terror attacks included a warning of the possibility
that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network would attempt to hijack a
U.S.-based airliner, senior administration officials said Wednesday"
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/15/bush.sept.11/index.html

3. UK
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,718312,00.html>
Guardian: Bush knew terrorists would hijack planes
"George Bush received specific warnings in the weeks before 11 September
that an attack inside the United States was being planned by Osama bin
Laden's al-Qaeda network, US government sources said yesterday…. The
memo received by Bush on 6 August contained unconfirmed information
passed on by British intelligence in 1998 revealing that al-Qaeda
operatives had discussed hijacking a plane to negotiate the release of
Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the Muslim cleric imprisoned in America for
his part in a plot to blow up the World Trade Centre in 1993."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,718312,00.html

4.  <http://www.sundayherald.com/24822> Sunday Herald: Britain warned
Bush to expect 9-11 al-Qaeda hijackings
"Britain gave President Bush a categorical warning to expect multiple
airline hijackings by the al-Qaeda network a month before the September
11 attacks which killed nearly 3000 people and triggered the
international war against terrorism."  http://www.sundayherald.com/24822

5.  <http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0332/mondo4.php> Village Voice:
Officials Warned of Plans to Attack DC, NY with Planes
"The U.S. government had received repeated warnings of impending
attacks-and attacks using planes directed at New York and Washington-for
several years. The government never told us about what it knew was
coming."  http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0332/mondo4.php


6.
<http://www.sunspot.net/business/nationworld/bal-te.rice29jul29,0,262059
1.story?coll=bal-business-headlines> AP: 9/11 report, Rice conflict;
Bush got specific data on threats
"...the briefing given to the president a month before the suicide
hijackings included recent intelligence that al-Qaida was planning to
send operatives to the United States to carry out an attack using high
explosives."
http://www.sunspot.net/business/nationworld/bal-te.rice29jul29,0,2620591
.story?coll=bal-business-headlines

7.  <http://www.msnbc.com/news/907379.asp?0cv=CB10> MSNBC: White House
Briefed on Imminent bin Laden Attack
"One such CIA briefing, in July 2001, was particularly chilling and
prophetic. It predicted that Osama bin Laden was about to launch a
terrorist strike 'in the coming weeks,' the congressional investigators
found. The intelligence briefing went on to say: 'The attack will be
spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualties against U.S.
facilities or interests. Attack preparations have been made. Attack will
occur with little or no warning.'"  http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3067907/

8. MSN: Condoleezza  <http://slate.msn.com/?id=2066154> Rice's False
Statement
A: "The overwhelming bulk of the evidence was that this was an attack
that was likely to take place overseas."
- White House National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, in a May 16
news briefing.

B: "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."
- Title of the CIA's Aug. 6 briefing memo to President Bush . . .
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2066154

9.  <http://www.msnbc.com/news/629606.asp> Newsweek: Day before 9-11,
Pentagon Generals Cancelled Flights
"On Sept. 10, NEWSWEEK has learned, a group of top Pentagon officials
suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because
of security concerns."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/629606.asp (link dead)

10.
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/
09/12/MN229389.DTL> SF Gate: Mayor got 8-hour warning Before 9-11
Attacks - September 12, 2001
For Mayor Willie Brown, the first signs that something was amiss came
late Monday when he got a call from what he described as his airport
security - - a full eight hours before yesterday's string of terrorist
attacks -- advising him that Americans should be cautious about their
air travel.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/0
9/12/MN229389.DTL


11.
<http://sun6.dms.state.fl.us/eog_new/eog/orders/2001/september/eo2001-26
1-09-07-01.html> Florida State: Jeb Bush Declares Martial Law 9-7-01
"Based on the potential massive damage to life and property that may
result from an act of terrorism at a Florida port, the necessity to
protect life and property from such acts of terrorism..."
http://www.state.fl.us/eog_new/eog/orders/2001/september/eo2001-261-09-0
7-01.html

12.
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/printable303601.shtm
l> CBS News: Ashcroft Avoided Commercial Travel Prior to 9-11
"In response to inquiries from CBS News over why Ashcroft was traveling
exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead of commercial airlines, the
Justice Department cited what it called a "threat assessment" by the
FBI, and said Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet
for the remainder of his term."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/printable303601.shtml

13.
<http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=331115> UK
Independent: Taliban Mole Warning Ignored
"Weeks before the terrorist attacks on 11 September, the United States
and the United Nations ignored warnings from a secret Taliban emissary
that Osama bin Laden was planning a huge attack on American soil."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=331115

14.  <http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/04/national/04WARN.html> NY Times:
"President Mubarek Warned US of Al Qaeda Plot”
"Egyptian intelligence warned American officials about a week before
Sept. 11 that Osama bin Laden's network was in the advance stages of
executing a significant operation against an American target, President
Hosni Mubarak said in an interview on Sunday."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30D16F73B5E0C778CDDAF089
4DA404482

15.  <http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0222/ridgeway2.php> Village
Voice: US Ignored France Warnings
"A key point in unraveling why the FBI failed to follow up leads on Al
Qaeda terrorism now centers on the Bureau's contemptuously brushing
aside warnings from French intelligence a few days before 9-11."
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0222/ridgeway2.php

16.  <http://www.iht.com/articles/58269.html> Intl. Herald Tribune:
White House Ignored Arab Warnings
"When the hubbub about what the White House did or didn't know before
Sept. 11 dies down, Congressional or other investigators should consider
the specific warnings that friendly Arab intelligence services sent to
Washington in the summer of 2001."
http://www.iht.com/articles/58269.html

17.
<http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$52PMOXQAADW5PQFI
QMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2001/09/16/wcia16.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/09/16
/ixhome> UK News-Telegraph: Israel issued urgent warning of large-scale
terror attacks
Israeli intelligence officials say that they warned their counterparts
in the United States last month that large-scale terrorist attacks on
highly visible targets on the American mainland were imminent."
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$52PMOXQAADW5PQFIQ
MGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2001/09/16/wcia16.xml
<http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$52PMOXQAADW5PQFI
QMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2001/09/16/wcia16.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/09/16
/ixhome> &sSheet=/news/2001/09/16/ixhome

18.  <http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/57848.htm> NY Post: FBI
Warned D.C. It Was A Target
"A Minnesota FBI agent investigating Zacarias Moussaoui testified
yesterday that he notified the Secret Service weeks before Sept. 11 that
a terror team might hijack a plane and 'hit the nation's capital.'"
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/57848.htm

20.
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=512&ncid=716&e=4&u=/ap
/20020924/ap_on_go_co/attacks_intelligence> Yahoo News: FBI Warnings
Ignored
"An FBI supervisor, sounding a prophetic pre-Sept. 11 alarm, warned FBI
headquarters that student pilot Zacarias Moussaoui was so dangerous he
might 'take control of a plane and fly it into the World Trade Center,'
a congressional investigator said in a report Tuesday."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=512&ncid=716&e=4&u=/ap
/20020924/ap_on_go_co/attacks_intelligence>
&cid=512&ncid=716&e=4&u=/ap/20020924/ap_on_go_co/attacks_intelligence

21. Independent:
<http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=334633>
America had 12 warnings of aircraft attack
"American intelligence received many more clues before the 11 September
attacks than previously disclosed, that terrorists might hijack planes
and turn them into weapons, a joint congressional committee was told
yesterday."
<http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=334633>
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=334633

22.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36754-2002Sep18.html>
Washington Post: 9/11 Probe Says Agencies Failed to Heed Attack Signs
"U.S. intelligence agencies received many more indications than
previously disclosed that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network was
planning imminent "spectacular" attacks in the summer of 2001 aimed at
inflicting mass casualties."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36754-2002Sep18.html

23.
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=578&ncid=578&e=1&u=/nm
/20020917/ts_nm/attack_congress_intelligence_dc> Yahoo News: Spy
Agencies Had Pre-9/11 Threats on U.S. Soil
"U.S. intelligence agencies picked up threats of attacks inside the
United States and of using airplanes as weapons during the spring and
summer before last year's Sept. 11 attacks, but were more focused on the
possibility of an assault overseas, a congressional source said on
Tuesday."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=578&ncid=578&e=1&u=/nm
/20020917/ts_nm/attack_congress_intelligence_dc>
&cid=578&ncid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20020917/ts_nm/attack_congress_intelligence_
dc

24. Vanity Fair: Bin
<http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0110/S00008.htm> Laden Relatives
Secretly Evacuated From NY
"Patrick Tyler of the New York Times is reporting from Washington: 'In
the first days after the attacks on Sept. 11, the Saudi Arabian
ambasador to Washington, Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, supervised the urgent
evacuation of 24 members of Osama bin Laden's extended family from the
United States fearing they might be subjected to violence.'"
http://www.guerrillanews.com/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/showflat.pl?Cat=
<http://www.guerrillanews.com/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=
gnn&Number=204363&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&part=all>
&Board=gnn&Number=204363&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&part=all

25.  <http://www.old.smh.com.au/news/0111/07/world/world100.html> Sydney
Morning Herald: Administration Told US agents “Back off bin Ladens”
"US special agents were told to back off the bin Laden family and the
Saudi royals soon after George Bush became president, although that has
all changed since September 11, it was reported today."
http://www.old.smh.com.au/news/0111/07/world/world100.html

26. Ha'aretz Daily: CEO Says Workers Warned Hours Before World Trade
Center Hit -- FBI Investigating
"Odigo, the instant messaging service, says that two of its workers
received messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on September
11 predicting the attack would happen, and the company has been
cooperating with Israeli and American law enforcement, including the
FBI, in trying to find the original sender of the message predicting the
attack."
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=77744

27. NY Times: White House Approved Secret Evacuation of Bin Ladens After
9-11
"Richard Clarke, who ran White House crisis team after Sept 11 terror
attacks, says top White House officials personally approved evacuation
of dozens of influential Saudis, including relatives of Osama bin Laden,
from United States in days after Sept 11, when most flights were
grounded." http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/090503A.shtml

28. Tampa Tribune: Bodyguards tell of Secret Bin Laden Flight
"The hastily arranged flight out of Raytheon Airport Services, a private
hangar on the outskirts of Tampa International Airport, was anything but
ordinary. It lifted off the tarmac at a time when every private plane in
the nation was grounded due to safety concerns after the Sept. 11
attacks. "
http://www.dirtybush.com/connectthesedots.html



29. UK Minister: "Bush had Foreknowledge of 9-11 attacks"
"...it is not surprising that some have seen the US failure to avert the
9/11 attacks as creating an invaluable pretext for attacking Afghanistan
in a war that had clearly already been well planned in advance."   http:
//www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,1036588,00.html

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