THE OBOMBS AND HARVARD
OBAMA AND HIS SAUDIS
PAYMASTERS… Did he serve them well?
Malia,
Michelle, Barack and the College Admissions Scandal https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/03/malia-michelle-barack-and-college.html
Michelle was the next to attend Harvard, in her case Harvard Law
School. “Told by counselors that her SAT scores and her grades weren’t good
enough for an Ivy League school,” writes Christopher Andersen in Barack and
Michelle, “Michelle applied to Princeton and Harvard anyway.”
GOOGLE WHAT THE OBOMB DID FOR HIS SAUDIS PAYMASTERS
Barack Obama’s back door, however, was unique to him. Before
prosecutors send some of the dimmer Hollywood stars to the slammer for their
dimness, they might want to ask just how much influence a Saudi billionaire
peddled to get Obama into Harvard.
US Attorney General Barr invokes “state secrets” to cover up Saudi
involvement in 9/11
Last week, it was
revealed that the Trump administration has taken extraordinary steps to
continue the 18-year cover-up of Saudi government involvement in the September
11, 2001 terror attacks.
On Thursday,
September 12, one day after the 18th anniversary of the attacks on New York and
Washington that killed nearly 3,000 people, a federal court filing revealed
that Attorney General William Barr has asserted the "state secrets"
privilege to block the release of an FBI report detailing extensive relations
between some of the 19 hijackers and Saudi government officials. Victims of the
attacks and their families are pushing for access to the 2007 report as part of
a lawsuit against the Saudi government launched in 2003 charging the despotic
monarchy with coordinating the mass killings.
Barr
declared there was a “reasonable danger” that releasing the report would “risk
significant harm to national security.”
The court
filing also revealed that the FBI has agreed to turn over to the families’
lawyers the name of a Saudi individual that is redacted in a four-page summary
of the FBI report released in 2012. The summary lays out evidence concerning
three Saudis who provided money and otherwise assisted two of the hijackers in
California in finding housing, obtaining driver’s licenses and other matters.
Government
investigations have established that the two people who are named in the FBI
summary, Fahad al-Thumairy, a former Saudi consulate official, and Omar
al-Bayoumi, suspected by the FBI of being a Saudi intelligence officer, were
working in coordination with the Saudi regime. The third person, whose name is
redacted, is described in the FBI summary as having assigned the other two to
assist the hijackers.
Lawyers for
the families last year subpoenaed the FBI for an unredacted copy of the summary
based on the contention that the third person was a senior Saudi official. But
as part of the court filing, citing the “exceptional nature of the case,” the
FBI issued a protective seal to prevent the name of the third Saudi from
becoming public. The agency also refused to provide any of the other
information requested by the families.
An FBI
official said the agency was shielding the name to protect classified
information related to “ongoing investigations” and to protect its “sources and
methods.”
In fact, the
extraordinary measures taken to conceal the role of the Saudi regime in the
9/11 attacks are driven by the need of US imperialism to maintain its
reactionary alliance with the Saudi sheiks and continue the false cover story
on 9/11 that has served as an ideological pillar for aggression in the Middle
East and the buildup of a police-state infrastructure within the US, carried
out in the name of fighting a “war on terror.”
The Saudi
monarchy has been a key ally of the United States in the Middle East for 70
years, and since 9/11 it has become, alongside Israel, Washington’s most
important partner in the region. It has played a central role in the bloody
wars for regime change in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen, which have
killed more than a million people and destroyed entire societies. It is also
the world’s biggest purchaser of US arms.
Its
intelligence agencies have long worked in the closest collaboration with the
CIA and the FBI. The exposure of Saudi complicity in 9/11 immediately
implicates sections of the US intelligence establishment in facilitating, it
not actively aiding, the terror attacks, and sheds light on the multiple
unanswered questions about how 19 men, 15 of whom were Saudi nationals, could
carry out such a complex operation.
The 9/11 attacks were eagerly seized upon by
the George W. Bush administration, with the support of the Democratic Party and
media allies such as the New York Times, to implement
longstanding plans to wage aggressive war in the Middle East.
The cover-up
of Saudi involvement has been carried out over three administrations,
Democratic and Republican alike. It began within hours of the attacks
themselves. Eight days after the attacks, at least 13 relatives of Osama bin
Laden, accompanied by bodyguards and associates, were allowed to secretly leave
the US on a chartered flight. One of the passengers, a nephew of the supposed
number one on Washington’s “most wanted” list, had been linked by the FBI to a
suspected terrorist organization.
The US
association with bin Laden went back decades. Under the CIA’s Operation
Cyclone, conducted between 1979 and 1989, the US and Saudi Arabia provided $40
billion worth of financial aid and weapons to the mujahedeen “freedom fighters”
waging war against Soviet forces in Afghanistan, an operation in which then-US
ally bin Laden played a key role. The proxy war in Afghanistan was pivotal in
the later creation of Al Qaeda.
In July of
2016, the US government released to the public a 28-page section, suppressed
for 14 years, of a joint congressional inquiry into 9/11. The 28-page chapter
dealt with the role of the Saudi government and contained abundant and damning
evidence of extensive Saudi support for the 9/11 hijackers in the period
leading up to the attacks.
Among its
revelations were:
▪ Two of the Saudi hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi,
lived for a time in Los Angeles and San Diego in 2000, where they obtained
pilot training. They were given money and lodgings by Omar al-Bayoumi, who
worked closely with an emir at the Saudi Defense Ministry. Both were under CIA
surveillance while attending an Al Qaeda planning meeting in 2000 in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia and placed on a “watch list” for FBI monitoring if they came
to the United States. Nonetheless they were allowed to enter the US on January
15, 2000.
▪ Al-Bayoumi
“received support from a Saudi company affiliated with the Saudi Ministry of
Defense,” drawing a paycheck for a no-show job. The company also had ties to
Osama bin Laden. His allowances jumped almost tenfold after the arrival of
al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar. Al-Bayoumi had found an apartment for the two, which
they shared with an informant for the San Diego FBI, advancing them a deposit
on the first month’s rent.
▪
Al-Bayoumi’s wife received a $1,200 a month stipend from the wife of Prince
Bandar, then the Saudi ambassador to the US and later head of Saudi
intelligence. The wife of his associate, Osama Bassnan, identified by the FBI
as a supporter of bin Laden, received $2,000 a month from Bandar’s wife.
▪ Three of
the hijackers stayed at the same Virginia hotel as Saleh al-Hussayen, a Saudi
Interior Ministry official, the night before the attacks.
Despite such
evidence, and much more, the bipartisan 9/11 Commission appointed by George W.
Bush concluded that there was no conclusive evidence that “senior” Saudi
officials played a role in the 9/11 attacks. When the 28-page section of the
congressional report was released in 2016, Obama’s CIA director, John Brennan,
denounced all suggestions of Saudi involvement as baseless.
However,
former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, a member of the 9/11 Commission,
said, “There was an awful lot of participation by Saudi individuals in
supporting the hijackers, and some of those people worked in the Saudi
government.”
Former
Democratic Senator Robert Graham, cochair of the Joint Congressional Inquiry
into the 9/11 attacks, said that there was “a pervasive pattern of covering up
the role of Saudi Arabia in 9/11 by all of the agencies of the federal
government, which have access to information that might illuminate Saudi
Arabia’s role in 9/11.”
In the
lawsuit filed by the families of the victims, he filed an affidavit that
stated, “I am convinced that there was a direct line between at least some of
the terrorists who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks and the government of Saudi
Arabia.”
It is
significant, but not surprising, that the corporate media has given only the
most perfunctory and muted coverage to the moves by the Trump administration to
once again suppress the role of the Saudi regime in 9/11, and the Democrats
have been completely silent.
One should compare this response to damning
evidence of Saudi culpability and US cover-up in relation to an event that took
nearly 3,000 lives to the hysteria of the anti-Russia witch hunt led by the
Democratic Party, the New York Times and the bulk of the
media, based on completely unsubstantiated charges.
Loophole
Used by 9/11 Hijackers Still Open with 6 Million Visa Overstays in U.S.
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There are at least six million illegal aliens who arrived in the United
States the same way seven of the 9/11 Islamic terrorist hijackers came to the
country: by overstaying a visa.
All nineteen 9/11 terrorists — who murdered nearly 3,000
Americans and injured more than 6,000 others in 2001 — arrived in the U.S.
legally, with 16 obtaining tourist visas and three others obtaining business
and tourist visas.
In total,
seven of the 19 terrorists overstayed their visas at some
point either before the 9/11 attacks or at the time of the attacks and were supposed
to be deported, but never were.
Those terrorists who overstayed their visas include:
- Hani Hasan Hanjour from Saudi Arabia
- Nawaf al-Hamzi from Saudi Arabia
- Mohamed Atta from Egypt
- Satam al-Suqami from Saudi Arabia
- Waleed al-Shehri from Saudi Arabia
- Marwan al-Shehhi from the United Arab Emirates
- Ahmed al-Ghamdi from Saudi Arabia
Eighteen
years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the loophole where legal immigrants
become illegal aliens after overstaying their visas remains fully open, with at
least 4.5 to six million foreign nationals living in the U.S. who should
have been deported after their visas expired, according to Pew Research
Center.
In total, there are roughly 11 to 22 million illegal aliens
living in the U.S. at any given moment, and more than 1.2 million foreign
nationals are legally admitted to the country every year — like all 19
terrorists were.
Foreign
nationals arriving on temporary visas continue to go largely untracked by the
federal government despite The
9/11 Commission Report pleading with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to
implement a nationwide biometric entry-exit system, which would identify legal
immigrants who have overstayed their visas and help in deporting them.
As of March,
there were more than 415,000 illegal aliens in the U.S. who had overstayed their visas. This
includes more than 300,000 illegal aliens who arrived in the U.S. from
countries that are not part of the Visa Waiver Program, which allows certain
nationals to come to the country for up to 90 days without obtaining a visa. In
total, 20 foreign countries have visa overstay rates that exceed ten percent.
DID WE LEARN ANYTHING FROM 9/11?
Or are we still sleeping?
September 11,
2019
Daniel Greenfield,
a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an
investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic
terrorism.
Two things happened in
2001.
Islamic terrorists
carried out their most successful attack on America with the murder of 2,977
people. And the number of immigrants obtaining permanent residency passed a
million for the first time in a decade. Before 2001, a million plus was a
streak that might linger for a few years before falling back.
These days it’s the new
normal. Aside from one blip, we’ve been riding the million plus train for over
a decade. The resistance to that trend is currently the one thing we seem to
have learned from 9/11.
After decades of being
massacred by terrorists who have come here as tourists, refugees and
immigrants, we are finally trying to close the door on travelers from Islamic
terrorist states.
And it only took 16
years.
That’s because learning
nothing from the past has been our specialty.
"A flag bearing a
crescent and star flies from a flagpole in front of the World Trade Center,
next to a Christmas tree and a menorah,” The New
York Times reported in 1997.
Four years earlier,
Muslim terrorists had bombed the World Trade Center in an unsuccessful effort
to bring down the towers. Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheikh at the center of
the terror plot, had urged, “We . . . have been
ordered with terrorism because we must prepare what power we can to terrorize
the enemy of Allah and your enemy. The Koran says ‘to strike terror.’”
Mohammed T. Mehdi, the
Muslim activist responsible for the flag of Islam flying at what would become
Ground Zero, had been an adviser to Rahman. The U.S. Attorney’s Office had listed
Mehdi as an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of the blind terror sheikh.
And nevertheless, the flag flew.
Imam Sirraj Wahhaj, an unindicted
co-conspirator in the bombing, who had testified as a character witness for
Rahman, had already become the first Muslim cleric to present an invocation
prayer to the House of Representatives. He was introduced by Rep. Nick Rahall
who had proposed the idea. The invocation included a Koranic curse
aimed at Christians and Jews.
That same year,
President George H.W. Bush had taped his own Eid message for Muslims.
In 1996, Hillary Clinton
inaugurated the first Eid event at the White House. Capitol Hill politicos held
their own Iftar event that year. Regular Islamic prayers began to be held on
Capitol Hill in 1998. The State Department hosted its first Iftar event in
1999. So did the Pentagon. All of this is still going on.
Not only haven’t things
gotten better since then, they’ve gotten much worse.
The height of our
counterterrorism efforts took place after September 11 with Operation Green
Quest. That was our last serious effort at cracking the infrastructure of
Islamist terrorism in this country. These days counterterrorism mainly consists
of informants and undercover operatives catching lone ISIS supporters before
they carry out an attack. Going beyond that was unacceptable even before Obama.
Under Obama, the Muslim
Brotherhood was in the White House and Hezbollah had a free hand.
The War on Terror also
reached its height in the creative and relentless attacks on Al Qaeda and the
Taliban after 9/11. But, before long, that campaign degenerated into
nation-building, endless legal proceedings for captured terrorists in the Bush
era, and feeding thousands of soldiers into a meat-grinder with restrictive
rules of engagement and negotiations with the Taliban in the Obama era.
By 2003, our response to
Islamic terrorism had reached its peak. It’s been downhill from there.
It took 4 years for the
lessons of the World Trade Center bombing to be so thoroughly forgotten that an
unindicted co-conspirator was able to get the flag of Islam flown at the site
of the twin skyscrapers.
It took even less time
for the lessons of 9/11 to fly away leaving behind hollow memorials.
After Qari Yasin, a top
Al Qaeda terrorist, whose terror plots had killed U.S. Air Force Maj. Rodolfo
I. Rodriguez and Navy Cryptologic Technician Third Class Petty Officer Matthew
J. O’Bryant, was taken out in an airstrike, there was no mention of the fallen
American military personnel killed by his attacks.
Instead Secretary of
Defense Jim Mattis, the point man for the tough bombing campaign against ISIS,
declared, "The death of Qari Yasin is evidence that terrorists who defame
Islam and deliberately target innocent people will not escape justice."
That was in 2017.
20 years after the flag
of Islam flew at the World Trade Center, we were no longer killing Islamic
terrorists to avenge our dead or even to defend ourselves, but to punish those
who “defame Islam.”
Meanwhile, Kris Bauman,
who had argued that, “the Obama
Administration must find creative (but legal) ways to include Hamas in a
solution” held down the position of Senior Director for Israeli, Palestinian, Jordanian
and Egyptian Affairs from 2017 to 2018 until John Bolton took over the National
Security Council. These days, Bauman heads the Eisenhower Center at the Air
Force Academy.
The problem is
structural.
Our national security
infrastructure and our entire strategic apparatus is run by people who think
like Mattis and Bauman. It’s run by them under Democrat and Republican
administrations. Their views represent the consensus that terrorism can’t be
defeated, it can only be defused or appeased.
There’s been some debate
over whether we should be negotiating with the Taliban.
We’ve been officially
negotiating with the Taliban since at least 2013. That’s a long time to be
holding talks when there’s nothing to actually talk about. We will eventually
withdraw from Afghanistan. The Taliban will eventually take over Afghanistan.
What then is there to talk to the Taliban about?
And yet our foreign
policy apparatus insists that we can’t pull out until we get the Taliban to
commit to respecting Afghanistan’s constitution. Why do we care about the
Afghan constitution anyway? Did thousands of Americans really die in
Afghanistan to uphold a constitution that upholds Islamic law?
Or did we begin this war
to avenge our dead and to punish the perpetrators and their allies?
The debate over
interventionism and appeasement has left September 11 behind. The
interventionists insist that we have an obligation to spread democracy and the
appeasers claim that we’re warmongers
Neither side likes this
country very much. And neither side cares about what happened on this day.
If we are to have a
meaningful strategy, it has to begin on a fall Tuesday. It has to start in the
cockpit of one of the hijacked planes. It has to start with a prayer from a
terrorist and from one of his victims.
“In the name of Allah,
the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate,” a terrorist declares on the Flight
93 cockpit recording. That’s followed by the sounds of the terrorists
assaulting a passenger.
“Please don’t hurt me,”
he pleads. “Oh God.”
Flight 93 is a reminder
that we are a brave and courageous people. But that we have to wake up first.
And to wake up, we have
to understand what it is we’re facing. On September 11, 2001, hundreds,
thousands, tens of thousands, and eventually millions of Americans were forced
to wake up.
Some died. Most went
back to sleep. And some still remember.
9/11 was neither a
beginning nor an ending. The war we are in has gone on for over a thousand
years. It might go on for another thousand making a mockery of the appeasers
who lecture about “endless war.”
Wars go on for as long
as one side is willing to fight them. The nightmarish reality is that the other
side is willing to fight forever. That is a truth too troubling for most people
to come to terms with.
But until we understand that,
we will have learned absolutely nothing from September 11, 2001.
This is not WW2. It’s
not the Cold War. It’s a clash of civilizations. Technology, jet planes and the
internet, have allowed our civilizations to overlap each other. War is the
inevitable result.
Immigration, not bullets
and bombs, is the main weapon of a clash not between armies, but civilizations.
16 years later, we have
only begun, not to fight, but to defend ourselves against a clash of
civilizations.
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