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MY GAZA DIARY: HOPE UNDER ASHES

"Foods, clothes, fuel, water, basic commodities and other basic needs hit the highest peak of prices. We are not able to secure these things because there are not available due to siege. Borders are closed, students are trapped and labors turned unemployed," the radio said.

THE RON PAUL SUPPORTERS ARE COMING, THE RON PAUL SUPPORTERS ARE COMING!

Republicans fear aliens: principled supporters of what are, in popular rhetoric, Republican principles. In fact, of course, the Republicans are the preeminent party of fascism, perpetual war, the police state, militarism, socialism for the rich, nationalism, and dictatorship. No wonder they love the insane neocon (if I do not repeat myself) McCain, and reject Ron Paul.

ALEX’S SPECIAL GUEST WAS RON PAUL ON HIS RADIO SHOW ON MARCH 14, 2008

Direct link to stream

D.C. GUN BAN’S EFFECTIVENESS QUESTIONED

“Whatever right the Second Amendment guarantees, it does not require the district to stand by while its citizens die,” the city wrote in its petition to the Supreme Court last year.

To gun rights advocates, the numbers prove a different point: Violence continues unchecked despite the ban. And while criminals seem to be able to get guns with ease, law-abiding people are being denied the means to protect themselves, they say.

NAOMI WOLF ON MCCAIN

RON PAUL “THE HIGH TIDE”

Repost, because it's so damn good -- ZDN

HATS OFF TO CHARLIE DANIELS - T LEAST HE HAS THE COURAGE TO SPEAK HIS MIND!!!

I don’t need sensitivity lessons, in fact I don’t have any-thing against Mexicans! I just have something against criminals and anybody who comes into this country illegally is a criminal and if you don’t believe it try coming into America from a foreign country without a passport and see how far you get.

DOGS OF WAR GATHERING IN THE ANDES -- AND IN WASHINGTON

With dizzying speed--and rank hypocrisy--the United States is escalating its war of words with Venezuela.

FUTURE OF NORTH AMERICA: VANCOUVER 2010, CORONATION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN “COMMUNITY”

The year 2010 will mark a very important date for all people living within Canada, the United States and Mexico. The often-cited Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) document, in conjunction with the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations and the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE), titled “Building a North America Community,” serves as the blueprint for the objectives of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). The three above-mentioned “interest” groups make up the Independent Task Force on the Future of North America, who produced the report, in which they state, “The Task Force’s central recommendation is establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community, the boundaries of which would be defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter.”

MASSIVE DEBT DEFAULT: BEARLY ALIVE, WALL STREET INVESTMENT GIANT RUSHED TO "INTENSIVE CARE" BY PANICKY FED-CHIEF

On Friday, Bear Stearns blew up. It was the worst possible news at the worst possible time. A day earlier, the politically-connected Carlyle Capital hedge fund defaulted on $16.6 billion of its debt. Carlyle boasted a $21.7 billion portfolio of AAA-rated residential mortgage-backed securities, but was unable to make a margin call of just $400 million. (Where did the $21.7 billion go?) The news on Bear was the last straw. The stock market started reeling immediately; shedding 300 points in less than an hour.

WAR COSTS AND COSTS AND COSTS

The Bush team not only misled the world about the war's possible costs, but has also sought to obscure the costs as the war has gone on.

This is not surprising. After all, the Bush administration lied about everything else, from Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction to his supposed link with al-Qaida. Indeed, only after the US-led invasion did Iraq become a breeding ground for terrorists.

RESISTING THE CORPORATIZATION AND MILITARIZATION OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

To effectively resist the commercialization of public space and the corporatization and militarization of education, students at the University of British Columbia (UBC) created a political group in the summer of 2007 called Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

US MILITARY COMMITTED WAR CRIMES IN FALLUJAH

I am writing your honour to ask that the International Criminal Court of Justice investigate allegations that American military forces committed war crimes in Fallujah, Iraq in the year 2004.

BREAKING THE NUREMBERG CODE: THE US MILITARY’S HUMAN-TESTING PROGRAM RETURNS

The Pentagon is slated to release a suspected toxicant in Crystal City, Virginia this week, ostensibly to test air sensors.

The operation is just the latest example of the Defense Department’s long history of using service members and civilians as human test subjects, often without their consent or awareness.

A VICIOUS CIRCLE ENDING IN A SYSTEMIC FINANCIAL MELTDOWN

Bernanke's latest scheme is not a remedy for the trillion dollar unwinding of bad bets. It is merely a quick-fix to avoid a bloody stock market crash brought on by prevailing conditions in the credit markets.

COVERUP OF EXTENSIVE WAR CRIMES: 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MY LAI MASSACRE

In a bitter irony, Colin Powell, who was responsible for the coverup of the My Lai massacre acceded to a "brilliant" career in the Armed Forces. In 2001 he was appointed Secretary of State in the Bush administration. Although never indicted, Powell was also deeply implicated in the Iran-Contra affair.

WEAK DOLLAR COSTS U.S. ECONOMY ITS NO. 1 SPOT

PARIS (Reuters) - The U.S. economy lost the title of "world's biggest" to the euro zone this week as the value of the dollar slumped in currency markets.

ANOTHER ACT OF EVIL: SLOW MURDER AT GITMO

One grows weary, so weary, of plowing through filth, day after day – the unspeakable, blood-soaked, stinking filth of torture, murder, lies and degradation that pours in a relentless, unending stream from the belching pits of the Bush Regime. And let's be clear: we speak here of deliberate evil – not good works gone wrong, not mere "incompetence," not misguided policies or ignorance or even ideological blindness– but fully concious acts of evil which the perpetrators themselves know are evil.

WATCHING THE DOLLAR DIE

Our coinage was silver. Our dimes, quarters, and half dollars had purchasing power. Even the nickel could purchase a candy bar, ice cream cone or soft drink, and a penny could purchase bubble gum or hard candy. If a kid could collect 5 discarded soft drink bottles from a construction site, the 2 cents deposit on the returnable bottles was enough for the Saturday afternoon movie. Gasoline was 32 cents a gallon. A dollar's worth was enough for a Saturday night date.

OIL FOR WAR

In the war that Paul Wolfowitz famously predicted would “pay for itself,” the U.S. is spending $923 million per week on fuel-related logistics.

THOUSANDS IN ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION

Thousands of anti-war protesters have rallied to demand Britain withdraw its troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

ARE YOU PREPARED FOR A HUNDRED YEARS WAR ON TERROR?

Senator and Presidential candidate John McCain said that it would be fine with him if the military stayed in Iraq for a hundred years. His prediction maybe be proved in the future to be correct.

BANKS TO SEIZE CARLYLE CAPITAL ASSETS

NEW YORK -- The likely liquidation of Carlyle Capital Corp.'s remaining assets sent the fund's shares plummeting more than 90 percent Thursday and rattled stock markets around the globe. It was also a high-profile setback for private equity fund Carlyle Group.

OBAMA EARMARKS FOR WIFE’S EMPLOYER, BIG DONOR

Barack Obama touts himself as the only presidential candidate not corrupted by Washington politics but his earmark record contradicts that because he tried steering millions of federal dollars to his wife’s employer and the company of a top campaign donor.

GOP TREASURER EMBEZZLES PARTY FUNDS

In one of the largest political fraud cases in recent history, the treasurer of the cash-strapped House Republican fundraising committee stole hundreds of thousands of dollars by submitting forged audit reports to divert the cash to his personal accounts.

DON SIEGELMAN : “ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROVE”

All roads lead to Rove. That was the message scrawled as an afterthought in the lower left-hand corner of the envelope I received in yesterday’s mail. It contained a letter from an old and dear friend of mine. His name is Don Siegelman. He is the former governor of Alabama and he is being held as a political prisoner of the Bush administration in a Federal prison in Louisiana.

PETRAEUS CONCEDES IRAQ NOT MAKING ’SUFFICIENT PROGRESS’

A month ago today, Gen. David Petraeus sounded relatively optimistic about political progress in Iraq: “The passage of the three laws today showed that the Iraqi leaders are now taking advantage of the opportunity that coalition and Iraqi troopers fought so hard to provide.”

That was then; this is now.

KARL ROVE: THE BUSH FAMILY TAUGHT ME HONESTY…

Well I’ve been privileged to work for two men who’s last name is Bush. George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush are two pretty remarkable men. And I’ve learned a lot from them, learned a lot about life, learned a lot about character, learned a lot about loyalty and trust and honesty and straightforwardness.

CHALABI IS BACK, AGAIN

Headline links to an NBC news video. Chalabi is a convicted criminal who is unable to travel to certin places because he is wanted for various crimes. -- ZDN

US/IRAQ: RULES OF ENGAGEMENT "THROWN OUT THE WINDOW"

Garret Reppenhagen received integral training about the Geneva Conventions and the Rules of Engagement during his deployment in Kosovo. But in Iraq, "Much of this was thrown out the window," he says.

WINTER SOLDIER: ADAM KOKESH

Click the headline to watch the video. -- ZDN

WINTER SOLDIER: STEVE MORTILLO

Click the headline to watch the video. -- ZDN

WINTER SOLDIERS: CLIFTON HICKS AND STEVEN CASEY

Click the headline to watch the video -- ZDN

DENNIS KUCINICH ON SECRET HOUSE MEETING

VIDEO: THE DAY AFTER BOMBING IRAN

CHICKENS OF OUR OWN MAKING

"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."

Reverend Jeremiah Wright; Sept. 16th 2001

DOD FUNDED RESEARCH SUGGESTS MCCAIN'S "FAITH BASED" APPROACH WOULD INCREASE TERRORISM

According to John McCain America is at war with "radical Islamic extremism", a struggle he says could last fifty, a hundred or even a thousand years but research by world expert on suicide terrorism Robert A. Pape undercuts the senator's premise and suggests McCain's "faith based" approach could increase the incidence of terrorism which, Pape's research shows, is linked most strongly not to religion but nationalism.

US VETERANS URGE SOLDIERS TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST IRAQ WAR

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US veterans and active-duty soldiers on Thursday kicked off an event in Washington to protest the war in Iraq, urging other members of the military to join them in speaking out against the conflict.

RIAA RACKETEERING LAWSUIT REVIVED

The lawsuit, filed in Oregon U.S. District Court on behalf of an Oregon woman who was wrongly accused of pilfering music via the Kazaa file-sharing network, seeks to represent thousands of people the woman's attorneys claim have been wrongly targeted by the record labels' lobbying organization.

A LETTER TO BARACK OBAMA

Back in September 2004, as a Democratic Senate candidate, you made four revealing points in an interview with the Chicago Tribune. First, you favoured using "surgical" missile strikes against Iran if the sovereign country refused to obey the US and eliminate its nuclear energy program. Second, you criticised the Bush administration's war in Iraq not because it violated every article in the Geneva Convention and every International Law, but because it drew away attention from "greater threats" such as Iran, North Korea, and Pakistan. Third, you linked Iran and Pakistan under the banner of "Islamic world". Fourth, you favoured attacking Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, if Pakistan's self-appointed president, Pervez Musharraf, was overthrown by Pakistanis who have every reason to want him gone and every right to struggle toward this goal.

COUNTER-RECRUITMENT IS NOT COUNTER-MILITARY: A LETTER FROM A COLONEL

As a 29 year US Army/Army Reserves Colonel and a U.S. diplomat who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq, I am very proud of the city of Berkeley, California. Berkeley and her citizenry have had the courage to stand on their peace convictions and declare that it does not want its youth recruited into the illegal Iraq war.

CAUGHT RED HANDED

A police riot stopped

JOHN MCCAIN: FROM POLITICIAN TO PARTY WHORE

Republican presidential candidate John McCain has made his Faustian pact with the GOP. Topping his previous idiocies -- a war of one hundred, perhaps even 'ten thousand years' -- McCain now claims that al Qaeda "might attempt spectacular attacks in Iraq to try to tilt the US election against him". McCain forgets that the only US party to have ever benefited from an al Qaeda attack is the GOP, partners and fellow terrorists.

NEOCONS DESTROY AMERICA TOO

With the economy sinking into depression and the unfolding demise of the dollar as world reserve currency, the attack on Iran will terminate the US as a world power. That is the silver lining in the insanity of this evil administration.

THE REVOLUTION: A MANIFESTO

by Ron Paul

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: EISENHOWER STOPPED IT COLD

Two years ago, the Christian Science Monitor did a report "How Eisenhower Solved Illegal Border Crossings from Mexico". It's a good read for the so-called immigration "experts" who insist that "you can't deport 12 million people".

LARRY SILVERSTEIN CONFRONTED ON WTC-7, 9/11

OBAMA AND HILLARY SUPPORT SCREENING AND MEDICATING MOTHERS

Here’s another fabulously clever way for the government to have more people drawn into its clutches through a nationwide screening program, this time focusing on post-partum depression. And it is brought to you by the very busy and liberal Senator Robert Menendez, (NJ), and co-sponsored by Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

HOW MEDIA MAKES CANDIDATES DISAPPEAR

Clip from 'Spin'. -- ZDN

PENTAGON ATTEMPTS TO MEMORY HOLE NEW REPORT THAT DISMISSES AL QAEDA-SADDAM LINK

The Pentagon has blocked the scheduled release of a definitive report that found no pre-Iraq war link between late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.

The report, which is based on 600,000 official Iraqi documents seized by US forces, was due to be posted on the Joint Forces Command website late yesterday, and was to be followed up by a background briefing with the authors. However, the report will now only be made available to those in the media who request it.

GOLD FUTURES RISE TO RECORD $1,009 ON BEAR STEARNS BAILOUT

March 14 (Bloomberg) -- Gold surged to a record $1,009 an ounce in New York as the Bear Stearns Cos. bailout and a plunging dollar increased demand for the precious metal. Silver also gained.

WHAT CAUSED THE FIERY GROUND-LEVEL EXPLOSIONS RIGHT BEFORE THE COLLAPSE OF EACH TOWER?

On 9/11, there were multiple reports by credible witnesses of ground-level fiery explosions right before the collapse of the Twin Towers:

* A CBS News reporter on stated: "All of a sudden I heard a roar and I saw one of the towers blow ... I saw from street level as though it exploded up, a giant rolling ball of flame..." * The same reporter stated: "I hear simultaneously this roar and see what appears to be a gigantic fireball rising up at ground level . . . giant ball of fire come out of the earth" (pages 119 & 239)

* A Port Authority Police Department officer, who was intimately familiar with the World Trade Center from his years of police duties patrolling there, said that hallway began to shudder as a "terrible deafening roar" swept over him, then a giant fireball exploded in the street seconds before the south tower collapsed

* An eyewitness reported a large explosion at ground level right before the collapse of the North Tower

FRIDAY: 20 IRAQIS KILLED, 42 WOUNDED

At least 20 Iraqis were killed and 42 were wounded in the latest round of violence. Attack reports are usually lighter on Fridays as many reporters in Iraq take the day off. No Coalition deaths were reported.

SATURDAY: 1 US SOLDIER, 15 IRAQIS KILLED, 44 WOUNDED

At least 15 Iraqis were killed and 44 more were wounded in the latest violence. One American soldier was killed today in Baghdad during a small arms attack. Also, clashing and other attacks continue in and around the city of Kut where the Mahdi Army and security forces have battled since Tuesday. This is the first significant violation of a unilateral ceasefire Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr imposed on his followers.

RULES OF CITIZENSHIP

Rule No. 1 is that people given power will tend to abuse it. This applies to everyone from local government to national government. It applies to Democrats and to Republicans. The reason it is so universal is because it originates in human nature, which is the same today as it was 10,000 years ago.

THOSE WHO PROFIT FROM WAR

World Trade Organization

It’s no overstatement to say that this secretive 146-member nation body is the Global Government. They make the rules of the global economy- and they ensure that labor rights, environmental protection, democracy, and human rights don’t get in the way.

George H.W. Bush

former President

A true Texan, Senior’s got oil in his veins-from starting companies like Zapata Petroleum to his current job with the Carlyle Group. After launching Gulf War I, Bush pulled Kuwaiti strings for Chevron. He’s a former CIA chief, UN Ambassador, VP and Pres, but he’s always current in oil.

Lee Raymond

Chairman and CEO, ExxonMobil

Earth’s largest energy company and Jr.’s biggest campaign contributor is also to blame for countless spills, abuses, and evasions. Already well-placed to benefit from regime change in Iraq, top execs met with US-backed Iraqi opposition-just to guarantee their position.

David J. O’Reilly

Chairman and CEO, ChevronTexaco

Despite its warm-and-fuzzy facade, this mega-company rides a wave of violence, corruption, and cronyism to get its way everywhere from Ecuador to Iraq, Nigeria and the US. Having former director Condoleezza Rice on the inside and sending millions every year to Jr. helps, too.

Ken Derr

Director, Halliburton & Citigroup former CEO, Chevron

Biggest mouth in Big Oil, Ken admitted how much he would love Chevron to have access to Iraq’s oil. Derr presided over Chevron during its bloodiest years in Nigeria. Now on Halliburton’s board, he knows how ruthless you’ve gotta be to get the goods.

Philip J. Carroll

Former CEO, Shell Oil, USA

Appointed to run Iraq’s oil industry American-style, Carroll and his oil buddies will make sure that the Iraqi people finally receive their long overdue oil wealth. Just like they did in Nigeria.

Ray Irani

Chairman and CEO, Occidental Petroleum

The War on Terrorism definitely increases security for Oxy. US military aid to protect their operations in Colombia reached hundreds of millions in 2003. Resulting profits fund Oxy’s pay-offs to armed groups and ongoing human rights abuses.

The Lord John Browne of Madingley

CEO BP, Director Goldman Sachs

BP made $41 million a day from price hikes and consumer fears due to the Iraq war. Lord of the Wells, Browne is waiting for that “future legitimate Iraqi government” to slip back in. Though he never had a problem doing business with Saddam before.

Charles R. Williamson

Chairman and CEO, Unocal Corp.

Can’t let human rights stand in the way of business. Unocal is famously cozy with dictators and repressive regimes past and present (including in Burma, Indonesia, and Afghanistan), and still shooting for the Afghan pipeline. And they hope we’ll forget their overnights with the Taliban.

Thomas Kean

Former Gov. of New Jersey Director, Amerada-Hess

Now chairman of the 9/11 Commission, Kean’s joint venture, Delta-Hess, is a partnership with Khalid bin Mafhouz-brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden. Doesn’t that seem just an itty bit inappropriate?

Thomas Howard Kean (born April 21, 1935 in New York City) is an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 48th Governor of New Jersey, from 1982 to 1990. Kean is best known globally, however, for his 2002 appointment as Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, widely known as the 9/11 Commission, which was responsible for investigating the causes of the September 11, 2001 attacks and providing recommendations to prevent future terrorist attacks. He was appointed to this post by U.S. President George W. Bush.

Red Caveney

President, American Petroleum Institute

Red poured over $1 million petrodollars into the Bush 2000 election, while API, the oil industry club he oversees, promotes destructive policies like increased drilling and hiding toxic release information. All in the name of “Energy Security.”

Zalmay Khalilzad

US presidential envoy to Afghanistan and Iraq

Previously an apologist for the Taliban while serving Unocal’s Afghan pipe-dreams, Khalilzad has supported armed militants since the Reagan days. Now he’s the top US official in Afghanistan. How appropriate.

Frank Murkowski

Governor of Alaska

Within days of 9/11, this then-Senator for Alaska began using the tragedy to squeeze oil out of the coastal plains of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the name of national security. Wonder if he gets oil money for his election campaigns?

IRAQ - GOOD INFORMATIVE CLIP

The Iraq war and US insanity, small clip about the idiocracy they try to call democracy.

WORLD PEACE RALLY AND THE WINTER SOLDIER PROJECT

There are peace rallies being held across the globe this weekend to try and not only force Western governments to withdraw their troops from Iraq and Afghanistan but also to try and prevent a war with Iran.

REVOLUTION, IT'S THE PATRIOTIC THING TO DO

Our government has turned a deaf ear to our pleas. In fact, it is working to silence us further.

It would seem to me that our government's authority is no longer lawful, if we are to go by the very grievances that inspired the birth of this country to begin with. Ergo, sedition is no longer possible, not that our government woudl ever admit to that.

WHEN LOSING IS WINNING

Tell me again: WHAT was the surge intended to do?

LOUISIANA CITY WANTS TO REQUIRE SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS

It’s another example of the corporate media selling snake oil on the road to a high-tech control grid panopticon. “Alexandria city councilman wants to require some businesses in town to install surveillance cameras.

A FULL RANGE OF NEW WORLD ORDER MINIONS

Here in America, of course, we always get a “full range of people” in our elections — that is so long as they are government insiders, Bilderberg attendees, trilateralists, and corporate flunkies. “If the political prediction markets are right, we are going to end up with a presidential contest between two people who agree on the pressing need to expand the entire welfare-warfare state.

MANACLED, STARVED, BEATEN: A RENDITION VICTIM'S STORY

Khaled al-Maqtari's nightmare began when American troops arrived at the al-Ghufran market in Fallujah in January 2004. He was arrested along with other terrorist suspects and taken to Abu Ghraib jail. For the next four years he was held captive, moved from country to country and suffered, he says, appalling torture.

DETAINEE'S SUIT SAYS ABUSE WAS VIDEOTAPED

Lawyers for a detainee held at the Navy brig in Charleston, S.C., allege in court papers to be filed today that their client was systematically abused and that he was told there were cabinets full of videotapes depicting his treatment at the hands of the FBI and the Defense Intelligence Agency.

IRAQ WAR DOCUMENTARY DEBUTS IN AUSTIN

The documentary ‘Body of War’ premiered Thursday afternoon to a crowd of hundreds at the Paramount Theatre. The documentary, which follows the life of an injured Iraq War veteran, has already been hailed as a powerful film at previous festivals. It debuts in Austin before opening in theatres across the nation.The documentary was pieced together by Austin director Ellen Spiro and talk show host Phil Donahue.

700,000 U.S. CASUALTIES EXPECTED

Of the 1.7 million service members with recent combat experience, some 800,000 are now veterans entitled to VA health care and benefits. Of those, 300,000 have had treatment; 40 percent were diagnosed with a mental health problem, more than half with PTSD, according to Veterans Affairs figures released as a result of a lawsuit by Veterans for Common Sense, a nonpartisan veterans advocacy group. Paul Sullivan, the group's executive director, says the patient figure could eventually reach 700,000. A recent Harvard University study says taxpayers' cost for the care of injured veterans will run up to $700 billion.

THE POLICE STATE SECRET BILL

Classified, classified. Classified classified classified. Classifiedclassifiedclassifiedclassifiedclassified. Classified. Classified, classified, classified, classified.

"Having now reviewed the bill, i ask you to please cast your vote". -- ZDN

FEDERAL BUREAU PRISONS CENSORING ED AND ELAINE'S MAIL

The good news is that Elaine gets to share two copies of Republic Magazine with her fellow prisoners and prison guards. The bad news is that they don't trust Ed with the truth.

FEBRUARY 2008: CONSIDERABLE VIDEO FOOTAGE OF 9/11 HIJACKERS REMAINS UNRELEASED

An FBI timeline of the 9/11 hijackers’ activities compiled in late 2001 and released this month indicates that considerable video footage of the hijackers has yet to be released. Most of the footage appears to come from surveillance video discovered after the 9/11 attacks.

FEBRUARY 21, 2001: MOHAMED ATTA’S CAR IS QUERIED BY POLICE IN GEORGIA

A car registered to Mohamed Atta is queried by police in DeKalb County, Georgia. This incident is added to the NCIC, a widely used nationwide police database.

AUGUST 3, 2001: FLORIDA POLICE FAIL TO NOTICE ARREST WARRANT FOR MOHAMED ATTA

Mohamed Atta’s rental car is queried by police in Broward County, Florida. This incident is added to the NCIC, a widely used nationwide police database. [Federal Bureau of Investigation, 10/2001, pp. 204 pdf file] On June 4, a Florida warrant was issued for Atta’s arrest, as he skipped court following a previous traffic offense (see June 4, 2001). It is not clear why the existing arrest warrant does not raise a red flag, since he rented the car in his own name.

JUNE 4, 2001: WARRANT ISSUED FOR ARREST OF MOHAMED ATTA IN FLORIDA

On June 4, 2001, a warrant is issued for the arrest of Mohamed Atta in the state of Florida.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2001: HIJACKER ALHAZMI IS IN POLICE AND MOTOR VEHICLE DATABASES, BUT FBI AGENT FAILS TO FIND HIS RECORDS

FBI agent Robert Fuller has been tasked to find out if hijackers Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar are in the US, now that their names have been added to a terrorist watch list (see September 4-5, 2001). Fuller later claims that he requests a criminal history check in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database, a computer database frequently used by every level of law enforcement. However, the Bergen Record will later report: “[H]e never performed one of the most basic tasks of a police manhunt. He never ran Almihdhar or Alhazmi through the NCIC computer.