-6- Closing commentary
When summarizing the facts given in this coursework I come to the conclusion, that George W. Bush, president of the United States of America, used the horrible attacks on the World Trade Center to not only justify the upcoming attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, but also to establish new laws that reduce the citizens freedom. (Patriot Act / Homeland security)

His administration created and distributed false facts, blatant lies and fairy tales, to persuade the people of America of their opinion. Several incidents have shown, that Bush bent reality far too much: All the lies about 9/11, the war in Afghanistan which was started without any real evidence and the war in Iraq, where everyday 1,98 US soldiers are killed.(based on the casualties until today, 30th march, 2004. Watch the Flash animations for further information). The whole story about the Weapons of Mass destruction was a lie. He, Bush, even jokes about the non-existing WMD. “Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere … nope, no weapons over there … maybe under here?” Bush joked at the occasion of a dinner.” 41
I personally do not find this too funny. There were no WMD. That’s what Blix’ s detailed report said. Other sources verified this.42 I am really wondering if Mr. Bush thinks that killing people without any reason (that’s what the US did in the Iraq war in 2003), is funny to joke about. The whole idea sickens me.
Slowly, but maybe just in time for the US election 2004, criticism towards the Bush administration increases. Reports that had been withheld are now made public. Former White House employees and other government officials release secret information that were not accessible up to now, and that really puts pressure on Bush. It looks like that Bush tried to use the events of 9/11 to justify wars against other nations, but he did not say “We are declaring war on Iraq”, but “I declare war on terrorism”. This phrase marks history, as for the first time a war is not fought against a single country, but against a great number of countries that allegedly grant a safe haven for them. This vague term allows Bush to target any country he wants. Who will be next? So far, we have learnt, that no reason is a reason, which means, that the country accused of dealing with terrorists (Afghanistan e.g.) can be attacked on base of facts created by the Bush administration’s PR machine.

-7- Eigenständigkeitserklärung

Ich erkläre, dass ich die Facharbeit ohne fremde Hilfe angefertigt und nur die im Literaturverzeichnis angeführten Quellen und Hilfsmittel benutzt habe.

Ich bin der Autor dieser Facharbeit und beanspruche ein komplettes Copyright auf diese.
I am the author of this coursework. The author copyrights this coursework.

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-4- USA IS UNDER ATTACK (9/11)
4.1 Summary of facts as given by the “official media”

This chapter was written to point out, that the information the average viewer was able to get, was very limited. All major news companies, such as CNN, CBS, FOX NEWS and even BBC (Europe) broadcasted the same information.
Even the video coverage was identical for at least 3-4 days after the attacks.
Here is a compact version of the events that took place on 9/11 with information from the mentioned news companies:22 This gives the impression of a carefully orchestrated campaign.

8:45 a.m. : A hijacked passenger jet, American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston en route to Massachusetts, crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center and sets it on fire.
9:03 a.m.: Another hijacked plane, United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston, crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center and explodes. Now both buildings are burning.
9:43 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon.
10.05 a.m.: The south tower collapses and a huge wave of dust crawls through the streets.
10.10 a.m.: A part of the Pentagon collapses.
10:10 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 93, also hijacked, crashes in Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh.
10:28 a.m.: The World Trade Center’s north tower collapses.
4 p.m.: U.S. officials say there are “good indications” that Saudi militant Osama bin Laden is involved in the attacks, based on “new and specific” information developed since the attacks.

4.2 Summary of background information and facts which are not widely known

To better understand the complexity of the 9/11 attacks, it is important to look at these unmentioned facts, because the official version is not detailed enough:
Fighter planes that were patrolling the area and new fighters that were sent out to secure the airspace were all not flying at their full speed, therefore they couldn’t reach the hijacked planes to intercept them.24 Those F-15 and 16 fighters could easily have intercepted the second plane heading for the WTC and the flight 77 for the pentagon, as they were “flagged” hijacked several minutes after the first crash. (The Otis Air National Guard Base is located 188 miles from New York City. According to NORAD’s timeline, fighters left Otis 11 minutes earlier. If they were still 70 miles away, then they must have been travelling about 650 mph, when the top speed for an F-15 is 1875 mph!25)
Besides the fighters only flying at half their speed (According to Major Gen. Paul Weaver, director of the Air National Guard), they (the F-15 fighters) were not armed (no missiles on board), and not allowed to shoot down any civilian airplane, as only the president is allowed to give this special order. The consequence of this is that all four planes were able to arrive their final destination, as the fighters that were after them were useless. Hence Bush was not notified about the hijacked planes and the first impact at the WTC, he could not allow them to shoot them down. By the time of the attacks, Bush was staying in the Booker Elementary School, listening to a students’ performance. This is where the average TV watching citizens is asking himself why the president did not know what is going on. Instead of being carried away by secret service agents he remains there. Journalists describe his face as motionless afterwards. Bush later on says:
“And I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower - the TV was obviously on, and I use to fly myself, and I said, ‘There’s one terrible pilot.’ And I said, ‘It must have been a horrible accident.’ But I was whisked off there - I didn’t have much time to think about it.”
(Copied from the CNN article released on the 4th December 2001).
Bush has repeated this (obviously untrue) story on other occasions27. (For example in a town hall meeting with the people citizens of Ontario on the 5th January 2002)28. However, it has was said that Bush didn’t have access to a television until 15 minutes later. There for it was not only impossible for him to see it live, but also it was impossible to be shown on TV, because the first crash was not shown live on TV and the video of it was released on the next day’s evening. A Boston Herald article says,
“Think about that. Bush’s remark implies he saw the first plane hit the tower. But we all know that video of the first plane hitting did not surface until the next day.”29
This shows that Bush either has something to hide or that he knows something that he doesn’t want to share with the public. Either way this is suspicious.
Also, did you know that 3 of the 4 planes were flying with only a few passengers26, but that though they were only doing a national flight were filled to the max with gasoline?
Usually this is only done to overseas flights.
Flight 93 had only 38 people aboard; that is a quarter of what it is capable of.
The plane was filled with 11 000 gallons of jet full though – for technical reasons – it only needs half of it.
Knowing this fact it is now understandable why the WTC sustained so heavy damage.
Another curiosity: Did you know that five or even six of the 19 suspected hijackers are still alive and that they have nothing to do with the attacks on the WTC?30
“Saudi Arabian pilot Waleed Al Shehri was one of five men that the FBI said had deliberately crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the World Trade Centre on 11 September.”
- BBC31
He left the USA a year ago and now is a pilot for Saudi Arabian airlines based in Morocco.
Another man said he lost his passport in Denver, 1996. He continues to say, that he notified the police of the theft. At the moment he is an engineer with Saudi Telecoms.
Again, this is an indication that information released by the FBI with help of the news companies is doubtful or even untrue.

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- 3 - Mr. Bush

To fully understand the political context it is important to gain further knowledge about the man who is behind all this: Mr. Bush.

3.1 Who is this man?

George Walker Bush is the 43rd President of the United States. He was born on July 6, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut. His father was the 41st President of the US, George Herbert Walker Bush. In 1959, George (from now on I am referring to the current president of the USA) was enrolled in the Kinkaid School near Houston, Texas, a private academy in one of the nation’s wealthiest suburbs. He did not stay there for very long, because 1961 his parents decided to enrol him at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, the school his father went to.
“He was an average student who never made honour roll”, so says the school’s yearbook and a dean at Andover doubted that George would be good enough to be accepted at Yale University.0 Of course George wouldn’t break this tradition and went there, too. He received a bachelor’s degree from Yale University in 1968 and then served the military as a as an F-102 fighter pilot in the Texas Air National Guard.
“Bush had taken the Air Force Officers Qualification Test at Westover Air Force Base in Massachusetts, scoring only 25 percent on the “pilot aptitude” section (the lowest acceptable grade) and 50 percent for navigator aptitude. But he scored 95 percent on test questions designed to determine “officer quality.” There were a few Guard openings, and a waiting list of other applicants. Bush was given the last slot and was sworn in as an airman the same day he applied. “He was,” according to Los Angeles Times reporter Richard A. Serrano, “able to jump into the officer ranks without the exceptional credentials many other officer candidates possessed.” Indeed, while “Bush quickly won a place among the Guard’s elite fighter pilots, other young men who earned their wings first had to build up extensive military experience and aviation skills.”"
- Coincidently, his father was an influential congressional representative at the time.
During this time (America was fighting in the Vietnam War), applying for the National Guard was seen as a denial of military service, because the NG operates inside the US only.
In 1975, Bush received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School. He then returned to Texas and began his career in the oil business as a free-lance agent; he started working on behalf of different oil companies. Bush established his first oil company named “Arbusto” in 1977 (”Arbusto” is Spanish for “bush”) which soon after ended in ruin.
He graduated and then moved back to Texas to begin a career in the energy business. Usually you expect a career to be something special and good. In his case, it was only the first. His career in the oil business was shocking in a special way:
Molly Ivans, a journalist, describes his development like this:
“When you want to look at George W. [Bushs] development in the oil business, you have to visualize the following: He never created or even found a single source of income, if you don’t count at all the dollars that seeped into the texican underground.”
Until 1986, he earned his money from acting as a CEO6 of several companies. One of these companies was “Spectrum 7″.
“In 1986, Spectrum 7 merged with Dallas-based Harken Oil & Gas, which specialized in the purchase of small, insolvent companies. Its largest stockholder at the time (46.8 percent) was Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros, the international financier and currency speculator […]. Paul Rea, Spectrum 7’s president, told the Washington Post: “One of the reasons Harken was so interested in merging was because of George [Bush]. They believed having George’s name there would be a big help to them. They wanted him on their board.”"
He learnt that his name would open him doors, he never had thought of.
After his more or less “unsuccessful” career so far, he started supporting his dad’s presidential campaign, which turned out to be successful. And on the business side,
in 1989, a group formed by Bush Junior bought the Texas Rangers, a Major League Baseball team. He personally invested not more then $606,000. But when the team was sold some years thereafter, his shares were worth over $14.9 million – a tremendous gain made possible by using his fathers’ connections in the background. This is how Mr. Bush finally earned enough money to finance his election.
After 8 years experience in politics (governor of Texas) he was put up as republican presidential candidate, in the coming November he won the election by 271 to 267 electoral votes. He lost the official tally with 50,158,094 to 49,820,518 votes for Al Gore.7
In 2001, he officially started his presidency and took over Bill Clinton (a democrat) who beat his father in the 1992’s presidential election.

3.2 His business connections

Some of Bush’s connections to the Arabian states are known and transparent, but others are very well hidden and can only be discovered when looking at his personal background relations. The overall picture shows a striking evidence of close contacts to the bin Laden clan.
A series of coincidences starts in 1968 when George Bush meets and befriends with James Bath, a former Air force pilot and budding entrepreneur. This Mr. Bath functioned as a contact man between the Bush family and the Saudi Arabian Royals, and later on the Laden Clan. With the help of James Bath, these ties became closer and closer over the years. Salem bin Laden for example, Osama’s older brother, had a trust agreement with Bath whereby James would act as his representative for North America. From that point on money was invested in Bush’s business ventures. The business relations grew: In the early 90’s bin Mahfouz, the bin Laden clan’s and Saudi’ banker bought 20% of the BCCI.8

Globalresearch9 wrote:
“Could it, then, perhaps have been nothing more than a coincidence that a brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden, Khalid bin Mahfouz, was reported in the early 90’s to own a 20% stake in BCCI10 - and that bin Mahfouz, as reported by the Houston Chronicle on June 4, 1992, had intimate business dealings with James Bath, the personal representative of bin Laden brother Salim who had invested $50,000 in George W. Bush’s company, Arbusto? Bin Mahfouz, incidentally, had taken over Salim bin Laden’s interest in the Houston Gulf Airport after Salim met his demise in an airplane crash over Houston in 1988″11
Later, the Saudi Royal sheikh Abdellah Taha Bakhsh bought 17,6 % of Harken12 (Oil and energy related company from Houston, Texas where Bush worked) and therefore became the main shareholder. In their research “Outlaw Bank” Jonathan Beaty and S.C. Gwyne report ,that there were numerous other investments by Saudi Royals in Texas. Most of them were handled by the chambers of Baker&Botts, a company owned by James Baker, the man that did business with the bin Laden and Bush Clan. Based on this fact you can say, that there had been relations between the Bush’s and the Laden’s for a long time. Bush, when asked to comment on this said that those connections were no longer active. This is obviously not correct as the Carlyle Group (mentioned later on) still does business with them.
Another surprising fact was discovered by The Guerrilla News Network13, Their authors reportthat Bush Senior authorized several programs to upgrade Iraq’s military in order to support the war against Iran. After the first gulf war was over those relations did not break up at all. In 1991, the US military was “wondering” when fighting the gulf war one why the Iraqi soldiers had similar ammunition and arms. Thus you can say that the former Bush administration maintained and arranged business relations with the Iraq. This fact was well known to the other governmental facilities, but hence no one wanted to loose their position or get defaced no one dared to release the needed information to stop those relations.
But the Iraqi regime did not only receive military equipment.14
This is a widely known fact as well. I compiled a list with the help of different books that demonstrates how these dual-use technology deals worked.15
Last, but not least to mention the Carlyle Group, where Mr. James A. Baker, III, works (for more information see “3.3″). This multinational company earns over 5 billions Dollars a year and employs about 40.000 workers. Just to clarify what the Carlyle Group does I have attached several examples.16
This company is a global player and supplies numerous goods to the US military. At least 5 of their sub companies work on researching projects for the US military. Those include aero-technology (for fighter and transporter engines), missile technology (air to air and ground to air), fiber optic technology for use in military vehicles and combat wear, as well as software needed to operate those military devices. If there was a war going on, this company would have been among the number one firms to profit from it. Hence Bush Senior and other powerful men work for them, it is not too much of a surprise that the current Bush administration “play” an aggressive political style. Carlyle also works with the bin Laden Clan and the Saudi Royals. Together with the bin Laden Clan they built numerous huge and expensive buildings in Saudi Arabia.17
For example they were hired to rebuild the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, after the bombing on the 25th June 1996.18 This incident is very ironical due to the fact that US investigators blamed Osama bin Laden for this terrorist attack. (19 US soldiers died and 500 were wounded)19

3.3 His Personal connections:

George Bush’s father worked for the Carlyle Group after his presidency and had regular meetings with members of the Bin Laden Clan. It is a known fact, that the Bin Laden Clan had invested at least over two million dollars in Carlyle projects.20
Prince Bandar who is a member of the Saudi Royal Family and also the ambassador to the US is a close friend to the Bush family as well. Bush’s nickname for the Prince is “Bandar Bush”. (Robert Baer “Sleeping with the Devil” crown, 2003)
The prince and Mr. Bush are reported to be meeting on a regular basis to dine together, Bandar also took place in Barbara Bush’s 75th birthday celebrations.21
Ambassador Bandar even took George Bush Senior to England for a pheasants hunt. In conclusion you can say that their relation was very close.
Another common friend is James Baker, a lawyer working for both the Saudi Royal family and the Bush family, he is also employed at the Carlyle Group in Washington and served the Bush administration as Secretary of State just a decade ago. This man is another good example for the close personal and business ties.

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