* Another Campaign of Misinformation? Leaked 9/11 Report Cites New Evidence That Iran Cooperated with al-Qaeda Before Attacks *

Leaked accounts of the final 9/11 Commission report due out this Thursday says the Commission has uncovered evidence suggesting that between eight and ten of the 9/11 hijackers passed through Iran in the year prior to the attacks. We speak with Middle East and Iran Expert at Baruch College Ervand Abrahamian.

Listen/Watch/Read:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/19/1410202

Bottom line: If Bush is reelected, Iran is next...

Meanwhile, where is Osama bin Laden?

Howcome the Saudis are left alone?

After all, the financiers of al Qaeda are to be found in Saudi Arabia.

All money trails lead to wealthy Saudis.

Howcome Bush is not going after them?

The war on terror is not a war on terror.

It's a race to secure oil plain and simple.

The Saudi Royal family are buddies with Bush.

Bush will look the other way as long as Saudi oil is flowing to the U.S.

And what was it I heard in the news just yesterday?

Oh yeah... the opposition leader in the U.K said he wouldn't have supported the war on Iraq had he known that the evidence was seriously flawed.

Well, are you going to believe your leaders next time they say we have to occupy Iran because it is a serious threat to our safety?

W: Probing Iran-9/11 tie

Bush made no mention of what the U.S. might do if evidence of an Iranian connection to 9/11 were found, and he also avoided comparisons to similar allegations about Iraq that later proved to be questionable.

Iran has dismissed the 9/11 charges as election-year politics, but Iranian officials have said that Al Qaeda members may have passed through its porous borders illegally.

Democrats mainly steered clear of the latest allegation about Iran, a nation Bush combined with Iraq and North Korea as a terror "axis of evil," but Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) used the occasion to question the logic of warring on Iraq.

"We focused so much energy on Iraq, when other countries may have been more directly linked to 9/11 - that should give us pause," he told CNN's "Late Edition" over the weekend.

My first post. I have the funny feeling that all this talk about Iran will lead to another attack. Have you heard about the rumors of reinstating the draft? I have bad feelings about this. I had a long talk with my 12 year old daughter, she is absolutley SCARED. Whats a guy to do?

It sounds like an Iraq summer rerun: Weapons of mass destruction. Support for terrorism. Talk of U.N. Security Council action. Hints of a push for regime change. This time, however, the fuss is not over Iraq but about that country's next-door neighbor, Iran. Recent developments have been unsettling.

Poor Relations With Iran Turning Worse

Boltpedlar, Have your daughter start working on a crazy as bejeezus psycho stare. She could also practise drooling, biting the air like a collie in the back seat of a panel station wagon while jabbering that she's Joan of Ark. Man when I was 12-20 I was clinically nuts, so it would have been dead easy for me

I'm sorry, this is serious stuff, but my own take on it is it can't go on too much longer. There's no way if your daughter is 12 now, and draft age is 18 that it'll still be going on. The U.S can't afford it with a plunging dollar. It just CANT be done. The fed can't print it's way into success and the pirate's plunder of Mideast oil is not going to offset it.

Welcome. Where you from? What does Boltpedlar infer?

Iraq is pissed those no good dirty rotten scoundrels in Iran have been supporting the insurgents

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_1.html

Oh and the Israelis also have an issue. Well if everyone is complaining I guess sumtin' oughtta be done about these guys eh George?
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story....0&w=RTR&coview=

Thanks for the welcome, Thread. Boltpeddler infers my profession of trying to sell things to the mining industry. I hail from behind the zion curtain, "UTAH".

You know, come to think of it, when I was 12 I didnt want to know anything about the economy or politics. I guess my daughter has been "normalized" in the public school system here in Utah. By the way she already has that pchyco stare.

Sorry for the slow response, been on the road up north in Montana.

If Iran is next, then six years on the frontlines wouldnt be too out of the question, would it? I mean, our troops are spread pretty thin right now, and I see a draft, another front on the "war on terror" (got to keep the economy rolling) and no one to pick up the M-16 to do it.

Governors worry about guard troops

Boltpedlar,

The whole war appears to be held together with duct tape, baling wire and string, resting on a faulty foundation of fantasy based assumptions, chief among them being that the oil bonanza will finance the whole shebang.

Don't think they can pull it off in the long term, maybe not even for months before the economy tanks. If they try to militarize the economy any further, the dollar will just fall further. Don't think W or the fed can pull anymore rabbits out of their ass, let alone anymore b-52 bombers to keep it going. Argentina didn't appear to be in any position to strong arm anyone when they had their little downward economic spiral.

Hey, thinking about your daughter. --Some more things she could do to qualify for a section 8. Pierce her body everywhere, put in a lip plug, dress like a harlot!!! Wait a minute....Hmmmm.

So how is the bolt peddling business these days? Construction downturn going to affect you? Civil engineering projects, new bridges etc...in the future?

I got to tell ya thread, if the mines are up, so am I. Coal is up, metals are up. But with the price of the commodity up so are thier costs. The biggest is the price of steel. Up 40% this year so far. Also surcharges. The steel mills are not apologizing for charging so much. Can I blame them? They were crushed by the subsidized production from the far east and europe for the past 20 years. There are only a few major domestic steel producers left. Also, China and india are taking our scrap, and keeping all thier own production now, so No IMPORTED STEEL has hit the west coast. But remember, THERE IS NO INFLATION. If there was, we would see it in the CPI.

Do we have the materials to make another tank? How much would one cost to make now? Catepiller has trouble finding material to make a dozer or loader, and charges the customer the steel surcharges to recoup some of the material costs.

In another month or two, with the costs of energy, fuel, and materials, they will have to show a large increase in the CPI. Unless of course they can wave the wand and make the number lower.

Snippet from The Staten Island Advance - Saturday, July 24, 2004

Commission says Saudis were cleared after 'exhaustive probe'

WASHINGTON -- The Sept. 11 commission finding clearing the Saudis of involvement with al-Qaida was based on an "exhaustive" probe of the 2002 congressional allegations that the government or its officials bankrolled the terrorist group, commission officials said yesterday.

The officials said the commission's first order of business last year was to investigate the congressional charges, which were contained in a redacted 28-page portion of the report issued by the House and Senate intelligence committees on their 2001-2002 inquiry into the Sept. 11 attacks.

Commission Chairman Thomas Kean said the 28 pages were not censored in the information made available to the 10-member commission and its staff.

"We followed [every lead] into the ground," Kean said.

The congressional committees had "basically unearthed a lot of leads" and suggested they ought to be investigated further, a senior Sept. 11 commission staff member told reporters yesterday.

"We worked them exhaustively," said the staff member. "We worked that stuff hard."

While the commission unanimously accepted the finding exonerating the Saudi government and officials, lawyers and plaintiffs in a 2002 $1 trillion lawsuit accusing wealthy Saudis of bankrolling al-Qaida have a different opinion.

"Our investigators have followed the paper trail and it led directly to the Saudis," said Sonny Goldstein of Dongan Hills, one of more than 700 Staten Island relatives of Sept. 11 victims who are plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

"If it were up to me I would have invaded Saudi Arabia first" after Sept. 11, said Goldstein. "I still think that is where the money is coming from."

Goldstein, whose daughter, Monica, 25, was killed at the World Trade Center, suggested that politics was behind the exoneration of the Saudis, longtime allies and major oil suppliers of the U.S.

"Because of their economic importance to the United States, it is taboo to touch them," Goldstein said.

Attorney John D'Amato of West Brighton, one of the lawyers in the suit, said the commission finding would not derail the legal action. "We have amassed hundreds of thousands of documents clearly showing a connection between the Saudis and al-Qaida that was systematic and coordinated", he contended.

Team America

You asked, "What happened to the war on terror?"

Here's the movie version. From the creators of "South Park." Trailer [Apple Quicktime] Description of the trailer [lower portion is in English, dont worry]

Click on story [lower left] to read the story summary.

y'all feeling safer yet?

Pakistan: U.S. blew undercover operation