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Michael P. Wright Norman, Oklahoma mpwright9@aol.com
One of my goals is to contribute to the assembling of firm grounds for a new and honest official 9/11 investigation. Readers are invited to see an email from me, sent to the Commission in September 2003. > http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7465
Just focus in on one aspect of it, for right now. I informed them that Zacarias Moussaoui had a meeting with Mohammed Atta, in Oklahoma City. See the second page of the (…)

By Haim Handwerker
On a hot and humid Manhattan summer night, some 70 businessmen were on the balcony of developer Ofer Yardeni’s large penthouse in the Ritz Plaza building for a most unusual encounter.
The guest was Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto of Ashdod. Yardeni invited prominent Jewish American businessmen active in real estate, most not religious, to hear a Torah lesson and receive a blessing from the rabbi. The event, which started at 7:30 P.M. - the rabbi himself only came at 9 - ended at (…)

This is an extract from Robin Cook’s resignation speech to the House of Commons, 17 March 2003. It electrified Parliament and will be remembered as one of the most important addresses in modern Westminster history.
by Robin Cook
This is the first time for 20 years that I have addressed the House from the back benches. I must confess that I had forgotten how much better the view is from here.
I have chosen to address the House first on why I cannot support a war without international (…)

US attorney’s demotion halted probe of lobbyist
By Walter F. Roche Jr.
WASHINGTON — A US grand jury in Guam opened an investigation of controversial lobbyist Jack Abramoff more than two years ago, but President Bush removed the supervising federal prosecutor, and the probe ended soon after.
The previously undisclosed Guam inquiry is separate from a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia that is investigating allegations that Abramoff bilked Indian tribes out of millions of (…)

Subject: Pre-9/11 Al Qaeda and CIA Activities in Oklahoma From: MPWright9@aol.com Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 00:20:07 -0400 To: info@9-11Commission.gov, familyliaison@9-11Commission.gov
Dear Commission Members:
I am Michael Wright of Norman, Oklahoma, and I am writing to invite you to see my website where I have reported results of my own investigation into Al Qaeda and CIA activities in Oklahoma during the year 2001, and related events.
Oklahoma is an interesting place for numerous (…)

Cindy Sheehan paces on a road Sunday near President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Tex. She vows to wait until he talks to her or leaves the ranch.
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
CRAWFORD, Tex - President Bush draws antiwar protesters just about wherever he goes, but few generate the kind of attention that Cindy Sheehan has since she drove down the winding road toward his ranch here this weekend and sought to tell him face to face that he must pull all Americans troops out of Iraq now.
Ms. (…)

by Haider Rizvi
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - When the Iraqi interim government declared its intention to endorse the treaty on the International Criminal Court (ICC), the news came as a happy surprise to many European nations and international civil society groups.
But their excitement did not last long, as the transitional administration in Baghdad reversed its decision within a few days, presumably under tremendous pressure from Washington, which continues to oppose the first-ever world (…)

by Joe Garofoli
The real impact of President Bush weighing in on the national debate over how to teach the origins of life may be felt in the classroom, where much of the anti-evolutionary lobbying is done under the radar.
One tactic is for a student or parent to present the teacher with a list that’s popular in conservative circles called, "Ten questions to ask your biology teacher."
The result, observers say, is that some teachers fear even mentioning "the e-word."
"That’s what (…)

by David Swanson
Cindy Sheehan phoned me from Texas a few minutes ago to say that she’s been informed that beginning Thursday, she and her companions will be considered a threat to national security and will be arrested. Coincidentally, Thursday is the day that Rice and Rumsfeld visit the ranch, and Friday is a fundraiser event for the haves and the have mores. Cindy said that she and others plan to be arrested.
http://www.meetwithcindy.org
NOTE: CODE PINK is reporting that the idea (…)

by Justin Raimondo
Cindy Sheehan is on a mission. The death of her son in combat in Iraq has sent her on her own personal odyssey, a quest for the answer to the question: Why? The latest stop in that journey: Crawford, Texas, right outside the presidential ranch, where she and a few intrepid antiwar protesters marched in the triple-digit heat, determined to confront the author of this war. Bush didn’t come out to meet her, but, surprisingly, she was met by two of his top aides - national (…)