Orlando, Fla. (home of giant theme parks) has 2 high profile murders in under 24 hours

[Lauren Johnson]

Even a reporter for the BBC [not known to veer off the official story line] had a reporter reporting that after talking to many club regulars, the shooter was a regular there over several years and had been there many times, perhaps - and often had anger control problems at the club.

Sounds like the perfect target for a patsy.

[David Guyatt]

I don't know if it is another puzzle piece, but have you noticed that the '50 dead' has changed to '49 dead' in the attack. Even police can count up to fifty and it is hard to imagine they had counted some dead body twice. Not sure what it means - perhaps they felt the body of the shooter should not be included [as in 911 where the supposed hijackers are not on any list of dead] - or something else.

Even a reporter for the BBC [not known to veer off the official story line] had a reporter reporting that after talking to many club regulars, the shooter was a regular there over several years and had been there many times, perhaps - and often had anger control problems at the club.

Many witnesses also reported automatic machinegun fire; several also said two or more shooters with automatic weapons.

The father's connections to ISI/CIA media assets and the son's working for G4S [which was involved in 911 and several other mass shootings and other suspicious events], plus his long having been 'watched' by the FBI and even interrogated by them, along with these other facts that do NOT fit the official version and are being ignored in the official investigation make this just one more in the rather endless mass shootings with false or misleading official scenarios. The 49 or 50 dead seems the only thing confirmed. Even the three hour 'standoff' is not explained in the official version - nor have I heard explained about the policeman who was apparently inside from the get-go. Very strange - just like the other mass shootings we have reviewed here.

RK posted the Zerohedge link earlier, but I think it worth posting the whole thing for the record because there are witnesses saying what they heard or saw that are not being properly reported:

Multiple Suspects On The Loose In Orlando - Why The Media Blackout Of Eyewitness Accounts?



by Tyler Durden - Jun 13, 2016 11:15 PM

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Submitted by Shepard Ambellas via Intellihub.com,
According to heavily censored eyewitness reports, totally suppressed from the mainstream, there were likely several other radicalized perpetrators involved with Saturday night's terror attack, which led deaths of 49 club-goers at Pulse and over 50 others being injured.
One eyewitness to the attack, who was inside the nightclub when it happened, was giving his testimony to the attack, after being trapped inside the club, live on-air, to a mainstream news source when he was abruptly cut off after providing a crucial detail. The eyewitness said that during the attack "there was a guy there that was trying to […] hold the door closed so that we couldn't exit," as pointed out by an investigative reporter on YouTube.



Additionally, there were reports that police could be seen quietly conducting an "active search" for accomplices who may have already exited the nightclub after the attack.



Another eyewitness that was inside Pulse when the attack occurred told reporters, "I'm pretty sure it was more than one person, you know, like I said, I heard two guns going at the same time." The eyewitness said that the event lasted "like eight minutes."
Another crucial detail that the press is leaving out is that the shooter or shooters were initiating "rapid fire;" which means that the weapons used were likely fully automatic, as depicted by the same eyewitness when he made an animated machine gun-like sound with his mouth for the press to hear.



The witness said that he could smell the gun smoke in the air and that the attackers were "working together."
"It was not one shot at a time," but rather from a machine gun," another witness said, who eventually made it out of the club into the "alleyway."



Raw footage from the scene also reveals that officers may have been engaging an additional perpetrator outside of the nightclub, backing up other reports.



It has also been reported that both FBI and police, around the country, are increasing their security protocols, dispatching undercover officers and specifically beefing up security measures at the annual Gay Pride Parade which is still currently underway in Los Angeles.
Moreover, officials also are concerned that there is a gaping hole' in the nation's security net and that more attacks may occur.
Authorities and even the President of the United States, Barack Obama, are currently downplaying the fact that there is a definite radicalized Islamic ideological connection to the attack and again, are covering up the fact that multiple suspects are likely still on the loose.

Meanwhile the father's TV interview just doesn't strike me as a grieving father. Perhaps I'm biased, but it strikes me more as a rerun of Uncle Ruslan performing for the media in the Bostom bombing.

In regard to Danny Hopsicker's earlier FB comments that I noted earlier, he has now written a piece on this:

ORLANDO SHOOTING DAD A LONGTIME CIA ASSET

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Daniel Hopsicker
The father of the man who slaughtered 50 people in the Orlando nightclub shooting Saturday night is a longtime CIA asset, whose TV show receives funding from the Voice of America -Dari. Pictured below is Seddique Mateen with California Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher

Rohrabacher was initially elected to Congress in 1988, with the fundraising help of friend Oliver North. Rohrabacher's decades-long involvement in "all things Afghan" eventually earned him the nickname "Gunga Dana." Today he chairs the United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats.
This morning President Obama called him a "home-grown" terrorist. In a series of phone interviews Monday morning, Donald Trump responded that "there's something going on" with the President's reaction to the Orlando shooting.
I guess even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

[B]"It's like calling Blackwater XE"[/B]

Orlando shooter Omar Mateen's father said his son was not motivated by Islamist radical ideology, but in a Facebook video posted early Monday he said, "God himself will punish those involved in homosexuality."
My own suspicion was first awakened on Monday morning when U.S. news outlets uniformly reported that the father's TV show aired on "a U.S.-based Afghan satellite channel."
That sort of circumlocution is typical when something is being hidden which the corporate media prefers we not ask questions about.
The name of the nameless Afghan satellite channel, Payam Afghan, is said to be widely-known in Southwest Asia as a CIA-Pakistani ISI construct, as this picture from Flicker shows.
The identification of shooter Omar Mateen also involved deception. He was said to work for a security company called G4S, which few have ever heard of. However, "G4S" is merely a re-branded "Wackenhut Corporation," a name with a storied reputation for scandal in the U.S. and around the world.
Rohrabacher has stated that he sees radical Islam as the source of a major terrorist threat to the U.S. Calls to his office today to request comment on whether he views CIA assets relocated in the U.S. as a terrorist threat have not been returned.

[David Guyatt]

Concerning Hopsicker's piost above and the apparent connection between G4, formerly named as Wackenhut Corporation. For many on this forum, the name Wackenhut will be recalled in connection with Michael Riconosciuto, the Promis software scandal and numerous other smelly affairs. The below is a potted history of this outfit from Prison Planet.

Checkout the officers of this corporation. To be fair you c - can hardly miss their connections - it's a long list:

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[COLOR=#3A3A3A][FONT=Helvetica]According to Michael Riconosciuto: [SUP][1][/SUP]

Wackenhut provides security for the Nevada nuclear test site, the Alaskan pipeline, Lawrence Livermore Labs ... all the high security government facilities in the U.S. They have about fifty thousand armed security guards that work for minimum wage or slightly above.

According to retired FBI special agent William Hinshaw: [SUP][2][/SUP]

"It is known throughout the industry that if you want a dirty job done, call Wackenhut."

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Corporate history Edit

Former FBI agent George Wackenhut founded Wackenhut corporation in 1954 and bought out his partners by 1958. [SUP][2][/SUP] He would later allow his company to be used by the CIA as a front for covert operations. [SUP][2][/SUP] According to Spy Magazine: [SUP][2][/SUP]

He was a close ally of Florida governor Claude Kirk, who hired him to combat organized crime in the state; and was also friends with Senator George Smathers, an intimate of John F. Kennedy's.It was Smathers who provided Wackenhut with his big break when the senator's law firm helped the company find a loophole in the Pinkerton law, the 1893 federal statute that had made it a crime for an employee of a private detective agency to do work for the government.
Smathers's firm set up a wholly owned subsidiary of Wackenhut that provided only guards, not detectives. Shortly thereafter, Wackenhut received multimillion-dollar contracts from the government to guard Cape Canaveral and the Nevada nuclear-bomb test site, the first of many extremely lucrative federal contracts that have sustained the company to this day.

By 1965 George Wackenhut was personally earning $2 million a year. [SUP][2][/SUP]
In 1978, Wackenhut acquired the nuclear industry consultants NUSAC of Virginia [SUP][3][/SUP] which shares the name of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NUSAC) of William Alfred Fowler. [SUP][4][/SUP]
In 1979, Wackenhut acquired Stellar Systems, a company that specialized in outdoor electronic security. [SUP][3][/SUP]
Group 4 Falck purchased Wackenhut in 2002 for $570 million. [SUP][5][/SUP] As of 2010, Wackenhut became known as G4S Secure Solutions. Template:Cn

Key personnel Edit

Founding Edit

Early directors included: [SUP][2][/SUP]

• Captain Eddie Rickenbacker [SUP][2][/SUP]
  
• General Mark Clark [SUP][2][/SUP]
  
• Ralph E. Davis [SUP][2][/SUP]
  

Iran-Contra period Edit

Board of Directors:

• Stansfield Turner - former CIA director
  
• Clarence Kelley - former FBI director
  
• Frank Carlucci - former CIA deputy director
  
• Bobby Ray Inman - former CIA deputy director
  
• James Joseph Rowley - former Secret Service director
  
• William Casey - outside legal counsel
  
• Clarence M Kelley - former FBI director
  
• Willis Hawkins - former Assistant Secretary of the US Army
  
• Paul X. Kelley - retired four-star general, U.S. Marine Corps
  
• Seth McKee, former commander in chief of NORAD
  
• Bernard Adolph Schriever - retired US Air Force General, former member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
  
• Joseph Carroll, former director, Defense Intelligence Agency
  
• John Ammarell - former FBI agent
  
• Robert Chasen - former FBI agent, commissioner of US Customs Department under Carter
  

Others:

• Robert Kirk - "president of Wackenhut's international subsidiary" [SUP][6][/SUP]
  
• A. Robert Frye - VP of Wackenhut Idaho. [SUP][3][/SUP] Involved in negotiations to buy the Valleyfield Chemical Productions Corporation of Quebec. [SUP][6][/SUP]
  
• Murray Levine - VP as of 1992. [SUP][2][/SUP]
  
• Richard Kneip - SVP for corporate planning as of 1992. [SUP][2][/SUP]
  
• Peter Zokosky - Husband of the mayor Regena Zokosky of Indio, California. President of Armtech ammunitions manufacturer.
  
• Roderick Sinclair, Sr. - Colonel in the US Army, military attaché to Douglas MacArthur during World War 2, involving in training Japanese intelligence after the war. Father of Sgt. Roderick Sinclair of the Mariposa County Sheriff's Department.
  
• John Van De Camp - Attorney General of California. Informed Mariposa County sheriff Paul Paige of Ron Van Meter's allegation that Paige was running a drug trafficking network. [SUP][7][/SUP] Ordered Deputy Attorney General Arnold Overoye to discard a report on Roderick Sinclair. [SUP][7][/SUP]
  
• Arnold O. Overoye - Deputy Attorney General of California. Accused by Vivian Wagner of "a consistent procedure ... to refer the complaints directly back to the local agencies to whom the complaints were made." [SUP][8][/SUP]
  
• George Vinson - Regional Director of the FBI in Fresno. [SUP][8][/SUP]
  
• Earl Brian - Ronald Reagan's secretary of health and welfare services. According to Riconosciuto, Brian "spearheaded" the plan to distribute a backdoored copy of Inslaw PROMIS. [SUP][1][/SUP]
  
• Peter Videnieks - Michael Riconosciuto described Videnieks as a frequent visitor to the Wackenhut-Cabazon project and a close associate of Earl Brian. His wife was an aide to Senator Robert Byrd. [SUP][9][/SUP]
  
• Al Holbert - Former Israeli intelligence. Recruited Riconosciuto. CIA liaison to Richard Knozzi in Mariposa.
  
• Harry Fair - of Tactical Technology in Arlington, Virginia. Chief of Propulsion Technology at the Applied Sciences Division at Pickitinny Arsenal, New Jersey.
  
• Ernesto Bermudez - Director of international operations (1987-1989). Commanded 1,500 Wackenhut men in El Salvador (1985-1986). [SUP][2][/SUP]
  
• William Barr - US Attorney General. Accused of covering up the Inslaw case [SUP][10][/SUP]
  
• Nicholas J. Bua - Judge accused of covering up the Inslaw case [SUP][10][/SUP]
  
• Charles Knight - accused of covering up the Inslaw case [SUP][10][/SUP]
  
• Michael T. Hurley - Cyprus-based DEA agent involved in the Inslaw affair
  

Other times Edit

• Richard R. Wackenhut - VP, President, and CEO
  
• Alan Bernstein - President and CEO (2002-?) [SUP][11][/SUP]
  
• Philip L. Maslowe - XVP, CFO, Treasurer (1997-2002) [SUP][12][/SUP]
  
• Sam Brinkley - VP of Homeland and International Security Services (1998-?) [SUP][13][/SUP]
  
• Eric Wilson - President of Wackenhut Nuclear Services as of 2007 [SUP][14][/SUP]
  
• Marc Shapiro - SVP as of 2007 [SUP][14][/SUP]
  
• Lawrence Brede - SVP as of 2007 [SUP][15][/SUP]
  
• Robert L. Kilbride - Corporate counsel (1999-?), VP (2001-?). Formerly head of the Economic Crime Unit at the Florida State Attorney's Office .in Fort Pierce, Florida. [SUP][16][/SUP]
  
• Bruce Berckmans - VP of International Operations (1975-?). Formerly worked at the CIA station in Mexico City. [SUP][2][/SUP]
  

Mariposa County Edit

The Mariposa County sheriff's department was involved in a Wackenhut-connected drug running operation during the 1980s. [SUP][7][/SUP]

• Paul Paige - Mariposa County Sheriff [SUP][7][/SUP]
  
• Roderick Sinclair - Sheriff's Sergeant. Killed three Secret Service agents in a traffic accident while driving under the influence of Demerol. Son of Colonel Sinclair. [SUP][7][/SUP]
  
• Ed Hardy - President of Curry Company, a division of MCA. His close friends included: [SUP][7][/SUP]
  • Tony Coelho - Congressman.
    
  • Bruce Eckerson - Mariposa County District Attorney.
    
  • Steve Dunbar - Mariposa County Assessor.
    
  
  
• Robert E. Coyle - Judge who ordered Assistant US Attorney James White to drop charges against Sinclair. Coyle had been the attorney of record for Curry Company. [SUP][7][/SUP]
  
• Richard Knozzi - Named by Riconosciuto as the head of methamphetamine production in Fresno, Madera and Mariposa counties.
  
• Jim DeSilva - Named by Riconosciuto as a lieutenant of Knozzi.
  
• Ben Kalka - Named by Riconosciuto as a lieutenant of Knozzi.
  

The Queen's Accident Edit

On March 5, 1983, Roderick Sinclair killed US Secret Service agents George P. LaBarge, Donald Robinson, and Donald A. Bejcek in a traffic accident while under the influence of the painkiller Demerol. Sinclair was brought to Fremont Hospital and placed under FBI guard until the drugs were out of his system. Blood tests taken at Fremont Hospital disappeared. [SUP][7][/SUP]

Meridian International Logistics Edit

Key personnel: [SUP][3][/SUP]

• John Philip Nichols
  
• Eugene Giaquinto - President of MCA's Home Entertainment Division
  
• Robert Booth Nichols
  
• Peter Zokosky
  
• Glenn Shakley - board director of FIDCO
  
• Mark Robinson - counsel and judge
  

Other employees:

• Hidetoshoi Onogi - patent holder
  

MIL, Inc. was investigated by the Los Angeles FBI for passing classified information to overseas affiliates in Japan and Australia. Japanese investors purchased MCA shortly afterward. [SUP][7][/SUP]
In 1987, California granted MIL subsidiary Meridian Arms licenses to transport and sell machine guns. [SUP][3][/SUP]
Meridian International reportedly "had a lucrative business in Australia and Japan." [SUP][3][/SUP]
Mark P. Robinson was appointed to the Orange County Superior Court by Governor Jerry Brown on his last day in office in 1982. Brown admitted to having "been persuaded against my better judgment to put you on the bench." [SUP][17][/SUP] Robinson resigned on May 22, 1984 for "various personal and professional reasons." [SUP][18][/SUP]
On May 31, 1988, Giaquinto resigned from MIL and surrendered his stock to the company following an investigation by Thomas Gates of the Los Angeles Organized Crime Task Force. [SUP][3][/SUP]

Valleyfield Chemical Productions Corporation Edit

In 1981, Wackenhut attempted to purchase the Valleyfield Chemical Productions Corporation in Quebec. The Canadian government blocked the deal. Template:Cn A Wackenhut business trip to Quebec included John Philip Nichols, A. Robert Frye, and Peter Zokosky. [SUP][6][/SUP]

Cabazon reservation Edit

Wackenhut/CIA people at the Cabazon reservation:

• John Philip Nichols - Tribal administrator. Hired by the tribe in 1978. Not a member of the tribe. Claims to have participated in the assassination of Salvador Allende and an attempted assassination of Fidel Castro. [SUP][19][/SUP]
  
• John Paul Nichols - Son of John Philip Nichols. [SUP][20][/SUP]
  
• Marc Nichols - Son of John Philip Nichols. Took over Cabazon activities in 1990. [SUP][6][/SUP]
  
• Michael Riconosciuto - Scientist, Director of Research at the Cabazon facility. Computer programmer and weapons developer.
  
• Jimmy Hughes - Mafia hitman. [SUP][21][/SUP] Became security director of the tribe's casino after Alvarez was killed until 1984. Later became a minister in Miami. [SUP][20][/SUP]
  
• Glen Heggstad - Private investigator. Accused by Deputy Attorney General Michael Murphy of hiring Jimmy Hughes to kill Fred Alvarez. He was never charged and the case was dropped. [SUP][22][/SUP]
  
• Richard Babayan - CIA contract employee. [SUP][23][/SUP]
  
• G. Wayne Reeder - Business partner of John Nichols. Attended a late 1981 arms demonstration with Contra leaders Raul Arana and Eden Pastora.[SUP][24][/SUP]
  

John Philip Nichols Edit

According to John Connelly:

In 1978, 12 years before Casolaro began focusing on the Coachella Valley, an expert at applying for government grants arrived there from Florida. He had come to advise the Indian tribes of the desert on how to get government money. He was Dr. John Philip Nichols, and this land of illusion was the perfect place for him: The grandfatherly-looking Nichols was not what he said he was then, and he is not what he says he is now. Nichols represented himself as a published expert on "socio-health and economic-development planning"; he said he had been active in this field, in both the United States and South America, for more than 25 years. His eleven-page resume said he had spent more than 20 years working for Pro Plan International, an economic-development firm. It also said he had been a labor organizer, had managed a Coca-Cola operation in South America and was an ordained minister and a Ph.D.
Nichols must have made a good impression when he arrived, because he was immediately hired to administer the health-insurance fund of the Morongo Indians, one of the desert tribes. His relationship with the Morongos, however, was brief; they claimed he hadn't delivered the services he'd promised. But Nichols got a second chance, for he had also favorably impressed Joe Benitez, the tribal chairman of the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians in Indio, California.

Background Edit

Nichols claimed to have earned his Ph.D from the Philathea Theological Seminary, which has no record of this. [SUP][6][/SUP]
Nichols is listed as a medical doctor in Zurich, Switzerland. [SUP][3][/SUP]
In 1959, Nichols was arrested in Milwaukee for mishandling Teamster funds. Nichols claims that he "took the fall for Hoffa and his friends." The charges were dropped. [SUP][6][/SUP] Interpol records show that Nichols was arrested in Washington D.C. in 1964 on a fugitive warrant. There is no record of the arrest in the National Crime Information Center database and Nichols claims it never happened. [SUP][6][/SUP]
Nichols worked for Harold Okimoto from 1968 to 1972 and became vice president of Okimoto's company Preventor Security Center. [SUP][3][/SUP]
Spy Magazine obtained "confidential correspondance that indicates Nichols has wide-ranging contacts in the world of spooks, operatives, and government officials." [SUP][6][/SUP]

Early Cabazon activities Edit

Art Welmas said that "Nichols always had money", but "where and how he got it was always a mystery." [SUP][6][/SUP]
Nichols soon began a successful business selling tax-free cigarettes by mail. California sued the tribe for tax evasion and won in court but was not able to recover any money. [SUP][6][/SUP]

After Cabazon Edit

In 1985, attempted to hire a hit man to kill two drug dealers who were supplying his girlfriend with heroin. He offered the hit men $500 and the possibility of steady work in Las Vegas or South America. After pleading guilty, he spent 18 months in prison. [SUP][6][/SUP]

Cabazon Arms trade Edit

In 1979, Nichols recruited Peter Zokosky, former president of arms manufacturer Armtech, to begin plans for a munitions plan at Cabazon. The Cabazon Band obtained Defense Department clearance to manufacture munitions in 1983. Nichols attempted to recruit La France Specialties of San Diego to build the weapons plant. [SUP][6][/SUP]
According to Carol Marshall: [SUP][23][/SUP]

Because Indian reservations are sovereign nations and do not come under federal jurisdiction, Wackenhut International had formed a partnership and entered into a business venture with the Cabazon Indians to produce high-tech arms and explosives for export to third-world countries. This maneuver was designed to evade congressional prohibitions against U.S. weapons being shipped to the Contras and middle eastern countries.In the early 1980's, Dr. John Nichols, the Cabazon tribal administrator, obtained a department of Defense secret facility clearance for the reservation to conduct various research projects. Nichols then approached Wackenhut with an elaborate "joint venture" proposal to manufacture 120mm combustible cartridge cases, 9mm machine pistols, laser-sighted assault weapons, sniper rifles and portable rocket systems on the Cabazon reservation and in Latin America. At one point, he even sought to develop biological weapons.

A La France memorandum of May 13, 1983 discussed an urgest request by Nichols for the manufacture, within 90 days, of: [SUP][6][/SUP]

a 9mm machine pistol, an assault rifle with laser sighting, a long-distance sniper rifle with a one-mile-plus range, a portable rocket system, a night-vision scope and a battlefield communications system "that cannot be detected by current technology."

May 13, 1983 was the day that Congress passed H.R. 2760 which forbid the government from aiding the Nicaraguan Contras. [SUP][6][/SUP]
Wackenhut claims that no weapons were ever produced at Cabazon. [SUP][22][/SUP]

The Desert Sun has scores of documents from attorneys outlining proposals for arms manufacturing on the Cabazon reservation, located 7 miles from Indio, with security firm Wackenhut Corp. An undated letter from the tribe's late administrator, John Philip Nichols, describes a few of the items they hoped to manufacture at what was being called Cabazon Arms: 9 mm machine pistols, assault rifles with laser sighting, long-distance sniper rifles and a "small portable rocket system, cartridge activated."But nothing was ever produced on the reservation, as U.S. government contracts weren't awarded, according to Wackenhut officials. With no money flowing in, the company ended the relationship in October 1984.

As reported in the Napa Sentinel: [SUP][24][/SUP]

Nichols, according to former Reeder employees and published accounts, had a plan in the early 1980's to build a munitions plant on the Cabazon Indian reservation near Palm Springs in partnership with Wackenhut, a Florida security firm. The plan fell through.

Weapons manufactured at the Cabazon reservation may have been sold to Iraq though the Sitico company of Hassan Ali Ibrahim Ali. Template:Cn

Biological weapons development Edit

A letter of January 20, 1983 from John P. Nichols to Harry Fair of Tactical Technology discussed Nichols's possession of "a unique list of agents and production techniques related to biological warfare", referred to an earlier plan involving Stormont Laboratories, and suggested the use of biological weapons "in small countries bordering Albania or large countries bordering Soviet Union." [SUP][3][/SUP]

Murder of Fred Alvarez Edit

Fred Alvarez accused Nichols of mismanaging the tribe's money. [SUP][6][/SUP]
Alvarez's sister Linda Streeter claims that after Alvarez began investigating, Nichols tried to set him up for a drug arrest.

"In early June [1981] they sent Fred to Denver to attend a conference." She says that while he was at the conference, someone offered him a large amount of money to carry drugs back. Alvarez refused. "When he got off the plane," she says, "the police grabbed him, threw him spread-eagle against a car and searched him and his bags."

Alvarez was murdered on July 1, 1981 while Nichols was out of town with Zobosky and Frye. When Zobosky informed Nichols of the murder, "Nichols seemed unaffected, like he already knew." Nichols reported the death of Alvarez to Frye who said "okay" and hung up. The detective assigned to the case was a friend of Nichols who performed a cursory investigation and went on vacation in two days. [SUP][6][/SUP]
In 1984, Nichols's bodyguard Jimmy Hughes claimed that Nichols and his sons John Paul and Mark gave him $5,000 to deliver to two hit men in Idyllwild. According to Hughes, Nichols justified the killing as necessary to maintain the secrecy of a "U.S.-government covert action." [SUP][6][/SUP]
In 2008 Hughes admitted that the killing of Fred Alvarez was "a mafia hit" by "political people." [SUP][25][/SUP]
In 2009, the California Department of Justice took over the investigation of the Alvarez case by citing conflicts of interest in the local police department, and was criticized for failing to arrest suspects known to the local police. [SUP][26][/SUP] Jimmy Hughes was arrested in late 2009 [SUP][27][/SUP] and was denied bail, but was released nine months later on the direction of California Deputy District Attorney Michael T. Murphy who said that prosecutors had "lost confidence to proceed in the prosecution in this case" following interviews with "key witnesses" identified in "old evidence" from the 1980s. [SUP][28][/SUP] Glen Heggstad claims that Murphy falsified the warrant application for Hughes and sought to prevent Heggstad from testifying. [SUP][22][/SUP]

Saudi involvement Edit

From Carol Marshall: [SUP][23][/SUP]

Meanwhile, in 1980, Dr. John Nichols obtained the blueprints to Crown Prince Fahd's palace in Tiaf, Saudi Arabia, and drafted a plan to provide security for the palace.The Saudis were interested enough to conduct a background check on the Cabazons. Mohammad Jameel Hashem, consul of the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, D.C., wrote former South Dakota Senator James Abourezk at his offices in Washington D.C. and noted,

"According to our black list for companies, the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians/Cabazon Trading Company and Wackenhut International are not included."

Translated, that meant that neither the Cabazons or Wackenhut were Jewish-run enterprises.

According to a memo of August 1, 1980 by Robert Kirk of Wackenhut, [SUP][6][/SUP]

After 1985 Edit

After John Philip Nichols was arrested in 1985 for attempting to hire hit men, his son John Paul Nichols became manager of the Cabazon tribe. Under John Paul's administration, the Colmac Corporation built a $150 million power plant on Cabazon land which did not hire a single Cabazon. [SUP][6][/SUP]
Mark Nichols married into the Cabazon tribe in 1985 and became tribal administrator in 1990. His wife Virginia Welmas became treasurer and secretary of the Cabazon Business Committee.
In 1990, the Department of Housing and Urban Development paid for the construction of a pari-mutuel offtrack-betting parlor. [SUP][6][/SUP]
In 1991, Nichols hired armed guards to prevent former tribal chairman Art Welmas and Fred Alvarez's sister Linda Streeter from entering a meeting where they had planned to petition for Mark Nichols to be removed as tribal administrator. Welmas and Streeter were expelled from the tribe and each fined $50,000 for talking to the press about their concerns over the tribe's management. [SUP][6][/SUP]

Danny Casolaro Edit

Danny Casolaro had made plans to visit the Cabazon reservation before he was murdered in 1991. [SUP][6][/SUP] [SUP][9][/SUP]
It was claimed that Robert Booth Nichols was one of Casolaro's sources. [SUP][29][/SUP]

NBC trade Edit

Chemical weapons for Iraq Edit

In early 1990, Wackenhut's Special Investigations Division (SID) unit deployed former Marine David Ramirez and five others to smuggle a truck from the Mexican border into Chicago. No one was allowed to look at the cargo. Spy Magazine reported in 1992 that the truck had been carrying equipment for manufacturing chemical weapons and was delivered to Iraq. [SUP][2][/SUP]

Nuclear trade Edit

see also: Mega OilFrom John Connolly: [SUP][2][/SUP]

Between 1987 and '89, three companies in the United States received investments from an Iraqi architect named Ihsan Barbouti. The colorful Barbouti owned an engineering company in Frankfort that had a $552 million contract to build airfields in Iraq. He also admitted having designed Mu'ammar Qaddafi's infamous German-built chemical- weapons plant in Rabta, Libya. According to an attorney for one of the companies in which Barbouti invested, the architect owned $100 million worth of real estate and oil-drilling equipment in Texas and Oklahoma ...
As reported on ABC's "Nightline" last year, the three companies in which Barbouti invested were TK-7 of Oklahoma City, which makes a fuel additive; Pipeline Recovery Systems of Dallas, which makes an anti-corrosive chemical that preserves pipes; and Product Ingredient Technology of Boca Raton, which makes food flavorings. None of these companies was looking to do business with Iraq; Barbouti sought them out.
Why was he interested?

• because TK-7 had formulas that could extend the range of jet aircraft and liquid-fueled missiles such as the SCUD
  
• because Pipeline Recovery knows how to coat pipes to make them usable in nuclear reactors and chemical-weapons plants
  
• because one of the by-products in making cherry flavoring is ferric ferrocyanide, a chemical that's used to manufacture hydrogen cyanide, which can penetrate gas masks and protective clothing
  

... According to former CIA contract employee Richard Babayan, in late 1989 Barbouti met in London with Ibrahim Sabawai, Saddam Hussein's half brother and European head of Iraqi intelligence, who grew excited about the work Pipeline Recovery was doing and called for the company's technology to be rushed to Iraq, so that it could be in place by early 1990.
And the owner of TK-7 swears that Barbouti told him he was developing an atom device for Qaddafi that would be used against the U.S. in retaliation for the 1986 U.S. air strike against Libya.
Barbouri also wanted the ferrocyanide from Product Ingredient.
Assisting Barbouti with these investments was New Orleans exporter Don Seaton, business associate of Richard Secord, the right-wing U.S. Army general turned war profiteer who was so deeply enmeshed in the Iran-contra affair.
It was Secord who connected Barbouti with Wackenhut.
Barbouti met with Secord in Florida on several occasions, and phone records show that several calls were placed from Barbouti's office to Secord's private number in McLean, Virginia; Secord has acknowledged knowing Barbouti. He is currently a partner of Washington businessman James Tully (who is the man who leaked Bill Clinton's draft-dodge letter to ABC) and Jack Brennan, a former Marine Corps colonel and longtime aide to Richard Nixon both in the White House and in exile.
Brennan has gone back to the White House, where he works as a director of administrative operations in President Bush's office. He refused to return repeated calls from SPY.
Interestingly, Brennan and Tully had previously been involved in a $181 million business deal to supply uniforms to the Iraqi army. Oddly, they arranged to have the uniforms manufactured in Nicolae Ceaucescu's Romania.
The partners in that deal were former U.S. attorney general and Watergate felon John Mitchell and Sarkis Soghanalian, a Turkish-born Lebanese citizen.
Soghanalian, who has been credited with being Saddam Hussein's leading arms procurer and with introducing the demonic weapons inventor Gerald Bull to the Iraqis, is currently serving a six-year sentence in federal prison in Miami for the illegal sale of 103 military helicopters to Iraq.
According to former Wackenhut agent David Ramirez, the company considered Soghanalian "a very valuable client."
Unfortunately for Barbouti, none of the companies in which he made investments was willing to ship its products or technology to his European divisions. That, however, doesn't necessarily mean that he didn't get some of what he wanted.
In 1990, 2,000 gallons of ferrocyanide were found to be missing from the cherry-flavor factory in Boca Raton. ... According to Louis Champon, the owner of Product Ingredient Technology, it was Wackenhut that guarded his Boca Raton plant, a fact confirmed by Murray Levine, a Wackenhut vice president.

Park-O-Meter Edit

Seth Ward's parking meter company Park-O-Meter was used as a front for chemical and biological weapons development. The project was launched witha $2.75 million loan from the Arkansas Development Finance Authority. [SUP][10][/SUP]

Inslaw / Promis Edit

Earl Brian had Michael Riconosciuto add a back door to the Inslaw PROMIS software. [SUP][10][/SUP]
The backdoored version of PROMIS was sold to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. [SUP][9][/SUP]

Australia Edit

Pine Gap Edit

Wackenhut may have been involved in unusual activity at the Pine Gap listening station near Alice Springs, Australia. [SUP][30][/SUP]
It has been claimed that Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam sought to establish Australian sovereignty over Pine Gap and was removed from office by Governor-General John Kerr for this reason. [SUP][30][/SUP]

Lockerbie bombing Edit

main page: Pan_Am_103Pan Am flight 103 was bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland in December 1988, killing all on board. Among the victims were five members of the joint CIA-DIA-DEA team Middle East Collection Ten (MC10) whose were traveling to the United States on a secret mission to expose a drug trafficking arrangement between senior US intelligence officials and Monzer al-Kassar, brother-in-law of Syrian intelligence director Ali Issa Duba. This team was led by Beirut deputy station chief Matthew Kevin Gannon, son-in-law of CIA Deputy Director Thomas Twetten. [SUP][31][/SUP] [SUP][32][/SUP] In April 1991, DIA operative Lester Knox alleged that four members of MC10 have been assassinated. [SUP][32][/SUP]
DEA officer Ronald Caffrey had allowed al-Kassar to deliver heroin from Lebanon through Frankfurt under the guise of a sting operation called Operation Khourah, or COREA, [SUP][32][/SUP] which operated through the European security agency TREVI. [SUP][33][/SUP] Juval Aviv, head of the private investigation company Interfor, identified the CIA's COREA unit in Wiesbaden, Germany as responsible for the bombing. [SUP][34][/SUP]
A Mr. Pinsdorf in German intelligence "had serious concerns that the drug sting operation originating in Cyprus had caused the bomb to be placed on the Pan Am plane." [SUP][31][/SUP] German secret police had noticed that the suitcase carrying the bomb was a different color and size than the drug packages, but the CIA ordered the Germans to stand down and allow it through. [SUP][34][/SUP] DIA operative Lester Knox alleged that Cyprus-based DEA official Michael T. Hurley had been responsible for selling Inslaw PROMIS to Middle Eastern governments, and that Hurley had been redeployed to Washington state to prosecute a drug case against Michael Riconosciuto. [SUP][32][/SUP] Shortly before the bombing, Riconosciuto was monitoring the Lebanon hostage crisis out of an apartment owned by Robert Booth Nichols and Ellen Hopko Nichols in Nicosia, Cyprus. Riconosciuto claims that he and Nichols were aware of both the MC10 unit's flight plans and the Iranian plans to bomb their plane, and that Nichols had promised to change the reservations for the MC10 team. [SUP][32][/SUP]
Al-Dustur reported that David Lovejoy, a CIA agent code-named Nutcracker, had given MC10's flight plans to the Iranian embassy in Beirut. [SUP][31][/SUP] [SUP][34][/SUP] Self-proclaimed DIA MC10 officer Lester Coleman identified Lovejoy as Michael Schafer, his former co-worker at the Christian Broadcasting Network in Lebanon. Schafer denies that he is Lovejoy, and Steven Emerson condemned Coleman as a fraud. [SUP][33][/SUP] David Hoffman identified Schafer as Lovejoy aka Michael Franks, and claimed that US signals intelligence intercepted a call from David Lovejoy to Iranian chargé d'affaires Hussein Niknam in which Lovejoy provided the information that the MC10 team would be on Flight 103. [SUP][35][/SUP] Hoffman's information may have originated with Coleman. [SUP][36][/SUP]
David Hoffman's book Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror claims that FBI agent Buck Revell ran onto the tarmac at Heathrow Airport and removed his son and daughter-in-law from flight 103 before it took off, and that South African President Peter Botha and several high-ranking officials were scheduled to be on this same flight but changed their reservatrions at the last hour. Hoffman also accuses Revell of a cover-up in the 1985 crash of a DC-8 in Gander, Newfoundland that killed 248 members of the 101st Airborne. Revell sued Hoffman and his publisher for defamation. [SUP][37][/SUP]

Alyeska Pipeline Edit

In 1991, Congress investigated possible criminal activity by Wackenhut and the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, a consortium of Exxon, Mobil, Atlantic Richfield, Unocal, and three other companies that operated the trans-Alaska pipeline. [SUP][38][/SUP] During the investigation, Wackenhut deployed operatives to spy on Congressman George Miller, [SUP][39][/SUP] chairman of the House Interior Committee. [SUP][40][/SUP]
Wackenhut deployed a spy named Ricki Sue Jacobson to investigate oil broker Charles Hamel who had been talking to Congress and the press.[SUP][38][/SUP]
Wackenhut operatives Wayne B. Black and Richard Lund were said to have been involved in "illegal procurement of telephone logs, mail fraud, mail theft, illegal electronic surveillance, use of a falsified Florida driver's license and conducting an investigation in the state of Virginia without a license." [SUP][38][/SUP]
Wackenhut created the fake environmentalist law firm The Accolade Group, with offices in Miami and Virginia, and used it to spy on Charles Hamil and, following the Exxon Valdez oil spill, any "citizens willing to talk about the oil spill and other environmental issues." Other targets of spying included: [SUP][39][/SUP]

• Trustees for Alaska, a public interest law firm
  
• Dan Lawn, an Alaska state Department of Environmental Conservation employee;
  
• Dr.Tiki Out - a Cordova marine pollution expert on the board of Cordova District Fisherman United
  
• Lewis 'Frank' Dehong - a prominent oil industry commentator and Fairbanks radio talk show host
  
• participants in a demonstration against Aleyska for its role in the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill
  

Wackenhut SID operative Sherree Rich named the Ecolit Group as another Wackenhut front company. [SUP][41][/SUP] Wayne Black fired Sherree Rich after she refused an order by Gil Mugarra to collect someone's trash because it was another investigator's assignment. [SUP][41][/SUP]
Wayne Black was fired by George Wackenhut in November 1991. Black was a vice president of the company at the time. [SUP][42][/SUP]

Possible Relationships Edit

Dan Moldea Edit

Dan E. Moldea's 1986 book Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob describes MCA Records as a criminal enterprise known as The Octopus. [SUP][9][/SUP]

Gambino mafia Edit

The FBI in 1978 suspected Robert Booth Nichols of money laundering, and a 1987 memo by FBI Agent Thomas G. Gates says that Nichols may have been associated with the Gambino crime family. [SUP][29][/SUP]

California Bankruptcy Court Edit

main article: California Bankruptcy CourtRodney stitch lists the murders of bankruptcy attorneys Dexter Jacobson and Gary Ray Pinnell as among the deaths related to "the scandals of the 1980s." [SUP][43][/SUP] Bixman includes them in the list of deaths related to Inslaw. [SUP][10][/SUP]

Aguilar-Arredondo killings Edit

Jorge Aguilar and Francisco Arredondo were shot to death on November 17, 1992, reportedly following a fistfight. [SUP][44][/SUP] The nearness to the death of Jose Aguilar has led to speculation that their deaths may be related. [SUP][45][/SUP]

David McGowan investigation Edit

main article: David McGowanDavid McGowan, an investigator in the Riverside County District Attorney's office, was killed along with five members of his family in 2005. [SUP][46][/SUP] While investigating McGowan's death, Riverside County re-opened its investigation into the Alvarez killings. [SUP][47][/SUP]

Victims Edit

Suspicious deaths and disappearances Edit

• Ron Van Meter - Deputy Sheriff of Mariposa County, California. Murdered while attempting to arrest other sheriffs' deputies for drug trafficking at Lake McClure. [SUP][7][/SUP]
  
• Ben Wagner - Filed a major civil rights lawsuit against California and Mariposa County officials. Disappeared the day after meeting with "Chuck" from the White House. [SUP][8][/SUP]
  
• Vivian Wagner - Wife of Ben Wagner. Disappeared. [SUP][8][/SUP]
  
• Jerry Goldberg - Reporter for Capitol News Service. Disappeared the same day as Ben and Vivian Wagner. [SUP][8][/SUP]
  
• Unidentified Mariposa County victims - Vivian Wagner alleged "the disappearance of citizens possessing incriminating evidence, and the incompletion or failure to investigate `homicides' and `suicides'"
  
• Fred Alvarez - July 1, 1981 - Vice Chairman of the Cabazon Tribal Council and head of security at the casino. [SUP][20][/SUP]
  
• Patricia Roberta Castro - July 1, 1981 - Friend of Fred Alvarez.
  
• Ralph Arthur Boger - July 1, 1981 - Friend of Fred Alvarez.
  
• Paul Morasca - Jan. 14, 1982 - "murdered in January 1982 in the San Francisco condominium he shared with Michael Riconsociuto" [SUP][48][/SUP] According to James de Szigethy, Morasca was a "money launderer for the Gambino family" who was "asphyxiated after being bound with wire in a technique used by the Japanese Yakuza.'" [SUP][49][/SUP]
  
• Larry Guerrin - Feb. 1987 - Private investigator. Killed in Mason County, Washington while working as for Michael Riconsociuto [SUP][10][/SUP]
  
• Werner Tony Asmar - May 26, 1988 - German-Lebanese DIA agent in MC10. Killed by a bomb in his office in East Beirut. [SUP][32][/SUP]
  
• Matthew Kevin Gannon - Dec. 21, 1988 - CIA deputy station chief in Beirut. Worked with DIA unit MC10. Killed in the Lockerbie bombing. [SUP][32][/SUP][SUP][31][/SUP]
  
• Charles Dennis McKee - Dec. 21, 1988 - Defense Intelligence Agency, with MC10. Killed in the Lockerbie bombing. [SUP][32][/SUP]
  
• Khaled Nazir Jaafar - Dec. 21, 1988 - DEA agent working with DIA operation MC10. Killed in the Lockerbie bombing. [SUP][32][/SUP]
  
• Unidentified MC10 #4 - Dec 21, 1988 - MC10 operative. Killed in the Lockerbie bombing. [SUP][31][/SUP]
  
• Unidentified MC10 #5 - Dec 21, 1988 - MC10 operative. Killed in the Lockerbie bombing. [SUP][31][/SUP]
  
• David Meyer - Feb. 6, 1989 - San Francisco attorney. Died of gunshot the day before he was to appear in court "to expose links between the Justice Department, the CIA and Iran-Contra." [SUP][48][/SUP]
  
• Charlie Frezeli - Nov. 1989 - Lebanese army officer and DIA agent in MC10. Shot to death in his East Beirut home. [SUP][32][/SUP]
  
• Alan David Standorf - Jan. 1991 - killed by blunt force to the head and was stuffed in his car within weeks of resigning as chief of security at NSA listening post Vint Hill Farms Station due to his unit being deployed to Iraq. [SUP][50][/SUP] Rumored to have been a source for Danny Casolaro.
  
• Dennis Eisman - April 1991. Died of gunshot. Law partner of Bernard L. Segal. [SUP][51][/SUP] He owned expensive cars. [SUP][52][/SUP] Was reportedly due to meet with Michael Riconsociuto the next day. [SUP][43][/SUP]
  
• Alan Michael May - June 19, 1991 - "had reportedly been involved with Michael Riconosciuto and the movement of $40 million in bribe money to the Iranians, in the operation known as the 'October Surprise.'" [SUP][10][/SUP]
  
• Danny Casolaro - Aug. 10, 1991 - Journalist investigating the Inslaw case. [SUP][10][/SUP]
  
• Vali Delahunty - Aug. 18, 1992 - Disappeared "as she was trying to warn Riconosciuto about a plan by DEA and Justice Department officials to set him up on a drug charge." Her body was found six months later. [SUP][43][/SUP]
  
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[David Guyatt]

From Jon Rappaport:

Orlando shooter: deeper hidden ties to the FBI?

Jun13by Jon Rappoport
Orlando shooter: deeper hidden ties to the FBI?
by Jon Rappoport
June 13, 2016
(To read about Jon's mega-collection, Power Outside The Matrix, click here.)
"…Michael German, a former F.B.I. agent who researches national security law at New York University's Brennan Center for Justice, told the Times, They're [the FBI] manufacturing terrorism cases.'" (The New Yorker, June 10, 2016, "Do FBI Stings help fight against ISIS?" by Evan Osnos)
The website Cryptogon has pieced together some interesting facts, and a quite odd "coincidence." I'm bolstering their work.
First of all, the Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, changed his name in 2006. As NBC News notes: "Records also show that he had filed a petition for a name change in 2006 from Omar Mir Seddique to Omar Mir Seddique Mateen."
Why is that important? Why is his original last name, Seddique, also spelled Siddiqui, significant? Because of a previous terrorism case in Florida, in which the FBI informant's name was Siddiqui. And because that previous case may have been one of those FBI prop-jobs, where the informant was used to falsely accuse a suspect of a terrorist act. The New Yorker (cited above) has details:
"This is not the first time that the F.B.I. has attracted criticism from national-security experts and civil-liberties groups for generating terrorism cases through sting operations and confidential informants. In The Imam's Curse,' published in September, I reported on a Florida family that was accused of providing material support' to terrorists. In that case, a father, Hafiz Khan, and two of his sons were arrested. The charges against the sons were eventually dropped, but Hafiz Khan was convicted and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. At Khan's trial, his lawyer, Khurrum Wahid, questioned the reliability of the key [FBI] informant in the case, David Mahmood Siddiqui. Wahid accused Siddiqui, who'd had periods of unemployment, of lying to authorities because his work as a confidential informant was lucrative. For his role in the case, Siddiqui had received a hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars, plus expenses. But in a subsequent interview with the Associated Press, Siddiqui stood by his testimony and motives: I did it for the love of my country, not for money.'"
The website Cryptogon, which pieced this whole story together, comments: "What are the odds that an FBI informant in a [previous] Florida terrorist case shares the same last name as the perpetrator of the worst mass shooting in U.S. historyalso in Florida[Omar Mateen] a lone wolf cop poser with multiple acknowledged contacts with the FBI, who was formerly listed on the terrorist watch list and associated with a suicide bomber… while holding a valid security guard license?"
Indeed.
And in case you think Siddiqui is a common last name, here is a statement from Mooseroots:
"Siddiqui is an uncommon surname in the United States. When the United States Census was taken in 2000, there were about 4,994 individuals with the last name "Siddiqui," ranking it number 6,281 for all surnames. Historically, the name has been most prevalent in the Southwest, though the name is actually most common in Hawaii. Siddiqui is least common in the southeastern states."
If for some reason the name Siddiqui throws you off, suppose the last name was, let me make something up, Graposco? A few years ago, an FBI informant in Florida, Graposco, appeared to have falsely accused a man of terrorist actsand in 2016, another Graposco, who changed that last name to something else, killed 50 people in a Florida nightclub shootingafter having been investigated twice by the FBI? Might that coincidence grab your attention?
Againthe 2016 Orlando shooter had extensive contact with the FBI in 2013 and 2014. The FBI investigated him twice and dropped the investigations. The FBI used an informant in a previous Florida case, and that informant had the same last name as the Orlando shooter. It's quite possible the previous informant was told to give a false statement which incriminated a man for terrorist acts.
You can say this is a coincidence. Maybe it is. But it seems more than odd. Are the two Siddiqui men connected?
Was the Orlando shooter involved in some kind of FBI plan to mount a terror op that was supposed to be stopped before it went ahead, but wasn't? Was the Orlando shooter "helped" over the edge from having "radical ideas" to committing mass murder?

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I could cite a number of precedents. Here is one I reported on in 2014:
There seems to be a rule: if a terror attack takes place and the FBI investigates it, things are never what they seem.
Federal attorney Andrew C McCarthy prosecuted the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing case. A review of his book, Willful Blindness, states:
"For the first time, McCarthy intimately reveals the real story behind the FBI's inability to stop the first World Trade Center bombing even though the bureau had an undercover informant in the operationthe jihadists' supposed bombmaker.
"In the first sentence of his hard-hitting account, the author sums up the lawyerlybut staggeringly incomprehensivereason why the FBI pulled its informant out of the terrorist group even as plans were coming to a head on a major attack:
"'Think of the liability!'
"The first rule for government attorneys in counterintelligence in the 1990s was, McCarthy tells us, Avoid accountable failure.' Thus, when the situation demanded action, the feds copped a CYA posture, the first refuge of the bureaucrat."
That's a titanic accusation, coming from a former federal prosecutor.
Yes, the FBI had an informant inside the group that was planning the 1993 WTC bombing that eventually, on February 26, killed 6 people and injured 1042.
His name is Emad Salem, a former Egyptian Army officer. Present whereabouts unknown. Yanking Salem out of the group planning the Bombing was a devastating criminal act on the part of the FBI.
But there is more to the story.
On October 28, 1993, Ralph Blumenthal wrote a piece about Emad Salem for the New York Times: "Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast." It began:
"Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer [Emad Salem] said after the blast."
Continuing: "The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad A. Salem, should be used, the informer [Emad] said."
The FBI called the "plan" off, but left the planners to their own devices. No "harmless powder." Instead, real explosives.
The Times article goes on: "The account, which is given in the transcript of hundreds of hours of tape recordings Mr. Salem secretly made of his talks with law-enforcement agents, portrays the authorities as in a far better position than previously known to foil the Feb. 26 bombing of New York City's tallest towers."
This is a shockingly strong opening for an article in the NY Times. It focuses on the testimony of the informant; it seems to take his side.
Several years after reporter Blumenthal wrote the above piece, I spoke with him and expressed my amazement at the revelations about the FBIand wondered whether the Times had continued to investigate the scandal.
Blumenthal wasn't pleased, to say the least. He said I misunderstood the article.
I mentioned the fact that Emad Salem wasn't called as a prosecution witness in the 1993 WTC Bombing trial.
Of course, why would the Dept. of Justice bring Salem to the stand? Would they want him to blame the FBI for abetting the Bombing?
Again, Blumenthal told me I "didn't understand." He became angry and that was the end of the conversation.
I remember thinking: letting the bomb plot go forward…what else do you need for a criminal prosecution of the FBI?
Here is an excerpt from one of those tapes Emad Salem made when he was secretly bugging his own FBI handlers. On this phone call, he talks to his Bureau friend John. Others have claimed this is an agent named John Anticev. The conversation is taking place at some point after the 1993 WTC Bombing. The main topic is Salem's fees for services rendered as an informant. He apparently wants more money. He also wants to make sure the Bureau will pay him what they've agreed to. During the conversation, Salem suddenly talks about the bomb. His English is broken, but his meaning is clear enough. When he finishes, his Bureau handler John just moves on without directly responding.
Salem: "…we was start already building the bomb which is went off in the World Trade Center. It was built by supervising supervision from the Bureau and the DA and we was all informed about it and we know that the bomb start to be built. By who? By your confidential informant. What a wonderful great case!"
According to Salem, there was a bomb, it was built under FBI and "DA" supervision, Salem himself built it, and it exploded.
Questions remain. Did Salem literally mean he built the bomb? Or was he claiming he successfully convinced others to build it? As a provocative agent for the FBI, did Salem foment the whole idea of the WTC attack and entrap those who were eventually convicted of the Bombing? Without his presence, would they have planned and carried out the assault? Was the truck bomb set off under the North Tower the only weapon? Were there other bombs? If so, who planted them?
But the role of the FBI seems to be clear enough. They aided and abetted, and at the very least, permitted the 1993 attack on the Trade Towers.

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What about Omar Mateen in 2016, in Orlando?
As the LA Times, reports, the FBI investigated him on two occasions (LA Times, June 13, "Orlando terror attack live updates…"):
"While working as a courthouse guard in 2013, Mateen made inflammatory and contradictory' statements to co-workers about having relatives in Al Qaeda, the radical Sunni terrorist group, [FBI Director] Comey said. Mateen also claimed to be a member of Hezbollah, Lebanon's Shiite militia, and his remarks drew an 11-month FBI investigation, Comey said. Both groups oppose Islamic State.
"Comey said the FBI also briefly investigated Mateen in 2014 for allegedly watching videos by Al Qaeda propagandist Anwar Awlaki and attending the same mosque as an American who would later become a suicide bomber for Al Nusra Front in Syria another Al Qaeda affiliate opposed to Islamic State.
"Both investigations were closed without charges."
Did the FBI just investigate the Orlando shooter? Or did they in some way enlist him in an operation?
Is it merely a terrible mistake that enabled the shooter to work nine years for G4S, the world's "biggest guarding company" and one of the biggest contractors to the DHS, as Bloomberg News states? Is it merely a terrible mistake that G4S was aware the FBI was investigating the shooter in 2013 and did nothing about it?
Or did some federal group intervene and tell all parties to leave the shooter alone and in placebecause he was part of an operation?
Jon Rappoport

[David Guyatt]

Is there any comment in the US coverage about the main weapon used in this attack? The UK Telegraph newspaper says the weapon used was an AR-15 which surprised me. I used to have a permit for this rifle and it is classed as a "semi-automatic" which means it only shoots one round at a time, whereas one of the witnesses interviewed stated repeatedly that he heard (or saw?) a fully automatic weapon being fired. I know there is a conversion kit available for this rifle, or there used to be, but that would make it illegal, whereas the press reports keep saying it was a legal weapon.

Any insights appreciated.

[Tracy Riddle]

Is there any comment in the US coverage about the main weapon used in this attack? The UK Telegraph newspaper says the weapon used was an AR-15 which surprised me. I used to have a permit for this rifle and it is classed as a "semi-automatic" which means it only shoots one round at a time, whereas one of the witnesses interviewed stated repeatedly that he heard (or saw?) a fully automatic weapon being fired. I know there is a conversion kit available for this rifle, or there used to be, but that would make it illegal, whereas the press reports keep saying it was a legal weapon.

Any insights appreciated.

http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/06/...-building/

A law enforcement source says the shooting suspect legally purchased recently the two weapons used in the attack at the shooting center in Port St. Lucie near his Fort Pierce home. He had a Glock 17 handgun purchased on June 5, a Sigsauer MCX assault rifle purchased on June 4 on his person during the shootout, and investigators later found a .38-caliber weapon in his vehicle.

[Michael Barwell]

Bit like George Washington; this fella wanted to be a cop, then when it didn't work-out, he decided to bat for the other team - nominally; George Washington ssoooin the British army, then when it didn't work-out ... etc. wanted a commision t

[Peter Lemkin]

Is there any comment in the US coverage about the main weapon used in this attack? The UK Telegraph newspaper says the weapon used was an AR-15 which surprised me. I used to have a permit for this rifle and it is classed as a "semi-automatic" which means it only shoots one round at a time, whereas one of the witnesses interviewed stated repeatedly that he heard (or saw?) a fully automatic weapon being fired. I know there is a conversion kit available for this rifle, or there used to be, but that would make it illegal, whereas the press reports keep saying it was a legal weapon.

Any insights appreciated.

http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/06/...-building/

A law enforcement source says the shooting suspect legally purchased recently the two weapons used in the attack at the shooting center in Port St. Lucie near his Fort Pierce home. He had a Glock 17 handgun purchased on June 5, a Sigsauer MCX assault rifle purchased on June 4 on his person during the shootout, and investigators later found a .38-caliber weapon in his vehicle.

From what I can find this mention above about a Sigsauer MCX is new [although apparently also semi-automatic]; at first the US media and talking heads at the official press conferences were saying it was an AR-15 semi-automatic. And, yes, most witnesses/survivors spoke of or made sounds like a fully automatic weapon.

[Magda Hassan]

And, yes, most witnesses/survivors spoke of or made sounds like a fully automatic weapon.

You can hear on the videos taken by people inside that it was an automatic.

[Drew Phipps]

As late as just 1 minute ago, press here in the US were still saying AR-15. There was a long debate about AR-15 and other semi-automatic weapons on the NPR show "On Point" this morning as I drove to work (they called it a variant of the M-16, but actually the AR-15 came first.). The pictures that they showed on TV of the weapon they seized at the club looked like an AR-15, but I'm not enough of a gun enthusiast to notice any but the most obvious of differences without stills.


You can "bump-fire" an AR-15 from the hip pretty fast. It might sound like automatic fire. There are legal adaptations to the AR-15 that permit "bump-firing" from the shoulder as well. I believe I heard this adaptation allows a bump-fire rate of 100 rounds in 7 seconds.


Breaking news: A grand jury is convening tomorrow to consider charging Mateen's second wife as an accessory, or, at minimum, misprision of a felony (failing to report a future known felony).