Now you’re looking for the secret. But you won’t find it because of course, you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to work it out. You want to be fooled. The Prestige 2006
It is said that every great magic trick has 3 distinct “acts” and as we leave the previous Decade of Magic, I thought we should take a look at one of the greatest illusions ever accomplished in the history of mankind; how it was created, who created it, and how it is still being performed today by new practitioners of the craft with only slight variations but the same overall result.
A truly great illusion is transformative. For some, it reinforces fanciful hopes of the existence of the mystical and for others it serves as a puzzle to be solved. Some take it at face value, the intended magical perception alone is enough to satisfy while others become unconsciously determined to understand the impossible, to force it make sense; to impose the concrete limitations of reason on an illusion crafted for pure fantasy. But in either case, a masterful illusion lingers with the audience for a lifetime, it’s effects indelibly branded on the audience like the painful memories of a witness to a horrific crime.
1. “The Pledge“. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man – Al Qaeda
At the start of the previous decade, the story began to take shape; the Pledge had begun. The history of The New American Century was about to be dominated by a fanatical and illusive band of traveling demons; al Qaeda. They hated us for our freedom we were told; they struck at us from hiding; they were and are an ever shifting, ever-changing enemy of our ideology, hell-bent on creating terror where-ever they go, simply for terror’s sake. Even the most outspoken critic of US foreign policy dares not undermine the foundations of the Pledge. Like a magician who picks a ringer out of the audience, like David Blaine and his obviously well-rehearsed gags with a “random” member of the crowd, the real audience must take the Pledge at his word else the entire illusion crumbles like a house of cards.
The term “al Qaeda” was first introduced to the American audience in Feb. of 2001. It was during a trial of 4 suspected terrorists who were accused of planning and carrying out two embassy bombings in Africa back in 1998. Three of the 4 were supposed to be actual accomplices who conducted the bombings and the other, living in Austin, Texas at the time, insisted he was only involved with bin Laden’s legitimate businesses up until 1994. All were convicted in May of 2001 and all received life in prison sentences on Oct. 18th, 2001, just a month after 9/11.
They were convicted with the aid of the testimony of one Jamal Ahmed Al-Fadl. Al-Fadl had been in the witness protection plan in America since 1996 under the supervision of an FBI agent named Jack Cloonan (yes, that is the same Jack Cloonan who appeared on Jesse Ventura’s Conspiracy Theory show about 9/11 who was allowed to be the final interview and who summed up the secretive nature of some government projects as necessary to protect us from “the terrorists”) and during which time, Al-Fadl is reported to have been paid $950,000 US tax-payer dollars. Below is a listing of some interesting points about Al-Fadl from the Homeland Security website.
By 1996, Al-Fadl had stolen upwards of $100,000 from al-Qaeda’s operations in Sudan; when this was discovered by his superiors, he was asked by Osama bin Laden to repay it. He repaid some of it, then bolted, fearing retribution. He offered information on al-Qaeda to a number of countries, including Lebanon, Eritrea and Saudi Arabia, before coming into a U.S. embassy, possibly in Europe, and providing it there. He was moved to the United States and put into the Witness Protection Program. He was charged and pleaded guilty to some sort of conspiracy, but it does not appear he recieved any punishment. He signed a plea agreement on Nov. 6, 1996. According to defense attorneys in the embassy bombings case, for which he was the U.S. government’s star witness, he also received nearly $950,000 from the FBI and Witness Protection Program by 2001. Lived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, briefly in 1981.
But Al-Fadl’s real value was in the testimony he gave detailing the vast criminal network known as Al Qaeda (the base). Using the RICO statutes, the US prosecutors were able to expand the scope of the prosecution from the 4 men to also include charges against bin Laden himself. In order to do that, like they do with the prosecution of organized crime bosses, they had to expose bin Laden as the leader of a criminal network with distinct organizational structures that could ultimately be traced back to bin Laden.
Al-Fadl gladly provided the testimony the FBI and CIA needed to create such an organization centered around a man who Al-Fadl had stolen over $100,000 from at the helm. Never mind that Jack Cloonan and the FBI had 3 years to prepare Al-Fadl’s testimony for the great magic act. Never mind that Cloonan had paid Al-Fadl $950,000 (of our money) to that point to ultimately create the Global War on Terror’s “Pledge”; Al Qaeda. Never mind that the head of the visa section of the U.S. Embassy in Jeddah (at the time a CIA stronghold) reported being overruled when he tried to reject visas from being given to suspicious applicants up until mid-summer 2001. Never mind that the chief FBI agent looking for bin Laden quit the FBI in disgust over what he claimed was systemic obstruction from the Bush administration that deliberately kept him from catching bin Laden (John O’Neill just happened to be offered a job in the Twin Towers days prior to 9/11 and his body was found in the rubble Sept. 22nd, 2001).
J. Michael Springmann, formerly chief of the visa section at the U.S. Embassy in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, explained in various interviews with European and Canadian media, that he rejected hundreds of suspicious visa applications in the late 90s, but the C.I.A. officers overruled him and ordered the visas to be issued. Springmann protested to the State Department, the Office of Diplomatic Security, the F.B.I., the Justice Department and congressional committees, but was told to shut up. Springmann observed that 15 of the 19 people who allegedly flew airplanes into buildings in the United States got their visas from the same CIA-dominated consulate in Jeddah.
… “Only one of the 15 provided an actual address – and that was only because his first application was refused. The rest listed such not-so-specific locations as “California,” “New York,” “Hotel D.C.,” and “Hotel.” One terrorist amazingly listed his U.S. destination as simply “No.” But he still got a visa. Nikolai Wenzel, one of the former consular officers who analyzed the forms, declares that State’s issuance of the visas “amounts to criminal negligence. The law is clear: “Every alien shall be presumed to be an immigrant until he establishes to the satisfaction of the consular officer, at the time of application for a visa, that he is entitled to a nonimmigrant .” State’s Deputy Press Secretary Phil Reeker remarks that 214(b) is “quite a threshold to overcome” – it just wasn’t for Saudi applicants…” 9/11 Review
Notice that CIA Director George Tenet is establishing that in 1996, the year Al-Fadl cut his deal and started living with Cloonan as his nanny, the story of “Al Qaeda” begins to take shape.
CIA Director George Tenet will later comment, “By 1996 we knew that bin Laden was more than a financier. An al-Qaeda defector [Jamal al-Fadl] told us that [bin Laden] was the head of a worldwide terrorist organization with a board of directors that would include the likes of Ayman al-Zawahiri and that he wanted to strike the United States on our soil” History Commons
So Jack Cloonan appears to have been right at the forefront of the creation of the Al Qaeda “Pledge”. Too bad Jesse Ventura’s “in-depth” investigation failed to mention that little tidbit of information. So while the lying thief continues to profit from his role in the creation of the al Qaeda story-line, the man who knew more than almost anyone else on the planet about bin Laden rails on the White House for their obstructionism of his investigation then ends up dead on 9/11.
FBI counterterrorism expert John O’Neill privately discusses White House obstruction in his bin Laden investigation. O’Neill says, “The main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism were US oil corporate interests and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it.” He adds, “All the answers, everything needed to dismantle Osama bin Laden’s organization, can be found in Saudi Arabia.” O’Neill also believes the White House is obstructing his investigation of bin Laden because they are still keeping the idea of a pipeline deal with the Taliban open. History Commons
You can never question the Pledge just as you can never question its witness. To do so endangers the entire illusion. Take for instance, the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab aka “The Underwear Bomber”. Here is a man who supposedly turned “radical” while he was jet-setting around the world enjoying life as the son of one of the wealthiest and most powerfully connected men in Africa. Umar decides, out of the blue, after an extensive education in some of the best schools, to blow himself up on an airliner just over Detroit. All because he spends a little time with “al Qaeda in Yemen”.
Of course, the entire story is related to us third-hand by CIA spokes people, FBI spokes people, State Department spokes people, and the White House’s own spokes people.
Because Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab hasn’t spoken to anyone since being arrested. The stories about his “radicalization” are supposed to be supported by various emails, but we haven’t seen them. His father says he was concerned about his son, but he hasn’t provided proof of any thing other than a normal college age kid jet-setting around and going to soccer matches. In fact, the only real “evidence” out there is his photo, supposedly taken at the time of his arrest right after he got off the plane. But who is to say where that photo was taken.
Supposedly taken the day of the attack
True to form, al Qaeda in Yemen jumps right into the fray and helps support the CIA and FBI stagecraft by accepting responsibility for the attacks and producing on their website a nice picture of Umar supper-imposed over a picture of a commercial airliner. How nice of them to help the CIA and the FBI make their case against them. It’s almost as if al Qaeda in Yemen doesn’t really understand that by helping promote their connection to the attack they are signing their own death warrants by helping to foster support for another “Shock and Awe” against their own countrymen. With enemies like that, who needs friends?
Al Qaeda helps secure the "Pledge"
But again, you can’t question “The Pledge”. You can be as critical of the peculiar points of the story as you want. You can wonder aloud how this “terrorist” still had a valid visa (like the ones from 9/11?) and was allowed to board a plane all day long. You can talk about the warning signs; the fathers communication with the State Department, the CIA; the ticket purchased one-way with cash; the Indian man who helped get Umar on the flight without showing his passport… you can talk about all those things, but you can’t talk about what should be talked about. You can’t talk about what is obvious.
This photo showed up the day after the Christmas day “attack”. It was supposedly taken by the same “hero” that jumped to the rescue and saved the day then faded into the memory hole as quickly as he had popped out. This photo is the only one in existence showing “Umar” actually one the plane. You would think this photo would be getting a lot of digital ink these days since its showing the man being removed from the plane in custody of several officers. It’s a reaffirming photo as that the “terrorist” is caught. But there’s one serious problem; you can’t see Umar’s face.
Why can’t you see his face? In all those photos of the 9/11 terrorists supposedly boarding planes, you can see their faces. In all the bank robbery pictures, you can see their faces. So why did someone blur out Umar’s face in this , the ONLY real “evidence’ that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was actually on that plane?
Several witnesses have described a “blank” look on the suspects face. Some said he looked like he was ”drugged” or “shocked”. Even the “hero” stated on CNN that the suspect didn’t even struggle or attempt to get up as the “firecracker” in his pants went off.
A key witness says that he saw the suspect as he was getting through security and that the suspect had a “well dressed Indian man with him” who told the attendant Umar didn’t have his visa or passport but it was “ok” because they do it all the time. One said he almost seemed like he was mentally handicapped, being ushered through the airport like a child. Could the suspects “shocked”, “drugged”, “stunned” reaction be simply the misinterpretation of a mentally handicapped person’s lack of reaction? Could it be that the suspect didn’t have a visa, needed help to get around the airport, because that wasn’t Umar? because it wasn’t a young man who had been through many airports with his valid visa with no problems what-so-ever?
Could that be why that picture of the suspect on the plane, showed up once, and was (just like the “hero”) dropped from public discourse before someone asked why they blurred out Umar’s face?
The story of Umar is what is important, not the suspect. The “story” of Umar was established by the 1. CIA’s report about Umar’s daddy 2. the FBI’s “confessions” they got from Umar himself and 3. the boasting of the al Qaeda in Yemen group who seem to have a death wish of some kind as that they seem to be just begging for America to attack. These are the key elements of the “story” of Umar. Yet like any other magic trick, if you look too closely you start to see the strings.
The story of Umar is what is important. Not the confused blurred out face being led off the plane.
The story of Umar is that of al Qaeda in Yemen and the need for President Obama to attack. That is the important story. A story provided to us, once again, by the CIA, the FBI, and the State Department. Once they held up rendering of multi-leveled cave fortresses and mobile biological weapons labs. They provided tainted Yellow Cake documents and witnesses who swore they saw babies thrown out of incubators. That is the set-up… that is “The Pledge”. In the ongoing performance of the greatest illusion ever created, the Global War on Terror, just like before, the all important Pledge creates for us a distorted picture of a world dark and sinister with plots and plans all around. In todays performance, Al Qaeda has moved to Yemen therefore WE must move to Yemen.
But don’t look too closely, don’t question The Pledge or else you may just ruin the illusion for everyone else.
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