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BUSH ORDERED CIA TO KILL SADDAM IN JUNE 2002
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Friday, October 31, 2003

The CIA and U.S. Plans for Iraq
Airdate: June 17, 2002
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According to a report in the Washington post, President Bush signed an intelligence order earlier this year directing the CIA to oust Iraq's Saddam Hussein.


The Bush administration has been making it's hatred of Hussein clear for a while, but the order seems to give extra latitude and money to the CIA to do what it takes, short of assassination, to remove the Iraqi leader from power.

Guest:

David Mack, Vice President of the Middle East Institute.
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Who is John Doe 2?

FACTS:

# Alleged al Qaeda dirty bomber Jose Padilla was recruited into al Qaeda no later than January or February 1993 in or around Plantation, Florida, according to federal investigators.
# Benevolence International Foundation, a charity front operation linked to al Qaeda, opened an office in Plantation, Florida, in February 1993.
# Timothy McVeigh traveled across the country to Plantation in January 1993 and stayed through March. He sold guns and visited his sister.
# During this period and the year before, known terrorists with connections to al Qaeda attended gun shows and bought weapons in McVeigh's vicinity.
# Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law Muhammed Jamal Khalifa and al Qaeda paymaster Mohamed Loay Bayazid were arrested in December 1994 near San Francisco.
# At the time, Bayazid was president of the Benevolence International Foundation, in which role he delivered cash payments to terrorists on behalf of bin Laden, according to allegations by the federal government in court documents.
# During his trip, in November particularly, Khalifah was in close contact with a terrorist cell run by al Qaeda mastermind Ramzi Yousef in Manila,the Philippines.
# Two days after Bayazid and Khalifa were arrested, with bomb-making manuals in their possession, Timothy McVeigh suddenly drove to Chicago (where Benevolence International was based) for an overnight visit.
# Terry Nichols traveled to Cebu City, the Philippines, from the U.S. in November 1994 and stayed through January.
# A member of Yousef's Manila cell called Khalifah's mobile phone within three days of Nichols' arrival in the Philippines.
# Ramzi Yousef traveled to Cebu City in a confirmed trip on December 1994, and in other trips in November, reported by reliable sources.
# Yousef was planning a Sept. 11 style attack on America from the Philippines, scheduled to take place on Jan. 21, 1995.
# According to undisputed court testimony, Terry Nichols was scheduled to fly back to the United States on Jan. 21, 1995. He changed his plans and left a week earlier, after Yousef's terrorist cell was disrupted by Philippines police.
# Jose Padilla rang up a steady stream of almost monthly traffic violations which suddenly ceased in January 1995 and did not resume until June 1995.
— By J.M. Berger johnberger@individual1.com


http://www.whoisjohndoe2.com/

# SITE OVERVIEW:

There is a rapidly growing body of evidence to support the theory that known al Qaeda operatives, working in the United States in the early 1990s, may have assisted the Oklahoma City bombing, based on established facts and new information found in numerous court filings. The investigation on this site shows mainstream journalists where to find the smoking guns to conclusively prove this story according to the highest standards of proof. Background and very specific leads are available for working journalists willing to make the effort. Contact John Berger for details. The major points of this story are as follows:

# Recent terrorism indictments have revealed an incipient al Qaeda financial and recruiting operation in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., an operation reaching critical mass in February 1993, the same month Timothy McVeigh arrived in the area to work at gun shows. At this time, according to federal indictments, al Qaeda was focused recruiting American citizens as operatives.

At the same time, the Benevolence International Foundation (BIF), an ostensible charity recently designated as a terrorist organization, opened its first U.S. office, less than half an hour from the house where McVeigh was staying, according to numerous sources and evidence presented at McVeigh's trial.


# The Oklahoma City bombing preparations formally began in September 1994, the exact month that al Qaeda operatives in Manila, the Philippines, began targeting the United States at the direct order of Osama bin Laden, according to federal indictments and extensive media reports. One of the Manila plotters was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who has now been identified as the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attack.

Meanwhile, Benevolence International allegedly began giving active assistance to terrorist operations around the world. A federal indictment specifies this activity began on or about Sept. 13, 1994, the exact birth date of the Oklahoma City bombing plot, as specified in an indictment of McVeigh and Nichols.


# Benevolence International Foundation was co-founded by the same man who created al Qaeda's Philippines operation, Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law and his trusted aide, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa. Khalifa came to the United States in December 1994, after extensive contact with the Manila cell in November. Khalifa was traveling with Mohamed Loay Bayazid, the president of Benevolence International Foundation and a key al Qaeda bag man, often entrusted with delivering cash for terrorist operations on direct orders from Osama bin Laden.

Immediately before the arrest, terrorist operatives in Manila and in the U.S. abruptlychanged their plans. Timothy McVeigh, who had been planning to spend Christmas with his family in Buffalo, N.Y., abruptly pulled up stakes and drove across the country. After the arrest, he drove to the Chicago area, where Benevolence is based.

Khalifa was arrested after two weeks in the U.S. while possession of a bomb-making manual and evidence that he was tied to the Manila cell. Khalifa was in federal custody when the Manila cell was exposed, but the government extradited him to Jordan, where he was wanted for terrorist activities. Khalifa was acquitted of the charges in Jordan and is still at large today. The reason for his visit has never been fully disclosed to the public.


# al Qaeda operatives and other terrorists traded in weapons at U.S. gun shows, in the black market and through other unregulated U.S. venues beginning in the late 1980s. Known terrorists bought weapons in some of the same locations where McVeigh and Nichols sold them during the early 1990s, including Grand Rapids, Mich., and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. One convicted al Qaeda terrorist with family ties to this American black market was Wadi El-Hage, who is also connected to the Benevolence International Foundation operation, according to documents seized by the federal government.


# Alleged "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla, an al Qaeda operative likely recruited in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., between 1993 and 1995, according to government investigators and media reports, bears a striking resemblance to a police composite sketch of John Doe No. 2, a sought-after but never-identified suspect in the Oklahoma City bombing. Federal authorities believe Padilla may have recruited into al Qaeda by a Benevolence employee in Florida.

While there is not yet concrete proof linking Padilla to the Oklahoma City bombing, an investigation of his movements leaves the possibility wide open; Padilla cannot be concretely placed in Florida between January and June 1995.


# Terry Nichols traveled to the Philippines in November 1994, just months before the Oklahoma City attack. He was staying in Cebu City in December, when Ramzi Yousef disembarked on a stopover from a Manila-to-Tokyo flight, a stop extensively documented in court filings and media reports.

Yousef had left a bomb on the plane, one of the final tests for an al Qaeda-sponsored plan known as Bojinka, which would have simultaneously bombed a dozen U.S. airliners in January 1995 and crashed still others into U.S. landmarks. This well-documented plot has come under new scrutiny as a likely predecessor to the Sept. 11 attacks. Nichols' return travel plans corresponded to Bojinka in route and in timing.


# Yousef's Manila colleague and Sept. 11 mastermind Mohammed Shaikh Khalid may have personally ordered Jose Padilla to the United States in 2002, according to news reports. On his arrival in the United States, Padilla was arrested. But he wasn't charged with criminal activity. The day the U.S. government would have been required to file charges and provide specific information about Padilla, President Bush ordered him designated an "enemy combatant," removed him from the Justice system and placed him in solitary confinement in a naval brig, unable to communicate even with his family or his lawyers. He remains there "indefinitely," according to officials, who have refused to comply with a judge's order that Padilla be granted access to counsel.


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