Anonymous
a straight take on Cassandra report -- dissection of part I
Mon Jul 14 00:35:55 2003
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Look, trying to add up all the elements to this story as related by Cassandra doesn't have traction.

First, who is "Zakir"? He's supposed to be some OBL right-hand man or something? This is the first hit for Zakir and "Al Qaeda" --

http://www.aptnlibrary.com/Clipreel_27_Al_Qaeda.htm

"Various of anti-taliban fighters picking through unused ammunition on the ground
SOUNDBITE: (Pashtu) Commander Zakir, Eastern Alliance
"All you can see now has been liberated by our forces and this was held by Al-Qaida troops."

There doesn't seem to be a list of Al Qaeda operatives with a Zakir handy. Without any further information, why should we suppose Zakir exists, or is AQ?

Next. "...it was a secret communique between a senior Al-Qaeda member named Zakir and the head of the Giorgio Armani store, meant for his eys and his eyes only. In fact, the letter sternly enjoins the manager NOT to let this letter be seen by anyone else. As fate would have it, his underlings, unbeknownst to him, opened it on his behalf, paniced, and called the police."

How stupid for a man who has had years of "dealing" with Mr. Manager to blunder in such a way. Perhaps he didn't realize that "underlings" might open Mr. Manager's mail. Drats! Should've mailed it to the home.

Mr. Manager "...[has] also been head of a smuggling ring with cells in seventeen stores like his that sell pricey wares, pilfering goods therefrom and selling them on the street, thus providing THE main revenue source for Al-Qaeda's operations in the US including the attacks on September 11."

Wow! I knew there was a big mark-up on Italian clothes, but I had no idea how much profit was in it. Guess it was pretty darn stupid of that Pakestanian general to have money wired to the high-jackers when all they had to do was pick up the cash on Rodeo drive.

"...the next revelation that blndsided us: the high extent of participation by non-Islamic groups in Al-Qaeda's US operations."

That I can believe.

"I talked to someone I know at the NSA about how Gelynglas
might have engineered such an unfettered spree of theft over two
years time from so many stores without raising an eyebrow. He
said it wouldn't be difficult for a former alumnus of the NSA to
muster the knowhow to bring such a thing about especially if they had a high level of clearance at the agency."

Indeed. But just who really is "Gelynglas"? Note:

"A graduate of Britain's top military academy" Ah! So we're talking about a double-agent. Or would that be triple-agent? Probably a quadruple agent. Just who he really working for is not exactly obvious, in spite of the rest of the story told here.

"More than likely, he said, he probably has either people planted in the sections in charge of procuring the goods that the stores will sell to electronically alter the records or he hacks into the computers himself and does so. Probably a lot of stuff is siphoned off before it even reaches the store. If one had the power to alter the records, none would be the wiser."

None wiser, including Mr. Giorgio Armani himself, customs agents, and tax authorities. No wonder California has a budget crisis. Probably Italy, too.

"Gelynglas put his connctions to good use it appeared as he was able to access the client list of every prostitute in the area and thus entrap anyone in the constabulary or judiciary who happened to be numbered amongst such ranks. By all accounts,this was quite a considerable number, putting the police and courts in these terrorists' pockets. There were also a brood of lowlife police on hand to do their bidding for a price, even going so far as to steal weapons for Al-Qaeda out of the LAPD arsenal."

There is nothing in Cassandra's leak to explain how she acquired this information. It was in the letter? Specify.

"The letter Zakir wrote also referenced Al-Qaeda's ties to
Iraq. It was here that my piers and I at the bureau who read over this letter took the most frightening turn yet in our journey into the heart of darkness, resulting in two more revelations that were nothing short of mind-numbing. The first was that Saddam Hussein indeed had a war-chest filled with weapons of mass destruction and that the reason we're having a hard time finding them is that he parcelled them out to over thirty terrorist groups all over the world including several hundred drones to the American wing of Al-Qaeda/IRA/Meibion Glyndwr."

This is where the serious poppy-cock starts popping. Who in the world manufactured "hundreds of drones", shipped and delivered them -- because it certainly wasn't Iraq. It isn't even easy to figure how a "war-chest" of WMD could have been "parceled" out without any detection.

There is, however, a striking coincidence. Remember the conveniently timed anthrax letters? The attempt to lead America and the rest of the world to jump to the conclusion that it was Iraqi anthrax fell through. Bad timing. It wasn't possible to launch war so quickly against Iraq soon after 911. Within months, it became clear that Iraq was not the source -- and we are still waiting for an arrest.

An enquiring mind might suspect that this drone plot secret was another false-flag operation, for which Iraq is not well known but certain other intelligence outfits certainly are.

The drones would be "hurled at the Alaska-pipeline"? That is hardly a terrorist operation on the scale of today's expectations. Surely better targets would be called for. After all, the drones were supposed to deliver deadly toxins or something. Who were they going to kill by hurling them at a pipeline -- the caribou? Someone stayed in the cave too long. What a waste of perfectly good drones that could wreak mass havoc. However it was good timing, since the coalition of the willing obviously was coming up short in the WMD department over in Irak.

"He had heard from Bin Laden that these two groups had infiltrated NASA and so he set forth a challenge: blow up the space-shuttle Columbia in such a away that no trace of sabotage would ever be suspected. He even supplied special weapons for tis purpose called the 'the ticks of Allah.' The shuttle's destruction would serve as a secret signal to Saddam that they could indeed back their claims of perfect stealth whereupon he would send the drones forthwith."

So now it is not only the secret Irish/Welsh/Muslim alliance that's responsible for the demise of Columbia but they did it *with the ticks of Allah* -- they just didn't have a means to do so without His guidance and little helper Hussein's ticks. No wonder Homeland Security can't keep up with the threats: they just don't have the technology. Increase the budget, or we'll never catch up with Arabic scientists!!

"....these Celtic groups destroyed the Columbia handily with no one suspecting terrorism to this day." Well, that's not totally true. There are quite a number of people who suspect loose foam was not the culprit. Unofficially, of course.

"It's heartbreaking to think that [NASA's] director resigned feeling that the crash of the shuttle was due to his own incompetence." Hey, I say if he can't find ticks, kick his butt out the door.

"On the Texas-Mexcan border, an ambush soon followed during a shipment of these drones in which the henchmen of the cartel decimated the ranks of these three terrorist groups and made off with the prized weapons. As a result, the Tet-offensive of terrorism that was to save Saddam never came off, much to his dismay. Since Al-Qaeda & co could not attack, the other groups apparently lost face as well."

Cartel henchmen outshoot terrorists. Hmmmm, that probably is not good news for the Celts. As for the other groups losing face, that isn't really an Arab sort of thing. More Asian. Maybe it was an Irish/Welsh/Musllim/Yellow Peril gang. Yeah -- that's the ticket.

"In addition to stiffing the terrorists their four million
dollar take of the quarterly earnings the stolen goods brought in, the Giorgio Armani manager consummated the double-cross by mailing Zakir a letter-bomb which, as it turned out, failed to go off in an imbecile attempt to sever the smuggling ring's ties to Al-Qaeda & co once and for all."

Hoo boy, screwing up the mail seems to be a regular habit all around. Nearly $50 mill annually just for AQ's share of the street rag sales would be a tempting prize. You'd think for that much money, Mr. Manager could have hired a reeeelly good hit man instead of risking his own life messing around with technology he doesn't understand as well as Ted Kazynski.

"The letter, laced with a bological agent, which was mailed to
the Giorgio Armani store was meant as a retaliation for the letter bomb the manager sent toZakir."

Now see, here is another big issue. The super-secret threatening letter that no underlings or anyone else was supposed to see was "laced with" something. That's like an open invite to the authorities. In other words, in case you aren't paying attention -- IT SMELLS.

"Feeling it was not enough to tell the manager that if the
substance tainting the letter didn't kill him, he and his
compatriots would do so in person, Zakir felt he needed to launch into a grandiose admonition in which he reminds him of all the blessings that Al-Qaeda showered him and his piers with, and then tries to instill in him the gravity of just how grievous a wrong double-crossing them was."

Now, the smell gets worse. No devout Muslim would write such a thing. It is tantamount to saying that Allah blessed infidels. Of course, that might have escaped the attention of someone who isn't quite devout, isn't Muslim, or a combination of both -- under the influence of Western ideas that money is everything and Westerners/non-Muslims wouldn't question that.

"The letter, with its tales of off-duty officers providing
security for the underground sales of these stolen goods, trial
tampering, and other such shining examples of corruption in
officialdom which served Al-Qaeda and their smuggling ring so well ..."

What is it with these Armani clothes?! Not only do they provide THE major financing for Al Qaeda but now they're putting food on the table for the cops (or swimming pools, or SUVs, or ....) I mean, what's left for Mr. Manager and his friends after splitting it all up. If Giorgio only knew. He might even want to hire Interpol to investigate. Some Italophile intelligence group would have to be used since US and UK services are compromised by the Irish/Welsh/Muslim/Chinese/Mexican/Japanse/Russian alliance.