Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
WHY THE 28-PAGE GAP?
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WHY THE 28-PAGE GAP?
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By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.

July 29, 2003

On July 24, 2003, a joint committee of the U.S. House and Senate
intelligence panels released a report relevant to the terrorist attacks of
September 11, 2001. The New York Times on the day the report was released
characterized its findings as follows: "While saying the attacks could have
been stopped, the report does not blame either agency (FBI or CIA) for
overlooking specific information that would have thwarted the terrorism."
Isn't this contradictory?

Especially noteworthy about the report are 28 pages that are blank because
they contain "classified" material about the possible relationship between
the terrorists and foreign governments, particularly one rumored to be
Saudi Arabia. Supposedly this was done because the Bush administration did
not want to compromise ongoing investigations. However, the question has
been raised as to whether there are other reasons for the administration
wanting this information kept from the public. While no accusation is made,
the following are some questions that one might ponder as to their possible
relevance in this regard:

1. Is former Secretary of State James Baker III a senior partner in
Baker & Botts law firm?
2. Is Baker & Botts representing Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi
Arabia against a lawsuit seeking $1 trillion in damages on behalf of the
victims of the 9/11 attacks?
3. Did Prince Sultan for 16 years approve regular payments to the
International Islamic Relief Organization and two additional grants to the
World Assembly of Muslim Youth, both groups being suspected of aiding the
terrorists?
4. Is not Prince Naif Ibn Abd Al-Aziz another Saudi defendant in the
lawsuit, and didn't he claim the "Zionist-controlled media" in the U.S. is
manipulating the terror war to create a backlash against Muslims?
5. Isn't U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Robert Jordan the former
personal lawyer for President Bush and a founding member of Baker & Botts?
6. Doesn't Baker & Botts represent a number of major transnational
corporations in Saudi Arabia, and with interests in natural gas, petroleum,
banking, etc.? And doesn't Baker & Botts claim that it is "the leading
international law firm involved in the re-emergence of the oil, gas and
hydrocarbon transportation industries in the Caspian region," with the
successful war against the Taliban in Afghanistan opening up more secure
routes?
7. Doesn't President George W. Bush owe James Baker a lot for heading
up his effort in the disputed Florida election results of the presidential
campaign of 2000 A.D.?
8. Toward the end of July 2003, isn't the Bush administration
considering placing James Baker in charge of part of the reconstruction
efforts in Iraq?
9. Didn't James Baker as Secretary of State under President George
H.W. Bush in 1991 say at that time that the Gulf War against Iraq was about
"jobs, jobs, jobs"?
10. Isn't James Baker senior counselor to The Carlyle Group, a merchant
banking firm involved with defense contractors, telecommunications,
aerospace, etc.?
11. Didn't The Carlyle Group receive $50 million to train the Saudi
National Guard, which protects the monarchy there?
12. Isn't former President Bush a consultant and marketer for The
Carlyle Group, and didn't the current President Bush receive fees as
director of a subsidiary of Carlyle?
13. Weren't members of the bin Laden family investors in Carlyle prior
to 9/11?
14. Didn't former President Bush stay with members of the bin Laden
family when he visited Saudi Arabia?
15. Didn't the FBI hurriedly escort members of the bin Laden family out
of the U.S. after 9/11 at the same time it was detaining hundreds of Middle
Eastern males in the U.S. for many months?
16. Were Frank Carlucci, who has been chairman of The Carlyle Group,
and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld former wrestling partners at
Princeton University? And wasn't James Baker a student at Princeton
University at the same time as Carlucci and Rumsfeld?
17. Have not Carlucci and Rumsfeld been members of the Project for the
New American Century, which was a leading force behind the movement to go
to war against Iraq?
18. Didn't the James Baker III Institute for Public Policy and the
Council on Foreign Relations sponsor an independent task force, including
Enron chairman Kenneth Lay and a number of top oil company executives,
which issued a report a year before 9/11 stating that "the exports from
some oil discoveries in the Caspian Basin could be hastened if a secure,
economical export route could be identified swiftly," such as via
Afghanistan? And didn't the task force also refer to the threat that Saddam
Hussein posed to oil markets and recommend that "the United States should
conduct an immediate policy review toward Iraq, including military, energy,
economic, and political/diplomatic assessments"?
19. Relevant to the Congressional report's omissions regarding Saudi
Arabia, hasn't U.S. Senator Charles Schumer said on ABC's This Week that
"it seems that every time the Saudis are involved, we stop. For months and
months, the Saudis didn't give us flight manifests of who was on their
planes - the only country [Saudi Arabia] that was allowed to do that. The
Saudis always seem to get a special exception. The administration has to
stop this."?
20. Didn't even Republican Senator Richard Shelby say that most of the
"classified" material in the Congressional report should have been released?
21. Hasn't former Middle East CIA agent Robert Baer said on NBC's
Dateline that "no one in the White House is ready to take on the Saudi
royal family. The deliberate blindness came from the top, because the
orders were, and they're implicit, do not collect information on Saudi
Arabia, because you're going to risk annoying the royal family. Don't even
look at it as a conspiracy. It's a consent of silence. The fundamentalists
get what they want. The royal family gets what they want. American
contractors and business get what they want."?
22. Didn't Kai Bird (who has written for The Washington Post, Los
Angeles Times, and The Nation) write an essay years ago titled, "Co-opting
the Third World Elites: Trilateralism and Saudi Arabia," in which one reads
that "the major strategy, according to the trilateralists, is to entangle
the Saudis with the Americans and assure them a stake in the established
economic order"? And didn't Bird further state that ARAMCO (representing
Mobil, Exxon, Texaco and Standard Oil of California) "has created a company
state in Saudi Arabia," working with "the Saudi elite," and "thus unknown
to the American people - and without any real public debate - quiet
alliances are being negotiated (supposedly on their behalf) to secure
necessary natural resources, and oil in particular, that are controlled by
the autocratic elites of a few regional Third World powers"?
23. Hasn't James Baker been a co-chairman of Mikhail Gorbachev's State
of the World Forum, where the first director of the Trilateral Commission,
Zbigniew Brzezinski, proclaimed we "cannot leap into world government
through one quick step, but rather via progressive regionalization"? And
isn't a stable Middle Eastern region necessary before it can be linked to
American, European and Asian regions? And could this be the ultimate goal?

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Dennis Laurence Cuddy, historian and political analyst, received a Ph.D.
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (major in American
History, minor in political science). Dr. Cuddy has taught at the
university level, has been a political and economic risk analyst for an
international consulting firm, and has been a Senior Associate with the
U.S. Department of Education. He has also testified before members of
Congress on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice. Dr. Cuddy has
authored or edited seventeen books and booklets, and has written hundreds
of articles appearing in newspapers around the nation, including The
Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He has been a guest on
numerous radio talk shows in various parts of the country, such as ABC
Radio in New York City, and he has also been a guest on the national
television programs USA Today and CBS's Nightwatch.

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