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Andreas von Buelow: 11th
September 2001: False tracks |
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FORMER GERMAN CABINET MINISTER ATTACKS OFFICIAL
BRAINWASHING ON SEPT. 11 ISSUE, POINTS AT "MAD DOG" ZBIG AND
HUNTINGTON
[Source:
Tagesspiegel, Berlin, Jan. 13, 2002]
In a full-page interview
with the Sunday edition (Jan. 13) of the Berlin {Tagesspiegel} daily, former German
Minister of Technology, Andreas von Buelow, said he does not buy any of the
official theories that have been presented to date, on the events of September
11.
The apparent failure of the
U.S. Administration including its 26 secret agencies with an annual budget of
$30 billion, to come up with any convincing assessment, was one big problem
that von Buelow addressed, in quite some detail.
He then addressed the role
of the official "brainwashing of the Western mass democracies" (sic!)
on the Sept. 11 issue, in promoting the new enemy image of "Islamic
terrorism," along lines developed earlier, by senior advisors of the U.S.
Administration:
"I am not the origin of
the idea of the enemy image. It originates with Zbigniew
Brzezinski and Samuel Huntington, two pioneers of American secret intelligence
and foreign policies. Already in the mid-1990s, Huntington opined that people
in Europe and the USA needed someone they could hate – that would strengthen
the identification with their own society. And Brzezinski, that mad dog (sic!), already at his
time as advisor
to President Jimmy Carter, campaigned for the sole right of the USA to all the
world's raw materials, especially crude oil and natural gas."
Von Buelow also addressed
the role of Brzezinski, personally, in setting up the {afghansi} operation of
armed "Islamic" guerilla warfare against the USSR Afghanistan
invasion in and after 1979 -- the Taliban being generated by the same
operation, after all.
As for the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks as such, von Buelow remarked: "Planning the attacks was
a master deed, in technical and organizational terms. To hijack four big
airliners within a few minutes and fly them into targets within a single hour
and doing so on complicated flight routes! That is unthinkable, without backing
from the secret apparatuses of state and industry." He added that laying false
tracks of investigation has been an accompanying feature of covert operations ever since they
have been launched by influential agencies, so that he is convinced that the full
truth behind Sept. 11 still has to be sought. (rap)
(DRAFT) [Source: Tagesspiegel, Jan. 13] PARTIAL TRANSLATION
{The following interview with Von Buelow
appeared in the German
daily }Tagesspiegel,{ on Jan. 13.}
Q:
You seem so angry, really upset.
Von
Buelow: I can explain what's bothering
me: I see that
after the horrifying attacks of Sept. 11, all
political public
opinion is being forced into a direction that
I consider wrong.
Q:
What do you mean by that?
Von
Buelow: I wonder why many questions are
not asked.
Normally, with such a terrible thing, various
leads and tracks
appear that are then commented on, by the
investigators, the
media, the government: Is there something here
or not? Are the
explanations plausible? This time, this is not
the case at all.
It already began just hours after the attacks
in New York and
Washington and--
Q:
In those hours, there was horror, and grief.
Von
Buelow: Right, but actually it was
astounding: There
are 26
intelligence services in the U.S.A. with a budget of $30
billion--
Q:
More than the German defense budget.
Von
Buelow: --which were not able to
prevent the attacks.
In fact, they didn't even have an inkling they
would happen. For
60 decisive minutes, the military and
intelligence agencies let
the fighter planes stay on the ground, 48 hours later, however,
the FBI presented
a list of suicide attackers. Within ten days,
it emerged that
seven of them were still alive.
Q:
What, please?
Von
Buelow: Yes, yes. And why did the FBI chief take no
position regarding contradictions? Where the
list came from, why
it was false? If I were the chief investigator
(state attorney)
in such a case, I would regularly go to the
public, and give
information on which leads are valid and which
not.
Q:
The U.S. government talked about an emergency situation
after the attacks: They said they were in a
war. Is it not
understandable that one does not tell the
enemy everything one
knows about him?
Von
Buelow: Naturally. But a government which goes to war,
must first establish who the attacker, the
enemy, is. It has a
duty to provide evidence. According to its own
admission, it has
not been able to present any evidence that
would hold up in
court.
Q:
Some information on the perpetrators has been proven with
documents. The suspected leader, Mohammad
Atta, left Portland for
Boston on the morning of Sept. 11, in order to
board the plane
that later hit the World Trade Center.
Von
Buelow: If
this Atta was the decisive man in the
operation, it's
really strange that he took such a risk of taking
a plane that would
reach Boston such a short time before the
connecting flight.
Had his flight been a few minutes late, he
would not have
been in the plane that was hijacked. Why should a
sophisticated terrorist do this? One can, by
the way, read on CNN
(Internet) that none of these names were on
the official
passenger lists. None of them had gone through
the check-in
procedures. And why did none of the threatened
pilots give the
agreed-upon code 7700 over the
[Steuerknueppel: STEERING NOB?] to
the ground station? In addition: The black
boxes which are fire
and shock proof, as well as the voice
recordings, contain no
valuable data--
Q:
That sounds like--
Von
Buelow: --like
assailants who, in their preparations,
leave tracks behind
them like a herd of stampeding elephants?
They made payments
with credit cards with their own names; they
reported to their
flight instructors with their own names. They
left behind rented
cars with flight manuals in Arabic for jumbo
jets. They took
with them, on their suicide trip, wills and
farewell letters,
which fall into the hands of the FBI, because
they were stored
in the wrong place and wrongly addressed. Clues
were left like behind like in a child's game
of hide-and-seek,
which were to be followed! There is also the
theory of one
British flight engineer: According to this, the steering of the
planes was perhaps
taken out of the pilots' hands, from outside.
The Americans had developed a method in the
1970s, whereby they
could rescue hijacked planes by intervening
into the computer
piloting [automatic pilot system]. This theory
says, this
technique was abused in this case. That's a
theory....
Q:
Which sounds really adventurous, and was never
considered.
Von
Buelow: You see! I do not accept this
theory, but I
find it worth considering. And what about the
obscure stock
transactions? In
the week prior to the attacks, the amount of
transactions in
stocks in American Airlines, United Airlines, and
insurance
companies, increased 1,200%. It was for a value of $15
billion. Some
people must have known something. Who?
Q:
Why don't you speculate on who it might have been.
Von
Buelow: With the help of the horrifying attacks, the
Western
mass democracies were subjected to brainwashing. The
enemy image of
anti-communism doesn't work any more; it is to be
replaced by
peoples of Islamic belief. They are accused of having
given birth to suicidal terrorism.
Q:
Brainwashing? That's a tough term.
Von
Buelow: Yes? But the idea of the enemy
image doesn't
come from me. It comes from Zbigniew
Brzezinski and Samuel
Huntington, two policy-makers of American
intelligence and
foreign policy. Already in the middle of he
1990s, Huntingon
believed,
people in Europe and the U.S. needed someone they could
hate--this
would strengthen their identification with their own
society.
And Brzezinski, the mad dog, as adviser to President
Jimmy
Carter, campaigned for the exclusive right of the U.S. to
seize
all the raw materials of the world, especially oil and gas.
Q:
You mean, the events of Sept. 11--
Von
Buelow: --fit perfectly in the concept
of the armaments
industry, the intelligence agencies, the whole
military-industrial-academic complex. This is
in fact
conspicuous. The
huge raw materials reserves of the former Soviet
Union are now at
their disposal, also the pipeline routes and--
Q:
Erich Follach described that at length in {Spiegel}:
``It's a matter of military bases, drugs, oil
and gas
reserves.''...
Von
Buelow: I can state: the planning of
the attacks was
technically and organizationally a master
achievement. To
hijack
four
huge airplanes within a few minutes and within one hour, to
drive
them into their targets, with complicated flight maneuvers!
This is
unthinkable, without years-long support from secret
apparatuses
of the state and industry.
Q:
You are a conspiracy theorist!
Von
Buelow: Yeah, yeah. That's the ridicule
heaped [on
those raising these questions] by those who
would prefer to
follow the official, politically correct line.
Even investigative
journalists are fed propaganda and
disinformation. Anyone who
doubts that, doesn't have all his marbles!
That is your
accusation.
Q:
Your career actually speaks against the idea that you are
not in your right mind. You were already in
the 1970s, state
secretary in the Defense Ministry; in 1993 you
were the SPD
[Social Democratic Party] speaker in the
Schalk-Golodkowski
investigation committee--
Von
Buelow: And it all began there! Until
that time, I did
not have any great knowledge of the work of intelligence
agencies. And now we had to take note of a
great discrepancy: We
shed light on the dealings of the Stasi and
other East bloc
intelligence agencies in the field of economic
criminality, but
as soon as we wanted to know something about
the activities of
the BND [German intelligence] or the CIA, it
was mercilessly
blocked. No information, no cooperation,
nothing! That's when I
was first taken aback.
Q:
Schalck-Golodkowski mediated, among other things, various
business deals abroad. When you looked at his
case more closely--
Von
Buelow: We found, for example, a clue
in Rostock, where
Schalck organized his weapons depot. Well,
then we happened upon
an affiliation of Schalck in Panama, and then
we happened upon
Manuel Noriega, who was for many years President, drug dealer,
and money launderer, all in one, right? And
this Noriega was also
on the payroll of
the CIA, for $200,000 a year. These were things
that really made me curious.
Q:
You wrote a book on the dealings of the CIA and Co. In
the meantime, you have become an expert
regarding the strange
things related to intelligence services' work.
Von
Buelow: ``Strange things'' is the wrong
term. What has
gone on, and goes on, in the name of
intelligence services, are
true crimes.
Q:
What would you say determines the work of intelligence
services?
Von
Buelow: So that we don't have any
misunderstandings: I
find that it makes sense to have intelligence
services....
Q:
You don't think much of the earlier proposals by the
Greens, who wanted to dismantle these
agencies?
Von Buelow: No. It is right to take a look behind the
scenes. Getting intelligence about the
intentions of an enemy,
makes sense. It is important when one tries to
put oneself into
the mind of the enemy. Whoever wants to understand the CIA's
methods,
has to deal with its main tasks, {covert operations}:
below
the level of war, and outside international law, foreign
states
are to be influenced, by organizing insurrections,
terrorist
attacks, usually combined with drugs and weapons trade,
and
money laundering. This is essentially very
simple: One arms
violent people with weapons. Since, however,
it must not under
any circumstances come out, that there is an
intelligence agency
behind it, all traces are erased, with
tremendous deployment of
resources. I have the impression that this kind of intelligence
agency spends 90%
of its time this way: creating false leads. So
that, if anyone suspects the collaboration of
the agencies, he is
accused of the sickness of conspiracy madness.
The truth often
comes out only years later. CIA chief Allen
Dulles once said: In
case of doubt, I would even lie to the
Congress!
Q:
The American journalist Seymour M. Hersh, wrote in the
{New Yorker,} that even some people in the CIA
and government
assumed, that certain leads had been laid in
order to confuse the
investigators. Who, Herr von Buelow, would
have done this?
Von
Buelow: I don't know that either. How
should I? I
simply use my common sense, and--See: The terrorists
behaved in
such a way to attract attention. And as practicing Muslims, they
were in a
strip-tease bar, and, drunken, stuck dollar bills into
the panty of the
dancer.
Q:
Things like that also happen.
Von
Buelow: It may be. As a lone fighter, I cannot prove
anything, that's
beyond my capabilities. I have real
difficulties, however, to imagine that all
this all sprung out of
the mind of an evil man in his cave.
Q:
Mr. von Buelow, you yourself say that you are alone in
your criticism. Formerly, you were part of the
political
establishment, now you are an outsider.
Von
Buelow: That is a problem sometimes,
but one gets used
to it. By the way, I know a lot of people,
including very
influential ones, who agree with me, but only
in whispers, never
publicly.
Q:
Do you still have contact with old SPD companions, such
as Egon Bahr and former Chancellor Helmut
Schmidt?
Von
Buelow: There are no close contacts any
more. I wanted
to go to the last SPD party congress, but I
was sick.
Q:
Can it be, Mr. von Buelow, that you are a
mouthpiece for
typical
anti-Americanism?
Von
Buelow: Nonsense, this has absolutely nothing to do
with anti-Americanism. I am a great admirer of this great, open,
free society, and always have been. I studied in the U.S.
Q:
How did you get the idea that there could be a link
between the attacks and the American
intelligence agencies?
Von
Buelow: Do you remember the first attack on the World
Trade
Center in 1993?
Q: Six people were killed and over a
thousand wounded, by a
bomb
explosion.
Von
Buelow: In the middle was the bombmaker, a former
Egyptian officer.
He had pulled together some Muslims for the
attack. They were
snuck into the country by the CIA, despite a
State Department
ban on their entry. At the same time, the leader
of the band was an
FBI informant. And he made a deal with the
authorities: At the last minute, the dangerous
explosive material
would be replaced by a harmless powder. The
FBI did not stick to
the deal. The bomb exploded, so to speak, with
the knowledge of
the FBI. The official story of the crime was
quickly found: The
criminals were evil Muslims.
Q:
At the time Soviet soldiers marched into Afghanistan, you
were in the cabinet of Helmut Schmidt. What
was it like?
Von
Buelow: The Americans pushed for trade sanctions, they
demanded the boycott of the Olympic games in
Moscow....
Q.... which the German government followed...
Von
Buelow: And today we know: It was the
strategy of the
American security
adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, to destabilize
the Soviet Union
from neighboring Muslim countries: They lured
the Russians into
Afghanistan, and then prepared for them a hell
on earth, their
Vietnam. With decisive
support of the U.S.
intelligence
agencies, at least 30,000 Muslim fighters were
trained in
Afghanistan and Pakistan, a bunch of good-for-nothings
and fanatics who
were, and still are today, ready for anything.
And one
of them is Osama bin Laden. I wrote years ago: ``It was
out of this brood, that the Taliban grew up in
Afghanistan, who
had been brought up in the Koran schools
financed by American and
Saudi funds, the Taliban who are now
terrorizing the country and
destroying it.
Q:
Even though you say, for the U.S. it was a matter of raw
materials n the region, the starting point for
the U.S.
aggression, was the terrorist attack which
cost thousands of
human lives.
Von
Buelow: Completely true. One must always keep this
gruesome act in mind. Nonetheless, in the
analysis of political
processes, I am allowed to look and see who
has advantages and
disadvantages, and what is coincidental.
When in doubt, it
is always worthwhile to take a look at a map,
where are raw
materials resources, and the routes to them?
Then lay a map of
civil wars and conflicts on top of that--they coincide.
The same is the
case with the third map: nodal points of the drug trade.
Where this all
comes together, the American intelligence services
are not far away.
By the way, the Bush family is linked to oil,
gas, and weapons
trade, through the bin Laden family.
Q:
What do you think of the Bin Laden films?
Von
Buelow: When one is dealing with intelligence services,
one can imagine
manipulations of the highest quality. Hollywood
could provide
these techniques. I consider the videos
inappropriate as
evidence.
Q:
You believe the CIA is capable of anything, [wouldn't
stop at anything].
Von
Buelow: The CIA, in the state interests of the U.S.,
does not have to abide by any law in
interventions abroad, is not
bound by international law; only the President
gives orders. And
when funds are cut, peace is on the horizon,
then a bomb explodes
somewhere. Thus it is proven, that you can't
do without the
intelligence services; and that the critics
are {nuts,} as Father
Bush called them, Bush who was once CIA head
and President. You
have to see that the U.S. spends $30 billion
on intelligence
services, and $13 billion on anti-drug work.
And what comes out
of it? The chief of a special unit of the strategic anti-drug
work
declared, in despair, after 30 years of service, that in
every
big, important drug case, the CIA came in and took it out
of my
hands.
Q:
Do you criticize the German government for its reaction
after Sept. 11?
Von
Buelow: No. To assume that the government were
independent in these questions, would be
naive.
Q:
Herr von Buelow, what will you do now?
Von
Buelow: Nothing. My task is
concluded by saying, it
could not have been that way [according to the
official story].
Search for the
truth!
Anmerkung etika.com: Der Gestalter dieser Web-Seite lernte Andreas von Bülow kennen, als er in einem katholischen Wahlkreis zum erstenmal für ein Mandat im Deutschen Bundestag kandidierte. Wenn sich der Bearbeiter recht erinnert, kam von Bülow über die SPD-Landesliste Baden-Württemberg ins Parlament. Er machte auf den Berichterstatter im Gespräch einen distinguierten, vornehmen, souveränen Eindruck und entsprach gar nicht dem landläufigen Bild eines Sozialisten. Bei dieser Gelegenheit erinnern wir an seine Vorfahren und Verwandten (laut DGB-Handlexikon, Berlin 1964):
Bülow,
mecklenburgische Adelsfamilie:
Friedrich Wilhelm, Graf B. von Dennewitz,
preußischer General, * 1755, + 1816; erfolgreich bei Großbeeren (13) und
Belle-Alliance (15).
Bernhard v. (1905 Fürst), Staatsmann, * 1849, + 1929 (Rom); 1900 – 09
Reichskanzler. Schrieb „Denkwürdigkeiten“.
Hans v., Prototyp des modernen Dirigenten. Verfechter der Musik Wagners. *
1830, + 94.
Jedenfalls macht Andreas von Bülow mit diesem Interview im „Tagesspiegel“ seinem Familiennamen alle Ehre.
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