Wayne Madsen on Chertoff connection to Zim shipping

by **darkbeforedawn** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 12:33 am

March 3, 2006 -- The Israeli, Dubai, Chertoff connection -- its just the tip of the Russian-Israeli mafia and "Al Qaeda" iceberg. Michael Brown, the former head of FEMA, deserves credit for blowing the whistle on the "agenda" of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. For years, a handful of prosecutors, FBI agents, and investigative journalists have stressed the connections between Russian-Israeli mafia tycoons, weapons and diamond smugglers, and terrorist networks associated with "Al Qaeda" and affiliated organizations. Yet, it is the much-maligned Brown, a one-time GOP operative and "golden boy," who has taken the initiative to call for Chertoff's firing and a complete overhaul of the Homeland Security Department. Even in these strange times, this is an amazing turn of events and begs the question of what Brown knows about Chertoff and his connections to Dubai and covering up terrorist investigations. Brown is in the unique position of being aware of Dubai's major role in horse racing (and possibly money laundering) and being briefed on various maritime and other terrorist threats as head of FEMA. Which means that Brown may have enough information to be very dangerous to the Bush crime family. Chertoff is a long-time GOP political hack and neo-con operative. He was the Special Counsel for the Senate "Whitewater" Committee from 1994 to 1996, a costly effort to create a political scandal for President Clinton and Hillary Clinton where there was no scandal. Hillary Clinton, to her credit, cast the lone vote against Chertoff's confirmation as a federal judge in 2003. There is one thing that Hillary Clinton and Michael Brown agree on -- they both despise Chertoff. And with good reason. Chertoff was the head of the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the Justice Department in the lead up to and aftermath of the 911 attacks. It was Chertoff who ordered the FBI not to pursue Mossad cells discovered to be operating alongside the hijacker cells in northern New Jersey. With FBI and other field law enforcement reports on suspicious Israeli office "mover" activity in the New York-New Jersey area in the months prior to 911, Chertoff failed to order an investigation of why Zim-American Israeli Shipping Company suddenly terminated its lease of offices on the 16th and 17th floors of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, forfeiting a $50,000 deposit a week prior to 911 and moving its operations to Norfolk. Zim's parent company, Zim Israel Navigation Co, is half owned by the Israeli government. Norfolk's port operations are due to come under Dubai Ports World ownership if the buy-out deal is approved. Therefore, it is no surprise that Zim's chairman wrote to Senator Clinton offering high praise for Dubai Ports World and revealed that Zim and Dubai Ports are "strong business partners." Zim's chairman also revealed that Zim's ships use Dubai ports but under different flags other than Israeli. Chertoff: Derailed major investigation of Al Qaeda weapons smuggling in New Jersey. Was he protecting Israeli involvement in Al Qaeda financing activities? Chertoff also failed to investigate the presence on the 33rd floor of the North Tower of the Trade Center of the Yemen Import Company, an office that, like Zim Shipping, had been cleared of all its personnel in the weeks prior to 911, leaving only an answering machine and fax in place. As Assistant US Attorney, Chertoff also declined to prosecute Dr. Magdy Elamir, an Egyptian-born neurologist in Jersey City who was implicated in an FBI/ATF arms trafficking investigation code named Operation Diamondback. It turned out that Elamir was a Chertoff's client in a fraud case brought against Elamir's HMO by the state of New Jersey. NBC's Dateline, on August 2, 2002, referred to a 1998 foreign intelligence report obtained by the network, "The report alleges that an H.M.O. owned by Dr. Elamir in New Jersey was 'funded by ben [sic] Laden' and that in turn Dr. Elamir was skimming money from the H.M.O. to fund 'terrorist activities.'" New Jersey investigators discovered that $15 million in funds from Elamir's HMO were unaccounted for and Dateline determined that some of the funds were transferred to off-shore bank accounts. Chertoff represented Elamir at the time the money was shifted to the off-shore bank accounts. The weapons smugglers targeted by Diamondback also included those who were smuggling nuclear components to the A Q Khan network. It was this network that was a prime focus of Valerie Plame Wilson and her Brewster Jennings and Associates covert CIA operatives. On January 14, 2005, Dateline's Chris Hansen interviewed ATF agent Dick Stoltz, the supervisor of Diamondback: “In the summer of 1999, a group of illegal weapons dealers were meeting at a warehouse in Florida, their conversations recorded by federal investigators. One of the men, from Pakistan, was seeking technology for nuclear weapons. Who did he say he was working for? Dick Stoltz: “Dr. Abdul Khan.” Chris Hansen: “A.Q. Khan.” Dick Stoltz: “A.Q. Khan.” Former federal undercover agent Dick Stoltz was posing as a black market arms dealer. Hansen: “Did you realize what you had at the time?” Stoltz: “No. We didn't.” But now he does -- because A.Q. Khan is considered, by some, to be the most dangerous man in the world. Why? Because Dr. Khan has peddled nuclear weapons technology to some of the countries the United States considers most dangerous, and some accepted his offers.” “Undercover federal agent Dick Stoltz says there's evidence Khan's operatives were at work here in the U.S., like a man who asked if Stoltz could supply heavy water, an ingredient used to make plutonium for nuclear bombs. Stoltz: “He said that Dr. Khan was handling the negotiations behind the scene, as far as -- the heavy water.” Chertoff, in a major conflict-of-interest, abused his authority to cover up the involvement of his client in the Diamondback probe. Now you are really doing a "heckuva job Brownie!" What does Brown know about Dubai and horse betting/laundering and Chertoff's covering for Dubai from his days as International Arabian Horse Association Commissioner? Other than the Homeland Security Secretary's complete incompetence during Hurricane Katrina, why would someone like Michael Brown have special animosity towards Chertoff? Perhaps Brown's past job as Commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association (IAHA) had something to do with his sudden call for Chertoff's firing in the wake of the Homeland Security chief's approval of the Dubai Ports World deal to take over operations at 21 U.S. ports. Close Bush family friend, the Emir of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, is an avid horse racing fan and owner (as was the Emir's late father). Dubai is the venue for an annual thoroughbred racing event where millions of dollars change hands in betting. Horse betting in Dubai is believed by law enforcement officials to be a major conduit for money laundering in the region -- something that must have been known to Brown as the oversight authority for the IAHA. In what could be the most dramatic outcome of the Bush criminal scandal, Brown's experience with the IAHA may prove embarrassing to Chertoff and the Bush criminal cartel as Dubai comes under sharper focus. Dubai is also an important diamond center. And that brings us into Osama bin Laden's connections to the Israeli diamond trade. The following was sent to WMR by a journalist source who was in Peshawar, Pakistan in the weeks following U.S. intervention in Afghanistan. The information comes from a Taliban member who escaped into Pakistan: "Osama left Afghanistan in a party of 26 people, mostly his family members, on November 4 [2001]. He left from the "south." [possibly southern Iran]. "This may surprise you, but you must understand the nature of business. A business partnership is based on years of trust, and it is totally separate from political or national loyalties." "Osama, when he realized that he was trapped between the Northern Front and the US forces, called on an old business partner, who flew in his jetliner, and ferried Osama to Africa." "Osama was a rich man, a millionaire, but spend a lot on the Afghan war and reconstruction. While he was in Africa in exile, the Israelis approached him to take over the diamond business from the Lebanese in West Africa. (background: Muslims provide the strong arm for the raw diamond trade in West Africa, and it required a respected and tough Muslim like Osama to wrestle the trade away from the Shi'ites from southern Lebanon. The Israelis could not stand the thought of their Antwerp diamond industry financing suicide bombers in south Lebanon)." "With the diamond trade under his control, Osama became a billionaire (repeat), a billionaire . . . The diamonds were sent to the Russian mafiyah, who then sold to Antwerp." (Antwerp, btw, was where the shoe bomber and countless other "terrorists" were financed and where AQ [Khan] money was being wired to New York via Hassidim diamond merchants.) For building materials and equipment, Bin Laden's construction family routinely dealt with Jewish businessmen through Yemen. Since Saudis could have no direct dealings, the Bin Ladens used Yemenis, who lived alongside Jews in their Yemeni homeland. This is how Osama's father became so big. "Inside Afghanistan, the Taliban were not anti-Jewish because the Pashtun tribe are one of the "lost tribes of Israel". Our customs and names are identical to those of the Jews. So there was no problem in fighting the Soviet occupation and then Shiite enemy, and Osama led this fight." In fact, this communique from Peshawar is born out by the story of Ambuy Gem Corporation president Yehuda Abraham, who was arrested at his New York "Diamond District" office in 2003 for his involvement in a Russian shoulder mounted missile launcher smuggling ring involving a British national with ties to the Viktor Bout smuggling ring, Hemant Lakhani, and a Malaysian national believed to have ties to Jemaah Islamiya, the Al Qaeda affiliate in southeast Asia. Bout's smuggling network was partly based in Dubai. Abraham, a Bukharan Jewish native of Afghanistan who spoke Pashto and Urdu. An well-placed Israeli source told WMR that Afghan-born Jews are so rare, Abraham would "have most certainly been used as an agent by Mossad." But Abraham, like Zim Shipping, had special dispensation under the Arab boycott of Israel. A U.S.-Israeli dual national, Abraham maintained a diamond store in the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. His primary clientele: the Saudi royal family. It was also discovered that Abraham was operating a "hawalah" -- an Islamic money transfer network -- from his diamond business. It was that hawalah that was used to transfer money from the weapons sales out of the United States. Moreover, Osama bin Laden's diamond courier who fenced West African diamonds into the Hassidim-run Hatton Garden, London diamond district went by the very non-Muslim-sounding name of "Cyril Jacob." A former Mossad chief told this editor in 2002 that if one wanted to find the source for most of Al Qaeda's funding, you didn't need to look any further than West Africa's diamond trade and "the six biggest U.S. banks in New York." In addition, Osama Bin Laden is reported to own a fleet of merchant ships, something that makes the Dubai Ports World deal and Chertoff's endorsement of it even more suspect. Some of these ships reportedly are registered to China White Lines and involve Sicilian mafia business fronts. August 1993 Rashid bin Maktoum, the then-Crown Prince of Dubai opened a jewelry equipment manufacturers trade show in the emirate-- the show highlighted the equipment needed for stone cutting and other jewelry-making processes. Soon, Dubai rivaled Antwerp and Tel Aviv as a major diamond processing center -- a business in which Bin Laden is now heavily invested. Dubai Ports World and Zim Shipping, Michael Chertoff and Osama financiers and A Q Khan smugglers, New York and London Hassidim diamond dealers and Al Qaeda and affiliated terrorist organizations are connecting more dots. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=rigorousintuition>Rigorous Intuition</A> at: 3/3/06 9:43 pm

by **dbeach** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:41 am

"a costly effort to create a political scandal for President Clinton and Hillary Clinton where there was no scandal. Hillary Clinton, to her credit, cast the lone vote against Chertoff's confirmation as a federal judge in 2003. There is one thing that Hillary Clinton and Michael Brown agree on -- they both despise Chertoff. And with good reason.' hard to believe that there was no scandal...given the bush/clintons nexus to Mena AR and dope smugglin.. HOWEVER Mickey BIG BRO is another neo-con traitor and mossad operative..and very deep in the 9/11 crime of the century DU banned Madsen citings..so MAYBE he is putting out some Truths... Clintons and Truth are near polar opposites. Brownie could easily be the next fall guy.

by **BajaSur** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:01 am

Sorry if this takes things off topic, but I would like to point out the possible relations of Magdy Elomir, Mohamed El Amir and Mohamed Atta. Mohamed El Amir is definitly Atta's father, now whether Magdy Elomir and Mohamed El Amir are brothers seems to be muddied by disinfo(?). Complicating this issue is the fact that David Duke and places like Stormfront make the case that they are brothers. Which seems to be a discrediting tactic IMO.There are other sites that outright say Mohamed El Amir and Mohamed Atta El Amir only share a surname(which isn't true). I don't follow any of the clone planes, holograms, pods, exploding rebar, well placed mini nuclear bombs,MIHOP or LIHOP. I don't think any of those discussions are going to lead anywhere.I do believe though that Chertoff's connection to Dr Magdy Elomir is key and should be discussed more in the 911 movement. Thank you darkbeforedawn for posting this article. Heres an article that makes the connection. From OpEd News: <a href="http://www.opednews.com/duncan_011205_NJ_Terrorism_Michael_Chertoff.htm">New Jersey and Terrorism</a> snip So at this point we now have information that Dr. Magdy Elamir along with his brother Mohamed El Amir have ties to Osama Bin Laden and yet neither one of them is arrested. Randy Glass says in fact that “federal agents told him to drop the matter.” All of this information made me wonder what a person has to do in New Jersey to lose his or her medical license? I also wondered why Dr. Elamir had never been arrested for his connections to Osama Bin Laden? The only logical reason I could figure that Dr. Magdy Elamir was still practicing medicine was that he must have had one fine well connected lawyer. I then took a closer look at the articles and court documents I had collected on Dr. Magdy Elamir and they revealed who his lawyer was. “Elamir did not return repeated phone calls seeking comment. But his attorney, Michael Chertoff, said several of the five MRI centers may be exempt from licensing requirements, a position questioned by state health officials.” (13) The same article states that Dr. Elamir’s lawyer, Michael Chertoff, also represented him in the fraudulent HMO case: ”Chertoff, who has represented Elamir at court hearings on the state takeover of APPP, said he did not know why the MRI centers did not provide financial help for the troubled HMO, as envisioned in the agreement. Elamir has been accused by the state of diverting state Medicaid funds to other businesses he owns. In a civil proceeding, the state alleges that American Preferred Provider illegally"loaned"more than $ 4 million to two start-up HMOs in Michigan and Washington, D.C., also owned by Elamir, and that APPP paid Elamir and various other businesses he owned more than $ 5 million out of Medicaid funds.” (13) I didn’t know who Michael Chertoff was when I ran across his name as the attorney who defended Dr. Elamir in his fraudulent HMO and MRI cases, so I did some research. I was completely blown away by what I discovered about Michael Chertoff. As it turns out, Michael Chertoff was appointed Assistant Attorney General, under John Ashcroft, in early 2001 and was placed in charge of the Criminal Division. (16) Since Operation Diamondback was an active case when he took office, and culminated in arrests in June of 2001, the case would have fallen under his pervue since it was handled as a criminal case and not as a counterterrorism case. This means that one of his former clients, Dr. Magdy Elamir, along with his brother Mohamed El Amir, were now involved in a case under his supervision. --------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the same Mohamed El Amir that said the London bombings were a good thing, and also claimed his son could never be one of the 911 hijackers. Its all there, one just has to weed out the disinfo. I'm sure this is old news to many here, but its always good to inform those who might not be aware of this story. The OpEd article is a good one with alot of info in it.

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 8:00 am

Chertoff helped block the PTech investigation in Boston, too. Full service croney.

by **Qutb** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 12:25 pm

I always wonder who Madsen's sources are. As far as I understand, they're "people he knows in the NSA"... but the agency doesn't seem to bothered by all this presumably secret and classified information getting out.

by **OnoI812** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 1:24 pm

qutb- Emory did an interesting show on "Leaks" the other week. <a href="http://www.spitfirelist.com/mp3/F_541a.mp3">www.spitfirelist.com/mp3/F_541a.mp3</a> <a href="http://www.spitfirelist.com/mp3/F_541b.mp3">www.spitfirelist.com/mp3/F_541b.mp3</a> I'm just wondering though, are you saying there is no such company as Zim , and they couldn't possibly have terminated their WTC lease and forfeit a $50,000 deposit? and because of that Chertoff need not investigate? Because Madsen is the source? Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=onoi812>OnoI812</A> at: 3/4/06 10:27 am

by **starroute** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 1:43 pm

I have a pile of notes referring to diamonds that I've never tried to correlate. Some relate to blood diamonds in West Africa -- with reference to bin Laden, Viktor Bout, and Pat Robertson. Some have to do with mysterious murders of Jewish diamond merchants (anywhere from New York City to South Africa) that are generally attributed to the Israeli Mafiya. Clearly the diamond trade is a prime conduit for money laundering, but there may be more going on than that. Add in South Africa -- the South African connection in various of these nuclear triggers and such that often seem to end up shipped through Dubai -- and conceivably even Jack Abramoff's South African ties (though I'm less sure about those) -- and a pattern seems ready to emerge. Speaking of Dubai and horse-racing, I also keep wondering if Bush's pal William S. Farish III has any connection here. Oil and horses do seem to go together . . .

by **Qutb** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:15 pm

Onol, it's true that Zim terminated their WTC lease. But this was announced many months before 9/11 - not a sudden decision, as Madsen makes it sound like. And they were just the last one of many companies that had been moving out of the WTC at the time. The Twin Towers weren't an attractive location for businesses any more, for various reasons. Madsen's stories mostly elicit a yawn from me. He doesn't say where he gets his information from (other than "inside sources"), so he's basically telling us to to trust him. And his track record isn't one that inspires that trust in me. The diamond trade is interesting though.

by **Qutb** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:24 pm

I remember, from Bernard-Henri Lévy's "Who Killed Daniel Pearl", that one of the Pakistan's richest men, involved with al-Qa'ida and a suspect in Pearl's murder, who's name was (I think) Saud Menon, was also involved in smuggling boys from Karachi to be jockeys in Dubai.

by **albion** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:32 pm

My impression of Madsen is that he gets his info from multiple sources, which he pases on somewhat uncritically. That is, his site may be sort of a clearinghouse for all manner of "insider" leaks, which could be good info or bad. His longer pieces seem to be a patchwork of various theories strung together. IMO the occasional tidbit of information can be found there, but I take it all with huge grains of salt. Doug Farah has had some pretty good stuff on diamonds and North Africa, among other topics. Although I think he'd do better if he stopped just saying that all this nasty stuff was "troubling" and became a full-on conspiracy theorist, lol. Professionals journalists, what can you do? <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"> <a href="http://www.douglasfarah.com/">www.douglasfarah.com/</a>

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:47 pm

At another board, someone posted that "the UAE is more of a conspiracy than a nation." Dubai is a nuclear smuggling connection to Khan who's files in a court in Amsterdam were stolen, the judge claims, by the CIA. Khan's health is failing and he's been under house arrest for two years now. The neocons and complicit CIA will rejoice when he dies thereby eliminating more evidence being squelched through the Plamegate stopping of nuclear proliferation investigations. This site is in alternating Dutch and English- <a href="http://intel.web-log.nl/categorie/194490">intel.web-log.nl/categorie/194490</a> <blockquote>Quote:<hr>Dutch court loses Dr Qadeer’s files, CIA suspected The Amsterdam court, which sentenced the father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme Abdul Qadeer Khan to four years in prison in 1983, has lost Khan’s legal files and the court’s vice-president suspects the CIA had a hand in the documents’ disappearance. “Something is not right, we just don’t lose things like that,” judge Anita Leeser told Dutch news show NOVA late Friday. “I find it bewildering that people lose files with a political goal, especially if it is on request of the CIA. It is unheard of,” she added. Dr Khan, who admitted in 2004 that he had leaked nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya, worked as an engineer in the Netherlands at Urenco, an uranium enrichment plant in the 1970s. In 1983 he was sentenced in absentia by judge Leeser to four years in prison for stealing nuclear secrets about uranium enrichment. On appeal the verdict was quashed because of procedural errors and the Dutch government did not pursue the matter any further. A month ago former Dutch prime minister Ruud Lubbers said Dr Khan was let go at the request of the US intelligence services. Leeser said that when she heard Lubbers, the disappearance of Mr Khan’s files at the Amsterdam court’s archive fell into place for her. She has asked to see the Mr Khan case files several years ago but they had disappeared from the archives. “Now I think somebody lost the files on purpose ... I think that there was some political influence at play nationally and internationally,” she said. (Source: AFP/Dawn, 10 September 2005, www.dawn.com)<hr></blockquote> <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-1000183,00.html">www.timesonline.co.uk/art...83,00.html</a> <blockquote>Quote:<hr>In October, US agents intercepted a German-owned ship, BBC China, loaded with centrifuge components, bound for Libya, which they had traced from Malaysia through Dubai. The components had been made in Malaysia.<hr></blockquote> <a href="http://www.kashmirherald.com/featuredarticle/nuclearjihad.html">www.kashmirherald.com/fea...jihad.html</a> <blockquote>Quote:<hr>Right from its inception, the clandestine nuclear and missile projects in Pakistan were treated as a top secret intel op of the ISI to ensure deniability. All payments to the foreign suppliers were made not from the accounts of the Govt of Pakistan, but from private accounts in the BCCI, which collapsed in 1991, and other Dubai and Geneva based banks. These accounts were opened by the Gokul brothers of Geneva, one of whom was jailed for cheating in the UK after the collapse of the BCCI; Shaukat Aziz, Pakistan’s present Finance<hr></blockquote>

by **Qutb** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:49 pm

Yes, Farah is interesting. On the same topic - the murky world where organized crime meets international terrorism - I like Loretta Napoleoni a lot.

Wayne Madsen on Chertoff connection to Zim shipping

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Chertoff and Magdy Elamir

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The diamond trade might be interesting to track

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Re: Nuclear smuggling, Khan, Dubai, CIA, Plamegate.

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