Madsen on Lindauer

by **rain** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:12 am

October 12, 2006 -- EXCLUSIVE. It sounds like a case from the old Soviet Union. An activist opposing the government's policies is charged with crimes against the state, declared mentally unbalanced, and forced to take psychotropic drugs in a military prison hospital. However, this case occurred in the United States and involved a Justice Department attempt to silence a one-time CIA asset who was engaged in back channel negotiations with Saddam Hussein's government to avert a war. On September 8, Susan Lindauer, a one-time congressional staffer for Rep. Peter DeFazio and Sen. Ron Wyden or Oregon [Wyden is a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence], and journalist, was ordered released from incarceration from the Bureau of Prisons Carswell Federal Medical Center located at the Naval Reserve Air Station in Fort Worth, Texas. Lindauer, who was never convicted of any crime, spent seven months in the prison hospital and was transferred to New York City where she spent an additional four months in prison. Lindauer claims that from August 1996 to the outbreak of the Iraq war, she served as a back channel intermediary with the Iraqi Mission to the UN in New York and was constantly supervised by her handlers in the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). In March 2004, Lindauer was arrested by the FBI at her Takoma Park, Maryland home and charged with acting as an unregistered agent for the Iraqi government from October 1999 to February 2004 and engaging in illegal financial transactions with the Iraqis. Federal prosecutors also charged Lindauer with meeting Iraqi intelligence agents during a 2002 trip to Baghdad, including a meeting at the Al Rashid Hotel. Lindauer claims that she was one of three CIA assets who were covering the Iraqi Mission to the UN. She said she and the other two assets, who were also being run by the FBI, were charged with being agents for Iraq. From the beginning, the government's case against Lindauer was unique. In his decision ordering Lindauer's release from federal custody, Judge Michael Mukasey of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan ruled that the government could not force Lindauer to take psychotropic drugs in order for her to stand trial in the case. In in a rare departure, Mukasey commented on the government's case against Lindauer before the trial. He stated, "There is no indication that Lindauer ever came close to influencing anyone or could have." The Justice Department maintained that Lindauer attempted to influence her cousin to prevent a U.S. military attack on Iraq. Lindauer's second cousin is none other than Andrew Card, who served as George W. Bush's Chief of Staff and who is a major source for Bob Woodward's revealing book about the Bush march to war, State of Denial. Lindauer's father is John Lindauer, the 1998 GOP candidate for governor of Alaska, who was defeated by Tony Knowles. In rejecting the government's request to force Lindauer to take drugs, Mukasey stated that the government's request raised humanitarian concerns since the procedure "necessarily involves physically restraining defendant so that she can be injected with mind-altering drugs." After her release from custody, Lindauer said she was approached by an attorney who defended one-time CIA agent Edwin Wilson, who was imprisoned for 20 years after being convicted of exporting arms to Libya. Wilson was released in 2003 after a federal judge threw out perjured government evidence that suggested Wilson was not working for the CIA while he was exporting weapons to Libya. The attorney, who also represented imprisoned former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, strongly advised Lindauer to remain silent after her release. Lindauer claims that her liaisons with Baghdad proved successful for the FBI's anti-terrorism efforts. She said that her CIA-sanctioned contacts with Saddam's officials resulted in tacit agreements to have UN weapons inspectors return to Iraq and arranging for an FBI anti-terrorism task force to go to Baghdad. That task force was to have arrived in Baghdad six months before 911 to track terrorists known to the Mukharabat, Iraq's Stasi-like intelligence service. These agreements between the CIA/DIA and Baghdad, hammered out after the USS Cole bombing in Aden, Yemen, were made before Bush's inauguration in January 2001. Lindauer said she briefed Card on the arrangements between U.S. intelligence and Baghdad after he took over as White House Chief of Staff and continued to do so for 18 months after Bush took over the presidency. On the backchannel efforts with Iraq Lindauer stated, "Card knew what was going on." In fact, Lindauer said Iraq passed her intelligence on the planned bombing of the USS Cole and that this was made known to Yemeni authorities. No action was taken by the U.S. Navy to prevent to act on the "actionable intelligence." Lindauer, who said she worked as a journalist for U.S. News and World Report and Fox News Channel and as a media consultant while working as a CIA asset in an unpaid capacity, went to Card before the war and asked him what the White House wanted from Iraq to prevent a war. Lindauer's contacts with Iraq were through the Iraqi Mission to the UN, a relationship she said she cultivated since 1993. As an asset for the CIA, Lindauer claims she was vetted, investigated, and cleared by the agency. Lindauer identifies her two CIA "handlers" as Paul Hoven and Dr. Richard Fuisz (pronounced "fuse'). Lindauer reports that Fuisz was the CIA Station Chief in Damascus during the 1980s and that she first met him in 1994. Fuisz is a most interesting character. An article in the August 10, 1998 issue of New York magazine describes Fuisz as a "a former actor, psychiatrist, pediatrician, congressional candidate, whistle-blower, and entrepreneur who declines to comment on a published report that he has intelligence ties." The article states that Fuisz was involved in a deal with then-Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin and Mikhail Khodorkovsky (the head of the Young Communist League and the currently jailed billionaire oil tycoon) to bring Soviet models to the fashion runways of the United States. Fuisz told Lindauer that it was the Syrian- and Bekaa Valley-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP-GC), led by Ahmed Jibril, and elements of Hezbollah that bombed Pan Am 103 in December 1988 in retaliation for the July 1988 downing by the USS Vincennes of an Iran Air passenger plane in the Persian Gulf. Iran's ambassador in Beirut in 1988, Ayatollah Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, who became Iran's Interior Minister, transferred $10 million to the PFLP-GC to fashion the Toshiba cassette player into a bomb. Libya was fingered by the U.S. government in the bombing after Syria joined George H. W. Bush's anti-Saddam military coalition in 1991 and Iran remained neutral. Two Libyan intelligence agents -- Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah and Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi -- who happened to be in Malta at the same time as Muhammad Abu Talb, a chief PFLP-GC suspect in the bombing, were charged and prosecuted for the Lockerbie bombing. Moreover, Lindauer contends there was advance knowledge of the PanAm 103 bombing because the CIA was tracking heroin out of the Bekaa Valley and was aware of the plot to down the airliner. Stephen Green, a senior Drug Enforcement Administration official; John McCarthy, the U.S. ambassador to Beirut; and officials of the U.S. embassies in Moscow and Helsinki rescheduled their December 21, 1988 reservations on PanAm 103 at the last minute. Lindauer said her work as a CIA asset began in 1995 when she made initial approaches to Libya. Fuisz's name also came up in reports in the UK's Sunday Herald concerning U.S. and U.K. weapons sales to Saddam's government. Lindauer's other alleged CIA handler, Hoven, is reported by Washington media sources to be a long-time "information passer" among Capitol Hill and other DC circles. Lindauer said that Hoven was more interested in Lindauer's personal safety. Lindauer said she was under surveillance by elements close to Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman (the blind Egyptian sheikh who was convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and Hezbollah, as well as Israeli intelligence. Lindauer said that after her arrest she had three choices: go to trial, plead guilty to being an Iraqi unregistered agent, or be declared mentally incompetent. The last option could only be successful for the Bush administration if Lindauer agreed to be given psychotropic drugs. The staff at the Carswell prison hospital in Texas were prepared to testify that Lindauer was perfectly sane. The Bush administration could not accept a trial because Lindauer's intelligence contacts and Andrew Card would be called to testify. That could prove embarrassing for Bush. Lindauer is now out of prison on bail and in a legal limbo called "trial pending." Lindauer's attorney, a federal public defender, told her not to have any contact with Andrew Card because it would be considered "obstruction of justice." Lindauer brought her concerns about pre-war intelligence on Iraq to the office of Mississippi GOP Senator Trent Lott because of contacts she had within his office. She said that within 48 hours, her case was turned over to a federal grand jury. The prosecutors never told the grand jury that Lindauer was a CIA asset. Lindauer scoffs at the conclusion of the Presidential Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (Robb-Silberman Commission) that the CIA was risk averse and not imaginative in dealing with the Iraqi WMD issue. The commission concluded that the CIA and other agencies were "prone to develop self-reinforcing, risk averse cultures that take outside advice badly . . . Rather than thinking imaginatively, and considering seemingly unlikely and unpopular possibilities, the Intelligence Community instead found itself wedded to a set of assumptions about Iraq, focusing on intelligence reporting that appeared to confirm those assumptions." Lindauer said she and her CIA handlers did all the things the commission contended were not done. Lindauer claims her two major contacts in Saddam's government were Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri Ahmad Al-Hadithi and Deputy Foreign Minister Dr. Said Hassan. Lindauer said she met her primary contact, Dr. Hassan, in New York while he was Iraq's ambassador to the UN. Lindauer's stated relationship with Naji Sabri seems to have much merit. In March of this year, NBC News reported that it was Sabri who was CIA director George Tenet's "source who had direct access to Saddam and his inner circle." Former CIA officer Tyler Drumheller told 60 Minutes in April of this year that a "very senior Iraqi official" gave the CIA information on Iraqi WMDs. 60 Minutes confirmed that official was Sabri. Sabri declined the CIA's offer to have him defect to the United States. There were contacts between Sabri and the CIA through the French government prior to the outbreak of the war. Sabri now teaches journalism in Qatar. Lindauer's claims of CIA-sponsored contacts with Sabri and Hassan are thus borne out by the facts. As far as imaginative ways to deal with Iraq, Lindauer said she studied Islamic mysticism (Sufi'ism) to a great degree before talking to Iraqi officials. She claims that this established a common baseline in her dealings with both Iraqis and in a previous CIA-sponsored mission, with the Libyans. Lindauer also claims the CIA set in motion a scheme of "plausible deniability" in her dealings with Iraq. She said the CIA told her to accept Iraq's financing of her 2002 trip to Baghdad, for which she was reimbursed for $5000 by Iraqi officials. Lindauer said her CIA handlers said that if she used her own money to go to Iraq, the Iraqis would "jerk her around" as an emissary of the United States government. Lindauer then told the Iraqis that they would have to pay for her trip to Iraq. She also said the CIA absolutely did not want Lindauer to travel under the auspices of any non-governmental organization (NGO) or anti-sanctions group. Lindauer said the CIA was emphatic about "not mixing with people in the peace community." Lindauer said she was successful in making contact with an Iraqi who had potential to serve as an agent or double agent for the CIA. The diplomat wanted to bring his family to the United States from Iraq. She said the diplomat, after returning to Iraq from the United States, was successful in setting up arch-terrorist Abu Nidal, who lived in a wealthy suburb of Baghdad after being expelled by Libya. Paying the diplomat $1000 in money from a $10,000 fee she received from Saddam's government, the gambit seems to have been worth it. On August 16, 2002, Abu Nidal was assassinated by a Mukhabarat hit squad of 30 men (working for the Mukhabarat's feared assassination unit -- Office <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/glasses.gif ALT="8)"> after Saddam's government was "tipped off" Nidal was conspiring with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in a plot to oust Saddam. Reportedly "found" in Abu Nidal's house were "classified" U.S. documents on a U.S. military attack on Iraq. Lindauer claims that the US Intelligence Community was operating adequately before the Iraq war. She said the CIA and DIA were ensuring rogue regimes like that of Iraq were behaving responsibly. However, she said that although there were backchannels between the CIA and Baghdad, "no one in the Bush administration trusted Saddam." After her trip to Baghdad and her determination that Iraq possessed no WMDs, Lindauer said she passed this information to Fuisz, whose next door neighbor in McLean, Virginia just happened to be Secretary of State Colin Powell. Lindauer insists that her report on no Iraqi WMDs was passed directly to Powell. Lindauer claims that after Powell criticized top people at the CIA for their pre-war intelligence he was chiefly reposnible for having her indicted and sent to jail. Lindauer supported former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter's contention that the inspection process successfully identified suspected targets that turned out not to be weapons-related. Lindauer said she was working to get UN weapons inspectors back into Iraq. She also maintains that Iraq was one of the U.S.'s best sources on anti-terrorist information regarding such groups as Dawa, Al Qaeda, and other Islamist fundamentalist groups. *** <a href="http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/">www.waynemadsenreport.com/</a>

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:46 am

I keep being impressed by Madsen. So the USS Cole bombing was a Let it Happen On Purpose, ay? Makes sense. So many things were in the 1990s and keeping the build-up going for the PNAC-ers to capitalize on migh've been the goal. Lindauer really exposes lots of White House lies. No wonder she's an Enemy of the State. No wonder TheTruthSeeker.co.uk had PanAm 103 included in that 'remote-controlled disinfo' story along with RFK and the Anti-Christ.

by **rain** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:52 am

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>So the USS Cole bombing was a Let it Happen <hr></blockquote> LOL. ya think so Hugh.? Lockerbie Trial Document: Susan Lindauer Deposition 4 December 1998 Last month, MEIB reported that Dr. Richard Fuisz, a major CIA operative in Syria during the 1980s, met with a congressional staffer by the name of Susan Lindauer in 1994 and told her that that the perpetrators of the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland were based in Syria [see "The Lockerbie Bombing Trial: Is Libya Being Framed?" Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, June 200<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/alien.gif ALT="0]"> . One month after their meeting, the Clinton administration, which holds Libya responsible for the bombing, placed a gag order on Dr. Fuisz to prevent him from publicly discussing the issue. <a href="http://911review.org/Lindauer/Lindauer_PanAm103_Deposition.txt">911review.org/Lindauer/Li...sition.txt</a> nb: 'actor' is listed on Fuisz's bio.

by **rain** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:28 am

Susan Lindauer, Lockerbie, and the Neocons I'm still doing what I can to piece together the confusing Susan Lindauer tale, and should have a large-ish article about it soon. A number of commentators on both sides of the political aisle have argued that she is something of a fantasist. Perhaps; perhaps not. In a future piece, I will take a closer look at the evidence proffered to support that idea. The rightist pundits and bloggers have used this incident as the excuse for some exceptionally ugly invective. I was amused by one reactionary commentator who accused Susan Lindauer, and by extension all "lefties," of paranoia. The Lindauer affair has caused the far-right press to damn by association not only all Democrats, but even all those who happen to inhabit the same cities she called home! If that ain't paranoia, what is? Let us concentrate, for the moment, not on this woman's current troubles, but on the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a controversy in which she previously figured. Here are some key factors to consider: 1. In 1998, Lindauer gave a deposition about her 1994 meeting with CIA operative Dr. Richard Fuisz, who insisted that Syria, not Libya, was responsible for the Lockerbie bombing. Libya eventually took responsibility for the act. A few weeks ago, Libyan Prime Minister Shokri Ghanem announced that his country was, in fact, innocent of the crime, and had taken the blame only to "buy peace" with America. Make of that claim what you will. 2. Fuisz, we are told, previously had functioned as a source for journalist Seymour Hersh. Fuisz also appears in a 1995 book called "Shell Game" by Peter Mantius, about the Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro scandal -- i.e., Iraqgate, the covert funding of of Saddam Hussein's regime by American and other interests. I have not yet read this book. 3. This same Fuisz appears to head something called Kosmos Pharma. Here is the biographical info available on that company's home page: "Our founder, Richard C. Fuisz, is an internationally recognized inventor in the healthcare field. Listed as inventor on hundreds of US and international patents, Richard Fuisz is the named inventor for such diverse medical inventions as shearform matrix rapid dissolve, the diagnostic diaper, the remotely adjustable stent, and others. Prior to founding Kosmos Pharma, Dr. Fuisz has started and sold numerous companies, including Fuisz Technologies, a public company sold to Biovail, and Medcom, a public company acquired by Baxter International. Richard Fuisz is a Georgetown Medical School alumnus. He completed his residency at Harvard and served in the White House under the Johnson administration. Richard Fuisz can be reached at rfuisz@fuiszmail.com." This resume, if legitimate, does not describe a man given to pulling legs -- except, perhaps, to dress a patient in one of those diagnostic diapers. 4. Some may question whether Dr. Fuisz truly worked for the CIA. Keep in mind: Fuisz could not testify at the Lockerbie trial due to a gag order. If he were not connected to American intelligence, no law could have restrained him. The gag order is quite real. A copy was made available to the UK's Sunday Herald, as that paper reported in its edition of May 28, 2000. (You can find copies of the article online.) The existence of this gag order is the single best piece of evidence that Susan Lindauer is no mere fantasist: She really did meet with a CIA contact, who really did tell her a startling story about Syrian terrorism, and who was subsequently ordered not to discuss further what he said at the meeting. 5. This gag order also gives the lie to the recent New York Times report which describes Fuisz as a mere "businessman." When a major newspaper downplays or hides connections to the intelligence community -- connections that have been established in court -- one should pay close attention. 6. The question may legitimately be asked: Why would a man like Fuisz tell so large a tale to a small-potatoes personage like Susan Lindauer? After all, Fuisz once had the attention of Seymour Hersh. If the good doctor wanted to publicize an alternate view of the Lockerbie affair, why not call one of the most famous reporters in the world? Why speak to a low-level congressional staffer? 7. The Fuisz version of Lockerbie roughly conforms with the Interfor version. Interfor was a private investigation firm (hired by Pan Am) which issued a report on the incident. Most Lockerbie investigators have disparaged this report. Still, it contains many fascinating details. In the pre-internet days, back when documents were passed around via Xerox and fax, the Interfor report received a surprisingly widespread -- and instantaneous -- circulation within the community of parapolitical researchers. 8. Here is where the matter falls outside the crude right/left paradigm favored by the reactionary commentators. The Lindauer deposition, giving the Fuisz version of Lockerbie (call this the "blame Syria" interpretation) was published by the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin. A recent article titled "On the Road to Damascus," by Tom Barry, identifies the MEIB as the organ of a neo-conservative named Ziad K. Abdelnour, "an expatriate investment banker from Lebanon who, together with neocon supporters of Israel's Likud Party and the Christian Right, established the U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon (USCFL) in 1997." The article goes on to list the "core supporters," or "golden circle," of the USCFL: "Elliott Abrams, Richard Perle, Paula Dobriansky, Michael Rubin, and David Wurmser. Other prominent neocons in the Golden Circle include Daniel Pipes (Middle East Forum and U.S. Institute for Peace), Frank Gaffney (Center for Security Policy), Jeane Kirkpatrick (AEI) , Michael Ledeen (AEI), David Steinmann (Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs), and Eleana Benador (Middle East Forum). Also included in this circle of those who have donated $1,000 or more to USCFL is Rep. Eliot Engel (R-NY), the congressional representative who was the main sponsor of the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003. "The USCFL lists Amin Gemayel, who as Lebanon's president in 1983 signed an aborted peace treaty with Israel, as a leading supporter. Although there are a few Muslims in USCFL's Golden Circle, most of the Lebanese-Americans associated with USCFL are Christian, including Abdelnour. In its selected links, USCFL includes the Guardians of the Cedars, a fascistic Christian Right Lebanese organization that has a military wing. The large majority of USCFL supporters, however, are Jewish-Americans." The thrust of Barry's article holds that Abdelnour is to Syria as Achmed Chalabi once was to Iraq: A little-known but powerful tool for "regime change." No wonder the Fuisz claims found sympathetic ears here. These guys are itching for a fight with Syria. That itch began well before Gulf War II. If Syria were found culpable for the Lockerbie atrocity, America would have sent in the Marines. All of which places the objective observer in a very odd situation. Think about it: The rabid supporters of George W. Bush's neoconservative administration are castigating a woman who (if you believed the initial news reports) allegedly "spied" for Iraq, although one wonders what sort of spying she could have accomplished. So far, no-one has claimed that she had access to pertinent classified information. In fact, publication of the indictment now reveals that, technically speaking, the charge against her is not "spying" but acting as an unregistered agent. (The whole matter came to the FBI's attention because she contacted a relative who works for the current administration. Not exactly proper tradecraft!) And yet this same woman first made the news by publicizing the "alternative" view of Lockerbie -- a view which the neo-cons had reason to FAVOR. There was a time, not long ago, when Michael Ledeen, Elliott Abrams, Richard Perle and their comrades very much wanted us to listen to every word Susan Lindauer had to say. Many neocons paid a nice sum of money to an organization which did its damnedest to make sure Susan's voice was heard. What if Interfor -- and Fuisz -- were the ones practicing deception? What if their "blame Syria" account is an example of disinformation -- i.e., the cunning mixure of truth and fiction? What if they pushed this version of the event to satisfy an agenda favored by the USCFL, the neo-cons, and the Likudniks? And what if the idealistic Susan Lindauer was their dupe? It wouldn't be the first time someone "played" a progressive who thought she was getting the inside dope. On the other hand, perhaps Fuisz' words to Lindauer did, in fact, offer insight into the real scoop behind Lockerbie -- in which case, the triumph of the "blame Libya" theory constitutes one of history's most outrageous shams. Worth noting: The Clinton administration gagged the good Dr. Fuisz. That administration was always particularly careful in its relations with Likud. And it certainly did not want war with Syria. Right now, I honestly don't know how to interpret these events. But I sense that more is going on here than we've been told. Never jump to conclusions when attempting to untangle the covert politics of the Middle East. Don't accept a tale as true just because it conforms with your political preconceptions. And don't content yourself with turning over all the rocks -- turn over the rocks beneath the rocks! <a href="http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2004_03_07_cannonfire_archive.html">cannonfire.blogspot.com/2...chive.html</a>

by **rain** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:55 am

From Russia with Sex In northern Turkey in recent years, Russian prostitutes have been so prevalent they have even been given a nickname: Natashas. The Russian girls now so visible in New York started from the same sleepy towns and with essentially the same impulse, but they don't do anything so crude as turn tricks. They're Ultra-Natashas: Clever as well as beautiful, they pursue their goals with mercenary precision. "These girls aren't one-night hookers; they're sink-the-teeth-in hookers," says a television producer who knows them. "They're playing chess. They're looking No. 1 for freedom, No. 2 for lots of money by a quickie marriage or, failing that, a lawsuit. They're very adept with credit cards, and they know you don't get those the first night." "They're very passionate, very beautiful, but very tough," says a bachelor known from Bilboquet to Balthazar. "They want the big life, the money, and they give sex to get it. For a guy with a lot of money, it's great. The girls don't mind if you're older, if you're fat." Says another East Side swain, laughing: "They are the most coldhearted girls I've ever met." The gold-digger pipeline begins in small towns in the former Soviet heartland, whence girls migrate to Moscow or St. Petersburg, "places you can use as a trampoline," says a Russian-born model scout. Once there, they seek out men who can help them bounce up, economically or, better yet, out of the East altogether. In many cases, these men "would not be as effective in the United States at attracting that caliber of woman," says Richard Dean, who opened the first American law office in Moscow. "Girls started to qualify foreigners," the scout continues. "What's he good for? Is he a boyfriend? A potential husband?" The path from Moscow to New York cut through the modeling business. In May 1988, the first Miss Moscow contest was held. A year later came the first Miss USSR, Yulia Sukhanova, a rangy 17-year-old Moscow schoolgirl with gray-blue eyes, blonde hair, and a beauty mark over one eyebrow. Though she didn't know it, her modeling career was facilitated by Richard Fuisz (pronounced fuse), a former actor, psychiatrist, pediatrician, congressional candidate, whistle-blower, and entrepreneur who declines to comment on a published report that he has intelligence ties. Fuisz, who owned a company that did joint ventures in Moscow, was approached by the then-Soviet ambassador to Washington, Yuri V. Dubinin, to set up a modeling agency to prepare the first waves of Soviet beauties for American commerce (which often meant substantial dental work) and protect them from "adverse influences" and bad publicity like magazine "spreads about their teeth," Fuisz says. Sukhanova was the first of ten girls he would oversee. But first, he had to free her from the Soviet Union. He did it with the help of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, now one of Russia's oil billionaires but then the head of the Komsomol, or Young Communist League, and beginning his business career in a computer venture with Fuisz. "Each time Yulia tried to leave, the Moscow City Council canceled her visa," Fuisz reports. The hard-liners were opposed. "With Khodorkovsky's help, I escorted her to the airport and onto a plane to get her out." Soon, she was meeting Miss America, Nancy Reagan, and Sting, shooting the cover of Details, and filming a yogurt commercial. That's when international model agents like John Casablancas started sniffing around Moscow like pigs after truffles...... <a href="http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/nightlife/barsclubs/features/3047/index1.html">newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/...ndex1.html</a>

by * » Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:08 pm

thanks, rain. I'd missed this thread altogether.

by **anotherdrew** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:29 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP-GC), led by Ahmed Jibril, and elements of Hezbollah that bombed Pan Am 103 in December 1988 in retaliation for the July 1988 downing by the USS Vincennes of an Iran Air passenger plane in the Persian Gulf. Iran's ambassador in Beirut in 1988, Ayatollah Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, who became Iran's Interior Minister, transferred $10 million to the PFLP-GC to fashion the Toshiba cassette player into a bomb.<hr></blockquote> that doesn't seem like grounds to "blame Syria" it sounds more like a leader in Iran hiring operatives to get revenge. I'm not sure about how close the Syrian government would have been, would they even have known? Still, I don't see any proof of this story either, but mabe. Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=anotherdrew>anotherdrew</A> at: 10/16/06 10:53 pm

by **maggrwaggr** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:40 am

<a href="http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1855852005">news.scotsman.com/index.c...1855852005</a> And written up here: <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/8/28/21814/6332">www.dailykos.com/story/20...21814/6332</a> Lockerbie evidence was faked by CIA Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked MARCELLO MEGA A FORMER Scottish police chief has given lawyers a signed statement claiming that key evidence in the Lockerbie bombing trial was fabricated. The retired officer - of assistant chief constable rank or higher - has testified that the CIA planted the tiny fragment of circuit board crucial in convicting a Libyan for the 1989 mass murder of 270 people. The police chief, whose identity has not yet been revealed, gave the statement to lawyers representing Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, currently serving a life sentence in Greenock Prison. The evidence will form a crucial part of Megrahi's attempt to have a retrial ordered by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC). The claims pose a potentially devastating threat to the reputation of the entire Scottish legal system. The officer, who was a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland, is supporting earlier claims by a former CIA agent that his bosses "wrote the script" to incriminate Libya. Last night, George Esson, who was Chief Constable of Dumfries and Galloway when Megrahi was indicted for mass murder, confirmed he was aware of the development. But Esson, who retired in 1994, questioned the officer's motives. He said: "Any police officer who believed they had knowledge of any element of fabrication in any criminal case would have a duty to act on that. Failure to do so would call into question their integrity, and I can't help but question their motive for raising the matter now." Other important questions remain unanswered, such as how the officer learned of the alleged conspiracy and whether he was directly involved in the inquiry. But sources close to Megrahi's legal team believe they may have finally discovered the evidence that could demolish the case against him. An insider told Scotland on Sunday that the retired officer approached them after Megrahi's appeal - before a bench of five Scottish judges - was dismissed in 2002. The insider said: "He said he believed he had crucial information. A meeting was set up and he gave a statement that supported the long-standing rumours that the key piece of evidence, a fragment of circuit board from a timing device that implicated Libya, had been planted by US agents. "Asked why he had not come forward before, he admitted he'd been wary of breaking ranks, afraid of being vilified. "He also said that at the time he became aware of the matter, no one really believed there would ever be a trial. When it did come about, he believed both accused would be acquitted. When Megrahi was convicted, he told himself he'd be cleared at appeal." The source added: "When that also failed, he explained he felt he had to come forward. "He has confirmed that parts of the case were fabricated and that evidence was planted. At first he requested anonymity, but has backed down and will be identified if and when the case returns to the appeal court." The vital evidence that linked the bombing of Pan Am 103 to Megrahi was a tiny fragment of circuit board which investigators found in a wooded area many miles from Lockerbie months after the atrocity. The fragment was later identified by the FBI's Thomas Thurman as being part of a sophisticated timer device used to detonate explosives, and manufactured by the Swiss firm Mebo, which supplied it only to Libya and the East German Stasi. At one time, Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence agent, was such a regular visitor to Mebo that he had his own office in the firm's headquarters. The fragment of circuit board therefore enabled Libya - and Megrahi - to be placed at the heart of the investigation. However, Thurman was later unmasked as a fraud who had given false evidence in American murder trials, and it emerged that he had little in the way of scientific qualifications. Then, in 2003, a retired CIA officer gave a statement to Megrahi's lawyers in which he alleged evidence had been planted. The decision of a former Scottish police chief to back this claim could add enormous weight to what has previously been dismissed as a wild conspiracy theory. It has long been rumoured the fragment was planted to implicate Libya for political reasons. The first suspects in the case were the Syrian-led Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC), a terror group backed by Iranian cash. But the first Gulf War altered diplomatic relations with Middle East nations, and Libya became the pariah state. Following the trial, legal observers from around the world, including senior United Nations officials, expressed disquiet about the verdict and the conduct of the proceedings at Camp Zeist, Holland. Those doubts were first fuelled when internal documents emerged from the offices of the US Defence Intelligence Agency. Dated 1994, more than two years after the Libyans were identified to the world as the bombers, they still described the PFLP-GC as the Lockerbie bombers. A source close to Megrahi's defence said: "Britain and the US were telling the world it was Libya, but in their private communications they acknowledged that they knew it was the PFLP-GC. "The case is starting to unravel largely because when they wrote the script, they never expected to have to act it out. Nobody expected agreement for a trial to be reached, but it was, and in preparing a manufactured case, mistakes were made." Dr Jim Swire, who has publicly expressed his belief in Megrahi's innocence, said it was quite right that all relevant information now be put to the SCCRC. Swire, whose daughter Flora was killed in the atrocity, said last night: "I am aware that there have been doubts about how some of the evidence in the case came to be presented in court. "It is in all our interests that areas of doubt are thoroughly examined." A spokeswoman for the Crown Office said: "As this case is currently being examined by the SCCRC, it would be inappropriate to comment." No one from the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland was available to comment.

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