- About the author: As a former federal prosecutor, John
Loftus had an insider's knowledge of high level intelligence operations,
including obstruction of Congressional investigations. Loftus resigned
from the Justice Department in 1981 to expose how the intelligence community
had recruited Nazi war criminals and then concealed the files from Congressional
subpoena. After appearing on an Emmy Award winning segment of 60 Minutes,
Loftus has spent the next two decades writing histories of intelligence
cover-ups, and serving as an unpaid lawyer helping other whistleblowers
inside US intelligence. ___
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- A captured Al Qaida document reveals that US energy companies
were secretly negotiating with the Taliban to build a pipeline.
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- The document was obtained by the FBI but was not allowed
to be shared with other agencies in order to protect Enron. Multiple sources
confirm that American law enforcement agencies were deliberately kept in
the dark and systematically prevented from connecting the dots before 9/11
in order to aid Enron's secret and immoral Taliban negotiations.
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- The suppressed Al Qaida document tends to support recent
claims of a cover-up made by several mid-level intelligence and law enforcement
figures. Their ongoing terrorist investigations appear to have been hindered
during the same sensitive time period while the Enron Corporation was still
negotiating with the Taliban. An inadvertent result of the Taliban pipeline
cover-up was that the Taliban's friends in Al Qaida were able to complete
their last eight months of preparations for 9/11 while the Enron secrecy
block was still in force.
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- Although the latest order to block investigations allegedly
resulted from Enron's January 2002 appeal to Vice President Dick Cheney,
it appears that there were at least three previous block orders, each
building upon the other, stretching back for decades and involving both
Republican and Democratic administrations.
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- The first block came in the 1970's, as a result of Congressional
reaction to domestic espionage against the anti-Vietnam war movement.
In a case of blatant over-reaction, the FBI placed all houses of worship
and religious charities off-limits for any surveillance whatsoever unless
there was independent probable cause. This meant that all Mosques and
other Muslim meeting places for terrorist groups were effectively off limits
until after a crime had been committed. The block order was not lifted
until last week by Atty. General Ashcroft. The second block order, in
force since the 1980's, was against any investigation that would embarrass
the Saudi Royal family. Originally, it as designed to conceal Saudi support
for Muslim extremists fighting against the Soviets in Afghanistan and Chechnya,
but it went too far.
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- Oliver North noted in his autobiography, that every time
he tried to do something about terrorism links in the Middle East, he was
told to stop because it might embarrass the Saudis. This block remains
in place. As the combined result of these two blocks, the Saudis were
able to fund middle eastern terrorists in complete secrecy during the 1990's
through a network of Muslim charities in Virginia, Tampa and Florida. The
Saudi funding network was targeted at the destruction of the State of Israel
and the obstruction of the Palestinian peace process.
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- The Saudi funding conduit has now been exposed and shut
down by means of a private lawsuit, Loftus vs. Sami Al Arian, which is
currently pending in Hillsborough County, Florida. The lawsuit, filed
on March 20, 2002, influenced the government into raiding the Saudi charities
in Herndon, Virginia, a few hours later.
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- After filing the Al-Arian lawsuit, Attorney Loftus began
to receive very detailed documents and information about a third block:
a prohibition on investigations concerning the Taliban. In the early 1990's,
a consortium of American oil companies (lead by Unocal) had hired Enron
to determine the profitability of building an oil and gas pipeline across
Afghanistan so that America could have access to the Caspian Sea Basin,
holding 1/8th of the worlds energy supplies.
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- There is no doubt that these secret negotiations existed,
and that they were known to Al Qaida. Loftus recently received an FBI
translation of a highly classified and encrypted Al Qaida document, circa
1997-1998, which was retrieved and decrypted from a computer laptop following
the Embassy bombing in Africa. The document was written by Osama Bin Laden's
military commander, Mohammed Atef, under his nom de guerre, Abu Haf, and
reveals extensive knowledge of the supposedly secret pipeline negotiations,
and their potential economic worth to the Taliban, Pakistan and the U.S.Former
Afghanistan CIA agent Robert Baer has recently published a book charging
that the cover-up of the 1990's pipeline negotiations revealed extensive
financial corruption inside the Clinton administration, and contributed
to the lack of intelligence before 9/11. The Taliban negotiations temporarily
collapsed in 1999 after Clinton reversed his NSC advisor's policy, and
ordered a missile strike against terrorists in Afghanistan.
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- However, in January 2001, Vice President Cheney allegedly
reinstated the intelligence block and expanded it to effectively preclude
any investigations whatsoever of Saudi-Taliban-Afghan oil connections.
Former FBI counter-terrorism chief John O'Neil resigned from the FBI in
disgust, stating that he was ordered not to investigate Saudi-Al Qaida
connections because of the Enron pipeline deal. Loftus has confirmed that
it was O'Neill who originally discovered the AL Qaida pipeline memo after
the Embassy bombings in Africa. O'Neill gave an overview of the Enron
block to two French authors who will soon be publishing in the United States.
The FBI is currently investigating Loftus' links to John O'Neill, and
is also refusing FBI agent Robert Wright permission to publish his own
findings about the Enron block.
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- Loftus asserts that the Enron block, which remained in
force from January 2001 until August 2001 when the pipeline deal collapsed,
is the reason that none of FBI agent Rowley's requests for investigations
were ever approved. As numerous British and French authors have concluded,
the information provided by European intelligence sources prior to 9/11
was so extensive, that it is no longer possible for either CIA or the FBI
to assert a defense of incompetence.
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- It is time for Congress to face the truth: In order
to give Enron one last desperate chance to complete the Taliban pipeline
and save itself from bankruptcy, senior levels of US intelligence were
ordered to keep their eyes shut and their subordinates ignorant. The
Enron cover-up confirms that 9/11 was not an intelligence failure or a
law enforcement failure (at least not entirely). Instead, it was a foreign
policy failure of the highest order. If Congress ever combines its Enron
investigation with 9/11, Cheney's whole house of cards will collapse.
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- First published May 31, 2002 http://www.john-loftus.com/enron1.htm#know
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- John J. Loftus 727-821-5227 727-894-1801 fx
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