- While the media plays up the significance
of the government show trial of the seemingly deranged "20th hijacker"
Zacharias Moussaoui, not one 9-11 victim's lawsuit has been allowed to
be heard in a trial by jury. Why have the 9-11 victims' families not been
given the same right to have their cases heard in an open trial by a jury
of their peers?
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- Ellen Mariani, who lost her husband Neil
on United Air Lines (UAL) Flight 175, filed the first 9-11 wrongful death
lawsuit against UAL on December 20, 2001. Interviewed on national television
in May 2002 by Bill O'Reilly of FOX News, O'Reilly repeatedly questioned
Mariani about why she had chosen to pursue litigation instead of accepting
the government fund.
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- "I want justice," Mariani said.
"I want accountability. Who is responsible? I want the truth."
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- Today, Mariani, like the other 9-11 plaintiffs,
is under a legal gag order which prevents her from speaking about her on-going
lawsuit. Likewise, thousands of employees of federal agencies, such as
the Federal Aviation Administration, have received secret gag orders in
the mail preventing them from speaking about what they know about the events
of 9-11.
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- After more than four years, however,
Mariani's determined pursuit for the truth about 9-11 through the court
system has failed to yield any answers or discovery about who is responsible
for 9-11. Today, she is no closer to obtaining what she has clearly and
repeatedly said she wanted from the beginning a trial by jury.
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- Why have the many victims' cases like
Mariani's, brought by relatives of loved ones lost on 9-11, not been heard
in open trials with juries a basic American right?
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- And why has the Israeli-owned airline
security company involved in the shocking security lapses, which apparently
enabled the attacks of 9-11, been granted complete immunity by the U.S.
Congress?
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- All of the relatives' wrongful death
lawsuits, i.e. criminal cases, against the airlines and their security
companies were consolidated by the presiding judge into a negligence lawsuit,
which, as a civil case, is much less likely to be argued or investigated
in an open trial with a jury.
- All the 9-11 wrongful death and personal
injury cases against either American Air Lines (AA) or United Air Lines
or any of the foreign-owned airport security companies, namely Argenbright
Security (British), Globe Aviation Services Corp. (Swedish), and Huntleigh
USA Corp. (Israeli) have been handled by United States District Judge Alvin
K. Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York.
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- In the case of at least one of these
security defendants, Huntleigh USA, there would seem to be a serious conflict
of interest for the judge because the airline security company who is responsible
for the shocking security lapses at both the Boston and Newark airports
on 9-11 is a wholly-owned subsidiary of an Israeli company (ICTS) headed
by Israelis with clear ties to Israel's military intelligence agency, the
Mossad.
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- Judge Hellerstein, on the other hand,
has deep and long-standing Zionist connections and close family ties to
the state of Israel. A Zionist is a supporter of the Jewish state of Israel.
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- Judge Hellerstein's wife, for example,
is a former senior vice president and current treasurer of a New York-based
Zionist organization called AMIT. AMIT promotes Jewish immigration to Israel
and stands for Americans for Israel and Torah. AMIT's motto is "Building
Israel One Child at a Time."
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- Judge Hellerstein, 73, is also a long-time
member of The Jewish Center of New York and a former president of the Board
of Jewish Education of Greater New York.
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- This raises the obvious question about
why, in the 9-11 terror case in which an Israeli security company is a
key defendant and in which individuals from Israeli military intelligence
are suspected of being involved, was Hellerstein chosen to preside over
all 9-11 victim lawsuits and who chose him?
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- Huntleigh USA is a wholly owned subsidiary
of an Israeli company called International Consultants on Targeted Security
(ICTS) International N.V., a Netherlands-based aviation and transportation
security firm headed by "former [Israeli] military commanding officers
and veterans of government intelligence and security agencies."
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- Menachem Atzmon, convicted in Israel
in 1996 for campaign finance fraud, and his business partner Ezra Harel,
took over management of security at the Boston and Newark airports when
their company, ICTS, bought Huntleigh USA in 1999.
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- UAL Flight 175 and AA 11, which allegedly
struck the twin towers, both originated in Boston, while UAL 93, which
supposedly crashed in Pennsylvania, departed from the Newark airport.
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- ICTS also operates the German port of
Rostock on the Baltic Sea. An Israeli company linked to the Mossad runs
the port operations of a major German harbor. (Why would the Mossad want
to run a German port? Imagine the possibilities.)
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- Some victims' families brought lawsuits
against Huntleigh claiming the Israeli-owned airport security firm had
been grossly negligent on 9-11. While these relatives have a right to discovery
and to know what Huntleigh did or did not do to protect their loved ones
on 9-11, Huntleigh was granted complete congressional protection in 2002
and will not be called to account for its actions on 9-11 in any U.S. court.
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- On July 26, 2002, the U.S. House of Representatives
passed the Homeland Security Bill and slipped in a last-minute provision
which provided complete corporate immunity for the three foreign-owned
security companies. Likewise, the Senate voted to shield the three security
companies from corporate responsibility on November 19, 2002. These congressional
votes effectively prevent any legal investigation or discovery into the
security failures of these foreign companies on 9-11.
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- Hellerstein, however, is not the only
player overseeing the 9-11 litigation process who has close ties to Israel.
In fact, all of the key players and law firms involved are either active
Zionists or do a great deal of business representing Israeli companies
and/or the state of Israel.
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- Kenneth R. Feinberg, for example, the
special master of the federally-funded Victims' Compensation Fund, is also
a deeply dedicated Zionist. Feinberg single-handedly administered the $7
billion fund that paid out U.S . taxpayer money to some 97 percent of the
families who could have otherwise used the courts to sue to recover tort
damages for monetary loss and pain and suffering.
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- Those who accepted the Feinberg administrated
federal fund signed away their right to litigate against the government,
the airlines or the security companies. This federally funded pay-off to
the families effectively prevented the possibility for nearly every relative
to obtain justice or truth through the legal process, which would have
brought legal discovery of facts and events of 9-11.
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- The Kenneth Feinberg Group is listed
as one of the top ten supporters of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel
Studies for 2004-2005. The Jerusalem Institute is an Israel-based Zionist
organization that supports the building of the illegal separation wall
across Palestine, for example.
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- The Feinberg Group also lists as its
clients major insurance and re-insurance companies such as Lloyd's of London.
These are the companies who stood to lose billions of dollars if 9-11 victims'
lawsuits had gone forward.
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- Feinberg was appointed special master
by then Attorney General John Ashcroft. Ashcroft, a dedicated Christian
Zionist and supporter of such groups as Stand for Israel, is today working
as a lobbyist for Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), Israel's major military
aerospace company, which hired the former U.S. Attorney General to help
secure the U.S. government's approval to sell an Israeli weapons system
to the South Korean Air Force.
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- The Israelis hired Ashcroft to improve
their chances against an American-made system built by Chicago-based Boeing
Co.
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- Ashcroft, who was born in Chicago, is
the former head of the Dept. of Justice, where his Israeli-American assistant,
Michael Chertoff, directed the FBI non-investigation of the events of 9-11.
Ashcroft is now being paid (off) by the state of Israel to work against
the interests of an American company - and the United States.
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