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November 24 Disputed perp in the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders.Ted Bundy Suspected In Santa Rosa Killings
Michael Taylor
San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer
THURSDAY 1/26/1989
A day after he died in Florida's electric chair, serial killer Ted Bundy was named a "very serious suspect" in the murders of seven young Sonoma County women in 1972 and 1973. The Santa Rosa victims all disappeared between February 1972 and December 1973. Six of the victims' bodies were later found and "all the murders were thought to have been probably done by the same individual," according to Sonoma County Sheriff's Detective Sergeant Mike Brown. They make up the largest single group of California murders of which Bundy is suspected. He also is suspected of killing as many as three young women on or near the Stanford University campus at about the same time. "Bundy was looked at as a very serious suspect" in the Santa Rosa killings, Brown said. Brown said he and other detectives will now cross-check their case files with the dates that Bundy was known to have been in Northern California, where he visited often after attending summer school at Stanford in 1967. "It's possible we can put some of these murders to Bundy," said Brown. "We want to give the parents and relatives of these girls some peace of mind." Before he died in Florida's electric chair for the murder of a 12-year-old girl, Bundy spent the weekend confessing in detail to at least 20 other killings, apparently in an attempt to delay his execution. An FBI official said yesterday that homicide investigators now suspect that Bundy killed as many 50 women around the country. The Santa Rosa girls and young women that Bundy may have killed, along with the dates they disappeared are : Yvonne Weber, 13, and Maureen Sterling, 12, Feb. 4, 1972; Kim Wendy Allen, 19, March 4, 1972; Jeannette Kamahele, 20, April 25, 1972; Lori Kursa, 14, Nov. 11, 1972; Carolyn Davis, 15, July 16, 1973, and Therese Walsh, 23, Dec. 23, 1973. In Florida, State Attorney Jerry Blair said yesterday that FBI agent Bill Hagmeier told him that Bundy's confessions closed the books on 13 killings in Washington, Utah and Colorado; provided information that may never be confirmed on 14 more cases in Washington, Utah, Idaho, California, Vermont and Pennsylvania, and touched on at least 20 more slayings in various states dating back to 1969. Three Florida killings charged to Bundy will be added to the 13 closed cases, putting the total to at least 50.
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photo copyright: Daniel Cuaresma Pg 50, paragraph 2 ("The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer") Robert Keppel mentions of similiar comparison during the 1975 Missing and Murdered Females Conference, intriguing revelations of both the multiple body recovery sites at Lake Issaquah(Dennis Naslund, Janice Ott Georgeann Hawkins) where the bodies were found near each other in remote areas to that of the Franz Valley Road(location of road not given in the book) victims: Yvonne Weber, Maureen Sterling and Carolyn Nadine Davis. In depth, skeletal remains in both cases(except for Carolyn Davis) indicates the burial spots inside a wooded area, bodies were not discovered until several months later from heavy foilage to bury the victims. In the Franz Valley Road scene, all three victims(Weber,Sterling and Davis) were all teenagers ages 12,13 and 15 consecutively and they were not strangled like the other Santa Rosa victims. Davis died from strychnine poisoning,Weber and Sterling died from a unknown cause,but it could of been from weather exposure. Detoriation at near Lake Issaquah too wiped away the official cause of death as did with Weber and Sterling. What is so different in contrast: Ted Bundy's m.o. was to crush the skulls of his victims and on instances raped. In some cases, the perp strangled. The rope to bind the Santa Rosa women- a one quarter inch cord- was nearly identical to that used in the Lake Berryessa assault which caused belief the killer was the Zodiac. Facts indicate the Zodiac murders is not compatible with the Santa Rosa homicides. Ted also tied his victims. Bundy admitted prior to his execution at the Florida State Penitentary he announced he killed a dozen more women unaccounted for appointing himself a legend for the only man in serial killer history to kill as many as 50 or more so women across the North American continent. He may even been deluded about being the slayer of seven young females in Sonoma County during the early 70's which these cases remain unsolved. Just maybe he traveled over 700 miles from Seattle,WA to Palo Alto,CA to visit his girlfriend during 1972-1973 and during his visit he picked up at least some of the hitchhikers along the way. It is a known fact through records Bundy was not in California during the same period of time when both Weber and Sterling was missing; credit card receipts showed he was elsewhere and another relevant fact-Bundy owned a light tan Voltzwagon bug, the near same make and model as a car seen nearby parked nearby the Redwood Ice Arena the evening when the girls left without a trace so to speak. © 2009 sleepparalysis/obe.
October 24 Explosives at the WTC on 9/11/01?Considering this video was posted by somebody to prove there were explosives at the World Trade Center on September 11,2001. I concur of his idea, but people tend to change their version after a long period of time.
On 9/11/01 there was a lot of confusion and panic. Many witnesses including firefighters heard of what they said to them sounded like explosives or controlled detonators going off just before Tower 2, South Tower, began to collapse at 9:59 a.m. They thought they heard bombs. Many videographers filming the events that very morning captured Tower 2 and Tower 1. Some began to run out with other surviviors out of Vesey St, Church St, West St and surrounding locations of the WTC Plaza in the meantime watching Tower 2 already begining to collapse. During that same moment when we see the tower starting to collapse, you can hear sounds of "gunfire" as though somebody is shooting a handcannon. Likely those sounds were from resistance of each floor of the skyscraper pounding downwards as each second passes by. The sounds are of this: Pow Pow.....Pow-Pow-Pow-Pow-Pow First a single loud pop, then following each 1/18 or so of a second in a rapid sound like automatic gunfire. By the way each Tower was 110 stories high. It is not exact how many seconds the tower began to tumble until it finally hit ground level. It looked to me like 10 seconds flat. Some other people said 13. That is a 3 second difference. Every split second counts. Either way, each tower came down pretty fast. Tower 1, North Tower, the skyscraper that was first hit at 8:46 a.m., endured only 102 minutes of impact not entirely in a severe damage, finally came crashing down at 10:28 a.m. [Amoungst the fatalities of either towers was 343 FDNY firefighters. One was firefighter Lt. Kevin Pfiefer, commander of Engine 33, and was the brother to FDNY Battalion Chief Joseph Pfiefer, Ladder 7, Battalion 1. Kevin Pfiefer was killed while he and another firefighter was attempting to exit out of the North Tower. Joseph was one of the first firefighters who arrived at Tower 1 when it was hit early that morning. He was one of the witnesses who saw an airliner hit Tower 1 while he was investigating an alleged gas leak 13 blocks away from the World Trade Center. He and his company of Ladder 7 heard a airplane flying low over lower Manhattan when it all began at 8:46. This was captured on film by Jules Naudet. See the Naudet 9/11 documentary.] Explosions were heard heard two blocks northwest of the World Trade Center. This would be at Chambers St located near the waterfront of the Hudson River. Continous reports of similiar noises of what appeared to be "explosives" just beyond south of the WTC plaza at Liberty St. & Trinity St. Given this information, it does sound more than appearant there was explosions going off in and around the WTC complex. There must of been bombs planted at nearly each building in that vicinity. But WTC bldgs 4,5,&6 were damaged caused by fire spread by the collapse of both WTC 1 and WTC 2. Across West Vesey St from the plaza is WTC 7. This tower stood at 47 stories high. It was used for a bomb shelter and a command post also as a CIA headquarters. WTC 7 collapsed in late afternoon on 9/11/01. The official version was that it suffered structural damage from intense heat given by Tower 1(WTC 1). A t 5: 27 p.m., WTC 7 collapsed in a vertical motion. This effect caused theorists in believing WTC 7 was sabatoged with remote detonation that was placed on each of the bottom support frames which is known as a "vertical motion" collapse---coming straight down. Rectangular windows were "blown out" when WTC 7 began to collapse vertically. WTC 1 aka North Tower-Tower 1 collapsed in almost in similiarity. At 10:28 a.m. when WTC 1 debris from the top sections were "blown out" just when it began to collapse. Before it came down, firefighters were very concerned of WTC 7, they said it would come down. And that did happen. The adjacent buildings, The Verizon and the U.S. Postal Office, both survived with minimal damage. And these two buildings were the same distance away from the Towers. Survived minimal damage.  As Tower 1 began to fall, heavy debris propelled outwards. Shattered material seen in this photo hits WTC 7. Debris was eject as far as several city blocks in lower Manhattan. The Verizon and the U.S. Postal Office being closest to WTC 7. The Verizon stands closer to WTC 1 then WTC 7. Why did not the Verizon or the Postal Office suffer from extensive damage as WTC 7? "It looked as though the plane hit the lobby" -Joe Casaliggi, Engine 7, Battalion 1. One of the first repsonders to arrive at the World Trade Center was Engine 7. When they entered the lobby, they could see the windows in the lobby blasted out. They also had observed the marble tiles on the walls cracked. This made the author of this blog to believe there were explosives under the basement-the parking garage-that send a heavy concussion in the lobby where it blew out the windows. It is 2009, and I would like to hear a follow-up what the firefighters have to say now after 8 full years since 9/11/01. Are they still going to reiterate of what they said then was explosions? Will these witnesses have a change of opinion of what they might of heard back in 2001? I wrote a few months ago regarding possible gas leaks on 9/11. There are gas lines that run under the World Trade Center, not directly into the buidings. These explosions that you heard in the video had to be caused by a bomb. The loud "Booms" can also be a cause by a leaking gas line that was triggered off by intense heat from thermite. In fact there was fire still going on for three months at the destroyed World Trade Center plaza, that it did not extinguish until mid-December 2001. Try lighting a match near your butt when digestive gas expels from your anus. It's pretty much physics. Let's see.....A plane made out of aluminum parts that is hauling ass-full speed- crashing into a reinforced skyscraper causing beyond extensive damge that the tower fell down? Yeah. Whatever effects the steel frames also affects the surrounding structure. The following is a borrowed excerpt from an article published in 2006, titled 'OKC & WTC-7 - The Case For Controlled Demolitions By Douglas Herman': [1] (excerpt): -Daniel Note: Not included on this entry, is the mention of the F.B.I suspicions of bombs. They had reason to be alarmed that explosives were planted inside the the parking garage. 5 Israelis spies were apprehended in late afternoon of the terrorist attacks at the WTC. The spies were employed at a rental company in New Jersey. The employer owned several moving vans, one which was found to have explosives when East Rutherford police searched the van. During their investigation, the F.B.I. searched the garage of the rental company and discovered explosives that they suspected was to blow up the Twin Towers. It's owner fled to Israel before federal investigators questioned him. Another van that might of belonged to the same owner had a mural on it's side that had a painting of a airplane diving low into New York City with the words 9/11. This van was found to have also explosives when police searched the vehicle. If there were other vans belonging to the same company, it is safe to assume these vehicles were parked between the columns inside the WTC parking garage then detonated that same morning and early afternoon about the same time witnesses heard what they said were bombs going off. Otherwise, in this video is where alleged detonators were set off on the top floors of the WTC. From this, we also get the idea of a "inside job", or perhaps foreign terrorists working as a whole, planning to blow up the WTC in the preceding months before 9/11/01. It takes skill of planning to get inside these skyscrapers without detection. What do you think? Footnotes: [1] - 'OKC & WTC-7 - The Case For Controlled Demolitions By Douglas Herman' by Douglas Herman; Rense.com. October 7,2006. October 17 NSA Researching."If You're calling Aunt Saudi in Paris, we're probably not really interested." - Former Vice President Dick Cheney about domestic spying.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Robert Clayton Dean a young successful lawyer in the Washinton D.C. metropolitan area is out shopping for the holidays for his family. He runs into a former college pal, Daniel Zavitz, slips a video disc into one of the shopping bags Dean is holding. Withouth his knowledge, the lawyer is now holding the most crucial piece of evidence that reveals the assassination of a prominent U.S. Congressman who recently is strongly opposed to domestic surveillance spying bill to be passed that will affect the liberty of Constitutional rights. A profesional hit ordered by the advisor of the governments' branch of the National Security Agency. Robert Dean does not realizes that he now owns is what the Agency doesn't want anyone to know. For the next several days only then does he recognizes by the aid of a "missing in action" veteran of the military intelligence, that Dean was given the evidence by Zavitz, the same man who had the murder of Congressman Bill Hammersley on video tape, while doing a research on migratory waterfowls. The D.C. lawyer becomes a person of investigation for a corporate scheme, disorderly conduct with a former law student, and is framed for illegal activities with the syndicate. Dean is now a fugitive on the run from a few rotten apples within the NSA.
This scenario sounds all to familiar. It is a screenwriters vision of the gov't keeping taps on the people it represents, and that version became a box office hit in Hollywood a few years before 9/11. As you know the whole plot was from well known producer Jerry Brukheimer in the 1998 high-tech action flick Enemy Of The State. Though it incorporates the motto "Big Brother is watching" with high speed political suspense, it becomes obvious that this situation with spying just too real. By the way, the NSA deputy directer potrayed in Enemy Of The State was born on 9-11-40. Foresight of 9-11-01.
In truth, nobody can't search for all factual information just by watching a film. Enemy Of The State is not exactly a brillant film. Motion Pictures are great to enjoy, but some flicks such as Enemy Of The State are equipped to make you think about surveillance society around us.
Though defenders of the domestic spying claims that the U.S. Gov't doesn't care about your telephone calls, it be to a family member, friends and even entering online. To the contradiction of what U.S. Attorney John Aschroft said, "that monitoring is not surreptitious."
An electronic spy gadget that is secretly placed other than your own telephone line. Like somewhere stored in the ceiling fan and light fixture in your bedroom, monitoring what you are saying and needless to include what you are doing this very moment. Sure, the last depiction sounds fictional than the obvious that you would rather accept the phone calls.
It's no super-secret that spying within the National Security Agency has been around even before the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) from the birth of NSA back in 1952. [1]
In fact the spying agenda allows the NSA a full 72 hours of "free" listening before allowing the commander-in-chief providing a request of warrants issued by the FISA court to serve on persons of terrorist activities. Including people who have known links to Al-Qaeda. But what about a involuntary participant who is talking on a cell or home phone to terrorists without he/she knowing they are talking to one? Obviously,the commander-in-chief doesn't neccessarily say, but you can make your own judgement on the preceeding question.
Questionable PATRIOT ACT is assailant to the Fourth Amendement.
So far the U.S. PATRIOT ACT of 2001 and the benefits of our military intelligence has succeeded in prevented attacks and is highly questioned amongst booksellers and librarians, including "people who are not suspected of any criminal activity. Let's hold that thought shall we? Under the U.S. PATRIOT ACT of 2001, the House Of Republicans (H.R.) Bill 3199 "authorizes the F.B.I. to search the bookstore and library records of anyone it believes may be 'revelant' to a terrorist investigation." Does that mean I can rent a book at the library and once my library card is entered on the "check out" register on the computer, I can be placed on a person of interest? You bet.
There must be a line drawn between execute a warrant "without legal authority" and that of the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Fourth Amendment- Search & Seizure
"The Right of the people to be secure in their persons ,houses,papers,and effects,against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue,but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particurlarly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or place to be seized." NSA researching should not be a conflict between a right or left issue. The U.S. PATRIOT ACT does show what sort of expansion powers our U.S. government is capable of doing when investigating terrorism. It is said domestic eavesdropping is more effective in open warfare against terrorism and cost less lifes than in military intervention. Personally, I've read the book State of War by James Risen. This book is disturbing and mind-provoking to know about the Bush Adminstration and U.S. intelligence post 9/11. Ever wondered about Saddam Hussein's alleged nuclear testing and weapons of mass destuction buried in ditches? State of War is recommended by the author of this blog.
At foremost, I am an American in respect to the U.S. Constitution.
The likely intent of our Founding Fathers was never to intervene with the rights of the people. We do need to learn from the past to understand the world today post-9/11. History repeats itself and is our thinking tool in understanding your status of ethnicity. During WWII, Japanese Americans were hauled off to segregation camps. It's no secret that Arab Americans are now on the blacklisting "Enemy Of The State." What if this domestic spying surveillance does affect your ethnicity/race? Just because if your Anglo-American, this does not mean you are affected. Domestic spying affects every citizen.
At least one movie got it right!
This type of profiling reminds me of a film I saw years ago; it was titled The Siege. Roughly put, the discrimination of Arab Americans is a echo calling from the past of what Japanese-Americans went through in segregation camps in the 1940's after Japan assaulted Pearl Harbor. Some movie critics in the months preceding to the film's release had said the contents in The Siege was just hyped-Hollywood fantasy-fiction, blow em' type hardcore action flick, and nothing in the film could be possible. One movie critic writing an article on The Siege had said it's director Edward Zwick was going to stir up "risking the wrath by Arab-Americans and Jews, but of movie critics and fans."[2] The Siege was nearly a $70 million budget starring Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis, Annette Bening, Tony Shalhoub and others was released in theaters on November 6,1998 and by retrospect is in very close of the times we live in post 9/11: The lack of co-operaton between the CIA and FBI, including the torture tactics on alleged terrorist suspects without legal process, middle-eastern males held in detention camps, and most of all the most possible and frightening realistic idea: Martial Law on this land. By comparison, Enemy Of The State directed by Tony Scott(brother of Ridley Scott), was film bugeted at $85 million and was released on big screen two weeks later following The Siege on November 20,1998.
When Freedom dies for security...
The purpose of our constitutional rights is to protect the American people from government abuse. How many cases by far has "innocent" individuals have been arrested and convicted under the U.S. PATRIOT ACT of 2001? Under gag orders, librarians and booksellers are highly affected. Both Republicans and Democrats stand strong on the ongoing "spying" by intelligence gathering. The cost of freedom and security.
I stand affirm by heresay it is illegal for the federal government or any branch within our legal system to conduct eavesdropping tactics on its own citizens without obtaining a warrant and without probable cause. This regarding NSA researching should not be a left or right issue; both sides have to come to a conclusion about this conduct literally shreds our constitution!
Crimes against Humanity in Afghanistan.
Early this month had marked the eighth anniversary of the U.S. invasion in Afghanistan since 10-7-01. This coming week on the twenty-first of October will be eight years since the signing of the U.S. PATRIOT ACT of 2001 into law and nothing new has made me in compliance to it. I'd rather go to prison for being a wrongfully accused terrorist suspect. I don't think so! The law has nothing against me to have me incarcarated. I have not made any threats! The only terrorists I see is the ones who commit tyranny against us.
In March of 2004, a citizens' tribunal Saturday in Tokyo found U.S. President George W. Bush guilty of war crimes for attacking civilians with indiscriminate weapons and other arms during the U.S.-led antiterrorism operations in Afghanistan in 2001. The tribunal consisted of five judges, being in one mind, reached a conclusion the Bush Adminstration found guilty. [3]
Under international law it is illegal to attack civilians in wartime with use of uranium shells and other weapons that could indiscriminately harm people. Robert Akroyd, a British lawyer who served as one of the five judges. Akroyd had noted Bush who already claimed "military actions were in self-defense," and failed to discriminate between legitimate objects and civilians, using "indiscriminate weapons such as the Daisy Cutter (a huge conventional bomb), cluster bombs and depleted uranium shells." Crimes against Humanity is also in violation of Contitutional rights. "If the United States is at war against terrorism to preserve freedom, a new coalition of conservatives and liberals is asking, why is it doing so by wholesale abrogation of civil liberties? They cite the Halloween-week passage of the antiterrorism bill -- a new law that carries the almost preposterously gimmicky title: "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act" (USA PATRIOT Act). Critics both left and right are saying it not only strips Americans of fundamental rights but does little or nothing to secure the nation from terrorist attacks." [4] --Kelly O'Meara, "Police State," Insight Magazine, 11/9/01
When defining domestic terrorism when reading Section 802 of the U.S. PATRIOT ACT of 2001, take note of what Bush had already signed as to he had intentionally, and wilfully with aforethought stripping the United States Constitution apart from 'of the people, by the people, and for the people of the United States of America.'
SEC. 802. DEFINITION OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM. [5]
George W. Bush had announced in a November 6,2001 press conference with French President Jacques Chirac, he would address to the United Nations on November 10, 2001, "Either you're for us or against us," implying coaliton partners of the UN back up their support with military action.[6] "Either you're for us or against us," is an almost direct quote he borrowed from the Christian bible. This is like Nazi Germany.
"Either you're for us or you're a fucking terrorist." Really?
Originally published by this author on February 3,2006.
Revised © 2009 sleepparalysis/obe.
-Daniel
The invasion of Central Asia country-Afghanistan-was already in plans in the months before September 11,2001. These are provided inside facts, not fiction. All it took was for the 9/11 terror attacks to occur. Plan was to go ahead regardless if the Taleban would of submitted Usama Bin Laden to the United States, told by former Pakistani diplomat.
(Excerpt from BBC News):
Tuesday, 18 September, 2001, 11:27 GMT 12:27 UK
US 'planned attack on Taleban' [7]
By the BBC's George Arney
Mr Naik said US officials told him of the plan at a UN-sponsored international contact group on Afghanistan which took place in Berlin.
A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC that the US was planning military action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taleban even before last week's attacks. Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October. Mr Naik told the BBC that at the meeting the US representatives told him that unless Bin Laden was handed over swiftly America would take military action to kill or capture both Bin Laden and the Taleban leader, Mullah Omar. The wider objective, according to Mr Naik, would be to topple the Taleban regime and install a transitional government of moderate Afghans in its place - possibly under the leadership of the former Afghan King Zahir Shah. Mr Naik was told that Washington would launch its operation from bases in Tajikistan, where American advisers were already in place.
Mr Naik was told that if the military action went ahead it would take place before the snows started falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October at the latest. He said that he was in no doubt that after the World Trade Center bombings this pre-existing US plan had been built upon and would be implemented within two or three weeks. And he said it was doubtful that Washington would drop its plan even if Bin Laden were to be surrendered immediately by the Taleban. NSA wiretapping conduct in 2008. If you thought ex-President George W. Bush was that much of a law-breaker, check out Obama's NSA eavesdropping! The abuse of federal government has gone to far with increased wiretapping. [8] The U.S. Justice Department early this year uncovered a problem with the National Security Agency during a routine oversight of U.S. Intelligence activities to ensure compliance of laws and court orders." The NSA intercepted phone calls and e-mails from Americans that went for beyond the limit of judiciary use. In 2008, U.S. Congress passed legislation requiring the National Security Agency to obtain a FISA court approval to monitor domestic communications of Americans who came under suspicion. Under this recent bill, the intelligence agencies within the United States was granted eavesdropping on Americans who communicate with foreign targets believed to be outside the United States." Crtics of this bill said the safguard privacy of Americans were inadequate. The Justice Department informed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in April 2009 of the conduct with the NSA program taking "comprehensive steps" to correct the problem with any determined invasion of Americans' privacy occured. Footnote sources:
[1] - 'Hold The Phone' by Mark Hosenball and Evan Thomas; Newsweek Magazine. May 22,2006
[2] - 'Seige Mentality'- "The Seige" risks alienating Muslins and critics alike' by Degen Pener'; Entertainment Weekly. November 13,1998.
[3] - 'Citizens find Bush guilty of Afghan war crimes' by Nao Shimoyach; The Japan Times Online. March 14,2004
[4] - 'Police State' by Kelly Patricia O' Maera; Insight On The News. November 19,2001
[5] - 'USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 - Sections 802-811'; Section 802- definition of 'Domestic Terrorism' HR 3162. October 24,2001.
[6] - 'You are either for us or against us'; CNN. November 6,2001
[7] - 'US ' Planned attack on Taleban' by George Arney; BBC News. September 18,2001. [8] - 'NSA Exceeds Legal Limits in Eavesdropping Program' by Evan Perez and Siobhan Gorman; Wall Street Journal. April 16,2009. September 21 Deliver Hamadei to us!Over three months have passed since the marking of the June 14,1985 TWA 847 hijacking; twenty four years ago! I certainly remember the dark days in early summer 1985 in my memory. How could I forget those 17 unforgettable days in June 1985? How could I forget about Robert Dean Stethem? How could I remember not the day I graduated from junior high on the first day of the TWA siege? How can I also forget about the bearded face hijacker who placed his steel pistol against the head of the late John Testrake? To make it simple: I did not forget.
I did remember Dan Rather of CBS News broadcasting a live news brief early that evening on June 13,1985 as he was sitting the CBS newsbooth announcing that an American Trans World Airlines plane enroute from Athens,Greece to Rome,Italy had been confirmed to be hijacked as flight 847 was still in Greece airspace. As I was sitting on the podium with my fellow classmates awaiting in anticipation for our diplomas, the local Catholic priest gave a speech urging all in attendance to give a moment of silence to all aboard the flight, even to pray for the souls of the hijackers. What?! Pray for religious lunatics?
We were told by Rev. John Garcia that no matter how evil these hijackers were, it was better to offer much prayer to them so that their souls would be saved. I thought it was unkind to pray for a demonized person.
Even to this day I can't comprehend why prayer is urged for a murderers soul.
The two hijackers were not identified on the day they commandered the plane, except these two religious fanatics announced they were claiming their war on behalf of the World Liberation Front or WLF. This organization was actually a front for Irans Hezbollah known as literally "The Party Of God" whose intention was to demand for the release of some 700 Shiite Moslems held in captivity in Israel.
Masterminding the TWA airpiracy was Hezbollah security chief Imad Mignyah. He was also the architect of destruction for the 1983 bombing of Beruit's Embassy which killed 241 U.S. Marines and 57 French soilders.
Two of the original hijackers were planted aboard 847 while a third was arrested in Athens for failure to produce his passport at the airport terminal. He was later recognized as Ali Atwa. In exchange for Atwa's release by Greek authorities, all female passengers aboard 847 were removed and liberated from their captors.
As the drama unfolded on July 1,1985, the two hijackers along with their accomplices who later joined them on June 15,1985 escaped somewhere in Beruit. All,except for one passenger on 847 was released. The sole casualty in this whole episode of captivity was of course Robert Dean Stethem a U.S. Navy seabee. Stethem was singled out by his captors after he was discovered to be a U.S. serviceman. He was beaten severely about 15 hours then his body dumped out of the plane in Beruit after his murderers shot him twice in the head.
On June 20,1985 Stethem was buried in Arlington Cemetery with other deceased military personel in Washington D.C. Live coverage of his burial was broadcasted on television.
The morning following my graduation, I had turned on the televison and one of the first images on CBS TV was the body of Robert Stethem laying motionless on a airport tarmac. His shirt was ripped open and his face was swollen with signs of lacerations and a noticable bruise under his right elbow. Hours earlier,the previous evening, I listened to a radio station when it was announced a passenger on board was beaten. I was out celebrating my graduation ceremony when this occured. When the party was over in late evening, the hijackers I remember were diverting the plane from Algiers to a rerouted destination towards Beruit.
For the next seventeen days, I watched much as I could about the events on flight 847 while every classmate of mine in Brentwood were out on summer vacation or at the local swimming pool. I sacrificed most of June 1985 watching newscoverage and limiting my time when I was supposed to enjoy time off from school...
محمد علي حمادي
Two years later 1987, a man was arrested in Frankfurt Germany for attempting to carry liquid explosives on a airliner. This same person was identified as Muhammed Ali Hamadei who was later in the following year standing trial for murdering Robert Stethem aside for the charges against him for illegal transportation of explosives. The most significant events during Hamadei's trial were the living witnesses of flight 847 who testified against their callous captor who told the West German court of how Hamadei and his accomplice Hassan Izz-Al-Din viciously beat some of the passengers including Robert Stethem.
An witness told the judge presiding the trial that he saw the brain matter of Stethem splashed on the wall located behind the flight cabin. "Oh God, oh God, what do you want to hear?" yelled out this witness in emotion after he was ordered to address the court of his testimony against Hamadei. ''All I saw was parts of his brain mixed with blood smeared on the inside of the door.''
Dr. Clark,the pathologist who served the autopsy of Robert Stethem in Spain gave a video deposition to the court describing the wounds of Stethem. Clark stated the wounded U.S. navy sailor had survived momentarily after Stethem was shot in the head because there was a significant amount of blood left in his lungs which kept him alive for about 10 minutes.
When the trial ended the Lebanese member of Hezbollah was given a life-imprisonment sentence.
A short lived prison sentence removed the killer from a German prison as part of a parole in a trade for German citizen Susanne Osthoff whom was held as a prisoner in Iraq. The so-called parole was granted on December 20,2005 the same day U.S. Congress signed a bill which would place certain literature as potential hazards to national security and record keeping on all book renters in American public libraries as part of a strict controversial U.S. Patriot Act.
In the aftermath of a unjust parole, the brother of Robert Stethem-Kenneth Stethem-appeared on MSNBC 'Morning Joe' demanding for America, "that the administration submit a formal diplomatic request to the Lebanese government, in order for Hamadi to be turned over." In his second quest for justice Mr. Stethem quoted "Second, I would like everybody to call the administration, and they can get the numbers, I believe, through your Web site, but call the administration and press for Lebanon to be listed on the FBI—or the state-sponsored terrorist list that the State Department has, because over 30 percent of the terrorists that are at large right now on the FBI's most wanted list are in Lebanon."
Just like Kenneth Stethem, this author had felt betrayed and decieved by the Bush adminstration. I had done my part in addressing through mail this corrupt system about Mr. Muhammed Hamadei being turned over to the United States of America for a official trial for capital murder.
Could there be a Black September redux if America cannot obtain a terrorist for the murder of a American serviceman? Yes, I believe so.
The author is rarely the person who is adherent to vengance on any particular individual, when a life is taken there has to be a last resort for violence when negotiations fail.
The recent assassination of mastermind Imad Mignyah is the begining to a solution for the greedy war mongers. What will it take for all of America to remember Robert Dean Stethem?
As the late commander-in-chief Ronald Reagan has stated, "There are promises to be kept." And that was a promise he had given to the remnants who survived the whole ordeal for seventeen days aboard TWA flight 847.
As a new president of the United States is dealing with a mess of our health care system, it is only fair to addesss our commander-in-chief Barack Obama that he presses the Lebanese government to hand over the coward Hamadei or else leaving a final solution for its failure to comply with counter-terrorism laws: put use of swift military action in that already war torn country. As with any consequences, war of aggression against a country with hardships with Syria being caught in the crossfire with bordering nations, an attack on Lebanon is not an wise idea. Forbid that Lebanese civilians are slaughtered needlessly for just one man who should of been in the custody of the United States military awaiting trial in our criminal justice system. No man, woman, nor child in the mid-east should be sacrificed. Period.
Either the government of Lebanon complies or suffer economic ramifications.
Deliver Hamadei to us!
© 2009 sleepparalysis/obe.
-Daniel September 11 91109; 91101 eight years later. Remembering 9/11/01.What I remember that Tuesday morning on the eleventh day of September in the year 2001, it did not start of well nor did it end in a positive spectrum; and the next couple of days that followed. It began in one of so many sleep paralysis episodes that I experienced most of my life; I was not able to move essentially I was paralyzed in half-asleep, half-awake. What I saw was hell alive. I don't want to get into fit detail; I wrote a poem about it in a earlier blog entry. Later on that day, everything seemed really empty, naked-the streets of nearby towns were dead only with an exception of some people shopping in downtown Jackson. Most residents either went to work as usual, stayed home, and or went to the nearby pub; that said is because the live coverage of the terrorist attacks was shown on television, mainly at Main Street. People had mixed feelings; there was a fight that broke out downtown. This had began as a intellectual talk about the recent event in New York, and had turned out into a argument then a physical altercation.
The nearby police station had to send out emergency units scattering all over Jackson in case of possible bomb threats and in case of insurrections breaking out. I was even pulled over by one of my neighbors who was an cop; I was driving in a off-limit zone near the county courthose that afternoon. My car was searched for probable cause, then was let go by police. Other motorists were pulled over also for that reason. You have to remember, it was 9/11/01, and nothing was really safe that day, including a city of Jackson,CA one of the most friendliest areas in the Golden State.
I was working half-day and then was painting my shed and trimming branches off the oak trees afterwards, while tuning into the breaking news on KNBR-the Bay Area sports radio station. The San Francisco Giants and Oakland Atheletics games was definitely cancelled for who knows how long. All the calls into the program had no relevance about sports, it was now about the terrorist attacks. Some call ins were acceptable, others were not.
All through out that afternoon, this heavy shot of electricity shot through out my body as it did that morning; it was like being struck by strong electrical current that even my ears were ringing, then crackling with what sounded like open radio transmissions. Maybe it was the hypersensitive lobe in my brain that was picking up signals from the magnetic fields, all I knew that it wasn't a good thing to experience. Days later I was suffering from sinusitus and nose bleeds. I just felt like a combustible machine ready to implode, to make some sense of humor to this.
Other than that, I kept hanging on, looking for better days to come.
I took a walk in the neighborhood that Tuesday evening, the streets were barely empty, for those neighbors who kept indoors watching the news and the stooge President George W. Bush giving the nation a speech from the White House. What a hideous speech he was orchestrating, lying about the attacks when his adminstration was given red flag warnings about potential terrorists in the country since the previous summer 2000.
In spite of this, America I realized was about geared up for war. The "who's" and "whys" were not questioned, it was vengance that was about to be unleased. Bush challenged America later on that month that the choice against the "alleged" war against terrorism was clear-for us or against us. I found this to be strange, we didn't have the accurate resources who was really behind the 9/11 assaults. The Federal Bureau of Investigation once positive about the identities of the 19 hijackers, were now unsure of at least 6 of them.
My olive skin complexion that went along with my Hispanic/Latino physical features had made me a target for a possible terrorist on that very day-9/11 and the days afterwards. Living up here the foothills in California with having a Hispanic background was not that great, afterall it(Amador County) is predominate NeoCon/Conservative politics, though some of these people in that political party were cool with me, many were not. I was given verbal threats by a unidentified member of the Neo-Nazi cult who claimed they would "burn the Communists(refering Mexicans as Revolutionary Marxists)" in the name of the Aryan Race. What could I do except to exchange profanity with this skinhead. I think this guy who made the threats might of been working with the police just to provoke a stage fight with me and the small but tough Hispanic/Latino community in case protests against racial discrimination ever came to be. Nazi's don't stand a chance against Mestizos.
This country of America was all fucked up, inside and out. Soon, without taking responsibility of who committed the terrorist attacks, we as Americans suddenly attacked Arab-Americans, didn't matter of their skin complexion. Just as the Oklahoma City Bombing, the media insinuated Arabs were behind it; then being struck with such dumbfoundedness, the mass media found out the bomber of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was an White Christian American; a domestic terrorist-Timothy McViegh, from a Catholic background. Not Arabic, not Moslem, an Anglo Catholic-Christian extremist; an bad example to true Christianity. And this is the land of the free, home of the brave? The land of multi-cultural relationships? I am not implying any hatred towards my country. It's what people do that fuck it up.
2,973 people who were murdered on September 11,2001 in the name of what? Was it really the name of some insane god known as Allah? Was it done intentionally to blame all Arabs around the world? Or was it done as a deliberate act to gain war profits? This country I was born in-The United States of America is not the country I once loved with dignity. Nearly everything is about betrayal and deceit in America. How many more people like Patricia Massari and Antonio Rodrigues will be murdered before the truth about 9/11 will be exposed?
I was giving respect at least to nearby Station 14 Fire Department for their bravery, what firefighters love doing, without making a lot of money. I gave them all personal "thank you" this past week for being there when my community needs them. All they said, "No. Thank You." It got really emotional. Another neighbor of mine who works for Station 14 as an part-time firefighter and being an EMS paramedic in the month following 9/11, I remember, who took me on ride to Mokelumne River to witness what a firefighter does, this time was to rescue a teenage girl who was drowning while swimming with her friends. And the Moke River is not a safe place to swim. Period. It seemed excited to me, to see a fireman in action saving a life. But then, that changed. The girl was not so fortunate. We lost her! I felt like the Naudet Brothers who witnessed a terrible event, whom both felt upset as the company of Ladder 7, tried to save every life as possible, except I did not have a video camera. Only to see the body partly clothed and draped over with a yellow sheet. And it really hits me all the time when water is involved with death. Then I suddenly turned away. The firefighter at Station 14 who recalled that story thanked me for coming along with him to let me know it was now alright. I said only, "Hey. Thanks for being there." And I gave him and his crew a batch of cookies my mom at that time baked for me for my fishing trip, so instead of eating cookies why not give it to those brave firefighters.
Let us not forget about 9/11, yet not allow the possibilities of another terrorist incident destroy us, just to think about the positive aspects, knowing that the 911 truth will some day uncover the hidden facts that both the American mass media and our U.S. government has been concealing after 8 full years. Go and watch the documentary "Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11" on youtube. Things will begin to make sense.
A year ago at this time, I was in favor of the 9/11 commission findings, ignoring the 9/11 Truth Movement(and other related parties) as being a bunch of "bullshiters!" The whole movement to me was like a bunch of idiots with a lost cause. Since, in the past year I have been doing my own researching, from various sources, coming up with two and two together, and now is positive there was more than what the 911 commision had to lead me to believe. 91101 a tragic day, was used to fight a war in both Iraq and Afghanistan. More civilians in both those countries died than those who were killed on 9/11; civilian casualties of the war in Afhanistan since 2001 has been roughly between 9,000-27,000; an estimated 650,000 Iraqis dead. 4,261 U.S. Soilders have been killed in action since March 2003; 30,182 wounded. The cost of war is expected to exceed more than 1 trillion dollars. War profits, people die. War profits, people die. War profits, people continue to die.
As I continue to remember, I also want the truth to be uncovered.
© 2009 sleepparalysis/obe.
-Daniel
 Music score by Craig Armstrong; from the movie "World Trade Center"
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