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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS DRUG FIRMS ACCUSED OF ¢ August 2001 — The FBI arrests an Islamic militant linked to bin Laden in Boston. DISTORTING RESEARCH French intelligence sources confirm that the man is a key member of bin Laden's network, and the FBI learns that he has been taking flying lessons. At the time of his arrest, the man is in possession of technical information on Boeing aircraft as well as flying manuals. [Source: Reuters, September 13, 2001] « August 2001 — Russian President Vladimir Putin orders Russian intelligence to warn the US Government "in the strongest possible terms" of imminent attacks on airports and ns government buildings. [Source: MS—NBC interview with Putin, September 15, 2001] profits. . « August-September 2001 — The Dow Jones industrial average drops nearly 900 points The Lancet, the New England Journal of in the three weeks prior to the attacks. A major stock market crash is imminent. Medicine, the Journal of the American * September 3-10, 2001 — MS-NBC reports on September 16 that a caller to a Cayman Medical Association and other major | Islands radio talk show gave several warnings of an imminent attack on the US by bin ournals accuse the drug giants of using Laden in the week prior to September 11. their money—or the threat of its removal— « September 1-10, 2001 — 25,000 British troops and the largest British armada since to tie up academic researchers with legal the Falkland Islands War, part of Operation Essential Harvest, are pre-positioned in and contracts so that they are unable to report off Oman, the closest point on the Arabian Peninsula to Pakistan. At the same time, two freely and fairly on the results of drug US carrier battle groups arrive on station in the Gulf of Arabia. Also at the same time, trials. some 17,000 US troops join more than 23,000 NATO troops in Egypt for Operation The editors say that a study produced for | Bright Star. All of these forces are in place before the first plane hits the World Trade ublication may be skewed in the interests Center. [Sources: The Guardian, CNN, Fox News, The Observer, International Law of the pharmaceutical company, which Professor Francis Boyle, University of Illinois] hirteen of the world's leading medical journals have mounted an outspoken attack on the rich and powerful drug com- panies, accusing them of distorting the results of scientific research for the sake of opes to make big profits from a new drug. ¢ September 6-7, 2001 — 4,744 put options (speculation that the stock will go down) Academic scientists have little choice but are purchased on United Airlines stock, as opposed to only 396 call options (speculation to accept the restrictions imposed on them, that the stock will go up). This is a dramatic and abnormal increase in sales of put options. Many of the UAL puts are purchased through Deutschebank/A.B. Brown, a firm managed until 1998 by the current Executive Director of the CIA, A. B. "Buzzy" Krongard. [Source: The Herzliyya International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism, September 21, 2001, http://www.ict.org.il/; New York Times; Wall Street Journal] ¢ September 10, 2001 — 4,516 put options are purchased on American Airlines as com- pared to 748 call options. [Source: ICT, as above, www.ict.org.il] . : ¢ September 6-11, 2001 — No other airlines show any similar trading patterns to those out by pharmaceutical companies, experienced by United and American. The put option purchases on both airlines were The editors intend to take action by | 699% above normal. This at a time when Reuters issues a business report on September requiring all authors to disclose details of | 10, stating, "Airline stocks may be poised to take off”. the editors say, because they know that the funding they need for research would oth- erwise go to the increasing number of pri- vate contract research organisations. Those organisations last year in the USA received 60 per cent of the research grants handed their own and the sponsoring pharmaceuti- ¢ September 6-10, 2001 — Highly abnormal levels of put options are purchased in cal company's roles in the study. Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, AXA Re(insurance), which owns 25% of American (Source: The Guardian, London, September | Airlines, and Munich Re. All of these companies are directly impacted by the September 10, 2001) 11 attacks. [Sources: ICT, as above; FTW, vol. iv, no. 7, October 18, 2001, www.copy- cia.com/members/oct152001.html] PROTESTS OVER AFGHANISTAN * September 11, 2001 — General Mahmud of the ISI (see above), friend of Mohammed WAR GO UNREPORTED Atta, is visiting Washington on behalf of the Taliban. [Source: MS—NBC, October 7] hey took to the streets. They raised « September 11, 2001 — For 35 minutes, from 8.15 until 9.05 am, with it widely known their voices. On October 27, tens of within the FAA and the military that four planes have been simultaneously hijacked and thousands of people in 75 cities all across _ | taken off course, no one notifies the President of the United States. It is not until 9.30 am the United States and Europe protested the _ | that any Air Force planes are scrambled to intercept. This means that the National bombing of the people of Afghanistan. Command Authority waited for 75 minutes before scrambling aircraft, even though it was known that four simultaneous hijackings had occurred—an event that has never happened in history. [Sources: CNN, ABC, MS-NBC, Los Angeles Times, New York Times] ¢ September 15, 2001 — The New York Times reports that Mayo Shattuck III has resigned, effective immediately, as head of the Alex (A.B.) Brown unit of Deutschebank. * October 10, 2001 — The Pakistani newspaper The Frontier Post reports that US Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain paid a call on Pakistan's oil minister. A previously Te! i" abandoned Unocal pipeline from Turkmenistan, across Afghanistan to the Pakistani coast, cities in 20 other countries who were carry - for the purpose of selling oil and gas to China, is now back on the table "in view of recent ing out similar protests at the same time. geopolitical developments". Watching television or reading the news- * Mid-October 2001 — The Dow Jones industrial average, after having suffered a pre- papers could lead anyone in the US or cipitous drop, has recovered most of its pre-attack losses. Although still weak and vulner- around the world to believe that there is | able to negative earnings reports, a crash has been averted by a massive infusion of gov- virtually no popular opposition to the war | ernment spending on defence programs, subsidies for "affected" industries and planned in Afghanistan—but there is! tax cuts for corporations. (Source: Workers World News Service, (Source: Michael C. Ruppert © 2001, Editor/Publisher, From The Wilderness newsletter, November 8, 2001, www.workers.org) PO Box 6061-350, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413, USA, website www.copvcia.com) They demanded an end to the frenzy of racist profiling. And they stood shoulder to shoulder to defend the most basic civil lib- erties that are being stripped away. And as they demonstrated, they were forging a bond with those in more than 40 DRUG FIRMS ACCUSED OF DISTORTING RESEARCH PROTESTS OVER AFGHANISTAN WAR GO UNREPORTED hey took to the streets. They raised their voices. On October 27, tens of thousands of people in 75 cities all across the United States and Europe protested the bombing of the people of Afghanistan. They demanded an end to the frenzy of racist profiling. And they stood shoulder to shoulder to defend the most basic civil lib- erties that are being stripped away. And as they demonstrated, they were forging a bond with those in more than 40 cities in 20 other countries who were carry - ing out similar protests at the same time. Watching television or reading the news- papers could lead anyone in the US or around the world to believe that there is virtually no popular opposition to the war in Afghanistan—but there is! (Source: Workers World News Service, November 8, 2001, www.workers.org) NEXUS +9 DECEMBER 2001 — JANUARY 2002 www.nexusmagazine.com