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planning his boldest move yet: a strike on Washington or Representatives met in February 1998 to discuss removing the possibly New York City (Time, December 21, 1998). government of Afghanistan from power. The US government ¢ June 2001: German intelligence warned the CIA, Britain's told India in June 2001 that a planned invasion of Afghanistan intelligence agency and Israel's Mossad that Middle Eastern was set for October, and Jane's Defence News reported in March terrorists were planning to hijack commercial aircraft and use 2001 that the US planned to invade Afghanistan later that year. them as weapons to attack "American and Israeli symbols which BBC reported that the US told Pakistan's Foreign Secretary prior stand out" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 11, to 9/11 of a planned invasion of Afghanistan in October.* 2001; Washington Post, September 14, 2001; Fox News, May At the beginning of 2006, the Global Dominance Group's 17, 2002). agenda is well established within higher circle policy councils « June 28, 2001: George Tenet wrote an intelligence and cunningly operationalised inside the US government. GDG summary to Condoleezza Rice, stating that "It is highly likely members work hand in hand with defence contractors promoting that a significant al-Qaeda attack is [expected] in the near future, deployment of US forces in over 700 bases worldwide. within several weeks" (Washington Post, February 17, 2002). There is an important difference between self-defence from ¢ June-July 2001: President Bush, Vice President Cheney external threats and the belief in the total military control of the and national security aides were given world. Many people in the US are having briefs with headlines such as "Bin Laden serious doubts about the moral and practical Threats Are Real" and "Bin Laden Planning acceptability of financing world High Profile Attacks". The exact contents domination, and the dangers to personal of these briefings remain classified, but freedoms which permanent war implies. according to the 9/11 Commission they Ken Cunningham of Penn State consistently predicted upcoming attacks Many people In the University wrote in December 2004: that would occur "on a catastrophic level, i i "\..current War-on-Terror levels [of indicating that they would cause the world US are having Serious expenditures] surpass the Cold War to be in turmoil, consisting of possible doubts about the averages by 18%...9/11 and the War on multiple—but not , necessarily moral and practical Terror have enabled the assertion of an simultaneous—attacks ("The 9/11 i aggressive, preemptive, militarist bloc Commission Report", April 13, 2004 [B]). acceptability of within the government and the National ¢ July 26, 2001: Attorney-General financing world Security State... The gravity of the current Ashcroft stopped flying on commercial airlines due to a threat assessment (CBS, July 26, 2001). The report of this warning was omitted from the militarism is the nebulous, potentially 159 domination, and the dangers to personal limitless (permanent war)... Resistance to the GDG within 9/11 Commission report (Dr David freedoms which the HCPEs Ray Griffin, May 22, 2005). An important question remains. « August 6, 2001: President Bush permanent war Can we see any evidence of moderates received a classified intelligence implies. or liberals within the higher circle briefing at his Crawford, Texas, ranch, warning that bin Laden may be planning to hijack commercial airliners. The memo was titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US". The entire memo focused on the possibility of terrorist attacks inside policy elites asserting resistance to the GDG agenda? Certainly the indictments of key neo-cons within the Bush administration are a hopeful sign. But there is little evidence that the HCPEs have any interest in addressing the US and specifically mentioned the questions regarding 9/11 pre-warnings World Trade Center (Newsweek, May 27, 2002; New York or national voter fraud. Times, May 15, 2002; Washington Post, April 11, 2004; White Greg Palast reported on the split between the neo-cons in the House, April 11, 2004; Intelligence Briefing, August 6, 2001). Pentagon and the State Department and oil companies over the ¢ August 2001: Russia's President Vladimir Putin warned the privatisation of the oilfields in Iraq. The GDG neo-cons were US that suicide pilots were training for attacks on US targets pushing for the US oil companies to purchase Iraq's oil fields (Fox News, May 17, 2002). The head of Russian intelligence outright, and the oil companies baulked, preferring simply to also later stated "We had clearly warned them" on several buy the oil from a stable pro-American Iraqi regime.” occasions, but they "did not pay the necessary attention" Another sign of resistance was a full-page ad in the New York (Agence France-Presse, September 16, 2001). Times on November 10, 2005, placed by a new policy advocacy * September 10, 2001: A group of top Pentagon officials group called the Partnership for a Secure America. The ad received an urgent warning that prompted them to cancel their openly challenged the US policy of torture and was signed by flight plans for the following morning (Newsweek, September numerous HCPEs including Lee Hamilton, Warren Christopher, 17, 2001). The 9/11 Commission document omitted this report Gary Hart and Richard Holbrooke. (Griffin, May 22, 2005).*’ Still another sign of resistance is the fact that traditionally Foreknowledge of 9/11 enabled the GDG to act quickly to powerful long-term lobbying groups such as the US Chamber of accelerate its global dominance agenda. People in the GDG Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the wanted an invasion of Afghanistan long before 9/11. The US National Association of Realtors have become concerned about government Sub-committee on Asia and the Pacific of the International Relations Committee of the House of Continued on page 81 Many people in the US are having serious doubts about the - moral and practical acceptability of financing world domination, and the dangers to personal freedoms which implies. a> es or national voter fraud. Greg Palast reported on the split between the neo-cons in the Pentagon and the State Department and oil companies over the privatisation of the oilfields in Iraq. The GDG neo-cons were pushing for the US oil companies to purchase Iraq's oil fields outright, and the oil companies baulked, preferring simply to buy the oil from a stable pro-American Iraqi regime.” Another sign of resistance was a full-page ad in the New York Times on November 10, 2005, placed by a new policy advocacy group called the Partnership for a Secure America. The ad openly challenged the US policy of torture and was signed by numerous HCPEs including Lee Hamilton, Warren Christopher, Gary Hart and Richard Holbrooke. Still another sign of resistance is the fact that traditionally powerful long-term lobbying groups such as the US Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Association of Realtors have become concerned about 32 = NEXUS permanent war Continued on page 81 www.nexusmagazine.com OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2006