The Freedom Tower

by Harold Saive - Gainesville, Fla.>

RESOLUTION TO PROMOTE THE ABOLISHMENT OF WAR BY DEMANDING A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION OF THE 9/11/2001 TERROR ATTACKS ON AMERICA.

WHEREAS, Veterans For Peace, Inc. is an educational and humanitarian organization dedicated to the abolishment of war; and

WHEREAS, the 9/11/2001 terror attack was the primary pretext for war and the illegal occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan; and

WHEREAS, historical documents reveal that False Flag operations by rogue elements within governments have been used too frequently as a pretext for war and military aggression; and

WHEREAS, the 9/11 Commission final report could show no conclusive evidence that two passenger jets were capable of collapsing three World Trade Center skyscrapers in New York City; and

WHEREAS, public records show the FBI can find no evidence to indict Osama Bin Laden for the 9/11 terror attacks; and

WHEREAS, several alleged suicide hijackers were inexplicably found to be alive, working and at home in the weeks following 9/11/2001; and

WHEREAS crime scene evidence was illegally ordered to be removed from the Pentagon and World Trade Center sites; and

WHEREAS recent forensic evidence concludes that three World Trade Center skyscrapers were deliberately destroyed by controlled demolition on 9/11/2001; and

WHEREAS, first responders and site workers continue to die and suffer disabilities from breathing toxic air at ground zero following deadly assurances by the government, Rudy Giuliani and EPA’s Christie Todd Whitman that the air was safe to breathe; and

WHEREAS, the widows, widowers and families of the 9/11 victims continue to suffer without closure as to how and why their friends and loved-ones died on 9/11/2001; and

WHEREAS body parts and human remains of 9/11 victims were found in 2006 on the tops of adjacent buildings; and

WHEREAS, eighty countries around the world lost citizen nationals who were killed in the 9/11 attacks; and

WHEREAS ,David Ray Griffin’s overall body of work and particularly his 2008 release: 9/11 Contradictions: An open letter to Congress and the Press provides compelling contradictory evidence that substantially undermines the government’s official story; and

WHEREAS, VFP supporters, Cindy Sheehan, Col. Ann Wright and others are now calling for a new investigation into the 9/11 terror attacks; and

WHEREAS, Veterans For Peace, Inc. currently recognizes and lists the 9/11 Truth Group as a related organization; and

WHEREAS, the Nuremberg Trials following WWII succeeded to end Nazi Germany’s aspirations for waging future wars; and

WHEREAS, Article 9 was composed by the United States following WWII as legislation for Japan to forbid their country from engaging in - or assisting other countries in pursuit of war; and

WHEREAS, the 1996 War Crimes Act under Federal Statute [18 U.S.C. § 2441] contains no statute of limitations and provides that a war crimes complaint can be filed at any time after the crime is committed; Therefore be it

RESOLVED, that Veterans For Peace, Inc. will pursue the abolishment of war by demanding a valid and ongoing criminal investigation into the mass murders of 9/11/2001 with the objective to ultimately bring justice to the guilty as a deterrent to future False Flag operations with the consequential promotion of World Peace.

Fresh Look at Terrorism Risk
In the past terrorism has been viewed as an event that could not have been anticipated, according to a website called Continuity Central. This is no longer the case. While terror attacks, in some cases, remain unpredictable due to the man-made nature of the event, there now exists enough available historical data related to actual terrorist attacks to meet a legal requirement for determining a standard of foreseeability. According to Dr. Daniel Kennedy, CPP, a criminal forensic expert, “As criminologists know, the best predictor of future events is past events. The best predictor of terrorist attacks would therefore be past terrorist attacks. As suggested in the landmark legal case of Timberwalk v. Cain, the foreseeability of terrorist attacks is based on five factors: frequency, similarity … proximity and publicity of past attacks. The probability of attack would increase exponentially based on these factors.” For example, as much as the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center surprised everyone, it was foreseeable that the Twin Towers were a major terrorist target based on the previous truck bomb attack in 1993.
According to Dr. Michael J. Witkowski, CPP, another criminal forensic expert, “An environment prone to terrorism may be determined by either of two types of legal notice: Actual, by real events on property or territory; or constructive, where factors such as proximity of events and general deterioration of environment are reviewed.” The availability of notice creates possible legal exposure for companies that have not properly assessed and mitigated their terrorism risk using readily available analysis tools or programs. 

Properly analyzed data can be built into a robust environment which visualizes attack location, target type, and victims. This type of analytical tool allows decision makers to begin to evaluate whether safety and security measures are capable of meeting the threat in the surrounding environment or of making decisions that avoid the threat altogether. Additional features such as attack clustering, where multiple or similar type attacks have occurred, can be visualized.
Decision making tools: environmental risk assessments
As corporations seek to lower their operating expense, off-shoring or ‘best shoring’ has become common practice. Exporting operations such as call centers, data centers, business process outsourcing, manufacturing and suppliers to countries such as India or Pakistan have now become commonplace. These remain potential targets for adverse activity when other primary targets are ‘hardened’ and less approachable.
In a three year review of terror based attacks in India, there were approximately 3,300 incidents where an attack location could be identified from publically available media reports. In the most current three-month collection of attack data, there were approximately 206 attacks and only 12 occurred in ‘new’ locations, where an attack had not occurred in the previous 3 years. Or, in other words, 94 percent of attacks occurred in areas where there had been known terror events previously.

All the world was his stage as the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and co-defendants went on trial today.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, appearing for the first time since his capture five years ago, said he would welcome becoming ‘martyr’ after a judge warned Thursday that he faces the death penalty for his confessed role as mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Wearing thick glasses and occasionally fussing with his turban or stroking his bushy grey beard, Mohammed seemed noticeably thinner than the image of a slovenly man with dishevelled hair, an unshaven face and a T-shirt that the US showed to the world after his capture in Pakistan.

Mohammed chanted verses from the Quran, rejected his attorneys and told Judge Ralph Kohlmann, a Marine colonel, that he wants to represent himself at the war crimes trial.

The judge warned that he faces execution if convicted of organizing the attacks on America. But the former No. 3 leader of al-Qaeda was insistent.

“Yes, this is what I wish, to be a martyr for a long time,” Mohammed declared. “I will, God willing, have this, by you.”

Mohammed and his four alleged co-conspirators each face death if convicted of war crimes including murder, conspiracy, attacking civilians and terrorism by hijacking planes to attack US landmarks.

The murder charges involve the deaths of 2,973 people at the World Trade Center, Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania where passengers forced down their plane.

Their arraignment begins the highest-profile test yet of the military’s tribunal system, which faces an uncertain future.

The Supreme Court is to rule this month on the rights of Guantanamo prisoners, potentially delaying or halting the proceedings.

Some workers exposed to toxic debris from the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center will be treated by a company run by Tommy Thompson, the former Bush administration Health and Human Services secretary.
The $11 million Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contract was awarded to Logistics Health. Thompson is president of that company. The contract will help track the health of 4,000 to 6,000 workers who live outside the New York City.
In an AP story, New York Democratic Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney says it’s ironic that Thompson’s company won the contract — given what she calls “the history of delay from the Bush administration when he was secretary and now.”
When he was Bush’s health chief, Thompson was accused of not doing enough to help those exposed to toxic debris.
The company will provide annual exams to the World Trade Center responders and diagnose and treat their 9/11-related conditions.

The Council on Foreign Relations reports on the 9/11 effect:
National security experts note the U.S. strategy for dealing with rogue regimes changed after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. In a June 2002 speech at West Point, President Bush said: “containment is not possible when unbalanced dictators with weapons of mass destruction can deliver those weapons on missiles or secretly provide them to terrorist allies.” The Bush administration’s National Security Strategy, issued in September 2002, asserted the need for preemptive strikes against states or entities intent on terrorism. This language “reflected the view that the bad behavior of these regimes was inextricably linked to their character,” says the Wilson Center’s Litwak. “Hence, a change of conduct or behavior would be inadequate because the behavior derived from the regime’s character. Therefore, you had to change the regime to end the behavior.”
The preemptive-strike policy was employed in the March 2003 invasion that ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, whose regime was accused of developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that posed a threat to the United States. But in the case of Libya, which was linked to multiple terrorist attacks and was developing its own WMD programs, the Bush administration tried a different tack that relied more on diplomacy. Washington gained a Libyan agreement to dismantle its WMD programs and renounce terrorism in 2003 in exchange for U.S. assistance in opening economic and political ties.
Debate continues over the usefulness of negotiations with an Iran seen as intent on developing nuclear weapons. John Bolton, a former top arms-control official and UN ambassador in the Bush administration, warned in a May 2008 Wall Street Journal op-ed of a reliance on negotiation with states or entities intent on supporting weapons or developing dangerous weapons. “In today’s world of weapons of mass destruction, time is again a precious asset, one almost invariably on the side of the would-be proliferators,” Bolton wrote. “Time allows them to perfect the complex science and technology necessary to sustain nuclear weapons and missile programs, and provides far greater opportunity for concealing their activities from our ability to detect and, if necessary, destroy them.”

Here’s another on again, off again Freedom Tower story:
The New York media reports that a Chinese real estate development company with strong ties to China’s government has signed a term sheet to occupy five floors of the Freedom Tower upon its scheduled opening in 2012, but some real estate experts say the company has a history of reneging on deals.
Construction workers stand by the first of three 25-ton steel columns of the Freedom Tower’s construction at ground zero in December, 2006 at New York.

The China Center New York — a subsidiary of Vantone, one of China’s largest real estate development companies — signed a term sheet with the Port Authority to lease five and half floors in the Freedom Tower, according to the Port Authority, which owns the former World Trade Center site and is leasing the 1,776-foot-tall Freedom Tower.

Several real estate sources with knowledge of Vantone’s past lease negotiations aren’t putting much stock in the agreement until the Port Authority starts collecting rent.

A developer who is building three towers at the World Trade Center site, Larry Silverstein, abandoned negotiations with Vantone in 2006 — when he was slated to build the Freedom Tower — after he claimed that the company signed a term sheet but then failed to deliver a letter of credit.

A year later, the same thing happened to the president and chief investment officer of L&L Holding Co., Robert Lapidus, for office space at 195 Broadway.

“That might have been the only time that happened in my career,” Mr. Lapidus said yesterday.

The executive director of the China Center, Xue Ya, said that in the Silverstein case Vantone had delivered the letter of credit, but it was late, and she said Vantone pulled out of the deal at 195 Broadway because it did not satisfy the company’s long-term needs.

According to the Port Authority, Vantone has agreed to lease floors 64 to 69 at $80 a square foot. The terms of the deal call for a 22-year lease with escalations every five years. The China Center New York would be a hub for Chinese firms developing American operations, and for American companies wishing to conduct business in China. It would likely include an executive business club, conference center, and travel center with other corporate catered amenities.

“Serious interest from the China Center is a major milestone in our efforts to secure Freedom Tower tenants from around the world,” the Port Authority’s chairman, Anthony Coscia, said in a statement. The newly appointed Port Authority executive director, Christopher Ward, said the commitment from Vantone helps “build excitement” for other tenants.

The managing director of the real estate research firm Real Capital Analytics, Daniel Fasulo, said kinks often emerge when deals are struck with companies that have significant links to government, such as Vantone.

Blogging at GetReligion.org, Tmatt says he knows why family members of 9/11 victims continue to seek proper burials for their fallen loved ones.

Years ago, the Religious News Service wrote about Sally Regenhard and the need to give her probationary fire fighter son, Christian, this proper burial after the memorial Mass on Oct. 26, 2001. When it was over, Sally could not proceed to a cemetery because there was no body. Christian’s remains were never found.
Now, more than six years later, Regenhard is part of a civil lawsuit against New York City by the group World Trade Center Families for Proper Burial, which was founded in 2003 to retrieve the remains of family members in hopes of providing a proper burial.
The suit, filed by veteran civil rights attorney Norman Siegel, turns in part on a novel legal claim: that the families’ inability to bury their loved ones according to the tenets of their faith violates their First Amendment right of free religious exercise. The families want a portion of the 1 million tons of World Trade Center debris that was sent to Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island to be resifted and — even if no human remains are identified — transferred to a location that can serve as a mass grave.
Now, for this story to work you need to know that there is more to it than people wanting to properly bury the remains of their loved ones. You need to know that they need to, for specific reasons of religious law or tradition.
You need that information in the story. But how are you supposed to do that, when the tragedy involved so many people from such radically different faith traditions? And, of course, an Orthodox Jewish tradition may or may not affect the beliefs of Jews in Conservative or Reform congregations. Beliefs are now — as I hinted at earlier — split among Catholics