For years, there has been business relationships between the Bush and Bin Laden families. Back then, few people knew of this fact. Now, we do. Obama bin Laden's brother was Salem. The English media has shown a photograph from 1971. It displayed Osama when he was 14 and Saleem when he was 19. They were in a summer holiday at the Astoria Hotel in Falun, Sweden. The Bin Laden family had immense wealth. In June of 1977, George W. Bush formed his own drilling company called Arbusto Energy (Arbusto means bush in Spanish). This was based at Midland, Texas. Like his father's business, George W. Bush's oil business was back by businessmen like Houston businessman James R. Bath. Bath had links to Saui Arabian sheiks. Time reporters Beaty and Gwynne suggest in their book that the $50,000 Bath invested in Dubya's Arbusto Energy drilling company may have belonged to Bath's Saudi clients since the Houston businessman "had no substantial money of his own at the time." At the time of the investment, Bath was a representative for Saudi businessman Salem bin Laden, the oldest son of Mohammed bin Laden, founder of the Saudi Binladin Group, the largest old construction company in Saudi Arabia. Bath's business partner Charles White later became involved in a legal dispute with Bath, during which he claimed that Bath had actually invested in the company on behalf of bin Laden and other Saudi businessmen. Both Bath and Bush have denied this, and according to journalist Craig Unger, who examined the relationship between the Bushes and Saudi financiers in his 2004 book House of Bush, House of Saud.. Journalist Steve Coll, whose book The Bin Ladens examines the family's history, mentioned that there is no evidence to support the claim. In 1984, his company merged with the larger Spectrum 7, and Bush became chairman. The company was hurt by decreased oil prices, and it folded into HKN, Inc. Saleem died in a plane crash in 1988. The Washington Post reported that the Carlyle Group (which supported investments globally) met at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C. one day before 9/11. In that meeting were former President George H. W. Bush and Shafiq bin Laden or the brother of Osama bin Laden. Shafig bin Laden is an investor. George H. W. Bush would make many speeches years ago on behalf of the Carlyle Group. No commercial planes, including chartered flights, were permitted to fly into, out of, or within the United States until Sept. 13, 2001. After the air space reopened, six chartered flights with 142 people, mostly Saudi Arabian nationals, departed from the United States between Sept. 14 and 24. One flight, the so-called bin Ladin flight, departed the United States on Sept. 20 with 26 passengers, most of them relatives of Osama Bin Laden.
The 9/11 Commission report was a very important part of our history as human beings. The report is formally named the Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. This is a governmental report whose purpose is to find the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It was prepared by the Kean/Hamilton Commission at the request of then President George W. Bush and Congress. People can download the whole report for free. The commission was established on November 27, 2002 (442 days after the attack) and their final report was issued on July 22, 2004. The report was originally scheduled for release on May 27, 2004, but a compromise agreed to by then Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert allowed a sixty-day extension through July 26. The commission interviewed over 1,200 people in 10 countries. It reviewed a half million pages of documents including closely guarded classified national security documents. It used the FBI's PENTTBOM investigation. After releasing the report, commission chair Thomas Kean declared that both Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were "not well served" by the FBI and CIA. The 9/11 Commission was a middle of the road report. It denied that the Saudi government conspired the attacks or funded attacks, but even the report admitted that Saudi Arabia ws the primary source of Al-Qaeda funding. That is a contradiction. We can all agree that the hijackers came from all over the world, and they were members of al-Qaeda (which is a terrorist organization led by Osama bin Laden). The Commission is right to say that Saddam Hussein never assisted Al-Qaeda to carry out 9/11 attacks. The commission report chose to place blame for failure to notify the military squarely upon the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Ben Sliney, FAA operations manager at Herndon, Virginia, and Monte Belger, FAA Acting Deputy Administrator on 9/11, both stated to the commission that military liaisons were present and participating in Herndon's response as the events of 9/11 unfolded. Sliney stated that everyone who needed to be notified, including the military, was. The Commission wanted a creation of a National Intelligence Director over the CIA and the FBI and changes to security and immigration policy. As time went on, we know that parts of the 9/11 Commission report was a whitewash with blatant omissions and conflicts of interests.
One of the biggest whitewashes of the 9/11 Commission report is that it omitted the whole story about warnings of terrorism against 9/11 prior to the attacks. While the report did describe that "the system was blinking red" and that an al Qaeda attack was imminent, it did not include the testimony of former CIA director George Tenet to the commission in January 2004, in which he claimed to have given a specific warning to the Administration in a July 2001 meeting with Condoleezza Rice. Commission members Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton stated that they had not been told about the meeting. But the Boston Globe reported that "it turns out that the panel was, in fact, told about the meeting, according to the interview transcript and Democratic commission member Richard Ben-Veniste, who sat in on the interview with Tenet." George W. Bush waited until 2002 to form the Commission. Henry Kissinger was head of the Commission. So much outcry came about this that he resigned over conflicts of interests as Henry Kissinger is totally in league with the establishment. The members of the 9/11 Commission are Chairman Thomas Kean (He was the former Republican Governor of New Jersey). Vice Chairman Lee H. Hamilton (a former Democratic House Representative of Indiana), Richard Ben-Veniste (Democratic attorney part of the Watergate investigation), Max Cleland (a Democrat from Georgia and a former Senator), Fred F. Fielding a (Republican), Jamie Gorelick (a Democrat and former U.S. Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton administration), Slade Goton, Bob Kerrey, John F. Lehman, Timothy J. Roemer, and James R. Thompson. Other people on staff are Philip D. Zelikow, Christopher Kojm, Daniel Marcus, John J. Farmer, Dieter Snell, Janice Kephart, and Alvin S. Felzenberg. Some have compared this Commission to the Warren Commission. Former NJ Governor Thomas Kean was on the board of Amerada Hess petroleum company and had dealings with Saudi interests.
The irony was that Senator Max Cleland was expelled from the 9/11 Commission when he asked too many important questions. He said that, "As each day goes by, we learn that this government knew a whole lot more about these terrorists before September 11 than it has ever admitted.'" (Senator Max Cleland, member of the official National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Against the United States quoted in the New York Times, October 27, 2003). Max Cleland also said that, "If this decision stands, I, as a member of the commission, cannot look any American in the eye, especially family members of victims, and say the commission had full access. This investigation is now compromised." Max Cleland accused the Bush administration of delaying access to vital documents in an effort to run out the clock on its investigation. The 9/11 Commission refused to investigate Cheney's energy task force documents, all of the warnings of attacks using planes as weapons, the CIA/National Reconnaissance war games that took place on 9/11, and the radar tapes and tapes of air traffic controllers in the FAA on 9/11. Philip Zelikow co-authored a book with Condoleeza Rice before 9/11. The 9/11 Commission omitted Osama bin Laden's ties to U.S. Intelligence when Bin Laden fought the Soviets in Afghanistan during the 1980's. Kean is a director of petroleum giant Amerada Hess, which in 1998 formed a joint venture--known as Delta Hess--with Delta Oil, a Saudi Arabian company, to develop oil fields in Azerbaijan. One of Delta's backers is Khalid bin Mahfouz, a shadowy Saudi patriarch married to one of Osama bin Laden's sisters. According to a 1998 Senate testimony of former CIA director James Woolsey, powerful financier Khalid bin Mahfouz’s younger sister is married to Osama bin Laden. (US Senate, Senate Judiciary Committee, Federal News Service, 3 Sept. 1998, See also Wayne Madsen, Questionable Ties, In These Times,12 Nov. 2001). The 9/11 Commission allowed Bush and Cheney to give their testimonies together instead of separately.
Philip Shenon, a reporter for The New York Times, in a book released in February 2008, entitled The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation claims that Zelikow had closer ties with the White House than he publicly disclosed and that he tried to influence the final report in ways that the staff often perceived as limiting the Bush administration’s responsibility and furthering its anti-Iraq agenda. According to the book, Zelikow had at least four private conversations with former White House political director Karl Rove, and appears to have had many frequent telephone conversations with people in the White House. The Commission staff kept a record only of calls Zelikow received, but Government Accountability Office records show his frequent calls to the 456 telephone exchange in the 202 area code used exclusively by the White House. Also, the book states that Zelikow ordered his assistant to stop keeping a log of his calls, although the Commission's general counsel overruled him. Zelikow had pledged to have no contact with Rove and Condoleezza Rice during his work for the 9/11 Commission.
Commission chairmen Lee H. Hamilton and Thomas H. Kean accused the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of making a conscious decision to impede the commission’s inquiry after the agency received a memorandum prepared by Philip D. Zelikow, the panel's former executive director. Zelikow prepared this memorandum after former commission members reviewed thousands of classified documents following the disclosure that the CIA in November 2005 destroyed videotapes documenting the interrogations of two al-Qaeda operatives. In January 2008, NBC News released an investigative report on the 9/11 Commission's use of information acquired by torture of detainees, The 9/11 Commission omitted Able Danger. Former Senator Bob Graham, the co-chair of an earlier congressional report into the 9/11 attacks, has called for re-opening an investigation into Saudi funding of the attack and the declassification of documents discussing the subject, including 28 pages from that report. Lee Hamilton is a member of the CFR along with Jamie Gorelick. Timothy Roemer and other people in the Commission complained about access issues in forming the results of their investigations.
Former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel gave a National Press Club speech on 9/9/10 saying: "The [9/11 Commission's] investigation was not what we call an investigation. It was to develop a storyline of what happened to be fed to the American people and to receive their acquiescence. Victims' family members ... have said that only a fourth of their well researched questions were answered."
The Pentagon is located at Arlington County, Virginia. It is the famous headquarters of the United States of Defense. It is one large symbol of the U.S. military. Its architect was the American George Bergstrom. It was built by the contractor John McShain. September 11, 1941 was when ground was broken to build the location. It was dedicated on January 15, 1943. It has 7 floors and 6,636,360 square feet. Its parking has 67 acres. Colonel Leslie Grove was responsible for overseeing the project for the U.S. Army. It is the world's largest office building with 150 acres of floor space where military people and civilian employees work at. On September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 77 was hijacked and flown into the western side of the building, killing 189 people. Of those killed, 64 were on the hijacked airplane, and 125 were in the Pentagon. It was the first significant foreign attack on Washington's governmental facilities since the city was burned by the British during the War of 1812. Before the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Department of War was the headquarters of the Munitions Building. It was build during World War along Constitution Avenue on the National Mall at Washington, D.C. Now, the Pentagon building has 2 basement levels and five ring corridors per floor with a total of 17.5 miles of corridors. The Pentagon includes a five-acre (20,000 m2) central plaza, which is shaped like a pentagon and informally known as "ground zero", a nickname originating during the Cold War on the presumption that it would be targeted by the Soviet Union at the outbreak of nuclear war.
Stimson told U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in May 1941 that the War Department needed additional space. On July 17, 1941, a congressional hearing took place, organized by Virginia congressman Clifton Woodrum, regarding proposals for new War Department buildings. Woodrum pressed Brigadier General Eugene Reybold, who was representing the War Department at the hearing, for an "overall solution" to the department's "space problem" rather than building yet more temporary buildings. Reybold agreed to report back to the congressman within five days. The War Department called upon its construction chief, General Brehon Somervell, to come up with a plan. Governmental officials agreed to have the Federal Office Building Number 1 to be where the Pentagon would exist across the Potomac River in Arlington, County, Virginia. Contracts cost totally 31.1 million dollars (or $423 million in 2019). The building has the Hall of Heroes since 1968 to celebrate the Armed Forces. The Pentagon is not without controversy. Many people in the Pentagon have legitimately defended democratic values. Yet, other people in the Pentagon have been involved in nefarious actions including promoting unjust wars for decades (as part of the military industrial complex). We know that the CIA is complicit in Operation Phoenix, agreement with the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, and other disgraceful acts since 1947. There was a massive protest of the Vietnam War On October 21, 1967 including a sit in. These ca. 30,000 protesters were part of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (or MOBE). 2,500 armed soldiers protected the pentagon. The Weather Underground Organization bombed a fourth floor women's restroom to disagree with the Nixon administration's bombing of Hanoi during the end of the Vietnam War (which was a war crime). By March 17, 2007, 4,000 to 15,000 people (estimates vary significantly) protested the Iraq War by marching from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon's north parking lot.
September 11, 2001, coincidentally the 60th anniversary of the Pentagon's groundbreaking, five al-Qaeda affiliated hijackers took control of American Airlines Flight 77, en route from Washington Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport, and deliberately crashed the Boeing 757 airliner into the western side of the Pentagon at 9:37 am EDT as part of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The impact of the plane severely damaged the outer ring of one wing of the building and caused its partial collapse. The area of impact had renovations, so fewer people were injured.
One myth is that view that no plane hit the Pentagon on 9/11. This myth is common among many people who are sincere and others who are outright disinformationists. One such person is Steve Pieczenik. He was an assistant and chief anti-terrorist hostage negotiator at the State Department to Rockefeller allied members Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, George Shultz, and James Baker. He listed himself as member of the AFIO and the National Military Intelligence Association. He was a member of the CFR too, which is an establishment organization. He was an ally of the Reagan administration and is a reactionary person. Joel Skousen promotes the no-757 hit the Pentagon myth too. Joel is the nephew of the Mormon Cleon Skousen (he wrote the 1970 conspiracy best-seller 'The Naked Capitalist' (largely a review of Carroll Quigley's book 'Tragedy and Hope'). The Skousens have ties to the Council for National Policy. The CNP is a far right organization (who abhor the separation of church and state, many human rights, and other legitimate progressive views) with establishment ties. Oliver North and the Blackwater founder Erik Prince are members of the CNP. Many witnesses have said that they saw an airplane crash into the Pentagon. Images show debris of an airplane surrounding the Pentagon area. Quotes from the aftermath of the crash site offer no proof that something other a 757 hit the building. So, a 757 plane hit the Pentagon.
After the crime of 9/11 existed, a new era of world history commenced. Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda once again showed their cowardice. The neo-conservatives and other extremists used the 9/11 attacks as the pretext for them to promote the war on terror including passing new laws that violate our civil liberties (including the rest of our democratic rights). After 20 years, more people know of the truth. While this is going on, the elitists and the one percent has expanded their wealth resulting in an increase of economic inequality. The Project for a New American Century document, which was made by neo-conservatives, wanted American hegemony to spread worldwide, especially if a Pearl Harbor like event happened. By 9/11 on 8:30 pm., President George W. Bush gave his speech about the attacks. Soon, his approval rating soared into 90%. Rescues happened. The world sent humanitarian aid to help the victims. By September 20, 2001, President George W. Bush wanted to have a war against terrorism to defend freedom in my mind. New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani's prominence increased, but people had to fight to prevent all of the steel from the Twin Towers to leave NYC. Relief efforts helped the victim and their families. The government was under a continuity of government status until February of 2002. Also, the government was restructured to create Homeland Security in 2002, and the USA Patriot Act was passed in 2001. The Patriot Act had an ambiguous definition of terrorism and increase the power of law enforcement to deal with privacy issues. The NSA increased is powers. Not to mention that militarized police grew nationwide. Hate crimes against Muslims, Sikhs, South Asian Americans, and other human beings came shortly after the attacks in America. To his credit, President George W. Bush said that Muslims are not to be blamed, Muslims should be treated with respect, and that Muslims made many contributions to American society. Muslim Americans condemned the 9/11 attacks in uncompromising terms. These organizations included the Islamic Society of North America, American Muslim Alliance, American Muslim Council, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Islamic Circle of North America, and the Shari'a Scholars Association of North America. Along with monetary donations, many Islamic organizations launched blood drives and provided medical assistance, food, and shelter for victims.
From September 11, 2001, White House officials like Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wanted his aides to find evidence of Iraqi involvement. There was known. By September 15, 2001, the Bush administration didn't attack Iraq in response to 9/11. U.S. and NATO forces came into Afghanistan to fight the Taliban and al-Qaeda by October of 2001. Bush and his team said that they wanted to bring bin Laden and the al-Qaeda network to justice. On September 14, 2001, the U.S. Congress passed the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists. Still in effect, it grants the President the authority to use all "necessary and appropriate force" against those whom he determined "planned, authorized, committed or aided" the September 11 attacks, or who harbored said persons or groups. U.S. military forces invaded Afghanistan along with British forces. Special Forces were on the ground. The Taliban ended their total control of Afghanistan with the Fall of Kandahar on December 7, 2001. The Afghanistan war continues to this very day. Thousands of people were sick from the toxic debris having 2,500 contaminants including carcinogens in Lower Manhattan. Many people died. Christine Todd Whitman, administrator of the EPA in the aftermath of the attacks, was heavily criticized by a U.S. District Judge for incorrectly saying that the area was environmentally safe. Mayor Giuliani was criticized for urging financial industry personnel to return quickly to the greater Wall Street area.
On December 22, 2010, the United States Congress passed the James L. Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which President Barack Obama signed into law on January 2, 2011. It allocated $4.2 billion to create the World Trade Center Health Program, which provides testing and treatment for people suffering from long-term health problems related to the 9/11 attacks. The WTC Health Program replaced preexisting 9/11-related health programs such as the Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program and the WTC Environmental Health Center program. Massive job loss happened as a result of the attacks too. There was an increase of more church attendance, public expression of patriotism, and shows reflecting this patriot fervor during the initial aftermath of 9/11 too. The unjust Iraq War came about by the Bush administration who promoted the myth that Saddam Huseein (who was once aided by America during the 1980's. Hussein shook Donald Rumsfeld's hand in 1983) had massive quantities of weapons of mass destruction. That was not true. The war on terror caused massive wars, destruction of infrastructure, the refugee crisis, the growth of imperialism (Pentagon's Northern Command is highly powerful. We know of NATO's bombings of Libya including black Libyans being murdered by racists), Big Brother's expansion (with the NDAA, the NSA being caught having warrantless wiretapping, etc.), and other foreign policy crises.
Nancy Woodson was my 7th great grandmother. Nancy was part of the Iroquoian speaking Nottoway people. After the 1676 Virginian civil war called Bacon's Rebellion, the Nottoway people negotiated articles of peace with special commissioners representing King Charles II. They lived in Southampton County, Virginia. By the twentieth, many Nottoway people married into other ethnic groups like black Americans and white Americans. Many of their original lands were sold. Nancy Woodson and Mike Bozeman had the following children of Amy Woodson, Winny Woodson (who was my 6th great grandmother), William G. Woodson, and Jincy Woodson. In the Nottoway language, ena means mother and akroh means father. Nancy Woodson signed deeds on behalf of the Nottoway tribe in 1794 and 1795 (along side James Woodson and Henry Woodson who may have been Nancy's brothers or uncles). Nancy was born close to the French and Indian War. William G. Woodson was living with his father Mike Bozeman in North Carolina. The Quakers taught him to read and write. Jincy Woodson married James Taylor. James was born in the mid 1790's. James Taylor was a black man. Jincy Woodson and James Taylor had the children of Robert, Benjamin, and John Taylor. Robert lived at Petersburg, Virginia as a carpenter with his wife. John Taylor worked his community and sol his 1855 allotment to Nottoway Edwin D. Turner. Winifred (Winny) Woodson had these children with the African American Burwell Williams: Patsy Williams-Crocker, John Williams, Sally Williams, and Mary Woodson Williams (she was my 5th great grandmother who lived from 1811 to 1870). Mary Woodson Williams married a Nottoway descendant named Parsons Turner (b. 1814). Their children are: Milly Woodson-Bozeman Turner (b. ca. 1831), Rebecca Woodson-Bozeman Turner (b. ca. 1829), Betsy Turner (b. 1825. She married Edwin Turner). Betsy and Edwin Turner's children (or my 1st cousins) are: Richard Turner, Darthelita Frances Turner, Virginia Turner, Mariah Turner, James Turner, Caroline Turner, and Edwin D. Turner Jr. Darthelia Frances Turner married John Harrison Jr. on January 4, 1877 at Southampton County, Virginia.
Sally Williams married Robert Wiggins (an African American) and had the following children of: Mary Wiggins (b. 1843), Margaret Wiggins (b. 1847), Arry Wiggins, John Henry Wiggins (b. 1852), Robert Wiggins (1852-1929), Augustus Wiggins (b. 1857), and Richard Wiggins (B. 1859). These children were my 1st cousins. Augustus Wiggins married Nottoway descendant Odelia Turner. Patsy Woodson-Williams (whose parents are Burwell Williams and Winifred Woodson) had the following children with the black man named Thomas Crocker: Patsy Woodson Bozeman Crocker, Caroline Woodson-Bozeman Crocker, and Indiana Bozeman Crocker. My 4th great grand aunt Indiana Bozeman Crocker married William Richard Artis. They had the following children of Benjamin T. Artis, Caroline Artis, Mark Artis, Washington Artis, William W. Artis, Benjamin J. Artis, Clara J. Artis, Henrietta Artis, and George Washington Artis. The son of Indiana Bozeman Crocker, William Artis, moved into Sussex County and later to work with tabacoo factories of Petersburg, Virginia. His children are Kenneth and Willie Artis. Patsy Bozeman (daughter of Thomas Crocker and Patsy Williams) married a Nottoway descendant named Alexander Scholar-Stewart. Their children are Lamb, Lydia, George, and Alexandria Bozeman Scholar Stewart.
My 4th great grandmother Milly Woodson-Bozeman Tunrer married the free African American Morefield Hurst, and their children are Virginia, Cordelia, Joshua, Susanna, Tom, Josephine, Willie P., George, and Ben. Susanna was Susanna Field Hurst Turner, and she was my 3rd great grandmother. She lived from March 1862 to January 1949. She married Rev. James Thompson Claud, and had many children like my 2nd great grandfather Arthur Boss Claud. Rev. James Thompson Claud's parents were Sarah Claud and Dr. E.C. Barrett. Sarah Claud married Thomas Hill, who was a free black man. One of their children was Adeline Hill who married the agnatic Nottoway person named John Henry Williams, who was the son of John B. Williams. John B. Williams was my 5th great grand uncle. Arthur Boss Claud married Martha Jane Claude and had many children like my great grandmother Ella Claude (1913-1991). She married Fenton Albert Bynum Jr. and gave birth to my grandfather Robert (who was married to my grandmother Fannie), then she gave birth to my mother. Then, I was born.
By Timothy