Chapter 2. The War in Iraq Could Have Been Prevented

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Chapter 2. War in Iraq Could Have Been Prevented — Part 1

The parties stalking me also stalked the U.S. by deceiving us to invade Iraq in pursuit of their agenda for Greater Israel. I know this is true because:

Mohammed Omar

(1) Eighteen months prior to 9/11, Iraqi American colleague Munther Ghazal was invited to meet with Taliban leader Mohammed Omar. We had traveled to Iraq together in January 1997. Sensing a set-up, I persuaded him not to go. Had he traveled to Kabul, he would have become the purported (and still missing) “high level contact” between Saddam Hussein and Islamic extremists and I would have been portrayed as guilty by association.

(2) Four days after 9/11, San Diego F.B.I. Special Agent Stephen Butler appeared at Munther’s home and asked if he was funding my work. No one contacted me. One of the two people accompanying Butler spoke with an Israeli accent. Munther protested, asking what right Agent Butler had to bring an Israeli agent into his home.

King Abdullah II

(3) When Munther sought to help me: (a) a member of his extended family was murdered, (b) his pregnant daughter was terrorized by a bank robber (both crimes remain unsolved), (c) he was sequestered in a U.S. military facility just prior to the invasion, (d) his passport was confiscated when he and I sought to meet with Jordan’s King

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Abdullah II prior to the invasion, and (e) he was repeatedly harassed by agents both from the F.B.I. and the Defense Intelligence Agency (D.I.A). That harassment included Israeli Mossad agents posing as F.B.I. agents—as confirmed by the Washington office of the F.B.I.

 

Arie Kumaat

(4) In March 2001, six months prior to 9/11, Lt. General Arie Kumaat, head of Indonesian Intelligence, briefed me in Jakarta on evidence of Israeli pre-staging for a then unknown, out-of-theater operation and an Israeli attempt to bribe the Indonesian Parliament to push the U.S. out of the region in favor of China. [See Chapter 3, The Indonesia Connection.]

Abdurrahman Wahid

(5) Post-9/11, General Kumaat was murdered (poisoned) in January 2002 within days of agreeing to set meetings for me to brief former Indonesian President Wahid on what I knew was false intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Arie and I knew that first briefing would lead to meetings with other Muslim heads of state. [See Chapter 3. The Indonesia Connection.]

Why the sensitivities about my relationship with Munther Ghazal? Due to his family background and the facts we uncovered while meeting in Baghdad in early 1997 with senior members of the regime 4-1/2 years prior to the provocation of 9/11. When these facts are considered in light of my life experience, it becomes clear that this criminality, including ongoing treason, traces to a common source.

The World Trade Center

My experience suggests that the pre-staging of 9/11 traces back to no later than the mid-1980s. That’s when I met Jim Smith, a water resources engineer and brilliant computer programmer working in the Minneapolis office of Barr Engineering on geographic information system mapping (GIS). Both Jim and I were collaborating with Gerry Lockhart who designed the nationwide 9/11 system for emergency calls. At the time, Gerry oversaw the technical interface at U.S. West in Minneapolis when the nationwide phone switching system was transitioning from analog to digital switching. Alpha Base Systems, Inc., a business applications software company that I co-founded, had a contract with U.S. West to make central office computing more efficient.

Computer pioneer Gus German and I met with Jim and Carlos, a Cuban friend with whom Jim had developed software to support Barr Engineering mapping services for dams, wastewater management, mining, structural engineering, etc. After the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, Jim told me that he received a call asking if their mapping software could be adapted to map the mechanical and structural engineering components of the World Trade Center towers to depict floor plans so that clients could custom design their office space. Jim called me to ask if he was contacted because of me.

After 9/11, Jim called to ask if I thought the software he developed had been used to place explosives at key structural points, enabling both towers to be dropped into their footprints. Based on my experience, I assured him that would be consistent with the behavior of those I was profiling who typically operate in plain sight. That analysis is also consistent with how World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed into its footprint at freefall speed despite no impact from airliners and no structural damage.

In hindsight, it makes perfect sense that those who produced the Trump presidency retained former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to represent their president regarding obstruction of justice issues overseen by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, a former Director of the F.B.I. The branding of Giuliani as “America’s Mayor” dates from his high-profile appearances at Ground Zero, the scene of that mass murder crisis in Lower Manhattan. Not once did he explain the collapse of World Trade Center 7 nor the fact that all three buildings collapsed into their footprints in what explosive experts insist was a controlled demolition.

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Rudy Giuliani

With New Yorker Donald Trump in the White House, it also now makes sense that Bernie Kerik, New York City police commissioner during the Giuliani era (and previously his bodyguard), was picked by George W. Bush to lead what became the Department of Homeland Security. Kerik resigned when his ties to organized crime became too obvious. In April 2018, Kerik resurfaced to support Trump immigration policies.[1]

Why Keep a Meeting Secret for 18 years?

A “smoking gun” appeared in mid-November 2022 with declassification of a secret memo described as “historic.” That 31-page “memorandum for the record” revealed the evasive answers of President George W. Bush when he and Vice President Dick Cheney met on April 29, 2004 with all members of the 9/11 Commission to answer questions about any warnings received of a pending attack.[2]

Florida Governor Jeb Bush, wrote to me the next day, April 30, 2004, acknowledging his receipt of my April 12, 2004 testimony to the 9/11 Commission. That testimony featured proof of pre-staging for both 9/11 and the war in Iraq—dating to February 1997.[3] [The exhibits include a copy of Jeb’s letter.]

On April 30, 2005—precisely one year after Jeb wrote to me—he called Dr. Glenn Olds, my senior adviser since 1994, and they spoke for a half hour. Glenn and his wife, Eva, had been close friends of George H.W. and Barbara Bush since 1947. Glenn also advised my father (1945-1979) and four presidents, two of each party. Jeb was very familiar with Glenn’s background. They spoke at length about me.

Glenn urged that Jeb speak directly with me, but he never called. I am confident he never had any intention to call. Why? My life experience proves that, had I been engaged in good faith in 1997 on my return from Baghdad with evidence of no WMD and a credible in-country offer to remove Saddam Hussein without a war, the Bush-ordered war in Iraq could have been prevented. When “Dubya” refused to concede the war was a mistake and Jeb defended him, they opened a political lane for Donald Trump.

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My April 30, 2016 memo to Jeb’s son, Prescott, urged that Jeb and Dubya meet with me, citing Glenn’s close relationship to their father. [The memo was hand-delivered by Clay Johnson III, former Yale roommate of George W. Bush, and confirmed received by Prescott.]

When Jeb sent me that April 30, 2004 letter, Dubya was ramping up his campaign for a second term and pre-staging a potential third Bush presidency—for Jeb, a neoconservative. Had Jeb engaged me, the facts of my life experience posed a major problem for: (a) the Bush family legacy, (b) those who sought a second term for Dubya, and (c) those interests that deceived the U.S. to invade Iraq and Afghanistan—i.e., parties who know my life experience is uniquely able to prove the common source of that ongoing duplicity.

In terms of game theory, my life experience posed a “variable” known to those who deceived Bush to order a regime change war long sought by the Israeli Right and their neocon collaborators in the U.S. As my personal experience proves, skilled crisis initiators enhance the probability of success by managing variables that could interfere with the intended outcome.

Those I studied while being stalked since childhood know my life experience proves the common source of a systemic criminality long concealed from public view. With this evidentiary trail working its way to transparency, a world in crisis will soon learn how those responsible pursue power and profits by manipulating the trust of this nation. My experience proves lengthy premeditation and the presence of an evil mind adept at pitting “two sides against the middle” while profiting off the misery of both.

Our Trip to Iraq

Baghdad International Hotel

On 9/11, Munther Ghazal was the Iraqi closest to Saddam Hussein living in the U.S. After the Gulf War of 1991 (Operation Desert Storm), he relocated his family to the U.S. with Saddam’s approval. The senior member of a prominent Chaldean Christian family that traces its heritage to antiquity, his father founded the Baghdad International Hotel in the 1950s. Designed and built by the Swiss who also trained the staff, theirs was the first 5-star hotel in the Middle East with 222 rooms on 20 acres along the Tigris River. After Saddam and Barzan nationalized their property, Munther built the Diana Hotel across the Tigris from Saddam’s massive palace that today houses the U.S. embassy. His grandfather helped found Baghdad College in 1932, an elite Jesuit prep school attended by children of every faith whose families provided Iraq’s leaders.[4]

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Baghdad’s Rasheed Hotel. Guests walked over inlaid tile depicting face of George H.W. Bush

Through Jordan’s King Hussein, former U.N. Ambassador Glenn Olds arranged for our journey into and out of Iraq by way of Amman. Assistance was also provided by Landrum Bolling, then head of Mercy Corps, a life-long friend to Glenn and also a friend of the late King. Glenn served as an adviser to my father (1945-1979) and as my senior adviser from 1994 until his death in March 2006 at age 85. Glenn met with Munther before advising me to travel with him to Iraq.

 

500GB SSD:Users:jeffgates:Desktop:King Hussein.jpeg After days of in-depth discussions with key members of the regime, including Iraqi nuclear physicist Dr. Nidhal al-Hamdani, I returned from Baghdad in February 1997 with:

  • Evidence of no nuclear weapons of mass destruction (WMD),
  • A credible proposal from Iraq’s senior sheikhs to remove Saddam without a war,
  • Clear indications of Saddam’s assent knowing that his reign was over, and
  • An offer to provide U.S. firms with 60% of the $160 billion in reconstruction contracts and many of the concessions for the largest oil fields in Iraq.
Donald Rumsfeld

Not until December 2015 was a classified report released confirming that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld suppressed key intelligence in 2002 that cast great doubt on the reliability of the nuclear WMD intelligence cited as the key rationale for the invasion of Iraq. A Joint Chiefs of Staff report of September 9, 2002 conceded: “Our knowledge of the Iraqi (nuclear) weapons program is based largely—perhaps 90%—on analysis of imprecise intelligence.”[5] Rumsfeld withheld this key assessment from Secretary of State Colin Powell, C.I.A. officials and others.

Instead, this report was “disappeared” by Rumsfeld, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, head of a newly established Pentagon Office of Special Plans created to assess intelligence. The WMD intelligence has since been confirmed as not just false but “fixed” around goals long sought by (predominantly Jewish) neoconservatives in their support of their goals for Greater Israel. In an unguarded candid appraisal of the Joint Chiefs’ report challenging the WMD intelligence, Rumsfeld conceded, “This is big.”[6] The Center for Public Integriy, a nonprofit news organization, tallied 935 lies spread by Bush and White House officals regarding the war in Iraq. In 2006, a similar office was established to deal with intelligence on Iran. Rumsfeld died in July 2021 at age 88.

Douglas Feith

This report was made to disappear by those who knew that Munther’s and my experience in Iraq in February 1997 confirmed what the Joint Chiefs revealed 5-1/2 years later: those who deceived the U.S. to wage their war manipulated intelligence to induce an invasion certain to undermine our national security, damage our global standing and further weaken our confidence in democracy. As my life experience proves, that war was meant to weaken the U.S. while strengthening an ascendant China and advancing Israeli goals.

James Woolsey
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Mohamed Atta

Vice-President Dick Cheney and Lewis Libby, his (Jewish neocon) Chief of Staff, aided Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Feith in that duplicity. Both Cheney and Libby sought (unsuccessfully) to pressure the C.I.A. to find a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda.[7] Former C.I.A. Director James Woolsey, who emerged as a neocon foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump, promoted that nonexistent link by falsely alleging a meeting in Prague between 9/11 terrorist Mohammad Atta and a senior Iraqi official.[8]

Not until December 2016 was it revealed by C.I.A. officer John Nixon that Saddam Hussein, when interrogated about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction after his capture, admitted that it was a mistake for him not to make clear before the war that he had long since gotten rid of them.[9]

A View from the Inside

The accompanying photograph shows my meeting with nuclear physicist Dr. Nidhal al-Hamdani in her Baghdad office. When she picked up her phone to greet Saddam in Arabic, I took this photo despite being told by her guards that photographs were prohibited. To prove I took it, I included a corner of my leather briefcase crafted for me in Italy.

King Hussein provided security for us to enter and exit Iraq. On the first Saturday in February 1997 at the end of Ramadan, he called Saddam to wish him a happy feast day (Eid). That was the story reported in the press. In truth, his call informed Saddam when Munther Ghazal and I were expected at the Jordanian border where King Hussein’s personal security detail would escort us back to Amman. If we were not there at the agreed-to time, he had secured authorization from Saddam to send a Jordanian helicopter to locate us on the road to Amman (he had Saddam provide us a GPS tracker).

On the day of our departure, Dr. Salah Al-Hadithi came to my room at the Al-Rasheed Hotel to tell me Saddam was quite happy to hear from King Hussein because, pre-Gulf War, they did business together. He also told me a car was enroute to pick up Munther at his home and that we must rush to our rendezvous point as Saddam preferred that Jordanian aircraft not violate Iraqi airspace.

Saddam’s call to Dr. Hamdani while I was in her office and the phone call he accepted from King Hussein were his first calls for several years on open phone lines. Knowing how closely his calls were monitored, both calls were meant to signal intelligence agencies—particularly ours—that they should take seriously what we discussed and the proposal with which I returned to the U.S. The call from King Hussein was the first time the Jordanian leader spoke with Saddam since just after the Gulf War in 1991.

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Jerry Corsi
Carl Lindner

Had I been engaged in good faith on my return from Iraq, the war could have been prevented. Rather than interview me, F.B.I. agents in the Minneapolis office sought to discredit me. That operation included an F.B.I. attempt to frame me for a 1995 fraud orchestrated by Israeli asset Jerome Corsi and financed by Cincinnati multi-billionaire Carl Lindner whose American Financial Group website describes him as “the nation’s largest non-Jewish contributor to Jewish causes.” Minneapolis is also where terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui (aka the “20th hijacker”) received flight training and where his computer, had it been examined, would have revealed planning for 9/11. [See Chapter 5, The Poland Connection]

Zacarias Moussaoui

As I will show, had my life experience been investigated in a timely fashion and the facts followed wherever they may lead, the lengthy planning and sophisticated pre-staging required for 9/11 could have been uncovered and that mass murder provocation prevented. Then as now, those complicit do not see it in their interest to follow these facts wherever they may lead.

 

Pre-Staging False Intelligence

Munther was invited to Afghanistan in March 2000 to discuss a potential oil pipeline deal with Mullah Mohammed Omar, a senior Taliban leader. He asked that I join him. Had we traveled to Kabul, that meeting would have pre-staged him as the alleged—and still missing—“high-level contact” between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda through the Taliban—even though the secular Saddam was known to detest Islamic extremists and routinely had them killed.

When asked if I would accompany him, I responded, “Munther, are you out of your mind? Why would we go to Afghanistan to meet with the Taliban? If they steal your money, how will you get it back?” Sensing a set up by the same parties stalking me, I persuaded him to decline the invitation.

A year later, in March 2001, I flew to Jakarta at the request of Indonesian Intelligence Chief Arie Kumaat who had uncovered Israeli pre-staging of an operation six months prior to 9/11. [See Chapter 3, The Indonesia Connection] He described for me the discovery of an Israel-orchestrated bribe of the Indonesian Parliament meant to force the U.S. out of the region in favor of China. Having earlier monitored the activity in Jakarta of (Jewish neoconservative) Paul Wolfowitz as U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, 1986-89, Indonesian intelligence had real concerns about sharing this finding with our pro-Israel State Department heavily staffed with neoconservatives.

Arie knew firsthand the presence of Israeli operations inside our embassies and the virtual control the Israel lobby wields over U.S. foreign policy. The collaboration uncovered between Tel Aviv and Beijing confirmed a strategic vulnerability concealed in plain sight by U.S. confidence in our lengthy “special relationship” with the Israeli Right. As my life experience proves beyond any reasonable doubt, that “unbreakable bond” obscures a systemic form of ongoing treason.

Due to my relationship with Glenn Olds and his lengthy friendship with former President George H.W. Bush dating to the post-WWII era, Lt. General Kumaat sought through a back channel to convey this intelligence to President George W. Bush. Those who advised “Dubya” are those my life experience can prove are the true extremists behind 9/11. What Arie uncovered adds to that proof.

The first photo of us was taken in Jakarta in March 2001 featuring Arie, his wife Marie, his niece Christy and his son, Henrie, who served as interpreter for our meetings. Our initial discussion was held in a secure facility in Jakarta. Our second meeting was convened on a private island controlled by the military. The six other men in the second photo are security personnel armed with automatic weapons. Otherwise, the venue was empty.

The third photo (below) was taken in Oregon near Pacific City where Henrie and I briefed Glenn on intelligence confirming that Israel is not a friend but an enemy within that was then pre-staging the war-catalyzing crisis now known as 9/11. Henrie traveled with me to the U.S. to convey firsthand to Glenn the request from his father because Arie, as head of intelligence, could not enter the U.S. to discuss his concerns without triggering Secret Service protection he did not want.

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Henrie Kumaat, Dr. Glenn Olds & Mel Rockefeller in Oregon March 2001

Tony Blair, G.W. Bush and Colin Powell

When we briefed Glenn in March 2001, he did not yet fully understand the existential threat to the U.S. posed by the U.S.-Israel relationship. After 9/11, he apologized for not fully grasping what my life experience proves. By then, those who produced the Bush II presidency had so thoroughly isolated the dysfunctional Zionist Christian Dubya that not even his father could reach him to share his concerns. That’s why, in the run-up to the war in Iraq, the father and Brent Scowcroft, his former National Security Adviser, spoke out publicly against the invasion of Iraq.

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Jack Straw

Immediately after 9/11, I traveled to London in October 2001 where I was denied a request to brief U.K. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw in Tony Blair’s “New Labour” government. In December, I traveled to Brussels where I briefed two senior staff to the European Union.[10] Two years before, I had dinner at the Valkenburg home of Dutch collaborator Fred de Vries, a pioneer in distance education at Open University of the Netherlands. His Egyptian wife, a translator, knew from Fred that I was in Iraq in 1997.

At her invitation, two of her colleagues attended the dinner. Both men had been involved in the investigation of the 1992 El Al Bijlmer crash site in Amsterdam that found components for making sarin nerve gas, a chemical weapon. The components were not listed on the flight manifest. Following the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Netherlands and Israel negotiated a bi-lateral agreement granting Israeli cargo aircraft special status, carrying munitions, military technology and often classified loads.

As was the El Al practice, the flight stopped at Schiphol Airport for refueling enroute from New York to Tel Aviv. The 747 cargo jet crashed into a nearby apartment building shortly after take-off. I knew this background when I arrived unannounced at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and spoke to Taco Westerhuis in December 2001, shortly after the end of a nine-month outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the U.K. that devasted the agricultural sector.

I explained that those responsible for 9/11 were desperate to sell an Iraqi WMD narrative that my experience could prove was false. If their nuclear WMD narrative failed to gain traction, they could readily shift the storyline to sarin as a chemical WMD whose use could be pre-staged to make it appear that the U.K. or the E.U. was under assault from “Islamic fascists”—a phrase that, by then, was widely used.

The Fear Factor

Mr. Westerhuis introduced me to Johannes Vos who worked closely with Guy Verhofstadt. When Mr. Vos told me he only had five minutes, I told him I would write a letter documenting my Iraqi WMD evidence and my concerns about the El Al crash so that he could take responsibility if sarin was used.

Guy Verhofstadt

Soon thereafter, Mr. Verhofstadt, Belgium Prime Minister (1999-2008) who—then serving a rotating six-month presidency of the European Commission—insisted that the U.S. present its case for war against Iraq to the U.N. Security Council for a war resolution before taking any action contrary to the non-aggression principle of the U.N. Charter. His insistence delayed by 15 months the U.S.-led invasion that began March 19, 2003.

[See below for the December 19, 2001 letter to me from Prime Minister Verhofstadt. In an attempt to signal the gravity of what I could prove, he wrote to me twice in March.]

This delay led the U.S., in collaboration with the U.K., to launch a secret intelligence operation (revealed in early 2003 by U.K whistleblower Katharine Gun) that sought to gather “the whole gamut of information that could give US policymakers an edge in obtaining results favorable to U.S. goals….” I knew nothing about that operation until the 2019 release of the film, Official Secrets, starring Keira Knightley as Katharine Gun.

Logo, company name Description automatically generated As a translator for the U.K. General Communications Headquarters, a U.K counterpart to the U.S. National Security Agency, Ms. Gun saw that classified NSA memo confirming a U.S.-led attempt to manipulate U.N. officials to favor a war resolution that permanent Security Council members Germany, France and Russia were not inclined to support. NSA official Frank Koza outlined a plan to bug the phones of non-permanent members, with an implied use of blackmail or bribery.

Incensed, Gun leaked the text. News coverage of “US dirty tricks” appeared March 1, 2003 in The Observer, a widely-read U.K newspaper, describing an NSA request to tap the phones and emails of nonpermanent Security Council members Chile, Pakistan, Bulgaria, Guinea, Angola and Cameroon.

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When discovered, Gun was prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act. Though she confessed, the Crown Prosecution declined to present evidence, ensuring dismissal of the case—at the last moment. Her trial risked disclosures that could compromise national security. A trial also would have revealed the WMD intelligence I provided Guy Verhofstadt that helped persuade him to push the U.S. back into the U.N. Security Council.

That persuasion included my 1997 intelligence from senior insiders in Iraq confirming that the WMD rationale for war was false. Plus my March 2001 input from Indonesia intelligence Chief Arie Kumaat suggesting an Israeli role in 9/11 and an Israeli alliance with China against U.S interests in the Pacific theater—where we’d earlier waged an unwinnable war. [See Chapter 3. The Indonesia Connection.]

Had the case against Ms. Gun proceeded, those facts would have been relevant to her defense, including evidence of a compromised U.S. State Department, corruption within our intelligence agencies and law enforcement at the federal, state and local level. Ms. Gun posed a problem; I posed an existential threat.

In the film, when the Katharine Gun character, under questioning from Scotland Yard, was asked, “You work for the British government?”—she replied: “Not really. I work for the British people. I gather intelligence so the government can protect the British people. I don’t gather intelligence so the government can lie to the British people.” I expect the Crown Prosecution also realized Ms. Gun presented a sympathetic case likely to resonate widely with a public that was already turning against the war.

As those complicit in this deceit know, the facts pivoting off my life experience are, for them, fissionable material. Those facts reveal the depth and duration of an ongoing treachery that traces from antiquity to the present-day. Rather than inform Ms. Gun that her prosecution was to be abandoned, they left her “twisting in the wind” until the February 2004 trial. Despite—or because of—what my life experience proves, I’ve been criminally stalked my entire life with impunity, including ongoing financial stalking whose stress has taken a horrific toll on my health—as the nation of my birth left me twisting in the wind.

Denied a U.N. sanction for war in Iraq, those advising Bush proposed a “coalition of the willing” and staked their claim to a legal invasion on the grounds of self-defense, citing now-infamously false claims about WMD. Had the Gun trial proceeded, WMD lies would have been apparent before the invasion could begin. The U.N. headquarters buildings in Manhattan were constructed on land acquired with funds donated by my grandfather at my father’s urging. Glenn Olds accompanied my father to the meeting where my grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., agreed to support that post-WWII strategy to maintain peace.

A former U.N. envoy during the Nixon administration, Glenn arranged for George H.W. Bush to succeed him in that role. Shocked at the amount of time that his fellow envoy, Philip Klutznick, was spending on Israel-related issues, Glenn explained that he and Bush combined those two roles into one. That high-profile role helped position G.H.W. to become a known political figure, pre-staging a Bush presidency.

Field-based Warfare

On February 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell was induced—by those he trusted—to offer false testimony to the U.N. Security Council meant to persuade a skeptical global public that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, including mobile biological weapons laboratories. When he turned to nuclear weapons, his testimony began with a statement he could not have made had I been engaged in good faith six years earlier: “We have no indication that Saddam Hussein has ever abandoned his nuclear weapons program.” (emphasis added). Those on whom he relied had ample indications.

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I wrote to him that same day describing who deceived him and why. General Powell has since confirmed that his testimony, a form of gaslighting, was his greatest mistake in an otherwise distinguished career. Not until December 2015 was it revealed that Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld deceived him about the reliability of the WMD intelligence.[11] Who deceived him and why remained—for him—an open question.[12] A July 2020 interview suggested he still did not know.[13] In an exchange of letters in August 2020, he said simply that he relied on the C.I.A. He died in October 2021 from complications of COVID.

Colin Powell, U.N. Security Council

February 5, 2003

The globally televised testimony by Secretary of State Powell offers a classic example of how Israel wages “field-based” warfare in plain sight yet non-transparently. In this case, the weaponry deployed was not just the pre-staging of false intelligence fixed around Israeli goals but also how that intelligence was injected by modern media into a global field of consciousness by weaponizing the celebrity and credibility of a high-profile, former four-star General to help create a consensus opinion (albeit false) about Iraqi WMD.

At age 52, Colin Powell became the nation’s youngest-ever Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. By using his celebrity to market false testimony and by associating that testimony with his credibility—personal properties imbedded in the public’s shared field of consciousness—this fraud gained the appearance of truth sufficient to advance the long-sought goals of the Israeli Right. In practical effect, the facts were displaced with false beliefs, an ancient means of mental and emotional manipulation and a core competence of those I profiled while being stalked my entire life.

The person of Colin Powell was incidental; the field-based properties of celebrity and credibility provided the means (the psyop weaponry) to defraud in plain sight—by replacing the facts required for informed choice with what the target (a naive public) could be deceived to believe. Israeli war-planners routinely deploy such “correspondence” as a psyop to deceive—as here when the “bleed over” of Powell’s integrity lent credibility to false and outright “fixed” intelligence. Powell’s ruined reputation was collateral damage.

A Well-Timed Murder

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After my December 2001 briefings in Brussels, I sought to alert leaders of Muslim nations to the Israeli source of the false intelligence deployed to support their War on Terror storyline and the pre-staged Clash of Civilizations narrative. [See Chapter 8. The People in Between.] Lt. General Kumaat was poisoned January 2002 just days after agreeing to set a meeting for me to brief former Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid who also served as a religious leader for 80 million moderate Muslim men in a nation home to the world’s largest Islamic population.

Abdurrahman Wahid

Son Henrie Kumaat and I met in Vancouver to discuss the arrangements. Due to the sensitivities of what had been uncovered, Henrie did not want to fly into the U.S. As agreed, I was to fly to Singapore where I would be provided a ticket to travel to another destination to meet at a location that would not be revealed until my arrival in Singapore. After making that arrangement, I flew back home to Fresno, California and Henrie returned to Jakarta.

Abdurrahman Wahid

When murdered, Arie had arranged for me to brief President Wahid on how my life experience can prove the common source of the pre-staging for 9/11 and the phony intelligence deployed to induce the U.S. to react to that provocation by waging two unnecessary and unwinnable wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Those wars, in turn were probabilistically guaranteed to set in motion the immigration that fractured European nations and discredited the U.S. Arie knew that initial briefing would lead to others, creating opposition to an unnecessary and unwinnable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In terms of game theory warfare, the reaction ensured—probabilistically—an alliance between anti-Iran Israel and the anti-Iran Sunni-led members of the resource-rich Gulf Cooperation Council (“the enemy of my enemy is my friend”). The outcome made initial progress under the asset Trump but soon lost ground with the March 2023 announcement of a China-brokered pact between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

On July 6, 2016, the U.K. government released the findings of the Chilcot Inquiry published after a seven-year investigation into how the U.K. was induced to join the U.S. in waging an ill-advised war when Iraq posed “no imminent threat” and the war undermined the authority of the U.N. Security Council. In November 2015, I provided evidence to Sir John Chilcot confirming that, had I been engaged in good faith on my return from Iraq in February 1997, the war could have been prevented. I received no reply. Only recently have media reported on the decision-shaping influence of the Israel lobby in the U.K.[14]

My submission to the Chilcot Inquiry described my attempt to brief Foreign Minister Jack Straw in December 2001. I also provided copies of the 17 letters we received from 10 Downing Street from 2005-2007 while Tony Blair was Prime Minister. Though the Chilcot report criticized Blair for his decision-making (he was ridiculed as “Bush’s poodle”), Israeli influence on his decision-making was downplayed and no mention was made of who prevented timely engagement with what my files can prove.

I am confident that neither Blair nor Bush knowingly lied; the question remains: on whose lies they were induced to rely? Who—precisely who—orchestrated the geopolitical deception that undermined confidence in democratic decision-making not only in the U.S. and the U.K. but worldwide?

Prime Minister Tony Blair

Chapter 2. The War in Iraq Could Have Been Prevented — Part 2

Domestic Terrorism

In mid-February 2003, I set a meeting in Tucson, Arizona for Munther Ghazal, Glenn and Eva Olds, Jeff Gates and my counsel Ron Burd so we could discuss a regional economic development model—five weeks before the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Consistent with a shared prosperity strategy crafted by Glenn and my father in the 1970s,[15] this model offered widespread stakeholder ownership combined with an asset-backed monetization strategy to sustain the broad-based purchasing power required for stable and healthy communities.[16]

Nine days prior to that scheduled meeting, a member of Munther’s extended family was murdered. The victim, Patrick Hammara, was a cousin of Munther’s daughter-in-law and a 19-year-old student at the University of California San Diego. After Patrick’s execution-style death (a single bullet to the head), an investigation by San Diego detectives uncovered no motive, no clues and no leads.[17] Knowing this well-timed murder was meant to send him a message, Munther canceled his participation in our meeting. Patrick was collateral damage. The target was the mind of Munther Ghazal.

Patrick was the nephew of two Iraqi businessmen with extensive experience in Saudi Arabia and Libya who were then visiting the U.S. One uncle had been a German citizen for four decades. Both owned companies specializing in off-grid power and had contracts for providing diesel-powered off-grid energy in Saudi Arabia. They expressed a strong interest in NewRock’s shared prosperity model for widely distributed renewable energy to catalyze bottom-up development, secure local currencies and promote the political stability essential to economic development.

I met with the German uncle in Europe during the 2003 Christmas holidays to discuss a contract for Pollux, a product developed by an Austrian firm to remediate oil-polluted soil and surfaces such as the walls of exhaust-stained tunnels.[18] He describ ed how, as he departed the U.S., he was ordered by U.S. immigration officials to have no further dealings with me. He was also assured that, if he disclosed who threatened him, he would never again be granted a U.S. visa. The uncle remained frightened because those threatening him identified themselves as U.S. officials—again confirming the scope of this transnational criminality. The perpetrators have done this to me for decades to financially undermine this work.

Logo Description automatically generated I drove directly from our mid-February 2003 meeting in Tucson to East San Diego County to meet with Munther, a 400-mile trip. An hour prior to my arrival, he received a call from an agent in the Defense Intelligence Agency (D.I.A.). Munther played for me his recording of the voicemail. D.I.A. personnel thereafter led the serial stalking, harassment and intimidation of Munther and his family along with F.B.I. agents from the San Diego office. By then, Bush-era Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz had authority to direct D.I.A. operations. That incident also coincides with the time period when former President George H.W. Bush was blocked from speaking with his son, the president, who sought to persuade him not to order the invasion.

Engaging an Enemy Within

Brookings Institution

On my return from Baghdad in February 1997, regional specialists at the State Department declined my offer of a briefing, including country specialists for Jordan and Iraq. Instead, they insisted I speak with Richard Haass who did not return my three calls. Haass was then director of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington.[19] Four years later, this Jewish native of Brooklyn, New York emerged as Director of Policy Planning at the State Department for the two war-planning years of the George W. Bush presidency. Four months after the invasion began, Haass was appointed President of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) where he remains.[20] My Uncle David, a key financial supporter, was then serving as honorary co-chairman of the CFR along with A.I.G. Chairman Hank Greenberg. On my Uncle David’s March 2017 death at age 101, he bequeathed $25 million to the CFR.

Richard Haass

The Haass appointment to that senior State Department post helped limit the range of post-9/11 policy options at a time when efforts were underway to ensure that alternatives to war were not only available but also acceptable to the Iraqis and designed to enhance the region-wide stability required for sustainable development. Contrary to policies that pro-Israeli neocons induced U.S. leaders to pursue post-9/11, those options were aligned with our true national interests, the interests of our allies and the interests of Iraqis.

Without the Holocaust, No Israel. The Council on Foreign Relations was founded at the Majestic Hotel in Paris following the Paris Peace Conference and signing of the Treaty of Versailles ending WWI. The onerous reparations imposed by that war-ending treaty catalyzed in response to the extreme German ethno-nationalism that became the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis), helping trigger WWII.

Absent the mass murder of the WWII Holocaust, Zionist Christian Democrat Harry Truman could not have recognized an enclave of religious extremists as a legitimate state in May 1948 over the objections of Secretary of State General George Marshall, the diplomatic corps, the Joint Chiefs and the C.I.A. Absent the mass murder of September 11, 2001, Zionist Christian Republican George W. Bush could not have ordered the invasion of Iraq in response to that mass murder while ignoring the cautionary comments of Secretary of State Colin Powell: “If you break it, you own it.”

On my return from Iraq, I contacted the Clinton White House and the office of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Neither returned my calls. Glenn had known Madeleine Albright since she was a teenager. While Clinton and Albright could plausibly ignore me, they could not ignore former U.N. envoy Glenn Olds—yet both did. After Clinton’s first two disastrous years as president, he asked that Glenn help reorganize his Cabinet. Sensing that Clinton’s request was related to me, Glenn declined.

That’s when Glenn searched for me and we first met in 1994. I was with Glenn when he called Albright’s office at the State Department. He waited on the line while someone in her office put a note in front of her alerting her that Glenn was on the line and needed to discuss an urgent matter. After Glenn and I began working together, neither she nor Bill Clinton would return his calls.

While in Baghdad in 1997, I told those I met that Bill Clinton was unlikely to reconcile with Iraq despite what Iraqi leadership had been led to believe. Not until December 2016 did C.I.A. interrogator John Nixon confirm: “In Saddam’s mind, the two countries were natural allies in the fight against extremism and, as he said many times during his interrogation, he couldn’t understand why the United States did not see eye-to-eye with him.”[21]

By 1997, it was clear to me that Israel and its lobby were manipulating the U.S. to stage another crisis in the region.[22] The self-absorbed Saddam played his role to perfection as the scripted “fall guy” whose Graphical user interface, text Description automatically generated notoriety for brutality enabled his portrayal as an epic Evil Doer whose removal was worthwhile—despite his known lack of any connection to 9/11, the known absence of WMD, and his known hatred of Islamic extremists who he routinely ordered killed as a threat to his secular regime.

Casting the Iraqi dictator as the leading man in an Axis of Evil morality play[23] enhanced the plausibility of a “global war on terrorism” against “Islamo fascism” and advanced a narrative catalyzed with the publication in 1996 of the widely marketed, The Clash of Civilizations. Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait succeeded in branding him a threat to world peace. Global marketing of the “Butcher of Baghdad” created a critical mass of consensus opinion around the desirability and even the rationality of a U.S.-led regime change in Baghdad long sought by Tel Aviv.

One year after 9/11, 69% of Americans surveyed in a September 2002 Washington Post/ABC poll believed that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9/11 attacks. The displacement of facts with manipulated beliefs remains an effective psyop routinely deployed by those I profiled.

The Enemy Within

A close-up of a coin Description automatically generated with low confidence Four days after 9/11, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz argued in a principals’ meeting at Camp David that the U.S. should invade Iraq even though Osama bin Laden was thought to be in Afghanistan. On that same day, San Diego F.B.I. Special Agent Stephen Butler, a second F.B.I. agent and an unidentified third person (with an Israeli accent) appeared at Munther’s home to ask if he was funding my work. Munther told them that was an inappropriate question and told them to speak with me.

Munther knew the third person was Israeli and objected to his presence. The F.B.I. has yet to question me about what my experience proves about the common source of this duplicity and the hidden tax on humanity that the Israeli Right continues to impose—with the help of the U.S.—behind the false façade of a “special friendship”[24]

Special Agent Butler had only one other question: “Who was responsible for 9/11?” Munther replied: “Israeli intelligence and Saudi financial support.” Only later was it revealed that Agent Butler paid rent and cashed checks for two of the 9/11 Saudi hijackers who flew jets into the World Trade Center. A former C.I.A. Director later confirmed that complex operation required a decade of planning and preparation by a stable nation state with an intelligence operation inside the U.S.—criteria that disqualified Osama bin Laden as the sole perpetrator regardless of his personal wealth as a member of a prominent Saudi family.[25]

While in Iraq, I described for Munther how thoroughly those stalking me had corrupted the U.S. government. He did not believe me. After F.B.I. agents and an Israeli visited his home on September 15, 2001, he phoned and mentioned our agreed-to code word signaling we needed an emergency face-to-face meeting. When we met at our prearranged location, we drove around for a half hour while he calmed down. Though he had dealt for years with Saddam Hussein, a brutal despot, he was totally unnerved when F.B.I. agents, accompanied by an Israeli, inquired about me just four days after 9/11, confirming the depth of the corruption I warned him about in 1997.

While in Baghdad, I briefed him on how Zionists used the circumstances of my birth to compromise my father’s prospects for the presidency, how the Kennedy assassination was a Zionist operation, and how Israel and its lobby wield virtual control over the Congress and seek control of the Office of the President—the control they obtained with their production of the Trump presidency. His post-9/11 response to the briefing I provided four-plus prior to 9/11:

Mel, I respect you but I did not believe what you told me in Baghdad until the visit to my home today. I did not believe you when you told me and Dr. Hamdani that those close to Saddam were in fact working for Israel, setting him up to be the fall guy. Nor did I believe you when you told me that the Israelis had been doing this to U.S. leaders for decades. When Agent Butler asked if I was funding you, in effect he was telling me not to help you. That proved to me you are correct about all of this.

Based on what was done to Munther and his family in the U.S.—under color of lawful authority—he began to wonder aloud if, for his family’s security, he should have relocated them to Switzerland where they could be protected by the rule of law rather than serially stalked by those hiding behind it while committing serial crimes against humanity.

Foreseeable Outcomes

Prior to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on March 23, 2003, Jeff and I had several lunches with Munther at a hotel on Coronado Island where he told us:

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Moqtada al-Sadr

(1) The first thing that will happen is the moderate clerics in Iraq will be murdered. He was correct. Those murders paved the way for the emergence of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his Madhi Army with a stronghold in Mosul where more than 100 Israeli Mossad agents were operating for a decade prior to the 9/11-provoked U.S.-led invasion.[26] In January 2014, Mosul became the first major city in Iraq taken over by the anti-American Sunni extremists of ISIL/ISIS. Much of the cash flown into Iraq by the U.S. is believed to have been stored in banks in Mosul. In May 2016, those Shias loyal to al-Sadr temporarily occupied the heavily fortified Green Zone in downtown Baghdad to demonstrate their virtual control over the Iraqi government.

(2) If the U.S. aligns with London-based Ahmad Chalabi (then accused of a $300 million fraud involving Jordan’s Petra Bank), everyone in the region will view U.S. motives as suspect. U.S. Senator John McCain, a reliable asset,[27] and Senator Joe Lieberman, a self-described Jewish Zionist, sponsored Chalabi’s visits to the U.S. beginning in 1991. Journalist Judith Miller routinely featured Chalabi’s false intelligence on the front page of the New York Times. That publication proved critical in granting credibility to the geopolitical fraud that persuaded lawmakers to rely on intelligence “fixed” around Israeli goals. Only after the invasion did the Times publisher (Sulzberger) apologize for the duplicity that took us to war—aided by the nation’s “newspaper of record” that routinely highlighted Miller’s reporting.

(3) If the U.S. invades and removes Saddam by force, we will ignite a long-simmering civil war between Sunnis and Shias that will fracture Iraq, ensure many deaths and lead to an Iraqi alliance with Shia-dominant Iran. In terms of game theory warfare, that outcome was probabilistic in advancing Zionist goals to exert virtual control over the region’s vast hydrocarbon reserves and shape the transition to next-generation energy.

It soon became clear that (predominantly Jewish)[28] neocons intended—with this game theory-modeled warfare—to push moderate Sunnis in the region to support Israel in its long-sought war against the Shias of Iran as a means for “securing the realm”—an expansive Greater Israel that includes the entirety of the resource-rich Middle East and North Africa.[29] That carefully chosen phrase (“realm”) refers not to the Jewish state (implying fixed borders) but to the more expansive Land of Israel that The Chosen—in the lineage of King David—believe they are entitled to rule.

As though on cue, ISIS extremists emerged as the requisite Evil Doers for those marketing The Clash of Civilizations. The internalization of that narrative enabled a seamless segue from the lucrative Cold War narrative to the profitable Clash.[30] These dynamics were all foreseeable—probabilistic—provided the U.S. could be deceived to deploy its resources—financial, military and diplomatic—to support the long game pursued by the Jewish elites and extremists who founded Israel.

Chapter 2. The War in Iraq Could Have Been Prevented — Part 3

Systemic Corruption Confirmed

General Michael Hayden

Munther Ghazal also confirmed that FBI Special Agent Butler was the person later identified in San Diego newspapers who provided logistical support for the two 9/11 hijackers who took flight training in San Diego. In 2006, President Bush explained the rationale for a domestic surveillance program conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA). To justify that program, he described how NSA surveillance could have uncovered the two San Diego-based terrorists.

In his May 2006 Senate confirmation hearing as Director of Central Intelligence, General Michael Hayden, then director of the NSA, responded to a question about the San Diego hijackers by confirming that a domestic surveillance program would have identified them. Yet the F.B.I will not interview me.

Agent Butler interrogated Munther numerous times. He called me when he saw San Diego newspaper reports and recognized Butler as one of the agents who grilled him repeatedly.[31] Munther also reported that Agent Butler informed him that Zacarias Moussaoui was spotted in San Diego before he relocated to Minneapolis where he emerged as the “20th hijacker”—in a venue to which I was drawn 15 years prior to 9/11 and where FBI agents stalked me pre- and post-9/11.[32]

On November 25, 2001, ten minutes after I met with Munther at his home, F.B.I. agents intercepted him at his church—where he attends mass daily—and insisted on meeting with him. The following day he was driven in a GM Suburban with darkened windows to an undisclosed location where he was subjected to two days of intense grilling. Munther described how the agents repeatedly threatened to deport him if he consulted an attorney or told anyone about the interrogation at a dark site in the U.S. (Fort Hueneme just north of Malibu, California).

On February 26, 2002, I phoned Munther to schedule a meeting the following day. An hour later, two F.B.I. agents appeared at his home and inquired about a Michigan company that allegedly sent $14 million to Iraq. Again no one from the F.B.I. contacted me (I am from Michigan). Munther agreed that their mention of Michigan was a code word meant to warn him about his relationship with me without mentioning me.

That question also signaled me that I would never receive assistance from federal law enforcement—despite my ability to prove the source of ongoing federal capital crimes, including terrorism, mass murder and treason. After 9/11, I intensified my efforts to have federal officials meet with me. In response, F.B.I and D.I.A. agents intensified their pressure on Munther to ensure he did not assist me.

Further Evidence of an Enemy Within

In late 2002, F.B.I. agents from Washington, D.C. met with Munther and assured him that several agents who interrogated him were not F.B.I. but Mossad agents. The F.B.I. advised that, in the future, he check for proper identification and contact the national office to confirm the identity of anyone seeking to interview him. Research will determine if, in that same timeframe, those Israel-related incidents led the F.B.I. to order a reported system-wide change in agent identification.

Over a lengthy lunch on Coronado Island early in 2003, Munther described for Jeff and I an incident in which the car in which he and his wife were traveling was forced off the road when two vehicles were used to blind him with high-intensity lights from both the front and rear. Though familiar with such intimidation tactics in Iraq, he remains shocked that this behavior proceeds with legal impunity in the U.S. and with the complicity of federal agents acting under color of lawful authority.

The stalking has been nonstop, much of it financial. For example, in March 2003, Munther scheduled a meeting with several well-to-do businessmen to support this work. East San Diego County is home to a large Chaldean Christian population of Iraqi ex-pats in which Munther is prominent. Just as I sat down to meet with those he had pre-qualified to secure funding, he received a call on his cellphone and rushed from the room, ending the meeting without explanation. In a call to me that evening, he said, “Mel, I can’t tell you what happened until I see you face-to-face but what caused me to leave was an incident by those who do not want us to stop them.”[33]

When we met three days later, he explained that, when he received the call, the bank where his only daughter works had just been robbed. She was six months pregnant with her first child and his first grandchild by his daughter. When the perpetrators entered the bank, one walked directly to her desk as a new accounts manager and pressed a shotgun against her abdomen. His daughter was not a teller with access to cash and was seated in a distant part of the lobby.

Traumatized, she required sedation and remained hospitalized until the child was born. Munther and I met later with the parties with whom he had abruptly canceled the meeting. In good faith, I disclosed what happened and why this work needed assistance. They declined to help for fear they would become targets of those who, once again, proved their tireless genius for well-timed crisis.

Federal agents confirmed for Munther that they had never seen such behavior in a bank robbery. When asked if he could explain why anyone would target his daughter, he declined to answer as he was doing his best not to alarm his family about what was being done to him (and them) to keep him from helping me stop President Bush from ordering an invasion of Iraq reliant on what we knew was false intelligence. The role played by D.I.A. agents suggests oversight by officials within the Pentagon with Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz possessing the means, motive and opportunity.

Champions for Change

While in Iraq, the husband of Dr. Nidhal Al-Hamdani and Sudeai Hussein, an international lawyer and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, agreed to champion our region-wide “shared prosperity” model. This stability-enhancing strategy envisioned the participation of Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and several North African countries, including Libya. Yet on my return to the U.S., State Department officials declined to meet even though I had traveled to Iraq illegally (a travel ban was then in effect) and met with Dr. Hamdani, the Ph.D. nuclear physicist with oversight of a large industrial division that included Iraq’s mothballed nuclear program. Any meeting at the State Department would have created a record that could not later be denied.

During a lengthy private conversation away from her handlers, Dr. Hamdani told me that, if Saddam had nuclear weapons, she would know. She also told me that, after Israel destroyed Iraq’s French-built Osiraq nuclear reactor north of Baghdad in June 1981, Saddam knew the Israelis and their lobby would use their knowledge of any nuclear program to mobilize the U.S. military and threaten his regime. Though he was a brutal dictator, she explained, he was not stupid.

While in Baghdad, I also met at length with Dr. Salah Al-Hadithi, a U.S. educated Ph.D. then serving as senior counselor to Saddam Hussein.[34] Dr. Al-Hadithi agreed with my assessment that the Israelis were behind the Emir of Kuwait’s war-catalyzing demand for the “repayment” of oil proceeds that Kuwait transferred to Iraq after, by agreement, Kuwait sold slant-drilled oil drawn from Iraqi reserves.

Dr. Al-Hadithi confirmed that Saddam knew the Israelis had deceived him when he agreed to Kuwait’s sale of Iraqi oil to fund Iraq’s war against Iran. Saddam also suspected that Tel Aviv was behind the Emir’s demand for “repayment,” triggering Iraq’s invasion and, in response, the first Gulf War (Desert Storm). That war pre-staged Israel’s long-sought regime change war in Iraq set in motion by crisis of 91/1.

In hindsight, Saddam realized his invasion of Kuwait was a strategic blunder that began when he agreed to allow Kuwait to sell Iraqi oil as a means to bypass OPEC production quotas.[35] Dr. Al-Hadithi agreed with Dr. Hamdani that Saddam could be removed with an incremental process and cautioned that his removal by force would trigger a violent insurgency. Subsequent events suggest that those who blocked engagement with these facts intended to trigger a region-wide crisis.

Regime Change Without War

Facts on the ground confirmed that Saddam’s regime could be ended with measures short of war and without provoking an insurgency while implementing a stakeholder-inclusive development strategy to stabilize the region with a step-by-step path to MENA-wide shared prosperity. Our confidence in Saddam’s removal was informed by what we encountered in January 1997.[36]

Dr. Hamdani was one of Saddam’s forced wives. When we met in her office, she was initially quite reserved as Iraqi Intelligence had not yet interviewed me. After I confirmed that Munther had unknowingly brought a Mossad asset to our meeting (a Canadian), I chewed him out with no concern for who overheard our conversation. Saddam phoned her a half hour later while we were in her office.[37] After his call, she changed her attitude toward me. She told Munther that she would return me to the Al Rasheed Hotel after a visit to her family’s tribal well outside Baghdad. She used that excuse to get out of Baghdad so she could speak candidly with no one listening.

Her husband was a prominent Western-educated international lawyer who had served in Iraqi foreign ministry postings in Tokyo and New York. He also knew Glenn Olds, having first met him in Japan in the 1980s. With my father, Glenn raised funds to establish the U.N. University in Tokyo and oversaw curriculum development for U.N. General Secretary U Thant. I was unaware of any of this until she got me alone and, after her call from Saddam, confided in me. With her two bodyguards nearby but out of earshot, she said:

Mel, after you went off on Munther, I was sure I could trust you. I have known Munther since we were children and what you said to him, I have said many times. He allows himself to be used.[38]

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Uday and Saddam Hussein

Saddam came to our home when my son, who you met this morning, was 18 months old [he was 15 in 1997]. With two judges present, my husband and I were divorced on Saddam’s order. He then took me for two years as one of his wives. When he was done with me, he divorced me, and I remarried my husband who you met with my son. My family has deep tribal roots and everyone knew that, had I refused Saddam, my son and husband would have been murdered.

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Uday Hussein leaving the hospital 1996

When Saddam’s son Uday was shot, he had raped one too many daughters of prominent and powerful tribal sheikhs. Operatives of the sheikhs stopped Uday’s bulletproof Porsche in front of Iraqi Intelligence headquarters to impress on Saddam that his time was limited and Iraq’s tribal leaders would no longer disregard what Saddam did to me and what his sons did to many other women. After breaking Uday’s car window with a sledgehammer, they put a gun in his crotch and shot off his testicles. There was no reprisal from Saddam because he knows we are united to stop this. Saddam assured others that Uday was attacked by Iranian extremists.

If you are serious and can get us the help we need, we trust Dr. Olds and I trust you. Saddam can be moved out over time if you can get your government to engage privately. Do not reveal what we have discussed unless you can get real help because otherwise Saddam will murder my family in front of me before he kills me.

Both Dr. Hamdani and Dr. Al-Hadithi made it clear what would happen if the U.S. invaded to depose Saddam with force: we would ignite the Shias, an ancient sect that the Ottomans could never control. Extremists would then be manipulated by the Mossad to destabilize the Middle East and North Africa while the Israeli Right used serial crises to amass more influence over the region’s vast hydrocarbon wealth.

Those familiar with the dynamics of game theory warfare understood that what has since happened would happen. The Sunni insurgency was no surprise to anyone knowledgeable about the volatile dynamics in the region. In terms of game theory math, the emergence of the Sunni extremists of ISIS in response to Shia oppression was probabilistic.

Diagram Description automatically generated with medium confidence When State Department specialists for the Middle East refused to meet with me and Richard Haass did not respond to three requests to brief him on my trip to Iraq, I traveled to Ottawa and met with Canadian officials. In April 1997, I went on a record with regional specialists in their Department of Foreign Affairs to ensure that no one could later deny that—but for Israel and its lobby—there was an attractive and feasible alternative to a U.S.-led war in Iraq—for Israel.[39]

At the time, I could not fully disclose to the Canadians how I knew Saddam could be removed without a war. Disclosure would have endangered those with whom I met in Baghdad. What remains clear is this: with good faith engagement by my government, Saddam could have been removed without either a war or the resulting insurgency with the (game theory foreseeable) effect of engulfing the entire region in crisis and setting in motion a refugee crisis of historic proportions that was guaranteed to fracture European civil society—as it did.

That probabilistic outcome, in turn, fueled the emergence of anti-Muslim movements in those nations most affected along with a newly resurgent ethno-nationalism. In the U.S., the failure of George W. Bush to concede that was was a mistake opened a political lane for the presidency of a New York con man who immediately proposed a ban on Muslims entering the U.S.

A regional shared prosperity model could have created a foundation for stability. Instead, we see an outcome consistent with the long-term goals of those known for their “tireless genius for crisis.” Mossad operatives candidly describe the follow-on effects of their agent provocateur operations, “Once the orchestra starts to play, we just hum along.”[40]

Who Benefitted from the War in Iraq?

It was clear to anyone operating in good faith that Saddam was losing power. He was politically wounded and fast losing influence among the tribal sheikhs essential to maintain his rule in a nation as large of Iraq. As Dr. Hamdani told me in 1997, he did not have nuclear weapons and everyone knew it. Plus Al Qaeda viewed his secular state as an abomination. The idea that Saddam would join forces with Islamic fundamentalists had no credibility with anyone conversant with the region—as the (predominantly Jewish) neocons clearly were. By then, the sheikhs had put Saddam and his psychopathic sons on notice that their time was up and they had to go.[41]

In a 2016 interview by C.I.A. officer John Nixon who interrogated Saddam shortly after his capture, Mr. Nixon was asked, “Was Saddam worth removing from power?” Mr. Nixon responded, “I can speak only for myself when I say that the answer must be no. Saddam was busy writing novels in 2003. He was no longer running the government.” Mr. Nixon asserts that the C.I.A. had evidence this was the case prior to the invasion but that intelligence “was never relayed to policy makers and emerged only after the war.”

By 2003, Mr. Nixon writes, the Iraqi leader had turned over to aides the day-to-day running of the Iraqi government. His detachment and disengagement meant that he “appeared to be as clueless about what was happening inside Iraq as his British and American enemies were.”

Text Description automatically generated The reason Saddam was able to stay in power was due to the influence of pro-Israelis inside the U.S. government who wanted him available post-9/11. The “global war on terrorism” required Saddam the Evil Doer as the repugnant poster boy when marketing the Axis of Evil and The Clash of Civilizations. To induce the U.S. to war in Iraq required a morally repulsive character whose regime change would advance Israeli interests in the region. In support of their false claim that Iraqi nuclear weapons endangered the U.S., pro-Israeli war-planners cited a low-level file clerk in the industrial division overseen by Dr. Hamdani.

Yet no one in our State Department would meet with me when I returned with an offer of cooperation from senior Iraqi insiders that included Dr. Hamdani who managed Iraq’s dormant nuclear program. The removal of Saddam Hussein without a war could have prevented the cascade of crises that now threaten security and stability worldwide while lending credence to the neocon’s agenda-advancing narrative, The Clash of Civilizations. The requisite hate mongering (of Muslims) now accompanies the largest population of refugees and displaced persons since World War II (90 million as of March 2023), triggering a crisis throughout Europe—with all that implies in terms of costs, both human and financial.

Saddam Hussein compound, Tikrit

When I traveled to Ottawa for meetings in April 1997,[42] I conveyed an offer from Saddam relayed through Munther. During our visit, Munther met with Saddam and Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, an invitation I declined. Munther also visited Uday in the hospital and went to Saddam’s family compound in Tikrit. Saddam’s offer granted U.S. firms the rights to 60 percent of Iraqi oil, including the huge Majnoon oil field near Basra (in Arabic, Majnoon means crazy due to its enormity), plus 60 percent of an estimated $160 billion in reconstruction costs, with the balance reserved for the European Union, Russia and China. Exxon, founded by my great-grandfathers William and John D., was mentioned as the preferred firm to develop the Majnoon reserves.

Saddam Hussein compound, Tikrit

Paul Wolfowitz

Munther had known Saddam and Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz for decades. Saddam offered his cooperation for three reasons: (1) to halt bombing in the No-Fly Zone, an idea traceable to Paul Wolfowitz when he served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy during the G.H.W. Bush presidency,[43] (2) to lift the sanctions,[44] and (3) to avoid what he anticipated would otherwise trigger a U.S.-led invasion sought by Israel and its lobby. Dr. Hamdani described how the recent shift in Iraqi political dynamics caused Saddam to concede his reign was fast drawing to a close. That also explains why he took no steps to apprehend those who castrated his son.

To confirm the regime was serious about the proposal for normalizing relations with the U.S., Dr. Al-Hadithi relayed to me an account from the 1991 Gulf War that he said would be known only to Iraqi specialists in U.S. intelligence. As he explained, Toshiba designed Saddam’s phone system for command and control. British cement hardened his command bunkers. To sustain communication during an attack, Iraq relied on a combination of back-up power lines and radio transmission facilities. To underscore the seriousness of Saddam’s offer to normalize relations with the U.S., Dr. Al-Hadithi explained that “His Excellency” offered to have AT&T, the U.S. phone company, install Iraq’s phone system, enabling U.S. intelligence to monitor all calls.

Evil Doer Pre-Staging

Only in May 2009 was it revealed that an “enhanced interrogation technique” was deployed with Congressional approval to extract information that could plausibly make a nonexistent link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda in order to justify the regime change sought by Israel, with 9/11 serving as the Pearl Harbor-like provocation.[45] In hindsight, it’s clear there was no substantive link between the secular Saddam and Al Qaeda fundamentalists who detested his secularism.

 

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Richard Clarke

On the same day that F.B.I. agents and an Israeli interrogated Munther Ghazal about his financial support for me (four days after 9/11) and the same day that Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz argued in a principals’ meeting at Camp David that the U.S. should invade Iraq in response to the 9/11 attack,[46] Wolfowitz conceded that attack was “too sophisticated and complicated” for a “terrorist group to have pulled off by itself.”[47]

He later assured anti-terrorism expert Richard Clarke: “You give bin Laden too much credit. He could not do all these things like the 1993 attack on New York, not without a state sponsor.” Clarke confirmed that all credible experts dismissed as groundless the Wolfowitz-alleged link between Osama bin Laden and the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.[48]

Why was F.B.I. Special Agent Butler dispatched to ask Munther about me on the same day that Wolfowitz relied on false WMD intelligence to argue for an invasion of Iraq? Those complicit in stalking me needed to know—and wanted me to know—that no one would help me expose those responsible for 9/11. Based on the personality traits common to those I profiled, their combination of arrogance, psychopathy and obsessive-compulsiveness compelled them to confirm—through the F.B.I.’s well-timed interrogation of Munther—that they had contained my account of facts confirming the lack of Iraq WMD.

By managing that key variable, Israeli war-planners could continue to market with confidence their false Iraqi WMD storyline and Saddam’s ties to 9/11 as rationales to invade Iraq—as part of their long-term goals for the region. Future research will determine whether Paul Wolfowitz proposed an invasion of Iraq at the same time F.B.I. agents and an Israeli were interviewing Munther about me at his home.

Without the emotionally wrenching mass murder of 9/11, President Bush could not have been induced to order the invasion of Iraq despite his many dysfunctions, including his evangelical End Times beliefs that favored Israel’s agenda. As a recovering addict and Born-Again Zionist Christian, his decision-making included confidence that the messiah will not return until the “Israelites” recover their homeland. Only then will True Believer evangelicals experience the rapture as they are transported to a heavenly domain. His easily profiled dysfunctions made him a perfect asset of those I profiled while being stalked.

Though a nation-state link was asserted by C.I.A. Director Michael Hayden as the force behind the lengthy pre-staging required for 9/11, Wolfowitz omitted any possibility of a link to Israel. Even now, no one has analyzed Israel’s role either from the perspective of game theory warfare or from a conventional criminal perspective of means, motive and opportunity. And the mission-essential components only Israel could provide: stable nation-state intelligence operating with impunity inside the U.S.

When Munther and I are interviewed, the motivation for stalking both of us will become apparent. The fact that we have yet to be interviewed speaks volumes about how deeply this systemic corruption, including treason, is imbedded in government at the federal, state and local level.

Nonstop Monitoring but No Investigation

The monitoring of my phone conversations with Munther became apparent when F.B.I. or D.I.A. agents routinely came to his home immediately after we spoke. As he explained, the agents must have been waiting nearby given the brief time between when we hung up and they arrived. Yet no one would interview me about what I can prove concerning the common source of this corruption.

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The true extremists have good reason to fear what my life experience proves. In early 2002, Munther and I agreed to travel to Jordan to meet with King Abdullah II. Dr. Hamdani had agreed to travel to Amman and join us to explain to the Jordanian leader that Iraq had no nuclear WMD. Using a phone line provided by Henrie Kumaat, son of Indonesian Intelligence Chief Arie Kumaat, I reached Dr. Hamdani in Baghdad and secured her agreement to travel to Amman for the meeting.

Over the phone, Munther and I confirmed the flight we would share from Amsterdam to Amman. Within a half hour of our discussion, F.B.I. agents appeared at Munther’s home and seized his Iraqi passport promising to return it in two weeks. I could not schedule the meeting without Munther’s help and Munther could not travel without his passport. His passport was not returned until almost two years later, well after the invasion of Iraq began, setting in motion the game theory foreseeable crises that destabilized the entire region while also fracturing European civil society with a foreseeable refugee crisis.

A good faith investigation could have determined why federal agents waited until that particular time—and those particular circumstances—to confiscate the passport of a man they knew had been living in the U.S. since the 1991 Gulf War. During his interviews with Pentagon personnel, one person present each time refused to show any identification even as his interrogators threatened to deport him if he disclosed to anyone the frequency or intensity of their interrogations. That person always spoke with an Israeli accent.

After repeated harassment by F.B.I. and D.I.A. agents accompanied by Israeli agents, Munther cut off all contact with me from 2004 until 2006. When he again initiated contact, F.B.I. agents again interrogated him and again asked with whom he had traveled to Iraq in 1997. Throughout his many interrogations, whenever a question was asked about his travel companion, he declined to mention me by name. Instead, he told his interrogators they knew my name and could readily check airline records for his seatmate on the January 1997 flight we shared from Amsterdam to Amman.

After an F.B.I. agent came to his home four days after 9/11 to ask about me by name, Munther refused to put my name on any government record. He knew that the F.B.I. knew my identity. He declined to absolve them for their failure to follow-up with me post-9/11 after Agent Butler came to his home with an Israeli to inquire if he was funding me. Had the F.B.I. then investigated in good faith the facts of my life experience, that evidentiary trail would have led to those complicit in the lengthy pre-staging required to perpetrate 9/11 as a pretense to invade Iraq as part of a long-sought Israeli agenda.

Life in Saddam’s Iraq

Munther is not easily intimidated. Before his departure from Iraq in 1991, he helped his father’s two Jewish partners escape across the Jordanian border in an air-conditioned compartment that his nephew built in the trunk of his Mercedes 600 limousine. Both men hailed from the oldest Jewish families in the region (Sassoon). When planning their escape, Munther took a taxi to their home to avoid detection. Due to his prominence in Iraq, his car was not searched when they crossed the Iraqi border into Jordan.

A month after they fled, Saddam found out, phoned Munther and told him to be in his office within the hour. As he told me, “Mel, he had never personally called me in the 18 years that he and his two brothers (half-brothers) had known me. I knew when I got the call what he wanted to see me about.” He kissed his wife good-bye and, like the scene in the mobster movie Donnie Brasco, removed his valuables and personal effects and left instructions for his wife uncertain whether he would return.

His instructions directed her to the escape plan that he kept in a secure vault in a secret room at the Diana Hotel he built (named after his only daughter) after Saddam nationalized the Baghdad International Hotel. He showed me the hidden room containing the vault where he kept the plans for every palace Saddam ever built, including one adjoining Babylon. Because Munther has a Master’s degree in mechanical and electrical engineering, Saddam had him review the mechanical, electrical and HVAC systems for every major project in Iraq.

When confronted with the fact that Munther aided their escape, he explained to Saddam that they had always been loyal to Saddam. However, the post-Gulf War climate in Iraq had changed and they no longer felt safe as Jews. Growing up around his father’s Jewish partners, the two men became like uncles to him. When they requested his help, Munther explained, he could not refuse.

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He told Saddam how he smuggled them out of Iraq but would not tell him who helped him. Saddam was furious. He leaned back in his chair with a pistol nearby and told Munther, “I have only two options. Execute you or forget this ever happened.” Munther believes he would have been shot on the spot but for the fact that he was then serving as the regime’s representative to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, an appointment that followed his sponsorship of Mother Teresa’s visit in the post-Desert Storm period when she travelled to Iraq to care for the wounded.

As Munther explained to me, with Saddam he was dealing with pure evil. Yet he also knew the scope of that evil because it was apparent and transparent. However, as he explained, the evil he encountered in the U.S. deployed various techniques, including murder, to intimidate him and his extended family while neither the source nor the motive was ever revealed. Because he loves America and Americans, he has shown great courage in standing up to those operating inside the U.S. government who—under color of lawful authority—repeatedly sought to intimidate and silence him since our return from Iraq in February 1997 with intelligence that could have prevented a war sought by the Israeli Right.

For him, for his Americanized family, including grandchildren born here, and for me, government under the rule of law will remain meaningless until the expansive Israel lobby is required to register as foreign agents and those enabling Israeli operations in this country are held accountable at law.

When a good faith, in-depth investigation is undertaken, the consistency of this stalking can prove the common source behind (a) the mass murder of 9/11 as a provocation meant to mobilize our military to destabilize the region as part of the long game of the Israeli Right, and (b) ongoing operations meant to bankrupt the U.S., beginning no later than post-WWII, in order to undermine the U.S. and favor China. [See Chapter 4, The China Connection and Chapter 10, the Noble Lie.]

Under the Color of Law

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The last time Munther and I met face-to-face was in August 2006 at a Native American casino north of Phoenix. We spent two hours talking about family and what U.S. officials did to him. Consistent with a nonstop pattern of intimidation under color of lawful authority, on his return to San Diego that evening, F.B.I. agents were waiting in a car just outside the gate to his family compound when he and his son, Michael, returned from our meeting.

They took Munther to the Edward Schwartz Federal Building in downtown San Diego near where he was interviewed the previous week for his passport application. One of his interrogators (who refused to give her name) immediately asked about the status of his application. The clear inference was that, if he again spoke to me, his application would be denied.

With Shias emerging to control the Iraqi government and U.S. forces only temporarily in control of the Baghdad Hotel, Munther knew he could rely neither on the U.S. government nor the new Iraqi government to recover properties that include both the Baghdad International Hotel and the Diana Hotel.[49] Their message was clear. If he continued speaking to me, he would not be issued a U.S. passport and would face difficulty recovering his considerable wealth. In a restored and secure Iraq, the value of those properties is several hundred million dollars. He understood why the pressure was being applied and stopped speaking to me, a decision that I respected.

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During their 2006 interrogation, F.B.I. agents also showed him photos of the two of us touring Babylon in 1997. Saddam arranged our tour, assigned a historian to accompany us and dispatched guards to prevent us from taking photographs of a nearby palace. Saddam built a palace adjoining Babylon anticipating its proximity would reduce the probability that it would be bombed for fear of damaging a World Heritage site. The entire site was cordoned off for our visit.

Touring Babylon

A good faith investigation could determine how satellite photos of us touring Babylon came into the possession of federal authorities and why those photos were deployed for that purpose at that time and under those circumstances. Put Munther and I in the same room at the same time and our testimony will confirm the complicity of numerous federal officials operating under cover of law.

Condi Rice

As of April 2023, no one from either the F.B.I. or any of our 18 intelligence agencies has interviewed me about these matters despite my many attempts to engage those with line responsibility for federal law enforcement and national security. On April 12, 2004, Jeff hand-delivered a 154-page research compilation to more than 25 senior officials in the executive and legislative branches with responsibility for national security and federal law enforcement.

Addressed to National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, copies of the memo were also hand-delivered to 9/11 Commission Chairman Tom Kean, Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton and Executive Director Philip Zelikow. Though Commission staff interviewed more than 1,200 people, no one contacted me. Israel was not implicated in the official version of those attacks and the Israel lobby ensured that hearings were not held on the motivation.[50]

Pre-staging the U.S. Response

Munther and I traveled to Baghdad to assess Saddam’s intentions and propose a strategy for anticipatory conflict management. The plan called for committing a portion of region-wide oil proceeds to fund education and technology transfer linked to bottom-up economic development. The proposal drew on a prosperity-sharing economic model that Glenn Olds helped devise while serving as U.N. Ambassador during the Nixon Administration. He and my father had earlier collaborated on the successful adoption of stakeholder-inclusive models for sharing the natural resource wealth of Alaska and Norway.[51]

Iraq could have been spared the sectarian violence that now pits the once-dominant Sunnis against the demographically (and now politically) dominant Shias. Rather than Iraqis sharing an inclusive future, the country slipped into crisis, chaos, insecurity and widespread poverty, particularly among Sunnis. As Iraqi oil again began to flow, an audit found that hundreds of millions of dollars were illegally flowing out of the country. In addition, between 2003 and 2008, as much as $40 billion in U.S. currency was airlifted into Baghdad. Shipments of shrink-wrapped $100 bills included some 281 million Federal Reserve notes weighing 363 tons flown in on pallets into an unstable war zone.

This toxic mix of oil-derived and pallet-sized cash further radicalized the excluded Sunnis. When discharged and disarmed by American occupation forces and marginalized by Shias who the Sunnis oppressed under Saddam’s rule, the Sunni reaction led to the emergence of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Fueled by anti-American resentment, ISIL/ISIS extremists drew to their ranks the poor, disaffected and excluded. The ability of an extremist minority to deploy well-timed crises to virtually control a majority (as in Iraq, Libya, Syria) typifies how the extremist few I profiled wield out-sized influence over a long-deceived majority in the U.S.

This same phenomenon typifies Israeli politics where an ultra-Orthodox minority dominates a majority that comprises the other 82% of Reform and Conservative Jews. The result sustains a political culture dominated by the most extreme elements of the Israeli Right. Their influence is further reinforced by Israeli political coalitions required to cater to their most extreme members to hold the coalition together.

By pledging an “unbreakable bond” with the Jewish state, ill-informed U.S. lawmakers steadily enhanced the power wielded over U.S. policy by its most extreme elements. In practical effect, this entangled alliance ensured that the most radical elements within Judaism would shape U.S. foreign policy—with Americans unaware that policy is not ours but theirs. With few exceptions, Americans are (a) unaware of how this duplicity operates, or (b) silenced by fear of being smeared as an antisemite. Jews critical of Israel were dismissed as “self-hating”. How do you prove you’re not something you never were?

The Chosen Few

Mike Pompeo

To grasp how so few can cause so much damage, it’s essential to understand how a few well-placed pro-Israel extremists can wreak havoc on other nations while undermining our own. For example, when asset Donald Trump named as Director of Central Intelligence Congressman Mike Pompeo, a Zionist “End Times” Christian and critic of the Iran accord, the Republican Jewish Coalition (funded by casino multi-billionaire Sheldon Adelson and his Israeli wife) described him as a “wonderful choice” and a “true friend of Israel.”[52]

When Mitt Romney made Trump’s short list as a potential Secretary of State, the war-with-Iran agenda came sharply back into focus. A lay bishop in the Mormon Church (aka “The Lost Tribe of Israel”), a Romney Administration may well have led us into a long-sought war with Iran—for Israel. During Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, foreign policy adviser Dan Senor, a graduate of Hebrew University, told journalists that, if Israel launched a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Romney “would respect the move.”

Ron Dermer speaking at Christians United for Israel

Regardless of their personal differences (Romney called Trump a “phony” and a “fraud”), his hardline position on Iran qualified him to be considered as the Trump’s administration’s top diplomat. Had Romney become part of the Trump camp, Trump would have been portrayed as magnanimous and Romney key to unifying the party. That also would have confirmed that Zionists (whether Mormon, Jewish or Christian) consolidated their power in a presidency (and a Congress) produced for the purpose of advancing the goals of those who see themselves as Chosen.

Those concerned about Russian interference in our presidential elections had reason to worry. Curiously missing was any mention of Israeli interference, including the fact that Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer campaigned for Romney in Florida and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu was featured in a Romney campaign ad warning Florida voters of the Iranian threat to Israel.

Dan Senor

Romney adviser Dan Senor hailed Pompeo as a “superb pick.” Romney’s July 2012 trip to Israel was described as the “brainchild” of Senor and Dermer.[53] Anyone who believes that the expansive Israel lobby is not operating as foreign agents needs to reflect on these facts. As chief spokesperson for the post-invasion Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and senior adviser to U.S. Ambassador Paul Bremer,[54] Senor put a positive spin on the disastrous post-invasion policies that devastated Iraq and provoked the emergence of ISIL/ISIS.[55]

While in Iraq, this (Jewish) neocon represented not U.S. interests but the interests of the Israeli Right.[56] He may not see his conduct as treason; an informed U.S. public may disagree. His 2009 book on “Israel’s Economic Miracle” was praised by the Council on Foreign Relations. [See Chapter ## for the systematic/ongoing Israeli theft of U.S. technology, incentivized by legislation allowing Israel Defense Forces and Mossad personnel to receive stock grants and options in technology companies.]

Chapter 2. The War in Iraq Could Have Been Prevented — Part 3

The Cost of Our Reaction

Cascading reactions to the U.S.-led invasion ensured in response an alliance between the numerically dominant Shias of Iraq and the Shias of Iran. That invasion-induced alliance, in turn, assured support for Israeli opposition to Iran from Israel’s former enemies, the House of Saud and the Emirates. The (game theory) foreseeable instability set in motion by the invasion led the wealthy six-member nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council to form a mutual defense pact tacitly aligned with Israel’s anti-Iran policies.

Senator Bob Kerrey

Meanwhile, Sunni fundamentalists of Wahhabi Islam, with financial support from unidentified Saudi royals, continue to spread a fundamentalist hate-mongering version of Islam. Former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey, a member of the 9/11 Commission, cautioned Riyadh: “You can’t provide the money for terrorists and then say, ‘I don’t have anything to do with what they’re doing.”[57]

In short, a game theory model-able cascade of reactions to the provocation of 9/11 enabled a duplicitous few within the Israeli Right to gain support for their extremist agenda both from a U.S.-led Western coalition and oil-rich Arab states.[58] Skilled at geostrategic duplicity and deploying a “tireless genius for crisis”, those profiled again proved adept at leveraging their small numbers to devastating effect, undermining not only the U.S. but every nation subjected to this hidden tax. The U.S. alone is on track to spend $8 trillion to wage unnecessary, unwinnable, highly profitable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—aka the graveyard of empires.

Deceived by our faith in intelligence “fixed” around Israeli goals, the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq ensured a victory for Tel Aviv as diplomacy turned away from the need for a nuclear weapons-free Middle East and a long-overdue settlement of Israel’s seven decade-plus occupation of Palestine.[59] Israeli goals continued to advance while the U.S. was portrayed as a bald aggressor, Americans’ faith in government continued its decline, and U.S. politics lurched—like Israel—to the political right.

To a fault, I have disclosed the truth to anyone I meet and, over time, the truth has caused those who know me not to want to risk further contact. I understand and have never judged them based on the real danger they face from those who hijacked our government from within. In 2013, I had an offer of $300,000 in badly needed assistance from a colleague in Miami who knew the threat that my life experience proves and offered to help. Enroute to our meeting, I pulled into a parking garage. As I exited my car, I was knocked unconscious and collapsed on the pavement. In good faith, I had to inform the donor what happened in a city dominated by those I profiled. The offer was rescinded. I understood. I kept going.

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My life experience proves that those who fixed the intelligence to induce us to wage unnecessary and unwinnable wars have long exerted virtual control over U.S. foreign policy through the entangled US/Israeli relationship, the influence of their lobby with its 600-plus affiliates,[60] and their out-sized impact on U.S. elections. Much of this influence is subsidized by naïve Americans through tax deductions allowed donors to pro-Israel nonprofits and Congressional appropriations for Israel, presently $3.8 billion per year.

Stability by Design

In the fast-changing political environment we encountered in Iraq, Munther and I found a receptive climate for our regional development plan both within the regime and among those familiar with the concerns of tribal leaders. I met with the president of Baghdad University, the head of the medical school and other Iraqi leaders. All those with whom I spoke recognized that Saddam’s brutal reign was coming to an end. Yet everyone also knew that, due to sectarian animosities that have long plagued the region, broad-based inclusion was required as a stabilizing foundation on which democratic institutions could be built to moderate those ancient animosities.

That plan included easing Saddam off the political scene over an agreed-to period. As Dr. Hamdani stressed, any sudden removal by force would trigger a violent insurgency certain to worsen regional tensions, particularly given the political ascendancy of the demographically dominant Shias and their hatred for the Sunnis who staffed Saddam’s brutal regime. That prospect would become a virtual certainty, she cautioned, if he were forcibly removed by a foreign power closely allied with Israel and with the support of a lobby long known for its influence on U.S. foreign policy, as proven by America’s unwavering support for Israel’s harsh occupation of Palestine.

The proposal also envisioned the U.S. conceding partial responsibility by admitting that U.S. firms supplied key ingredients used to produce the chemical weapons deployed by Saddam against Kurdish villages during the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988. A Congressional investigation led by Michigan Senator Don Riegle confirmed that U.S. companies provided the bulk of those ingredients. American scientists and representatives from Kissinger Associates remained in Iraq as late as a month before Operation Desert Storm began the first Gulf War in 1991.

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Reagan envoy Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein, 1983

Donald Rumsfeld, President Reagan’s envoy to the Middle East, met with Saddam Hussein in Iraq in December 1983. In a November 1984 White House ceremony, the Ronald Reagan Administration restored full diplomatic relations with Iraq.[61] Throughout Iraq’s 8-year war with Iran, the U.S. provided arms and munitions to Baghdad and, through Tel Aviv, supplied Tehran in a war that led to more than one million casualties. Those who produced the Reagan presidency stoked long-simmering Shia-Sunni tensions that were unleashed when U.S. leaders were deceived to order the March 2003 invasion of the Shia-dominant Iraq governed by a Sunni minority led by Saddam Hussein. In terms of the math underlying game theory warfare, the post-invasion emergence of the Sunni terrorists of ISIL/ISIS was probabilistic—aided by ancient animosities heightened by the unwinnable Iran-Iraq war.

The Cost of Unwinnable Wars

On my return from Baghdad in February 1997 with an in-country offer for removing Saddam without a war and normalizing U.S.-Iraq relations, American firms were to receive a majority (60 percent) of the reconstruction contracts and oversee the work. Saddam had signed a $1.5 billion contract to “green” the western part of Iraq using France’s leading firm for water-related engineering. Additional contracts had been negotiated with Russia and Japan. He wanted AT&T, the U.S.-based phone company, to reconstruct his telecom network hoping that heightened transparency would hasten a return to normal relations with the U.S. that he enjoyed pre-Gulf War (Desert Storm) when he agreed in 1985 to buy 45 Bell helicopters.

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He cited the fact that, had U.S. firms built his telecom network pre-Gulf War, we would have known that, when all the phone switches were knocked out, he was still communicating with his Republican Guard through a backup system created when Toshiba built Iraq’s telecom network. This first contract was for him a sign of good faith regarding his intentions with the U.S. Instead, post-invasion, China emerged as the largest beneficiary of Iraq’s post-Saddam oil boom.[62] [See Chapter 4, the China Connection.]

Likewise for our war in Afghanistan where China secured the rights to vast copper deposits in Logar Province and emerged as the largest beneficiary of other major mineral deposits, including huge veins of iron, cobalt, gold and critical rare earth industrial metals such as the lithium used in batteries.[63] With mining specialists describing Afghanistan as the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” China is positioned to eclipse other nations—including the U.S.—in the production of lithium-using cellphones, computers and battery-powered transport.

When the U.S. was induced to wage two unwinnable wars, U.S. taxpayers not only paid for what led to the ISIL crisis, they also opened the door for China to secure resources key to thriving in the post-oil global economy. While squandering American resources on a counter-productive foreign adventure—and borrowing from Beijing to afford it—the Israel lobby-dominated Washington also provided China an opportunity to take a leading position in the changeover to electric vehicle s, including a lead in the development of batteries.[64]

While the U.S. was distracted by waging wars for Greater Israel, Beijing was razor-focused on achieving a leading position in key technologies, including 5G wireless technology, artificial intelligence, biotech and automation.[65] Two decades after the U.S. was induced to invade Afghanistan, the Taliban hold more territory than when Operation Enduring Freedom began on October 7, 2001. Heroin production has returned to an all-time high. In July 2016, President Obama announced plans to leave 8,400 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. President Joe Biden ordered a withdrawal of U.S troops by September 11, 2021.

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In effect, Beijing is redeploying U.S. purchasing power to acquire productive assets in the U.S. that reflect our long-term investment in education, research, technology and knowledge. After Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and regional specialists in her State Department refused to meet with me on my return from Baghdad in February 1997, the offer for $160 billion in reconstruction and oil contracts was presented to the Canadians.

Regional Pre-staging & Global Orchestration

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Consistent with Israeli game theory war planners’ modus operandi whereby wars are waged “by way of deception” (the operating credo of the Mossad), those identified don’t do this to us. Instead, psyops are deployed that induce us to do it to ourselves, often in response to well-timed crises traceable to skilled agent provocateurs and those with a “tireless genius for crisis.” First comes the duplicitous pre-staging (befriend to betray); then comes the war-mongering orchestration. One illustrative example confirms the lengthy Israeli pre-staging enabled with false intelligence fixed around a predetermined goal.

500GB SSD:Users:jeffgates:Desktop:Ostrovsky The Other Side of Deception.jpg On April 14, 1986, 160 American, British and German aircraft dropped sixty tons of bombs on Libya, killing 40 civilians. The provocation: an April 5, 1986 terrorist attack on Berlin’s La Belle Discotheque that killed two U.S. servicemen. The duplicitous pre-staging: in mid-February, the Mossad launched Operation Trojan, a bogus broadcasting operation in Tripoli staged to make it appear that the Libyan leadership was transmitting terrorist instructions to their embassies worldwide[66] Though the phony transmissions by Israeli intelligence failed to deceive French or Spanish intelligence, U.S. intelligence was reassured when its authenticity was confirmed by Israel, America’s “special friend” and, even now, perceived as trustworthy.

The war-mongering orchestration: With Israeli Mossad operatives tied into terrorist organizations throughout Europe able to trigger profiled assets on short notice, it was only a matter of time before an American would become a victim. In terms of the math underlying game theory warfare, such a terrorist event was probabilistic. With President Reagan on record promising to retaliate against any country shown to support terrorism, the orchestration was complete.[67] Again, as the Mossad concedes: “When the orchestra starts to play, we just hum along.”

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Reagan consults Members of Congress on Libyan bombing March 14, 1986 (Operation El Dorado)

The resulting attack by U.S.-led coalition forces on Tripoli and Benghazi (Operation El Dorado) scuttled negotiations for the release of hostages in Lebanon and led to the retaliatory execution of American University of Beirut librarian Peter Kilburn, held captive for 16 months. That murderous reaction to an Israel-orchestrated provocation (a classic game theory operation) raised the global profile of “radical Islamic extremists” as a plausible threat to the U.S. and the E.U. The result lent credibility to the pre-staging of the pre-9/11 narrative, The Clash of Civilizations, and the post-9/11 narrative of “Islamo-fascism.”

The Costs of An Entangled Alliance

Tel Aviv’s success with Operation Trojan also confirmed for the broader Muslim world U.S. susceptibility to Israeli duplicity. Tel Aviv could deceive its ally, mobilize its military and engage its allies—contrary to their true interests— and manipulate public opinion at will yet, despite everything, receive U.S. support. The unwavering support includes intelligence sharing, diplomatic protection at the U.N., the provision of arms and munitions and an assurance that Israel can maintain a “qualitative edge” in weaponry with U.S. taxpayer support, including a 10-year $38 billion commitment approved by Barack Obama in September 2016.

Operation Trojan confirmed for the Israel lobby their virtual control of the Congress and the Office of the President regardless of political party. With their production of the Trump presidency, that virtual control become actual.

Israeli confidence soared when its Libyan deception succeeded by simultaneously misleading American leaders, discrediting the U.S. and inducing us to deploy our military to achieve goals of the Israeli Right. Meanwhile its lobby continued to nurture this “special relationship” as more pro-Israelis were moved into leadership positions in the Congress and onto those committees key to advancing Israel’s long game. Tel Aviv’s manipulation of the U.S. military to remove Saddam Hussein became Israel’s strategic objective at least 15 years prior to the mass murder of 9/11. A senior Mossad operative was candid in assessing their success with Operation Trojan:

After the bombing of Libya, our friend Gaddafi is sure to stay out of the picture for some time. Iraq and Saddam Hussein are the next target. We’re starting now to build him up as the big villain. It will take some time, but in the end, there’s no doubt that it’ll work.[68]

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The Media-Enabled Narrative

In support of the regional dynamics set in motion by Operation Trojan, a pro-Israel U.S. media environment began to saturate the political mind space with tales of evil doing by Saddam Hussein and the risks to Americans posed by his faraway regime. Those accounts helped ensure that The Clash storyline (a decade prior to its launch) gained traction in time to dominate the national narrative pre- and post-9/11. That combination of influences made a U.S. war in the Middle East appear as the “natural evolution” of historical forces. As my life experience confirms, history has not evolved naturally but has been prodded, prompted and provoked by those I profiled.

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Nathan Rothschild
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Peter Mandelson
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As in so many other nations, I knew Israeli operatives were also imbedded in the Gaddafi regime. That was confirmed when Herbie Oakes, a London-based friend of Jeff, offered to introduce us to son Saif Gaddafi. Our meeting was cancelled when Saif instead met outside London with Nathan Rothschild, Peter Mandelson, a former Jewish-Zionist Member of the Parliament, and Oleg Deripaska, a Russian-Jewish oligarch who by age 40—after marrying into the family of Russian President Boris Yeltsin (a classic asset)—amassed a personal wealth of $40 billion during the (predominantly Jewish) financial pillaging of Russia.

The second clue came when I was induced to travel to Algiers by former Algerian diplomat Djamel Darradji. When he told me that Saif wanted to meet me in Tripoli and would provide a red-carpet welcome, I initially agreed—just to see what would happen. When I then canceled, Darradji revealed his hand as an asset working both for Tel Aviv and my Uncle David Rockefeller.

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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi

In December 2010, I told senior officials in Algiers that the Israelis would use Libya to establish a foothold in North Africa—as they did soon thereafter. I was told that Algiers identified and ejected four Mossad agents whose operations were uncovered by investigating those who sought to discredit me in Algiers and undermined adoption of the stabilizing NewRock model in North Africa.

Those I’ve profiled while being stalked in venues worldwide know that the model will, in time, marginalize them along with the financial skim that their middleman role has long levied on humanity.

Not until 2016 did I learn that our agreed-to model was undermined when someone (to be identified) in the U.S. Department of State informed Algiers that doing business with Mel Rockefeller would harm U.S.-Algeria relations (Algeria does not recognize Israel). That’s not sharp-elbowed business practice, that’s outright espionage

Interactions with an Enemy Within

As proven by my life experience and what was done in the U.S. to Munther Ghazal, U.S. support for Israel enables an enemy within to wage an undeclared war on us while simultaneously manipulating us to wage wars on others. Protecting us from enemies, both foreign and domestic, can begin by federal officials performing their duty consistent with the rule of law and with their sworn oath of office: investigate my life experience in good faith and follow the facts wherever they may lead.

I always knew when I was doing well based on what they would do to me. After a failed attempt to kill me in New Orleans in 1991, I returned to the L.A. area with my Armani suits in the trunk of my car and slept in the back seat every night in the same spot near Broad Beach in Malibu. I ate lunch every day at A Votre Santé on San Vicente Boulevard in Brentwood and worked out and showered at Bally’s Gym on Bundy at the same time every day.

While they were stalking me, I was also stalking them. I was baiting these obsessive-compulsive psychopaths to confirm what I needed from them before successfully petitioning the L.A. Superior Court for my father’s surname in April 1993. As anticipated, two operatives entered the restaurant and sat down with me while I was having lunch. Both were 6’ 2” (they have a thing for tall guys) and wearing suits far too expensive for normal goons. They said,

“We know where you sleep every night. No one will ever believe you. Everyone believes you’re nuts. We will block anyone ever engaging any investigation of crimes committed against you. We have a small hose we will leave next to your car with some pills to put you to sleep. When you go out to your spot in Malibu tonight, put the hose in the tailpipe, roll up the window and go to sleep. You will never prove what you’re after and you’re a walking corpse.”

I looked at them and said, “Gentleman, thank you. Before you showed up, I had begun to think I was nuts. The fact that you’re here now telling me this means you’re not sure I will never be believed or become a threat to your handlers who can’t kill me for reasons well above your pay grade—who are overpaying you as evidenced by your suits—or you wouldn’t be here telling me this. My soup is getting cold. I’m going to ask Ted Shamansky, the manager, to call the police. Is there anything else you’d like to share with me?”

They got up and tripped over themselves running out of the restaurant. Ted and his wife have a business down the street today and can be interviewed. Such encounters enabled me to confirm at key junctures that I was on the right track. And proved to me that, if I could just keep going, I would be where I am today with the facts required to expose the source of this threat to humanity.

My life-long experience with serial criminal stalking—ongoing—provides a reliable roadmap able to lead legitimate law enforcement and functional national security agencies to those who undermine the stability and security of the U.S., the U.K. and numerous other nations. As these facts are engaged, their arrogance and obsessive-compulsiveness will cause those exposed to react in ways that heighten their transparency.

There lies a key reason behind publishing these materials at this time so that those imposing this hidden tax on humanity will expose their operations as they run for cover—and find there is none.

Exhibits:

  • Letter of April 30, 2004 from Florida Governor Jeb Bush
  • Fax confirming April 24, 1997 meeting w/ Department of Foreign Affairs in Ottawa
  • Business cards of Johannes Vos and Taco Westerhuis
  • Letter of December 19, 2001 from Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt (one of three)

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  1. “Bernie Kerik: Trump Right to Send Troops to Southern Border,” Newsmax.com, April 5, 2018.
  2. See “Secret 9/11 memo reveals Bush rewriting the history of the 9/11 attacks and the warnings he’d tuned out,” Insider, November 30, 2022.

  3. Though Commission staff interviewed more than 1,200 witnesses, I was never contacted or interviewed.
  4. As a child attending Baghdad College, his classmates included Ayad Allawi, Adil Abdul Mahdi and Ahmad Chalabi. Chalabi became head of the London-based Iraqi National Congress (INC). The INC emerged as a key source of the false, flawed and outright fixed intelligence that induced the U.S. to invade Iraq. All three men became candidates for Iraqi prime minister in December 2005. Dexter Filkins, “Boys of Baghdad College Vie for Prime Minister,” The New York Times, December 12, 2005, p. l. “Uday and Qusay, the dictator’s sons, also attended the school in the 1980’s, each of them terrorizing the students and staff.” (p. A8). In December 2005, Mr. Mahdi emerged as vice president. Chalabi and his INC colleagues were airlifted into Iraq by the U.S. military to provide them a preferred position from which to assume political power in the post-invasion era. While serving as a Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, Chalabi endorsed radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr and allied with those seeking to establish an autonomous government for oil-rich southern Iraq.
  5. John Walcott, “What Donald Rumsfeld Knew We Didn’t Know About Iraq,” Politico, January 24, 2016.
  6. Not until November 2017 did former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown acknowledge that, based on an intelligence report that neoconservatives also kept secret from Britain, the “war could not be justified as a last resort and invasion cannot now be seen as a proportionate response.” Brown writes about this “rush to war” in his book, My Life, Our Times, released in November 2017. He now believes “we were all misled on the existence of WMDs.” In an indirect acknowledgment that those I profiled shape history, he states that had that intelligence been shared, history could have been different. See Michael Savage, “Gordon Brown says Pentagon misled UK over case for Iraq invasion,” The Guardian, November 5, 2017.
  7. Libby was initially identified as exposing the identity of C.I.A. agent Valerie Plame after her husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson, confirmed that the neocon intelligence was also false in claiming that Iraq was sourcing yellowcake uranium from Niger. Those on whom President G.W. Bush relied inserted that false intelligence into his 2003 State of the Union address
  8. Consistent with the “congruences” I experienced as I was drawn into the “fields within fields…within fields” of relationships through which this transnational criminal syndicate operates, Israeli asset Jerome Corsi offered in November 1994 to introduce me to anti-terrorism expert Neil Livingstone whose “Crisis Management Inc.” business plan proposed to service the market for terrorist threats. Livingstone’s 1998 proposal featured his close ties to James Woolsey, Clinton-era CIA Director (1993-1995) during the height of Russia’s massive privatization fraud. Clinton’s appointment of neocon Woolsey to that position was in return for the campaign support Clinton received from (predominantly Jewish) neocons.
  9. John Nixon, Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein, released December 27, 2016. Reviewed by James Risen in The New York Times of December 19, 2016 in “Hussein, The C.I.A. And Me.”
  10. The exhibits include photocopies of the business cards for Johannes Vos and Taco Westerhuis.
  11. John Walcott, “What Donald Rumsfeld Knew We Didn’t Know About Iraq,” Politico, January 24, 2016.
  12. Colin Powell was raised in Brooklyn as the son of a Shabbos Goy (his mother cooked and cleaned for orthodox Jews on their Sabbath). The entrance to the Powell home featured a mezuzah. Emotional bonding at an impressionable age may have imbedded a reluctance to consider the possibility of a common source of the deceit that induced him to vouch for this false intelligence. That bias, a form of self-deceit internalized at an early age and subsequently reinforced, made him an unwitting Israeli asset despite his personal integrity. Indeed, because of that integrity. See Chapter 3 for the “production” of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice who was induced to buttress the (false) case for Iraqi nuclear WMD with her widely reported comment, “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”
  13. Robert Draper, “Colin Powell Still Wants Answers,” The New York Times Magazine, July 16, 2020.
  14. “What’s in Al Jazeera’s undercover film on the US Israel lobby?”, The Electronic Intifada, March 5, 2018. https://electronicintifada.net/content/whats-al-jazeeras-undercover-film-us-israel-lobby/23496

  15. Out of that effort came a $100 million commitment of funds to the Alaska Science and Technology Foundation led by John Sibert as founding executive director.
  16. This approach was also at the heart of the education-centric development model that Glenn Olds and I devised for China that was agreed-to by the Ministry of Education in 2000 and then undermined by those stalking me as chronicled in Chapter 4, The China Connection.
  17. Detective Dan Martinez of the San Diego Sheriff’s Department investigated the death. With this nonlinear criminality, that murder of a first cousin of Munther’s daughter-in-law was viewed as too tangential (i.e., too nonlinear) to connect the murder to our upcoming meeting in Tucson. Patrick Hammara was collateral damage. The target of that well-timed family crisis was the mind of Munther Ghazal who, in terms of game theory warfare, would (within an acceptable range of probabilities) cancel his attendance—and did. Traditional linear jurisprudence is not yet well equipped to address such nonlinear criminality. That shortcoming is routinely exploited by those profiled.
  18. As Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources in the early 1990s, Glenn Olds learned about the microbes used to bio-remediate oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez in March 1989. Pollux™ was widely used in Austria to remediate the hydrocarbon buildup on tunnels. In a nation with one of the world’s strictest environmental regimens, the residue from Pollux cleanup operations could be hosed directly into the drains without damaging the environment.
  19. See Chapter 8 for Haim Saban’s $13 million gift to the Brookings Institution in 2002 to fund the Saban Center for Middle East Policy directed by Martin Indyk, founder of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) as the research arm of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). April 2009 saw media reports of telephone calls intercepted by the National Security Agency in which California Congresswoman Jane Harman agreed to seek lenient treatment from the Bush administration for AIPAC executives Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman who were under investigation for espionage. The call to Ms. Harman from Mr. Saban reportedly promised that, in return for her assistance, Mr. Saban would threaten to withhold campaign contributions to California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi who was expected to become Speaker of the House after the 2006 election. Neil A Lewis and Mark Mazzetti, “Lawmaker Is Said to Have Agreed to Aid Lobbyists,” New York Times, April 21, 2009. Mr. Indyk, Ms. Harman, Mr. Saban, WINEP, AIPAC and the Saban Center have long served as reliable agents for Israel. See “U.S. will go to war with Iran in 2013, says ex-U.S. ambassador to Israel,” Haaretz, September 17, 2012. After taking her oath of office in January 2011 for a tenth term, Harman unexpectedly resigned in February 2011 to serve as president and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson Center where she remains. In October 2011, she was appointed a member of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee. She also served as a member of the State Department Foreign Policy Board and the Homeland Security Advisory Committee, positions from which she had access to intelligence useful to Tel Aviv.
  20. When Mr. Haass was appointed, my Uncle David and A.I.G. Chairman and CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg were served as CFR honorary vice-chairs. The Council was founded at the Majestic Hotel in Paris following the Paris Peace Conference and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The onerous and humiliating reparations terms imposed by that treaty helped catalyze the extreme German nationalism that became the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Absent the mass murder of the Holocaust, Zionist Christian Democrat Harry Truman could not have recognized an enclave of religious extremists as a legitimate sovereign state in May 1948 over the strenuous objections of General George Marshall, his Secretary of State, Absent the mass murder of September 11, 2001, Zionist Christian George W. Bush could not have ordered the invasion of Iraq in response to that provocation while ignoring the cautionary comments of General Colin Powell, his Secretary of State: “If you break it, you own it.”
  21. John Nixon, Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein (Blue Ridge Press, 2016).
  22. For example, see below for Israel’s use of “Project Trojan” in Libya as pre-staging for 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq.
  23. White House speechwriter David Frum (Jewish) originated the phrase “Axis of Evil” that first appeared in President George W. Bush’s 2002 State of the Union address, linking Iran, Iraq and North Korea. In 2004, Richard Perle, former (Jewish) chair of the U.S. Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, 2001-2003, published with Frum An End to Evil.
  24. Nor, to my knowledge, has the F.B.I. been willing to investigate the complicity of numerous F.B.I. agents in enabling the stalking to which I continue to be subjected, with evidence confirming agent complicity in numerous F.B.I. offices both in the U.S. and abroad. In December 2000, Ron Burd, my counsel since 1992, sought a meeting with two officials in the Department of Justice to brief them on the systemic criminality proven by my experience. Neither official responded. His request was directed to A. Robert Walsh, Legislative Counsel, and John H. Conditt, Chief, Internal Investigative Unit. Ron also sought a follow-up meeting to discuss the improper conduct of officials in the Fresno, Sacramento, Salt Lake and Long Beach offices of the F.B.I.. Among his concerns evidencing stalking by F.B.I. officials: Ms. Nina Collins in the Fresno office lied to him; a Fresno agent contacted one of Ron’s clients and maligned me; two Salt Lake City agents contacted my ex-wife (falsely claiming they did not know where to find me); and Kevin Johnson of the Long Beach office contacted Ron under suspicious circumstances. Ron also asserted the fabrication of evidence by F.B.I. agents, the suborning of false testimony by F.B.I. agents, and harassment by F.B.I. agents due to his representation of me. Despite numerous requests, neither Ron nor I have been interviewed on the record about these matters by anyone with line responsibility for federal law enforcement or national security. The response to a request submitted to the F.B.I. under the Freedom on Information/Privacy Act resulted in the release of only a few pages of materials despite indications that their records on me are extensive, including numerous false allegations placed in my files meant to preclude functional engagement.
  25. Not until July 2016 were a redacted 28 pages from a Congressional investigation of 9/11 released featuring evidence suggesting a possibility of unofficial hijacker assistance from Saudi sources. Julian Hattem, “Congress publishes redacted 28 pages from 9/11 report,” The Hill, July 15, 2016.
  26. Seymour Hersh, “Plan B,” The New Yorker, June 28, 2004.
  27. John McCain’s dependable and ongoing support for Israel’s long game agenda is chronicled in three chapters of Guilt By Association—How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War (aka “the McCain book”) rushed into print just prior to the 2008 presidential election in which he was the Republican Party nominee.
  28. As Adbusters editor Kalle Lasn pointed out, 26 of the 50 most influential neoconservatives who induced America to wage war in Iraq are Jewish (52% vs. 1.4% of the U.S. population). In appraising how the U.S. was deceived to wage this war, he noted: “The point is simply that the neocons seem to have a special affinity for Israel that influences their political thinking and consequently American foreign policy in the Middle East.” Lasn was promptly attacked as “anti-Semitic” when he titled his article, “Why Won’t Anyone Say They’re Jewish?” See Kalle Lasn, “Why Won’t Anyone Say They’re Jewish?,” Adbusters, March/April 2004.
  29. Published for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996 under the guidance of Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, et.al, A Clean Break was subtitled A New Strategy for Securing the Realm. This report became the neoconservative guidebook for regime change, including the removal of Saddam Hussein. A member since 1987 of the U.S. Defense Policy Advisory Board, Perle became its chairman in 2001 as Paul Wolfowitz became Deputy Secretary of Defense and Feith oversaw the Office of Special Plans within the Pentagon that provided intelligence to the White House screened through that undisclosed bias and shaped by Israel’s long game agenda.
  30. In 1991, Princeton Professor Bernard Lewis published “The Roots of Muslim Rage” in the September 1990 issue of Atlantic Monthly. An avid Zionist and supporter of the Israeli Right, the Lewis thesis informed what became the premise of Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations (1996)
  31. See Kelly Thornton, “Chance to foil 9/11 plot lost here, report finds,” San Diego Union-Tribune, July 25, 2003.
  32. See Chapter 5 (The Poland Connection) chronicling my attempts to alert the Minneapolis office of the F.B.I. that Jerome Corsi, an Israeli agent, was operating in Minneapolis as early as 1995. Correspondence with U.S. Attorney Thomas Heffelfinger in Minneapolis confirmed his unwillingness to engage confirmed facts. Mr. Heffelfinger unexpectedly resigned the same day he received a February 13, 2006 letter from Minnesota native Randall K. Schwake chronicling the role of Jerome Corsi in perpetrating a 1995 fraud for which F.B.I. agents in the Minneapolis office sought to frame me after my return from Iraq in February 1997 with WMD-relevant intelligence and an in-country proposal for removing Saddam Hussein without a war.
  33. In Fresno, Dr. John Janda advanced me over $2 million from 1996-2004 to help stop those destroying our nation. When his medical license was targeted to cut off financial support, he was forced to spend $2-3 million in legal fees to remain in practice. Ron Burke, a friend since the 1970s and a real estate developer in Scottsdale, was targeted with sophisticated frauds 20 years apart involving Steve Herman, the same (Jewish) attorney. Those frauds cost him ~$12 million. Another party stopped funding my work for fear of being targeted. A business owned by Jeff’s ex-wife was targeted with him encountering a “former” Mossad operative in her kitchen in Jupiter, Florida. Any direction I turn, the perpetrators blocked me in the U.S. That’s why I sought partners outside the U.S. in a nation (Algeria) that refuses to have diplomatic relations with this enclave of elites and extremists granted the appearance of nation state legitimacy by a U.S. president whose political career was produced by organized crime. For the production of Harry Truman’s presidency by the National Crime Syndicate, see Guilt By Association—How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War (2008).
  34. In retrospect, it appears that a key strategic Israeli goal is to generate hatred of the U.S. as a means to generate distrust in democracy. By comparison, the proposed shared prosperity model offered a peaceful means to remove Saddam Hussein and implement a stability-enhancing development strategy while also transferring the financial benefits of reconstruction and oil concessions largely to U.S. contractors. The proposal would have left in place a shared prosperity structure as a counterbalance to the oligarch-creating “Washington consensus,” ensuring a more secure foundation for free enterprise and democracy.
  35. The leverage that Israel then held over the Emir of Kuwait will be described in a future publication.
  36. This account was included in materials provided April 5, 2006 to Harvard University professor Stephen M. Walt following a Financial Times opinion piece of April 1, 2006 (“Why can’t we discuss America and Israel?”). The op-ed indicated that Prof. Walt’s position at the Kennedy School of Government was at risk after he and University of Chicago Professor John J. Mearsheimer published a paper challenging whether the U.S. and Israel share the same interests. An edited version of the Mearsheimer/Walt paper (“The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy”) appeared March 23, 2006 in the London Review of Books Vol. 28, No. 6 (available online at www.lrb.co.uk). That article served as the basis for their 2007 release of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy in which these academics missed the primary point when they compared the Israel lobby (comprised of unregistered foreign agents) to a more effective version of the dairy lobby. Repeated attempts prove unsuccessful to engage London Review editor Mary-Kay Wilmers.
  37. See accompanying photo of Dr. Hamdani at her desk that I took while she was speaking to Saddam Hussein about our discussion.
  38. Munther sought to include in our meeting a Canadian we had earlier encountered who I knew was a Mossad operative. He revealed his agenda when he tried to discredit me as a “phony Rockefeller” (a common technique) and when he revealed that he was an associate of Israeli asset Ahmad Chalabi who would later emerged as a key source of the false intelligence that induced us to war in Iraq.
  39. Enroute, I briefed Ruth Harkin at her sister’s home in Decatur, Iowa. In a meeting arranged by a mutual friend, I described my in-depth discussions with Iraqi nuclear physicist Dr. Nidhal al-Hamdani. Ruth had just resigned as head of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).
  40. See Victor Ostrovsky, The Other Side of Deception (New York: HarperCollins, 1994),

  41. James Risen, “Hussein, The C.I.A. And Me,” The New York Times, December 19, 2016 citing author John Nixon in Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein, (Blue Ridge Press, 2016).
  42. Attendees at that briefing included Fred Matuk (Middle East desk), Jinnette Togner (counsel to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien), Roger Lucy and Marcelle Beles. The intelligence representative, identified as Mr. Beles, said it was his opinion that the U.S. would not speak to Saddam Hussein as the U.S was determined to remove him. See the exhibits for a copy of an April 15, 1997 fax confirming my meeting on April 24i n Ottawa at the Middle East Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
  43. When U.S. aircraft encroached on Iraqi airspace and were fired upon, President George W. Bush cited Iraqi aggression as one of the rationales for invading Iraq. As neoconservatives and the Israel lobby launched their campaign for a U.S.-led invasion of Syria, they again proposed a no-fly zone with support from asset John McCain.
  44. U.S.-sponsored, U.N.-enforced sanctions against Iraq (1990-2012) reportedly led to the death of more than 500,000 Iraqi children. In a May 12, 1996 interview on 60 Minutes, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was asked whether the price that U.S. sanctions imposed on Iraqi children was worth it. Her response, “This is a very hard choice but we think the price is worth it.” In 1998, Denis Halliday, the U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, resigned over the sanctions, characterizing them as “collective punishment” and “genocidal.”
  45. In May 2009, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi engaged in a high-profile dispute with former Congressman Leon Panetta, Director of Central Intelligence, when she denied that she had been briefed in 2002 on the use of waterboarding (to simulate drowning) on high-value detainee Abu Zubaydah. After at least 83 waterboardings, in August 2002 Zubaydah “confessed” to the high-level contact between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda that was cited in support of the March 23, 2003 invasion of Iraq. Zubaydah later recanted. Carl Hulse, “Pelosi Says She Knew of Waterboarding by 2003,” The New York Times, May 14, 2009, p. 1. But see Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen, “Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002,” The Washington Post, December 9, 2007, p. 1. This form of torture was used to elicit the confession of a nonexistent high-level link that would have cited Munther Ghazal as the pre-staged contact had I not persuaded him to decline an invitation to meet with Islamic extremists in Afghanistan 18 months prior to 9/11. Zubaydah also confessed another implausible link (leaked by the G.W. Bush Administration in the run-up to war) in which Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq) were collaborating with Saddam Hussein to destabilize the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq. Far more plausible are the claims of investigative reporter Seymour Hersh who found that, when the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, more than 100 members of the Mossad, Israel’s clandestine foreign intelligence service, had been working for a decade in Iraq training Kurdish commandos. Post-invasion, Mosul emerged as a center of the insurgency that engulfed Iraq, including numerous car bombs. The Israeli embassy denied the claim though a senior official at the Central Intelligence Agency reportedly confirmed that Israelis were operating in northern Iraq. Israel became the primary export market for Iraqi oil from “Kurdistan” and Mosul became the first city in Iraq taken over by ISIL. A May 2009 report on detainee abuse by the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services included testimony by Major Paul Burney, an Army psychiatrist who served in an advisory role to the Joint Task Force at Guantanamo. Burney testified that “a large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish a link between al-Qaeda and Iraq and we were not successful….The more frustrated people got in not being able to establish that link…there was more and more pressure to resort to measures that might produce more immediate results.”
  46. The Camp David scenario was confirmed March 23, 2004 in 9/11 Commission hearings when Congressman Richard Ben-Veniste asked Secretary of State Colin Powell about a principals’ meeting on that date.
  47. Wolfowitz’s comments cited in Judith Miller, “Former Terrorism Official Criticizes White House on 9/11,” The New York Times, March 22, 2004, p. A19.
  48. Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies (New York: Free Press, 2004).
  49. Glenn Olds was visiting Munther’s home during one of many visits by F.B.I. agents. Munther assumed engineering duties at the Baghdad Hotel in 1967 when, after the Six-Day War, the Baathists ejected many foreigners from Iraq, including the British engineer then working for Munther’s father at the hotel. He showed me the engineering plans for the palaces stored in a secret room in the Diana Hotel across the Tigris River from the central Baghdad palace that was bombed as part of a “decapitation” strike that began the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.
  50. A copy was also hand-delivered to the Russian embassy in Washington where Jeff met with Middle East specialist Elmir Tagirov and a second man who declined to provide his name. Knowing how closely correspondence is monitored, numerous compilations of facts and analyses were thereafter emailed to Mr. Tagirov. Familiar both with the source and the beneficiaries of the financial fraud to which Russia was subjected in the 1990s under the guise of reform, each memo urged that Russian leaders refrain from characterizing as “private property” that fraudulent transfer of public assets into private hands. Much as the U.S. needs Russia’s help to address this trans-generational duplicity and criminality (as with Moscow’s help in resolving the chemical weapons issue in Syria and the nuclear arms issue with Iran), Russia needs the assistance of the West in recovering the wealth of which the Russian people were defrauded. Many of the perpetrators now reside in the U.S., the U.K. and Israel. Of the original nine Russian oligarchs, a majority qualified for a “right of return” to the Jewish state of Israel.
  51. The Alaska Permanent Fund distributes annual dividend checks to all residents of Alaska from the earnings on the state’s reinvestment of royalties and a production tax. Since 1982, dividend payments have ranged from $200 to more than $2,000. Glenn Olds described for me how Norway’s Government Petroleum Fund traces its origins to a discussion between my father and the King of Norway, Olav V. Established in 1990 to manage the government’s petroleum revenues, the Fund is now the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund holding more than $1 trillion in financial assets as of July 2020. In 1998, Norges Bank Investment Management was established to manage the Fund on behalf of the Ministry of Finance. The Fund (renamed in 2006 the Government Pension Fund Global) serves as a combination financial stability fund, national savings plan and pension fund.
  52. That Zionist agenda motivated casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his equally rightwing Israeli wife to give more than $150 million to the 2012 presidential campaigns of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Zionist-Mormon Mitt Romney. In June 2016, Gingrich urged the creation of a new House Un-American Activities Committee to combat Islamic extremists. He said nothing about Jewish extremists. It’s unclear how much of Adelson’s $36 billion personal fortune (in 2018) was deployed to sway voters in the key Electoral College states required for Trump to become Commander-in-Chief. The Adelsons publish a free daily newspaper that has become the most-read publication in Israel. Devoted to promoting policies even further to the right than Likud Party leader Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Adelsons lose a reported $50 million per year on the publication. Much of their fortune traces to China (Macao).
  53. In May 2008, Senor joined a delegation that accompanied President Bush to Jerusalem for the celebration of Israel’s 60th anniversary. In September 2012, Senor said that Obama’s failure to overthrow Syrian President Assad made the U.S. look “impotent.” John McCain appeared May 27, 2013 in Syria voicing support for opposition forces. Two weeks later, McCain and Bill Clinton appeared together in a June 11th forum in New York for the McCain Institute for International Leadership where Clinton agreed with McCain on Syria and called Obama a “wuss” and a “total fool” if he remained too cautious in his approach toward Syria. His support for McCain further confirmed that both men are reliable assets whose political careers were produced and managed by the same parties. I am confident that Clinton was told to change the text of his speech while enroute to Israel for the June 19th celebration of the 90th birthday of Shimon Peres that was also attended by asset Tony Blair. To the surprise of his hosts, instead of his prepared text, Clinton said that unless Israel accepts the two-state solution, Israel may cease to exist. He also agreed to donate his $500,000 honorarium to charitable causes in Israel. In national security circles, Shimon Peres is best known for deceiving the U.S. when he led Israeli efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. My experience interacting my entire life with those chronicled suggests that President Kennedy’s insistence that Israel shut down their nuclear weapons program led to his murder in November 1963. See the Introduction.
  54. Senor previously advised Lt. General Jay Garner who was appointed in 2003 as Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for Iraq following the March 2003 invasion. He was soon replaced by Ambassador Paul Bremer and the successor organization to ORHA, the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA).
  55. Dan Senor exemplifies the nonlinear way that this influence works without the public’s knowledge and regardless of political affiliation. In 2009, he founded the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) with neocon Republicans William Kristol and Robert Kagan, co-founders in 1997 of the now defunct Project for A New American Century advocating regime change in Iraq—to which FPI is a successor. Victoria Nuland, Kagan’s wife and Obama Administration Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, was active in bringing about regime change in Ukraine, including an infamous February 2014 phone call with the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine in which she is recorded saying, “f–k the EU.” After the neocons sparked a new Cold War with a putsch in Kiev, Carl Gershman, president of the taxpayer-funded, neocon-dominated National Endowment for Democracy, called for regime change in Moscow by removing Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin helped orchestrate Syria’s surrender of its chemical weapons and supported the nuclear weapons accord with Iran, undercutting Israeli plans for U.S.-led wars in those two countries.
  56. For 15 years, his sister, Wendy, ran the Jerusalem office of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
  57. Quoted as part of “28 Pages,” a 60 Minutes segment broadcast on CBS on April 10, 2016.
  58. See Chapter 9 for Israeli expertise in game theory warfare and the mathematical modeling used to anticipate the reaction to well-timed crisis along with the reaction to the reaction to the reaction, etc.
  59. The U.N. proposal for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons has gained renewed urgency. In 2010, on the same day that the initiative was scheduled for U.N. debate in New York, a well-timed crisis emerged known as the “Times Square Terrorist.”
  60. See Grant Smith, Big Israel—How Israel’s Lobby Moves America (2016).
  61. Hearings led by Michigan Senator Don Riegle confirmed the role of U.S. firms in supplying the materials required for Saddam Hussein to commit atrocities. See http://www.gwvi.ncr.gov/0723gulf.html. Future research will identify when Kissinger Associates entered and left Iraq. Munther also cautioned about the dangers of a U.S. presence outraging the Shiite majority after Saddam Hussein’s dominantly Sunni soldiers reportedly killed tens of thousands of Shiites after the U.S. failed to support a U.S.-encouraged uprising following the 1991 Gulf War.
  62. Tim Arango and Clifford Krauss, “China Is Reaping Biggest Benefits of Iraq Oil Boom,” New York Times, June 2, 2013.
  63. James Risen, “U.S. Identified Vast Mineral Richest in Afghanistan,” New York Times, June 13, 2010.
  64. “China charges into cobalt to take batteries lead,” Financial Times, May 26, 2016. “VW lines up electric cars venture with China’s JAC,” Financial Times, September 8, 2016.
  65. Cecilia Kang and Alan Rappeport, “U.S. and China Battle for Edge in Technology,” The New York Times, March 7, 2018.
  66. The Trojan was a communication device planted by Israeli naval commandos in Tripoli. The device received prerecorded digital transmissions from an Israeli navy ship and rebroadcast the transmission on another frequency, enabling the misleading broadcast to be picked up by U.S. and other intelligence agencies. Due to the ability to triangulate to determine the location, the Trojan was planted near the broadcasting center of the Libyan government. That Israeli operation included the rental of an apartment by a Mossad operative who prepaid the rent for six months. For a description of Israel’s worldwide network of volunteers (sayanim), see Chapter 7 (“A Primer on Duplicity”) and pp. xxix-xxxi of Guilt By Association—How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War (2008) When the misleading message was intercepted by U.S. intelligence and its content confirmed by a trusted source (Tel Aviv), the deception was complete. French and Spanish intelligence agencies were suspicious that the careful Libyans would suddenly begin to broadcast their intentions while also using language similar to Mossad reports on Libya. That suspicion was confirmed with the intercept of an after-incident report. Familiar with Israeli duplicity and staffed by intelligence personnel less afflcited than Washington by dual or divided loyalties, Paris and Madrid viewed that report as further proof that the transmissions were Israeli disinformation. Note again the displacement of facts with manipulated beliefs traceable to this entangled alliance.
  67. Future research will identify who crafted the speech in which Reagan voiced that threat.
  68. Victor Ostrovsky, The Other Side of Deception (New York: HarperCollins, 1994), pp. 113-117. See also Victor Ostrovsky with Claire Hoy, By Way of Deception—The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer (1990).