Posted on 10/25/2001 6:22:35 PM PDT by freedomnews
Did this man predict Sept. 11?
Strange story of a jailed spy unfolds in Toronto court
Nick Pron
Staff Reporter
While jet fighters drop bombs on Afghanistan in the wake of the World Trade Center tragedy and FBI agents search for the source of anthrax letters, an incredible tale has been unfolding in a Toronto courtroom.
It draws together the threads of a narrative some describe as "stunning and fantastic," while others wonder if it isn't just the ravings of a lunatic.
The man telling the tale in sworn court affidavits is Delmart Edward Vreeland, who faces credit fraud charges in Canada and in the United States, where officials are attempting to extradite him.
The 35-year-old American claims to be a lieutenant in a U.S. Navy intelligence unit — a spy who says he knew in advance about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
In his affidavit, he says he tried to warn Canadian intelligence about possible terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon, along with targets in Ottawa and Toronto, but was written off as a petty criminal. His lawyers, Rocco Galati and Paul Slansky, are fighting extradition, telling the court he could face treason charges and the death penalty in the U.S.
In the first stage of hearings, federal prosecutor Kevin Wilson yesterday told Mr. Justice Archie Campbell of the Superior Court of Justice that he was skeptical of Vreeland's claims.
"Is his story possible? I can't go so far as to say it's not possible, but it's not plausible," Wilson said.
The prosecutor said he has seen no evidence to back Vreeland's claim that Canadian embassy official Marc Bastien was murdered in Moscow in December. Canadian officials said the 35-year-old computer specialist died of natural causes.
So, who is Delmart Edward Joseph Michael Vreeland II?
According to court documents, Vreeland was 18 when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1984.
Two years later, Vreeland says in his affidavit, he joined a special unit investigating drug smuggling into the U.S. by naval personnel. But the navy says Vreeland was "unsatisfactorily discharged" in 1986.
Vreeland also claims he gathered information on a crime family in Detroit and testified against them in 1998.
Late last year, he says, he came to Canada to help smuggle Russian military secrets out of Moscow, including Russia's plan to counter the American "Star Wars" missile defence system. While in Moscow, Vreeland says, he met Bastien.
Vreeland was arrested by a police fugitive squad nine months ago. While in Toronto (Don) Jail, he met Nestor Fonseca, who was facing drug smuggling charges and extradition to the U.S. The court documents say Fonseca allegedly told Vreeland of his plans to kill a Toronto judge and others. Fonseca was charged with counselling to commit murder.
Galati and Slansky said in the documents that Vreeland should be put into the witness protection program in Canada because he is the main witness against Fonseca.
Galati writes in one document: "Neither myself, nor Mr. Slansky ... have seen anything as incomprehensibly frustrating, inexplicable and irresponsibly absurd ... as the RCMP's position that they are not interested in reviewing Mr. Vreeland's information."
It would appear, Galati says in the brief, that the Canadian and American governments have written Vreeland off as a "nut case," which he says is a "patently absurd conclusion."
"I haven't seen anything that said the CIA screwed up."
Attack reveals failure of US intelligence
A sophisticated ballistic missile shield wouldn't have prevented the terrorist attacks that hit New York
and Washington yesterday.
US government knew for years that Osama bin Laden was training suicide pilots
U.S. counter-terrorism officials knew for years that Saudi terror leader Osama bin Laden was training
airplane pilots and obtaining aircraft. But it wasn't until Tuesday's horrific attacks that they focused on
the possibility that pilots could hijack planes and turn them into kamikaze bombs.
CIA vows to get extremists…some senators vow to get CIA director
U.S. intelligence agencies are working to track down remaining terrorists and their supporters
following Tuesday's attacks, as critics called for increased spying effort against extremists.
Osama bin Laden was nurtured by US Central Unintelligent Agency
Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, chief suspect in some of the bloodiest attacks to hit the US, honed
his guerrilla skills in the 1980s commanding Arab fighters funded by the US Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA).
Transportation knew parts of plot…but congressmen don’t want to know what they knew!
In his first appearance before Congress since hijackers seized four jetliners and used them to kill more
than 5,000 people, Mr. Mineta did not elaborate on what officials knew in advance, but he said that
no one under his jurisdiction was at fault.
US and Canadian officials allowed terrorist to slip away
Canadian and U.S. authorities allowed a man arrested in the FBI's terrorist-attack investigation to slip
through their fingers in the summer, even though he was caught in the back of a tractor-trailer with
forged travel documents at a bridge over Niagara Falls.
Silicon Valley “foreign born” man was Osama bin Laden’s California link
He was the California connection to Osama bin Laden's fearsome terrorist organization -- an architect
of horrific acts of violence against his adopted country, even as he lived a quiet suburban lifestyle in
Silicon Valley.
Israel warned CIA and FBI about terrorists entering USA says LA Times
FBI and CIA officials were advised in August that as many as 200 terrorists were slipping into this country and planning "a major assault on the United States," a high-ranking law enforcement official said Wednesday.
Military advisor warned Washington in 1993 about danger of suicide air attacks
THE American government was warned eight years ago that the Pentagon and White House were
vulnerable to attack from hijacked jets.
Failure of US intelligence agencies faulted for horrific tragedy
THE United States intelligence agencies were under fire last night over their failure to predict the most
devastating attack ever carried out against the American mainland.
German officials say FBI ignoring evidence
The German authorities have rejected reports that an Iranian man detained in Hanover could have
helped avert Tuesday's devastating attacks on New York and Washington. However, a
French-Algerian identified by the French media as a radical with "a profile similar to the kamikaze
pilots" is being held for further questioning by US investigators after his arrest last month.
Lebanon’s anti-Syrian leader blames attacks on CIA and Israeli Mossad
Lebanon's anti-Syrian Druze leader Walid Jumblatt believes the CIA and Israel's secret service
Mossad are behind the terrorist attacks in the United States,
and that Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden is an "American agent", newspaper reports said today.
Hotel raided in Philippines…terrorists may have planned attack on US military base
Militants may have planned to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Manila simultaneously with the terror
attacks in New York and Washington earlier this week, Philippine officials said on Friday.
Strip bar owner says men promised America would see bloodshed
"They were talking about what a bad place America is. They said ‘Wait 'til tomorrow. America is
going to see bloodshed,' " said John Kap, manager of the Pink Pony and Red Eyed Jack's Sports
Bar. Kap said they made the claims to a bartender and a patron.
CIA under fire for massive failure to provide intelligence about terrorists
Pressure mounted yesterday to fix intelligence shortfalls in the battle against terrorism after what is
being termed one of the nation's worst intelligence failures.
Mass insanity! Terrorists were trained at 10 American flight schools
As the FBI investigates, it has been drawn to a vast network of unwitting flight academies where the
suspects appear to have received their training. By today, investigators and news reports had named
at least 10 schools where suspects took flying lessons, received aeronautical training, flew practice
sessions and operated jet simulators like the one here in Opa-Locka.
Flight training school facing questions about training terrorists
Embry-Riddle officials are facing questions about whether the school had unwittingly trained one or
more of the hijackers. School officials have issued a statement saying they are cooperating with the
FBI, but they have refused to say whether federal agents searched for evidence on the campus.
US intelligence agencies knew terrorists were trying to enter America
Two of the hijackers on board the aircraft that hit the Pentagon had been under surveillance by US
intelligence, it was revealed yesterday, along with more details about the terrorists' final movements.
Intelligence officers issued a warning two months ago that Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaq al-Hamzi
may have been planning to enter the US after surveillance video footage linked al-Midhar with Osama
bin Laden and the terrorist attack on the USS Cole in Yemen last October that killed 17 sailors.
Terrorist used free Internet at libraries…Could we have made it any easier for them?
Two men believed to have been connected to Tuesday's terrorist attacks in New York and
Washington showed up at a motel in Hollywood and a public library in Delray Beach in late August
and expressed an interest in Internet access, the motel innkeeper and a librarian said Sunday.
Terrorists may have been given guided tour of air traffic control tower
Federal officials yesterday said they are investigating whether one of the hijackers visited the Logan
International Airport control tower three days before the deadly skyjackings.
Sunshine State made it easy for Muslim terrorists to plot bloody attacks
There's also the quick availability of driver's licenses and state-issued identification cards, which
experts say are easier to procure than library cards. And the plain truth that large amounts of cash
often attract far less attention here than elsewhere.
So much for national security! Muslim terrorist flew over Pentagon three times
One of the men suspected of crashing American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon had flown over
the Washington area in small planes at least three times over the past six weeks, according to law
enforcement sources and officials at the Bowie, Md., flight school where instructors unwittingly accompanied him.
Calls increase for CIA chief to resign in disgrace
The head of the CIA appeared to be in an increasingly precarious position yesterday as senior
legislators renewed and sharpened their attacks on the American intelligence agencies over their failure
to predict the warning signs for last week's attack.
Pentagon’s lack of preparedness now exposed to USA enemies
Confusion, uncertainty, poor communication and a general lack of preparedness kept Defense
Department leaders from evacuating the Pentagon during the 35 minutes between the time the second
of two commercial airliners struck New York's World Trade Center towers and the time a third
terrorist-driven plane slammed into the Pentagon, according to defense officials.
CIA director likely to be fired
GEORGE TENET, the CIA director, is widely expected to lose his job following the failure of the
intelligence agencies to warn of Tuesday's attacks.
A tribute to immigration! Muslim terrorists entered USA on legal visas
At least 16 of the 19 suspected hijackers who commandeered American jetliners entered the United
States with legal visas, U.S. authorities said yesterday, adding to a portrait of terrorists who took
advantage of America's open society as they planned their murderous assault on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.
Is this a great country, or what? Terrorists used libraries’ free Internet service
Several of the hijacking suspects in last week's terrorist attacks logged on to the Internet using the
anonymity of computers in Broward County public libraries, and at least six of them used the faceless
convenience of websites to buy their airline tickets the month before the deadly assaults.
Massachusetts airport officials ordered speed up at security checkpoints
As part of a customer service program, the Massachusetts Port Authority earlier this year urged
airlines to keep security checkpoint lines moving, saying no passenger should wait in the line for more
than five minutes.
Did somebody in Washington know? Intelligence agencies picked up transmissions
The day before terrorists struck the United States, its intelligence agencies detected discussions
between Osama bin Laden's lieutenants of an impending "big attack," a senior administration official
says.
Attackontwintowers.com domain name registered two years ago
The disturbing names include "attackontwintowers.com," "worldtradetowerattack.com,"
"horrorinnewyork.com" and "pearlharborinmanhattan.com." Some were registered as far back as June
2000. Three of the names contained dates: "august11horror.com," "august11terror.com" and
"worldtradecenter929.com"
No questions asked…Muslim terrorists freely roamed the Free State FBI investigators have determined that half a dozen hijackers, including the five men who slammed a
Boeing 757 into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, made suburban Maryland their base in the days and
perhaps weeks leading to the attack, according to law enforcement sources and witnesses who have
spoken with the FBI.
Watch-list warning was not shared with airlines
Federal law enforcement authorities did not notify American Airlines that two men with links to
terrorist Osama bin Laden were on a "watch list" before they helped hijack a flight from Dulles
International Airport last week, according to individuals with direct knowledge of the matter.
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UN wants a bigger role in “first war of the 21st century”
The United Nations yesterday sought a bigger role in the battle against terrorism, calling a special
General Assembly meeting for Oct. 1st
Red China and US ready to share intelligence…Haven’t we been doing it for years?
The United States and China agreed yesterday to share intelligence against terrorism, and the State
Department announced that a bilateral expert group will meet on Tuesday in Washington.
Pressure mounts to involve United Nations in “global war” on terrorism
In the week since terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in
Washington, the 15-member United Nations Security Council has adopted a single resolution.
Fourth Reich shows it colors in crisis: Total surveillance is the answer
The problem is to balance civil rights and freedom with being a secure country. "Only by total
surveillance is there a chance of total control," Mr Storbeck said.
Big Brother is getting bigger…US spy agencies to be given more power
The US government said on Sunday it would lift restrictions to give its intelligence agencies a freer
hand in the war against terrorism.
New World Order grabbing power in midst of global crisis
The Justice Department plans to send a wide-ranging set of proposals to Capitol Hill this week that
would include more power to conduct wiretaps, detain foreigners and track money-laundering cases,
administration officials said.
Attorney General Ashcroft wants to give FBI more power
The FBI's hunt for terrorist Osama bin Laden's accomplices received a boost yesterday from
Attorney General John Ashcroft, who wants sweeping revisions in federal law to help track down
those who aided the 19 hijackers involved in last week's terrorist attacks.
Big Brother Blair says it time to consider ID cards for all citizens
TONY BLAIR wants a full-scale review of Britain’s terrorism laws as an immediate response to the
suicide attacks in the United States.
ID cards and “new mechanisms” for UN courts to be considered in wake of attacks
In common with other EU states, Mr Blair is now to examine new extradition laws, new mechanisms
for international justice in parallel with international criminal court, and a new attack on the financing
and laundering of terrorist money.
Terrorist Attack #2: Politicians assaulting US Constitution
In reaction to the terrorist attacks, some Americans may be willing to exchange certain rights for
security, but others say such a trade carries its own risks. WASHINGTON - On Capitol Hill,
lawmakers are facing immense political pressure to ensure that last week's terrorist attacks are never
repeated. Civil liberties advocates are watching with quiet concern.
President Bush may lift ban on political assassinations
President George W Bush may lift the ban on US involvement in assassinations overseas as the US
targets those behind the attacks on New York and Washington.
Homeland Defense director to have enormous powers
The director of the Office of Homeland Security, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge (R), must be more
than a anti-terrorism czar, analysts said. He must have clear power over other agencies and their
budgets, have control on the ground when a disaster hits and have a direct line to other members of
the Cabinet.
New media mantra: America must be prepared to surrender rights and liberties
Pedestrians in central London are captured on closed circuit television about every 10 paces. French
citizens must carry national identity cards and present them to police on demand. Spanish authorities
may hold terrorism suspects incommunicado for up to five days before formally charging them.
______________________Who Looses____________________
Here comes the microchips!
In response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Congress is considering requiring all citizens and
non-citizens to carry identity cards. Those might be “smart cards” storing data such as fingerprints and travel records.
USA dangerously close to martial law
Some government officials have warned for years that terrorists would conduct deadly raids against
the United States and that authorities would use sweeping police powers, including martial law, to counter and investigate the attacks.
AG Ashcroft offers plan…some fear US Constitution will be shredded
Appealing for urgent action in the face of an undiminished terrorist threat, the Bush administration
yesterday presented Congress with its proposed anti-terrorism package as lawmakers vowed to
continue their bipartisan push for a swift response to last week's air assaults on New York and Washington.
Among the factors which might motivate Iraq's leadership to push for attacks on the U.S. were rumors floating about that Sadaam is dying from cancer.
Sadaam has vowed repeatedly of his desire for revenge agaist America. Sadaam had also developed biological weapons of mass destuction, and most likely, has acquired either suitcase nukes or a small atom bomb. Iraq has close ties to Russia and China and tons of money to pay for weapons. Iraq has supported terrorism and has used biological weapons against Iran, Kurdish people and in the Gulf War. Clinton allowed Sadaam to boot out U.N. and U.S. weapons inspectors back in 1998 ....
To me the formulae was almost as simple as 2 + 2 = 4. "Sadaam wants to start a war" .... I made arrangements to move in November, 2000.
I told several friends in confidence that New York and Washington D.C. might be "primary targets" in terrorist attacks coming sometime later this year.
Why? Because New York and D.C. are the locus points of our major political, economic and financial institutions ...
I told a few friends that the next step by terrorists might be to target our film industry which is dominated by the Jewish community.
West coast targets = Orange County and Los Angeles County.... with a goal of convincing people living in middle America that they are surrounded by Moslem terror groups based on both coasts bent on a holy "Jihad."
I hope and pray that I am wrong.
By: Staff October 25, 2001
RED WING-Federal authorities have been notified of two incidents outside the Prairie Island Nuclear Plant near Red Wing as the plant is still on highest alert in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the East Coast.
Red Wing police said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has looked into at least one of the incidents, according to an article in last Friday's Red Wing Republican Eagle.
On Oct. 7, a neighbor and a hunter reported seeing nine men of Middle Eastern descent walking around and talking on cell phones close to a remote overlook of the plant. Red Wing Deputy Public Safety Director Tim Sletten was quoted as saying the men were gone by the time authorities arrived, but an FBI agent from Rochester, Minn., checked out the site last Wednesday, as did Sletten.
On Oct. 13, 10 people of either Mideast or India descent were said to have been stopped for trespassing on Xcel Energy Company property. The group, in two cars, were apparently looking at fall colors. Sletten reportedly said the group was cooperative, allowing authorities to search their vehicles; a background check of them by the FBI showed nothing suspicious, area authorities indicated.
Other threats received pertaining to the plant have also been deemed not suspicious, Sletten reportedly said.
Meantime, plant officials reportedly said security at the site remains at the highest level following a purported threat on Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear reactor Wednesday. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission was said to have announced the next day that the threat at that plant, which leaked radiation in 1979, wasn't credible.
CIA Expert: Anthrax Attacks 'Diversion' Before Bigger Attack
The CIA official who led the Reagan administration's efforts to organize the Afghan resistance against the Soviets during the 1980s is warning of danger ahead.
This evening NBC's Andrea Mitchell interviewed the official, Jack Devine.
Devine said he believed the current wave of anthrax attacks is a "diversion," as the Al-Qaeda network plans a more significant attack.
Devine said he believes New York remains the "key target."
The U.S. needs to quickly penetrate bin Laden's network with spies, even if it means U.S. operatives prove their bona fides to bin Laden by engaging in terrorism that results in deaths
After I made the decision to move, I learned that Sadaam may be dying of cancer.
Evidence Mounts That White House and Federal Agencies Are Covering Up Key Information Political Elites Are Treated Differently Than Ordinary American Citizens
(Washington, D.C.) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, has concluded, based on the below evidence, that the government is lying to the American people about the severity of the anthrax crisis.
First, the Associated Press reported yesterday that, “(a)t least some White House personnel were given Cipro six weeks ago. White House officials won’t discuss who might be receiving the anthrax-treating antibiotic now. On the night of the September 11 attacks, the White House Medical Office dispensed Cipro to staff accompanying Vice President Dick Cheney as he was secreted off to the safety of Camp David, and told them it was a ‘precaution,’ according to one person directly involved.” This shows that The White House knew of the anthrax attacks much sooner than admitted. See “White House Mail Machine Has Anthrax,” Associated Press, October 23, 2001.
Second, when asked yesterday if he had been tested for anthrax, President George W. Bush refused to answer on two occasions. Id. This buttresses the conclusion that The White House has known of the full extent of the problem for some time, but will not discuss it with the American people. In addition, the President should be honest and admit that widespread testing for anthrax exposure – particularly in the D.C. area – is necessary, particularly given the deaths of postal workers. Had they been tested, and received Cipro like the President and members of Congress, perhaps they would now be alive. While Mr. Bush’s evasiveness may be aimed at avoiding a “run” on medical clinics, American citizens deserve to know the full truth; that even the President of the United States has concerns about being infected with the deadly virus.
Third, today it was reported in The Washington Post that the federal D.C. main post office at Brentwood has discontinued mail delivery to various residential area codes in the nation’s capitol. In addition, it was reported that 14 of 29 mail sorting areas at Brentwood were “quarantined” for high exposure to anthrax. See Neely Tucker and Avram Goldstein, “Anthrax Threat Takes A Wider Scope, New Cases Emerge: Some Mail Halted,” The Washington Post, October 24, 2001. Citizens have asked whether ordinary letters delivered to their residences could be contaminated, and the government has said no. However, it is now obvious that the shutdown of mail deliveries to various residential area codes was put into effect because the mail sorting equipment for these area codes is contaminated with anthrax. Yet, the government has failed again to make full disclosure.
It is also obvious that the federal D.C. main post office at Brentwood must be “flooded” with anthrax-contaminated mail; otherwise why would over one-half of its facility be shut down, and how else could one explain the widespread contamination that has occurred and the number of buildings and persons who have tested positive for anthrax.
Fourth, nearly all federal agencies in D.C. have shut down their mail deliveries from Brentwood and other area post offices. This cements the fact that the mail is thoroughly contaminated with anthrax, based not on a few letters from terrorists, but a deluge of them.
Finally, the government has claimed, until today, that the anthrax-laced letters are not necessarily from foreign Islamic terrorists. However, three letters released yesterday and published in newspapers today, show that they all contain references to killing Americans and Jews and end with the salutation “Allah Is Great.” Why would domestic terrorists write this? Obviously, the administration is seeking to justify not taking immediate military action against Iraq, who most suspect has supplied biological weapons to Bin Laden. (Indeed, the ringleader of the September 11 attacks, Mohamed Atta, also met with Iraq’s agents at least twice in Prague, Czechoslovakia. See, Deborah Orin, “U.S. Czechs Out Atta’s Trip,” The New York Post, nypost.com, October 23, 2001. The Arabic members of the Administration’s coalition – Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and others – have all made it clear they will not support military action against Iraq.
“Judicial Watch is filing a host of document requests with the federal government to pry out the full truth from the administration, before more people die because of misinformation about the full extent of the anthrax crisis. If cooperation is not forthcoming, lawsuits will be filed. It is a scandal in the making that The White House and Congress, which have full information, have adequately protected themselves with testing and antibiotics, while the rest of the populace is kept in the dark and not treated like the political elite. Unfortunately, even full disclosure is not enough at this point to bring back the dead postal workers,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.
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