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The best source on this is "Welcome to Terrorland"
by Daniel Hopsicker
Here's a review I wrote when it came out:
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Welcome to Terrorland" by Daniel Hopsicker
"Welcome to Terrorland" by Daniel Hopsicker, Mad Cow Press,
Eugene Oregon, 2004.
To its eternal disgrace, the mainstream media in the US has
avoided any investigation into the background of the terrorist
attacks of September 11 2001 like the plague. Lesser crimes,
serial murders and kidnappings, are daily reviewed in every
detail, and the backgrounds and motives of the perpetrators
are scrutinized in the press, but September 11 is almost
completely off limits. The reasons for this are becoming ever
more apparent.
One single journalist has courageously bucked this trend and
paid the ultimate journalistic penalty; although previously an
executive producer for NBC who regularly saw his investigations
aired internationally, his work now can only be self-published
and diseminated on the internet. Given the truly disgusting
state of journalism in the United States, Daniel Hopsicker can
take this as the highest possible compliment. Every american
should immediately go to his website, and purchase his latest
book: "Welcome to Terrorland":
www.madcowprod.com
This book contains a wealth of material concerning lead
September 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta and his associates, and
their activities in Florida in the year prior to September 11.
This has been gathered through determined investigative work:
running down Atta's former girlfriend (who had been frightened
into hiding by the FBI), and interviewing his former neighbors
and fellow "flight students" and employers. Hopsicker has also
made tremendous strides in advancing our understanding of these
events by uncovering to a large extent the network of business
and political connections behind the "flight school" that Atta
and two other September 11 pilots attended in Venice Beach,
Florida. That's in quotes because Hopsicker convincing
demonstrates that Huffman Aviation was a front company for
shady enterprises connected to organized crime, evangelical
Christian organizations, Israel, and the CIA.
Huffman Aviation was run by a Dutch national, Rudi Dekkers, and
financed by Wallace Hilliard of Naples Florida. The financial
arrangements for this partnership are hard to understand by
normal business standards.
****** QUOTE ON *******
The Dekkers-Hilliard partnership lost money from the first
day it began. There is no hint it mattered to either man.
It is widely known - and confirmed by Hilliard
himself in filings at the Sarasota Courthouse - that the
Naples financier lost between five and seven million
dollars in his aviation partnerships with Dekkers.
But that was clearly all right with him, because
when they bought Huffman Aviation, they were ALREADY
losing sizable amounts of money every month at the FIRST
flight school they'd purchased, in Naples.
"When they bought Huffman, they were already losing
$40,000 a month on the Naples school, said Stuart
Burchill, a former Hilliard accountant. "It was
ridiculous. No one could understand why they'd want to
double the pain." (Hopsicker, pg 184)
****** QUOTE OFF ******
The "losses" of the Hilliard/Dekker enterprises at Venice
airport far exceed the the five to seven million dollars
reported in Sarasota. According to Hilliard's jet manager at
Venice, John Vilada, Hilliard lost $40 million in three years
(Hopsicker, pg 260).
It's not hard to guess how Hilliard and Dekkers maintain their
lives of luxury in the face of such losses. One of Hilliard's
airplanes was raided by the DEA, resulting in the confiscation
of 43 pounds of heroin. According to the Orlando Sentinal this
was "the largest find of its kind in the southearern United
States in recent years." But this was no doubt the tip of the
iceberg since the pilot told the DEA he had made the exact same
run 30 times in the last 9 months (Hopsicker, pgs 245 - 252).
In spite of being the owner of the airplane and co-owner of
the charter company that arranged the flights, Hilliard was
never charged, although in a blatant contradiction the DEA
refused to return his airplane. It's safe to say that this
solves the mystery of Hilliard's very evident wealth in the
face of of a long string of business "failures" and bankrupcy
proceedings.
But how was Hilliard able to avoid prosecution for drug
trafficking? Again the answer is not hard to find. Wallace
Hilliard is very tight with many powerful politicians. In
spite of his dismal history in legtimate busniss, Florida
governor and presidential brother Jeb Bush has personally
endorsed his airline (Hopsicker, pg 328), as has Florida
Secretary of State Katherine Harris (Hopsicker, pg 239). A
photograph of Hilliard with Bill Clinton is on display in
Hilliard's $3 million mansion (Hopsicker, pg 262). In fact,
when Hilliard's plane was confiscated for drug running, Truman
Arnold, the chief fund-raiser for the Democratic party in 1995,
stepped in and "loaned" Hilliard, for the grand sum of one
dollar, a Beechcraft King Air 200 worth over $2 million.
(Hopsicker, pg 326).
The other co-owner of Hilliard's drug running Venice based
charter company, Mark Shubin, is also involved in a partnership
with Ken Good. Good was a major player in the notorious
"Silverado" scam with the OTHER presidential brother, Neil
Bush. The scam relieved the american taxpayer of roughly one
billion dollars, and again, no one was charged.
Hopsicker's conclusion seems hard to dispute: The flight
school attended by Mohammed Atta and two of the other
September 11 pilots was a front company for a drug-running,
CIA-protected racket.
It's very easy to see why neither political party has shown the
slightest interest in mounting an investigation of September 11.
No one wants to turn over this rock.
****** QUOTE ON *******
Records from flight school were deemed
sensitive enough to have merited being ecorted back to
Washington by Florida Governor Jeb Bush aboard a C-130
cargo plane which left Sarasota less than 24 hours after
the September 11 attack. (Hopsicker, pg 185).
****** QUOTE OFF ******
I have only scratched the surface of what Hopsicker has
uncovered here; there's much, much more. Just a quick hint
of what else you will find here. According to his girlfriend
and others who knew him, Atta was hardly the novice flight
student/Islamic fundamentalist portrayed by the media. He
acted more like an instructor than a student, and had pilot
licenses from several countries. He was fluent in several
languages, including Hebrew. He had a serious cocaine habit,
and was always dressed to kill. People who encountered him
frequently said that they had the impression he was mafia.
His associates in Venice were primarily other highly qualified
pilots - mostly european.
Anyway - GET IT AND READ IT YOURSELF!! This is the most
important investigative report on September 11 since "War on
Freedom" by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed came out.
Tim Howells
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