The Real Velocipede Bicycle Project

This blog inside a blog is devoted to another passion of mine besides nutrition, which is the railway velocipede bicycle, which, if I cross my fingers, will provide a lucrative tourism business in the future, once the commuter trains have limited access during the later winter, late fall, which is the sort of anti-Poconos, anti-tourism-tourism, if you're not a skier or overlook fall colors (There is a model of rail velocipede that can ride under the tracks like this train at the top of Boston's Futures Past).

Anyhoo, I want to publish this exerpt from a book on velocipede which is quite fascinating:

"The power and advantages of velocipedes have been well advocated during the past year in the scientific periodicals, and some of the arguments are interesting. The one gentleman points out that "walking requires a tractive force equal to 1-13th of the man's weight. A wheeled vehicle on a gravel road (which is one of the worst) requires 1-16th of the gross weight; on a well-macadamized road about 1-40th; on the best London pavement 1-70th; on well laid flagstones 1-180th; and on a railway 1-224th. If we take a man's expenditure of force in rowing or working a velocipede as equal to 53 foot pounds per second, and 30 miles equal to a day's walking, we shall find that a man weighing 150 pounds on a velocipede weighing 80 pounds (and we should remember that the weight of the best bicycles does not exceed 56 pounds) will travel on a road where the traction is 1-40th from 50 to 60 miles easier than he will walk 30, even if he uses a four-wheeler. On the best London pavement he might travel 90-100 miles, and on a railroad about 270 miles a day."

List of items required to build a bike (6'8" wide when folded, lightest 56 lbs w/out attachment, max speed 20 mph):

1. Boring bar -

(the boring bar can slide in the bar or arbor, to or from each other, to the limit of length of the lugs. The halves are held apart by liners, the whole held by nuts at the ends in usual way. The holes are flanged as shown in the engraving, giving an increased threaded surface, from the usual 1/2-inch to about 7/8 inch. A plug can be taken out and returned any number of times with certainty of being tight.

2. Frame (made of steel tubing)

3. Connections - made of drop forgings

4. Ball bearings

5. Tangent spoke wheels

6. Parts nickeled in bicycle are same

7. Wheel rims

(made of No. 16 gage tire steel beaded outwardly at outer edge, and in at the center, to give the greatest strength possible)

8. 2 Reinforced rail flanges made to M.C.B. standard for front and small auxiliary wheels

*the flange of 24-inch forward wheel can be adjusted with the handle bars by the operator, to run toward or from the rail, thereby making it possible to pass around the sharpest curves and over imperfect or worn frog points at a high rate of speed without danger. Also, when running over straight track the operator can adjust forward wheel so that the flange will run free from the rail, and thus avoid any unnecessary friction.

9. NO RAIL FLANGE FOR REAR WHEEL, it being in line with the forward wheel, frame very rigid, tread sufficiently wide to make derailment impossible.

10. Auxiliary wheel (11-inch diameter), has rail flange, constructed throughout same as larger wheels.

11. 3 (3/16" inch thick, 3"" wide) continuous rubber bands - on tread. (cause car to run noiselessly).

Vision has now expanded to the possibility of steam engines attached to railway velocipede bicycles with hydroelectric power stations for refueling.

Full vision of train station project:

setup bicylery (ala' New Hope/Genesis Bicycles near railroad tracks)

Also Bike shop along Camelback - that I'll be making & manufacturing Rail Velocipede & Guided Natural Tours

1. New Hope Cyclery

2. Genesis Bikes

3. Wheelfine Imports

Must have apartment near track/civilization, ala Cheryl/Ashbury Park.

AWESOME EAST STROUDSBURG COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WEBSITE: KUDOS CHERYL!

http://www.eastburgalliance.com/EastStroudsburgStation.htm

Other ideas from the Velocipede Folder, a part of the full Vision for future rail travel in America:

Delaware Canal State Park 11 Lodi Hill Rd. Upper Black Eddy, PA 18972 delawarecanalsp@state.pa.us (from RailTrails PA, but conceivably could transition to a real rail trail).

Another great fact from a pocketbook PA Railtrails:

The original:

The Wilkes-Barre and Eastern Railroad, built in 1893, ran for 62 mountainous miles between Wilkes-Barre and Stroudsburg. It operated as a branch of the Erie Railroad, but was never very successful. After suffering damage in the flood of 1936, the hapless line was abandoned in 1939.

LOCATED NEAR BIG POCONO STATE PARK, THE TRAIL OPENED IN 1954. Only a 1 mile section is open at this time. To reach the trail, take exit 45 from I-80 and head south on Route 715. Turn right onto Railroad Ave. and follow it approximately 1 mile to the trailhead, which is on the right.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dampf-Fahrrad_2.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware,_Lackawanna_and_Western_Railroad
www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dill/section?Category=NEWSS0908
www.rr-fallenflags.org/el/map/map.html

LINKS:

http://www.whippanyrailwaymuseum.net/

http://jstor.org/pss/3103532

http://www.railstoparadise.com/

References:

Anderson, Lawrence D. In the Shadow of the Mountain. Self Published. (2007).

Catton, Theodore. Wonderland: Administrative History of Mt. Rainier National Park. National Park Service (1996).

Cox, Thomas R. Mills and Markets. University of Washington Press (1974).

Dilgard, David. Mill Town Footlights. Self Published (2001).

Engle, Pearl and Jeannette Hlavin. History of the Tacoma Eastern Area. Self Published (1954).

Felt, Margaret E. The Enterprising Mister Murray. Caxton Publishing (1978).

French, Chauncey D. Railroadman. MacMillan Company (1938).

Friday, Chris. Organizing Asian American Labor. Temple University Press (1994).

Hines, Walker D. War History of American Railroads. Yale University (1928).

Holter, Russell and Jesse Clark McAbee. Rails To Paradise: The History of the Tacoma Eastern Railroad 1890-1919. Rails To Paradise, Inc. (2005).

Hunt, Herbert. History of Tacoma Washington. S. J. Clarke Publishing (1916).

Ott, John S. The Story of the Tacoma Municipal Belt Line Railway. Tacoma Public Utilities (1996).

Ranger, Dan. Pacific Coast Shay. Golden West (1964).

Reese, Gary F. Origins of Pierce County Place Names. R&M Press (1989).

Telewski, Frank W. and Scott D. Barrett. Logging Railroads of Weyerhaeuser’s Vail-McDonald Operation. Oso Publishing (2005).

Thompson, Dennis B., et al. The Climax Locomotive. Oso Publishing (2002).

Wood, Charles R. and Dorothy M. Milwaukee Road West. Superior Publishing (1972).

http://velocipedebikeproject.org/news/

http://www.adventurecycling.org/routes/undergroundrailroad.cfm

http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/odveloc1.Html

http://speeders.rockymountainrailway.com/history.htm

http://www.railbike.com/buying.htm
http://www.lotempiolaw.com/uploads/file/4230046_Convertible_railway_velocipede.pdf
http://www.google.com/patents/US4230046?printsec=abstract&source=gbs_overview_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://www.montgomerynews.com/articles/2012/01/09/montgomery_life/communities/doc4f0b2476c2bc6339477947.txt
http://www.abandonedrails.com/Pennsylvania

Biblio:

http://thephoenix.com/Boston/arts/114342-11-fictional-glimpses-of-the-boston-of-tomorrow/

Nutrition & Exercise Blog

"I've harvested wild scallions, wild garlic, wild mustard, wild fennel, raspberries, staghorn sumac, mint, yarrow, burdock, black raspberries, lily sprouts, wild bergamot, wintergreen berries (hollyberry), birch, watercress."

I have used medicinal ayahuasca.

I take gotu kola, reishi mushroom & Siberian ginseng root & horny goat weed at night. I have discontinued use of bilberry.

Question to pose Dr. Jessica Bachman,

"I'm not doing this program for my health only - I need to make a living as a nutritionist or an herbalist - if that's the route I take - I realized a short while ago that this here in school is as organized as the world gets - outside this classroom it is disorganized.

What field can I work in - health care, green company I want to know for sure that people really want to know what I have to offer - health & longevity instruction

-I want to be professionally employable - as an English Lit. major I was professionally unemployable whattayousay what are my options - does this school offer any career services for nutrition majors?"

I promise to start a nutrition blogspot with commentary on that nutrition bible that is The Tao of Health Sex & Longevity with Western scientific verification for Eastern principles and beliefs:

Nutrition news from the Brits

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13190376

Thoughts from latest journal

This is the year when I find out from a Chinaman where the local herbalist lives and where I can learn to become a medicine man & Chinese herbalist - I have been a Taoist for 10 years & want to learn Chinese, the culture, learn TCM & Baguazhang - most of all I desire to live in health & fruitful(ly-ness) for all of my days. The Chinese, the Indians, the Africans are the only people that keep their cultures intact - that above all, is what I honor - a plan & passing of knowledge - not fate.

The greatest capacity of the human body is the ability to heal itself. This is the coda I've lived by for years. I plan to study medicine, not surgery.

To finish a wayward thought regarding the origin of the nutrition blog, it all started with the satisfaction I got writing about the possibility of BILBERRY curing Vericose Veins.

Spmtrh treatment:

Lotus leaves

Dragon bones

Oyster shells

Chicken gastric tissue from gizzard

Chinese yam roots

Horny goat weed leaves

Broomrape fleshy stems

Caltrop mature fruits

Dodder seeds

Rehmannia glutinosa (Scrophulariaceae) roots

Chinese wolfberry

Eclipta prostrata (Compositae) whole plant

Dogwood tree fruits

Schisandra dried berries

Praying mantis eggcase

Blackberry unripe berries

Cuttlefish bone

5/9/11

To clarify, you absorb more milkfat from homogenized milk than you do from pure cream. It is not as I thought, that you absorb more milkfat from low-fat milk than whole milk. Although I hope it could be put to the test. The dairy industry - and how. Reading about what the dairy industry does to turn a profit is disturbing. I defer to George Costanza's pasteurization speech:

GEORGE: It'll be different this time.

SUSAN: I need someone a little more stable.

GEORGE: I'm not stable? I'm like a rock. I take these glasses off, you can't tell the difference between me and a rock. I put these glasses on a rock. You know what jumps into most people's minds? Costanza!

SUSAN: People don't change.

GEORGE: I change I change. Two weeks ago I tried a soft boiled egg. Never liked it before. Now I'm dunkin a piece of toast in there and I'm loving it.

SUSAN: I'm not a soft boiled egg.

GEORGE: And I am not a piece of toast.

SUSAN: I just don't think we have anything in common.

GEORGE: That's okay. That's good. You think Louie Pasteur and his wife had anything in common? He was in the fields all day with the cows, you know with the milk, examining the milk, delving into milk, consummed with milk. Pasteurization, Homogenization, She was in the kitchen killing cockroaches with a boot on each hand.

SUSAN: Why were there so many cockroaches?

GEORGE: Because. There was a lot of cake lying around the house. Just sitting there going with all the excess milk from all the experiments [grins]

SUSAN: And they got along?

GEORGE: Yes! Yes. You know. She didn't know about Pasteurization. He didn't know anout Fumigation. But they made it work!

Addendum to Ayahuasca Journal:

Zoloft:

Need I say more - in order to balance the level of serotonin in the brain, one must take Zoloft, a revolutionary antidepressant, a shortcut, some say, to mental stability (in depressive and anxiety disorder cases).

Let's talk a little about medicine, however, specifically the use of medicinal plants to cure ailments. There's one example in the Poconos, that is the Pocono Mountains - teaberry. Don Miller, local naturalist, open-space advocate, and expert in all things Poconos, has made medicinal drinks flavored with tonic - the way the Chinese take their medicine is with a tonic. Don Agustin Rivas Vasquez, of Tamshiyaku, Peru, an ayahuascero, also takes his medicine with tonic. In dormitory in Iquitos, I saw him drink down his medicine with tonic, I remember him saying "Absolute bodka." in the presence of another drug expert, Edmundo Morales, Sr.

Today I picked and harvested some winterberry, aka teaberry as it is known, to sooth my throat, which had been plagued by a cardio-pulmonary problem, or a deep cough in the lungs.

I started every morning with a dose of Zoloft to cure my depression. Without it I would be catatonic, suicidal, literally, incapacitated.

If you consult your Complete Guide to Medicinal Herbs by Steven Bratman, M.D., you'll find bilberry, closely related to the American blueberry, cranberry, and huckleberry.

This berry is used to treat vericose veins in adults. I have vericose veins on my testicles and on the shaft of my penis so this could definitely help me.

The ultimate search for a varicocele cure should probably be undertaken. If there are berries that could help eliminate the varicocele from the epididymus that would be wonderful. Thus far I've only had two suggestions for the varicocele - one - have it removed, or two, let it be.

The suggestion that Don Agustin has made - Tania R. Lazo Hidalgo actually, an obstetrition from nearby Tamshiyaku gave me a prescription of ciprofloacinal 500 mg 1 tablet a day + Azifromicina 500 mg #02, also other possibilities include Trimetoprima 160 mg (anti-biotics):

Ciprofloxino 500 mg 1 tablet

Sufato Ferroso 75 mg/5 ml (anti-anemia)

converted scripts from Peru to U.S

Rifa - also called AIDS medication

Using the logic of the fantastic film, The Lookout, my journey toward mastery of Herbalism and Acupuncture as follows goes:

I must pass a basic chemistry and anatomy and physiology class

Find a fund or a scholarship to pay for my schooling

Acceptance into an accredited institute
Recieve & apply 3 to 6 years of training from an accredited school of acupuncture & herbalism

"The man studying to become an acupuncturist must become intimately familiar with Yin-Yang theory and the correspondencies. But even when he has mastered them he will not be ready to take up the needles in a village shop of city hospital. They are concepts easily learned and remembered by someone born into Chinese society. Before they are useful to him in alleviating human misery, the acupuncturist must become more sensitive and perceptive than any Western doctor. He must learn to find any one of over three hundred acupuncture points by touch alone and to distinguish between twelve different pulses. He must master the laws of acupuncture and the meridians"
Obtain NCCAOM certification for acupuncture

figure my rates of service

advertise on acufinder.com, sales, promote, and shop idea in a suitable area where there is a potential market for acupuncture

get clients that are willing to undergo treatment using acupuncture,

lastly treat people with acupuncture

A near casualty of the sweeper, an excerpt from The Globe:

"The wildflower coltsfoot (tussilago farfara - meaning "to drive away cough") is called by many names. In England it's coughwort, and here it's also known as horsehoof, donnhove, bull's foot, foal's wort, baccy flant, son-before-the-father (meaning the leaves) and in China the flowers are called Kuan dong hua. The plant gets its name from the leaves which are shaped like a young horse's footprint. It is a slow growing perennial native to Europe. As soon as the snow melts in teh spring, we see them growing along most roadways looking like early dandelions, but only half the size. In early Greek and Roman times, coltfoot was used as a cough and asthma remedy. In the 18th century, coltsfoot pancakes and omelets were a popular delicacy."

Here's a nice article from Local Harvest:

LocalHarvest.org

LocalHarvest Newsletter, September 23, 2011 Welcome back to the LocalHarvest newsletter. Last fall, a couple of weeks before the farmers market was to close for the season, signs started appearing on the public bulletin boards around my town. "Buy out the farmers on the last day of the market!" It was my favorite little bit of food activism all year. We who shop were reminded of the benefits of stocking up on storage crops, and got to express our appreciation for our farmers by filling their pockets with cash on the last day of the season. On the big day I found myself bellying up to a table loaded with the most beautiful winter squash I'd ever seen, and taking home a trunk full. (What does a family of three do with 25 winter squash, you ask? Put them in the basement. Bake three at a time every week, and eat one. Scoop out the flesh of the other two and freeze in large yogurt containers to use in quick winter squash soup all winter.) Stocking up in the late summer and fall extends the buy-local produce season. Garlic, onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes, squash, apples, beets, carrots and other root crops all store easily and well for weeks or months in the basement, garage or frig, depending on the crop and your local climate. (If you are uncertain about how to store particular crops, the Internet has many resources, including these two from the University of Minnesota and Washington State University.) If you are up for canning, drying, or freezing some food, fall offers oodles of fun weekend projects that will set you up well for delicious winter meals. Stocking up goes a long way toward answering the perennial question of what's for supper. Having plenty of food in the house that needs to be eaten limits the menu possibilities in a way that I find very helpful. From now till spring we eat whatever vegetables we have in the basement, with a few things from the grocery store sprinkled in for variety. If you get bit hard by the food preservation bug, and it happens, you're eventually going to want to give thought to some kind of root cellar. Since most of us live in houses built since the habit of thrice-weekly trips to the grocery store took hold, few of our homes have a cool corner of the basement open to the bare ground. But wouldn't it be nice? Fortunately, there are many alternatives to taking a jackhammer to your basement floor. One of my favorites falls in the category of "fruit and vegetable hideaway," and consists of an old refrigerator buried on its back and accessible from ground level. The very best book I've seen on keeping food is called Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits and Vegetables. Filled with photos, line drawings, and stories, it is a great, fun resource to have around if you're even considering expanding your food preservation options. Thanks to Storey Publishing, this month we're lucky to have five copies to give away. If you'd like to enter to win a copy, fill out the little form here by Friday, September 30. I'll email you if you win! Many people are looking for ways to eat local food in the winter. If you live in a part of the country where fresh produce is available year round, lucky you! If not, you can buy in bulk over the next few weeks, and store foods at home to eat in the cold months. For many people, this turns out to be easier than anticipated. It may, however, require shifting your mindset about how and when you shop, how much food you keep in the house, and what you consider "fresh." Remember, until very recently, nearly everyone "put food by." We can too! Do you have a favorite food preservation practice, recipe, or book? We'd love to hear it! Until next time, take good care, and eat well. Erin Erin Barnett Director LocalHarvest Friday, Sept. 30, 2011: I am excited to inform you, blogiary, blog diary, that I have incorporated an exercise element to my Nutrition Blog & made a vow of exercise for a month to study Internal Exercises in preparation for Qigong Teachings of a Taoist Immortal. I started with a simple morning internal exercise after a short toe curl exercise to get the blood & circulation flowing, stretched arm, legs, back. I turned over & in four legged position moved my torso toward my toes 7 times. This is all from The Complete System of Self-Healing by Dr. Stephen Chang, in white. I performed most of the Twelve Zodiac Exercises & all but one of the Twelve Directional Exercises. I also did the Healing Sounds for the various organs. In conclusion, I felt really energetic, could play tennis for longer than usual & am working on being up 18 1/2 hrs straight.

Further reading (links):

added 7/28/11: http://www.acupunctureandherbalmedicine.com/blog.php

http://leungschineseherbnews.blogspot.com/2007/03/forsythia.html
http://www.nccaom.org/

http://eastasianwellness.wordpress.com/education/

http://www.chinesemedicinecenter.com/resume.asp

http://www.bluemorphotours.com/index.php?Itemid=76&option=com_community&view=frontpage

http://pectusblog.com/2009/11/informational-video-on-youtube/

http://www.chengdu.gov.cn/echengdu/index/indexnew.jsp

http://www.naturalhealth-supplements.com/spermatorrhea-nightfall-cure.htm
http://www.taosacu.com/
http://www.coffeeam.com/etyir.html
http://www.bouncingbearbotanicals.com/mapacho-tobacco-logs-p-210.html
http://www.ayahuasca.com/news/a-theory-on-the-reason-oil-still-flows-into-the-gulf-of-mexico/
http://www.danreid.org/
http://laowaichinese.net/
https://studentaid2.ed.gov/getmoney/scholarship/scholarship_search_select.asp?13817/
http://www.woninstitute.edu/index.php?page=directions

Excerpt from the Tao of Health Sex & Longevity

"A glaring example of the failure of the Western approach to health and disease is the so-called 'war on cancer' in America, where this deadly disease flourishes more than anywhere else on earth. Over the past 35 years, the National Cancer Institute has spent more than $20 billion researching a cure for cancer, while suppressing all homeopathic and preventative approaches to the disease. Since 1962, the number of cancer deaths per 100,000 people in America has risen from 170 to 185, and in 1986 close to 1 million new cases of cancer were reported. Yet whenever someone suggests that a raw-food diet or a natural product like 'laetrile' (Vitamin B17) or deep breathing, or some other tried-and-true measure might cure and help prevent the occurrence of cancer, the NCI is the first to launch legal proceedings to suppress it."

Excerpts of Maine adventure (fragments, thoughts, maxims)

birds came into
my hotel room
foraging for food

Paul @ Ladder 4, 48th & 8th in Manhattan no explanation from them about Boatswain.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitaph_to_a_Dog)

Learned that the expression "buffing" means volunteering for a fire department elsewhere.

If you're in America in 2011 & you're between 25-30 and are begging for money & have huge debts then you are well on your way

Rimbaud writing day & night - "the analgesic power of the written word"

To buy:
comb
cooking pot
clay or silver fork
spoon/knife
find:
kind businessmen a la Dad
w/out family

7, L, & G lines running well as of 5:20 a.m.

Waterford)(Passaic - LAR&R

American express
scarlet card
business card

Merchant of Nova Scotia

New Haven, CT
problems are just beginning

children making made-to-order pizzas in the Central Park West Y

Learn Jaoul (sp)
French Canadian
dialect of Nova Scotia?

Bowery and Canal St.

In cursive:

Rimbaud
Le Coeur de vole
The tortured heart

fish farming
fish stocking
employers

Le chat noir
The black cat

Halifax International Airport Hwy 102 exit 6 International Visitors at 1595 Barrington St.
on Halifax Waterfront on Boardwalk

Pietou, Hwy 106 & Rte 6

Yarmouth
Portland Maine
@ International Ferry Terminal in Digby on Shore Rd.

When a station attendant says I cannot answer yes or no to that question do not board the bus.

Should there be a "battle" in Plymouth, Mass or Augusta, ME, Plymouth would most likely be accessible by rail via Boston
Fishing in Plymouth is a way of life it defines the lives of older men w/ families in the area - what's solution to lawmakers' "restrictions" on fishing.

Bangor Maine is quite nice w/ good chowder & along the coast
port city w/ trade & especially fish

Scattering my possessions to the wind - who will grab them

very well could throw
my knees before the
Boston Archdiocese

N to Brunswick will soon have a rail stop to points north & Fort Kent

Maine Hijinks - "It looks like your on an adventure"

Upon the delightful Chrysi Guzman's request, I decided to blog about my last few days traveling up the coast of Maine. First of all I'll start with last night and work backwards as things come into my head:

I wake up just before the 10 o'clock hr. to a sea of Korn fans eating breakfast at the La Quinta Inn right across from the minor league baseball Stadium in Portland, ME. "Still feeling the after effects" is what this nice spouse of one of the opening band's fans said. They were on their way back to Boston, Mass. To eat I had coffee to cure my delirium, and some bread for the starch.

On a side note, the previous night I wandered around the Portland bus station and Amtrak hub talking with the local cab drivers & fixed my sights on the Clarion. Since they were booked, this nice Spanish hotel clerk helped to get me a room at the La Quinta just down the road. It was a scene reminiscent of Don Quixote's stay at the Inn with Sancho Panza. More about Don Quixote in a second.

That night I was so happy that Eduardo had gotten me the discounted hotel room that I personally inscribed a message on this new volume of Don Quixote I was using to learn Spanish - with a recommendation that he read the Inn scene (I noted his Spanish accent). In the scene, if you recall, Don Quixote comes into the Inn and says, "I am the famous traveler Don Quixote, and this is my companion Sancho Panza" we must have a room at the Inn. If I can recall correctly Don Quixote gets upset that there is no room at the Inn because he thinks he is famous enough to get a hotel on credit. Anyhoo, it's funny for a bonefied traveler such as myself.

So with the Don Quixote dropped off at the Clarion safely in the hands of the day clerk, a Denny's meal in my stomach, I decided to explore Portland. I wanted to get to the Atlantic Ocean. So I walked into Portland after some delays with the snow removal difficulties, and wuddo I see - huge Greyhound sign, providential, and a train coming by. I checked the local market, the pawn shops had closed, so I decided to present the gift of my CDs to the local Chinese/French hoc (sp.?) shop to rest my feet. After listening to them talk and reading the local papers, all of which had great stories, some creative people in Portland, ME, I left with a Wing Hwa to the proprieter and headed off to the Greyhound station. A seemingly minor league basketball player, Celtics regalia on, came in and started to harrass the sweet little Greyhound desk clerk. He started off sweet but it soon turned ugly. He had this blank expression in his eyes and started yelling that she was a horse-haired bitch as he waited for the cab and complained that the hotel room was locked.

Gosh I should have become Don Quixote but in those situations I usually feel the situation will resolve itself. You can simply invite the psychotic to a seat or find a way to open the bathroom. After this retarded display, the desk clerk exclaimed - "Isn't that unbelievable." I asked her if she was alright and apologized that I couldn't defend her. He came in again, horse-haired bitch, etc. though in hindsight he must have been threatened by me. I told her I would show her something to cheer her up, so I pulled out my ticket from 2007 - my Stroudsburg, PA to LA ticket stub.

I charted a course to South Portland with her, good God I walked about 7 miles and across the Portland to South Portland bridge arriving at 8 o'clock at the Rodeway Inn & Suites with a story that I had walked 10 miles from Portland. It was not easy.

I will now present my tennis racket to the hotel proprieter for his kindness in allowing me to stay another night. I learned that Rahm and Hari live 15 miles from Sania Mirza, the #1 tennis player in India. More later fans, and thank you Chrysi for the recommendation. Cheers all, and would love to hear your Maine stories...

I've decided to add an addendum, if that is the correct word, to my Maine hijinks, though I'm running short of inspiration. Let's just say, because of the kind actions of some gentleman from South, India, I got to stay for cheap in South Portland for four days during the snowstorm. I told them yesterday that I had to become the traveling Buddha - see it would be unorthodox for Buddha to head out during the rainy season, or in our case, the winter season. The steretypical Buddha traveling Buddha statue which they had on their front desk counter is happiness personified, treasures and gold lamps in his bag and a dragon slung across his shoulder. He also looks like he weighs 300 pounds. First thing I said to Hari, the daytime hotel proprietor, was that it was doubtful Buddha was that fat surviving on one meal a day. "'S good for business" he replied.

I was shocked to find the same corridor of hotels in my own local area, Howard Johnson, Knights Inn, and Comfort Inn. Same as in South Portland, ME. I thrice stopped in at this awesome little place beside called Governor's. I sampled all the New England institutions - New England coffee, Hood milk, the chowda, and ironically, their desert first (which they recommend on their entrance banner). "Life if crazy, eat dessert first" something or other was the slogan.

I want to expand a bit on my experience at Concord Trailways in Portland, ME because I met a Vietnam Vet there. Now, you can learn a lot about a Vietnam Veteran because as I've always said, some men were forced into a very difficult decision:

This man was the first person I took notice of when I set my bag down near the Concord Train station entrance. He had his face obscured by a hood and he looked like a down and out bum. Turns out he was just napping and he was full of energy when he interacted with the Middle Eastern cabbie who continued to make profound remarks about the Egyptian protest. Were it not for his exclamations I never would have interacted with the Vet. I remember clearly the cabbie's remarks when he saw the protestors absconding with the tanks. "Democracy...this is not democracy." A wonderful exchange of words started when the cabbie began to mutter defamatory remarks about the protest in Egypt. Another of the cabbies was talking about the keys to becoming a rich man. "Guns and drugs," the cabbie remarked. Then the cabbie made a comment that I had to congratulate him on. Let's imagine the context. A man originally from the Middle East, Arabic, he's incredibly intelligent - "Name a subject, I can talk about any subject just name it" he was saying.

He said that the American military was tied up in the drug trade in Afghanistan. "You are absolutely right" I told him. Laudatory remarks. I started talking about how the soldiers are hooked on the drugs - just like in Vietnam, and I started getting responses from the Vietnam Vet, and we began a really nice exchange the three of us. The cabbie soon left but I broached the subject with the Vietnam Vet, "draftee or volunteer?" I asked him. I always use my father's sitch during the Vietnam war as a context when I talk with a Vietnam Vet. He, like my father, tried to get a position in the Army with specialized skills. Unlike my father, he spent his two years in the vicinity of Vietnam during one of the heaviest conflicts. He gave me a story that was quite vivid:

"Christmas Day, 1967, I'll never forget it, because I could see from my base the Vietcong firing at the battleships, and I could see from a few miles away the unmistakable sight of the bullets spraying the water."

Arachnophobia anyone?

This evening during a nap, approximately sundown, I was stirred by mother getting home from work. I rose from bed, turned on the fanlight and immediately became transfixed by a seeming gossamer-string climbing insect that I identified as a spider. Black with monstrous legs two inches in length at least, this was a formidable creature. Flabbergasted, (under my breath) I blurted it out "What the fuck is that!" - puzzlement, befuddlement, and general delirium ensued as I watched the creature make a hideous scuttling noise. An invisible terror ran through my spinal column. Within seconds the spider was out of sight. I stared, wondering where it had gone to hide. I could not see a feasible hiding spot anywhere near the top of the stack of shoe-boxes where Arach had climbed.

Oneiromancy

Let's write on the subject of oneiromancy, whether it be visions or dreams, certain believers, that is, practicioners of Islam, believe in prophetic dreams. Now I've been having ideas coming to me in my waking state which I've called visions - some of them involve these new inventions, others visions for the future - for instance - the interest I have in railway velocipede bicycles has ballooned into a complete vision of the use of these bicycles for pleasure riding along the Gouldsboro Gap line. I spoke with my friend Marc, a real estate developer, car wash owner (4 he owns), and entrepenuer, and he says that a train can travel long distances on feul-efficient deisel feul. I countered his argument by saying that we could add a little ethanol into the mix. I met a man that rode with me from Kansas City to Salina, Kansas who told me that he worked in the oil fields in I believe Monterey, and he said that the burn of corn is virtually Chloroflorocarbon-free. Already we have a 10% admixture of ethanol in most gasoline from gas stations.

Now, inducing visions. Some of them come naturally - I might describe them as inventions of the mind, connections made between reality and subconcious thought - this is the interaction that Leonardo Da Vinci experienced.

Perhaps the fact that I am experiencing Ayahuasca-induced visions - after all Don Agustin has said that it always stays with you - and has an extraordinarily positive effect on the pineal gland - that small pea-sized (or smaller) little button in the brain or "of the mind".

"Shirt a la Kurdt"

It occurred to me as I prepared my tea ("he drank my tedj"), a better model for my winter shirt. It is a thick grey cotton long-sleeve w/ pockets. The shirt with pockets a la Grey Croft and Barrow. Picture Bowie in his overtly short black leather jacket in the video "Heroes," or even Kurt in his marigold yellow sweater during MTV Unplugged performance, with pockets to put your hands in "higher up on the shirt than coat pockets would be." I admire Coco Chanel. Proust, Coco, they are in the same realm of fashion, the same echelon.

I've just accidentally discovered backwards writing with my magical keyboard - new avenues yet to be discovered

Applied to Gysin's cutup method, new thoughts, new epiphanies, new omens will be interpretted using my new method of backwards writing. Once I uncover why this particular keyboard took about 5-10 minutes to register on the computer, I can use this knowledge of the backwards typing to create new phrases! Read backwards I have a new expression that I wrote which is the first (and I've now patented it) example of backwards typing/keyboard/writing, what have you, in the history of the English language. Think of the possibilities when applied to foreign languages and literary codefied expressions. To one, to all, the first:

.drevocsid eb ot tey seuneva wen draobyek lacigam ym htiw gnitirv sdrawkcab derovocsid yllatnedicca tsuj ev'I

AND WE'RE BACK!

I'm so excited my loyal Ephemeral Bard readers to be posting again after an agonizing, and as it turned out very easy, process of reacquiring my blogsite. This new edition will be revamped and if I can manage, programmed for the first time. I wanna go through a furious period of writing and I've already done work using the teletype method endorsed by Jean-Louis Kerouac and before that, Marcel Proust. I have written an anti-Christmas play, and defying all odds, I'm going to edit the Hallucination Train for the first time, something I vowed for years never to do. I write because it gives me pleasure to write, I feel wiser, I learn from myself. I love the music of language and I want to write my way out of the literary muddle that I have heretofore used to express myself. The true expression of me is through writing. It is ever to my advantage that the direction that this Youth is headed - will ultimately be communication by written language. It is an exciting time for me. I am beyond optimistic, psyched-up, I'm literally plotzing about the future. I hope to have more readers as I go along. I hope to revisit topics like so-called fundamentalism in religion, the wisdom of elders, figureheads, renaissances taking place, and before it's all done hopefully I will have done my two Great Studies published to a wider audience, without fame as a writer, rather, as I've always put it, "praise and appraisal." Thank you and I love...

Notes on Islam Vol. III

*31-year-old American al Qaida spokesman, Adam Gadahn

from AP:

Karachi, Pakistan -

Two Pakistani officers said a government official said Sunday that an American charged with treason for working with al-Qaida has been captured, a development that could deliver another significant blow in the U.S. - led battle against the terror network.

U.S. defense, intelligence and law enforcement officials could not immediately verify the reported detention of Adam Gadahn, a 31 year old spokesman for al - Qaida who has appeared on videos threatening the West, including one that emerged earlier Sunday.

The reported arrest of Gadahn follows the recent detention of several Afghan Taliban commanders in Karachi, including the group's No. 2. Those detentions have been seen as a sign that Pakistan, which has been criticized as an untrustworthy ally, was cooperating more fully with Washington.

Some ovservers were cautious about giving credence to the claim that Gadahn was in custody as reports emerged that the man arrested might instead be a Talivan militant leader. There was no way of independently verifying the arrest or identity, and detentions or terror suspects in Pakistan are often surrounded by conflicting reports.

"If this is him, it's a big capture and a morale booster," said Patrick Towan, the former top anti-terrorism official in the Bush-Justice Department.

Gadahn, the first American to face treason charges in more than 50 years, has appeared in more than half a dowen al-Aqaida videos, taunting the West and calling for its destruction. The video that surfaced Sunday showed him urging American Muslims to attack their own country.

"It's a blow to al-Qaida and a boost to the U.S. when a guy that has been taunting the U.S. for years has been captured," Rowan said.

Gadahn was arrested in teh sprawling southern metropolis of Karachi in recent days, two officers who took part in the operation said. A senior government official also confirmed the arrest, but said it happened Sunday. The discrepancy could not immedicately be resolved.

They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.

The intelligence officials said Gadahn was being interrorgated by Pakistani officials. Pakistanis agents and those from CIA work closely on some operation in Pakistan, but if was not clear if any Americans were involved in the operation or questioning.

In the past, Pakistan has handed over some al-Qaida suspects arrested on its soil to the United States.

If the man in custody is indeed Gadahn and authorities can get him to talk, he could offere valuable intelligence about al-Qaida's second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri and maybe even Osama bin Laden, Rowan said.

Gadahn has been on the FBI's most wanted list since 2004 and there is a &1 million reward for informaiton leading to his arrest. He was charged with treason in 2006 adn faces the death penalty if convicted. He was also charged with two counts of providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

Gadahn grew up on a goat farm in Riverside County, Calif., and converted to Islam at a mosque in nearby Orange County.

He moved to Pakistan, in 1998, according to the FBI, and is said to have attended an al-Qaida training camp six years later, serving as a translator and consultant. He is known by various aliases, inlcuding Yahya Majadin Adams and Azzam al-Amriki.

In the video posted Sunday he praised the U.S. Army major charged with killing 13 people in Fort Hood, Texas as a role model for other Muslims. It appeared to have been made after the end of the year, but it was unclear exactly when.

You shouldn't make the mistake of thinking that military bases are the only high-value targets in America and the West. On the contrary, there are countless other strategic places, insitutions and installations which, but striking, the Muslim can do major damage," Gadahn said, an assault rifle leaning up against a wall next to him

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Turabi - National Islamic Front leader, Sudan
Predator - unmanned military weapon "American Jihad"

Against All Enemies - during firefight with small boats of Iran
USS Vicennes - shot down Iran Air passenger - plane killing 290 civilians, mistaking it for an Iranian fighter plane - ended the war - Iraq-Iran (350,000 dead)

Kenya embassy - 257 dead, 5,000 wounded
retaliated - sent cruise missiles into Afghan-al qaeda camps

growing Islamic banking system

nongovernmental org. & banking system

nongovernmental org. & Islamic charities - nawala system - ancient underground system - offers money transfer w/out any money movement and virtually no paper trail

al qaeda planned simultaneous bombing - LAX Amman Radissan collapsing tourists gunned down at Mt. Nebo
USS Sullivan-plot-boat w/ explosives sank

Notes
* Threat of nukes - from Iraq - for poem - you must explore the capability of destructive power of nuclear weapons

*Oct. 7, 2001 bombings condemned bombstrings (in bin Laden tape)
4,800 - man Afghan national army by 2004

*still have not eliminated the Taliban - still sanctuary (Afghan) for terrorists

*response in Tehran - tens of thousands ralled spontaneously to show their solidarity with America

Terror

*Nic Robertson - Foreign correspondent Keeting

Hindu-Kush Mt.
*Saret Koleh - battle - pounded with LPG's fire from all sides, 7 hrs. laters Bulldawg co. made it out

Afghan National Army
Myer Platoon
North Base Northwest, Northeast
Lt. Alex Newsome, Tom Bostick

*Naray

Notes - NSC - most powerful care of White House Staff members
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Nosair - from Attica killed Kahane - Jewish Def. League

Ramzi Yousef
Ismoil
Aboudhalima
Salameh

Nidal, Ayyad, Mohammed, Salameh, Mahmud Abouhalima (Egyptian capture) - arrested

Siddiq Ali - thought bigger, boom, boom, boom - planned F.B.I. headquarters, possibly, U.N. began mixing diesel fuel & fertilizer for intended target w/ Scott's Turf Builder
nebulous lit.

Bojinka - like Moamar -Qadhafi's Pan Am 103 - 259 killed - Josefa Building - called for blowing up 12 U.S 747s over Pacific - United Airlines, Delta, N.W. from Manila, Tokyo, Singapore, Bangkok, Taipei, Seoul targetted

laptop of Ramzi Yousef
bomb making materials - batteries, two-pin connectors, juice bottle/explosives,
empty contact lens bottle
snythesized TATP, triacetone triperoxide trioglycerin, nitrocellulose or gun cottom
negligible amounts of metal & no high density materials

Terror

Davos Man?

farewell statements - cause of jihad

Phillipe Air Lines 747 - Manila to Tokyo - killed one
Japanese Businessman, damaged hydraulic system, managed safe landing to Okinawa - Casio watch, wiring, plastic bottle, small charge, used by Yousef, who was ON THE PLANE - killed Ikegami - where he had placed device near seat

Mohammed Jamal Khalifea, Usama's bro-in-law - paid for President Quirino Ave. Apt. captured Yousef in Islamabad '95
-security measures prevented plane massacre - FAA search
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Afghanistan - no reliable telecommunication
CELL INFRASTRUCTURE
-98 - al-Quds al Arabi, a dairy, bin Laden issued fatwa - killing American & their allies, civilians & military, individual duty for every Muslim
satellite phone
Baku Azerbaijan & London - comm./publicity
Operation Kaaba - Nairobi U.S. embassy
Operation al Aqsa - Tanzannian capital Der es Salaam U.S. embassy Harun Fazil, comoran islander, Nairobi cell, East African crew - pledged for an Islamic state

Sheikh Ahmad Salim vehicles (in charge) - Toyota Dyna (Nairobi - oxygen tank blast enhancement)
welded metal frame on back for bomb Nissan Atlas - Dar es Salaam (aluminum b.a.)

martyrs op - least costly, most effective, mujahidin in terms of casulties
no damage to org. - driver not arround to answer questions :).

Aug. 7, 98 - 8th anniversary of American troops in S.A.
Azzam/Al-Owhali - Nairobi

200th anniversary of Christian era - Radisson Hotel - Jordan stock of firearms of Mt. Nebo - Moses - view of promised land - death - Jordan River plans - associated with John the Baptist
U.S.S. Sullivans made ready - Aden
Ahmad Ressam - Canadian border (Los Angeles Intern)

********Mohammad Atta document
Tamiyya
temperatures at 1,700 to 2000 degrees F in some spots
Flight 11 - 470 miles per hr. - 10,000 gallons of jet fuel = 270 tons of dynamite
Flight 175 - 586 mph "10,000 gallons of jet fuel - WTC 2 - molten metal dripping down side of building coincided with partial collapse

Abu Zubayda's safe house - 71 containers - sulfuric acid/nitric acid
intelligence/law enforcement - circulated - paid off in part
Angeles, Washington - nervous Ressam's rental car discovered - >100 lbs. of explosives - making material

*Pentagon - 5 story height - 200 ft. wide, 189 dead
*39 of 59 columns of S. Woer on perimeter of South face destroyed
*heat of fires doomed them - Towers

2.1 richtor scale equivalent
*construction of towers heroic - in own way
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Abu Hamer (admitted info by Jamal Ahmad al-Fadl)
procured material for WMD for al Qaeda

(greater jihad - internal struggle (battle) during times of weakness

Shugri
Qutb
Shuguri Mustafa his brother
takfiri
Tahiliyya

*18,000 killed in Hama - 3 weeks, Aleppo & Homs - even greater

Azzam lectures - affects bin Laden

Beginning of Taliban - in Kandahar province - two teenage girls had been raped by foloowers of an area warlord - outraged village cleric - Mullah Omar - gathered 30 students & attacked camp of - where girls were held - hanged group's commander by a tank

**Raid Raid * on the path of God Bedouin raiders

Taliban offered modicum of order

Mullah Omar - caliph. Amir - commander of the Faithful - Islamic Emeriate of Afghanistan

"knife blade over the gun" preferred - in Algeria

August 2001 - bin Laden meets Mahmoud (PAEA) to discuss nuclear, bio, & chem weapons, advice on building dirty bomb

Jan. 25, 1993 - Rt. 123, McClean, VA - Mir Aimal Kansi- Pakistani - CIA headquarters - AK-47 rifle - two Agency employees dead - 3 others wounded
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Baghdad - palaces on West Bank of Tigris
markets/living quarters - East Bank

LITERARY ACHIEVEMENTS IN HARUN'S BAGHDAD - Turkish, Mongols, Ottomans, British occupiers

INA - Iraqi News agency
Uday al Taiy - SAaddam's son - limp from assassination's bullet
7 years ago

Hundreds of thousand of children dying - because U.S. sanctions have forbidden the import of essential medicines.

"100 + 1 days" Asne Seiersad

Notes - The Scale of the devestation and life-loss

Shia Muslim revolt - Southern Iraq rose up - arch enemy allowed Yoquell revolt - 30,000 killed 2 days - March 1991

Before Iraq war - Iraq had modern water system - quality has deteriorated drastically - bad maintenance - water works and purification plants, chlorine, powercut, lacking reserve parts
1/2 million tons of raw sewage emptied into Tigric every day

1.5 million in Saddam City - palms dead, grass scorched - canal dried - onstracized in slums, disease
thieves everywhere, contaminated water, sewage everwhere, chemical discharge
"The party has given me a Kalashnikov" - grocer

radioactivity, no fod, reduced immunity

Sheikhs - 100/1000 - ready for war, heads of tribes/clans

Notes: Prescient
Iraq crushed - oriental Stalinism - ambiguous

*Baghdad, before 1980s war - was almost educated Arab country - refer to artist *best of Arabian countries) - killed by Clinton's strikes - 5 million people left
7th century - richest city in the world - why - boats porcelain China, trades, spice from India, Turkish slaves, gold-dust Afrik, weapons from Arabia

First page b-fore page reversal

Baghdad attack "Aften posten"

4 a.m. ultimatum (from Bush) expires - hour of prayer
5:30 a.m. first bang is heard
Americans developed a bomb which destroys electronic equipment, incl. Iraqi defense systems, w/out human life being lost (thunderclaps on the horizon) two -billion watts let loose, electric shock reaching deep into bunkers via ventilation duets, water pipes, aerials. Circuit boards, drips, telephones, hard disks would be destroyed

Saddam recites Arab poetry - fighting horesman, sword in hand.

2nd night - 9 o'clocks
enormous explosion, one more, then several
1:05 local time -bomb hit presidential palace

another pilot ejected into Tigris
Baghdad hi several times
powerful cracks cause windows to vibrate

driver of minibus - gets out on premises of "Ristafa" for lunch
close to lorry - bomb goes off - killed instantly
legs 0 bloody pulp
*They're at Hotel Palestine

perishes in buring cars
Ristafa - crushed

SANDSTORM CONTINUES TO RAGE

Evening - Minisstry hit by large bomb

Uday, Kadim, Mohsen - move into empty offices of Iraqi airways
Saddam - broadcasting his messages every day
"do not wait for orders - take the intiative yourselves if ou are attacked, or whenever the enemy draws near
yesterday, defense minister says at news conference, enemy tried to surround Najaf - "where thousands allegedly killed Iraqis)

A crash - hotel shakes building sways, looks like smoke bombs toward Tigris
swoosh - missile and blinding light past this hotel
horrendous night, mothers confort children - stay with them years to come

5 journalists dissapear without a trace
50 children killed by whining missiles - sitting on the pavement children carried away dead or dying "massacre"
"where is democracy" Humanity?"

Hospital
broken bone shafts, protruding, small as nail, large as axe head more their way, bore their way into human body cut in two

101 days & nights pg. 1

WTC - Center of world capitolism
9/11 - Ground zero (Nuclear attacked area)
*Photograph" - Immortalized Gean Potter 81st floor - right at entry point S. Tower ended up in Chinatown

Seismic - Lisbon, NH - registered
N. Tower creeking
13 seconds for N. Tower to come down
fourth floor - Dan Potter, Mel Hazel - exited just in time
Josephine Harris
Stairwell B - between 3rd floor stairwell and lobby - firefighters trapped after collapse
shook stareway (secondary collapse)

Praimnath - guardian angel
Rick Riscora - Morgan Stanley Dean Witter - evacted Ft. Benning, GA statue
Fred McBee - Team Riscola

Saddam - recites classical Arab poetry; fighting horseman; sword in hand.

Smart bombs?

2nd night
9 o'clock
enormous explosion, one more, then several, not like last time like
other side of Tigris - orange
noise of laser-guided missiles
whine of fighter planes
37 wounded during night
mullahs call to prayer in morning
lamp, torches, batteries - business spikes

mornings - hundreds of wounded Iraqis brough to hospitals
girl - as she left gate - hit by anti-aircraft missile - thrown back, chest, arm wounded, chest laden with shrapnel
the pregnant - leg shattered - no pain killers
farmer shot down a helicopter w/ a rifle - now national hero - copter pilot ejected, landed on school
roof-opened
fire in all directions, surrounded, police took him away

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Fatima's last moments before lowering into coffin - N.Y. review
65 dead in market
beating with chest with fists
Bush has ruined my life. Why does he kill families? Why
bodies taken to mosque to be washed and prayed over

*Iraq's first suicide bomber strikes - Ali - al Nawani
drives taxi straight into an American roadblock - 4 American's killed * report says 11 killed 10 wounded - in addition two tanks & two armored cars destroyed

"The Revolution"- Iraqi newspaper headline

30 suicide bombers from Yemen arrive

if (American soldiers) shoot warning shots they don't move
they're soldiers - women killed in a field
"shoot to kill" old man crossing road
-shot father leading his son and daughter by the hand
column of tanks
Abrams tank left after artillery shelled it - 1 killed
two injured - hopped in another tank
first Abrams, then Bradley & Amtracks for troops, then
Miclick mine detectors, lastly a Humvee (loudspeakers which tell people to stay inside)
25 mm cannon balls fired at portraits of Saddam Hussein

bombs all nhight and all morning - direction - S.E. - direction, airport
troops advancing on Baghdad
children can't sleep, they cry and are petrified - loss of electric, water
insert desert sequence - war drawing nearer

Monday April 7 7a.m. Beds swarm flies
other side of Tigris - American Tanks - battle for Presidential Palace
third infantry advances - 2 Iraqis surrender, face down - one turns around, is shot
woken up by mortars, small grenades,
charred bodies in burnt out cars abandoned on bridges
some in hospitals START TO HALLUCINATE!!!

101 Days & Nights

WTC - Center of World Capitolism

9/11 - Ground Zero "Nuclear attacked area"
Photograph Immortalized ***Gean Potter - 81st Floor - right at entry point - S. Tower ended up in Chinatown

Seismic - Lisbon, NH - registered
N. Tower creeking
13 seconds for N. tower to come down
Fourth floor - Dan Potter, Mel Hazel exited, just in time
Josephine Harris -
Stairwell B. - between 3rd floor stairwell and lobby - firefighters trapped
after colllapse
shook stairway (secondary collapse)

Rick Praimnath - guardian angel
Rick Riscora - Morgan Stanley Dean Witter - evaced Ft. Benning, GA statue
Fred McBee Team Riscora

Saddam recites classical Arab poetry; fighting horsemen, sword in hand

Smart bombs?
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Abu Graib

9/11 to Abu Graib

John Walker Lindh - 20 yr. old stripped, gagged, strapped to beard, exhibited him to the press - violations of international law

*Notes - Flouting Geneva convention on both sides - U.S. & al qaeda

Constitute torture - inflect pain that is difficult to endure - intensity of pain accompanying serious bodily/physical injury, organ failure, impairment of bodily functions, or death

response - Gonzalez - enemy attacks innocent civilians - cites Geneva conventions - to not apply provisions to al qaeda in Afghanistan

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
cold water, hypothermia
poured on prisoners

Pres. - signed a top-secret finding - authorizing Defense Dep.
to set up clandestine special forces op. team - to defy diplomatic niceties & international law
other secret interrogation centers set-up - around the world in allied countries

Rumsfeld - disdain for Geneva convention
civilian leadership in Pentagon, not CIA lead in fighting terrorism

General Abizaid & General Sanchez report to Dick Cheney, report to President - chain of command

M.I. & Civilian contractors took charge of Abu Ghraib.

Abu Graib

*SAP (special acccess programs)

Against All Enemies memoirs of Richard Clarke

60% were skeptical choices for prison inmates

Anaconda Mission - research - Afghanistan

Mazar-i-Sharif-battle - $1 million was payoof of CIA to N. Alliance before committing against Taliban - forces routed and retreated

intelligences, communications, navigation, & meterological satellites to support Afghan op. - $25 billion

perception of ops in Afghanistan disconnected from how situation was understood in Washington

failure

2002 - hunting bin Laden & Mullah Omar

Hamid Karzai - exercised little political control outside Kabul (joke - mayor of Kabul)

Richard A. Clark - 9/11 Commission, Against all Enemies

contentious hearings before Commission

deteriorating rapidly despite Administration Afghanistan success story

sfel-defeating tactics - Taliban and Al Qaeda attacking U.N. officials and aid workers

avoidable humanitarian and stability costs

Taliban influence grew in 2004 - due to defiance of American air and ground assault killing civilian casulties

D'jbouti

Sadddam's major oil trading partners would be assuaged (France and Russia) by assurance of access to rich oil fields in southern Iraq

unpublicized buildup of American military forces underway March 2002 - 5,000 spoken of - many times that

shift - in Arabic speaking Middle-East experts from Afghan to Iraq

aimed at Al-Qaeda - now aimed and redirected at Gulf

Orange glow in the distance

felt like an earthquake

people running down hallway looking for a bomb

70% of body burned - women clothes burned off her

Salv. Army, RedCross, Search and Rescue Tennessee, MD, VA

first hallway - ankle deep water - body parts floating

melted intestines, hardened lungs, deflated and black through rib cage

four chaplains last rites - Baptist, Protestant, Catholic, Jewish rabbi

Tuesday - Friday

WEST SIDE OF BUILDING HIT

Clarke memoirs 9/11 related

Pentagon - pop. 10,000

support from Arlington County Fire Dep.

Plane gutted three rings, went in at an angle

Project Phoenix - reconstruction effort

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Buildup to Iraq

Shipment of high strength aluminum tubes was intercepted on its way to Iraq - meant for the construction of centrifuges that could be used to produce enriched uranium between 1999-2001. Iraq had attempted to buy 500 tons of uranium oxide from Niger - "yellow cake" - fuel for nuclear reactors or converted to weapons-grade uranium.

March 7, 2003 - International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna told U.N. Sec. Council that documents involving uranium sales were fake (Brit. gov't released its dossier) - verified by Jacques Baute, Iraq Nuclear Verification Office

2002 - Tenet, Powell testimony before U.N. - helped pass resolution giving Pres. a congressional mandate for a military assault on Iraq

Dick Cheney calls El Baradei, director general of IAEA - "Frankly, is wrong"

Special plans - created to find evidence of what Wolfowitz & Don Rumsfeld though ties between Hussein & Al Qaeda - built arsenal of chemical, bio, possibly nuclear

Administration spun rhetoric - "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud"

"cannot wait for final proof - the smoking gun - that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud"

Democratization ran through Baghdad - Admin. thought terrorism, not democracy, is now spreading through region

What was Bush's vision for MidEast? what was Administration's vision for Iraq & Afghanistan

Age of Sacred Terror?

King Fahd mosque in Culver City - probably where Hazmi & Mindhar were positioned - no evidence of Thumairy support

Thumairy - imam refused re-entry from Saudi Arabia - for suspected terrorist activity - for speeches anti-American

Modhar Abdullah - Yemeni student drove Mindhar & Hazmi to San Diego - they did not like >.A. & knew no one

Hani Hanjour - Dec. 8, 2000 - arrives in San Diego

Hazmi - flight training in San Jose, San Fran, Arizona?

Summer 2000

al Shehhi - Newark, waited for Mohammed Atta in NYC, still undecided on flight training plans

Jarrah - FFTC - Florida Flight Traininig Center in Venic FL.

arranged attendance summer 2000

Atta- Huffman Aviation - Venice, FL (& Shehhi)

Zacarias Moussaoui - Norman, OKO - Arman Flight School

Hanjour - San Diego - flight training 737 simulator in Mesa, Arizona

April 4, Hanjour, Hazmi arrive Falls Church, VA - in Alexandria (?)

Age of Sacred Terror/9/11

Ahmed al Ghamdi/Majed Moqed - muscle hijackers

Paterson found - al Hazmi's younger brother Salem Hanjour, Moqed, Ahmed al Ghamdi, Abdul Aziz al Omari, Mindhar soon joined them

Atta & Shehhi - FL awaiting muscle hijackers

muscle were not physically imposing - most between 5'5''-5'7'' - Satam al Suqami, Wail al Shehri, Waleed al Shehri, Omari, Ghamdi, Hamza al Ghamdi, Mohand al Shehri, Majed Moqed, Salem al Hazmi, Saeed al Ghamdi, Ahmad al Haznawi, Ahmed al Nami (Muscle) - Saudi's last remaining, Fayez Banihammad, UAE (message to Saudi gov't about relationship w/ U.S. or largest contingent from S.A.)

All 20-28 years old, no more than h.s. education, unmarried

Ghamdi's - all three attended prayer services regularly Omari - served as imam, student of radical cleric Sulayman al Alwan?

Suqami/Hazmi - drank

According to KSM, ops volunteered suicide operations

KSM - most important quality - martyrdom

Bin Laden, assisted by Atef, personally chose all muscle hijackers - fealty, oath swearing, loyalty for a suicide mission, men to S.A. for U.S. visas, then back to Afghan to train

muscle began arriving in late April 2001

al Qassim mosque at very heart of Wahhabi movement (Ghamdi/Shehri ties to mosque)

Flight 11

Mohammed Atta pilot; 767

Waleed al Shehri

Wail al Shehri

Satam al Suqami

Abdulaziz al Omari

Flight 175

Marwan al Shehhi, pilot - 767

Fayez Banihammad

Ahmed al Ghamdi

Hamza al Ghamdi

Mohammad al Shehri

Flight 77

Hani Hanjour; pilot

Nawaf al Hamzi

Khalid al Mihdar

Majed Moqed

Salem al Hazmi

Flight 93

Ziad Jarrah; pilot 757

Saeed al Ghamdi

Ahmad al Haznawi

Ahmed al Nami

Iran, after Colel attack, effor to strengthen relationshiops with al Aqaeda, willingness to facilitiate - 8 muscle jackers - to and from Iran - to Afghanistan via Iran - did not stamp Saudi passports - easy access

Atta, Shehhi - coord. arrival of muscle into FL

Nothern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud - assassinated Sept. 9

Age...9/11

Sept. 10 coordinated Taliban offensive

77's migrated from NJ to Laurel, MD - 20 miles from Washington, D.C. - motel first week Sept., final night lodged hotel in Herndon, VA

93's gathered in Newark from base in FL Sept. 7, 8-9, Jarrah speeding ticket in MD N. on 95 - joined rest of team at hotel

Atta - flew from Ft. Lauderdale to Baltimore (Sept.7)

meet Flight 77 team in Laurel, Baltimore to Boston, Shehhi had arrived there, Atta picked up Omari - two drove to Portland, MN

early morning - flight to Boston

3 fellow hijackers - hotel in Newton, Mass.

Shehhi & team - 175 - two Boston hotels *(last hrs. )

19 men in nodescript hotel rooms

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Doors leading to the roof were locked

stairwells A&C - 110 - raised mezzazine level of lobby

stairwell B - 107 - level B6, six below ground and accessible from W. St. lobby level, one below mezzanine

N&S roofs were sloped & cluttered surface w/ radiation hazards

Port Auth.: 1331 offices

P.D.

NYPD - 40,000 officer NYPD

FDNY - 11,000 member 133 Ladder companies, 205 engine companies

9/11

N. Tower - plane hit floors 93-99, 92-110 impassible hundreds killed, hundred trapped

jet fuel fireball - shot down one bank of elevators

-exploded onto 22&77th floors, W. St. lobby level,

by level - 4 stories below ground

roof of S. Tower engulfed in thick black smoke - prevailing light winds from NW (burning jet fuel)

primary groups - 103&106 floors, civilians trapped on elevators

deputy fire safety inspector gave announcements to floors with generated computerized alarms

w/in 10 min. - evacuation (one min?) - announcements did not reach all levels

Many called 911

Transfers plagued by delays - some unsucccesful some prematurely disconnected

advice to N. Tower callers above/below impact zone was wait for emergency personnel

-thousands evac. - problems (disabled/poor health) ie 1993 evac.

FDNY - issue instructions to PAPD - evac. South Tower

some staircase doors blocked - by debris - despite - calm/orderly

insufferable heat/smoke/fire - people lept - jumped/fell

Morgan Stanley (20 floors) evaced S. Tower on decision of company sec. off. S. Tower

deputy fire safety director - "building was safe, should remain on or return together offices or floors - consistent with protocol!"

such a scenario =- second tower hit - was beyong their consciousness

group of 20 descending elevators - personally instructed

by security off. to go back upstairs

not part of fire safety stuff

some (by Port authority police desk) were advised to stand by far further

instructions, others were strongly advised to leave

less than a minute before building was struck 9:02, 9:03 - S. Tower

PA system advised civilians, generally, that they could begin an orderly evac. if conditions warranted

no correspondence with pre-written emergency instruction

Brooklyn headquarters Mobilization within 5 sec. of crash

commissioner was depis. & ass., chief of dep., Chief of Operations

5th alarm called - additional engine/ladder companies, two more elite rescue units

Chief of dep. arrival - 9:00

FDNY incident command - West Side Highway

22 of 32 Senior Chiefs arrived pre-10:00

by 9:00 - 235 firefighters

21 engine comps

9 ladder comps

4 elite r.

Hazmat team

2 elite squad comps

support staff

8:53 - 9 Brooklyn units on Brook side of Brook-Battery Tunnel await dispatch

9/11

battalion chief & two ladder & two engine comps arrived N. Tower at 8:52 - encountered badly burned victims

Floor - to ceiling windows in NW corner - W. St. level of lobby blown out

marble tiles dislodged

elevator bunk destroyed

all 99 elevators were out - no assurances sprinklers/standpipes still working

one engine/one ladder climbing stairwell C - 8:57 goal of reaching impact zone - to formulate plan (others were held up)

Tactical 1 - radio channel

Did not know (FDNY) the dire situation (jumping fire)

Div. Chief Lower Manhattan Peter Hayden "strong sense of impending loss...lose firefighters...deep trouble"

-concluded (the chiefs did) - it was rescue and not fire operation

Each floor - approx. acre in size - rough estimates one could deduce incapable of fire rescue

Senior FDNY - might suffer partial collapse, no one anticipated total ambulance paramedics began shaving - rushed to complex NYPD chief - 8:58, mobilization level 22 lt., 100 sgt., 800 officers - prepared evac.

two copters aviation unit NYPD - dispatched two copters a third was responding

bridges/tunnels into Manhattan closed, cleared thoroughfares.

9/11

Port Auth. - On site commanding officer - in concourse

fireball erupted out of elevator shafts, exploded onto the mall concourse, dove for cover

Ground floors and Trans Hudson station evac started

some lacked motor operable radio frequencies (PAPD commands)

9:00 PAPD comm. officer - ordered evac. of all civ's from WTC complex - was not heard by dep. fire safety director S. Tower

in 17 minutes (8:46 - 9:03) - P.A. of New York/Jersey & New York mobilized largest rescue oepration in city's history

>1,000 first responders

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South Tower - hit from South - 77th to 85th Floors

-rescue instantly doubled in magnitude

plane banked as it hit

stairwell A - 91 0- down impassible

78th floor sky lobby - hundreds waiting to evac.

-two small groups of civs descended, others remained to help wounded

81st - plane had sliced - demolitian area - smell of jet fuel

so strong, impossible to breath

switching stairwells

intensifying smoke - caused many to pass out

lower 70s, A & B were normal

>100 people aliv eon 88-89 floors calling 911, advice to stay, although A stairwell may have been passable

West St. Lobby overwhelmed by injured not able to go on - those able exited north or east - through concourse - out of WTC

stream of civilians from stairwell in 20s descending just before collapse

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North Tower

9st - all but one -uninjured - able to descend

64th - recieved contrary advice from FDNY - chosen not to descend - most died in collapse of North Tower

some remained in stairwell C

Second button on repeater system - not pushed - transmission problems

FDNY radios partially worked - firefighters used repeater channel

FDNY - some off-duty (explicitly told not to) but some "rode heavy"

FDNY - company rescued 22nd floor civilians from fireball on North Tower

9:07 - 100 lbs strong (of heavy equiment) protective clthing, self contained breathing apparatus, other equip (hoses for engine companies, heavy tools for ladder comps - began climbing stairwell B North Tower

civs found firefighters presence calming

fatigue set in - separated units

chief in lobby (FDNY) asked to consider rooftop rescue, unable to reach dispatch by radio/phone

(limited high-rise effectiveness of radius and because so many units on tactical were trying to communicate at once)

As units climbed higher ability to communicate became more limited and sporadic - when attempting to reach particular unit - chiefs in lobby heard no response*

9/11

first 15 min. - channel 7 worked well * ladder company transmitted info that impact began at 78 - battallion initially had at disposal - chief directed enging company 40th floor in an attempt to find elevator to reach upper level

Senior chief - lack of units South Tower - initially had an disposal, he directed engine comp. to 40th floor

No FDNY chiefs realized repeater channel was functioning & being used by units in tower

senior chief initially unable to communicate request for more units & chiefs either in N. Tower lobby or outdoor command post

battallion chief - unable to reach S. Tower Command post

FDNY 70th floor numerous injured

78th floor - trapped elevator - found by FDNY - freed

fatalities numerous

ESU - encountered firefighters and administered oxygen to some of exhausted

by 9:50 ESU had reached 31st, by 10:00 - 54th

numerous NYPD offices were stationed throughout the concourse assisting burned injured disoriented civilians directing all civilians to exit by north and east

South Tower collapsed in 10 seconds

all concourse, in the Marriot (first responders and civs) & on neighboring streets

collapsed onto itself creating a massive debris cloud

North Tower

some people remained alive in some locations late in the morning even as high as 92nd & 79th floors.

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Emergency Response at the Pentagon 9:37

no damage 1,000 ft. above ground like NYC

plane crash, fire, partial building collapse

Arlington County Fire Department - served as incident commander

response from Arlington County at U.S. Military's headquarters

Dep. of Justice - fed agency in charge (FBI delegated oper. response)

Boeing 757, westwall, Flight 77 all 64 killed (on plane), 125 people inside - pentagon (70 civs, 55 mil) 106 serious injuries

success - adoption of Incident Command System

(reputation for insuring public safety)

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority,

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Fire Department

Fort Myer Fire Department

Virginia State Police

Virginia State Police

Virginia Dep. of Emergency Mngment,

FBI

FEMA

National Medical Response Team

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms,

Military District of Washington

Partial collapse imminent

no first responder was injured

full evac of command post - word recieved of approaching

hijacked aircraft - easy to secure and contain

cells were little value - radio channels over saturated will likely recur (comm. problems)

9/11

at most 2,152 died who were not 1)fire/ police first responders

sec/safety personnel, volunteer civilians, on two plans

*damage to softward in security command station

prevented lock release order from taking effect

*radio communication that S. Tower collapsed was not conveyed to FDNY chiefs

*9:51 - helicopter pilot cautioned that large pieces of S. Tower appeared to be about to fall and cause danger to those below

NYPD aviation - FDNY hampered by lack of comunication with them

compensation for victims? retaliation

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768 aliens arrested (wartime) as "special interest"

less than a week after Sept. 11 - US PATRIOT ACT began to take shape

"the wall" - for the proposal (between intelligence communities & law enforcement communities) to break this wall down every concievable action, within limits of constitution - to identify potential terrorists - deter add. attacks

war council convened

V.P. Cheney

Sec. of State Powell

Sec. of Def. Rumsfeld

Gen. Hugh Shelton

Vice Chairman of Joint Chiefs (later chairman) Gen. Myers

DCI Tenet

Att. General Ashcroft

FBI Dir. Robert Mueller

NSA Condoleeza Rice

Chief of Staff Card

often joined Stephen Hadley, Joshua Bolten - deputies

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Defeated Jihadists

Pahlavi gov't - Iran - 1979

Saudi Arabia - line of succession - king's eldest son - Primogenitive (not used by S.A.)

instead, decided by fitness to rule

King Fahd - current king Prince Abdullah - heir apparent

he has option - power to appoint/remove his heir apparent

5,000 princes

Abdullah - liberal, democratic reform, national dialogue (incl. Shiites) -

Nayef int. minister - Wahhabi, tawhid - monotheism, ulema support

Fallujah Brigade spurred by war in Iraq - perhaps new directing energies to house of Saud - beheaded Paul Johnson

Arab first older generation - Muslim first - younger generation

Egypt

Hoshi Mubarak - current president.

son - Gamal Abdel Nasser

increasing Islamic mindset

Gamal - head of Policy committee

Muhammad Rashid, unilever, leads cabinet - young cabinet

Mahmoud Mohieden

ministry of investment

paved way for Islamists in Egyptian politics

al-Jazeera

al-Arabiya

Hellfire missile A.Q. Khans - nuclear technology

winning "Battle of Ideas"

Operation Enduring Freedom Op. Iraqi Freedom

Notes * I can win that battle (battle of ideas)

Iran

deemed counter to revolutionary Islamic standards, legislative power is constrained by conferring blocking rights to clerical elit

fragmentation

stagnate or advance

pro-American population, anti-American sentiment in gov't

45 percent population estimate - even military intervention

at once Islamic and Republican

Pakistan

political instability - on the precipice

Dec. 2003 Musharraf assassination attempt - double suicide bombing narrowly missed

"military - mullah alliance"

army untainted

puppet gov't installed by Moscow into Kabul - Mohammed Najibullah

madrassas grown - 10,000 in Pakistan, consequent to public school system (collapse mid-1980s)

recruitment base

tribal chieftans - deployed of gov't soldiers - hiding al qaeda put in crossfire?

Iraq

counterproductive assaults on no-go zones

al Iraqiya

84% recieved al Iraqiya w/o difficulty

ports - 90% of everything in/out of county

2% containers inspected

3 times the customs inspection man power that currently

exists nation wide (270,000 man - hrs. per day)

ISPS International Ship and Port Facility - Security Code - new age of maritime security - on ramps/off ramps abide by sec. measures of International Maritime org.

CSI places customs and Border Protection (CBP) checked before shipping to O.J.

Automated Targeting System *ATS

Customs declaration form

VACIS - cuts down inspection man hrs.

customs trade - partnership against terrorism *CTPAT coop. w/ (CPB))

Radio Frequency Identification tags, recieve/send transmissions

through "choke points"

"green zone" - assurances U.S. authorities - preferential treatment - if - ship targeted for inspection - thereby minimizing delays for that shipper.

Perfect Soldier - nepotism - Biography

Return with speed (Theridamus) - time passeth swiftly away

Nycetes - "our life is frail - and we may die to-day"

Tamburlaine - "iron" nickname

Mohammad Atta - joined research project in Aleppo

mud-brick house, Tamerlaine sacked - city in 14th century

French Islamists - Algerian

Tunisians - Italy

Spain, like Germany, cadre of Syrians, but overwhelmingly Moroccans

Netherlands/Belgium - Algerians/Moroccans

London - Gulf Arab/Egyptian expatriates

taught classes with Ramzi Omar - Yemeni, claimed asylum in Germany stayed at Belfas apt.

Germany - 100,000 seeking asylum a year

Yemen - Queen of Sheba

Noah - southern coast - said to have built his arc at a harbor

Proxy! war - b/t U.S. Russia in Yemen

Hadramat - mudbrick skyscrapers

Ramzi Omar - first name "Shahid, meant martyr"

job to job, no more than a week

Ziad Jarrah - Beirut Univ. of Greifswald

University of Applied Sciences - in Hamburg

radical Islam, Aysel, partier until Al-Jihad-magazine, inward, handsome

Marwan al-Shehhi

native of UAE, born, Germany prospective Marine engineering student

radiated sense of calm

rotund

scholarship to Germany after UAE Army out of h.s.

Amir - Ramzi - 2 hajjs in 18 months

London based Qutada

Uday al-Taiy - Saddam's son - INA Iraqi News Agency

Shehhi - religiously trained father

cold presence in host family.

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Omar/Shehhi - gone for long stretches *from Hamburg 1998

local acolyte when group got back from Aghanistan

moved from Wilhelmsburg to Marienstrasse 54 - dar al Ansar, "House of the Followers"

Amir - political, anti-Semite minded

Omar - religious minded

Jarrah - occasional member of Amir-Omar

Yemenis - Jarrah - believed Yemenis, original followers of Mohammed

Amir - no doctorate ambitions in U.S. - Malaysia instead

Malaysia?

Pakistani designated six fundamentalist religious parties

(political parties) to recieve money

$1 billion a year by mid-1980s

at Azzam's call - many joined Afghans in holy war

Khalif - an-Caliphate Gulbaddin Hekmatiyar

Islamabuli, Khalid-Sadat's assassin

Shawqi al-Islambuli - his brother

Adeni anti-communist insurgents recruited by bin Laden at behest of Saudi intelligence sponsors of Tariq al-Fahli; last sultan of Aden (militant-Islamist) PDRY struggle

$90 million - Medina mosque - contract went to his father

training camps ISI installations

bin Laden - battle of Jalalabad - proved corageous

resourceful leader

also held in Jaji against DRA force supported by Soviet firepower

hus memento from Shaban - Kalashnikov rifle captured from dead Russian

(fought in attack on Soviet0-DRA dispositions in Shaban in Pakti Province w/ mix of mujahideen Arabs and Afghans (w/bin Laden) in command position penetrated the enemy's dispositions

vicious hand-t0-hand fighting erupted, mujahideen - heavy losses before withdrawal

fearless, oblivious to danger, front line, moving ahead of everyone else

Benazir Bhutto - Prime minister of Pakistan in 1989 - believed destiny lay in strategic alliances with Syria, Iran, PRC & N. Korea

Bhutto's Islamabad - reexamined Pakistan's involvement in Afghanistan

Islamabad - committed to furthering Islamism in heart of Asia

ISI's partnership - sisterly Islamic terrorist movements throughout world - conversion of Pakistani policy

Sayyaf - Long, Long beard (Islamic Union Party)

shifted support (Islamabad) to active support for militant Islamism

Afghan ressistance so decimated by decade of fighting Soviets - opened road for Taliban "mujahideen force" to mount offensive in Jalalabad against DRA-Soviet fortified defenses - Osama bin Laden participated - witnessed needless slaughter of dedicated mujahideen - no longer viable fighters

-returned to Pashawar - relayed anger/sense of betrayal to Azzam - renewed fighting "jihad spirit"

(hints of U.S. conspiracy implemented through Pakistanis because of Pakistani involvement - Islamabad knew the risk - that frontal assault and result in massive carnage

Nov. 24, 1989 - Azzam and sons assassinated - outside Lion of the Night Mosque, Arbat Rd., Peshawar

Camps of Afghan resistance in Pakistan - became center of radical Islamic terrorism (majority - Sunni Islamists)

REVIVAL OF TRADITIONALISM

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - got "sheikh" from work as imam of Pakistani mosque in Fahaheel neighborhood along coast road - Budu camp

father died before KSM's h.s. graduation, KSM excellent in science - sent to U.S. to complete his doctorate

Kuwaiti, introduced himself as Pakistani at Chowan College; he was Baluchi-Baluchistan

****1/2 of 15 MILLLION UNACCOUNTED FOR AFGHANIS through mountain passes to Pakistan-border was never much more than a line on maps

KSM's brother Zahed ran Lajnat al Dawa al Islamia (LDI) Peshawar

LDI thought to be legit - ran 200 bed hospital and another in Afghanistan

funded / staffed 22 Islamic centers

KSM joined in and Abed - secondary school teacher/Islamic scholar

Abed - Sayyaf newspaper, Khalid - engineering teacher warlord's university worked closely with Azzam

bin Laden - openly in Hayatab part of Peshawar(1986-1989)

Bhutto - supported Jalalabad offensive - went along with anything the ISI proposed - wanted to show she was macho

after Soviet withdrawal - wanted psychological victory Abed Sheikh Mohammed - casualty - Jalalabad

Hekmatyar vs. Massoud - INTERNECINE

Azzam- 89 - ties to vin Laden equating Soviet & Americans

Gulf War 91 as infidels

The Chemist - Abdul Basit, nephew KSM - met Abdurajak Janjalani - Abu Sayyaf leader (Phillipines) a kidnap & ransom

KSM - Balkans briefly, afterward Doha, Qatar - sponsorship from ruling family of Qatar - schemes started

*Basit - contact w/Abdul Hakim Murad (flight school) - told him he was picking targets, he was phoned back w/ Murad's response - WTC

Flight 434 - Phillipines to Tokyo (Haruki Ikegami) - only through great skill did pilot keep plane from careening into ocean

Ramzi Yousef - uncle was KSM, Pakistani by birth, Palestinian by choice

Basit took a plane to U.S - J.F.K. with Ahmad Mohammed

Ajaj - took taxi to Brooklyn, explosives expert

dreamed of device with initial explosion releasing cyanide cloud into WTC ventilation system

32,000 matchbooks with Yousef's photo on them and air-dropped them into country

Yousef & Murad (Abdel Murad) friend from Fahabeel, considered potential targets - Benazir Bhutto, then candidate for p.m.

Murad - small airplane of explosives dive bombing into Pentagon

Later that year, after Murad had moved into Karachi apt., Yousef came to stay - had a plan to assasinate Bhutto w/ a remote control bomb

KSM obtained funding and necessary equip from Sayyaf's camp outside Peshawar, delivered to Murad's apt. where Yousef began to build the bomb

azide-volatile (detonator) substance, exploded in his face - were able to save partial sight in his uninjured eye, as Yousef recuperated, KSM showed up to pay medical bills

open-air warehouse in Lahore - Yousef on return trip from Bangkok, Thailand, met up with Murad

Yousef taught Murad bomb-making

**When Murad and Yousef were arrested, KSM gave an account of the police taking him away kicking and screaming (see photocopy) - KSM gave an eyewitness account in disguise!!!!!

In Sudan - around Kharthoum, bin Laden controlled gum, corn, sunflower, & sesame trade, invested $50 million in a bank

construction company, built roads, airports, harbors, farms, bought orchards, land

Riyadh - beheading of bomb perpetrators - National Guard office (5 Americans, 2 Indians)

Qatar - source of al-Jazeera television origin

Doha - evidence of Abed (SM)'s martyrdom

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from Perfect Soldiers:

Marwan al Shehhi left first

KSM - worked on "ubiquitous global terror network"

*Map of Africa hung as advertisement, during fatwah

Feb. 98 - for what was to come

grandoise plan of KSM - pilot one of 10 aircraft - slaughter of all men aboard, plane, contact media in the air, land in U.S. make speech denouncing U.S. policiies in MidEast, then release women and children passengers

-action in 99 - four men - Khalid al-Mihdar, Nawat al Hazmi (Saudis) Aftash - senior al qaeda - lost leg in battle

(early versions of plan did not involve piloting)

notes - hrs. spent over? martyrdom vs. suicide

Jarrah - w/ photocopied page of Qur'an attached to passport - stopped for questioning in Dubai - UAE official called Americans - told them to let him go - they'd track him

via Dubai - Hamburg (Aysel), Florida Flight Schoool

Hazmi - inline chat rooms - SDSU

known Mihdar since childhood in Mecca, Saudi Arabia

easygoing, lighthearted

Amir - emailed 31 flight schools

Atta & Shehhi - first weeks in New York, then Fl.

Jarrah - own apartment in West Florida

70,000 wired to group from Ali Abdul Aziz Ali - KSM nephew

compensation for 9/11 mission, from UAE

Hani Hanjour - already licensed pilt in U.S.

studied English in Tuscon, AZ where older brother lived

prosperous merchants (family) from Taif - southeast of Mecca

unable to find work as pilot - instead went to al qaeda training camps (saudi citizenship)

terrible pilot

bin Laden trusted Yemenis implicitly - Omar to network the pilot candidates

Notes * trust stemming from historical significance - Prophet's followers?

Khallad directed Cole attack, Mindhar involved

****little overlapping with al qaeda & Islamic fundamentalists - independent, local ops

Bin Laden's Hadrami - family from centr. Yemen

Tamiyyah - BKU Bundeskriminalamt

Haznawi - Hajdik Kidjra - memorized Qur'an -

Wail - al - Shehri - depressed - Qur'an verses suggested

*Transformed into a human bomb

13 men - brigades of belief - brigadeers

Notes - why, if Moussaoui could so easily be apprehended by FBI - Pan Am Intern. Flight Academy - suburban Minneapolis - informed them, why was not a red flg made for others?

ZERO HOUR - Sept. 11

-many Islamic extremists gripped a Yemeni dagger during prayer