Descending Into Darkness

367 Pages·2005·2.08 MB·German

Descending Into Darkness:
The Making of a ‘Wartime President’

The Harring Report

Brian Harring
TBR News

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“THE HARRING REPORT IS ANOTHER ‘DEEP THROAT’”

Published for the first time ever, Descending Into Darkness includes the
complete (at the time this book went to press) DoD official list of U.S. Military
casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Also in Prelude to Disaster:
• Events leading up to Operation Iraqi Freedom
• War in Iraq - Russian Military Intelligence Reports & Assessment [March 17-April 8,
2003]
• The “Nazi” Neocons – Who are they?
• The Secret Downing Street Memo – Setting the Stage for WMD
• Israeli Espionage Against the United States

Week of February 18, 2003 - Millions of people around the world demonstrated against George
W. Bush's coming war on Iraq. More than a million people rallied in London, and 500,000
gathered at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. There were protests in Amsterdam, Brussels,
Barcelona, Melbourne, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Tokyo, and at least 600 other cities.
http://www.harpers.org/WeeklyReview2003-02-18.html - 20030930010642-8182728640

The U.S. military admitted it had spammed thousands of Iraqis with email messages urging them
to defy Saddam Hussein. http://www.harpers.org/WeeklyReview2003-01-14.html -
20030930010256-1411612284

Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman, said “slowly but surely the hearts and minds of the
Iraqi people are being won over as they see security increase in their areas, as humanitarian
deliveries are stepped up.” American officers said they had been studying the Israeli occupation
of Palestine for pointers.

Russian Intelligence Report: “The sand is literally ‘eating up’ the equipment. Sand has a
particularly serious effect on electronics and transmissions of combat vehicles. Already more
than 40 tanks and up to 69 armored personnel carriers have been disabled due to damaged
engines; more than 150 armored vehicles have lost the use of their heat-seeking targeting sights
and night vision equipment. Fine dust gets into all openings and clogs up all moving parts.”

President Bush, aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, May 1, 2003: “Major combat operations in Iraq
have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. (Applause) And
now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country. In this battle, we have
fought for the cause of liberty, and for the peace of the world. Our nation and our coalition are
proud of this accomplishment . . . the tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free. (Applause)

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“On principle, we don't want the United Nations running around Iraq.” Hans Blix, the UN
weapons inspector, pointed out that “we found as little, but with less cost.” Military officials
admitted that they were holding children in the high-security prison for terrorists at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba, even though they had not been accused of any offense, and said they would be
detained “until we ensure that they're no longer a threat to the United States.”
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President Bush, aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, May 1, 2003: The transition from dictatorship to
democracy will take time, but it is worth every effort. Our coalition will stay until our work is
done. Then we will leave, and we will leave behind a free Iraq. (Applause)

Russian Intelligence Report – “Today we can see that the U.S. advance is characterized by
disorganized and ‘impulsive’ actions . . . Not a single goal set before the coalition forces was met
on time . . . The U.S. underestimated the enemy . . . Despite unique ability to conduct
reconnaissance against the Iraqi military infrastructure through a wide network of agents
implanted with international teams of weapons inspectors, despite unlimited air dominance, U.S.
military command failed to adequately evaluate combat readiness of the Iraqi army and its
technical capabilities.”

“The U.S. failed to correctly assess the social and political situation in Iraq and in the world in
general. These failures led to entirely inadequate military and political decisions . . . Buildup and
distribution of the coalition forces have been conducted with gross neglect of all basic rules of
combat . . . Limited decision-making time and the ability to detect and engage an enemy at a
great distance make ‘friendly fire’ one of the most serious problems of modern warfare. For now
the coalition has no adequate solution to this problem. Every day at one location or another,
coalition troops have been attacking friendly forces . . . The second problem of the coalition is its
inability to hold on to the captured territory . . .”

President Bush, recalling 9/11: “I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an
airplane hit the tower . . . the TV was obviously on. And I used to fly myself, and I said, ‘Well,
there’s one terrible pilot.’ I said, ‘it must have been a horrible accident.’ But I was whisked off
there. I didn’t have much time to think about it.”

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Acknowledgments

The author of this book would like to note a special thanks to Lt. Col. Roger Helbig, USAF (ret.)
whose splendid career and outstanding character have been a beacon to many others.
The Author

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Foreword

Prelude to Disaster

Out of all the conspiracy theories arising out of the 9/11 attacks, there is one that stands
out very clearly. Given the significant number of proven warnings passed to the American
government, at the highest levels, prior to the attack, the curious lack of official concern stands
out significantly. Although none of the critics of the Bush Administration have dared to say so in
public, it does not seem unrealistic to say that in all probability, George Bush and a number of his
top officials, were fully aware that a attack by Arabs against specific American targets was not
only highly probable but fully, and specifically expected. No official warnings were issued
precisely because such an attack, if actually executed, would prove to be of great value to the
Administration in allowing it to implement certain internal control projects that could never be
even contemplated without the impetus of a severe national tragedy.
A White House that would deliberately, and feloniously, release information about an
undercover CIA agent would certainly be possessed of a mind-set that would eagerly await an
incident that could only increase its power. That many thousands would die and the nation
would be plunged into turmoil and apprehension for years afterwards would clearly be of no
pressing concern to them.
What would be of pressing concern to them would be the loss of a power, which
permitted them to indulge in their imperial fantasies unimpeded.
Fortunately for the rest of the world, they have been so arrogant and so inept that one
exposure has followed upon another to the point that, though they maintain official power, they
are growing more and more powerless to exercise it.
A President who stated in public on a number of occasions that God Almighty had
personally placed him in the White House would dismiss any collateral damage from his dreams
of a religious empire as a matter that was entirely out of his hands.
In this study, great use has been made of classified intelligence documents, a number of
which are reproduced in facsimile, and casualty records of the Defense Department that show,
beyond any doubt, that the number of dead military personnel in both Iraq and Afghanistan are
far in excess of the press releases supplied to the public by the same agency.
The first of these documents is a copy of a classified German intelligence document
prepared in April of 2002 that gives hitherto unknown information on German intelligence
warnings about a pending attack only a month before they happened.
The second document is the so-called “Downing Street Memo.”
These show with great clarity the real intentions of the Bush administration, obviously
determined to use every excuse they could to launch a war for the enhancement of the
President’s reputation, a guarantee of Republican control of Congress and an blind, on-going
support of the policies of the state of Israel in the Middle East.

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Translation of Secret BND Report of September 11, 2001

T O P S E C R E T

B a c k g r o u n d R e p o r t
o n 9 / 1 1 / 2 0 0 1

– DO NOT RUBBERSTAMP –
– DO NOT SIGN –
– DO NOT WRITE ON –
– DO NOT MARK –
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On Monday August 6, 2001, at 17:50, [German] Ambassador Ischinger personally notified the
President of the United States that information developed by the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz
[German domestic secret service] as well as the BND [Bundesnachrichtendienst, German foreign
secret service] indicated clearly that an attack by a radical Arab group partially based in Germany
was to occur on September 10-11, 2001. The President was at that time in residence at his farm in
Texas. Our [German] Ambassador was acting in direct response to instructions from Foreign
Minister Fischer.

This information was developed from official surveillance of Arab extremist groups operating in
the Federal Republic as well as from intercepted communications between the Embassy of Israel
and the Israeli Foreign Ministry in Tel Aviv concerning this matter.

The information was “gratefully received” by the U.S. President who stated at the time that he
was also aware of the same pending assaults.

Subsequent to these attacks, the office of the U.S. President, through the U.S. Department of State,
made an urgent request to the Federal Government [of Germany] that no reference whatsoever
should be made to the official warnings given by Ambassador Ischinger.

In order to clarify the background of this matter, this Gesamtübersicht [overall survey] of the
events leading to the assault was prepared, basing on extracts of reports from our [BND’s]
stations abroad.

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Overall, it is evident that the American authorities were aware of the pending attacks. Why they
did nothing, is explained in the following.

Background: General Overview

Because of the Bush family’s involvement in oil (Zapata Oil Company), many important and
wealthy individuals and corporations with oil interests financially supported the Bush political
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career. Today, the Bush administration is therefore strongly influenced by major American
business groups.

The candidate for American Vice President, Richard “Dick” Cheney, had been the Chief Director
of the Halliburton Company. This company, based in Dallas, Texas, where Bush was Governor, is
the largest oil service company in the world.

Between 1991 through 1997, such important American oil companies as Texaco, Unocal, Shell, BP
Amoco, Chevron and Exxon-Mobil became involved with the former Soviet state of Kazakhstan
who holds enormous oil reserves. The government of Kazakhstan was eventually paid over $3
billions of corporate money to allow these companies to secure oil rights. At the same time, these
companies agreed further to give the sums of 35 billion U.S. Dollar in investments in plant and
equipment to the Kazakhstan projects. A confidential project report of said U.S. firms announced
that the gas and oil reserves in Kazakhstan would amount to 4 trillion U.S. Dollar.

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The United States is not self-sufficient in oil and 50% of their supply is imported from various
foreign sources. Some 80% of oil imported to the U.S. comes from OPEC-countries, the Arabian
oil cartel. Because of the unconditional support by American political leaders of the state of Israel,
these Arab governments have a very strained relationship with the U.S.A.

A further smaller percentage of oil imported to the U.S. comes from Venezuela. Just recently, the
U.S. government has been attempting to overthrow the government of Chavez with the help of
the CIA and replace it with a government “more sympathetic to American oil needs.”

A position paper prepared by the office of the later-Vice President Cheney states that the
Kazakhstan oil reserves would be “more than sufficient to supply U.S. needs for at least a
decade” and would further “reduce American dependence on OPEC.”

Unocal Oil Company signed an agreement with the reigning Taliban forces as well as their
opponents, the Northern Alliance, in order to permit an oil pipeline to be built through
Afghanistan direct through Pakistan to the Indian Ocean. By this, the exorbitant rates charged by
the Russians to use their pipelines would be avoided. Unocal then opened official offices in
Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan to facilitate the construction of this oil
pipeline.

In December of 1997, official Taliban representatives were in the United States to attend a
conference at Unocal headquarters in Texas to discuss the

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Afghanistan pipeline. These talks failed because the Taliban made what Unocal felt were
excessive financial demands.

In 1998, internal strife in Afghanistan and inherent instability in Pakistan reached such levels as
to render the pipeline project impossible to execute. In the same year, the Houston, Texas based
firm of Enron suggested instead to build a $3 billion oil pipeline parallel to the Russian pipelines,
running westwards rather than taking the shorter but more problematic route south.

In a secret memorandum by Cheney, it is stated that the Unocal Company was prepared to
finance the southern route. According to this, this project would take five years to complete and
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its annual revenues from the successful completion of this pipeline would approximate $2
billions. However, and this has been the subject of a number of secret American reports, the only
thing standing in the way of the construction of this pipeline was the basic opposition of the
Afghanistan government and its political supporters.

On May 8, 2001, the U.S. Department of State, in the name of the Secretary of State Powell, gave
43 million U.S. Dollars to the Taliban in order to facilitate their cooperation in the pipeline
project.

On June 10, 2001, the BND warned the CIA office in the U.S. Embassy to the Federal Republic [of
Germany] that certain Arab terrorists were planning to seize American commercial aircraft for
use as weapons of destruction against

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significant American symbols. This was considered a general warning only. The Federal
Republic’s warning of August 6, however, was specific as to date, time and places of the attacks.

On July 11, 2001, in Berlin, U.S. officials: Thomas Simmons, a former American Ambassador to
Pakistan, Lee Coldren, State Department expert on Asian matters and Karl Inderfurth, Assistant
Secretary of State for Asian matters met with Russian and Pakistani intelligence officers. At this
meeting, which was under surveillance, it was stated by the Americans that the United States
planned to launch military strikes against Afghanistan in October of that year. The purpose of
these strikes was to topple the Afghanistan government and the Taliban in order to replace it
with a government “more sensitive to the needs of American oil interests.”

In mid-August, 2001, President of the Russian Federation Putin ordered that the American
authorities be warned of pending attacks on government buildings inside the United States. This
warning was conveyed to the U.S. Ambassador in Moscow and via the Russian Ambassador’s
office directly to the U.S. President.

On August 20, the Government of France, through the American Embassy in Paris and their
Embassy in Washington, issued a more specific warning. This warning specified the exact date,
time and places of the attacks.

On September 11, President Bush and top aides flew to the state of Florida so that the President
could speak with children in

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a kindergarten. Also at that time, Vice President Cheney absented himself from Washington and
went to the safety of the Presidential compound in the mountains of Maryland.

It was noted in Washington that Cheney remained sequestered in Maryland for some time and
only appeared in public surrounded by heavy security.

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The Role of the Israeli Mossad in the Terrorist Attacks

Note: The following two sections are considered to be extremely sensitive due to the special
relationship between the Federal Republic [of Germany] and its Jewish citizens as well as the
State of Israel. This material is compiled from German and American sources.

During the term of President George H.W. Bush, the government of Israel made an official, but
very secret, request of the American President. This request was to permit agents of the Mossad,
Israeli Foreign Intelligence, to enter the United States and conduct surveillance operations against
various Arab groups residing in that country.

The stated purpose of this surveillance was to permit Israeli early warning of terrorist plots
against their country. Permission for this surveillance was granted with the caveat that the
Mossad would have a liaison with the FBI and report any and all findings to that agency.

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However, these conditions were not observed. The Mossad not only did not inform the FBI of
any of its findings, it is known to have engaged in commerce with several groups of Israeli
criminals of Russian backgrounds. These groups were engaged in extensive criminal activities
inside the United States, to include the smuggling of the Ecstasy drug. Mossad agents were able
to subvert American criminal investigations through their knowledge of American telephone
surveillance of such groups.

It is very evident from surveillance conducted against Mossad agents in the Federal Republic as
well as interceptions of Israeli diplomatic communication from the Federal Republic to Tel Aviv,
that the Mossad had successfully penetrated various extremist Arab groups in both the Federal
Republic and the United States.

These investigations disclosed in late May of 2001 that an attack was to be made against certain
specified targets in the American cities of Washington and New York. But it was apparent that
the Mossad was not only fully aware of these attacks well in advance but actually, through their
own agents inside the Arab groups, assisted in the planning and the eventual execution of the
attacks.

That the Israeli government was fully aware of these attacks is absolutely certain and proven.
Diplomatic traffic between the Israeli Embassy in the Federal Republic and the Israeli Foreign
Office made it very clear that Minister President Sharon was fully aware

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of this pending attack and urgently wished that no attempt was made to prevent the attacks.

Although the Israeli officials were instructed to warn the American intelligence community that
some kind of an attack might be possible, at no time were the specific dates and targets (known at
that time to Israeli officials) to be given to the Americans.

The rationale for this attitude was expressed in a conversation on August 1, 2001, between the
Israeli Military Attaché in the Federal Republic to a member of the Israeli General Staff. There it
was stated that Israel believed an attack on the continental United States would so inflame
American public opinion that they would permit Israel to “cleanse” their state of “Arab terrorists
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