The more I read, the more I feel that it’s a big mistake to skirt 9-11 research on the grounds that its a whole area to itself and distracts from ongoing issues (Madoff, the bail-out, etc).

Of course, I’ve never bought the notion of some people on the left that talking “conspiracy” discredits or calls into question a journalist. On the contrary.

First, to accept the evidence of conspiratorial politics is not to become a full-fledged “conspiracist.”  It isn’t a step from 9-11 theory-making into believing in shape-shifting lizards.

(Although that’s what clever media manipulators would have you believe…and it’s what masses of readers are brainwashed into believing).

Second, anyone who fails to see that there’s rather clear evidence of the work of conspiratorial groups (what was Madoff’s scheme except a conspiracy?) is either brainwashed or part of government propaganda.

Today, reading and rereading the material surrounding 9-11, US drug trafficking, BCCI, money-laundering and the Nasdaq,  I’m more than ever sure that it’s a mistake to skirt 9-11, as I’ve been doing so far.

Here’s what Peter Dale Scott, a leading researcher on things related, has to say:

“My personal suggestion to 9/11 researchers is that they focus on the connections of the meta-group’s firm Far West, Ltd. – in particular those which lead to Khashoggi, Berezovskii, Halliburton and Dick Cheney, and Diligence, Joe Allbaugh, and Neil Bush….”

And:

“Once the local power of drug armies was enough in itself to neutralize the imposition of state authority. But today there are increasing signs that those at the highest level of the drug traffic will plot with the leaders of major states to ensure, or even to stage, violence that serves the power of the state and the industry alike.

Thanks to extensive research in Russia, we now have initial evidence of a second and even more significant proposition: There exists on the global level a drug meta-group, able to manipulate the resources of the drug traffic for its own political and business ends, without being at risk for actual trafficking. These ends include the creation of designed violence to serve the purposes of cabals in political power – most conspicuously in the case of the Yeltsin “family” in the Kremlin, but allegedly, according to Russian sources, also for those currently in power in the United States.

One piece of evidence for this consists in a meeting which took place in July 1999 in southern France near Nice, at the villa in Beaulieu of Adnan Khashoggi, once called “the richest man in the world.” Those at the meeting included a member of the Yeltsin cabal in the Kremlin and four representatives from the meta-group, with passports from Venezuela, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Germany. Between them they allegedly enjoyed excellent relations with:

1) Ayman al-Zawahiri, the acknowledged mastermind of 9/11 and senior mentor to Osama bin Laden.

2) Soviet military intelligence.

3) the FARC, the Colombian revolutionary group that has become increasingly involved in the drug traffic.

4) the Kosovo Liberation Army, a similarly involved group.

5) (according to a well-informed Russian source) the CIA.

The third important proposition is that a meta-group of this scale does not just help government agencies make history. I hope to show that it, and its predecessors, are powerful enough to help make history themselves. However they do not do so overtly, but as a hidden Force X whose presence is not normally acknowledged in the polite discourse of academic political scientists. On the contrary, as we shall see, references to it are usually suppressed….”

More here in “The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9-11,” Lobster Magazine. 10/29/05