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A WINDOW INTO THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE UNITED STATES SUSAN LINDAUER AND THE SECRET GOVERNMENT Come Carpentier de Gourdon The “mysteries” surrounding the September 11th, 2001 attacks and many other momentous events in modern American history seem to be bottomless. After so many layers have been peeled, one sees that so many more remain. Many insufficiently informed people think that those who believe in “conspiracy theories” fail to explain why no insider from the US supposedly democratic government has come out to expose the lies propagated by the successive administrations. Skeptics also wonder why the surviving victims of the 911 attacks and their families seem to meekly accept the official version instead of challenging it, on the basis of the obvious inconsistencies and impossibilities that detractors have pointed out almost since that tragic day. Let us clarify that both those objections are invalid because they are wrong. Several people working inside the US Government at various levels –including, exceptionally military officers - have spoken out against their superiors on the truth behind those terrible events, at great personal cost and risk and numerous relatives of 911 victims have joined legal and public awareness campaigns to expose the truth. Others however accepted substantial financial rewards as a price for their silence and a few have died in suspicious circumstances after being too outspoken and affirmative in their conviction that the WTC had been destroyed by controlled demolition. No single source of information on the conspiracy of 911 seems to possess all the facts, as can be logically expected in view of the systematic compartmentalization of information on the “Need to Know” basis practiced by the government, all the more so in its clandestine agencies. We are hence forced to build a puzzle with many separate pieces and some of the most valuable and impressive ones are provided by Susan Lindauer, daughter of a Republican candidate for the Governorship of her native Alaska, a cousin of President G W Bush’s Chief of Staff, Andy Card, who was employed as an asset by both the CIA and the DIA (Defence Intelligence Agency) for nine years, up to September 2011 and as a backchannel to Iraq and Libya following the first Gulf War. Her account, which she had to wait ten years to publish in her book “Extreme Prejudice – The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 911 and Iraq” (2010), reads in part like a detective thriller and it also plants one more nail, after so many, into the coffin of so-called “American democracy”. Susan Lindauer, a former Reporter and Press Secretary and Speech writer to Senator Moseley Braun of Illinois with an MS from the London School of Economics, reported to her CIA “handler”, a rather well known figure in the shadowy area where business and espionage overlap. Richard Fuisz, MD, a millionaire of Slovenian-American origin holds the rank of Lt-Commander in the US Navy and is known to be a CIA agent. He is also rumoured to work for the Mossad as a Sayan (plant and informant) like many other high- ranking members of the American Intelligence community and is an inventor holding some 200 patents. Among the companies he founded is Fuizs Tobacco, Fuisz Technology, Medcom, Kosmos Pharma and a Russian modeling agency (in partnership with subsequently jailed Israeli-Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, of Yukos fame). That agency, which he later sold to a larger one, specialized in bringing Russian models to America. Fuisz was also an active monitor of US companies on behalf of the Israeli government, tracking down those that in any way violated the stringent US laws against boycott of Israeli goods. When he sold Medcom to Baxter Pharmaceutical in 1981, he became the head of the company’s operations in Syria and at the same time reportedly the top US CIA agent in Damascus. After being recalled and “fired” by Baxter in 1985 he reported the company for violating the stringent US legislation against companies boycotting Israel. His testimony led to Baxter being fined 6,5 millions in 1993 for collaborating with Syria. Later he also accused Terex, another US firm of selling components for Scud missiles to Iraq, a charge which could not be proven at the time. Fuisz was allegedly put in charge of the back channel that the Clinton Administration had opened with Saddam Hussain’s government in 1997 when the US sanctions regime, which had already brought about the deaths of over one million Iraqis, half of them children, was generating a growing backlash around the world. By then Baghdad had already destroyed all its “weapons of mass destruction” but Washington was unwilling to lift the sanctions for reasons that will be made clearer in the course of this article, and the CIA was working behind the scene to leverage the US stranglehold over Iraq into highly lucrative benefits for the American economy. Susan Lindauer, as a NOC (Non Official Cover agent) was Fuisz’s envoy and spokesperson at the Iraqi and Libyan diplomatic missions to the UN in New York and over the years she developed a good personal rapport with her contacts. On behalf of the CIA she was able to secure a smorgasbord of appealing concessions from Baghdad for the US corporate sector. According to her testimony for which there are numerous corroborations, by December 2000, Saddam Hussain’s government had agreed to give American companies an almost unlimited access to the Iraqi market, especially in the priority areas of oil and gas exploration and development, telecommunications, air and road infrastructure and transportation, heavy industry, healthcare and pharmaceuticals. Iraq was willing to commit to buy one million American cars a year for ten years and also provide full access to the FBI on its soil so as to enable the USA to carry out the anti- terrorist struggle with its cooperation. The initial sign of Baghdad’s commitment was to invite in the UN weapons inspectors so that they might complete their report and confirm that there were no more WMD stocks in the country. In a sentence, Saddam Hussain was apparently willing to become a new Saudi Arabia, a client state of Uncle Sam in the Middle East. As one who went to Iraq several times in the mid-nineties for work-related reasons, I can confirm that Saddam’s government desperately wanted to make peace with the USA in order to have the punishing sanctions lifted, realising that Washington DC alone had the power to remove them, since other western countries were behaving as American satellites devoid of any real autonomy in the matter. By February 2001, always monitored by Fuizs, Lindauer had a confirmation that Baghdad was ready to invite the FBI on its soil to start formal cooperation in the anti- terrorist struggle but by then the new Republican administration of George W Bush was in place and, contrary to Clinton, who had resisted, if mainly through inertia, the pressing calls of the Neo-Conservative Faction, led by Norman Podhoretz, Elliot Abrams, Paul Wolfovitz, Bill Kristol and Richard Perle to attack Iraq, the new tenant of the White House had a personal grudge against Saddam Hussain, accused of having tried to kill his father and he also wanted to increase his stature by becoming a victorious war president. He was hence ready to listen to the “Vulcans” in his Party who were baying for blood. Richard Fuisz also appeared to Lindauer increasingly ill disposed towards Iraq, whereas he was on the contrary seemingly favourable to Qaddafi’s Libya as he claimed to have proof of Libya’s innocence in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing plot and even had offered some years earlier to testify in favour of the two Libyan agents Fhima and Megrahi accused of planting the bomb on Pan Am Flight 103. For that reason, Fuisz had been placed under a permanent gag order by a US Court in 1994 with a ten year prison sentence if he broke it. The government’s concern is that he would “reveal information damaging to the national security and military interests of the United States”. Fuisz told Lindauer that he could “confirm absolutely that no Libyan national was involved in planning or executing the bombing of PanAm 103” and further that “could identify who orchestrated and executed the bombing”. Although this is another story, Fuisz’s allegation corroborates the circumstantial evidence pointing to a shadowy Palestinian terrorist cell located in Syria as probable executor of the PanAm bombing on behalf of Iran which was seeking revenge for the destruction of its own airliner by an American missile in the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq war some years earlier. In the early nineties however the Americans needed the cooperation of Syria and Iran for success in their first war against Iraq and their Intelligence community accordingly decided to shift the blame for the bombing to Libya which had taken Saddam’s side. Another reason for the obvious US cover up is that the perpetrator was known to be a Palestinian “rogue” unit thoroughly infiltrated and controlled by the CIA and the Mossad. There are thus reasons to believe that the US might have tacitly agreed to let the terrorists have their way with Flight 103 in exchange for an agreement that this would be the last retaliation for America’s own terrorist strike against Iranian civilians. In 2007, accordingly, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission ruled that “exculpatory evidence for Megrahi had been suppressed at the trial” which was “a miscarriage of justice”. The knowledge at high levels that the Libyans were innocent of Lockerbie led the Scottish government to release him on “compassionate grounds” in 2010, reportedly in exchange for some attractive oil deals in Libya for British Petroleum.