"The Serbian Connection"

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/dec/11/senate-report-says-terrorist-made-story-about-mont/

The Spokesman-Review


December 11, 2014 in City

Senate report says terrorist made up story about Montana recruits

False confession occurred after waterboarding

Associated Press

MISSOULA, Mont.— A Senate report on CIA torture quotes one terrorist as saying he fabricated a story about trying to recruit black Muslims in Montana because he was subjected to “enhanced measures.”

The Missoulian reported Thursday that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed talked about recruiting converts to attack gas stations after he was subjected to simulated drowning or waterboarding in March 2003.

Mohammed, considered the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, at first denied trying to recruit black Muslims in the U.S., the report said. He changed his story after an hours-long interrogation that included waterboarding.

“He told CIA interrogators that he had sent Abu Issa al-Britani to Montana to recruit African-American Muslim converts, a mission he said had been prompted by discussions with a London-based sheikh whose bodyguards had families in Montana,” the report said.

Mohammed also stated he’d told Kahn to attend Muslim conferences in the U.S. to “spot and assess potential extremists” who could help attack gas stations.

In June 2003, Mohammed recanted and said he made up the story because he thought that’s what interrogators wanted to hear.










http://www.historynet.com/pappy-boyington-interview-with-the-us-world-war-ii-ace.htm

HISTORYnet.com


Pappy Boyington: Interview with the U.S. World War II Ace

Originally published by Aviation History magazine. Published Online: June 12, 2012


AH: What preparation had you been given in training for capture and interrogation?

Boyington: None. We never even considered the possibility. I think this was a great mistake on the part of the military. I was totally unprepared. I believe that even if we had been prepared for captivity and interrogation, we would have still been unprepared to some extent, since we would have trained our men in the Occidental method of psychological warfare and interrogation resistance. All of this effort would have been wasted once we were captured by the Japs, or later the North Koreans, Chinese or Vietnamese. Their mind-set and perspective are completely different, and we just don't understand it.

AH: What was your imprisonment like? Do you hold a grudge against the Japanese for the way you were treated?

Boyington: Well, it was hard. We were beaten on occasion, and questioned even about the most ridiculous BS. Most of the guards were pretty brutal, but once you learned how to out-think them you could get by. There was one particular interpreter who had been educated in Honolulu, and he was very important, since he effectively saved not just my life but the lives of others as well. Then there was this old lady in Japan whom I worked for in the kitchen at the camp. By the time I got there I was down 60 or 70 pounds and not looking so good. She took care of me, and I owe her as much as anyone. However, despite the beatings and starvation diet, I probably lived as long as I have due to the fact that 20 months in prison prevented me from drinking. The one exception was New Years Eve 1944, when a guard gave me some sake. Another important person was a Mr. Kono, a mysterious man who spoke English and wore a uniform without rank. He perhaps did more to save American lives than anyone else. As far as holding a grudge, no. That would be silly. There are good and bad people everywhere. The Japanese civilians who had been bombed out and were always around us showed us respect, not antipathy. Many of them went out of their way to help us at great risk to themselves, slipping us food. When I think about how the Japanese civilians treated us as POWs in their country, I can only feel very ashamed at how we treated our own Japanese Americans, taking their homes and businesses and placing them in camps.

AH: Did you get any news about how the war was going while you were in captivity?

Boyington: Well, we were kept updated on the war news, usually by friendly guards who would tell us what was going on. Other news we learned by listening to the guards. I picked up the Japanese language pretty quickly, and I could understand many phrases and key words. New prisoners were also a great source of information. We knew the war was going badly for Japan, and in February 1945 we saw a massive raid on Yokosuka from our camp in Ofuna. I was informed by a Japanese man that Roosevelt had died and that Germany had surrendered. Later we were moved from Ofuna to a real POW camp. This was a great thing, because we were up to that point below prisoner status. At least when we were POWs our families would know we were alive and reasonably well. That also meant it would be more difficult for the Japs to just execute us with no one asking questions, which was always on our minds. When we were moved to a more solid structure I felt a little better, especially once the Boeing B-29 raids picked up the pace. We would watch them at high altitude, sometimes engaged by a Jap, but they just gave us so much hope. However, once the bombing picked up, we were placed on rubble-clearing details, digging tunnels in the hills. This was near Yokohama. One bit of irony was when a guard told me about a single bomb that had been dropped on his home in Nagasaki. He was speaking in Japanese, so it was difficult to understand. I could only make out that the city had been destroyed by a single bomb. This was beyond my comprehension, and it was not until after I was released that I found out it was true. I also found out from a guard that the war was over. The guards almost to a man got drunk at the news, something I was very familiar with. What bothered us was the fact that some were openly discussing killing us, which made us a little uncomfortable. The commanding officer came down the next day and gave us vitamins and new clothes, preparing us. Six days later I was standing in front of the Swiss Red Cross in new quarters and very clean. A few days later B-29s were dropping clothes and food to us, and a few guys were killed by being hit. Soon the Navy landed with the Marines, and we were able to leave. We went to the hospital ship Benevolence, where the medical staff checked us all out. After the disinfectant and shower, I had the best meal in memory, ham and eggs. Some of the guys just could not take that diet after the pathetic diet of rice and stuff we had lived on.

AH: How soon did you get swamped by the media?










http://santiye.tv/play/jgU64aQkYEs/How_To_Survive_Interrogation.html

Santiye.TV


Interrogation specialist shows how to spot a liar

Michael Reddington from Wicklander-Zulawski and Associates returned to to Augustana to discuss interview and interrogation techniques available to fraud investigators. Reddington is an interrogation instructor and investigator with several years of experience, who has come to speak to Dr. John Delaney's accounting students multiple times.


Secret Techniques of Interrogation - Documentary 2014

Confronting a suspect face-to-face might be the only chance police have to reveal the truth about a crime. In this series, watch as dramatic re-enactments demonstrate how the experts see through deception. Learn whether it is possible for the innocent to prevail when they are facing a professional interrogator and how the power of psychology helps to lift the secrecy on acts of malice and revenge.










http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Resistance_to_Interrogation

METAPEDIA


Resistance to Interrogation

Resistance to Interrogation is about preventing interrogators from getting information that they want. It can be needed in political, military and police settings. Interrogation training is based on psychological research and often very effective. People who hold out against these techniques may be high pressure business men, soldiers who have done the training, career criminals who have been there before, the very brave and determined or the average man who just does not talk.


Police interrogation

This is the most important to the normal person in Western civilization since the police objective is catching criminals and success for them can mean prison for the person interrogated. This is a major incentive to keep quiet. We are sometimes told that if you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear. It is not true. The proliferation of laws means that no one knows what is legal and what is not. The best approach is to say nothing. At all events A Top Flight Law Professor Says NEVER Talk To The Police.

Police use different approaches. Cunning is one. This is the most dangerous and probably more common than brutality. It can start off with low key chat and get nearer to what they want. Perfectly innocent remarks can dangerous. There is a psychological need to talk back when you are being talked at. For a soldier the answer is straightforward. Give your number rank and name time after time for as long as it takes. Talk much and say little.










From 7/16/2001 To 9/11/2001 ( the scheduled terrorist attack by force of violence to destroy the New York City World Trade Center and the Headquarters of the United States Department of Defense "The Pentagon" by Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal with massive fatalities and destruction ) is 57 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/29/1965 ( premiere US film "Apache Uprising" ) is 57 days



From 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) To 7/16/2001 is 10796 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/25/1995 ( Bill Clinton - Statement on the United Nations/NATO Decision To Launch Airstrikes in Bosnia-Herzegovina ) is 10796 days



From 5/6/1955 ( premiere US film "Air Strike" ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 13040 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/16/2001 is 13040 days



From 5/6/1955 ( premiere US film "Air Strike" ) To 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 13040 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/16/2001 is 13040 days



From 2/17/1909 ( Geronimo deceased ) To 10/31/1944 ( premiere US film "I'm from Arkansas" ) is 13040 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/16/2001 is 13040 days



From 3/7/1961 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"::"Apache Gold" ) To 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 13040 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/16/2001 is 13040 days



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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/24/1976 ( premiere US TV series episode "Serpico"::"The Serbian Connection" ) is 4070 days



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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/14/1969 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Requiem for Methuselah" ) is 1200 days



From 10/16/1959 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Mr. Denton on Doomsday" ) To 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes my biological brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan the spacecraft and mission commander and me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut ) is 13040 days

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[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/08/apache-gold.html ]


http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/07/20010716-1.html

THE WHITE HOUSE

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

For Immediate Release

Office of the Press Secretary

July 16, 2001

President Presents Medal of Honor to Captain Ed W. Freeman

Remarks by the President at Presentation of the Medal of Honor to Captain Ed W. Freeman

The East Room

9:35 A.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Please be seated. Good morning, and welcome to the White House. Today, for the first time, I will present the Medal of Honor.










http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20020809&slug=anthrax09

The Seattle Times


Friday, August 9, 2002

Anthrax scientist has murky past

By Jeremiah Marquez

The Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — One of the men under scrutiny in the FBI's anthrax investigation is a former U.S. soldier who bragged about ties to a feared counterinsurgency force that fought for the white-minority government of Rhodesia.

The FBI has identified Dr. Steven Hatfill as one of 30 scientists and researchers with the expertise and opportunity to conduct the anthrax attacks last fall.

FBI and Postal Service agents searched his apartment in Frederick, Md., for the second time last week. A senior law-enforcement official said some items are being reviewed. Investigators have classified him only as a "person of interest."

Hatfill, 48, worked until 1999 for Fort Detrick's Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, the primary custodian of the virulent Ames strain of anthrax.

Hatfill and another scientist, Joseph Soukup, commissioned a study of a hypothetical anthrax attack in February 1999 as employees of defense contractor Science Applications International, a company spokesman said.

Before that, Hatfill spent about 15 years in southern Africa, where he earned a string of academic degrees and disturbed many colleagues with his right-wing rhetoric and what appear to be tall tales of military valor.

"He seems to have a Walter Mitty complex










http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/21/anthrax.uk

theguardian


Riddle of the spores

George Monbiot

Monday 20 May 2002 21.40 EDT

The more a government emphasises its commitment to defence, the less it seems to care about the survival of its people. Perhaps it is because its attention may be focused on more distant prospects: the establishment and maintenance of empire, for example, or the dynastic succession of its leaders. Whatever the explanation for the neglect of their security may be, the people of America have discovered that casual is the precursor of casualty.

But while we should be asking what George Bush and his cabinet knew and failed to respond to before September 11, we should also be exploring another, related, question: what do they know now and yet still refuse to act upon? Another way of asking the question is this: whatever happened to the anthrax investigation?

After five letters containing anthrax spores had been posted, in the autumn, to addresses in the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation promised that it would examine "every bit of information [and] every bit of evidence". But now the investigation appears to have stalled. Microbiologists in the US are beginning to wonder aloud whether the FBI's problem is not that it knows too little, but that it knows too much.

Reducing the number of suspects would not, one might have imagined, have been too much to ask of the biggest domestic detective agency on earth. While some of the anthrax the terrorist sent was spoiled during delivery, one sample appears to have come through intact. The letter received by Senator Tom Daschle contained one trillion anthrax spores per gram: a concentration which only a very few US government scientists, using a secret and strictly controlled technique, know how to achieve. It must, moreover, have been developed in a professional laboratory, containing rare and sophisticated "weaponisation" equipment. There is only a tiny number of facilities - all of them in the US - in which it could have been produced.

The anthrax the terrorist sent belongs to the "Ames" strain of the bacterium, which was extracted from an infected cow in Texas in 1981. In December, the Washington Post reported that genetic tests showed that the variety used by the terrorist was a sub-strain cultivated by scientists at the US army's medical research institute for infectious diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland. That finding was publicly confirmed two weeks ago, when the test results were published in the journal Science. New Scientist magazine notes that the anthrax the terrorist used appears to have emerged from Fort Detrick only recently, as the researchers found that samples which have been separated from each other for three years acquire "substantial genetic differences".

The Ames strain was distributed by USAMRIID to around 20 other laboratories in the US. Of these, according to research conducted by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, who runs the Federation of American Scientists' biological weapons monitoring programme, only four possess the equipment and expertise required for the weaponisation of the anthrax sent to Senator Daschle. Three of them are US military laboratories, the fourth is a government contractor. While security in all these places has been lax, the terrorist could not have stolen all the anthrax (around 10 grams) which found its way into the postal system. He must have used the equipment to manufacture it.

Barbara Hatch Rosenberg has produced a profile of the likely perpetrator. He is an American working within the US biodefense industry, with a doctoral degree in the relevant branch of microbiology. He is skilled and experienced at handling the weapon without contaminating his surroundings. He has full security clearance and access to classified information. He is among the tiny number of Americans who had received anthrax vaccinations before September 2001. Only a handful of people fit this description. Rosenberg has told the internet magazine Salon.com that three senior scientists have identified the same man - a former USAMRIID scientist - as the likely suspect. She, and they, have told the FBI, but it seems that all the bureau has done in response is to denounce her.

Instead, it has launched the kind of "investigation" which might have been appropriate for the unwitnessed hit and run killing of a person with no known enemies. Rather than homing in on the likely suspects, in other words, it appears to have cast a net full of holes over the entire population.

In January, three months after the first anthrax attack and at least a month after it knew that the sub-strain used by the attacker came from Fort Detrick, the FBI announced a reward of $2.5m for information leading to his capture. It circulated 500,000 fliers, and sent letters to all 40,000 members of the American Society for Microbiology, asking them whether they knew someone who might have done it.

Yet, while it trawled the empty waters, the bureau failed to cast its hook into the only ponds in which the perpetrator could have been lurking. In February, the Wall Street Journal revealed that the FBI had yet to subpoena the personnel records of the labs which had been working with the Ames strain. Four months after the investigation began, in other words, it had not bothered to find out who had been working in the places from which the anthrax must have come. It was not until March, after Barbara Hatch Rosenberg had released her findings, that the bureau started asking laboratories for samples of their anthrax and the records relating to them.

To date, it appears to have analysed only those specimens which already happened to be in the hands of its researchers or which had been offered, without compulsion, by laboratories. A fortnight ago, the New York Times reported that "government experts investigating the anthrax strikes are still at sea". The FBI claimed that the problem "is a lack of advisers skilled in the subtleties of germ weapons".

Last week, I phoned the FBI. Why, I asked, when the evidence was so abundant, did the trail appear to have gone cold? "The investigation is continuing," the spokesman replied. "Has it gone cold because it has led you to a government office?" I asked. He put down the phone.

Had he stayed on the line, I would have asked him about a few other offences the FBI might wish to consider. The army's development of weaponised anthrax, for example, directly contravenes both the biological weapons convention and domestic law. So does its plan to test live microbes in "aerosol chambers" at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, also in Maryland. So does its development of a genetically modified fungus for attacking coca crops in Colombia, and GM bacteria for destroying materials belonging to enemy forces. These, as the research group Project Sunshine has discovered, appear to be just a tiny sample of the illegal offensive biological research programmes which the US government has secretly funded. Several prominent scientists have suggested that the FBI's investigation is being pursued with less than the rigour we might have expected because the federal authorities have something to hide.

The FBI has dismissed them as conspiracy theorists. But there is surely a point after which incompetence becomes an insufficient explanation for failure.










http://articles.mcall.com/2003-12-07/opinion/3502489_1_dark-days-walter-mitty-president-bush

THE MORNING CALL


Cheers for leadership of President Bush

December 07, 2003 The Morning Call

I think it is time we all give thanks to the marvelous and sensible no-nonsense leadership this president has brought to our troubled country in these difficult times. I, myself, had misgivings back in 2000 when he was running, yet now I say the gods must have been looking out for us! Al Gore would have been a hysterical, clueless, Walter Mitty Quisling-type during these dark days -- an absolute disaster.

President Bush, on the other hand, has guided us through horrific times with a calm, Churchillian manner that makes us all proud to be American!



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 7:04 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 11 December 2014