Mock plans to attack Twin Towers made in 1976

Greg Szymanski – American Free Press March 20, 2005, reports on a 29-year US Defense Department operative who claims plans were made by his unit in 1976 for a mock attack on the twin towers using airliners


The laundry list of terrorist warnings handed to the Bush administration prior to 9/11 makes the President and others look like "bumbling idiots or a bunch of conniving criminals" responsible for the mass murders at the Twin Towers and in Afghanistan and Iraq.

These are the harsh words of Timothy McNiven, an outspoken critic of the President's handling of 9/11 and a 29-year U.S. Defense Department operative still under contract with the government.

He says not only did the Bush administration purposely ignore Al Q'aida in the months preceding the WTC attacks, but the situation is even more disturbing, considering his military unit way back in 1976 devised a mock terrorist attack of the Twin Towers exactly like what occurred on 9/11.

McNiven, who first went public in an affidavit included in a 9/11-related federal conspiracy (RICO) lawsuit filed against Bush and others in 2004, claims his unit was ordered to create the "perfect terrorist plan" using commercial airliners as weapons and the Twin Towers as their target.

The publicized version of the study, commissioned by Congress, was to identify security lapses and submit corrective measures to lawmakers. However, McNiven claims the real purpose of the study was to brainstorm how to pull off the perfect terrorist attack using the exact same 9/11 scenario.

The study, commissioned to C-Battery 2/81st Field Artillery, U.S. Army, stationed in Strassburg, Germany in 1976, specifically devised the scenario of the Twin Towers being leveled by Middle Eastern terrorists using commercial airliners and even plastic box cutters to bypass security.

To silence critics, McNiven has successfully passed a credible lie detector test regarding his participation in the study as well as other specific orders given to him by his superiors in case of a real attack on the Twin Towers.

The head of the 1976 mock terrorist plan was Lt. Michael Teague of Long Island, who McNiven says was given specific orders by higher-ups in the military to use the Twin Towers as the terrorist target.

McNiven said he has been unable to contact Lt. Teague, but was interested in his opinion now that "the 9/11 attacks happened the way we planned them in 1976."

"I remember Lt. Teague changed the scenario of the supposed study from a 100 story building to the Twin Towers," recalled McNiven, emphasizing that Lt. Teague was acting on specific orders from unknown superiors.

"He then said he thought it was very strange to be asked to devise a plan to blow up your own home town. But as I watched the Twin Towers really collapse on the morning of September 11th, I realized I was watching the very same thing we devised in the 1976."

Since that ominous realization, McNiven has devoted his entire life to alerting the American public about the similarities between 9/11 and the 1976 study without much success, his story basically being ignored by politicians and the mainstream media.

"Why am I doing this? Why have I spent every waking hour trying to bring this story to the American people?" asked McNiven, claiming he still is following a strange direct military order given to him more than 25 years ago.

"During the course of the terrorist plan we were devising, I made the statement to Lt. Teague that if the WTC was ever attacked like we planned, I'd go public. I was then physically assaulted and told never to reveal anything we were doing regarding the Twin Towers."

However, about a week later a strange turn of events occurred. For no apparent reason, McNiven claims his superiors completely changed their minds.

"I was given the direct order that if the Twin Towers were ever attacked the way we discussed in the 1976 study, I was to do everything in my power to bring the similarities to the attention of the American people.

"I have no idea why they changed their minds, but I was then emphatically told that this order was never to be rescinded - never - because those who would rescind it, would be the very same people who turned against the American people."

Besides taking a lie detector to verify his story, McNiven has made public a detailed list of about 40 names of those individuals who took part in the mock terrorist plan, including Col. Robert Morrison, Maj. Joe Dipiero, Sgt. Middleton, Sgt. Arroyo and many others.

"There were also people from the Defense Department and the CIA who were monitoring the study, but I wasn't able to get their names," he added.

Some of McNiven's most recent assignments with the Defense Department include work on the Northwest Drug Task Force and various other drug smuggling and weapons trafficking cases.

Codename Grillfire

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French wreck Grand Slam hopes. Quelle surprise?

Ireland 19 France 26: So the Grand Slam slipped away without so much as a by-your-leave at the Old Ruin last Saturday. The perennial question of which French side would turn up to play was put to bed in a matter of seconds from Rona O’Gara’s kick off, when, Les Bleus, expecting the Irish to rip right into them, mauled Ireland backwards 15-20 metres. Ireland had no answer, the French, smelled the old familiar whiff of Irish fear and nerves. Plus ca change.....

That old chestnut of a question as to whether France would be bothered to turn up and play should have been put to bed years back, not a matter of mere seconds into the penultimate hurdle of Grand Slam tilt.

Apart from a couple of victories at the turn of the century, Ireland have never really had a sniff of victory against France. The last three encounters between the two have seen Ireland either blown off the park or had their game plan strangled. They may have their off days against the other Championship contenders, but the Les Bleus love playing Ireland. Also, they have won four Grand Chelem in the last eight years. Not bad for a side who now and then don’t turn up to play.

From, the moment Ireland took the field on Saturday it looked like their body language was all wrong. Too many nervous faces. It all translated into the performance on the pitch. No power, no punch and no aggression. All grist to the mill for a French side.

Now Ireland must regroup and take their bag of nerves to a partisan Cardiff, where, the Welsh await their first Slam since 1978.

If Ireland can manage to regroup and gain some confidence, then their conservative way of playing could frustrate a Welsh side that will be filled to the brim with emotion.

Too much emotion and sides make mistakes, too little, and they can stand-off a la Ireland against France.

If Ireland can play on Welsh emotions, then a second Triple Crown in-a-row won’t be a bad reward for Ireland. It shows how far they’ve come though , that it’ll be scant consolation for the Slam.

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Letter to Spudnik: Murder of Robert McCartney

Sir,
I think that the family of Robert McCartney missed a chance to solve the problem of the IRA once and for all, possibly through unfamiliarity with mathematical proof by induction. Had they only accepted the generous offer to shoot those responsible, with the proviso that the families of those shot acted as they did, then in quite a short time the IRA would have wiped itself out.
Yours etc, Steve, Dublin.

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It’s a shopping centre. Get over it!

You’d swear by the column inches and the amount of broadcast time in the media over the past week that a new continent, populated by strange exotic people, had been discovered in the south Dublin burb of Dundrum. But instead, all the fuss is over a shopping centre.

"But it’s a town centre," they cry. Yeah, well, there’s one called Dublin city centre and it’s got a lot more culture going on than Dundrum. It’s a shopping centre. Nothing more nothing less.

It’s "Europe's largest cathedral of consumption" The Irish Times told us this morning. Erm, Cathedral? Does it have spires? Is it a place of worship or just a jumped up collection of merchants with air conditioned stalls in an indoor market?

For the past three days the IT and other meeja organs have been whipping up the women of Dublin into an hysterical shopping frenzy.

The pictures from RTE of women rushing to be the first in when it opened its doors with their arms held out as if to greet a long lost loved would have been hilarious if they weren’t so frightening.

Had these women never been in a shop before? Was there some new super-duper shop that sold merchandise that could not be found anywhere else in Dublin or the rest of the country for that matter? Was everything being sold at cost?

When the answer to the above is such a glaringly obvious No you have to ask yourself why would these women become so worked up over a shopping centre.

It’s not unfair or sexist to wonder why it was women and not men who got, and in some cases will forever be, so hot under the collar about a mall. The TV pictures clearly showed that men were vastly outnumbered by the women.

More and more Irish women are being suckered by the marketing - a job mainly done by women - of what a modern Irish adult female should be. Whatever the marketers might say, these women are becoming part of what I like to call the Silly Bitch Brigade.

These are the type of gormless girlies who think that Anna Nolan, Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh, and Sheana Keane on the Afternoon show are the essence of cool, the IT Saturday Magazine is must for the "what’s hot and what’s not".

Feminists along with a lot of my female friends have claimed that the Pill dulls women’s senses, making them less creative as well as stifling their emotions.

The hype over the Dundrum Town Centre is doing the same thing.

Get over it girls. It’s a shopping centre not a hundred yards from the old one.

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Quotes for today

Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty. - Ho Chi Min

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. - Mao Zedong

I think a future fight should include a poet, a priest and a philosopher we might get a much better idea of what we saw. - Michael Collins

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Wuz Engerland robbed?

It’s two days since the ground shaking collision of Ireland and England at the ancient Lansdowne Road and the complaints from the England coach Andy Robinson, and thousands of English rugby fans on internet message boards about the performance of Referee Jonathan Kaplan have still to abate. There’s an Australian joke that goes something like this. "How do you know when the poms have arrived in Australia." Answer: "The whining goes on long after the engines of the 747 have been turned off."

The cause of their complaints are two disallowed tries. One for Mark Cueto in first-half injury time and one for Josh Lewsey in the closing minutes of the match.

Television replays of either incident were inconclusive to say the least. Cueto was pinged for being ahead of outhalf Charlie Hodgson’s perfectly judged cross-field kick and there was no footage available that could say whether he was or he wasn’t.

One thing is certain though, Kaplan blew his whistle almost as soon as Hodgson kicked and it was a good two or three seconds before Cueto caught and touched down over the Irish line. The early whistle could well explain why no Irish player was near Cueto when he touched down. They’d heard the whistle and were preparing to position themselves for the next play.

Also, Cueto’s prompt arrival to the ball would suggest he could well have been flirting with being ahead of the kicker.

The only replay of Lewsey’s disallowed try that could cast any light on the matter, showed that Johnny O’Conor - the proverbial thorn in the side of the English rose all afternoon - had driven the English winger back over the line and may, along with Ronan O’Gara, had a hand underneath the ball to prevent the score.

One incident where a try could clearly be shown to have been a result of foul play was the English try by Martin Corry. Standing at the side of a ruck, O’Gara was tackled by England’s Danny Grewcock and held to the ground while Corry picked and ran home from about 25 metres unopposed.

The whining poms will tell you that as O’Gara had a hand on Lewis Moody’s back, he was, therefore, entitled to be cleaned out of the ruck. True he was. But cleaning out does not involve tackling. You can barge or shove a player to protect your ball, but tackling him and taking him out of the game is illegal.

The planes have long since left Dublin Airport and landed back in England, but, you can still hear the whining all across the Irish sea.

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Meet Larry the talking duck

Today, spudnik was struck with yet another wondrous ponderous thought to query. Weather for ducks!

The thing is that while this statement applies to rainy weather, there is no evidence to suggest that ducks actually thrive better in the rain. The thing about ducks is that they have an oil based feathered covering which is waterproof, therefore allowing them to dive underwater and fish. And then, when they surface, they don't have worry about not being able to fly because of soaking wet feathers. Brilliant!

In fact some ducks are truly brilliant. Take Larry the talking duck for instance. Now there was a marvel to behold.

The thing about Larry The Duck, LTTD if you like, was that not only could he talk, but he was an exquisite conversationalist. LTTD lived in Dublin during the fifties, but no one knows what end, if any he met.

He first came to prominence when walking into a bar in Poolbeg Street. Jim, not his real name, the barman on lunch-time duty was the first one to spot him. LTTD had, as-bold-as-brass, just strolled into the bar. Jim, the barman, was as surprised as the next man when the duck spoke.

"A ham and coleslaw sandwich and a pint of stout when your ready there pal", said LTTD.

Jim was stunned and could only mutter, "you're a talking duck". To which the duck replied, "yes that's right".

"A talking duck", repeated Jim as his jaw scrapped the floor.

The duck shrugged, he was used to this sort of reaction by now, and repeated his lunch order. Jim ran off and got him the order and placing it in front of him said, "that's on the house but tell me one thing. How long have you been, you know, talking"?

LTTD not yet able to get a bite out his sandwich replied, "all my life. I've just come to the area today. I'm working over the road, you know, the building site there."

LTTD and Jim struck up a great friendship. Every day the duck would come in for his lunch time repast of a pint of stout and a ham and coleslaw sandwich.

One day a circus owner walked into the bar. While talking to Jim, the barman decides to bring up the subject of the talking duck.

"I know of someone", Jim said, "you might be interested in. There's a chap who comes in here of a lunch time and he's a duck. Who talks. He talks about everything. Current affairs, sports, films, art, he knows about the lot."

The circus owner looked at Jim and said, "you know I'd pay a lot of money for that kind of thing and if you had a word with the duck there'd be a cut in it for you".

Jim told him the duck would be in an hour or so for his lunch and he have a word with him then.

LTTD came in at the usual time. Jim went over to him to tell him about the circus owner.

"Listen Larry", they were on first name terms by now, "there was a circus owner in here earlier on today. He said he'd pay a lot of money for what you do. A lot of money he said".

LTTD looked at Jim and said " a lot of money you say".

"That's right", Jim replied, "a lot of money".

LTTD looked at Jim and said, "Well alright I'll meet with him, but there is one thing that's puzzling me"?

"What's that"? asked Jim.

"What would a circus owner want with a plasterer"?

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