Did Magic Dutch Boy's Boss
Slip Saudis out of Raytheon?
by Daniel Hopsicker
December 26--Venice, Florida.
Everything you need to know
about the corruption of America that left this country defenseless on September
11 can be gleaned today from stories coming out of Jeb Bush’s Florida,
the hub of the plot. There the climate of intrigue created by the commodities
being traded so casually in that state’s over-active black market allowed
19 Arabs from desert kingdoms to wander about with the ease of Jimmy Buffet
fans after a concert, looking for a bar serving frozen margaritas.
Let’s begin with a story
in the Tampa Tribune of a twin-engine Lear jet, which took off two days
after the Sept 11 attack, at a time when every other private plane in the
nation was grounded due to safety concerns.
"The Phantom Flight from
Florida"
Because the federal government
says the flight never took place, the paper headlined it the "Phantom Flight
from Florida." It carried a Saudi Arabian prince, the son of that nation's
defense minister, as well as the son of a Saudi army commander, and it
flew from Tampa to Lexington, Kentucky, where Saudi princes had been purchasing
racehorses in Bluegrass Country.
From there, they flew a private
747 out of the country. But if no one in the government would acknowledge
what had happened, the two armed bodyguards hired to get their clients
out of the state were only too happy to recall a trip they remembered vividly.
The Trib’s reporter said
the story revealed "a glimpse of international intrigue in the aftermath
of terrorist attacks on America."
It also offers a glimpse
of the privilege accorded these foreign Saudi nationals that was denied
American citizens.
"Everyone’s got deals with
the Saudi’s," protested a Special Forces Commander at McDill AFB, where
the Afghan war was run, when asked about the trip. "Why point a finger
at this one incident?"
Because, we told him, we
suspected that the initial pilot training of Bin Laden’s Air Force at
the tiny Venice Florida airport was a CIA operation, one they would be
loath to admit.
So we presumed the evacuation
of the Saudis had been accomplished by the CIA, and we were trying to track
down the owner of the Lear in question to better understand some of that
Agency’s numerous activities in Florida.
Since the plane took off
from a private hanger at Raytheon Airport Services in Tampa, we went there
first... Raytheon is a major defense-intelligence industry player which
spent the past decade expanding, purchasing notorious E-Systems and
culminating with Raytheon’s merger with Hughes Electronics’ defense
operations (Hughes Aircraft).
Catch-22 All Over Again
Surely such a patriotic organization
would support the American people’s right to know? After all, that’s
what we’re fighting for, right? Freedom?
But when we contacted Raytheon
to ask who owned the Lear we were told we would have to ask the owner of
the plane to ask Raytheon to tell us who owned the plane.
A Raytheon spokesman said,
"I checked our policy on disclosing owner/customer information and we decline
to do so unless that owner requests that we release the information."
We had inadvertently stumbled
onto a modern day Catch-22. We didn’t know who the owner was, so how
could
we ask them for permission to release their names?
Today—no thanks to Raytheon—
the MadCowMorningNews has learned from a knowledgeable aviation source
that the Lear jet in question very likely came from a Naples, Florida charter
service.
The Magic Dutch Boy Gets
Around
"Wally Hilliard owns the
only charter Lear service in Southwest Florida," said this source. "If
a Lear was flying that day, it would have been his."
Among his many accomplishments,
‘retired’ entrepreneur Hilliard is the partner and financial backer
of 'Magic Dutch Boy' Rudi Dekkers, whose Venice Florida flight school was
the terrorist’s American beachhead.
If Hilliard’s Lear jets
were extricating Saudis out of Raytheon in a CIA operation at the same
time that Hilliard is also the boss of Magic Dutch Boy Rudi Dekkers, whose
operation trained Mohamed Atta and his terrorist cadre to fly... well anyone
can connect those dots. Except of course for American journalists like
Geraldo and Ashley Banfield.
Is the CIA responsible for
the fact that Rudi Dekker’s Huffman Aviation was the terrorist’s Omaha
Beach?
At press time, phone calls
to Mr. Hilliard for comment had not been returned.
Presumably, the FBI has already
looked into this, and reported their findings to the Senate Intelligence
panel, which will be conducting hearings into the Sept 11 debacle in the
coming months....right?
The FBI, we recalled, had
pointedly stated—early on—that they knew about terrorists rotating
through Rudi Dekkers’ flight school in Venice, Florida. But they had
left hanging the question of why they did nothing to shut it down.
Saudi Princess Charged with
Beating Servant
Two other stories surfaced
this past week illustrating the intrigue and corruption in Florida that
may have contributed to the Sept 11 attacks.
An AP article last week told
of a Saudi Princess, a niece of King Fahd, charged with beating her servant
and throwing her down the stairs.
The assault occurred in Orlando,
Florida. The Saudi Princess’s attorney says she has diplomatic immunity.
But what we found most interesting in the story was the revelation that
several years ago another Saudi princess was also accused of beating her
servants...also in Orlando.
It's a Small World After
All, huh?
In that attack, three Sheriff’s
deputies stood by and watched, though they had all taken oaths to uphold
American law. They were later 'disciplined' for not stopping the beating.
Money doesn't talk. It swears.
Death Ship Sailed from Tampa,
Florida
The last story that came
out this week fingering Florida as a cauldron of "spookish" plots was the
big story in London last week. A cargo ship was intercepted in the English
Channel on its way towards carrying suspected terrorist material into the
heart of London. British anti-terrorist officers seized the London-bound
MV Nisha off the coast of England in a dramatic raid by Royal Navy units.
The route taken by the vessel
was cited as having caused suspicion...
We have learned that what
the British Press took to calling the ‘Death Ship’ started its journey
in Tampa, Florida, bound for Djibouti and neighboring Somalia (linked to
Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network) with a cargo of "humanitarian aid."
Was there a Tampa-Djibouti
Connection? Or is this just mere coincidence?
Strangely, Tampa is also
the home of an Islamic studies think tank whose ‘head thinker’ left
town several years ago to become the leader of... Islamic Jihad.
Then the government held
the new think tank chief for more than three and a half years on secret
evidence, in a Bradenton, Florida jail. Mazen Al-Najjar was eventually
released after courts ruled that he could not be detained further without
just cause.
But local reporters wrote
at the time that the government had reluctantly revealed only the smallest
bit of its evidence against him.
Tampa, of course, is home
to McDill Air Force Base, where the military’s Central Command serves
as the nerve center for the war in Afghanistan.
Is this just coincidence?
What could have attracted "Islamic extremists" from the country (Afghanistan)
known as the worldwide center of heroin production, to Tampa, a cigar-making
Gulf port that was also the home to Mob Boss Santos Trafficante (who controlled
the heroin trade)?
Do you imagine the Senate
Intelligence Committee will be looking into this?
Racehorses... filled with
Cocaine?
In a curious aside, respected
writer Dominick Dunne last week reported that a source "who helps prepare
racehorses for Middle Eastern businessmen" (in Lexington Kentucky?) had
told him that Rep. Gary Condit was a frequent guest at the Middle Eastern
embassies in Washington "where young women would be brought for "nocturnal
pleasures."
The procurer supposedly told
Dunne's contact that some time before April 30, Condit confided to one
of his Middle Eastern friends that he had been involved with a woman and
wanted to end it, but that she was "threatening to talk."
Levy may have stumbled into
a noxious ring of prostitution, sex slaves and Middle Eastern sheiks in
Washington, D.C., said the story, which might have contributed to her disappearance.
Here we recall that several
sources had reported that Barry Seal, the subject of our recent book, had
brought racehorses from Colombia in military C123 cargo planes that were
filled with cocaine.
In the wake of the Sept 11
disaster officials in Washington promised explanations. But it was left
to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to sketch out the Cliff notes version
of the case against Bin Laden.
He said, "Al Qaeda is a terrorist
organization with ties to a global network."
"A global network."
A global network clearly
assisted the terrorist cadre.
But...what global network?
A global network of what?
Today, this same "global
network" is still shadowy and undefined.
And it appears that official
Washington and the major media would like to keep it that way.
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