by Daniel Hopsicker
May 20--Venice Florida
The MadCowMorningNews has
learned that the elderly woman who (supposedly) provided the two Israelis
arrested in Oak Harbor Washington with their alibi has—just one week
later—moved, or disappeared, and cannot be found to corroborate her account.
In Oak Harbor, Washington,
Fox News reported last week that two Israelis with altered passports were
apprehended in a rental truck containing traces of TNT and plastic explosives
on a state highway running past the home of a fleet of U.S. electronic
spy planes, Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.
According to an FBI spokesman
in Seattle, local police had pulled the Israelis over for speeding, and
then became suspicious after one of the men was found to be in possession
of an altered passport and the other was unable to produce any identification
other than an Israeli driver's license.
Suspicion was heightened
because the Israelis were driving on a state road running past a Naval
Air Station housing electronic warfare Prowler jets, as well as because
of the truck driver's insistence that they were moving furniture—a claim
that did not seem to mesh with the late hour.
Local police made an arrest.
The local press reported it.
The backpedaling which followed,
however, was fast, furious—and national.
Involved in the subsequent
investigation were Naval Intelligence, the FBI, the Immigration and Naturalization
Service, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
Tests revealing traces of
explosives were ‘in error.’
They showed ‘false positives.’
The Israelis alibi had ‘checked
out.’
It was a ‘non-story.’
There were no follow-ups.
The story was reported uncritically
in the mainstream press (Seattle Post) even as the Navy dogs who had provided
the 'false positives' were being praised by local newspapers. ("Navy Canines
Help Keep Base Safe.")
It faded faster in the news
than that of the Kamikaze Kid pilot who wasn’t taking acne medication
but was still somehow provoked by it to express his desire for self-termination
by flying into a skyscraper after heaping praise on Arab terrorists-turned-drug
merchants.
Meanwhile, the FBI was issuing
a "general, uncorroborated and nonspecific" warning to terrorist task forces
and owners and managers of apartment buildings across the nation, based
on information that al Qaeda members planned to blow up apartment buildings
with plastic explosives.
There was more than enough
to pique our interest...even before we discovered that the story may involve
what we have come to refer to as "The Venice Connection.’
"When people lie, its
always for a reason."
Seemingly coincidentally,
the Israelis had been pulled over in Oak Harbor, Wa., home of a commuter
airline which had been run by the business partner of Venice flight school
owner Rudi Dekkers.
Harbor Air—known locally
as the "Navy’s airline" because its function was to serve personnel flying
in and out of the nearby Naval Air Station—was owned by one Richard Boehlke,
a con artist extraordinaire, even by the standards of the Venice Magic
Dutch Boy.
Dekkers’ connection with
Boehlke is, of course, of intense interest to anyone interested in possible
‘global networks’ aiding the terrorists, since Boehlke had recently
participated in the massive Mob-led ($352 million) looting of pension
funds in Portland, Or., another non-story you probably haven’t read about.
Dekkers, of course, is the
Dutch national owner of a Venice flight school with the unique distinction
of having, for sums far in excess of normal, trained both of the pilots
crashing airplanes into the World Trade Center.
Together with Boehlke, he
started an unsuccessful airline, Florida Air, whose only accomplishment,
other than having been publicly endorsed by Florida Secretary of State
Katherine Harris, seems to be to have provided a rationale for the presence
of several British Aerospace Jetstreams poised on the tarmac of an airport
within easy reach of Caribbean hot spots.
Still, what—if anything—do
Richard Boehlke and Rudi Dekkers have to do with Israelis running around
in empty Budget rental trucks containing traces of TNT and plastic explosives?
Consider:
The two Israeli’s alibi
‘checked out,’ according to authorities, after they had spoken to an
elderly woman living in an elder-care facility nearby, who stated the men
resembled individuals who dumped a load of furniture in her front yard
in the middle of the night…
And before going bankrupt
last year Richard Boehlke made his millions operating elder-care facilities,
first in Washington state and then nationally.
Did the woman live in one
of Boehlke’s facilities?
Was there a ‘story behind
the story?’
We recalled that although
Rudi Dekkers claimed he met his partner Boehlke through a mutual friend
in Ohio, he had been lying...
Boehlke’s company, Alterra,
had a gleaming facility located just a hundred yards from Dekkers’ Huffman
Aviation at the Venice Airport.
What had Dekkers been lying
to protect?
Was there a connection between
the assisted living industry and covert operations?
Well… yes.
"Nothing to See Here.
Move Along."
Just down the block from
Boehlke’s assisted living home in Venice Florida, a stone’s throw from
the Venice Airport, is a stately complex that was built to house the national
headquarters of nursing home giant Beverley Enterprises, then owned by
a name often linked with America’s super-secret National Security Agency,
Jackson Stephens.
Gleaming like a movie set
basking under Florida's sunshine is a building which still houses Stephens
former law firm, which according to local observers runs the town of Venice.
Jackson Stephens, Rudi Dekkers,
Richard Boehlke, and a no-doubt sweet little old lady living in elder care
beside the Navy's electronic spy plane base...
No doubt it is all just a
coincidence.
Just a small world.
When reporters initially
asked about the furniture moving story they were told investigators had
already followed up on this angle, speaking with an elderly lady at an
elder-care housing facility who claimed she had had furniture delivered
in the middle of the night by two men fitting the description of the Israelis.
The MadCowMorningNews was
skeptical, and made enquiries.
We discovered that the woman
cited by authorities and used by the FBI to discount the FOX NEWS report
on the incident (Police Seize Rental Truck With TNT Traces) has—just
one week after providing the Israelis’ alibi—moved.
Mary Williams cannot be found
to verify her account. She no longer lives at the Cam Bey Senior Living
Facility, the retirement home where the men allegedly dumped furniture
on the front lawn in the middle of the night, before heading for the Canadian
border via a road bordering the nearby Naval Air Station.
A spokeswoman at the facility
declines to give out any information concerning her present whereabouts,
citing privacy concerns.
Located in (aptly-named?)
Coupeville, Washington, the retirement facility is owned and operated by
a non-profit company, Senior Services of Island County, which receives
HUD block grants.
It has no apparent connections
with Boehlke.
It is all just sheer coincidence.
It is a ‘non-story.’
Nothing to see here.
Move along. |