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UQ Wire: Coke Bust Connection To 9.11 Attack

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 5.5 Tonne Cocaine Bust Reveals New Details Of 9.11 Attack
 May 16 2006--Venice,FL.
 by  Daniel Hopsicker  
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A MadCowMorningNews  investigation into the ownership of the
DC9 airliner caught carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine in Mexico last
month has uncovered explosive new details about some of the many
lingering mysteries still surrounding the 9.11 attack. 

San Diego defense contractor Titan Corporation, already implicated
in the fraudulent bankruptcy of a shadowy St. Petersburg FL company
which owned the DC9 "Cocaine One" flight busted in Mexico, employed
a Lebanese contractor who assisted Mohamed Atta and other terrorist
hijackers in Venice, Florida.

For Titan, the revelation marks the latest in a remarkable series
of recent scandals, including employees charged with torture
and rape at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, a record $26 million fine
and conviction for fixing a Presidential election in the African
nation of Benin, and growing infamy for being the biggest money
backer of disgraced and soon-to-be-jailed former Congressman
Randy 'Duke' Cunningham.

The story begins when, while researching 'Welcome to TERRORLAND'
three years ago, we discovered that Makram Chams, a Lebanese
national, had provided significant logistical support for Mohamed
Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi. 

Chams, we learned, had even entertained recently-convicted Zacharias
Moussaoui in his apartment in Venice.

 Breaking news from the forest where no one's around

Makram Chams owned a Kwik-Check convenience store in Venice,
where the biggest overseas money transfer to the terrorists,
$70,000 from the UAE., was sent, according to the testimony of
FBI agents during the 9.11 Commission hearings. 

Actually the FBI testimony never mentioned Chams, or his store.

They did however show the receipt for the money order at the
final hearing of the 9.11 Commission, which we attended. And
we were already familiar with the address where the money order
went: 201 Nokomis Avenue. 

Makram Cham's Kwik-Chek... Strangely, Chams left town soon after
the 9.11 attack, abandoning a thriving convenience store which
has stood vacant ever since. 

In a story in the Sarasota Herald Tribune, reporter Earle Kimel,
who first broke the story of Mohamed Atta's American girlfriend,
Amanda Keller,  called Chams' abandoned store 'A pocket of urban
blight in the otherwise smartly tailored suit of downtown Venice.'

 Just another freak coincidence?

An understanding of what Makram Chams had been doing while in
Venice--and for whom--had eluded us, and been one of our biggest
unanswered questions, one which might shed light on whether the
U.S. Government possessed guilty foreknowledge--or even culpability--in
the 9.11 attack. 

Our search for Chams had been unsuccessful. No one knew where
he was, or why he'd left. But now Chams has re-surfaced in Saudi
Arabia, where he worked in an unlikely capacity: as a contractor
for American defense firm Titan Corp. 

News of Makram Chams' current whereabouts came to us when a researcher
recently sent this addendum to Titan Corp's 2005 SEC filing:

'On March 14, 2005, Makram Majid Chams, a former consultant of
Titan filed a claim with the Preliminary Committee on Labor Disputes
Settlement in Saudi Arabia. Mr. Chams alleges that Titan wrongfully
terminated his consulting agreement and that he was defamed by
Titan's publication in a local newspaper of a mandatory notice
that he is no longer representing Titan. The plaintiff is seeking
approximately $21.9 million in damages. We intend to defend our
position vigorously.'

Was the man suing Titan in Saudi Arabia, 'Makram Majid Chams,'
the same "Makram Chams" who'd lived in Venice?

 Only a dunsky could doubt it 

The answer was 'yes.' A marriage announcement in the Sarasota
Herald Tribune from January of 1998 gave us the full name of
the Makram Chams who'd lived in Venice, identical to the name
of the man suing Titan in Saudi Arabia.

'Makram Majid Chams,' said the announcement, had married 'Rim
Ghazi Abou Zein, both of Venice.' 

The news was nothing short of astonishing. The man who'd assisted
terrorist hijackers in Venice...working for an American defense
contractor in Saudi Arabia? What was Chams doing for The Titan
Corp? What made him think they owe him $22 million dollars? And
most importantly...  

Was Makram Chams already working for Titan while in Venice? 

While we didn't know the answers to any of these questions, one
thing we did know was that Bob Woodward would not be on the case.
The major media steered completely clear of stories about what
was clearly the biggest 9.11 crime scene that wasn't reduced
to rubble: Venice, Fl., home to three of the four terrorist pilots.

We decided to take a closer look at Makram Chams.

 Hangin' with the 'Mak Jack' Attack

A Venice Yellow Cab driver, Bob Simpson, first told us that the
Middle Eastern man who owned the convenience store had been close
to the hijackers, and that Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi frequently
met at an apartment in Venice which he rented. (Watch him talk
about it.)

Simpson had been questioned closely by the FBI three days after
the Sept. 11 attack. 'I heard a voice say this is Special Agent
Joe Anderson from the FBI calling,'' he told us. 'My heart sort
of skipped a beat. Then he said, Don't worry, you haven't done
anything wrong.'' 

'He asked if I'd seen pictures of the terrorists, and if I had,
wanted to know if I recognized any. I said yes, I recognized
Mohamed Atta. I'm the day driver for Yellow Cab in Venice, and
he was in my cab a bunch of times in August,' cabbie Simpson
explained. 'The night driver had him even more than I did.' 

Simpson picked up Atta at the convenience store owner's apartment
on several occasions. He told the FBI he had been asked to drive
to Orlando by a relative of the Middle Eastern man who owned
the convenience store.

'Their (the terrorists) best friend used to live upstairs on
the second floor,' stated Simpson, pointing to the Burgundy Square
Apartments in downtown Venice. I saw Atta and Al-Shehhi there.'

'They were always hanging out together at the store. Most of
the time, I'd be called by their friend, or they would call saying
pick them up there at the market.' 

 Dead eyes then, Dead everything now

That the terrorist hijackers spent much time hanging out in Makram
Chams' Kwik-Check was independently confirmed by numerous observers,
including a local psychiatrist who contacted us recently.

'Nokomis Ave runs right behind the hospital in Venice,' stated
the psychiatrist. "Each day as I left the hospital for the office
I'd head north on Nokomis. At the corner of Nokomis and Miami
there was this little (Kwik-Chek) convenience store run by middle-eastern
types.' 

'Half the time I'd be late for the office and I'd stop in there
and grab something awful for lunch. A woman and a large man were
usually behind the counter. Some days I'd go in there and no
one would be behind the counter but there would be loud talking
in the back.' 

'A few times I saw Atta in there, hanging around. Once I made
eye contact with himdead on! Emphasis on "dead" because when
we locked eyes a chill went through me and I thought: "He's got
'dead' eyes." 

'When you become a shrink you sometimes get attuned to what might
be going on with a person just from seeing how they looktheir
faces and eyeson the street or in public. The chill I got when
I saw Atta was not the chill of fear. It was a chill about how
sick he looked. He looked to be one of the most depressed persons
I'd ever laid eyes on.' 

'He looked so depressed that it was as if he was already gone.
In retrospect I feel he may have been just as happy to die for
the sake of ending it all as he was to die for Allah.' 

'A couple of weeks after 9/11 the convenience store closed up,'
stated the psychiatrist, who has since moved out of state. 'I
was down there last summer visiting the old psych unit crew,
nurses and staff, at a yearly reunion at Sharkey's, and the store
was still closed up. I found a reference to the store on the
TERRORLAND website, and it got me thinking.' 

'I wish I'd paid more attention back then but who knew?' 

 Who was the Saudi in Armani and shades?

Cabbie Simpson told of how he had picked up a wealthy Saudi businessman
at the Orlando Airport after picking up the convenience store
owner at the apartment in Venice. The FBI expressed interest
in the rich Saudi, he said. 

'They were especially interested in a rich Saudi guy that I'd
been sent to pick up at the Orlando Airport. They said they already
knew that he'd ridden in my cab because they'd gotten my cab
number from a surveillance camera at the airport.' 

'He flew in on a private jet, and was dressed in Armani and shades,
with his wife, who wore traditional Arab clothing. After clearing
international customs, they proceeded back to a Venice apartment
rented by the convenience store owner. 

Six weeks later, he drove the wealthy Saudi's wife back to the
Orlando Airport, Simpson told the FBI. Again they left from the
convenience store owner's Venice apartment. When he arrived to
pick up his fare, Simpson was asked to come up to the apartment
to help carry a chest down to the cab.

'The chest was so heavy it took two people to carry,' Simpson
said. "A big bald guy who was there helped me carry the chest
down.' The man who helped him carry the chest down the stairs
to the cab, said Simpson, was Zacharias Moussaoui.

 A fungible commodity useful everywhere

Cabbie Simpson had been so clearly impressed with how heavy the
chest had been that we too were intrigued. We called a man we
knew to have worked for many years in American intelligence to
ask what he thought made the chest so heavy. 

'Gold,' he replied immediately. 'There was gold in that chest.'

The identification of Moussaoui in Venice confirmed what we had
reported exclusively nearly four years ago, when we learned that
the second Dutch national flight school owner at the Venice Airport,
Arne Kruithof, was questioned for two days by officials taking
depositions from potential witnesses in Moussaoui's trial. 

Further confirmation of Moussaoui's presence in Venice came much
later from an unlikely and usually highly-dubious source: Rudi
Dekkers. 

Continuing the FBI cover-up about the terrorist's activity in
Venice, jurors in the trial of Zacharias Moussaoui were never
told that Moussaoui had been there. 

They did however, hear testimony which confirmed the allegation
in 'Welcome to TERRORLAND,' of a systematic cover up by the FBI
of the fact that Venice was the terrorist's main base of operations.

In February 2001, the jurors were told, Mohamed Atta and Marwan
Al-Shehhi had been spotted in Clearwater Florida flying a single-engine
plane registered to Huffman Aviation...almost two months after
the FBI's official chronology states Atta left Venice and Huffman
for good.

 Ask Jack how Gus Boulis became "Abramoff-impaired"

We had initially thought that Makram Chams was probably an Arab
operative sent in early to smooth the way for the hijackers.

Then we discovered that Chams had been a PARTNER in 1997 and
1998 in a gambling boat called 'Vegas in Venice,' which cleaned
up in Venice for two years.

This information only added to our puzzlement. We wondered: Where
does an immigrant, bootstrapping himself up in America through
the time-tested method of owning a convenience store, get the
JUICE to be a partner in a gambling boat? 

People kill to get jobs like that in Florida. 

Just ask Jack Abramoff.

The controlling partner in the gambling ship in which Makram
Chams was a partner is Ian Goldfarb, from Gladwyne, Pa., a suburb
of Philadelphia. 

The only other local partner in the casino ship, we were shocked
to discover, was Max Burge, who we'd interviewed during research
for 'Welcome to TERRORLAND,' because Burge owned the planes used
at Huffman Aviation. 

Small world. But it soon got even smaller 

Frederic Geffon from 'Royal Sons,' the aggravated part-owner
of 'Cocaine One,' told us that he had done business with Burge.

 The San Diego FBI: Confidential informants you can trust!

Royal Sons had used the address of Huffman Aviation's hanger
at the Venice Airport in a few airplane ads. This is inexplicable,
at least it is to Royal Son's Frederic Geffon, who denies ever
placing plane ads with a Venice Airport address. His denial rang
a little hollow with his claim that anyone could have placed
ads claiming to be him. 

Possible, perhaps. But also, we think, highly unlikely.

We finally found someone who knew what had happened to Makram
Chams. It was his sister, May Chams. She was then working at
the same pharmacy in Venice  where we discovered, much later,
that Mohamed Atta had brought his father, less than two weeks
before the attack. We persisted in questioning May, in the face
of her obvious hostility, and were finally rewarded. 

'Mak is in San Diego," she told us,"helping the FBI.' 

Only now does her statement make sense to us. But, if Makram
hotfooted it to San Diego on 'business' after the 9.11 attack,
it would be a strong indication that he had a relationship with
Titan Corp... while he was still in Venice.  

 Compromise current operations at your peril

It has since been revealed that Titan trains mercenaries, and
provides mercenaries for operations. Current operations. Ongoing
operations...

Disclosures in the Duke Cunningham scandal lead directly to Titan.
Before it is done, this may present someone with some very thorny
problems. 

As a result of our investigation so far, for example, we will
be reporting in our next story that by delving into the relationships
between the corporations involved in the 5.5 ton cocaine caper
we have been able to  uncover evidence of the unmistakable presence,
behind the scenes in the scandal, of Saudi billionaire Adnan
Khashoggi...

The very same Adnan Khashoggi who has been a force behind a well-financed
disinformation campaign billing itself the '9.11 Truth Movement.'

The U.S. military has 1200-man psychological warfare battalion,
we learned recently. They probably aren't all working in Iraq.
In all likelihood, a psy-op has been waged against the American
people to draw attention from questions about who the terrorists
were associating with--and what they had been doing--while they
were in the U.S.

Questions with answers. 

Someone would prefer they not become public.

But you won't find much about any of this on the innumerable
websites of the '9.11 Truth Movement." Most seem to be utterly
fascinated currently with speculation about materials which might
have been secreted inside the Twin Towers which could have made
them collapse.

They used to utterly fascinated with proving that no plane hit
the Pentagon. Before that there were utterly fascinated with
the idea that the planes were flown by remote control. And on
and on. 

Controlling the debate is easy when a billionaire is footing
the bill.

Advantage Khashoggi.

But it ain't over till its over... And there's a DC9 sitting
in Mexico tonight whose anxious owners know something about this
powerful truth:

It ain't over. 

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