[wvns] 9/11 Accused Wants Justice

Man falsely accused of being involved in the Terrorists attack on the United States that happened on September 11, 2001 speaks out

From: benamar benatta <ben_batavia@yahoo.ca>
To Whom It May Concern;

I was falsely accused by the Canadian Officials of being involved in
the Terrorists attack on the United States that happened on September
11, 2001, and then illegally transferred to the U.S. by Canadian
officials on September 12, 2001 with nothing but prejudicial
suspicions. I was locked away in the U.S jails for nearly 5 years.

I was held in the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn , New
York , where I was treated as a suspect in the September 11, 2001
terrorist attacks. I was beaten. I was abused. I was held in
conditions that the United Nations Working Group which examined my
case described as torture.

I was actually cleared of any terrorist activity by the FBI in
November 2001; however, I was never told that I was cleared because I
was being held incommunicado and did not have access to a lawyer.

In all, I, an innocent man, spent nearly five years of my life in
American prisons in conditions that could be described as torture as
found by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in an Opinion
adopted in 2004. I also suffered serious abuse at the hands of the
prison guards, which is documented by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Canadian Government, various agencies and government officials all
bear some measure of responsibility for my ordeal.

I have been been allowed to return to Canada to resume his claim for
refugee status. My application is pending. He is trying to get his
life back. He is trying to find out the truth about why this happened
to him. For more information about Benatta's ordeal visit
www.benamarbenatta.com

I have been in Canada for over a year now, and the Canadian
Government declined to address the fact or open an investigation in
the illegal transfer. I am actually unemployed and enable to secure a
job based on the above cited facts. I am living in a despicable
situation as a result of the Canadian officials' actions.

I hereby also attached our press release which provides a wealth of
information about my ordeal. I would also encourage you to visit the
website of the Benatta Coalition for a Public Review, which is located
at www.benamarbenatta.com. You can also visit
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/canadians-need-the-truth-about-benatta
to view the comments left by Freedom loving Canadian Citizens asking
for a public review

I hope that when you read about my case, you feel compelled to lend
your voice in speaking out against the injustices I endured.

If I can provide any further information, please do not hesitate to
contact me directly.

Sincerely
Benamar Benatta
1112 Dufferin Street
Toronto, ON M6H 4B6

(416) 879-3481

Email: ben @ benamarbenatta.com

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Algerian held in U.S. nearly 5 years wants Canada's role probed
CBC News

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/04/18/benatta-asylum.html

Lawyers for a former Algerian air force lieutenant who spent nearly five years in American custody — despite being cleared by the FBI — are calling for an inquiry into Canada's role in his detention.

Benamar Benatta spent nearly five years in detention centres in Buffalo and Brooklyn, even though he was cleared of any links to terrorism.
(CBC) "I can't go on living like this. I need clarification … why I was treated in such a way," Benamar Benatta said during a news conference in Toronto Wednesday.

The former military avionics technician was detained by Canadian border guards on Sept. 5, 2001, at the Peace Bridge crossing between Buffalo, N.Y., and Fort Erie, Ont., as he applied for asylum. He had arrived with an expired visa.

Canadian officials handed him to U.S. authorities on Sept. 11, 2001, one of roughly 1,200 mostly Muslim men arrested by the U.S. after the terror attacks that day. He's believed to be one of the last of these detainees to be freed.

Benatta, a Muslim, spent nearly the next five years in detention centres in Buffalo and Brooklyn, even though the FBI cleared him of any links to terrorism in November 2001.

His lawyers said they have sent a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day asking for a review of "any and all actions of Canadian officials in relation to his ordeal."

Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay said Wednesday that he wouldn't comment on the matter until he knew all the details.

There had been earlier suggestions from Ottawa that Benatta voluntarily went to the U.S., but the federal government says it has no documentation to support that.

U.S.-Algerian exchange program
Benatta first arrived in the U.S. in December 2000 on a six-month visa to take part in training seminars in Baltimore for defence and military conglomerate Northrop Grumman. It was part of an exchange program between the American and Algerian militaries, he said.

He didn't return to Algeria, saying he feared for his life if he returned. His lawyers said he can't give any details about what happened in Algeria because his Canadian refugee claim is still pending.

He lived briefly in New York City before taking a bus to Buffalo on Sept. 5, 2001. He crossed the Peace Bridge into Canada, where he filed for asylum.

Canadian border officials declared him a person of interest, and held him in a cell in their offices while he was investigated.

On the evening of Sept. 11, Benatta said, U.S. security officials, including the FBI, came to his cell and questioned him about the attacks.

Taken to N.Y. detention centre
They took him to a holding cell in upstate New York, later transferring him to a high-security detention centre in Brooklyn, where he said he was kept in solitary confinement.

In November 2001, the FBI cleared him of any connection to terrorism, something he didn't learn until five months later, when he was transferred to a detention centre in Buffalo and given his first access to a lawyer.

While there, he also learned he faced charges of carrying false identification papers.

That charge was dropped in 2003, when a U.S. federal magistrate issued a scathing report into Benatta's detention, saying federal prosecutors and FBI and immigration agents took part in a "sham" to justify their actions.

Benatta was then transferred into U.S. immigration detention, where, his lawyers said, he went through a series of immigration reviews and appeals.

American officials hadn't ruled on his application when he was transferred back to Canada July 20, 2006, after Ottawa agreed to offer him temporary residence while he sought refugee status.

Benatta, who has no family in Canada, lives in Toronto on an allowance Ottawa provides refugee claimants.

His lawyers said they don't know why Benatta was released by the Americans, only that there were high-level negotiations between Canada and the U.S.

"What went on to allow him to return is completely and entirely unclear," said lawyer Nicole Chrolavicius.

Claims of torture
Benatta, who was 27 when he was first detained, said he was humiliated and tortured while in American custody.

U.S. officials wrote 'WTC' — meaning World Trade Center — on the door of his brightly lit cell, shackled his wrists and feet, bound his chest with a chain, denied him a lawyer and time to sleep, he said.

When asked whether Benatta would seek compensation, Chrolavicius said lawyers haven't yet launched a statement of claim but haven't ruled anything out.

"I know it's time for me to face what I went through and put it behind me and try to go on with my life, if I can," Benatta said. "I just need some explanation."

Benatta has recently been denied standing at Justice Frank Iacobucci's inquiry into the deportations of three Canadian citizens: Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin.

Chrolavicius said that was not a surprise, given the narrow scope of the terms of the inquiry.

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact:

Nicole Chrolavicius, B.A., LL.B., B.C.L. (Oxon.)
Barrister & Solicitor
672 Dupont Street, Suite 400
Toronto, Ontario M6G 1Z6
Tel: (416) 533-0040 x 226

Fax: (416) 533-0050

E-mail: nchrolavicius @ bakerlaw.ca

Website: www.bakerlaw.ca

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9/11 for dummies
Eric Walberg

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/861/in3.htm

As demonstrators march on the White House with a million signatures on
a petition to impeach Bush and Cheney, doubts persist about the event
that made them "wartime leaders", says Eric Walberg
www.geocities.com/walberg2002/

Theories about what really happened on 11 September, 2001 continue to
inspire books and documentaries and convince otherwise sane,
respectable public figures, not to mention the teeming masses.
Journalist Robert Fisk recently joined the fray, intrigued by the
scientific improbably of the buildings collapsing in such a seemingly
controlled way and charges by engineering professors who call the
final report "fraudulent or deceptive". As a Middle East expert, he
also finds the letter allegedly written by Mohamed Atta, the Egyptian
hijacker- murderer "weird", surely a forgery.

Another recent convert, University of Massachusetts Geoscience
Professor Lynn Margulis referred to 9/11 as "this new false-flag
operation, which has been used to justify the wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq as well as unprecedented assaults on research, education, and
civil liberties", and credited The New Pearl Harbor by David Ray
Griffin "which provides overwhelming evidence that the official story
is contradictory, incomplete, and unbelievable."

Robert M Bowman, the former head of the Star Wars missile defense
programme under former US leaders Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter figures
the main suspect is Vice-President Dick Cheney, that the military
command structure may not have been aware that the drills on the
morning of 9/11 to simulate planes crashing into buildings on the east
coast were actually a cover to dupe unwitting air defence personnel
into not responding quickly enough to stop the attack.

9/11 itself has perforce become a thing of legends, because all
evidence quickly disappeared from the scenes of the tragedies in New
York and Washington: the steel from the World Trade Center now
recycled and reimported as Chinese toaster ovens, and where are the
bits of the Boeing 757 that crashed into the Pentagon? The official 9/
11 Commission investigation pointedly ignored reams of damning
testimony, and key witnesses have been silenced by gag orders or just
ignored, so it appears more and more likely that we will never ever
know what exactly happened, who knew, who planned it all, who carried
it out, and why.

There are more versions of what might have happened than you can shake
a stick at, and are divided into LHOP (let it happen on purpose) and
MHOP (made it happen on purpose). The most far-fetched ones, such as
the theory the planes that supposedly hit the WTC were actually
hologrammes, are used to pooh-pooh any talk of conspiracy at all,
ignoring the fact that the biggest conspiracy theory -- and most far-
fetched one -- is the official version, which less than one- quarter
of respondents agreed with in a recent opinion poll in New York.
One of the earliest critiques, L'Effroyable Imposture (The Horrifying
Fraud) by Thierry Meyssan, became a bestseller in Europe in 2002, and
was the first to argue that the Pentagon was struck by an
air-to-ground missile fired by the US Air Force, with wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq and oil as the motives.

The farcical 9/11 Commission prompted the formation of a 9-11 Citizens
Commission in 2004 where Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney testified. The
first demonstrations "Bush did it!" started in 2002 across the US and
over six million "Deception Dollars", claiming 9/11 was an inside job,
have been distributed since then at various demonstrations. A
"European United for Truth" march taking place in Brussels on 9
September is the latest European protest. The most popular
organisations include the 9/11 Truth Movement formed in 2004, an
umbrella of dozens of grassroots organisations, with its own Internet
portal 911truth.org. There is an array of scholars, architects,
engineers, veterans for 9/11 Truth in the United States and abroad,
and even a Journal of 9/11 Studies.

A slew of recent documentaries have added weight to the many books
already published. The video documentary Loose Change is one of the
true miracles of the Internet. Director Dylan Avery put together this
powerful challenge to the establishment for a few thousand dollars and
it has already been downloaded over four million times. Charlie Sheen
recently agreed to provide the voiceover for a future cinema release.
It starkly relates the many smoking guns. Alex Jones's Martial Law --
9/11 argues that from Nero burning Rome to Hitler burning the
Reichstag, power-mad leaders through time have manufactured crises in
order to present the public with situations "where their police state
solutions 'make sense'. Give up your rights -- it's for your safety."
Others include Barry Zwicker's The Great Deception and George
Humphrey's The Grand Illusion.

But these Western efforts stick to the theory that it was a US plan,
with oil and political control by right-wing forces as the motive.
Only the unofficial Muslim world pointed the finger at Israel from the
start. Is it possible Mossad infiltrated (or itself organised) Muslim
terrorist cells and carried out the attacks?

As the WTC burned and crumpled, five men, movers with Urban Moving
Systems, an Israeli company and very likely a Mossad front group,
celebrated and filmed the atrocity. At least two of them were Israeli
intelligence agents, working for Mossad. They were arrested and
eventually deported at the end of November 2001 under suspicious
circumstances. There is little doubt now that Mossad was spying on
Arab extremists in the US and knew the attack was in the offing. 140
Israelis were detained prior to 11 September, 2001, as part of a
widespread investigation into an Israeli espionage ring, the infamous
"Israeli art students". Following 9/11, 60 more Israelis were arrested.

After the attacks on New York and Washington, former Israeli Prime
Minister Benyamin Netanyahu was asked what the terrorist strikes would
mean for US-Israeli relations. He said: "It's very good." Then he
corrected himself, adding: "Well, it's not good, but it will generate
immediate sympathy [for Israel from the Americans]." According to the
official Israeli 9/11 memorial site, only three Israelis died in the
WTC (one was a deaf janitor); one elite commando was aboard Flight 11
and a woman was aboard United 175 which hit the WTC. Then there are
the Odigo messages Israelis got two hours before the events, warning
them not to go to the WTC. Cui bono anyone?

Whatever the real story behind 9/11, history is littered with real and
imagined conspiracies, especially where the Cold War was concerned. We
can laugh in retrospect at attempts to poison Fidel Castro's cigars
but the great turning points in the past half century where militarism
triumphed have all contained elements of conspiracy. In each case mass
peace movements created pressure on politicians to resist militarism,
yet the right was able to triumph. When necessary, using subversion
and conspiracy. Sometimes, by merely latching onto imagined threats.
Leaving aside the assassination of president John F Kennedy, who was
purportedly about to pull out of Vietnam and end the Cold War,
consider the fateful year 1979. The US was still reeling under the
anti-war movement and the public revulsion to all things military
following Vietnam, and was forced to sign major disarmament treaties
and cooperate with the Soviets, coming very close to ending the Cold
War, at least publically. The Apollo-Souz space programme was the most
visible manifestation of this. The Olympics were about to be held in
Moscow, when the world was suddenly shocked by the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan.

The real story behind this was that the US had secretly begun a
programme of covert aid to the Afghan guerrillas six months before the
Soviets invaded. Former CIA director and current Minister of Defense
Robert Gates in his 1996 memoir From the Shadows revealed that
peace-loving president Carter approved a secret $500 million aid
programme designed to counter the Soviet support to the pro-Soviet
regime that had overthrown the dictator Mohamed Dawoud Khan (who had
just overthrown his cousin, King Mohamed Nadir Shah) in Kabul.
According to Gates, at a meeting on 30 March, 1979, Under-Secretary of
Defense Walter Slocumbe suggested "there was value in keeping the
Afghan insurgency going, 'sucking the Soviets into a Vietnamese
quagmire'." Carter, who authorised the covert programme on 3 July,
1979, today explains that it was definitely "not my intention" to
inspire a Soviet invasion. Was this also a conspiracy, with naïve
Jimmy a dupe? LHOP or MHOP? Either way, it created the foundations for
the greatest military build-up that the world has ever seen, as Reagan
won a landslide election on the promise to deposit the SU in history's
rubbish bin. Oh, it also created Al-Qaeda.

Unfortunately for the right, Reagan's success had its downside. With
the collapse of the Soviet Union, the American war machine lost its
raison d'etre and the world expected a peace dividend, a dismantling
of both the Soviet and US arsenals and an end to the unending arms
race. The Cold War was finally over, the "enemy" defeated. Funny how
9/11 came along just in time.

Some smoking guns:

The CIA's 1962 Operation Northwoods to create and utilise bogus
terrorist attacks against the US substituting real commercial
airliners with pilotless drone aircraft.
- The 2000 Project for the New American Century report Rebuilding
America's Defenses mentioning "some catastrophic and catalysing event
-- like a new Pearl Harbour."
- Also in 2000 the first of two training exercises conducted which
simulated a Boeing 757 crashing into the WTC. The second "exercise"
was scheduled for the exact time that the 9/11 events occurred.
- From 6-10 September 2001 an unusual amount of put options placed on
American Airlines, Boeing and United Airlines stock.
- Bin Laden's denial of involvement in a statement on 16 September:
"The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these
attacks within itself; to the people who want to make the present
century a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity."

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