September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

Curiously, the five Raytheon executives chose three of the four doomed jets and all happened
to fly on September 11.” [Fort Collins, Colorado, May 26, 2005, TomFlocco.com]
• Washington Group International would later benefit significantly from military
contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“On April 4, 2003, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Transatlantic Programs Center
announced that it had awarded three contracts "to rapidly execute design and construction
services as needed anywhere" in the area of operations for the U.S. military's Central
Command (CENTCOM). The one-year contracts, awarded to Fluor Intercontinental, Perini
Corporation and Washington Group International, are indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity
(ID/IQ) contracts with a guaranteed minimum value of $500,000 and a maximum of $100
million. In late September 2003, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued additional task
orders totaling $278 million on the three contracts, and the Corps decided to raise the contract
ceiling from $100 million to $500 million.”
“According to the Pentagon, the same U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contracts won by
Washington Group International, along with Fluor Continental and Perini, will cover work
performed by the companies in Afghanistan. There, they will rebuild damaged roads and
replace a destroyed bridge in Afghanistan as part of their individual contracts to support
CENTCOM. Those contracts have a minimum value of $500,000 and a maximum of $500
million.” [Center for Public Integrity]
• Flanagan would then become a VP of Titan Corp., the Defense contractor
responsible for those contractors charged in the Abu Ghraib torture cases, and
according to this report’s speculation, the murder of Nick Berg. Titan Corp. is
also a major owner of Skyways Aircraft, a business partner with another shell
company called Royal Sons Inc. of St Petersburg, FL. This latter company used a
mailing address which was the same as Huffman Aviation, which was the flight
training school used by 9/11 hijackers.
According to SEC documents, in early February of 2000 Titan put up $72,386 for restricted
shares of a shell company Farkas created which later became SkyWay. …Several top
executives of SkyWays Aircraft, the American firm which owned the DC9 in partnership with
Royal Sons Inc. of St Petersburg, FL. including the company’s President, James Kent, are
former members of U.S. military intelligence….The plane's registered owner, “Royal Sons
LLC,” a Florida air charter company, at one time used the address of a hanger at the Venice
Fl. Airport owned by infamous flight school Huffman Aviation. No one at the Venice Airport
remembered them. [Dusty & 'the boys' II: Secrets of the Black Budget Scandal, Daniel
Hopsicker, MadCow Morning News, May 7 2007]
The “war games” connection is important and disturbing. As documented later in this
report, Cantor Fitzgerald had, in 1997 and 2000, participated in official US war games.
At least six major U.S. war games were under way on September 11, having been “rescheduled”
from their original date in October. (The question needs to be asked and
answered: why were the games rescheduled, and why was the September 11 th date
chosen?) There has to be an assumption that in a major war game exercise, Cantor would
have been involved again. Flanagan and the other executives involved in supporting
those games should have been at the office, but were not.
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