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Tiamat,
mother of gods, goddess of primeval chaos, Babylon
A note about the dating of
items in Wilson's Almanac
A sea dragon, Tiamat is a
primeval goddess in Babylonian
and Sumerian
mythology, and a central figure in the Enűma Elish
creation epic. Her slaying by the god Marduk, the
son of Enki,
was commemorated at the Akitu
festival in which life was seen as the taming of primeval Chaos, a task that never
ends. Slicing Tiamat in half, Marduk made heaven and earth from the
two halves.
Some modern sources assert or
suggest that the Tiamat/Marduk legend invokes an ancient switch-over
from a matriarchal,
goddess worshipping (possibly Palaeolithic) culture to a patriarchal,
god-worshipping one, but scholarly evidence of such an occurrence is
slim and tenuous at best. See some links at 'Goddess
Pseudo-History'.
Genesis
and Enűma Elish creation myth comparisons
See also April
4, 539 BCE
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Feast day of St Leonard of Noblac
(Yew, Taxus baccata, is
today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Leonard of Noblac or of Limoges, or Lienard
(died traditionally in 559),
according to the romance
that accrued to his name recorded in an 11th-Century vita,
was a Frankish
noble in the court of
Clovis
I and founder of the monastery of Noblac. He became the patron saint of
prisoners, Clovis having given him permission to release all whom he
visited.
He
was converted to Christianity along with the king, (a public event at Christmas
496), by St Remigius (St
Rémy), Bishop
of Reims. He is usually represented as a deacon holding
chains or broken fetters in his hand.
His patronage includes against burglaries, against robberies, against robbers, blacksmiths, burglaries, captives, Castelmauro, Italy, childbirth, coal miners, coopers, coppersmiths, greengrocers, grocers, horses, imprisoned people, locksmiths, miners, porters, P.O.W.'s prisoners, prisoners of war, robberies, women in labour, and robbers.
During
the middle ages, Leonard or Lienard was greatly revered in France, England and
Germany, but nothing much is known of him. He was a hermit, who
founded a monastery at Noblac (now Saint-Léonard), near Limoges, in
the sixth century. Today Saint-Leonard de Noblat, Haute-Vienne,
population 4766 in 1999, is one of the UNESCO World
Heritage Sites connected with the routes to Santiago (see more
on this famous pilgrimage at July
25). It retains the Romanesque collegial church and belltower
52m tall, and its old houses follow a medieval street pattern.
He performed many
miracles. He became one of the most venerated saints of the late
Middle Ages and his intercession was credited with miracles for the
release of prisoners, women in labor and the diseases of cattle. On
this, his feast
day, he is honoured with a festival at
Bad
Tölz, Bavaria.
He was
known for dragon
slaying. He is guardian spirit of St Leonard's
forest in Sussex, England.
"The legend says that one day
the king went hunting in this forest, accompanied by his wife,
who was pregnant. The moment of birth arrived, and it was clear
that the queen was in difficulties. Leonard fell to prayer on
her behalf, and her baby was delivered safely. In gratitude the
king said that the saint should be given as much land as he
could ride round in one day on his donkey. Leonard rode all day,
was granted many acres and there founded the abbey of Noblac
around which grew the town of Saint-Léonard."
Source
In
England no fewer than 177 churches are dedicated to this Leonard.
The various places named Saint
Leonard or St
Leonards refer to this saint.
St
Leonard's Ride
"In Bavaria, people dress up in native costume and decorate their
horses in preparation for a festive procession in honor of St
Leonard, the patron of cattle. They march with their cattle in the
procession, led by white horses, while singing and cracking whips.
It is possible this date was once associated with a cattle
sacrifice." Source
More
dragon-slaying saints in the
Scriptorium and Book of Days
Egyptian day (dies egypticus, dies ćgypticus or
dies mala), unlucky day in
Medieval Europe. ("But, notwithstanding, I will trust the Lord"
was the associated saying.)
Feast day of All Saints of Ireland
Feast day of St Atticus
Feast day of St Barlaam of Khutyn
Feast day of St Christina
of Stommeln (Christina Bruzo, or Bruso)
Feast day of St Demetrian of Cyprus
Feast day of St Edwen of Brittany
Feast day of St Efflam of Brittany
Feast day of St Erlafrid of
Hirschau
Feast day of St Felix of Fondi
Feast day of St Felix of Thynissa
Feast day of St Galla
Feast
day of St Joseph
Khang
Feast day of St Josepha
Naval Girbes
Feast day of St Leonard of Reresby
Feast day of St Leonianus of Autun
Feast day of St Margaret of
Lorraine
Feast day of St Melaine of
Rennes
Feast day of St Pinnock
Feast day of St Severus of
Barcelona
Feast day of St Theophane
Venard
Feast
day of St Winnoc
"His
feast is kept on 6 November, that of his translation on 18
September; a third, the Exaltation of St. Winnoc, was formerly
kept on 20 February."
Source
"Died
6 November 716 or 717; originally buried at Wormhout;
relics translated to Bergues-Saint-Winnoc in 899; people who stood along the route
taken by the monks were reported to have been
healed of many illnesses, especially coughs and fevers, and they have been
brought out to stop drought; the monastery was burned by
Protestants in 1558 destroying some relics, by [sic]
some of Winnoc's have survived."
Source
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2948 BCE Noah was born, according to old tradition.
A Legend of the Great Flood from Australia
15 or 16 Agrippina the younger (d. 59), Roman
empress
1479
Joanna (Spanish:
Juana) (d. April
12, 1555),
called Joanna the Mad (Juana La Loca), queen
of Castile and mother of the Holy
Roman Emperor Charles
V, was the second daughter of Ferdinand,
king of Aragon,
and Isabella,
queen of Castile.
Her youngest sister was Catherine
of Aragon, the first wife of Henry
VIII of England.
In 1496,
at Lille, Joanna
was married to the archduke Philip
the Handsome, son of the German King Maximilian
I, and at Ghent
in February 1500,
she gave birth to future emperor Charles
V. After Philip unexpectedly died due to typhus
fever in Burgos in September 1506,
Joanna became completely deranged.
1638
James Gregory, inventor of the
reflecting telescope
1814 Adolphe Sax (d.
February 3,
1894),
Belgian inventor of the saxophone
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1833 Jonas Lie (d. 1908), Norwegian
author
1851 Charles Dow (d. 1902), American
journalist
who co-founded Dow
Jones & Company and The
Wall Street Journal
1854 John Philip Sousa (d. 1932),
American march composer
('The Stars and Stripes Forever')
 1860
Ignace Paderewski,
GBE (Ignacy Jan Paderewski; Ignaz Paderewski; d.
June 29, 1941),
Polish pianist, composer and
prime
minister (January,
1919 -
November,
1919).
Paderewski
studied from 1884 -
'87 under
Theodor Leschetizky, before specializing as a
virtuoso pianist. He conducted highly successful tours of Europe and
America. His works included two operas, a symphony, two concertos
and a great deal of piano music, including the famous Minuet in G. After World War
I, he was chosen as prime minister of the new republic of his native
Poland as a result of his political activities and such work as
raising relief funds. He was a signatory to the Treaty of
Versailles, and attended the Paris Peace Conference. During World
War II, he was chairman of the Polish national council in exile.
"The son of a steward of a Polish landowner, he studied music from 1872 at the Warsaw Conservatory and from 1878 taught piano there. In 1880 he married one of his pupils, Antonina Korsak, who died in childbirth the following year. Encouraged and financed by the actress Helena Modrzejewska (Modjeska), he studied in Vienna from 1884 to 1887 under Theodor Leschetizky, who did much to improve a limited technique. During this period he also taught at the Strasbourg Conservatory. Between 1887 and 1891 he made his first public appearances as a pianist, in Vienna, Paris, London, and New York City. His success with the public was overwhelming; his personality on the concert platform, like that of Liszt, his predecessor among piano virtuosos, generated a mystical devotion. Among his colleagues, however, he was more envied than respected. Chopin (whose works he edited), Bach, Beethoven, and Schumann were the chief composers of his repertory. In 1898 he settled at Riond Bosson near Morges in Switzerland and the following year married Helena Gorska, Baroness von Rosen. In 1901 his opera Manru, dealing with life in the Tatra Mountains, was given at Dresden. In 1909 his Symphony in B Minor was given at Boston, and in the same year he became director of the Warsaw Conservatory." Source
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1880 Robert Musil (d. 1942),
novelist (The Man Without Qualities)
1892 Harold
Ross (d.1951), editor (The New Yorker)
1893 Edsel
Ford, only child of Henry
Ford, who grew up to
be the chief of Ford Motors, and after whom the failed Ford Edsel car was name
1907 Grigory
Semienovich Koshnitsky (Garry
Koshnitsky; 'Grand Old Man of
Australian Chess'), Australian chess
champion, born in Kishenev, Russia, who created a
British Commonwealth record by playing 136 opponents simultaneously
in eight hours. Grigory Koshnitsky was also an anti-tank
gunner during World War II. For 45 years, he served as editor of the
chess column in the Sydney Sun-Herald, from 1949; in 1947, he
started a chess
academy at
Anthony Horden's store in Sydney, which ran till 1960.
1910
Erik Ode (d. 1983), film director and actor
1913
Una Prentice, the first woman law graduate to be admitted to
the Queensland (Australia)
bar
1916 Ray Conniff (d.2002), composer, conductor
1919
Fred Krahe ('the Killer
Cop'; d.
December 6,
1981), allegedly
corrupt Australian policeman who worked in Sydney; he was a
close associate of corrupt police officers,
Ray 'Gunner' Kelly
and Roger Rogerson
and
alleged to have had a long-standing corrupt relationship with powerful criminal
Lenny McPherson, who was known as the 'Mr Big' of
Sydney organized crime. He also consorted with a notorious gang called the
Toecutters, and there have also been allegations that Krahe was involved in the
1975 disappearance and presumed murder of anti-development campaigner
Juanita Nielsen.
Krahe is sometimes accused of
the murder of Donald
Mackay, a parliamentarian and anti-corruption campaigner.
Robert Trimbole was
also so accused.
"The man Frank Nugan
hired as his private investigator was Fred Krahe, an ex- NSW detective whose
reputation as an underworld enforcer and hit man earned him the nickname of
the 'Killer Cop'. In The Prince and The Premier, David Hickie called
Krahe the'King of crooked police during the Askin era, he organised the
abortion rackets, armed hold-ups, the framing of criminals and bribery
payments among prostitutes and the police, and he maintained a reputation
feared in the Sydney underworld'.
"In July 1977, Frank Nugan possessed both the motive for the murder of
Donald Mackay and the likely murder weapon, Fred Krahe ..."
Source
1921 Julius Hackethal (d. 1991), physician
1921 James Jones (d. 1977), writer
1928 Peter Matz (d. 2002), composer
1929 Jack
Micheline (Harold Martin Silver; d. February 27,
1998), American beat
poet (River of Red Wine)
"In 1957, Troubadour Press, which published a jazz and poetry magazine called
Climax, agreed to bring out a book if Micheline would stagger the lines of each poem to make his verse look more unconventional, and if he would get a
'famous person' to write the introduction. Jack Kerouac was sharing an apartment in the building where Micheline was living. Kerouac liked Micheline's work and did him the favor, referring to him as the
'Doctor Johnson Zen Master Magee of Innisfree', punning on the title of Yeats' famous poem and
'in us free', meaning that Micheline was free inside himself. The book,
River of Red Wine, was reviewed by Dorothy Parker in Esquire
magazine (September, 1958, p. 12)." Source
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Foundation
The Beat Museum
1931 Mike Nichols, German-born American
film director (Oscar:
The
Graduate)
1946 Sally Field, American actress
(Oscars:
Norma Rae and
Places in the Heart)
1947 George
Young, of 1960s
Australian band The
Easybeats ('Friday On My Mind'). He was also played in the Marcus
Hook Roll Band with his brothers Malcolm
Young and Angus
Young (later of AC/DC
fame) and with friend Harry
Vanda, with whom he was famously partnered in Vanda
and Young.
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1948 Glenn Frey, founder-member of The
Eagles
1949 Nigel
Havers,
English-born actor. The son of the Lord
Havers, a former Lord
Chancellor, he was born in London
and educated at the Arts Educational School.
1949 Arturo Sandoval, trumpeter
1955 Maria Shriver, journalist and First Lady
of California
1965 Greg Graffin, singer and founder of Bad Religion
1970 Ethan Hawke, actor
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1003 Death
of Pope
John XVII.
1406 Death of Pope
Innocent VII.
1429 Henry VI was crowned King of England.
1528 Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núńez Cabeza de Vaca became
the first known European to set foot on Texas.
1632 (Julian Calendar) King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was killed in the
Batttle of Lützen, near
Leipzig, in which his army was
nonetheless victorious.
1672 Death of Heinrich
Schütz, composer.
1789 Pope Pius VI appointed Father John
Carroll as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United
States.
1789 Australia's first mainland-built vessel, the Rose Hill Packet, was launched in Sydney.
 1796
Ekaterina (or Yekaterina) II of Russia (b.
1729), also known
as Catherine the Great, the German-born Empress of Russia, died without having regained consciousness
following a stroke that she
suffered on November 5, 1796, while sitting on a
commode at
her Saint Petersburg palace.
Ekaterina (her name in Russian) exemplified an 'enlightened monarch'. A cousin to Gustav III of Sweden and to Charles XIII of Sweden, and a distant cousin of Queen Victoria
of Britain, Catherine the Great reigned as empress of Russia from June 28,
1762, to her death.
Catherine is still famous for her
sexual appetites and many lovers. She even had a secret room constructed, filled
with paintings and sculptures depicting many sexual acts, rape, paedophilia
and bestiality
in realistic and graphic detail. Even the furniture incorporated depictions of
giant sexual organs. However, there is no historical base for the often-told
story that she was crushed to death when attendants
lost their grip on ropes supporting a horse that was being lowered on her for sexual purposes.
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Some have suggested that Polish emigrés might have
invented the story in order to discredit her and the Russians in general,
because Poland fared badly at the hands of Russian armies during her long and
authoritarian reign.
Catherine's lovers
1752 Serge Saltykov
1756 Stanislaw Poniatowski
1758 Gregory Orlov
1772 Alexander Vassichikov
1774 Gregory Potemkin
1776 Peter Zavandovski
1777 Simon Zorich
1778 Ivan Rimsky-Korsakov
1780 Alexander Lanskoi
1783 Alexander Ermolov
1786 Alexander Mamonov
1789 Plato Zubov
1813 Mexico was proclaimed independent from
Spain.
1816 Death of Gouverneur
Morris, lawmaker and diplomat.
1836 Death of King Charles X of France
(b. 1757).
1844 The Dominican Republic gained independence from Haiti.
1860 US presidential election, 1860: Abraham
Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States, the
first Republican to hold that office.
1861 American Civil War: Jefferson
Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1861 Australia: Electric
telegraph linked Brisbane with
NSW,
Victoria and
South Australia.
1869
Blackfriars Bridge over the
Thames in London was opened by Queen Victoria.
1888 US presidential election, 1888: Democrat incumbent Grover
Cleveland won the overall popular vote, but was voted out of office because
he lost in the Electoral College to Republican challenger Benjamin
Harrison.
1893 Death of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky,
the great Russian composer, died of cholera in
Saint Petersburg. He is famous for
such works as Swan Lake,
The Sleeping Beauty
and
The Nutcracker.
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Tchaikovsky's music available here
1900 US presidential election, 1900: Republican incumbent William
McKinley was re-elected by defeating Democrat challenger William Jennings Bryan.
1911 Enrolment in Australian federal elections became compulsory.
1913 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
(Mahatma
Gandhi), Indian leader and proponent of civil disobedience, led a
'Great March' of 2,000 Indian miners from Newcastle across the Transvaal
border in Natal, South
Africa.. Gandhi was arrested at
Palmford.
 1917 World War I: The Third Battle of Ypres (often called the Battle
of Passchendaele) ended: after three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces
took Ypres in Belgium.
British, ANZAC and Canadian forces had
fought the German
army near Ypres (Ieper in Flemish;
'Wipers' to the Aussies) in
West Flanders,
northwestern Belgium, over the control of the village of Passchendaele since July 31.
In just three months of hell, Passchendaele
cost more than half a million lives – the Germans lost about 250,000, and the
British about the same. The small, new nation of Australia, with a population
of less than five million, lost 36,500 men. Ninety thousand British or
Australian bodies were never even identified, and 42,000 were never recovered.
Commander
in Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig,
never went to the Western Front and ignored reports of the appalling conditions
there.
When
his Chief of Staff, Sir Lancelot Kiggell, visited near the end of the campaign
he reportedly broke down and said: "Good God, did we really send men to
fight in that?"
Australia
had the only volunteer army on the Western Front – all the others were
conscripted forces. Australia had two nationally divisive referenda
on conscription
during WWI, both of which were defeated despite intense 'Yes' lobbying by Prime Minister
Billy Hughes.
Eventually, on November 12, the
Canadians took the village of Passchendaele, or what was left of it, and the
battle was finally over.
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1918 The Second Polish Republic was proclaimed in Poland.
1918 Australia's first electric train, between
Newmarket and
Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, went into service.
1920 Henry
Forster, 1st Baron Forster of Lepe (January
31, 1866 - January
15, 1936) assumed office as Australia's eighth
Governor-General, a post he held until
1925.
1923 The electric razor was patented.
1923 The German mark reached the figure of 4.2 trillion to the US
dollar, compared with 4.2 to the dollar ten years before. A loaf of bread cost
200 million marks.
1924 Tory Stanley Baldwin
(1867 -
1947) was elected prime minister of Britain.
1925 Death
of Khai Dinh,
Emperor of Vietnam.
1928 Swedes started a
tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to
commemorate the king.
1928 US presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert
Hoover won by a wide margin over Democrat Alfred
E Smith.
1931 The Fascist government of Benito Mussolini awarded prizes to the
largest Italian families.
1935 Before
the New York
section of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Edwin
Armstrong presented his paper, 'A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio
Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation' (see: FM radio).
1935 The inaugural flight of the
Hawker
Hurricane, the RAF's first monoplane
fighter.
1939 The Hedda
Hopper Show debuted with Hollywood gossip Hedda
Hopper as host (the show ran until 1951 and made Hopper a
powerful figure in the Hollywood elite).
1941 World War
II: Soviet leader Josef Stalin addressed the Soviet
Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He stated that
even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks
so far, that the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers (a wildly false lie) and
that Soviet victory was near.
1946 Mohandas Karamchand
Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) left Calcutta for Noakhali by a special train. He issued a statement on
'Partial Fast'.
Gandhi
Timeline
1947 USA: Meet
The Press made its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September
12, 1948).
1952 The
world's first hydrogen bomb was exploded at
Enewetak, an island in the
Pacific. The atoll completely disappeared.
1956 US presidential election, 1956: Republican incumbent Dwight D Eisenhower was re-elected by defeating Democrat challenger Adlai
E Stevenson in a rematch of their contest four years earlier.
1956 The commencement of construction of the
Zambezi River's
Kariba Dam.
1957 Félix
Gaillard became Prime Minister of France
1962 Apartheid:
The United
Nations General Assembly passed a resolution condemning South
Africa's racist
apartheid policies and called for all UN member states to cease military and
economic relations with the nation.
1963 Vietnam War:
Following the November 1 coup and murder of President Ngo Dinh
Diem, coup leader General Duong
Van Minh took over leadership of South
Vietnam.
1965 Freedom Flights began: Cuba and the United
States formally agreed to start an airlift for Cubans who wanted to go to
the United States (by 1971
250,000 Cubans took advantage of this program to flee the Leninist paradise).
1971 The AEC tested the largest US
underground
hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on
Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1972
Faraday
school kidnapping: Twenty-year-old schoolteacher, Mary Gibbs, and six of her small pupils at Faraday
State School, north of Melbourne, Australia, were kidnapped by two men; a ransom
demand of $1 million was made. The Victorian Education Minister and future
Premier, Lindsay
Thompson, arrived at the scene and waited alone to personally deliver the
ransom but it was never collected. Mary Gibbs escaped with the children from the van
in which they were being held captive. Both kidnappers were arrested and
imprisoned.
1975
Green March began: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans
converged on the southern city of
Tarfaya and waited for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western
Sahara.
1975 The Sex Pistols' first gig, at
St Martin's College of Art
and Design,
London. Amid scenes of mayhem, the college's social secretary pulled the plug
on the band.
1977 The Kelly
Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa,
Georgia, USA, failed, killing 39.
1978 Australian rock
'n' roll legend Johnny
O'Keefe died of a heart attack, aged 43.
1985 In Colombia,
leftist guerrillas of the
19th of April Movement seized control of the Palace of
Justice in Bogotá,
eventually killing 115 people, eleven of them Supreme Court justices.
1985 Australia: A painting titled The Settlers' Camp, by Sir Arthur
Streeton, sold at auction for $800,000.
1991 The Communist parties of the Soviet Union and Russia were
banned by a decree of Boris Yeltsin.
1999
Australians
voted to keep the British
monarch as their head
of state in the Australian
republic referendum. This was a two-question referendum.
The first question asked whether Australia
should become a republic
with a President
appointed by Parliament,
a
bi-partisan
appointment model which had previously been decided at a Constitutional
Convention in February 1998.
The second question, generally deemed to be far less important politically,
asked whether Australia should alter the constitution
to insert a preamble.
Neither of the amendments passed, with the 'no' side receiving 54.4% of the vote.
For some years, opinion
polls had clearly suggested that the majority of the electorate favoured
republicanism, but still the referendum was comfortably defeated. The majority
of analysis has advanced two main reasons for this ... Read
on at Wikipedia
Bush took FBI agents off bin Laden family trail
2001
Greg Palast, a New
York Times-bestselling author and a journalist
for the British
Broadcasting Corporation as well as the British
newspaper
The
Observer, reported
on on the BBC program Newsnight,
that "just days after the hijackers took off from Boston aiming for the Twin Towers, a special charter flight out of the same airport whisked 11 members of
Osama
bin Laden's family off to Saudi Arabia".
FBI agents were also told to back off the Saudi
Arabian family – although that has all changed since September
11, 2001.
The former head of the American visa bureau in Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia, from 1987 to 1989, Michael Springman, told the program: "In
Saudi Arabia I was repeatedly ordered by high-level State Department officials
to issue visas to unqualified applicants.
"People who had no ties either to Saudi Arabia or
to their own country. I complained there. I complained here in Washington to
Main State, to the Inspector General and to Diplomatic Security and I was
ignored."
He added: "What I was doing was giving visas to
terrorists – recruited by the CIA and Osama bin Laden to come back to the
United States for training to be used in the war in Afghanistan against the then
Soviets."
Palast said: "The younger Bush made his first
million 20 years ago with an oil company partly funded by Salem Bin Laden's
chief US representative. Young George also received fees as director of a
subsidiary of Carlyle Corporation, a little known private company which has, in
just a few years of its founding, become one of Americas biggest defence
contractors. His father, Bush Senior, is also a paid advisor. And what became
embarrassing was the revelation that the Bin Ladens held a stake in Carlyle,
sold just after September 11."
He added: "I received a phone call from a
high-placed member of a US intelligence agency. He tells me that while there's
always been constraints on investigating Saudis, under George Bush it's gotten
much worse. After the elections, the agencies were told to 'back off'
investigating the Bin Ladens and Saudi royals, and that angered agents. I'm told
that since September 11th the policy has been reversed. FBI headquarters told us
they could not comment on our findings. A spokesman said: 'There are lots
of things that only the intelligence community knows and that no-one else ought
to know.'"
Source
"FBI and military intelligence officials in Washington say they were prevented for political reasons from carrying out full investigations into members of the Bin Laden family in the US before the terrorist attacks of September 11.
"US intelligence agencies have come under criticism for their wholesale failure to predict the catastrophe at the World Trade Centre. But some are complaining that their hands were tied."
Source
Myths of the 'War on
Terrorism' and Iraq September
11 Prior Knowledge Archive
2001 Michael
Bloomberg was elected mayor of New
York City.
2001
David
Trimble was re-elected prime
minister of Northern
Ireland. 2002
American actress Winona
Ryder was found guilty of shoplifting after stealing items worth $5,500 from
a New York
boutique. 2004
Official Guided
by Voices Day in Dallas,
Texas. Guided by Voices (often abbreviated as GBV) was a prolific
lo-fi/indie-rock
band
from Dayton,
Ohio.
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