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FBI Report Implicates Saudi Government in 9/11
Contrary to the official narrative, 9/11 was state-sponsored terror. The only question is which state sponsored it.
A 9/11 Commissioner and Co-Chair of the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 say in sworn declarations that the Saudi government is linked to the 9/11 attacks.
This week, the Miami Herald provided more evidence of a Saudi link:
A Saudi family who “fled” their Sarasota area home weeks before 9/11 had “many connections” to “individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001,” according to newly released FBI records.
One partially declassified document, marked “secret,” lists three of those individuals and ties them to the Venice, Fla., flight school where suicide hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi trained. Accomplice Ziad Jarrah took flying lessons at another school a block away.
Atta and al-Shehhi were at the controls of the jetliners that slammed into the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center, killing nearly 3,000 people. Jarrah was the hijacker-pilot of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in a field in rural Pennsylvania.
The names, addresses and dates of birth of the three individuals tied to the flight school were blanked out before the records were released to BrowardBulldog.org amid ongoing Freedom of Information Act litigation.
The information in the documents runs counter to previous FBI statements. It also adds to concerns raised by official investigations but never fully explored, that the full truth about Saudi Arabia and the 9/11 attacks has not yet been told.
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The documents are the first released by the FBI about its once-secret probe in Sarasota. Information contained in the documents flatly contradicts prior statements by FBI agents in Miami and Tampa who have said the investigation found no evidence connecting the al-Hijjis to the hijackers or the 9/11 plot.
Concerned residents in the gated community of Prestancia tipped the FBI, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, to the al-Hijjis’ sudden departure in late August 2001. The family left behind three cars, clothes, furniture, diapers, toys, food and other items.
[A] counterterrorism officer and Prestancia’s former administrator, Larry Berberich, both said an analysis of gatehouse security records — log books and snapshots of license tags — had determined that vehicles either driven by or carrying several of the future hijackers had visited the al-Hijji home.
Phone records revealed similar, though indirect, ties to the hijackers, said the counterterrorism officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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An April 16, 2002, FBI report says “repeated citizen calls” led to an inspection of the home by agents of the Southwest Florida Domestic Security Task Force.
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That person and a second individual were said to be flight students at Huffman Aviation — the flight school at the Venice Municipal Airport attended by hijackers Atta and al-Shehhi.
The third person on the list “lived with flight students at Huffman Aviation” and was “arrested numerous times by the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office,” the report says.
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A notice on the document indicates the censored information regarding the three individuals associated with the terrorist attacks is scheduled to remain classified for another 25 years — until March 14, 2038.
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Al-Hijji, who following 9/11 worked for the Saudi oil company Aramco in England, could not be reached by phone or email last week. Aramco staff said there was no longer anyone by that name in the London office.
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The FBI documents also disclose that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., queried Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller about the Sarasota investigation six days after its existence was disclosed in Broward Bulldog/Miami Herald story.
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Similarly, Weich denied an assertion by then Sen. Bob Graham of Florida that the FBI had not turned over its Sarasota records to Congress. The bureau, he stated, made all of its records available and suggested they may have been overlooked by investigators.
The documents the FBI has released do not mention other known aspects of the Sarasota investigation, including information provided to the FBI by al-Hijji’s former friend, Wissam Hammoud.
Hammoud, 47, is a federal prisoner classified by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons as an “International Terrorist Associate.” He is serving a 21-year sentence for weapons violations and attempting to kill a federal agent and a witness in a previous case against him.
[S]hortly after his 2004 arrest, Hammoud told agents that al-Hijji considered Osama bin Laden a “hero,” may have known some of the hijackers, and once introduced Hammoud to fugitive al-Qaeda leader and ex-Miramar resident Adnan Shukrijumah.
When reached last year, al-Hijji acknowledged having known Hammoud well. He did not, however, respond to a question about Hammoud’s allegations and said Shukrijumah’s name did not “ring a bell.”
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Other FBI documents about Sarasota are known to exist, but were not released, including a report Graham says he read last year but can’t discuss because it is classified.
The [Broward] Bulldog’s FOIA lawsuit asks U.S. District Judge William Zloch to order the FBI to produce all records of its Sarasota investigation, including the records seen by Graham.
The Daily Beast reported last year:
The FBI-led investigation in Sarasota reportedly focused on Saudi millionaire Abdulaziz al-Hijji and his wife, Anoud. Their upscale home was owned by Anoud al-Hijji’s father, Esam Ghazzawi, an adviser to Prince Fahd bin Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, the nephew of King Fahd.
An FBI informant hosted and rented a room to two hijackers in 2000. Specifically, investigators for the Congressional Joint Inquiry discovered that an FBI informant had hosted and even rented a room to two hijackers in 2000 and that, when the Inquiry sought to interview the informant, the FBI refused outright, and then hid him in an unknown location, and that a high-level FBI official stated these blocking maneuvers were undertaken under orders from the White House. As the New York Times notes:
Senator Bob Graham, the Florida Democrat who is a former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, accused the White House on Tuesday of covering up evidence ….The accusation stems from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s refusal to allow investigators for a Congressional inquiry and the independent Sept. 11 commission to interview an informant, Abdussattar Shaikh, who had been the landlord in San Diego of two Sept. 11 hijackers.
The 2 hijackers were Saudis. Indeed, 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudis.
The Daily Beast reported last year:
In San Diego, allegations of links between the Saudi government and the 9/11 hijackers revolve around two enigmatic Saudi men: Omar al-Bayoumi and Osama Basnan, both of whom have long since left the United States.
Al-Bayoumi had previously worked for the Saudi government in civil aviation (a part of the Saudi defense department), and was alleged by many San Diego Muslims to be an agent for the Saudi government who reported on the activities of Saudi-born students living in Southern California.
In early 2000, al-Bayoumi invited two of the hijackers, Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, to San Diego from Los Angeles. He told authorities he met the two men by chance when he sat next to them at a restaurant.
As Newsweek reported in 2002, al-Bayoumi’s invitation was extended on the same day that he visited the Saudi Consulate in Los Angeles for a private meeting.
Al-Bayoumi arranged for the two future hijackers to live in an apartment near the San Diego Islamic Center mosque and paid $1,500 to cover their first two months of rent.
When asked not long after the 9/11 attacks about al-Bayoumi’s possible involvement, San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore, then the San Diego head of the FBI, told this reporter that there was no evidence al-Bayoumi played a role.
But a former top FBI official later told Newsweek, “We firmly believed that [al-Bayoumi] had knowledge [of the 9/11 plot].”
After 9/11, al-Bayoumi was detained by New Scotland Yard while living in the U.K. Gore said the FBI sent agents to London to interview him, but he was released a week later and allowed to return to Saudi Arabia.
Newsweek reported that classified sections of the congressional 9/11 inquiry indicated that the Saudi Embassy in London pushed for al-Bayoumi’s release.
Where is al-Bayoumi now? “I can’t say too much, but what I can tell you is that he is still alive and living in Saudi Arabia,” says Graham.
As for Basnan, whom Graham calls “Bayoumi’s successor,” Newsweek reported that he received monthly checks for several years totaling as much as $73,000 from the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar, and his wife, Princess Haifa Faisal.
The checks were sent because Basnan’s wife, Majeda Dweikat, needed thyroid surgery, Newsweek and other media outlets reported. But Dweikat inexplicably signed many of the checks over to al-Bayoumi’s wife, Manal Bajadr. This money allegedly made its way into the hands of hijackers Almihdhar and Alhazmi, according to the congressional report.
At a post-9/11 gathering in San Diego, Basnan allegedly called the attack “a wonderful, glorious day” and celebrated the hijackers’ “heroism,” a law-enforcement official told Newsweek.
Despite all this, he was ultimately allowed to return to Saudi Arabia ….
Another man who might have helped investigators get to the bottom of this mystery is Abdussattar Shaikh, a longtime FBI asset in San Diego who was friends with al-Bayoumi and invited two of the San Diego-based hijackers to live in his home.
However, Shaikh was not allowed by the FBI or the Bush administration to testify before the 9/11 Commission or the JICI.
“For me, that was the low point of the [JICI] investigation,” says Graham. “Bayoumi introduced the hijackers to Shaikh, who clearly knew a lot, but the FBI, who had Shaikh in protective custody, seemed to care more about protecting their asset than allowing us to find out what he knew about 9/11.”
During roughly the same period after the 9/11 attacks, San Diego FBI agent Steven Butler alerted his superiors about a flow of money from Saudi government officials that had made its way into the hands of two of the San Diego-based hijackers, according to U.S. News & World Report. But the warning was ignored.
“Butler is claiming that people [in the FBI] didn’t follow up,” a congressional source told U.S. News & World Report. Another congressional source told U.S. News: “Butler saw a pattern, a trail, and he told his supervisors, but it ended there.”
The investigation into the Saudi government’s alleged connections to the hijackers seemed to end there. Arguably the greatest crime mystery of our time has become a cold case.
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[The Co-Chair of the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and former Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham] believes the Bush administration protected the Saudis during the 9/11 inquiry [and] wonders why the Obama administration hasn’t reopened the investigation and sought answers.
“Perhaps they feel that we can’t afford to irritate the Saudis, especially with oil prices going up now,” he says. “I don’t know. Someday, I do believe we will get to the bottom of 9/11 and the Saudi government connections.”
Indeed, a U.S. congressman for 6 years, who is now a talking head on MSNBC (Joe Scarborough) says that – even if the Saudi government backed the 9/11 attacks – Saudi oil is too important to do anything about it:
Related:. The U.S. Is Engaged In a Muslim Religious War … On the Side of Islamic Jihadis
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nmewn has played his part as a 9/11 dupe for years on ZH.
All that is left is to laugh at him .
I actually pity him for his ...
Ignorance is his Strength.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuC_4mGTs98
+, + and +, and +, don't forget +.
The Carlyle Corporation put that together with their Saudi and Bush owners. They hired people that looked like enemies of Isreal and had the CIA train them as pilots and later killed Phillip Marshall his kids and dog for writing a book about it. Rumsfeld planed the jet flights, told the interceptors to stand down while he told the retarded president at that time to continue reading the story of the pet goat to the children. The planes then hit their targets. The FBI set off the plastic explosives that they had planted on the columns of each floor. The towers came down. Then Rumsfeld called and had them set the explosives off on Building #7. Shit any 4th grader knows that by now.
Oops ... two countries and hundreds of thousands of people have been obliterated by our leaders in our name when all along they had evidence it was Saudi and NOT Iraq or Afhanistan ... for good measure lets classify as top secret for 25 years the evidence to the crime we say we are trying to get to the bottom of. Nothing on the front pages or primetime propoganda screens ? Only the wilfully ignorant and therefore complicit would believe a word that comes out of our so called government institutions.
Why would the Saudi government do such a thing ... they need your benny bucks as much as you need their oil ?? ... I wonder if perhaps your government had their government do it for all obvious reasons - now it is starting to make sense.
We truly do live in LaLa land.
The FBI is still waiting for confirmation. In the meantime interviews and surveillance will continue.
saudi's get to be the fall guy now? just to draw attention away from the Mossad and CIA.
Or it could be the opening gambit in a bid to move on Saudi oil. Think it hasn't been gamed out before? Think again. According to John Perkins in his book Confessions Of an Economic Hit Man, Henry Kissinger along with many MIB with briefcases were sent to Saudi to work out a vast international money laundering agreement. Henry apparently didn't have to do more to convince the Shieks than show them a super-8 movie of what happened to Mossadegh.
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I voted you up. But PLEASE realize that more than one state might have been involved. How do you know that CIA, Mossad and Saudis were not ALL involved? They are all VERY close allies.
I'm not saying I do or do not believe this. I am just saying that either-or thinking is not necessarily smart.
Moreover, there are incredible impediments to criticizing Saudi Arabia, let alone naming it as in any way an accomplice:
The U.S. Is Engaged In a Muslim Religious War … On the Side of Islamic Jihadis
"The U.S. is engaged in a muslime religious war...on the side of the Islamic Jihadis". With all due respect George, I think you have the players right, but the game all wrong. Religion has nothing to do with it, except as a cover. Or, if your prefer, the religion is Capitalism, that is Capitalism of the U.S. Dollar cult. You see, the not so hidden motivation for the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Kadafi in Libya is the protection of the U.S. Dollar. As in petrodollars. The message is: SELL YOUR OIL IN ANY CURRENCY OTHER THAN THE U.S. DOLLAR AND WE WILL KILL YOU. The Saudis are in on this religion because of their vast dollar holdings and because the U.S. has guaranteed their security (thanks Jimmy). Holy war - my ass. This is all about the dollar, plain and simple.
PLEASE: Just watch this. this is one of the best documentaries on 9-11
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1297858/
PLEASE: Just watch this. this is one of the best documentaries on 9-11
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1297858/
"I'm not saying I do or do not believe this. I am just saying that either-or thinking is not necessarily smart."
+1
And I commend you for addressing the either-or thinking mentality of so many who follow your posts on this topic.
Its not out of the realm of possibility that one time assets of the CIA went "rogue" no more than it is that they were never CIA assets at all. It very well could be just as presented, young idealogues, consumed with battling their own demons, happening to be Saudis (mostly) who's nation has a trade relationship (and not much more) with a nation that has some fucked up idea that everybody should love us regardless of what our foreign policy is.
Most posters here believe we should take a walk on the Sunni side of the street...lol...let bygones be bygones...I'm not one of those...they are fucking dangerous, just like the Chechens.
Physics and chemistry went rogue too. So did the way we preserve evidence in criminal investigations. I'm more amazed by what happened during and after than before.
I agree with your opinion, DavyJones!
Instead of proper investigation of a mass murder scene, evidence was summarily destroyed. People where allowed onto the crime scene, to clean it up immediately (at great harm to their own health), while they accomplished nothing worhwhile, but rather, were destroying the evidence that should have been preserved and carefully examined.
Since those in positions of power deliberately did NOT do proper investigations at the time, we now can probably never discover for sure what actually happened. However, looking at the particular series of people who had the power to obstruct justice does tell us a lot about who must have been some of the insiders. At every crucial phase, there were officials who made sure no proper investigations, inquiries, or court cases ever happened. I think that some of the planning to make 9/11 happen involved making sure that those people would be in those positions, after 9/11 happened. The truism is this: "It is easy to get away with a crime, if one can control the investigation of the crime afterwards." I believe that a lot can be surmised from carefully studying who those people were ... although, again, there is no practical political resolution to the irreconcilable social polarizations that have resulted from the series of successful false flag attacks, of which 9/11/2001 was the most symbolically important, so far.
Like the pentagon area camera footage, the steel, the most important physical evidence for the towers' destruction was, contrary to all law, immediately collected and shipped off for melting in China and other places. (I'm sure at a bargain to boot). The criminals always, always give you your best evidence.
"they are fucking dangerous, just like the Chechens"
Perhaps you should be asking "why?"
Who isn't dangerous when manipulated?
I get quite passive when manipulated properly.
Perhaps everyone else should ask what purpose did it serve to murder teachers & school children in Beslan, Chechnya.
Perhaps they don't think of life like you and I?
Who is this 'you n eye' you be speakin of?
Yu on your own now newman...no back up, no back pedal; no reverse gear, nor way back home...yu all alone...
with your 'terror error' narrative buddies here...for one whole shameful week youse put us under the siege of lies...half truths...disinfo false trails and all the rest of the best of your category...catapulted cornucopia of cabbalistic pornmedia fireworks of lying...
and it's gone! Poof!...the siege is broke...truth n reason held out in the 'residency' of our collective resistance to your bullshit bombardment...don't look now, but it's Lucknow all over agin! ... the 53rd n 93rd Highlanders and 4th Punjab Infantry have arrived in good order to put the Freddie-Newmanry to flight.
Now flee. But before you go...you need to know...that you've given me the perfect opportunity to let the congregation in on the truth about your "SUNNI SAUDI" SHULMANS....and the endless duplicity of your sionist masters!
http://www.terrorism-illuminati.com/content/2002-iraqi-intel-reported-wa...
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2013/04/boston-bombers-gulen-russia-actors...
You and yours are the true terrorists of the real narrative here...your phony tears for others will be bitter indeed!
Damn it newman...I was hopin an praying you'd slink back for one last kick o the can before this thread goes dead...
but mabee you've already read the teas leaves here. No matter, your bullshit re Beslan will not go un-rebuked...as promised!
Another psy-op by your side...now exposed to the light of day here! About the man who orderd "Beslan"....
another lil newman 'angel' in the service of el diablo, as it turns out! Keep rollin it out bullshit boy! Parties jus gettin started!
"I was hopin an praying you'd slink back for one last kick o the can before this thread goes dead..."
I work asshole, I don't have time to loiter around a fucking website all day...like you...lol.
I'm here now.
So what exactly is your point with this little screed? Because someone recieves training they won't use it for ill at some point in the future?
You off your meds again?
saudi leadership, like most sunni dictators, are zionist puppets. so i would agree that the saudi government was probably involved. but, no way did they mastermind the event.
Saudi leadership is most likely Sunni, as is most of the population. Chindit could expound on this more than me, he actually lived & worked there. As far as involved, I have no idea, but I doubt it. More than likely any "repatriation" is done to protect the individual as no matter what the rift is between Sunni & Shia, the fact they are "brothers" overides all else.
Try talking bad about your wifes sister to get an idea of what I mean ;-)
How's that anal extraction of your head goin? Have the doctors said there's any hope of success?
I doubt even "Chindit" could top your provocateur\apologist misin\disin\fo screed boy...but he's not required anyways...you're a one man wrecking crew of intelligent discourse all by yourself.
The Catholic\Protestant divide which rocked N Ireland for a generation or two, similar in intensity and endless violent posturing to the Sunni\Shia divide, is a pretty good analogy to what 'brothers' be all about...more Cain and Abel than 'brotherhood of man' type stuff in other words. And it's a divide which, just like the Christian version was, gets carefully cultivated by outside parties whose interested are to futher fracture any potential solidarity of Muslims on any level; the well known fact that the "Saudis" as "Sunnis" are the bankrollers of the current jihad against the Shia 'brothers' of Iran\Lebanon\Syria has apparently escaped your anal-y-sis...which parrots the preferred position of the jihadis at State and the rest of the 3 letter acronym subsidiaries of the BIG JIHADIS in Tel Aviv who run this whole pseudo-religious war thing for which you are such an eager and willing foot soldier and apologist.
The other major tell of your colossal ignorance and error is that the Saudis are not Sunnis in a mainstream sense...any more than Jim Jones ran a 'mainstream' Christian congregation....they are Wahabist reactionary factionalist supporters of a deviant strain of Islam imported into the Middle East at the beginnings of the last century by a clique of willing dupes supported and funded by British intelligence and latterly their sio-nazified Merika successors. The aim of which has always been to use the 'radical fundamentalist' scam in order to better divide and run the resource rich countries of the asian Muslim world.
Good luck with that operation!
I had wasabi once on my sunni side up eggs.
It tasted like shiite.
Joyful, thank you for enlightening the analist.
I love asking random know it alls, "oh ya, so are you referring to Sunni's or Shia's?'
Their blank gaping maw allows me to quickly insert,
"So you're obviously an expert on this."
You Sir/Mz Joyful are far nobler than I.
I merely ridicule to shut them up.
"The other major tell of your colossal ignorance and error is that the Saudis are not Sunnis in a mainstream sense..."
The Saudis are Sunnis you deluded paranoid schizophrenic. If they were majority Wahhabi they wouldn't defend themselves from thenselves for doing "Allah's work" would they?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_attacks_in_Saudi_Arabia
There is no doubt that some within the House of Saud fund terror groups worldwide, just as there is no doubt that we do too. The US government outright armed them in Libya to overthrow longtime enemy Qaddafi and they then turned on us (in Benghazi) afterwards for arming a faction of Syrians they didn't approve of.
So by this "JOYFUL" extrapolation of YouTube video logic, the US is a terrorist organization itself, just like factions within the House of Saud.
Fucking please.
Nope, No please. No thank you...you're done like dinner and you well know it/ but apparently you are not as aware of the new 'Zero tolerance' truth jihad here on ZH...the bullshit obfuscations in which you and you 'brethern' specialize will be 'religiously' hunted down and disposed of...
as was your previous post. And get used to this too...newman...quotations from 'sio-pedia' do not serve to further your case...which appears to be a house of cards built upon a ship of fools, sailing in a sea of lies.
I'm not gonna invite you to retract any n all of your stupid statements here. The readership knows all about the corner you have painted yourselves into. Squawk n squirm all you want, but you a partridge in the bush now....
and it's huntin season!
ps....the ZOG-hijacked 'government' of the "US" is indeed a terrorist organization in every sense...and no matter the 'factions' and fractures within it...like the House of Fraud\Saud it abets....they all report to the big Jihadis in tel aviv....a procedural matter I suspect you know much of!
Just so you know, I actually DID expect this from you Joyful. A dagger in the back, then back into the shadows, with no honor, integrity or mustering enough personal character to face me and look me in the eye.
I'll be seein you around ;-)
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I didn't see any refutation of what I said, nuthin. Just more of your usual ad hoc horseshit signifying nothing.
You dispute the attacks within Saudi Arabia? Why, no you didn't. Did you dare identify the attackers? Why, no you didn't. We've come a long way from remote controlled passenger jets or Mossad suicide pilots or voice to skull technology and nano-thermite haven't we?...ROTFL!!!
Now...come hunt me down, boooie...I'll be waiting.
"It is indisputable that the guilty Boston bomber kid was armed when he was taken in the boat." -Newman (paraphrasing, but just barely off the real quote which I'm too lazy to pull up).
Facts and Newman are not friends. But it does not deter his fervor for believing he is the authority on... everything.
He had arms .... 2 of them. I saw them.... on the Tee Vee. /sarc
The reality of regulatory capture is a complete stranger to you who has declared jihad on every free market proposal ever offered.
by outside parties whose interested are to futher fracture any potential solidarity of Muslims on any level
Brzezinski has stated this is a goal of Middle East policy, to divide and conquer by exploiting and expanding the rift between Sunni and Shia. One of the stated goals of the invasion of Iraq.
Whatever religion the Sunni leaders claim to adhere to, they are liars who betray their populations to favor the goals of the united states and Israel. While Sunnis and Shia both follow Islam, their leaders are frauds... Really no different than the faux Christian leaders in the US and Europe.
Yeah, we'll I'm calling Bullshit on this posting. First of all there is no evidence mentioned to link to the Saudi gov. Second, how dare George Washington (aka Barry Ritholtz) source MSLSD and Morning Joe Scarborough and his sidekick Lady Zbignew Bresinski, and finally those so called pilot plane jackers were coke heads that wouldn't know a cockpit from a whatev - everyone knows the planes were flown by remote control.
this is so exciting.
like a who-dunnit mystery.
remember when you were little and your mom said "who broke my nice blue vase" and you said "maybe it was bugs bunny" or "maybe it was spongebob" or "maybe it was britney"
Please don't piss off those guys.....gas is costing me enough as it is.....and we can't drill for the stuff here.
Wow..., and here I was believing ya'll that it was the CIA and/or the FBI the whole time...