French minister blames Bush for 9/11

The French Housing Minister Christine Boutin has suggested that the US President George W Bush might have been behind the September 11 attacks.

 A website dedicated to promoting September 11 conspiracy theories has posted a video- interview of Boutin questioning the theory that Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda group orchestrated the attacks. In an interview in November, before she became minister, when asked whether she thought Bush might be behind the attacks, Boutin says: “I think it is possible. I think it is possible.”Boutin backs her assertion by pointing to the large number of people who visit websites that challenge the official line over the September 11 strikes against US cities.

Boutin’s office sought to play down the remarks, saying that later in the same interview she says: “I’m not telling you that I adhere to that position.” But this comment does not appear on the video clip posted on the website.

Numerous other websites have also posted the clip in recent days and the story has started to seep into the mainstream media.

France has been among the skeptic conspiracy theories supporting groups. In 2002, a book that claimed that no aircraft hit the US Pentagon in the September 11 attacks topped the French bestseller lists.

According to a Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll carried out last July, more than one-third of Americans suspect US officials helped in the September 11 attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could later use it as an excuse for going to war. The US has rejected such accusations.

Watch the interview of Christine Boutin (French):

Israel’s Deadly Gaza Incursion – July 5, 2007 (warning the video contains pictures disturbing for some viewers)

A new Israeli push into Gaza has left at least seven Palestinians dead and seen a journalist shot as he tried to cover the story. Soldiers went into the east of Gaza City, backed up by tanks. Israeli forces crossed the border into Gaza early on Thursday and as night falls over the strip, the operation is continuing.

Warning: This report by Al-jazzera`s Gaza correspondent Nour Odeh contains pictures which some viewers may find disturbing.

Israel Founded Using Fake British Banknotes

 

MORE than £130m worth of British banknotes forged by the Nazis was used by the Jewish underground to help establish the State of Israel.

Wads of notes, which the Germans had forged by concentration camp inmates, ended up being used after the Second World War to pay for the transport of Jews to then British-occupied Palestine, and to buy weapons for the embryonic Israeli armed forces.

The revelations are contained in a new book which has been published in the USA and Germany, written by a former Time magazine journalist, and which details how the Nazis sought to undermine the British economy and what became of the cash they produced.

The Germans produced £132m of forged Bank of England notes during the Second World War as part of an audacious plan to undermine and destroy the British economy. The sum was worth about £3bn in today’s money. While the plan ultimately failed to deal the UK a fatal blow, it nevertheless frightened the Bank of England into withdrawing all notes worth more than £5 from circulation until the 1960s.

The notes were produced by a team of forgers and printing experts gathered from among Jewish concentration camp inmates. In the book, Krueger’s Men, Lawrence Malkin reveals how some of the cash ended up in the hands of the Jewish underground at the end of the Second World War.

The Nazis laundered millions of pounds through a series of schemes including using business figures in occupied Europe who had concealed their Jewish origins. One of these businessman was Yaakov Levy, a successful jeweller and art expert in pre-war Germany.

In the weeks following the end of the war in Europe in May 1945, Levy got supplies to Jewish refugees in Northern Italy who were fleeing south in hope of travelling to Israel. He also handed out large wads each containing about £50,000 of fake cash to organisers looking to help Jewish Holocaust survivors get from Europe to Israel.

In his book, which draws on new information from UK, US, German and Israeli archives, Malkin wrote: “The Jewish underground wanted van Harten’s [Levy's] money and did not care whether it was counterfeit or real. They passed the bogus pounds to supply Holocaust survivors and help the Brichah [Jewish escape organisation] smuggle more refugees to Palestine. On the international arms market, they used the money to buy weapons for Jews arming themselves against the British and then the Arabs.”