"The intelligence indications and warnings (I&W) point to a
possible maritime incident or incidents involving
water-borne craft in San Francisco Bay area waters."
In evaluating this, we might also keep in mind
the 5-carrier battle group in the Gulf, and the
need for an excuse to attack Iran.
rkm
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The facts:
Official Federal Reserve website:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/calendar.htm
August 31
Speech - Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
Housing and Monetary Policy
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Symposium,
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Official Bay Bridge website:
http://www.baybridgeinfo.org/
Full Bay Bridge Closure Labor Day Weekend 2007
The Bay Bridge will be closed 8:00PM Friday August 31st and
will re-open Tuesday 5:00AM September 4th
This construction is necessary to complete important seismic
safety work on a section of the bridge slightly east of
Yerba Buena Island.
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The chatter:
Original source URL:
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2336.shtml
SPECIAL REPORTS
Chatter about an "incident" on West Coast at all time high
By Wayne Madsen
Editor, Wayne Madsen Report
Aug 23, 2007, 01:14
Chatter picked up by WMR's sources in the
nation's capital and in California point to
unusual events that could be a prelude to a
9/11-like false flag "incident" during the Labor
Day weekend, possibly one focused on the San
Francisco Bay Area.
The FBI in Seattle, as well as the Washington
Joint Analytical Center (WJAC), have asked for
the public's help in identifying two men spotted
aboard Washington state ferries exhibiting
unusual behavior. A number of ferry passengers
have reported the two men showing strange
behavior.
Two photos have been circulated showing two young
"Middle East" looking men on board a ferry. The
reluctance of the FBI to provide more details is
reminiscent of the 2000 and 2001 closely-held
government reports that a number of teams of
between two and five to six young male and female
Israelis, all veteran or reserve Israeli Defense
Force members, were spotted casing federal
facilities, oil refineries, harbor areas, homes
of federal law enforcement officials, office
buildings -- including the World Trade Center,
bridges, tunnels, and military bases and
airfields prior to and subsequent to the 9/11
attacks.
The Israelis were described in a number of
federal reports as "Middle East-looking" in
appearance. The FBI never sought to prosecute the
Israelis, many of whom were using the
intelligence covers of office and home furniture
movers, vendors of toys at shopping mall kiosks,
and art students selling bogus Israeli artwork,
and merely turned them over to U.S. immigration
authorities for deportation back to Israel. The
code phrase "Middle East looking" has since
become politically-correct FBI-speak for
Israelis. Nationals of Arab countries are
described as Arabs in official law enforcement
intelligence reports. However, Israeli influence
over the Bush administration prevents Israelis in
the United States operating illegally or pursuing
other dubious activities from being described as
Israelis.
As a senior law enforcement official in northern
New Jersey told this editor that there should
have been some "healthy skepticism" shown by
federal, state, and local law enforcement
officials about the activities of Israeli
nationals in and around New York City prior to
9/11. The official, who was appointed by
then-Governor Jim McGreevey, knew that his boss
had been compromised in an Israeli intelligence
"honey trap" involving Israeli agent Golan Cipel,
who McGreevey appointed chief of homeland
security for New Jersey after 9/11. Cipel, an
Israeli national, had full access to sensitive
information about every critical infrastructure
facility in the state.
Many of the Israelis picked up prior to 9/11 were
turned over to federal and local authorities
because they, too, exhibited unusual behavior --
including sketching and photographing the
interiors and exteriors of federal buildings,
trying to enter various secured offices and other
spaces, and splitting up from teams of five and
six to teams of two to canvass certain urban
areas without drawing too much attention.
The FBI and WJAC have asked anyone with
information on the two suspicious ferry
passengers in the Seattle area to report it to
206-622-0460.
Yesterday, WMR reported on Israeli press accounts
that the Israeli branch chief of Interpol is
under investigation for using his contacts within
the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem to obtain U.S.
visas for criminal Israeli suspects to enter the
United States.
Our San Francisco sources also report that, in an
unusual move, the Oakland Bay Bridge will be
closed by Caltrans in both directions during the
entire Labor Day weekend -- from August 31 to
September 4. It is the first time the bridge has
been closed since the 1989 San Francisco
earthquake caused the collapse of the bridge's
upper deck. Ostensibly, the bridge is closing to
replace a section of the road on Yerba Buena
Island but the closure will effectively deter
people from traveling to San Francisco from the
East Bay, a blow to city businesses that depend
on visitors to the city during holiday weekends.
The closure of the bridge will result in expanded
service on area ferries, including the
Alameda-Oakland, Vallejo Baylink, and Golden Gate
ferries, as well as BART train service, including
service on the San Francisco-Oakland Trans-Bay
Tube, the longest submerged tunnel in the world.
The security alert issued about suspicious men on
Washington state ferries should be viewed as a
possible dry run and an "incident" on the
expanded service San Francisco ferries cannot be
ruled out. The Seattle area, including the
Whidbey Island naval installation and Sea-Tac
airport, have witnessed past incidents involving
suspicious Israeli agents.
With the closure of the Bay Bridge, there will be
an increase of traffic on the Golden Gate,
Richmond-San Rafael, Dumbarton, and San
Mateo-Hayward bridges.
WMR has a number of friends and readers in the
San Francisco Bay area and, while not wanting to
be alarmist, we urge them and their families and
friends to exercise preparedness, alertness, and
a high degree of skepticism about any encounters
with "Middle East looking" young men and women.
The intelligence indications and warnings (I&W)
point to a possible maritime incident or
incidents involving water-borne craft in San
Francisco Bay area waters.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
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