FTR#525—Interview with Sander Hicks about The Big Wedding—(Two 30-minute segments.) (Recorded on 9/4/2005.)
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Summary of FTR#525—(Note: The massive volume of “For The Record” programs about 9/11 and related topics is summarized and analyzed in the periodically-updated description for FTR#391. FTR#’s 454, 455, 456 are compilations of much of the key documentation culled from Mr. Emory’s investigation into 9/11. Along with FTR#391, they should give listeners/readers a substantive grasp of this momentous event. It is recommended that listeners use this description and e-mail it to others. Also: The book “Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile” is available in PDF at About Paul Manning. The book is also available in HTML at: http://www.animalfarm.org/mb/mb.shtml. In addition, the professional history of the late Paul Manning, the book’s author, is presented in the description About Paul Manning. This enables listeners to acquaint others with Mr. Manning’s journalistic credentials. Key material from the book is synopsized in an extended description for FTR#305. Understanding the Bormann organization is essential to comprehending the concept of “the Underground Reich.” Note also that U.S. Government documents proving Prescott Bush Sr.’s Money-Laundering on behalf of the Third Reich before and after World War II are available at a linked website, along with commentary by John Buchanan, who located the documentation. This material is discussed in FTR#435. The website containing the documents is www.debatecomics.org/BushFamilyFortune/ .)
1. This interview with author and publisher Sander Hicks highlights his recently published book about 9/11 The Big Wedding. Like FTR#526, this program description differs from other descriptions in length, content and form. This interview reprised information covered in earlier descriptions and involved a fair amount of rumination by Mssrs. Hicks and Emory. The Big Wedding devotes considerable attention to the complicity of elements of the Bush administration in the attacks.
2. Much of the first side of the program consists of discussion of sting man Randy Glass, the point element in “Operation Diamondback.” A sometime operative on behalf of various organized elements, Glass and his remarkable story is one of the most prominent and most important elements in Sander’s book. Indeed, Glass’ account is one of the more compelling indications of foreknowledge on the part of elements of the government. For a riveting excerpt of the text of Big Wedding dealing in detail with Randy Glass and Operation Diamondback, see FTR#500. Part of side one of the program features Sander playing a tape recording of a phone interview with Randy Glass.
3. Another of the important elements of discussion concerned the vitally important work of the heroic Daniel Hopsicker, author of Welcome to Terrorland. Daniel’s work can be examined at length in numerous “For The Record” programs and their descriptions. To examine excerpts of Daniel’s remarkable text, see FTR#’s 477, 482, 483, 484.
4. In addition, the program highlights Sander’s investigation of Michael Chertoff, the current head of the Department of Homeland Security. Formerly in charge of Operation Green Quest (created to halt the flow of terrorist finances), Chertoff was charged by Homeland Security employees with having frustrated the investigation while working for the Justice Department. (For more about this, see FTR#’s 462, 464.) That Chertoff would behave in such a way is not surprising. As Sander illustrates in The Big Wedding, Chertoff represented Dr. Magdy el-Amir, a New Jersey-based physician who apparently financed Al Qaeda. For more about the Chertoff/el-Amir relationship, see FTR#’s 495, 500.
5. Covering an area that few 9/11 investigators have touched, Sander sets forth some of the Nazi and fascist connections to 9/11, including the pivotally important al Taqwa milieu and the Islamofascist Muslim Brotherhood. Highlighting Youssef Nada’s links to the Third Reich and his connections to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Sander generously credits Mr. Emory’s work as a primary source for his information on the international fascist links to 9/11. The Big Wedding also underscores Francois Genoud’s connections to the events in, and around, 9/11. For more about Nada, Genoud, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Nazi and fascist connections to 9/11, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 455, 456. NOTE THAT CHAPTER NINE OF THE BIG WEDDING—CONTAINING THE ABOVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL FASCIST CONNECTIONS TO 9/11--IS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: http://www.sanderhicks.com/chapter9.html.
6. When Mssrs. Hicks and Emory waxed philosophical, they discussed Hannah Arendt’s concept of the banality of evil, the culpability of both the mainstream press and the so-called alternative media in covering up 9/11 and other stories, as well as Sander’s republishing of J.H. Hatfield’s text Fortunate Son (an authorized biography of George W. Bush that detailed the Bush/Bin Laden business connections). Fortunate Son is excerpted in—among other programs—FTR#’s 248, 510.
7. Be sure to visit Sander’s website: http://www.sanderhicks.com/. The Big Wedding can be ordered there, or at your local retail bookstore.