BIG WEDDING:
Annotated Table of Contents

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1: Randy Glass: "Jewish Joe Pesci," Wiseguy, and Spy   
While his appearance on Dateline/NBC was intriguing, the most important parts of FBI whistle-blower Randy Glass’s story were left on the cutting room floor. Sander’s interviews with Glass reveal that Pakistani spy R.G. Abbas told the FBI “those towers are coming down” years before 9/11. Glass, in July 2001, had State Department contacts tell him, “Randy listen, you cannot mention any of these things, especially airplanes being used to fly into the World Trade Center.”

2: The Riddle of Pakistan: BCCI, ISI, CIA 
The Pakistani government sent $100,000 to Mohamed Atta the day before 9/11, yet they continued to be a Bush administration ally in the subsequent “war on terror”. This anomaly is explained by Hicks’ new study of the confluence of CIA, the Pakistani ISI, criminal bank BCCI, and the Iran/Contra scandal.

3: Dan Hopsicker vs. Rudi Dekkers,
Wally Hilliard, Mohamed Atta, and the FBI
After 9/11, researcher Dan Hopsicker scoured Huffman Aviation, the Venice, Florida “flight school.” He found witnesses who remember a cocaine-abusing, party-hearty, Mohamed Atta, a personality totally at odds with the official story. Huffman’s corporate owners had ties to international intelligence and drug smuggling—and not much experience teaching people how to fly planes. Hicks hands in an original interview with former Huffman Aviation head (and Dutch ex-con) Rudi Dekkers.

4: The Enigma of Atta: The Precedent of Double Agent Egyptians           
Building on Hopsicker’s work, Hicks publishes some breakthroughs on Atta:
For the first time in book form, Big Wedding publishes a letter from jailed FBI whistle-blower Richard Taus which provides new proof that Mohamed Atta had ties to CIA and ISI. Hicks breaks the story of Egyptian informant Emad Salem who on audio tape, discusses with FBI handler John Anticev how the ’93 World Trade Center bomb was built with "FBI Supervision." Hicks then looks at Ali Mohamed, the CIA/FBI informant who was a key player in the 1993 WTC, as well as the 1998 Embassy bombings. Based on Hopsicker’s work, his own new research, and these precedents, Hicks’s conclusion is original and startling: Atta was a double agent.

5: Wildcard! Across Canada with Delmart Vreeland        
In August of 2001, a con-man with connections to Naval Intelligence, Delmart Vreeland, wrote a note from inside a Canadian jail. He desperately tried to warn Canadian and U.S. authorities of an impending attack. Hicks alone traveled to Toronto to get the full story. It turns out the slick, double-talking Vreeland is now working for Ambassador Leo Wanta, a Reagan White House covert operator and friend of President George H. W. Bush.

6: The National Disgrace of the 9/11 Commission Report           
When the Bush Administration finally relented to public pressure and established a 9/11 Commission, they swiftly assembled a team of milquetoast DC insiders. Their report had nothing to do with the historical context of what happened on 9/11. Instead, it focused on bureaucracy “negligence” and issued a call to further politicize and centralize intelligence. But they ignored the crucial question: Who exactly was guilty of allowing, or encouraging, 9/11 to happen?

7: Whackjob! My Life with Richard Ben-Veniste and Kenneth Feinberg 
Hicks details his personal experiences with 9/11 Commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste, who effectively answered “No Comment” to him three different times in their interview for INN World Report television. Hicks, while reporting for Long Island Press was browbeaten by 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund “Special Master” Kenneth Feinberg. Hicks proudly details how he later came to be called a “Whackjob” by Ben-Veniste, outside the Commission’s hearings, on the streets of New York City. Feinberg and Ben-Veniste’s strong-arm, passive/aggressive behavior indicates that they were selected for their proven skills in crisis-management and cover-up.

8: From the Ground Up: The 9/11 Truth Movement          
There is hope. Sander Hicks discovers that the nascent 9/11 Truth Movement is full of a promising diverse range of critical thinkers. They are growing in numbers, and very net-savvy, but of course, not all their theories will hold up to the test of time. This chapter polls the “truth activists” and reports the pertinent questions people are asking.

9: Muslim Brotherhood, Team B, Project for a New American Century,
and the New International Fascist Agenda          

The neo-cons have a documented history of rule-by-terror. 9/11 was straight out of their bag of tricks. These four factors are all well-documented but too unsavory for the polite, connected, well-paid, corporate media establishment:

        • Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney manipulated and fabricated intelligence in 1976 as the Ford White Houses’ “Team B.”
        • Leading neo-con think-tank Project for a New American Century in 1998 called for a “cataclysmic event” to unite the American population in support of wars of global conquest.
        • Dubya Bush has unreported ties to white supremacist “Southern Heritage” groups.
        • “Al-Qaeda” is just the deceptive new moniker for the century-old, Far Right-connected Islamist terror network, “Muslim Brotherhood.”

 

10: Michael Chertoff: Terror's Defender  
In the context of this relationship between the Far Right, the neo-cons and Islamic extremists, it’s less surprising when Hicks finds that the recently appointed Director of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, was himself the influential private attorney who helped exonerate terrorist financier Dr. Magdy Elamir, in 2000. Elamir’s HMO was raided that same year by the State of New Jersey—$5.7 million was found missing.  However, when Sander Hicks first reported this, he could only get it published in a Texas college newspaper. Hicks reports his experiences with the hostile Washington Post reporter Douglas Mintz and censored Palm Beach Post reporter John Pacenti, both of whom were unable to report the Chertoff-Elamir connection.

 

11: Florida Notebook: Randy Glass and Arnie Kruithoff in Terrorland    
Returning to Randy Glass, via a trip to Florida, Hicks finds the FBI Whistleblower at home with a lot more to say: in person, Glass admits to Hicks that he knew of 9/11 in July of 2001 (“I knew city and date.”) Glass says he personally warned Senator Bob Graham in a face-to-face meeting, and relates his combative experiences testifying to a secret session of the Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11.

12: The Big Wedding: The Call to Satyagraha and Revolution
Hicks argues against the neo-con agenda using the work of Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. He ends his study by calling for peaceful, confrontational, and immediate revolution.

 

The Big Wedding: 9/11, The Whistle-Blowers, and the Cover-Up

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