-
Mohamed Atta & The Godfather of Sarasota County
What's the connection between Mohamed Atta and ‘The Godfather’ of Sarasota County? Today he is all but forgotten, but David B. Lindsay Jr., long-time owner and publisher of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, intimate of Presidents, and arms merchant to some of the most repressive regimes on the planet, left an indelible mark on life in his…
-
Congo Drug Smuggling Ring’s Big Texas Ties
A Dallas-based Gulfstream V luxury jet seized for gold smuggling last month by authorities in the war-torn eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is also under investigation for drug running by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The Gulfstream implicated in gold trafficking in Goma was on the DEA’s watch list, according to…
-
Mexican Drug Cartels & ‘The Enterprise’ at Venice Airport
“Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.” George Santayana. It is 11 a.m. on the morning of June 30, 1997. On the steps of the Sarasota County Courthouse a public auction is underway. Being auctioned off is the lease of a bankrupt company at the Venice Municipal Airport. Before it went under, 4Square Aviation…
-
The 9/11 Social Network
What does Mohamed Atta have in common with Carlos Salinas? The tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches. New books, new documentaries, saturated airwaves. Filled with sound, filled with fury, signifying—most of them—more or less nothing. What have we learned? A decade into the 21st Century. No rocket cars, no hovercraft, no trips to Mars. A world…
-
The 9/11 Social Network
What does Mohamed Atta have in common with Carlos Salinas? We're a decade into the 21st Century. No rocket cars, no hovercraft, no trips to Mars. A world without Robocops.The only really keen new insight is an old one we’d forgotten: The social network. The innovation for which the decade will be remembered is Facebook. When the tenth…
-
Daniel Hopsicker needs your help
A Fundraising Appeal It’s the biggest story of our time… and the biggest taboo. It’s a testament to the power of America’s biggest taboo that drug connections between terrorist hijacker Mohamed Atta and the owner of the U.S. flight school Atta called home have never even been addressed. The elephant in the…
-
Chairman Chavez, Oliver North, & “Co-Conspirators Not Named As Defendants”
The now-famous DC9 from St Petersburg Florida caught carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine in the Yucatan four years ago is back in the news, as the centerpiece of a new DEA campaign of “projective or reverse propaganda." Just four months ago federal prosecutors used the bust of the cocaine-laden DC9 to finger Wachovia Bank, then…
-
It’s “Deja Coup” All Over Again
DEA to Hugo Chavez: "Find Your Own Trampoline" “We turned the whole damn country into an American battleship,” lamented the chairman of the House’s Western Affairs Subcommittee later. “We created the ‘USS Honduras.’” An investigation into the indictment for drug trafficking last month of a former crony of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has revealed a case…