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[Dan M Nalven]

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Date:    Fri, September 1, 2006 09:13
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Was Homeland Security Behind Bollyn Incident?





Was Homeland Security
Behind Attack On 911
Investigative Journalist Bollyn?
By Christopher Bollyn
American Free Press
8-31-6


        The "undercover tactical unit" involved in the assault and
TASERing of a 9/11 investigative journalist at his
Chicago-area home was most likely an operation ordered by the
Department of Homeland Security, according to a former
high-ranking police official.

        Since the bizarre and brutal attack against me by three
heavily-armed agents at my family home in Hoffman Estates ,
Illinois , a number of people have commented on the seemingly
odd use of an "undercover tactical unit" to respond to a
non-emergency 911 call.

        Some of the most insightful comments have come from a former
senior police official from Illinois , who spoke to a source
close to AFP. The former police chief was familiar with the
details of the incident when he made his comments.

        The former police chief said the deployment of an armed
tactical unit wearing body-armor on a "gang suppression"
exercise in a neighborhood in which there are no gangs or
history of gang activity was itself "highly unusual."

        Although the Hoffman Estates Police Department (HEPD) C.O.P.
Clint Herdegen told AFP that the tactical unit was on a normal
patrol, this unit of heavily-armed men had never been seen
before in the neighborhood prior to the night before the
incident.

        That this undercover unit of three agents, supposedly on a
mission of "gang suppression," wearing tactical gear and ready
to "do battle," would "blow their cover" by responding to a
non-emergency 911 call from a concerned citizen about their
presence in his neighborhood is one of the many anomalies of
the incident.

        The Illinois Terrorism Task Force (ITTF) has released a video
entitled "Homeland Security Begins at Home: 7 Signs of
Terrorism." Patty Thompson, spokesman for the task force, told
AFP that calling 911 to report unidentified armed men is
exactly what the ITTF would expect a citizen to do.

        Why did a covert "gang suppression" unit leave their so-called
"patrol" and respond to a non-emergency 911 call? Did these
three unidentified heavily-armed agents have any right to
respond to a 911 call and did they have any right to come onto
my property without a warrant or probable cause, legal experts
ask.

        The Chicago Police Department has guidelines, specifically
adopted "to ensure that the anti-gang loitering is not
enforced in an arbitrary or discriminatory way." Under the CPD
guidelines, the Ordinance may be enforced only by trained
officers in "areas frequented by members of criminal street
gangs." Such gangs do not exist in my neighborhood, and never
have.

        In the opinion of the former police chief, the operation
appears to have been ordered by the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), under the leadership of the Israeli-American
dual national Michael Chertoff. Chertoff, who has been the
subject of several of my articles about 9/11 and the failure
of his department to respond to Hurricane Katrina, is the son
of Livia Eisen, one of the first agents of Israel's military
intelligence agency, the Mossad.

        The purpose of the heavily-armed "gang suppression" squad in a
neighborhood in which there has never been any gang activity
was meant to "intimidate, scare, and harass" me, according to
the former police chief. The "gang" that was being monitored
was, in fact, me, he said, but the tactical unit and the local
police chief were probably not aware of the political nature
of the target. The tactical unit had probably only been told
that I was a "very dangerous person."

        The reason for the conspicuous presence of the heavily-armed
agents around my house was to create a provocation and
confrontation, according to the former police chief, in which
I would be arrested and humiliated.

        The local chief-of-police would probably have been the only
local official who had direct connection with DHS, according
to the former chief. DHS maintains contacts with local police
departments and is able to give orders to local officials,
according to its mandate.

        "More than 87,000 different governmental jurisdictions at the
federal, state, and local level have homeland security
responsibilities," according to the DHS "organization" webpage
dedicated to "Department Subcomponents and Agencies."

        Experts have "come to expect" that DHS will involve local
police playing "a large role in many aspects of homeland
security," according to a September 2005 article by David
Thacher, "The Local Role in Homeland Security," in Law &
Society Review.

        A recent analysis, cited by Thacher, indicated that local
police would be "developing new areas of investigative
expertise, cooperating much more with federal law enforcement
and intelligence agencies, working more closely with the
military, [and] increasing their levels of surveillance over
their communities."

        An inquiry to DHS asking about the precise nature of its
interaction with local police departments went unanswered. Lt.
Richard Russo, spokesman for the HEPD, however, told AFP that
senior officers had gone through "command post" training with
DHS and a private New York-based contractor called BowMac.

        Lt. Dennis Carroll of the neighboring Schaumburg P.D. told AFP
that DHS and the Schaumburg police "work very well together."
Asked who handles the communication with the federal agency,
Carroll said there is a liaison at the police department.

        Russo did not know if local police are required to act on
orders given by DHS, but said they probably would, in the
spirit of mutual co-operation with the federal agency.

        A former Swedish marine and public safety expert who works in
France commented on the odd use of a "gang suppression team"
to respond to a 911 call. The decision by the HEPD to send the
undercover unit to explain their presence was "illogical,"
according to the European public safety expert.

        "This was provocative, threatening, and very unusual," he
said. "This is not the way to handle a 911 call. The gang
suppression team should have been instructed not to get out of
the car. There was no need to get out of the car, but if there
were, the proper thing would have been to send only one man to
the house ­ without a gun. Or better, wait for an official,
marked police car with a uniformed officer to explain the
situation.

        "Police teams of any kind always operate in pairs," he said.
"Police teams never operate in formations of three for obvious
reasons."

        "Gangs are local juveniles with some strange ways," the
France-based public safety expert wrote, "Easily handled by
social workers, not undercover agents in body armor. So the
statement by the HEPD that undercover agents were on a gang
suppression mission seems to be an outrageous lie." In France
, gang suppression units always have a person videotaping
their actions. In my case, there was no filming by the police
and my wife was physically prevented from taking photographs.

        The police have offered two explanations about why the "gang
suppression" unit was sent, both of which seem illogical. The
first is that this was the nearest unit, although the 911 call
was not an emergency call, but rather a request for an
explanation more than 30 minutes after I had observed the
heavily-armed unit near my house. However, after the arrival
of the tactical unit, a half-dozen squad cars and two
emergency vehicles immediately appeared on the scene to
support the action.

        The uniformed police, however, clearly had orders not to
intervene and stayed back until after the assault and arrest
had been completed. This raises the question, what were the
orders given to the tactical unit and to the uniformed police?

        An AFP supporter contacted the Palo Alto Police Department (
Calif. ) to ask if citizens, believing that armed federal
agents are spying on their home without probable cause, are
entitled to call 911 and report the apparent threat to their
safety?

        "Yes, one can call 911," the Palo Alto police spokesperson
said. "But," she added, "if federal agents are watching a
home, in most cases, the local law enforcement is notified,
and they are in contact with the federal agents, but local
police are not to reveal which agency is involved or why." Nor
are the local police allowed to intervene in any action taken
by the federal agents.

        Chief Herdegen of the HEPD subsequently told AFP that the
tactical unit had returned to my house to identify themselves
and explain their purpose. However, despite repeated requests,
the three men refused to do either. Why would the HEPD send a
unit who could not, or would not, identify themselves? The
refusal by the armed agents to identify themselves as
legitimate police officers prevented them from resolving the
911 call, and allowed them to exacerbate the situation leading
to the violent assault.




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