January 1995 – Manila, Concurrent Event: The Bojinka plot terrorist cell was busted after a supposed fire in their Malate apartment’s bomb making laboratory but KSM and his nephew both escaped capture. After interrogating those they arrested, Filipino investigator Colonel Rodolfo Mendoza wrote a memo and passed it to American security services, warning them:
“With regards to their plan to dive-crash a commercial aircraft at the CIA headquarters, subject alleged
that the idea of doing same came out during his casual conversation with [Ramzi Yousef] and there is
no specific plan yet for its execution. What the subject [has] in his mind is that he will board any American
commercial aircraft pretending to be an ordinary passenger. Then he will hijack said aircraft, control its
cockpit, and dive it at the CIA headquarters. He will use no bomb or explosives. It is simply a suicidal mission
that he is very much willing to execute.”
After the Bojinka plot to bomb a dozen trans-Pacific flights was busted in January, and the failed December 1994 Air France hijacking by Algerian attackers who planned to crash the plane in Paris, and then Ramzi Yousef's arrest in February 1995, I've read KSM switched his targeting away from airports and planes.
11 June 1997 - Logan airport, Predicting 9/11: From arriving at the airport in a taxi to taking my seat on a flight from Boston to Toronto I'd not undergone a single security check, not one. I told the steward at the aircraft door that my carry-on bags had not been checked; she told me not to worry because that was normal. As the nearly empty mid-week flight ascended I looked at the unsecured cockpit door and wondered what weapons people might have in their carry-on luggage then speculated on how easy it'd be for hijackers to crash an aircraft into the World Trade Center in New York. That was my 9/11 prediction, made on a quiet midweek flight from Boston's Logan airport.
12 June 1997 - Toronto, My First 9/11 Warning: As a frequent flying business traveller I was scared of passing a plane hijack warning on over the phone so waited until I arrived at my customer's factory, Sunworthy wallpaper printers. My fear was so urgent I refused to start work until my warning had been passed on, something the factory manager Bob Wilton said he'd done - passing it with my details to a security service contact he knew. Bob Wilton has died and Sunworthy has closed down but two machine operators there did hear my warning and conversation with Mr Wilton. I played golf with JMH Ltd's Canadian sales agent Dave Horsman that week, who I now guess Mr Wilton had called about me refusing to start work, but I don't recall discussing my warning with Dave Horsman.
Mid September 1997 - Manchester, Setting Up My Yemen Visit: My parents (both directors of JM Heaford Ltd) came out of retirement to arrange my visit to Yemen at short notice after another technician refused to go based on the government’s travel advice – don’t go! They telephoned and asked me to visit them at home where they asked if I’d be okay to go. I had no objections but my mother made my father get a guarantee for my safety in Yemen. By the time I’d returned from the shops with sandwiches for us all, my father was finishing a phone call about my safety in Yemen and laughed as he told me my safety was absolutely guaranteed but, continuing to giggle, refused to tell me who by. When I was back in their factory the senior service technician David Hughes asked to show me something on the shop floor. He showed me a couple of machine features I was already familiar with, chatting away but not really making any sense; in retrospect I think he was sounding me out about my upcoming visit to Yemen via general conversation. Hughes was a close associate of Dean and knew far more about Dean’s military service than I did. I now think Hughes was a Deep State operator (using his extensive travels with JMH Ltd as his cover) sounding me out on Dean’s behalf before my visit to KSM’s front company in Yemen. The factory manager Tony Preece gave me the scant customer details before my visit. He said the machine delivery address was Sanaa airport but the customer’s factory was in Taiz.
27 September 1997 - Manchester, My First Warning About Yemen: Perturbed by the detour near Al Qaidah town and my conversations in Yemen, I raised my concerns with the first person I saw – my works manager Tony Preece. As I handed in my paperwork I told him there was something very suspicious about the customer but he told me not to worry as they’d already paid in full. I tried to stress how strange my visit had been, saying a pre-arranged service visit had been cancelled, but I didn't get to tell him about the detour because Preece had stood up and was shooing me out of his office, telling me it didn't matter and to go enjoy the holidays I’d delayed to go to Yemen.
Oct/Nov 1997 - Jakarta, Unusual Business Trip: Contrary to Mike Heaford telling me I was no longer an international field service technician, I was asked to install a machine in Jakarta - David Hughes's territory. It was with a very high level agency contact there too, at the Japanese owned DIC Corporation. I wasn’t told by anyone at JMH Ltd, but the only explanation can be I was asked for by name. I don’t remember anything significant about the machine installation but my hotel was deluxe and when the DIC executives took me to dinner it was in a private room with a private chef. I was being wined and dined by some of the most powerful men in Asia, but couldn’t for the life of me understand why. Decades later I worked it out – the HSA Group had arranged it for me – they’re a multi-billion dollar conglomerate with huge investments in Malaysia and Indonesia, so they would have those contacts and that influence. But why? First, it was nothing to do with my 9/11 warning, but when I was in the HSA Group headquarters I had said I’d prefer to work in Asia than America but that it was someone else’s territory. I think the HSA directors were trying to set me up with my dream job; that’s questionable analysis on just one instance, but there was another similar visit in February 1998 to Manila, again asked for by name by the very influential sales representative there, Spicer International.
Baer said he passed this warning to a friend at the CIA but there was no interest in this credible and specific intelligence on a terrorist suspect who was wanted for the 1993 WTC bombing. Baer says he also told a New York Times journalist who didn't report the story, reputedly because Baer's source (the dissident Qatari prince) had been kidnapped and jailed by the Qatari government shortly after Baer's visit.
7 December 1997 - Yemen, Concurrent Event: Speaking in 2012 of her posting to 1997 Yemen, former Ambassador Barbara Bodine said:
"When I got there in 1997, there was already an Al Qaeda presence.
We knew about it. The Yemenis knew about it. Everyone knew about it.
Numbers always impossible to know, but these people were primarily foreign nationals.
One of the best ways to describe the presence is that they were largely warehousing
lower-level people in peripheral areas." - PBS
December 1997 - Dubai, Unusual Business Trip: Close to Christmas and again contrary to Mike Heaford's agenda, a customer called Express Flexi-Pack in Dubai’s Jebel Ali Free Zone (JAFZ) specifically requested that I install their recently purchased machine. My accountant sister lived in Dubai and I had visited her there before (1991 & 1994), but I did not know this customer or why they'd specifically request I attend. I stayed with my sister in Dubai rather than a hotel for this visit. There was nothing unusual that I recall, except in hindsight. The customer’s address (PO Box 16797, JAFZ) is very similar to an address (PO Box 16958, JAFZ) used by 9/11 accomplice and Guantanamo detainee Ammar al-Baluchi. In October 1998 Baluchi used that address to register a bank account for transferring funds from the United Arab Emirates to the future hijackers already in the USA. The PO Box addresses are similar enough - 16797 and 16958 - to be in the same building or block. My second visit to Express Flexi-Pack in March 1998 was very suspicious.
February 1998 - Philippines, Unusual Business Trip: Again contrary to my job role change, I was requested at short notice and by name again to install a flexographic printing plate mounting machine in a customer’s factory in Manila. Spicers International sales agency were my hosts in Manila - I was never told the customers name. I do remember the customers factory and printing press were very dilapidated and it struck me as extremely odd they had purchased a $40,000 machine that could mount printing plates to one thousandsth of an inch accuracy when their printing press would be lucky to hold ten thousandsth of an inch accuracy. I did change hotels on the second day of my visit - they'd booked me into a top hotel - a penthouse suite - that felt so indulgent / excessive I moved to a far smaller hotel that I knew from my 1994 backpacking trip to the Philippines. I have no suspisions about my hosts in Manila - they were very hospitable and there was no conversation directed towards my previous visit to Yemen or my 9/11 warnings. The reasons I’m reporting it here are because:
· It was very unusual that I was requested by name and sent to install this machine, especially because of the job role change mentioned above and because Asia was another technician’s area of responsibility
· The mismatch between the customer’s dilapidated printing press and our relatively expensive machine
· In 1988 Dave Dean told me he was medically discharged from the army after a parachute training accident in Vietnam but he stayed in the Philippines running a go-go bar near the US air force Clark air base. Dean heard I’d had some legal issues in Manila in 1994 (arrested for smoking a joint). When I saw him in April 1997 he said I should’ve let him know because he still had ‘good contacts’ in Manila who could’ve got me out of trouble.
· Given my belief Dave Dean was behind my visit to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s front company in Yemen, and inlight of KSM’s activities in the Philippines, and because of Dean’s ‘high level’ contacts in 1990s Manila police or judiciary - it is very hard to ignore these potential connections.
March 1998 - London, A Very Unusual Business Meeting: Coming out of retirement once more, my father called me at work and said he'd set up a business meeting for me in London the next day; I was in the far north of England at the time on a planned sales trip. He told me the customer was a Mr Jones of Printo Wrappings was a friend of his who wanted to sign a contract for the purchase of a £40,000 machine. They - my father and Mr Jones - wanted me to drive to London and hand the contract to him personally the next morning. I pushed my father for more information but he wouldn’t disclose any further details about Printo Wrappings other than they made packaging for the ‘Swizzels’ sweet brand. He refused to tell me how he knew Mr Jones or how this sale had come about. That summons from my retired father was very unusual in itself, as was the meeting with Mr. Jones the next day. He had no interest in discussing the machine he was buying but he did try to ask me about my extensive travels. I recall I was abrupt in my answers because my role as an international field service technician had been ended and I’d been forced to accept a role as a salesman in Britain. It ended up being a very short meeting but I had got a signed contract for the machine sale and I thought little more of this unusual meeting until very recently. I now suspect Mr Jones was my father’s Secret Intelligence Service handler or intermediary, wanting to know more about my meetings and conversations in 1997 Yemen, New York, Dubai (twice), Jakarta and Manila.
April 1998 - Manchester, Made Redundant: Frustrated by my own ignorance at all that was going on around me I refused the job role change from international service to domestic sales and Mike Heaford made me redundant. I soon found a field service role with a German company in the same printing machinery industry, working mostly in Britain and occasionally Europe. I didn't speak about my visit to Yemen again and only gave my plane hijacking warning once more, to two friends who were flying to New York for a long weekend.
31 October 1999, Egypt Air 990: When I heard reports that a plane departing New York's JFK airport had nose dived into the Atlantic Ocean after erratic flying, I thought my prediction had come true - someone had tried to take control of the aircraft to use as a missile but failed, perhaps due to a passenger revolt. It turned out to be a rogue pilot who'd just decided to end it all apparently, but it was so close to my hijacking warning that I assumed the security failures I saw in America would be fixed. Clearly I was wrong.
11 September 2001, England: I was driving home from Canterbury when I heard reports of the 9/11 attacks over the radio. We stopped briefly at a service station and I watched exactly what I'd predicted - a large plane crashing into the World Trade Center - on the news. I was in shock but continued the five hour drive home, unable to comprehend that something I'd warned about had happened. I had a grave concern too, about my conversations in 1997 Yemen. But by the time I got home the news reports were all accusing Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and I felt a massive sense of relief - I'd never been to Afghanistan. I wasn't to blame I thought...
My Subsequent Reporting Efforts and an Establishment Cover Up
March / April 2015, Multiple Reports to SO15:
3 May 2015, Discovery: I find the photo contact sheet of my 1997 Yemen visit and immediately recognize the man introduced to me as the Engineer as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
4 May 2015, Dossier Sent to SO15 & MSM:
25 March 2017, Meeting With Sir Graham Brady: I submit a dossier to my MP Sir Graham Brady about my 9/11 conversations and meetings in 1997 Yemen. Brady forwards it to the US embassy London, parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee and the Secret Intelligence Service .
1 November 2017, Discovery: I find my 1997 Yemen unscheduled meeting location on google maps; it's one mile from Al Qaidah Town.
9 March 2018, US 9/11 Military Commission Emails Me: On instruction of the Guantanamo court, Pentagon based attorneys contact me expressing great interest in my reports and propose sending a team of investigators to Manchester to interview me. I am assigned a liason - a civilian contractor whose employer is owned by General Dynamics whose £400-million procurement corruption I'd reported on in 2016/17. I decline the invertation to interview because 1. SO15 refused to talk to me about 9/11 investigators interviewing me in Manchester, saying "it wasn't their problem" before hanging up. 2. My Pentagon liason refused to discuss my witness status 3. They were defense attornys working for KSM's nephew Ammar al-Baluchi; my evidence is for the prosecution.
May 2018, Discovery: After seeing his photo in Guantanamo detainee release news reports I recognise the Arab mechanic I met in 1997 Yemen - Dino - as Al Qaeda's Saudi mechanic in Yemen, Ahmed al-Darbi
14 December 2019, Discovery: After reading a detailed report on US special forces parachute training in 1970/71 Vietnam, I'm able to link Dave Dean to CIA contractor Billy Waugh via the 101st Airborne and the top secret SOG. Identifying but not naming Dean, reporting it first with a tweet on 4 December 2019. I think my 6 January 2020 tweet about Dean and Waugh triggered Dean's suicide two days later.
24 December 2019, Covid?: I begin to suffer a very congestive flu.. I self medicated with a menthol chrystal steam baths to clear airways and natural remedies of lemons, honey, ginger, garlic, good nutrition, etc
8 January 2020, Dean Commits Suicide: Dave took his own life by drowning in Lake Hartwell Georgia, a painful death guarentteed to make the news. I beleive Dean was confirming my claims in a last selfless act, his redemption.
thequietmancunian.com Visitor Spikes Coinciding with World Events in Berlin
17-20 January 2020, Berlin Emergency World Leaders Summit: Billed as the long delayed summit on Libya's instability the summit photo below shows it was a fractious affair. Most people know that the substance of any such meeting would’ve been decided in the days before by the world leader’s negotiating teams. Therefore the spike in visitors to thequietmancunian.com from Berlin in the days before the Sunday 20th summit is indicative of the subject matter they were discussing – likely my December 2019 revelation about JM Heaford Limited’s CIA links through their US sales agent David Dean, who committed suicide on 8 January after I accused him of setting up Al Qaeda front companies in 1990s Yemen.
May 2020, Berlin / G7: President Trump cancelled the G7 world leaders meeting after a leak from Berlin about attendance; in the two days before that leak there was a spike in visitors to thequietmancunian.com from Berlin.
August 2020, Berlin Meeting of EU Foreign Ministers: As with the January world leaders and the May G7 leak in Berlin, the EU foreign ministers’ meeting in Berlin was preceded by a spike in visitors to thequietmancunian.com from Berlin.
