Jimmy Walter has been at the forefront of a world tour to raise awareness about 9/11 and has still yet to receive any response to his million dollar challenge in which he offers a $1 million reward for proof that the trade towers' steel structure was broken apart without explosives.

Rodriguez said that he was told an FBI agent had asked the hotel him and Walter were staying in turn over a list of names of residents. Upon hearing this, the National Assembly provided armed military protection for the entirety of the trip. In addition, Walters said that CIA agents were seen surveilling the beach on which he and Rodriguez had handed out free DVD's a day earlier.

The US government attempted to sabotage the trip by putting Rodriguez, who has been decorated at the White House itself, and Walter on a no fly list.

Rodriguez (pictured above) and Walter are educating top Venezuelan officials on the evidence that 9/11 was a self-inflicted wound carried out by the military-industrial complex. They have also appeared on every Venezuelan television and radio station both private and state owned and have given huge presentations to major universities.

Upon visiting, Rodriguez said that the President of the Assembly, Nicolas Maduro's home was brimming with books, videos and documents about the 9/11 cover-up. Maduro, Venezuela's top legislator, intoned that he was ready to create an international investigative committee, looking into the "international crime scene" that is 9/11 and that this would be structured via Hugo Chavez's government.

Rodriguez and Walter are also set to appear on Hugo Chavez's weekly broadcast 'Alo Presidente' - which is often subsequently the source of major international headlines. If there is no coverage of this event then we know for sure that a blackout order is in place.

Rodriguez and Walter offered their full support for Charlie Sheen's recent public stance on 9/11 and were heartened by his efforts. The potential of a government level inquiry endorsed by Hugo Chavez dovetails with Sheen's call for an independent investigation to be carried out by political foreign nationals.

Though the establishment media will no doubt seek to demonize Chavez as a militant with an axe to grind, this is an exciting development and the next step on the road to a genuine investigation that will seek to uncover the truth rather than hide skeletons and whitewash as was witnessed with the staged Kean committee.

Asner questioned why no authority figures had been fired for their inability to prevent 9/11.

"Nobody in high office has ever paid the penalty for keeping us unprepared for 9/11, no one has paid the price and I cite the fact that Abu Ghraib was another typical example of the way this government works," said Asner.

"It's very easy to think of 9/11 to think of being yet another cause of being able to generate war in this country, " said Asner as he compared 9/11 to past examples of manufactured provocations such as the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the attack on the Maine and Pearl Harbor.

"Many of the purported hijackers are living persons elsewhere," said Asner highlighting a story reported by BBC and others that several of the so-called perpetrators of 9/11 visited their embassies in protest that they had been identified as terrorists.

Asked who gained from 9/11 Asner answered, "Certainly the military has, Halliburton, Brown and Root, Mr. Cheney's old outfit....the oil companies of course now with record highs, and the White House is of course involved with oil and the military and always has been."

Asner doubted that another terror attack needed to be staged in order to accomplish more of the same agenda.

"They don't have to have another attack, if they indeed launched the first one they have screwed up our country so badly they could just let us sink in upon ourselves."

Asner questioned why CNN chose to cancel his scheduled spot on Showbiz Tonight. After speaking to inside sources within CNN we were able to confirm that the order came down from a higher office to "kill" the story, despite the fact that the issue had generated the most interest Showbiz Tonight had ever encountered.

Asner is a true humanitarian and is an activist in the fields of missing US PoW's, depleted uranium, which Asner suggested was a deliberate population reduction method, and the fight to get the FDA to eliminate deadly thimerosal mercury additives to vaccines.

His public stance on 9/11 and his support of Charlie Sheen helps in the ongoing effort to encourage public figures with large media platforms to step forward and become prominent voices for the 9/11 truth movement.

Here is your must-read for the month. Here is your oh-my-God- I'm-sending-this-piece- to-every-smart-person-I-know hunk of outstanding, distressing, disquieting media bliss.

Here it is: an absolutely exceptional inside scoop on the white-hot world of Sept. 11 conspiracy theories, writ large and smart by Mark Jacobson over at New York magazine, and it's mandatory reading for anyone and everyone who's ever entertained the nagging thought that something -- or rather, far more than one something -- is deeply wrong with the official line on what actually happened on Sept. 11.

See, it is very likely that you already know that Sept. 11 will go down in the conspiracy history books as a far more sinister affair than, say, the murky swirl of the Kennedy assassination. You probably already know that much of what exactly happened on Sept. 11 remains deeply unsettling and largely unsolved -- or to put another way, if you don't know all of this and if you fully and blithely accept the official Sept. 11 story, well, you haven't been paying close enough attention.

But on this, the third anniversary of the launch of Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq by way of whoring the tragedy of Sept. 11 for his cronies' appalling gain, what you might not know, what gets so easily forgotten in the mists of time and via the endless repetition of the orthodox Sept. 11 tale, is the sheer volume, the staggering array of unanswered questions about just about every single aspect of Sept. 11 -- the planes, the WTC towers, the Pentagon, the fires, the passengers and the cell phone calls and the firefighters and, well, just about everything. It is, when you look closely, all merely a matter of how far down the rabbit hole you are willing to go.

Verily, Jacobson, in his New York mag piece, encounters crackpots and fringe nutballs and those who think Sept. 11 was connected to aliens and electromagnetic fields and the Illuminati. It can, unfortunately, get a little crazy. But there is also a very smart, grounded, intelligent and surprisingly large faction -- which includes eyewitnesses, Sept. 11 widows, former generals, pilots, professors, engineers, WTC maintenance workers and many, many more -- who point to a rather shocking pile of evidence that says there is simply no way 19 fanatics with box cutters sent by some bearded lunatic in a cave could have pulled off the most perfectly orchestrated air attack of the century. Not without serious help, anyway.

Whose help? This, of course, is the biggest question of all, one which many of the more well-researched theories go a surprisingly long way toward answering.

You have to sift and sort. There are disturbing questions about collapse speeds and controlled demolitions and why the towers fell when the all-steel infrastructure was designed to easily withstand the temperatures of any sort of fire, even burning jet fuel. There are questions of the mysterious, media-documented blasts deep in the WTC towers that took place after the planes hit. There are questions of why there was such a short-selling spree on shares of American Airlines and United Air Lines the day before the attack, huge doubts about the failures of NORAD and the FAA, the bizarre case of the missing plane in the Pentagon crash, and also the downing of Flight 93 where, according to the coroner, no blood or major plane wreckage was actually found. There is, ultimately, the stunning failure of the entire multi-trillion-dollar American air-defense system. Just for starters.

There is also the very big question of what happened to 7 WTC, the only building not hit by anything at all, but which collapsed anyway, in a perfect controlled-demolition sort of way, for no reason anyone can sufficiently explain. But which just so happened to contain vital offices for the IRS, the Department of Defense, the CIA, the Secret Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission and more.

But perhaps Jacobson's article is insufficient for you. Perhaps you have heard much of it before, or you're more of the visceral type and need to actually see the proofs in order to delve deeper, have them laid out like gruesome body parts in a mesmerizing autopsy. Fair enough.

For you, we have the surprisingly compelling indie documentary "9/11 Loose Change" (Google it), freely available on the Internet and produced by three very astute and very young and very strong-willed dudes who managed to cobble together a truly astounding array of proofs and interviews and evidence, a full 1 hour and 20 minutes' worth of mesmerizing footage you will not be able to easily forget.

Or maybe you should peruse one of the countless Sept. 11 conspiracy sites, many of which link to relevant video and one of which -- scholarsfor911truth.org -- claims to be "a non-partisan association of faculty, students, and scholars, in fields as diverse as history, science, military affairs, psychology, and philosophy, dedicated to exposing falsehoods and to revealing truths behind 9/11." Start there.

Now, it's very true that some of the more specious conspiracy claims have been largely discredited and proved false. Some of the more radical "evidence" gathered by theorists is quite suspect and easily placed in the category of no-way-in-hell. This is valid. This is as it should be. You have to chew through a lot of skin and gristle to get to the real meat.

But oh the meat. The overwhelming quantity, the bloody, deadly stench of it. Fact is, it is quite impossible to watch the entire "Loose Change" documentary and not come away just a little shaken, a little awed by the sheer number of perversely interrelated facts and aberrant coincidences-that-aren't-coincidences, shaking your head at how it all seems to irrefutably prove there is far, far more to the Sept. 11 tragedy than just crazy Osama and his band of zealots, as you begin to sink into a sighing morass of rage and frustration and suspicion and mistrust. You almost can't help it.

Of course, there is another option. There is another way out. You may, as is the standard cultural default, simply ignore it all, scoff and roll your eyes and shrug it all off because it's just too bleak and distasteful to entertain the idea that the dark Sept. 11 thread winds all the way through the NSA and the FBI and the White House and the Project for the New American Century and Dick Cheney's mangled soul and God only knows where else.

But then again, no. You have to look. You have to try. Knowledge is power, and while the truth may be spurious and slippery and messy and deep, the pursuit of it is just about the only thing we have left. Give that up, and all that's left is spiritual numbness, emotional stasis and death. So what are you waiting for?

The yen was exchanged for dollars and divvied up by the screeners, prosecutors said.

Both men have agreed to cooperate with the government's investigation into thefts by other screeners. Each faces a maximum 10 years in prison when they are sentenced July 17.

"This has given us a black eye, but it is not indicative of what we have," said
TSA Honolulu director Sidney Hayakawa in defending his 600 screeners.

The TSA plans to install cameras to monitor the screeners, he said.

Separately, TSA officer Michael Gomes, 32, was charged Wednesday with stealing $16,000 from a bag he screened at Molokai Airport. He admitted the theft and surrendered $13,500 to police, officials said.

Our press, which you appear to regard as being free ... is the most enslaved and the vilest thing." William Cobbett, Political Register, 1830.

From Princess Pushy to Posh Spice, from Sophie Wessex to Sven-Goran Eriksson and Cherie's confidante, Carole Caplin, the News of the World's "fake sheikh", Mazher Mahmood, whose picture I shall shortly unveil, has gulled the greedy and the gaffe-prone. But he couldn't "get Galloway".

Thanks to my well-honed sense of smell for rats, and with the assistance of my clever comrade Kevin Ovenden and others too well placed to name, I attended London's salubrious Dorchester hotel with a heightened sense of suspicion. In my experience, few wealthy men come looking for a good cause to support. Yet the "wealthy men" described here were running after me faster than most millionaires make it into the House of Lords.

I knew from the minute I met them that they were impostors. I suspected I was in the midst of a shakedown, which later investigation proved to be the case.

There's more to this than glee at having become the first to outfox the "fake sheikh", or even schadenfreude at the discomfort of the News of the Screws. Those who doubted that there are powerful forces out there determined to discredit me must now surely agree that just because I'm paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get me.

The guttersnipes of News International now claim the abortive attempt to sting me was part of a general investigation into the campaign funding scandal now unfolding over the mainstream political parties in Britain. But our investigations conclusively prove this to be a lie.

Crestfallen at my refusal to rise to the bait of illicit funding, Murdoch's minions fell from the gutter into the sewer of anti-semitism. Posing - at least, I hope they were posing - as Holocaust deniers, they strutted their David Irving stuff, inviting me to associate myself with their racist filth. When this tactic, too, imploded, they must have regarded the large amount of money spent on a Dorchester dinner for four as a real waste of money.

In late February, Mohamed Ali, the chief executive of the Islam Channel (for which my party colleague Yvonne Ridley works) approached me several times to say that "somebody" wanted to meet me who was "keen to help Respect" and "the community".

I was a little suspicious, and so sidestepped the "offer" for several weeks. Finally, after much prompting from Mr. Ali, I agreed to meet this "someone" last Saturday after my TalkSport radio show. When I checked my diary and found the dinner was at the Dorchester, my suspicions swiftly deepened.

I arrived and met Mr. Ali sitting with someone who did not introduce himself. He was a slim, bald, elegant, thirtysomething man who stood at around 5ft 8in ad was attired in a quality tailored suit. Later, this man presented me with a business card saying that he was Sam Fernando, marketing rirector of the Falcon Group International.

We were soon joined by a man, appearing from the rear of the restaurant, who embraced me, as is customary in south Asia. Oddly, he, like the other man, failed to say who he was.

In their appearance, these men did not remotely resemble devout Muslims or Islamists (which is what they later claimed to be). Neither wore a beard. Compared with cool and trendy Sam, the other man was markedly more reserved and sly in his demeanour. This sleazy character, who could have slid out from the pages of a Graham Greene novel, later claimed to be Pervaiz - Pervaiz Khan.

After some small talk, they began to ask some ludicrously leading questions, such as: "How can we help ... Can we sponsor members of parliament? Fund political parties?" In reply, I did not mince my words: "Absolutely not," I said. "It's completely illegal - and rightly so."

"But through English people ...?" asked Pervaiz, gesturing towards Mr Ali. I replied again in resolute terms: "No. It's completely illegal, and so it should be ... Britain is sinking in campaign funding sleaze involving foreign funding." I told them that if they wanted to help "the community" they should invest in the Islam Channel or start a radio station like the one I work for.

They then leapt to offensive remarks about Jewish people, even moving to cast doubt on the Holocaust. "You're not allowed even to quibble about the numbers," said Fernando. "Not even to say it might have been 5 million."

"People should never go down that road," I firmly weighed in. "David Irving isn't quibbling about numbers ... In his heart, he supports the Holocaust ... The Holocaust is the greatest crime in human history and it should be accepted as such." Come midnight, I said I had to go.

"My driver wants a picture with you," pleaded Pervaiz. "He's seen you on television." This "driver", who was sitting alone in the lobby of the hotel, was a vast being, built like a bodyguard, with a mouthful of gold teeth. When I asked where he was from, he answered enigmatically: "From up north."

Upon leaving the hotel, my suspicions were complete. I immediately rang Mr. Ali and warned him.

As the late Labour legend Nye Bevan counselled, why gaze into a crystal ball when you can read the book? In Andrew Marr's volume My Trade, the notorious "fake sheikh" makes a rare appearance. And so does his minder: the giant with the golden smile.

Yet Marr and I are not the only ones to whom he bared his gnashers: Carole Caplin recently mentioned in a Sunday tabloid her own meeting with "Jaws" - "a huge man, about 7ft tall, with gold teeth, thick lips and a bald head." He was, she states, "some kind of bodyguard", who could have been "straight out of a James Bond movie".

But whom did "Jaws" appear with? Another pair of suspicious men, it turns out. One of them was "Marcus de Silva ... very dapper ... very proper, and with an upright posture ... with a pleasant face, perfect skin and clear eyes". He told Caplin he "worked in a stressful PR job, and that the family that owned the firm he worked for was of Arabic origin and based in Dubai". Marcus later introduced Caplin to his boss, a man named - wait for it -"Parvais".

Parvais, Caplin revealed, "was 'fake sheikh' Mazher Mahmood".

At the start of this week, those ever-resourceful comrades I was telling you about produced a clear black-and-white photograph for my consideration. I instantly recognised the face: it was "Pervaiz" from the hotel.

Who is it? I asked. "The News of the World's Mazher Mahmood!"

Along with the photograph, I was handed a copy of what appears to be a passport from the Czech Republic that first surfaced in connection to Mazher Mahmood. The number on the passport is "0638942". It is valid from "9.7.1999" through to "9.7.2009". The bearer of the passport is apparently a male born in Pakistan. His name? Pervaiz Khan.

The loquacious man calling himself Sam Fernando has form. The same cannot be said for the company he claims to represent, The Falcon Group International.

Even its address, 64 Knightsbridge, is a "virtual office" where calls can be taken while those called are "in meetings" and from where post can be redirected.

Fernando, however, has cropped up before. A man claiming to be from a PR company (just like Marcus de Silva in the Caplin operation) and calling himself Sam Fernando initiated the pathetic and spiteful News of the World "sting" against my parliamentary colleague Diane Abbott in 2004.

He contacted her on March 31 that year to fix up a meeting with someone claiming to be a representative of a Kashmiri organisation called the Jaysh-i-Muhamad party. Fernando pestered the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington to travel to Dubai with him and the "Kashmiri leader", which she refused to do.

Dubai seems a point of reference for the con artists at the News of the World. It came up in their scams against Sven-Goran Eriksson, Carole Caplin and Sophie Wessex. So what is it about Dubai?

There is a connection between the name "Sam Fernando" and Dubai: a Sam Fernando is listed in connection with the Dubai-based company Al Futtaim Carillion, which has recently received a construction contract in Dubai worth 1.2bn UAE dirhams

So can the man calling himself Sam Fernando, while conspiring to deceive British parliamentarians, really be employed by Al Futtaim Carillion? Or is a perhaps hapless employee of that company finding their name dragged through the dirt by someone pretending to be Sam Fernando?

The importuners went to considerable lengths to cover their tracks - but not far enough to escape my team's forensic investigation.

1.The website of their purported company, www.falcongroupinternational.com, resembles one of those Potemkin PR sites: pretty graphics, but pretty well no information. It is registered through Business Serve, now Legend Communications, and seems to have been acquired in 2003 and modified last summer.

However, if you go to www.al-jamalgroup.com, you'll see that that website is almost identical to the Falcon Group's, which shares the same IP address. One difference is the Arabic script, which uses the word "hizb" for "group". "Hizb" would be used for a party or partisan group - never for a commercial organisation.

2) You would end up looking hard for www.al-jamalgroup.com because The Falcon group website lies about email addresses. The "contact" page of Falcon Group International lists Mansour Ali Khan, the general manager, as mansour@falcongroupinternational.com; Stephanie Andrews, PA to the chairman, as stephanie@falcongroupinternational.com; and Shehan Perera, head of marketing and corporate affairs, shehan@falcongroupinternational.com

However, if you hold the mouse over the addresses, they come up as @al-jamalgroup.com rather than @falcongroupinternational.com.

3. Another anomaly is that if you attempt to "submit a business proposal" on either the Al-Jamal Group or Falcon Group sites, the email addresses all come up as @al-jamal.com

Unlike the other two, this appears to be a real property company, based in Lebanon and registered in the US. It is, then, a legitimate question why and how this company's name has been embroiled in an affair that is now the subject of a Metropolitan police investigation.

4) "Sean de Silva" is listed as the managing director of the Falcon Group International in London. This did not come up in searches of Ltd and plc companies. A "Falcon Group International" did come up as an advertising agency on one search. It was detailed on a "modelling" website. By coincidence, a "Sean de Silva" is a member of the same website.

He also shares a surname with "Marcus de Silva", of Carole Caplin fame, and "Sanjay de Silva", listed on the Al-Jamal Group website as "head of marketing and corporate affairs" in Dubai.

5. A breakthrough, a very spooky coincidence and a mystery: the Al-Jamal Group site turns out to have been registered at 233 Bethnal Green Road - which is also the address of the Malik law centre.

More curiously still, as this data appeared, a message flashed up saying the site was "using 30-day-old data" that was being "deleted at the moment". And indeed it did disappear - but not from another site, which also gave the registered address as having been 233 Bethnal Green Road. The current registration is at Union House, Portsaeed Road, Dubai.

Incidentally, the Falcon Group International site seems to have been originally registered with an aol.com email address: magcommsuk@aol.com.

6) A final piece of the e-jigsaw: the two emails I received from the man calling himself Sam Fernando were sent from a webmail account of the Hotmail variety. A quick search through the "header" at the top of the email revealed the IP addresses of the computers they were sent from.

One of those emails was sent from an IP address that is part of a group that belongs to Rupert Murdoch's News International in London. Clicking on this link gives you the list of names and phone numbers of those responsible for the addresses. They are in no way implicated in the scam itself, but are merely the technical contacts for dealing with spam and other forms of abuse. The link shows that one of the emails was written on a News International computer in London.

On Wednesday March 29, I informed both the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, of this attempt to suborn a British parliamentarian. The Speaker responded within three hours, from his convalescence, saying he considers "that the use of such methods brings discredit to the profession of journalism, and is surprised, that they should not only be tolerated but apparently encouraged by editors who in other contexts profess to be in favour of openness and honesty in public life.

"It will be for the police and the prosecution authorities to decide whether any of the conduct you describe might constitute a criminal offence."

Sir Ian Blair's office also swiftly acknowledged receipt of my letter calling for just such an investigation. I had already forewarned my parliamentary colleague Jeremy Corbyn, whom the fake sheikh and his sidekick also sought to approach.

Questions, however, are outstanding. Who registered the Al-Jamal Group's website address at 233 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 6AB? What - if any - light can the occupiers of that address, the Malik law centre, shed on the matter?

Did the Al-Jamal company in Lebanon or any of its employees know that its web addresses are part of a conspiracy that has now been referred to the Metropolitan police? If the company is innocent and also a victim, what measures is it taking to help the investigation?

Is the man calling himself Sam Fernando really the Sam Fernando reported to have taken part in business deals in Dubai? If he is, what view does the government of the United Arab Emirates have over the activities of someone who has attempted to procure a breach in British electoral law and who is so brazenly trying to damage the Arab and Muslim cause by associating it with such criminality (not to mention smearing it with Holocaust denial, too)?

Above all, how long are people in Britain going to tolerate the activities of Rupert Murdoch, a multi-billionaire who pays precious little tax in this country, who has overweening political influence and a tightening grip on the media, and who is nothing short of a cancer on public life?