Joe Vialls
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Joe Vialls (1944-July 17, 2005), born Otho Jewell Vialls, was an internet journalist and a private investigator.
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[edit] Published works
Joe Vialls published a number of books and internet articles. His published books include Deadly Deception at Port Arthur, The Murder of Policewoman Yvonne Fletcher and Lockerbie and the Bombing of Pan Am 103.
[edit] Notability
Vialls' is most notable for his book on the Port Arthur massacre. [1][2] This suggested that there was a cover up by the Australian government, led by John Howard, to "take guns from their rightful owners".[3][4]
Vialls was a private investigator dedicated to "exposing media disinformation," and made many claims in his reports concerning official explanations for events such as the first Bali bombing, and the bombings of the Australian embassy and Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital.
Vialls asserted that the explosives that authorities claimed were used in the Indonesian bombings were not powerful enough to have caused the damage and casualties that resulted. He claimed to demonstrate from photographs of the aftermath of each of the bombings, compared to the photographs taken in Northern Ireland where a 1000 pound IRA bomb did not leave a crater or strip concrete from buildings, that a "micronuke" from Mossad's Dimona research and development facility in the Negev desert had been used. Vialls claims a device similar to the smallest United States nuclear weapon known as the Davy Crockett or M-388 round, a version of the W54 warhead, a very small sub-kiloton fission device. The Mk-54 weighed about 51 lb (23 kg), with a selectable yield of 10 or 20 tons, which Vialls claimed was consistent with the damage inflicted in Bali and elsewhere. The complete round weighed 76 lb (34.5 kg). One difficulty was the apparent absence of radiation in Bali after the explosion, Vialls explained this discrepancy by claiming that geiger counters cannot detect alpha radiation.
Joe Vialls theories have received popular support among Muslims in Indonesia, many of whom cited his findings as fact. Indonesian internet forum Swara Muslim (Muslim voice) wrote an opinion piece stating that Vialls' claim that the bombing of the Australian embassy was conducted by the CIA and Mossad was "based on solid fact."[5] Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir told ABC radio that he believed Vialls' theory regarding the first Bali bomb was a correct one.
Convicted Bali bomber Amrozi also told an Indonesian court that the device he detonated could not have done the damage evident after the blast, and speculated that a nuclear device might have been responsible.
[edit] Controversy
The website thewebfairy.com wrote a comprehensive report, rebutting Vialls' claims regarding the crash of American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.[6]
The rebuttal centred mainly on Vialls' comparison of the Pentagon crash with an incident in which an Israeli El Al 747-200F cargo plane, flight 1862, crashed into a 12-story apartment block in the Amsterdam suburb of Bijlmer on October 4, 1992.
In his investigation of the first Bali bomb, Vialls cited a Special Report written by Jakarta Post Senior Editor Robert S. Finnegan an internationally-published investigative reporter and lead investigator for the paper, reproducing the piece in his report. [7]
The article is attributed to Finnegan as editor of the Jakarta Post, Indonesia's largest newspaper, on Vialls' site.
[edit] Hacked off
Vialls claimed that many of his articles were hacked off his website years ago,[8] and that he was banned by Yahoo! and Paypal. Indeed, his original Yahoo! site remains unavailable today. However, Vialls' new site still boasts 170 articles starting with The Crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in Queens and ending with Bush, Blair & Howard Photo Atrocities. Vialls was an avowed anti-Zionist, alleging for instance that Zionists used a nuclear device in Bali. He also claimed most kidnapping of hostages in Iraq was done by the CIA and Mossad.
Vialls included in a page of reports, that he claimed were hacked off the internet, an animation that he produced himself, entitled "Israeli Heaven."
Many of Vialls' investigations blamed significant world events - such as the 2004 Asian Tsunami - on joint CIA/Mossad operations, and Vialls maintained in disclaimers on his site that his reports were written in the interest of public safety. In other investigations, Vialls supposedly proved that such esoteric happenings as the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and a scandal involving the wearing of a swastika by Prince Harry were Zionist plots.
[edit] Three major investigations
- The first major Vialls investigation was into the 1984 murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan embassy in St James's Square. He concluded that the fatal shots came not from within the embassy but from a penthouse flat – next door but one to the Libyan embassy – and were fired by CIA/Mossad agents.
- The second investigation concerned the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and day-by-day summaries of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, resulting in a theory about the true cause of the bombing. Again, Vialls linked the CIA and Mossad to the crime.
- The third major investigation was into the Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania, Australia. Vialls claimed that an intellectually-impaired man, Martin Bryant, was wrongly convicted for this crime, and without a proper trial.
After a period of illness, Vialls died at the Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia on July 17, 2005 of a massive heart attack. [9][10]
