WE WANT TO KNOW: 9/11 News Stories
From Alex James
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Pentagon Destroys Copies of Controversial Memoir Written by Army Officer
2010-09-25, Fox News
Posted: 2010-10-04 11:20:44
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/25/pentagon-destroys-copies-controve
r...
<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/25/pentagon-destroys-copies-controv
ersial-memoir-written-army-officer/>
The Pentagon has burned 9,500 copies of Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony
Shaffer's memoir Operation Dark Heart
<http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Dark-Heart-Frontlines-Afghanistan/dp/031260
369X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1286143259&sr=8-1> , his book about going
undercover in Afghanistan. A Department of Defense official tells Fox News
that the department purchased copies of the first printing because they
contained information which could cause damage to national security. The
U.S. Army originally cleared the book for release. The U.S. Defense
Intelligence Agency attempted to block the book about the tipping point in
Afghanistan and a controversial pre-9/11 data mining project called "Able
Danger." In a letter obtained by Fox News, the DIA says national security
could be breached if Operation Dark Heart is published in its current form.
The agency also attempted to block key portions of the book that claim "Able
Danger" successfully identified hijacker Mohammed Atta as a threat to the
United States before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Note: Able Danger was the program which identified Mohamed Atta and three
other alleged 9/11 hijackers as a potential terror threat before 9/11. To
read major media reports on the intense controversy around this program
(which is likely why the book is being burned), click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/abledangernewsarticles> here.
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9/11 conspiracy theories rife in Muslim world
2010-10-02, Washington Post / Associated Press
Posted: 2010-10-04 11:07:25
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/02/AR2010100200
6...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/02/AR201010020
0663.html>
About a week ago, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared to the
United Nations that most people in the world believe the United States was
behind the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Surveys show that a majority
of the world does not in fact believe that the U.S. orchestrated the
attacks. However, the belief persists strongly among a minority, even with
U.S. allies like Turkey or in the U.S. itself. A 2006 survey by the Pew
Global Attitudes Project found that significant majorities in Egypt,
Indonesia, Jordan and Turkey ... said they did not believe Arabs carried out
the attacks. Such beliefs have currency even in the United States. In 2006,
a Scripps Howard poll <http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/28533> of 1,010
Americans found 36 percent thought it somewhat or very likely that U.S.
officials either participated in the attacks or took no action to stop them.
Tod Fletcher of [WantToKnow.info <http://www.wanttoknow.info/> ] has worked
as an assistant to David Ray Griffin
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/aboutus#griffin> , on books
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050504davidraygriffin> that question the Sept.
11 record. He was cautious about the Iranian president's comments about
conspiracy theories, suggesting Ahmadinejad may have been politically
motivated by his enmity with the U.S. government. "It seems like it's the
sort of thing that could lead to further vilification of people who
criticize the official account here in the United States," Fletcher said.
Note: To listen to Tod Fletcher's commentary on WantToKnow team member David
Ray Griffin's recent book,
<http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Infiltration-Appointees-Undermine-Conspirac
y/dp/1566568218/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1286122227&sr=1-1> Cognitive
Infiltration: an Obama Appointee's Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy
Theory, about the latest attempts by the US government to vilify 9/11 truth
movement members as "extremist," "violent" and "likely to resort to
terrorism", click here
<http://archive.wbai.org/files/mp3/101001_090001gunsbutter.MP3> .
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New Scientific Evidence Undermines Afghanistan War
2010-09-09, Reuters
Posted: 2010-09-27 10:19:25
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS204116+09-Sep-2010+PRN20100909
On the eve of the 9th anniversary of 9/11, support for the war in
Afghanistan took a serious blow today. Simultaneous press conferences were
held in New York and Los Angeles to present startling new information
refuting the official 9/11 narrative, used to justify the war. Also
announced were three major professional groups which have joined the
worldwide, and ever-growing, "9/11 Truth Movement." Representatives of
"Scientists <http://www.scientistsfor911truth.org/> for 9/11 Truth," "U.S.
<http://www.militaryofficersfor911truth.org/> Military Officers for 9/11
Truth" and "Actors <http://www.actorsandartistsfor911truth.org/> & Artists
for 9/11 Truth" presented their findings and unveiled their eye-opening
websites. Each non-profit group has launched a petition calling for a new,
transparent investigation. In NY, representing "Scientists," Professor Niels
Harrit said, "The official account put forth by NIST violates the
fundamental laws of physics and chemistry." In LA, physics teacher David
Chandler discussed the swift destruction of the WTC towers, including
Building 7, the little-known third tower. Having demonstrated its free fall,
he confronted the US government agency NIST with his analyses and forced
NIST to revise its November 2008 Final Report on WTC 7. NIST's Draft Report
had claimed free fall was impossible but NIST ultimately acknowledged WTC 7
was in absolute free fall for over two seconds. Concluded Chandler, "Free
fall is physically impossible without explosives." In LA, former Director of
Advanced Space Programs Development Lt. Col. Robert Bowman stated, "9/11 has
been an excuse to use our brave young troops as cannon fodder in unjust wars
of aggression."
Note: To view a powerful video of the joint press conferences of these three
new 9/11 truth organizations, click here
<http://www.scientistsfor911truth.org/pressConference_Videos.html> .
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Secrets in Plain Sight in Censored Book's Reprint
2010-09-18, New York Times
Posted: 2010-09-27 10:14:52
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/18/us/18book.html
The National Security Agency, headquarters for the government's
eavesdroppers and code breakers, has been located at Fort Meade, Md., for
half a century. Its nickname, the Fort, has been familiar for decades to
neighbors and government workers alike. Yet that nickname is one of hundreds
of supposed secrets Pentagon reviewers blacked out in the new, censored
edition of an intelligence officer's Afghan war memoir. The Defense
Department is buying and destroying the entire uncensored first printing of
<http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Dark-Heart-Frontlines-Afghanistan/dp/031260
369X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285428364&sr=1-1> Operation Dark Heart,
by Anthony Shaffer, a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve and former
Defense Intelligence Agency officer, in the name of protecting national
security. Another supposed secret removed from the second printing: the
location of the Central Intelligence Agency's training facility - Camp
Peary, Va., a fact discoverable from Wikipedia. And the name and
abbreviation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, routinely mentioned
in news articles. And the fact that Sigint means "signals intelligence." Not
only did the Pentagon black out Colonel Shaffer's cover name in Afghanistan,
Chris Stryker, it deleted the source of his pseudonym: the name of John
Wayne's character in the 1949 movie "The Sands of Iwo Jima." The redactions
offer a rare glimpse behind the bureaucratic veil that cloaks information
the government considers too important for public airing.
Note: Interesting that this NY Times article fails to even mention the "Able
Danger" program which Shaffer publicly revealed had identified some of the
hijackers before 9/11. For powerful information suggesting government
foreknowledge of 9/11 through this program, click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/abledangernewsarticles> here. Yet a Fox News
article available here
<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/25/pentagon-destroys-copies-controv
ersial-memoir-written-army-officer> gives all the details. For lots more
from major media sources on government secrecy, click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/secrecynewsarticles> here.
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Pentagon Attempts to Block Book on Afghan War
2010-09-10, Fox News
Posted: 2010-09-20 10:16:44
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/09/military-intelligence-attempts-bl
o...
<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/09/military-intelligence-attempts-b
lock-book-afghan-war/>
The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has attempted to block a book about the
tipping point in Afghanistan and a controversial pre-9/11 data mining
project called "Able Danger." In a letter obtained by Fox News, the DIA says
national security could be breached if Operation Dark Heart is published in
its current form. The agency also attempted to block key portions of the
book that claim "Able Danger" successfully identified hijacker Mohammed Atta
as a threat to the United States before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
In a highly unusual move, the Department of Defense is now negotiating with
the publisher, St. Martin's Press, to buy all 10,000 copies of the first
printing of the book to keep it off shelves -- even after the U.S. Army had
cleared the book for release. Specifically, the DIA wanted references to a
meeting between Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, the book's author, and the executive
director of the 9/11 Commission, Philip Zelikow, removed. In that meeting,
which took place in Afghanistan, Shaffer alleges the commission was told
about "Able Danger" and the identification of Atta before the attacks. No
mention of this was made in the final 9/11 report. Once back in the U.S.,
Shaffer says he contacted the commission. Without explanation, the
commission was no longer interested.
Note: Click <http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/DIA_Demand.pdf> here to
read the full DIA letter (pdf). For a video of Fox News' exclusive interview
with the author of the book blocked by the Pentagon, Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer,
click here
<http://video.foxnews.com/g4334029/exclusive-interview-with-author-of-book-b
locked-by-pentagon?playlist_id=86858> .
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On Flight 77: 'Our Plane Is Being Hijacked'
2001-09-12, Washington Post
Posted: 2010-09-20 09:44:18
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14365-2001Sep11
About an hour after takeoff from Dulles International Airport yesterday
morning, Flight 77, a Boeing 757 headed for Los Angeles with 64 people
aboard, became a massive missile aimed at the White House. The target would
change suddenly, but the symbolism was equally devastating. The diving plane
carved out a massive chunk of the Pentagon. The unidentified pilot executed
a pivot so tight that it reminded observers of a fighter jet maneuver. The
plane circled 270 degrees to the right to approach the Pentagon from the
west, whereupon Flight 77 fell below radar level, vanishing from
controllers' screens. Aviation sources said the plane was flown with
extraordinary skill, making it highly likely that a trained pilot was at the
helm, possibly one of the hijackers. Someone even knew how to turn off the
transponder, a move that is considerably less than obvious.
Note: Yet Hani Hanjour, the alleged terrorist pilot of Flight 77, was a
terrible pilot. According to a
<http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F03EFDF153BF93BA2575AC0A967
9C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1> New York Times article, "Marcel Bernard, the
chief flight instructor at the school, said Mr. Hanjour showed up in
Washington asking to rent a single-engine plane. But he was told that he had
to prove his skills before being allowed to do so. Mr. Bernard said Mr.
Hanjour made three flights with two different instructors but was unable to
prove that he had the necessary skills." The article states this was less
than a month before 9/11. How then was he able to execute the "fighter jet
maneuver" above on a Boeing 757? Click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> here for more.
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Angry in America: Inside Alex Jones' World
2010-09-02, ABC News
Posted: 2010-09-13 11:39:16
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/alex-jones-day-life-libertarian-radio-host/s
t...
<http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/alex-jones-day-life-libertarian-radio-host/
story?id=10891854>
"Good old Uncle Sam will stage attacks ... that's how they keep the slaves
in line," the libertarian radio host says during a rant on his show. "We
have to wake up and face the fact that we have a criminal government." The
criminal government is just one of many conspiracy theories [Alex] Jones
espouses -- although he thinks that term belittles his reporting. He also
believes that the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center were an inside
job ... and that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) runs
concentration camps. "They [FEMA] have designat[ed] sports stadiums," he
said matter-of-factly, "They have designated fields, they have designated
closed down prisoner of war camps for the American people during a civil
uprising." His six-day-a-week radio show and webcast reach an estimated one
million people a day. On YouTube and elsewhere, Jones estimates 200 million
people have seen his various documentaries, like "The Fall of the Republic,"
"Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement" and "The Obama Deception." "I've
got to report the information I see and what I believe is happening," he
said. "I have a responsibility to put out."
Note: It's extremely rare that a major media outlet such as ABC News will
cover the work of a prominent member of the 9/11 truth movement. It is
likely due to the growing groundswell of demands for a genuine investigation
into the events. On September 9, two days before the ninth anniversary of
9/11, three new professional organizations held joint press conferences in
New York City and Los Angeles: Scientists
<http://www.scientistsfor911truth.org> for 9/11 Truth, Military Officers
for 9/11 Truth <http://www.militaryofficersfor911truth.org> , and Actors and
<http://www.actorsandartistsfor911truth.org> Artists for 9/11 Truth,
calling for such an investigation.
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Secret services 'must be made more transparent'
2010-08-29, The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: 2010-09-06 11:34:25
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/secret-services-must-be-made-
m...
<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/secret-services-must-be-made
-more-transparent-2064948.html>
The secret services must become more transparent if they are to halt the
spread of damaging conspiracy theories and increase trust in the Government,
claims a leading think tank. A Demos report published today,
<http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/thepowerofunreason> "The Power of
Unreason", argues that secrecy surrounding the investigation of events such
as the 9/11 New York attacks and the 7/7 bombings in London merely adds
weight to ... claims that they were "inside jobs". It ... recommends the
Government fight back by infiltrating internet sites to dispute these
theories. The Royal United Services Institute warned last week that the UK
may soon face a new wave of home-grown terrorists, when criminals who have
been targeted by jihadists while in prison are released.
Note: The report cited in this article advocates UK government infiltration
of "conspiracist" organizations and websites. In the US the same
recommendation has been made by Obama appointee Cass Sunstein
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Sunstein> , whose article "Conspiracy
Theories: Causes and Cures" has just been fully dissected by WantToKnow team
member David <http://www.wanttoknow.info/050504davidraygriffin> Ray Griffin
in his new book
<http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Infiltration-Appointees-Undermine-Conspirac
y/dp/1566568218/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283623625&sr=1-1> Cognitive
Infiltration: An Obama Appointee's Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy
Theory.
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Cuba's Fidel Castro claims al-Qaida leader Osama bin laden is a US agent
2010-08-27, Minneapolis Star-Tribune/Associated Press
Posted: 2010-09-06 11:16:40
http://www.startribune.com/world/101653038.html?page=1
<http://www.startribune.com/world/101653038.html?page=1&c=y> &c=y
Fidel Castro says al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is a bought-and-paid-for
CIA agent who always popped up when former President George W. Bush needed
to scare the world, arguing that documents recently posted on the Internet
prove it. "Any time Bush would stir up fear and make a big speech, bin Laden
would appear threatening people with a story about what he was going to do,"
Castro told state media during a meeting with a Lithuanian-born writer known
for advancing conspiracy theories about world domination. "Bush never lacked
for bin Laden's support. He was a subordinate." Castro said documents posted
on WikiLeaks.org - a website that recently released thousands of pages of
classified documents from the Afghan war - "effectively proved he was a CIA
agent." Last week, he began highlighting the work of Daniel
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Estulin> Estulin, who wrote a trilogy
of books highlighting the Bilderberg Club, whose prominent members meet once
a year behind closed doors. During the meeting, Estulin told Castro that the
real voice of bin Laden was last heard in late 2001, not long after the
Sept. 11 attacks. He said the person heard making warnings about terror
attacks after that was a "bad actor."
Note: WantToKnow team member David
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050504davidraygriffin> Ray Griffin has analyzed
the evidence for bin Laden's likely death in December 2001 in his important
book
<http://www.amazon.com/Osama-Bin-Laden-Dead-Alive/dp/1566567831/ref=sr_1_1?s
=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283703372&sr=1-1> Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive?. For
key reports from major media sources on secret societies such as the
Bilderberg Club, click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/secretsocietiesnewsarticles> here.
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Fidel Castro fascinated by book on Bilderberg Club
2010-08-18, Boston Globe/Associated Press
Posted: 2010-08-31 10:02:11
http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2010/08/18/fidel_cast
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Fidel Castro is showcasing a theory long popular both among the far left and
far right: that the shadowy Bilderberg Group has become a kind of global
government, controlling not only international politics and economics, but
even culture. The 84-year-old former Cuban president published an article
[on August 18 to quote] from a 2006 book by Lithuanian-born writer Daniel
Estulin. Estulin's work,
<http://www.amazon.com/True-Story-Bilderberg-Group/dp/0979988624/ref=sr_1_2?
s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283017548&sr=1-2> The True Story of the Bilderberg
Group, argues that the international group largely runs the world. It has
held a secretive annual forum of prominent politicians, thinkers and
businessmen since it was founded in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in Holland.
Estulin's book, as quoted by Castro, described "sinister cliques and the
Bilderberg lobbyists" manipulating the public "to install a world government
that knows no borders and is not accountable to anyone but its own self."
The prominence of the group is what alarms critics. It often includes
members of the Rockefeller family, Henry Kissinger, senior U.S. and European
officials and major international business and media executives. Castro --
who had an inside seat to the Cold War -- has long expressed suspicions of
back-room plots. He has raised questions about whether the Sept. 11 attacks
were orchestrated by the U.S. government to stoke military budgets and, more
recently suggested that Washington was behind the March sinking of a South
Korean ship blamed on North Korea.
Note: For lots more on secret societies like the Bildergroup, click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/secretsocietiesnewsarticles> here.
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Bin Laden driver said to have known 9/11 target
2008-07-23, Reuters
Posted: 2010-08-23 11:05:43
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN2230096620080723
Osama bin Laden's driver knew the target of the fourth hijacked jetliner in
the September 11 attacks, a prosecutor said. Prosecutor Timothy Stone, in an
attempt to draw a link between [Salim] Hamdan and the al Qaeda leadership in
the first Guantanamo war crimes trial, told the six-member jury of U.S.
military officers ... that Hamdan had inside knowledge of the 2001 attacks
on the United States because he overheard a conversation between bin Laden
and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri. "If they hadn't shot down the fourth
plane it would've hit the dome," Stone, a Navy officer, said in his opening
remarks. "Virtually no one knew the intended target, but the accused knew,"
Stone said. United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in a field in rural
Pennsylvania. U.S. officials have never stated it was shot down although
rumours saying that abound to this day.
Note: Some 9/11 researchers have long believed the target of the fourth
plane was the US Capitol. If a number of members of Congress had been
killed, Bush almost certainly would have declared martial law, thus
stripping Congress of its power and making him a virtual dictator. Just
imagine what might have happened in that case. Some suspect that Flight 93
was shot down by friendly fire, possibly on orders of factions within the
power elite who were against the plot. For more on all this, click
<http://www.infowars.com/print/Sept11/93_shootdown.htm> here and here
<http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2008/04/us-air-force-shot-down-flight-
93.html> .
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Documents Back Saudi Link to Extremists
2010-06-24, New York Times
Posted: 2010-07-12 10:07:26
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/world/middleeast/24saudi.html
Documents gathered by lawyers for the families of Sept. 11 victims provide
new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and other extremist
groups by members of the Saudi royal family, but the material may never find
its way into court because of legal and diplomatic obstacles. The case has
put the Obama administration in the middle of a political and legal dispute,
with the Justice Department siding with the Saudis in court last month in
seeking to kill further legal action. Adding to the intrigue, classified
American intelligence documents related to Saudi finances were leaked
anonymously to lawyers for the families. The Justice Department had the
lawyers' copies destroyed and now wants to prevent a judge from even looking
at the material. Two federal judges and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals
have already ruled against the 7,630 people represented in the lawsuit, made
up of survivors of the attacks and family members of those killed, throwing
out the suit on the ground that the families cannot bring legal action in
the United States against a sovereign nation and its leaders. The Supreme
Court is expected to decide this week whether to hear an appeal, but the
families' prospects dimmed last month when the Justice Department sided with
the Saudis in their immunity claim and urged the court not to consider the
appeal.
Note: For many questions about the relationship between powerful Saudis, the
US government and the events of 9/11, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
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Report: Pakistani Spy Agency Arms, Trains Taliban
2010-06-13, ABC News
Posted: 2010-06-20 18:15:51
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=10900484
Pakistan's main spy agency continues to arm and train the Taliban and is
even represented on the group's leadership council despite U.S. pressure to
sever ties and billions in aid to combat the militants, a research report
concluded. U.S. officials have suggested in the past that current or former
members of Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI,
have maintained links to the Taliban despite the government's decision to
denounce the group in 2001 under U.S. pressure. The report issued [on June
13] by the London School of Economics offered one of the strongest cases
that assistance to the group is official ISI policy, and even extends to the
highest levels of the Pakistani government. The report ... was based on
interviews with Taliban commanders, former Taliban officials, Western
diplomats and many others. "Without a change in Pakistani behavior it will
be difficult, if not impossible, for international forces and the Afghan
government to make progress against the insurgency," said the report,
written by Matt Waldman, a fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy
School of Government.
Note: For lots more powerful information suggestion Pakistani involvement
with terrorism and 9/11, watch the highly insightful documentary available
here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/911video> .
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Jesse Ventura claims gov't involved in 9/11
2010-03-09, MSNBC
Posted: 2010-05-17 05:28:52
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/35728268/ns/today-today_books
In his new book,
<http://www.amazon.com/American-Conspiracies-Dirty-Government-Tells/dp/16023
9802X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274027225&sr=1-1> American
Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies That the Government Tells Us,
former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura begins an investigative journey to prove
that there is more to our national history than the government wants us to
know. In this excerpt, he writes about an alleged 9/11 cover-up. Chapter 12:
What really happened on September 11? Our government engaged in a massive
cover-up of what really happened, including its own ties to the hijackers.
Unanswered questions remain about how the towers were brought down, and
whether a plane really struck the Pentagon. The Bush Administration either
knew about the plan and allowed it to proceed, or they had a hand in it
themselves. I certainly never expected to think that elements of the Bush
Administration were complicit. Today, though, I am convinced that some
people inside our government knew the attack was going to happen and allowed
it to come to pass - because it furthered their political agenda. I say this
after expending many hours researching things about the official story that
don't add up, and interviewing a number of witnesses with firsthand
knowledge that contradicts what we were told. As a patriotic American, I say
this with a heavy heart - and with an outrage that really knows no words.
But it's something we, as a nation, must come to terms with. Otherwise, it
could happen again.
Note: For the questions raised by many other highly respected former
government officials about what really happened on 9/11, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/officialsquestion911commissionreport> .
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A leading Japanese politician espouses a 9/11 fantasy
2010-03-08, Washington Post
Posted: 2010-03-15 23:08:38
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/07/AR2010030702
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<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/07/AR201003070
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Yukihisa Fujita is an influential member of the ruling Democratic Party of
Japan. As chief of the DPJ's international department and head of the
Research Committee on Foreign Affairs in the upper house of Japan's
parliament, to which he was elected in 2007, he is a Brahmin in the foreign
policy establishment of Washington's most important East Asian ally. He also
seems to think that America's rendering of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, is
a gigantic hoax. He questions whether it was really the work of terrorists;
suggests that shadowy forces with advance knowledge of the plot played the
stock market to profit from it; peddles the ... idea that eight of the 19
hijackers are alive and well; and hints that controlled demolition rather
than fire or debris may be a more likely explanation for at least the
collapse of the building at 7 World Trade Center, which was adjacent to the
twin towers. As with almost any calamity whose scale and scope assume
historic proportions, the events of Sept. 11 have spawned a thriving
subculture of conspiracy theorists at home and abroad. We have no reason to
believe that Mr. Fujita's views are widely shared in Japan. His proposal two
years ago that Tokyo undertake an independent investigation into the Sept.
11 attacks, in which 24 Japanese citizens died, went nowhere.
Note: How interesting that the Washington Post is just now reporting this,
when this brave Japanese politician presented his case on 9/11 to the
Japanese parliament over two years ago. See the video of his presentation at
this link <http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2680190129949942423> . To
read Fujita's revealing response to this editorial, click here
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/12/AR201003120
4085.html> . For lots more on 9/11, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> .
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Explosive News
2010-02-22, Washington Times
Posted: 2010-03-03 22:54:07
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/22/inside-the-beltway-70128635
A lingering technical question about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks still
haunts some, and it has political implications: How did 200,000 tons of
steel disintegrate and drop in 11 seconds? A thousand architects and
engineers want to know, and are calling on Congress to order a new
investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the
World Trade Center. "In order to bring down this kind of mass in such a
short period of time, the material must have been artificially, exploded
outwards," says Richard Gage, a San Francisco architect and founder of the
nonprofit Architects <http://www.ae911truth.org> & Engineers for 9/11
Truth. Mr. Gage, who is a member of the American Institute of Architects,
managed to persuade more than 1,000 of his peers to sign a new petition
requesting a formal inquiry. "The official Federal Emergency Management
[Agency] and National Institute of Standards and Technology reports provide
insufficient, contradictory and fraudulent accounts of the circumstances of
the towers' destruction. We are therefore calling for a grand jury
investigation of NIST officials," Mr. Gage adds. "The implications are
enormous."
Note: To read statements questionig the official account of the events of
9/11 by hundreds of professors, government officials and professionals,
click <http://www.wanttoknow.info/070618professorsquestion911> here and
here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/officialsquestion911commissionreport> . For
our 9/11 Information Center, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> .
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U.S. sought attack on al-Qaida
2002-05-16, MSNBC News
Posted: 2010-02-23 13:10:22
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4587368/ns/us_news-security
President Bush was expected to sign detailed plans for a worldwide war
against al-Qaida two days before Sept. 11 but did not have the chance before
the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, U.S. and foreign sources
told NBC News. The document, a formal National Security Presidential
Directive, amounted to a "game plan to remove al-Qaida from the face of the
earth," one of the sources told NBC News' Jim Miklaszewski. In many
respects, the directive ... outlined essentially the same war plan that the
White House, the CIA and the Pentagon put into action after the Sept. 11
attacks. Officials did not believe that Bush had had the opportunity to
closely review the document in the two days between its submission and the
Sept. 11 attacks. But it had been submitted to national security adviser
Condoleezza Rice, and the officials said Bush knew about it and had been
expected to sign it. The couching of the plans as a formal security
directive is significant, Miklaszewski reported, because it indicates that
the United States intended a full-scale assault on al-Qaida even if the
Sept. 11 attacks had not occurred.
Note: Why was this kept secret? Why is it still being kept secret?
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1,000 Architects & Engineers Call for a Real 9/11 Investigation
2010-01-25, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Posted: 2010-02-07 22:40:09
http://www.ae911truth.org/info/152
AE911Truth will hold a press conference on Friday, February 19, at 11:00 AM
at the Marines Memorial Club and Hotel in San Francisco. We will announce
and honor the milestone of our achievement of obtaining 1,000 architects and
engineers petitioning for a real investigation into the destruction of the 3
World Trade Center skyscrapers. The press conference will include a
large-screen scrolling display of all 1,000 A/E's; statements by Richard
Gage, AIA, founder of AE911Truth and several petition signers; and a short
ten-minute presentation of "9/11: Blueprint for Truth" - the explosive
evidence for the engineered destruction of the 3 World Trade Center
skyscrapers. A press kit including the AE911Truth DVD will be made available
to all attendees. We will also be inviting various leaders in the 9/11 Truth
movement to this milestone event. We are working with We Are Change and
other 9/11 Truth organizations to deliver hardcopy petition evidence press
kits to every member of Congress. Join us on February 19 in San Francisco to
honor this remarkable achievement and meet some of those who have made
AE911Truth one of the most respected voices in the 9/11 Truth movement.
Note: For a powerful 10-minute video clip by the founder of Architects &
Engineers for 9/11 Truth, click here
<http://www.personalgrowthcourses.net/video/9-11_world_trade_center_7> .
WantToKnow team member, Dr.
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050504davidraygriffin> David Ray Griffin, and
Dr. Steven Jones will deliver keynote speeches at the press conference
luncheon at noon.
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The Anthrax Attacks Remain Unsolved
2010-01-24, Wall Street Journal
Posted: 2010-02-01 19:51:47
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704541004575011421223515284.ht
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The investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks ended as far as the public
knew on July 29, 2008, with the death of Bruce Ivins, a senior biodefense
researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious
Diseases in Fort Detrick, Md. Less than a week after his apparent suicide,
the FBI declared Ivins to have been the sole perpetrator of the 2001 Anthrax
attacks. The FBI [had] turned the pressure up on him, isolating him at work
and forcing him to spend what little money he had on lawyers to defend
himself. He became increasingly stressed. Then came his suicide (which, as
Eric Nadler and Bob Coen show in their documentary "The Anthrax War
<http://www.anthraxwar.com/> ," was one of four suicides among American and
British biowarfare researchers in past years). But there was still a vexing
problem. Silicon was used in the 1960s to weaponize anthrax. Anthrax spores
were coated with the substance to prevent them from clinging together so as
to create a lethal aerosol. But since weaponization was banned by
international treaties, research anthrax no longer contains silicon, and the
[anthrax] at Fort Detrick contained none. Ivins, no matter how weird he may
have been, had neither the set of skills nor the means to attach silicon to
anthrax spores. If Ivins had neither the equipment or skills to weaponize
anthrax with silicon, then some other party with access to the anthrax must
have done it.
Note: As usual, the FBI tries to pin it on one wacko, when it is clear
others most have been involved. Remember that the anthrax attacks occurred
as Congress was considering the PATRIOT Act, and were
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#anthrax> directed in part at
key senators opposed to the act. Congress was shut down for a period, and
when it reconvened it passed the bill without discussion. For lots more on
the antrax attacks as a likely false-flag operation, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/falseflag> .
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Spanish MP's photo used for Osama Bin Laden poster
2010-01-16, BBC News
Posted: 2010-01-25 13:49:25
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8463657.stm
A Spanish politician has said he was shocked to find out the FBI had used
his photo for a digitally-altered image showing how Osama Bin Laden might
look. Gaspar Llamazares said he would no longer feel safe travelling to the
US after his hair and parts of his face appeared on a most-wanted poster. He
said the use of a real person for the mocked-up image was "shameless". The
FBI admitted a forensic artist had obtained certain facial features "from a
photograph he found on the internet". The digitally-altered photos of the
al-Qaeda leader, showing how he might look now, aged 52, were published on
the state department's Rewards for Justice website. Officials said they had
adapted a 1998 file image to take account of a decade's worth of ageing, and
possible changes to facial hair. Mr Llamazares said it showed the "low
level" of US intelligence services and could cause problems if he was
wrongly identified as the Saudi. "Bin Laden's safety is not threatened by
this but mine certainly is," he said, adding that he was considering taking
legal action.
Note: Now the FBI has admitted that it is doctoring images of Osama bin
Laden, and doing so quite ineptly. For WantToKnow team member David
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050504davidraygriffin> Ray Griffin's powerful
analysis of the highly suspect series of audio and video "messages from bin
Laden" claimed by US authorities, click here
<http://www.amazon.com/Osama-Bin-Laden-Dead-Alive/dp/1566567831/ref=sr_1_1?i
e=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264380808&sr=8-1> .
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Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto: Osama bin Laden is Dead
2007-11-02, BBC News
Posted: 2010-01-16 20:15:36
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7070000/newsid_7075800/7075843.stm
David Frost: Does anyone know exactly who was responsible for this
assassination attempt? There is one report that said that you arranged to
send President Musharraf a letter ... in the event of your death by
assassination, urging him to investigate certain individuals in his
government. Is that true? Benazir Bhutto: Yes it is true that I wrote to
General Musharraf. I feel these are the forces that really want to stop not
just me, but the democratic process and the will of the people [from]
triumphing. David Frost: In terms of these three people you mentioned where
they members of or associated with the government? Benazir Bhutto: One of
them is a very key figure in security. He is a former military officer. He
is someone who has had dealings with Jaish-e-Mohammad, one of the band [of]
groups of Maulana Masood Azhar, who was in an Indian jail for decapitating
three British tourists and three American tourists. And he also had dealings
with Omar Shiekh, who murdered Osama bin Laden.
Note: The key statement on bin Laden's murder happens at minute five in the
video at the above link. If the link fails, click here
<http://www.personalgrowthcourses.net/video/bbc_bin_laden_dead> . For a Jan.
9, 2010 BBC article also suggesting bin Laden may be dead and his death
covered up, click <http://www.wanttoknow.info/a-Osama-Bin-Laden-dead> here.
Bhutto was assassinated
<http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/27/pakistan.sharif/> not long
after this interview on Dec. 27, 2007.
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Is Osama Bin Laden dead or alive?
2010-01-09, BBC News
Posted: 2010-01-11 12:25:02
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8444069.stm
Osama Bin Laden died eight years ago during the battle for Tora Bora in
Afghanistan, either from a US bomb or from a serious kidney disease. Or so
the conspiracy theory goes. The theory that has developed on the web since
9/11 is that US intelligence services are manufacturing the Bin Laden
statements ... to justify the so-called war on terror in Afghanistan, Iraq
and back at home. Numerous audio and video statements purporting to be from
Bin Laden have been released, but their authenticity has been continually
questioned. The veracity of all of the videos is questioned by David Ray
Griffin, a former theology professor and member of the 9/11 Truth Movement,
which also questions mainstream accounts of the attack on the World Trade
Centre. "None of them can be proven to be authentic," he says. "At least
three of them can be shown to be almost certainly fake. And if somebody is
faking Bin Laden videos, then that leads to the suspicion that all the
videos and audio tapes have been faked." His first example is a video
released by the US Department of Defense in December 2001. In it, [the] Bin
Laden [figure] confesses to 9/11, yet Mr Griffin points out that al-Qaeda
has only rarely admitted responsibility for terrorist attacks. He also
maintains that the Bin Laden figure looks very different to previous footage
- fatter, with shorter fingers, and that he is even writing with the wrong
hand.
Note: To see how easily audio and video materials can be faked, read
excerpts from this Washington Post article
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/a-when-seeing-hearing-isnt-believing> .
WantToKnow team member David Ray
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/aboutus#griffin> Griffin has written
extensively about the evidence regarding whether Osama bin Laden is alive or
dead, including his recent book,
<http://www.amazon.com/Osama-Bin-Laden-Dead-Alive/dp/1566567831/ref=pd_bxgy_
b_text_b> Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive?
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Osama bin Laden's missing family found in secret compound in Iran
2009-12-23, Times of London
Posted: 2010-01-04 14:37:53
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article6965756.ece
Osama bin Laden's closest relatives are living in a secret compound in Iran,
members of the family said. They include a wife and children who disappeared
from his Afghan camp at the time of the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
There has been uncertainty about the family's whereabouts for the past eight
years, with reports that some of the children had been killed in bombings.
However, relatives said that they found out last month that the group,
including one of Osama's wives, six of his children and 11 of his
grandchildren, had been kept in a high-security compound outside Tehran.
Members of the bin Laden family are now appealing for the group to be
allowed to leave Iran and described them as the "forgotten victims of 9/11".
Omar Ossama bin Laden, 29, [Osama bin Laden's] fourth-eldest son, said he
had no idea that his brothers and sisters were still alive until they called
him in November. They told him how they had fled Afghanistan just before the
9/11 attacks and walked to the Iranian border. They were taken to a walled
compound outside Tehran where guards said they were not allowed to leave
"for their own safety".
Note: This article fails to mention that the US government secretly assisted
many bin Laden family members to escape the US within days of the 9/11
attacks, as reported in the major media. For more on this, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#binladenkin> . For many other
reports by the major media raising serious questions about the involvement
of rogue elements of government in 9/11, click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> here.
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Ventura Turns Investigator for 'Conspiracy Theory'
2009-12-01, ABC News/Associated Press
Posted: 2009-12-21 00:01:26
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9219009
Jesse Ventura is back for another stab at TV stardom, this time hosting a
program that digs into conspiracy theories, including alternate views of
what was behind the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the purpose of a
sprawling research center in remote Alaska. The former Minnesota governor,
professional wrestler and Navy SEAL stars in "Conspiracy
<http://www.trutv.com/shows/conspiracy_theory/index.html> Theory With Jesse
Ventura," ... on truTV. The cable network, part of Turner Broadcasting
System Inc., has ordered seven episodes of the hourlong weekly series. Marc
Juris, executive vide president and general manager of truTV, said Ventura
is passionate about the show and brings "knowledge from the inside" of
government. "He's not doing this as an act or a gimmick. It's true to his
heart. He's really looking for the answers," Juris told the AP. The premiere
episode deals with the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or
HAARP, a 35-acre compound of 180 antennas near Gakona, Alaska, that is used
to study the Earth's ionosphere. Ventura and those he interviews question
whether the government is using the site to manipulate the weather or to
bombard people with mind-controlling radio waves. Future "Conspiracy Theory"
shows explore alleged cover-ups surrounding the Sept. 11 attacks and whether
there are real "Manchurian Candidate" assassins who are programmed to kill,
said Juris.
Note: Ventura was also a Navy Seal, where he personally was involved in top
secret activities and learned how what is presented to the public is very
different from the deeper realities. Don't miss the highly educational
episode on the vitally important topic of HAARP by clicking here
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyMU7DHMpYc> . And watch the excellent
episode on 9/11 by clicking here
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkio6TF0Ufg> . You'll be surprised by the
new angles presented.
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Jesse Ventura searches for coverups
2009-11-29, Los Angeles Times
Posted: 2009-12-20 23:57:15
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-conversation29-2009nov29,0,1
7...
<http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-conversation29-2009nov29,0,
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Jesse Ventura is back. The former pro wrestler, who served as Minnesota
governor from 1999 to 2003, is the host of "Conspiracy Theory," an
investigative series ... on truTV. [Q:] On "Conspiracy Theory," you
investigate secret societies and supposed government coverups. Such theories
are everywhere, but really, what big conspiracy has ever been proven?
[Ventura:] How can you prove it? That's the point. The better part would be
to ask, "How many of the government's points have ever been proven?" I find
what's most interesting about doing this show is how the government will not
participate or allow you in or answer any questions. We're not allowed to
question our government. [Q:] One of the alleged coverups you investigate
involves 9/11. Do you believe the terrorist attacks were an inside job?
[Ventura:] I believe that the government has not been truthful with us about
it. Yes, absolutely. That there's massive holes in the story they've told.
That none of these questions have ever been adequately addressed. All
evidence has been destroyed, pretty much. [Q:] Why would the government want
to do such things? {Ventura:} Well, what changed after 9/11? We're in two
wars, passage of Patriot Act and all that. Our entire society changed that
day. We've become paranoid. We think there's a terrorist behind every tree.
I live in Mexico half the year. And when I'm down there, for six months, I
never hear the word "terrorism." When I'm up here, I can't go a day without
hearing it.
Note: Many government officials, like Jesse Ventura, have questioned the
official explanation of the 9/11 attacks. To read their questions, click
here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/officialsquestion911commissionreport> .
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Website Wikileaks publishes '9/11 messages'
2009-11-26, BBC News
Posted: 2009-11-28 23:16:36
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8379960.stm
A website has published what it says are 573,000 intercepted pager messages
sent during the 9/11 attacks in the United States. WikiLeaks
<http://wikileaks.org/> says it will not reveal who gave it the messages -
some of which are from federal agencies as well as ordinary citizens.
Internet analysts say they believe the messages are genuine but federal
authorities have refused to comment. The messages are not all about the
attacks. Some are mundane questions about what people are having for lunch.
However, many are about the deadly plane attacks and range from people
trying to find out if their loved ones are safe to government messages. They
include messages such as * This is Myrna, I will not rest until you get
home, the second tower is down, I don't want to have to keep calling you
after every event. Pls just go home * Bomb detonated in World Trade Ctr. Pls
get back to Mike Brady w/ a quick assessment of your areas and contact us if
anything is needed. New York's fire and police departments said they could
not comment on whether messages purportedly sent from them were genuine
while the US Secret Service refused to comment. WikiLeaks allows people to
anonymously post documents on the web, saying its aim is to promote
transparency. It was created in 2006 by dissidents, journalists,
mathematicians and technologists from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and
South Africa.
Note: For questions raised by hundreds of highly respected and credible
officials, academics and professionals about what really happened on 9/11,
click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/officialsquestion911commissionreport>
and here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/070618professorsquestion911> .
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Was 9/11 a conspiracy? 'Truthers' make their case
2009-11-26, The Globe and Mail (One of Toronto's leading newspapers)
Posted: 2009-11-28 23:13:57
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/was-911-a-conspiracy-truthers-make-
t...
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/was-911-a-conspiracy-truthers-make
-their-case/article1378976>
Though rarely shown on TV these days ... 9/11 footage is replayed more than
once in "The <http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2009-2010/the_unofficial_story/>
Unofficial Story" [on the CBC News program the fifth estate]. The
documentary follows up on some fairly startling public-opinion polls of
late. To wit: More than half of all Americans believe the Bush
administration had advance knowledge of 9/11, and did nothing to stop it;
slightly more than one-third of the Canadian population believes likewise.
"The number of people who believe the U.S. government was involved in the
attacks appears to be growing," says fifth estate veteran Bob McKeown, who
helms the report. "Most of them believe there are still questions that have
gone unanswered." Among the group's more prominent proponents is Richard
Gage <http://www.ae911truth.org/aboutus.php> , a well-regarded architect
interviewed by McKeown in the program. Gage is fervent in his belief that
the destruction was intentional, and was not accomplished with airplanes,
but with explosives. Also speaking out for the Truthers movement is academic
and Nobel Peace Prize nominee David
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050504davidraygriffin> Ray Griffin - who
questions the lack of NORAD response after the first plane struck the tower
- and Canadian professor Kee Dewdney
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/070618professorsquestion911#Dewdney> , who
insists the fabled on-board struggle between hijackers and passengers on
United Airlines Flight 93 could only be a hoax. "The really interesting
thing to me is that you cannot get these people to speculate," observes
McKeown. "They will say, 'That is not my job.'"
Note: Watch this first-ever North American major media network news
documentary on the 9/11 truth movement by clicking here
<http://www.youtube.com/user/SaveOurSovereignty3#p/u/5/a4vFunDyMaE> . And
for what may be the best ever documentary on 9/11 for opening people's eyes,
click <http://www.personalgrowthcourses.net/video/9-11_video> here.
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9/11's delayed legacy: cancer for many of the rescue workers
2009-11-11, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: 2009-11-16 23:22:59
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/11/cancer-new-york-rescuers
A spate of recent deaths of New York police and fire officers who took part
in the emergency operation at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks has
heightened fears that it could be the start of a delayed epidemic of
cancer-related illness. Five firefighters and police officers, all of whom
were involved in the rescue and clear-up at the site of the collapsed Twin
Towers, have died of cancer in the past three months, the oldest being 44.
Three died last month within a four-day period. Up to 70,000 people took
part in the massive operation at Ground Zero, including police, firefighters
and construction workers who came to New York voluntarily from all over the
US. Many worked for months amid a toxic soup of dust and chemicals. Amid the
pollutants within the giant pile of 1.8m tons of debris and the surrounding
air were ... about 1,000 tons of asbestos that was used in the construction
of the Twin Towers, pulverised lead from computers, mercury and highly
carcinogenic by-products from the burning of plastics and chlorinated
chemicals. No official tally is available for the number of those who have
died as a result of the 9/11 clear-up. The New York state health department
has recorded 817 deaths of emergency workers. Claire Calladine, a campaigner
who runs the organisation 9/11 <http://911healthnow.com/> Health Now, said
the fear was that the recent rise in cancer cases was just the start. "We
have only seen the tip of the iceberg. How bad will it get - that is the big
question."
Note: To read important questions raised by hundreds of government
officials, academics and professionals about what really happened on 9/11,
click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/officialsquestion911commissionreport>
and here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/070618professorsquestion911> .
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The World's Most Wanted Man
2009-09-12, Daily Express (One of the UK's largest-circulation newspapers)
Posted: 2009-10-17 18:26:04
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/126787/The-world-s-most-wanted-man
Thousands of troops from countries including Britain, America, Afghanistan
and Pakistan search relentlessly for him. Dozens of CIA agents have no other
mission than working day after day on his capture. Yet eight years after the
9/11 outrage on the Twin Towers of New York and the Pentagon in Washington,
no one has come close to laying a finger on Osama Bin Laden. Ever since that
day when nearly 3,000 people were murdered, America has wanted the leader of
al Qaeda dead or alive. But there is a compelling argument, put forward by a
respected American academic, that Bin Laden was killed eight years ago.
Professor <http://www.wanttoknow.info/050504davidraygriffin> David Ray
Griffin, who has written authoritative books
<http://www.amazon.com/David-Ray-Griffin/e/B000APTCK4/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1>
on the 9/11 attacks, believes the US has kept the Bin Laden myth alive to
bolster the war against terror in Afghanistan and Iraq. What is truly
astonishing is that despite an army of investigators, a practically
limitless budget and an immense £15million bounty on his head, so little is
known about what has actually happened to Bin Laden. In his new book Osama
Bin Laden: Dead Or Alive?. "There's much evidence which points to the
conclusion that Osama Bin Laden is no longer alive," Prof Griffin insists.
"We have had no credible intelligence on Bin Laden since 2001." On Christmas
Day 2001, Pakistan's Observer newspaper carried a report of Bin Laden's
funeral, saying he died a natural and quiet death. "The major pretext for
the war in Afghanistan is the expressed need to prevent Osama Bin Laden and
his followers attacking the West again. This pretext would be removed by
convincing evidence that Bin Laden is dead. Such evidence exists," [said
Prof. Griffin.].
Note: Esteemed scholar and WantToKnow team member David
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050504davidraygriffin> Ray Griffin's book,
Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive?, can be purchased here
<http://www.amazon.com/Osama-Bin-Laden-Dead-Alive/dp/1566567831/ref=pd_bxgy_
b_img_b> .
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Material missing from Oklahoma bombing tapes, lawyer says
2009-09-27, USA Today/Associated Press
Posted: 2009-10-03 22:27:23
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-27-okla-city-bombing-tapes_N.htm
Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995
bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes
before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained
the recordings said Sunday. "The real story is what's missing," said Jesse
Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney who obtained the recordings through the
federal Freedom of Information Act as part of an unofficial inquiry he is
conducting into the April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168 people and
injured hundreds more. The tapes turned over by the FBI came from security
cameras various companies had mounted outside office buildings near the
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. They are blank at points before 9:02
a.m., when a truck bomb carrying a 4,000-pound fertilizer-and-fuel-oil bomb
detonated in front of the building, Trentadue said. "Four cameras in four
different locations going blank at basically the same time on the morning of
April 19, 1995. There ain't no such thing as a coincidence," Trentadue said.
He said government officials claim the security cameras did not record the
minutes before the bombing because "they had run out of tape" or "the tape
was being replaced." "The absence of footage from these crucial time
intervals is evidence that there is something there that the FBI doesn't
want anybody to see." Trentadue said he is seeking more tapes along with a
variety of bombing-related documents from the FBI and the CIA. An FOIA
request by Trentadue for 26 CIA documents was rejected in June. A letter
from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which reviewed the
documents, said their release "could cause grave damage to our national
security."
Note: This revealing article also tells how Trentadue's brother was murdered
by FBI agents who mistakenly thought his brother was the bomber. For more
valuable information on this and other evidence challenging the official
story of the Oklahoma City bombing, click here
<http://www.examiner.com/x-6495-US-Intelligence-Examiner~y2009m9d28-Oklahoma
-City-bombing-tapes-erased> .
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A New Look at the 9-11 Commission
2009-09-11, Time magazine
Posted: 2009-09-28 19:23:11
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1921659,00.html
Former New Jersey attorney general John Farmer served as senior counsel to
the 9/11 Commission, tasked with investigating the government response to
the attacks. His new book,
<http://www.amazon.com/Ground-Truth-Untold-America-Attack/dp/1594488940/ref=
sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253982885&sr=1-1> The Ground Truth, picks up
where the commission left off - taking a deeper look at the government's ...
response to the attacks and exposing officials determined to hide their
failings from the inquiry. Farmer uses newly released transcripts and
recordings to cast doubt on the official version of events. He spoke with
TIME. [Time:] Why do you think officials tried to obscure [the truth about
9/11]? [Farmer:] It's almost a culture of concealment. You have someone like
Sandy Berger ... taking rather extreme measures to remove documents from the
National Archives and hide them at a construction site where he could
retrieve them later and destroy them. There were interviews made at the
FAA's New York center the night of 9/11 and those tapes were destroyed. The
CIA tapes of the interrogations were destroyed. The story of 9/11 itself, to
put it mildly, was distorted and was completely different from the way
things happened. If what the government is telling you isn't true, then the
truth could be anything. I think there is evidence that the truth wasn't
told and that at least some of that was deliberate.
Note: Many respected scholars, officials and professionals have questioned
the 9/11 Commission's report. Click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/070618professorsquestion911> here and here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/officialsquestion911commissionreport> to read
some of their statements.
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Who's Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?
2009-11-01, The American Conservative
Posted: 2009-09-28 19:20:10
http://amconmag.com/article/2009/nov/01/0000
Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi
translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. She was fired from the FBI in
April 2002 after she raised concerns that one of the translators in her
section was a member of a Turkish organization that was under investigation
for bribing senior government officials and members of Congress, drug
trafficking, illegal weapons sales, money laundering, and nuclear
proliferation. On Aug. 8, she was finally able to testify under oath in a
court case filed in Ohio and agreed to an interview with The American
Conservative based on that testimony. PHILIP GIRALDI: You map out a
corruption scheme involving U.S. government employees and members of
Congress and agents of foreign governments. So the network starts with a
person like [Marc] Grossman in the State Department providing information
that enables Turkish and Israeli intelligence officers to have access to
people in Congress, who then provide classified information that winds up in
the foreign embassies? EDMONDS: Absolutely. And we also had Pentagon
officials doing the same thing. We were looking at Richard Perle and Douglas
Feith. They had a list of individuals in the Pentagon broken down by access
to certain types of information. Some of them would be policy related, some
of them would be weapons-technology related, some of them would be
nuclear-related. Perle and Feith would provide the names of those Americans,
officials in the Pentagon, to Grossman, together with highly sensitive
personal information: this person is a closet gay; this person has a chronic
gambling issue; this person is an alcoholic. The files on the American
targets would contain things like the size of their mortgages or whether
they were going through divorces.
Note: Sibel Edmonds is the founder of the National <http://www.nswbc.org/>
Security Whistleblowers Coalition. For lots more on her key testimony, click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/sibeledmondsnewsarticles> here. Philip Giraldi
is a former CIA officer and The American Conservative's Deep Background
columnist. An ever increasing number of people are waking up to the truth of
9/11.
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Twin Towers, Twin Myths?
2009-09-17, Santa Barbara Independent (Santa Barbara's leading weekly)
Posted: 2009-09-28 19:17:10
http://www.independent.com/news/2009/sep/17/twin-towers-twin-myths
One of the crucial technical disputes in American history, perhaps second
only to global warming, is underway. It pits hundreds of government
technicians who say the World Trade Center buildings were brought down by
airplane impact against hundreds of professional architects and building
engineers who insist that the Twin Towers could never have collapsed solely
due to the planes and are calling for a new independent investigation. It is
a fight that is not going away and is likely to get louder as more building
trade professionals sign on to one side or the other. Better than anyone,
David Ray Griffin understands the "enormous importance" of Richard Gage, the
Bay Area architect and staunch Republican who founded Architects and
Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911 Truth <http://www.ae911truth.org> ).
Griffin, [a] retired Santa Barbara philosophy professor/theologian
(Claremont School of Theology), is regarded as the leading investigative
force within what is called the 9/11 Truth movement, with seven 9/11 books
to his credit, including his bestseller
<http://www.amazon.com/New-Pearl-Harbor-Disturbing-Administration/dp/1566565
529/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_5> The New Pearl Harbor. Griffin found his greatest
stumbling block in public appearances to be this question: If his analysis
was true - that two planes could not have brought down three World Trade
Center (WTC) buildings without the aid of pre-planted explosives - why
didn't a single U.S. architect or building engineer publicly support him?
Now, in three years, Gage has signed up 804 architects and structural
engineers, some from top firms, who challenge the official version of the
buildings' collapses. AE911 Truth has grown rapidly, igniting a struggling
grassroots movement of hundreds of other "9/11 Truth" organizations, and
spearheading a growing assault on the official story.
Note: WantToKnow team member David
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050504davidraygriffin> Ray Griffin has just
published a thorough debunking of the latest official explanation of the
collapse of three steel-framed skyscrapers at the World Trade Center after
two of them were struck by aircraft,
<http://www.amazon.com/Mysterious-Collapse-World-Trade-Center/dp/1566567866/
ref=pd_sim_b_3> The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7.
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Stonewalled by the C.I.A.
2008-01-02, New York Times
Posted: 2009-09-22 11:55:24
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/opinion/02kean.html
More than five years ago, Congress and President Bush created the 9/11
commission. Soon after its creation, the president's chief of staff directed
all executive branch agencies to cooperate with the commission. The
commission's mandate was sweeping and it explicitly included the
intelligence agencies. But the recent revelations that the C.I.A. destroyed
videotaped interrogations of Qaeda operatives leads us to conclude that the
agency failed to respond to our lawful requests for information about the
9/11 plot. Those who knew about those videotapes - and did not tell us about
them - obstructed our investigation. No one in the administration ever told
the commission of the existence of videotapes of detainee interrogations. We
did ask, repeatedly, for the kind of information that would have been
contained in such videotapes. Beginning in June 2003, we requested all
reports of intelligence information ... that had been gleaned from the
interrogations of 118 named individuals, including both Abu Zubaydah and Abd
al Rahim al-Nashiri, two senior Qaeda operatives, portions of whose
interrogations were apparently recorded and then destroyed. The C.I.A. gave
us many reports summarizing information gained in the interrogations. But
the reports raised almost as many questions as they answered. So, in October
2003, we sent another wave of questions to the C.I.A.'s general counsel. The
general counsel responded in writing with non-specific replies. The agency
did not disclose that any interrogations had ever been recorded or that it
had held any further relevant information, in any form. Government officials
decided not to inform a lawfully constituted body, created by Congress and
the president, to investigate one the greatest tragedies to confront this
country. We call that obstruction.
Note: The authors of this op-ed, Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton, served
as chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the 9/11 Commission.
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Has Osama Bin Laden been dead for seven years - and are the U.S. and Britain
covering it up to continue war on terror?
2009-09-11, Daily Mail (One of the UK's largest-circulation newspapers)
Posted: 2009-09-14 13:02:03
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212851/Has-Osama-Bin-Laden-dead-sev
e...
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212851/Has-Osama-Bin-Laden-dead-se
ven-years--U-S-Britain-covering-continue-war-terror.html>
[President] Barack Obama has launched a fresh operation to find [Osama bin
Laden]. Working with the Pakistani Army, elite squads of U.S. and British
special forces were sent into Waziristan this summer to 'hunt and kill' the
shadowy figure intelligence officers still call 'the principal target' of
the war on terror. This new offensive is, of course, based on the premise
that the 9/11 terrorist is alive. Yet what if he isn't? What if he has been
dead for years, and the British and U.S. intelligence services are actually
playing a game of double bluff? What if everything we have seen or heard of
him on video and audio tapes since the early days after 9/11 is a fake - and
that he is being kept 'alive' by the Western allies to stir up support for
the war on terror? Incredibly, this is the breathtaking theory that is
gaining credence among political commentators, respected academics and even
terror experts. Still more questions have been raised with the publication
in America and Britain of a book called
<http://www.amazon.com/Osama-Bin-Laden-Dead-Alive/dp/1566567831/ref=pd_bxgy_
b_img_b> Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive? Written by political analyst and
philosopher Professor David Ray Griffin
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050504davidraygriffin> , ... it is provoking
shock waves - for it goes into far more detail about his supposed death and
suggests there has been a cover-up by the West. The book claims that Bin
Laden died of kidney failure, or a linked complaint, on December 13, 2001,
while living in Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains close to the border with
Waziristan. His burial took place within 24 hours, in line with Muslim
religious rules, and in an unmarked grave, which is a Wahhabi custom. The
author insists that the many Bin Laden tapes made since that date have been
concocted by the West to make the world believe Bin Laden is alive. Could it
be that, for years, he's just been smoke and mirrors?
Note: Hundreds of scholars, officials and professionals have raised
questions about bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and other aspects of the official
conspiracy about the events of 9/11. Click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/070618professorsquestion911> and here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/officialsquestion911commissionreport> to read
their concerns.
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Explosive Theory
2009-09-09, MetroActive (Silicon Valley's leading weekly newspaper)
Posted: 2009-09-14 12:51:16
http://www.metroactive.com/metro/09.09.09/cover-0936.html
Just a few years ago Ed Munyak, a fire protection engineer for the city of
San Jose, seemed like a lonely, out-there figure, a sometimes-target because
of his outspoken position on the events of Sept. 11, 2001. These days,
hundreds of other building trade professionals have joined him in
challenging the official narrative about the collapse of three buildings at
New York's World Trade Center (WTC) on that fateful, traumatic day. Munyak,
of Los Altos Hills, is a mechanical and fire engineer whose job is to review
building plans to ensure they comply with the California Building and Fire
Code. In 2007, after speaking out on his own for a few years, Munyak signed
on with a then-fledging organization called Architects and Engineers for 911
Truth <http://www.ae911truth.org> , founded by Bay Area architect Richard
Gage. Today, far from being isolated, Munyak now counts as allies 804
professional architects and building engineers from around the country.
Collectively, they have joined Munyak's call for an independent technical
investigation of the causes of the WTC buildings collapse. In doing so, they
reject the federal government's conclusions that two airplanes alone brought
the buildings down-without the aid of pre-planted explosives. Munyak and his
fellow AE911 supporters recently received acknowledgement from the FBI's
counterterrorism division, which concluded that the organization's core
evidence deserves-and will get-FBI scrutiny. In a letter, Deputy Director
Michael J. Heimbach assessed AE911's presentation as "backed by thorough
research and analysis."
Note: WantToKnow Team member David Ray Griffin has just published a detailed
critique
<http://www.amazon.com/Mysterious-Collapse-World-Trade-Center/dp/1566567866/
ref=pd_ys_qtk_fr_t?pf_rd_p=236215901&pf_rd_s=center-5&pf_rd_t=1501&pf_rd_i=h
ome&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1ZN5MBB2JEGFR7CG5FT5> of the fraudulent
"science" in the latest government publication defending the official
account of the collapse of WTC 7.
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Sheen wants to discuss his 9/11 theories with Obama
2009-09-09, Houston Chronicle (One of Houston's leading newspapers)
Posted: 2009-09-14 12:47:54
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/celebrities/6609335.html
Actor Charlie Sheen has written a letter to President Barack Obama
requesting a meeting over Sheen's theories about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The day of Sept. 11, 2001, saw America hit by the worst terrorist atrocities
in the country's history, including an attack in New York which killed
almost 3,000 people. Sheen has always been outspoken about his views on the
attacks, supporting a conspiracy theory that the U.S. government at the time
defrauded the public with its official story about the incident. The star
has now written to Obama asking him to reopen the investigation into 9/11.
The note, entitled "20 Minutes With The President
<http://www.prisonplanet.com/twenty-minutes-with-the-president.html> ," is
written as a fictional meeting with Obama, in which Sheen urges the leader
to follow through his promises of change, accountability and government
transparency by using his powers to look into the actions of George W.
Bush's previous administration. Sheen hopes the president will take note of
his campaign and grant him a meeting.
Note: To watch an excellent six-minute video narrated by Sheen asking hard
questions to the president, click
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyKR2-A0KPU> here. For a powerful summary
of many unanswered questions raised by the official account of 9/11, click
here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
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The deep state does not respond to FOIA requests
2009-08-22, Chicago Sun-Times News Group/Rock Creek Free Press
Posted: 2009-09-14 12:08:55
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconnews/news/blogentries/index.html?bb
P...
<http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconnews/news/blogentries/index.html?b
bPostId=B1ghrr2nKXlgCzAxJ6JhFH8utCz2nH27BOC6G5B2A0qlAQFgaZ>
In an attempt to get to the bottom of what really happened on 9/11, citizen
investigator Aidan Monaghan has filed dozens of Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) requests with federal agencies such as the FBI, SEC, [and] Department
of the Navy. Agency after agency has refused to comply with his requests,
instead claiming that the information cannot be found, does not exist, [or
is "exempt from disclosure."] The FBI has put an exemption on all of their
9/11 information and will release information only if compelled to do so by
a lawsuit, of which Monaghan has filed two. The list of FOIAs that Monaghan
has filed which have yielded no information is long. He asked the Secret
Service for documents that reveal what time former Vice President Dick
Cheney entered the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC), as well
as documents pertaining to the names of persons admitted to PEOC. Reply: no
records or documents pertaining to your request. He asked the SEC for a
bibliography of the investigation records that were located in the SEC's
offices on floors 11-13 in World Trade Center 7. The reply: did not locate
or identify any information responsive to your request. Monaghan asked the
Naval Surface Warfare Center for records about the research and development
of nano-sized aluminum powders or nano-sized iron oxide powders. Reply: have
not found any records responsive to your request. "I'm beginning to wonder
if the FOIA is just a lot of theatre for public consumption to provide a
perception that yes, government is accessible, it's transparent," said
Monaghan. "For two years now I've tried to pull as much 9/11 info from the
federal government as I can, and the most noteworthy thing I've found is the
absence of information. Material that should be there just isn't."
Note: For lots more on government secrecy from reliable, verifiable sources,
click <http://www.wanttoknow.info/secrecynewsarticles> here.
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Judge: CIA interrogations not relevant to 9/11 accused's sanity
2009-08-10, Miami Herald
Posted: 2009-08-20 22:13:31
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1179756.html
U.S. military defense lawyers for accused 9/11 conspirator Ramzi bin al
Shibh cannot learn what interrogation techniques CIA agents used on the
Yemeni before he was moved to Guantánamo to be tried as a terrorist, an
Army judge has ruled. Bin al Shibh, 37, is one of five men charged in a
complex death penalty prosecution by military commission currently under
review by the Obama administration. But his lawyers say he suffers a
"delusional disorder," and hallucinations in his cell at Guantánamo may
leave him neither sane enough to act as his own attorney nor to stand trial.
Prison camp doctors treat him with psychotropic drugs. Army Col. Stephen
Henley, the military judge on the case, has scheduled a competency hearing
for mid-September. Meantime, the judge ruled on Aug. 6 that "evidence of
specific techniques employed by various governmental agencies to interrogate
the accused is . . . not essential to a fair resolution of the incompetence
determination hearing in this case." Prosecutors had invoked a national
security privilege in seeking to shield the details from defense lawyers.
Many of the techniques used on the men have already been made public. They
included waterboarding, sleep deprivation and sexual humiliation methods
meant to break a captive's will. But Navy Cmdr. Suzanne Lachelier, the
Yemeni's Pentagon appointed defense attorney, said court-approved mental
health experts -- as well as the judge -- need to know the specifics to
assess her client's mental illness. If he suffers post-traumatic stress
disorder as a result of his CIA interrogations, there may be PTSD treatments
that could make him competent.
Note: For many reports from reliable sources on the hidden realities of "the
war on terror," click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/terrorismnewsarticles> .
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A Window Into C.I.A.'s Embrace of Secret Jails
2009-08-13, New York Times
Posted: 2009-08-20 22:10:48
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/world/13foggo.html
In March 2003, two C.I.A. officials surprised Kyle D. Foggo, then the chief
of the agency's main European supply base, with an unusual request. They
wanted his help building secret prisons to hold some of the world's most
threatening terrorists. Mr. Foggo, nicknamed Dusty, ... agreed to the
assignment. With that, Mr. Foggo went on to oversee construction of three
detention centers, each built to house about a half-dozen detainees. The
existence of the network of prisons to detain and interrogate [captives] has
long been known, but details about them have been a closely guarded secret.
In recent interviews, though, several former intelligence officials have
provided a fuller account. Mr. Foggo acknowledged a role, which has never
been previously reported. He pleaded guilty last year to a fraud charge
involving a contractor that equipped the C.I.A. jails and provided other
supplies to the agency, and he is now serving a three-year sentence in a
Kentucky prison. Eventually, the agency's network would encompass at least
eight detention centers, including one in the Middle East, one each in Iraq
and Afghanistan and a maximum-security long-term site at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba. The C.I.A. has never officially disclosed the exact number of
prisoners it once held, but top officials have put the figure at fewer than
100. Mr. Foggo's success in Frankfurt, including his work on the prisons,
won him a promotion back in Washington. In November 2004, he was named the
C.I.A.'s executive director, in effect its day-to-day administrative chief.
"It was like taking a senior NCO and telling him he now runs the regiment,"
said A. B. Krongard, the C.I.A.'s executive director from 2001 to 2004. "It
popped people's eyes."
Note: Kyle "Dusty" Foggo's case is highly unusual. Very few high-level CIA
officers have ever been imprisoned for corruption. His predecessor as
Executive Director of the CIA, quoted in the article above, A.B. "Buzzy"
Krongard, who held the office on 9/11, had been the chief executive of a
branch of the investment company which placed the still unexplained
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#options> "put options" on
American and United Airlines stocks the week before the attacks, resulting
in hundreds of millions of dollars of profits to "unknown" parties.
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9/11 Case Could Bring Broad Shift on Civil Suits
2009-07-21, New York Times
Posted: 2009-07-26 22:53:15
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/us/21bar.html?partner=rss
<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/us/21bar.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewan
ted=all> &emc=rss&pagewante...
The most consequential decision of the Supreme Court's last term got only a
little attention when it landed in May. And what attention it got was for
the wrong reason. But the lower courts have certainly understood the
significance of the decision, Ashcroft v. Iqbal, which makes it much easier
for judges to dismiss civil lawsuits right after they are filed. They have
cited it more than 500 times in just the last two months. On its face, the
Iqbal decision concerned the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. The court
ruled that a Muslim man swept up on immigration charges could not sue two
Bush administration officials for what he said was the terrible abuse he
suffered in detention. But something much deeper and broader was going on in
the decision, something that may unsettle how civil litigation is conducted
in the United States. For more than half a century, it has been clear that
all a plaintiff had to do to start a lawsuit was to file what the rules call
"a short and plain statement of the claim" in a document called a complaint.
Information about wrongdoing is often secret. Plaintiffs claiming they were
the victims of employment discrimination, a defective product, an antitrust
conspiracy or a policy of harsh treatment in detention may not know exactly
who harmed them and how before filing suit. But plaintiffs can learn
valuable information during discovery. The Iqbal decision now requires
plaintiffs to come forward with concrete facts at the outset, and it
instructs lower court judges to dismiss lawsuits that strike them as
implausible. "It obviously licenses highly subjective judgments," said
Stephen B. Burbank, an authority on civil procedure at the University of
Pennsylvania Law School. "This is a blank check for federal judges to get
rid of cases they disfavor."
Note: For many important reports from major media sources on the erosion of
civil liberties since the 9/11 attacks, click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/civillibertiesnewsarticles> here.
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The Alarming Record of the F.B.I.'s Informant in the Bronx Bomb Plot
2009-07-07, Village Voice (A progressive New York City street newspaper)
Posted: 2009-07-12 18:13:43
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-07-08/news/the-alarming-record-of-the-f-b-i
-...
<http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-07-08/news/the-alarming-record-of-the-f-b-
i-s-informant-in-the-bronx-bomb-plot/>
Last month, police and the FBI arrested four Newburgh men on charges that
they had plotted to bomb synagogues in the Riverdale neighborhood of the
Bronx and fire a missile at a military jet. As more details emerged,
however, the less the four defendants sounded like men with the skills to
plan a sophisticated terror plot. They were small-time crooks, felons with
long criminal records. What the indictment didn't say, and what the initial
news reports didn't fill in, was the extent to which the fifth man in the
plot, an unnamed FBI informant, had provided the glue to hold the Newburgh 4
together. That informant was a Pakistani man named Shahed Hussain,
code-named "Malik," who agreed to work for the FBI to obtain leniency after
he was arrested in 2002 for fraud. Over a period of about a year, Malik met
with [the] defendants ... while under FBI surveillance. The Newburgh bomb
plot isn't the first of Malik's operations for the government. He played a
similar role four years ago in an Albany case, in which he helped the FBI
arrest a man named Mohammed Hossain, a cash-poor pizzeria owner, and his
imam, Yassin Aref, after persuading them to launder $50,000 in a made-up
plot to bring a missile to the U.S. and assassinate the Pakistani prime
minister. In both cases, Malik did not stumble upon active terror cells
plotting to bring destruction on American soil. Instead, in both Newburgh
and Albany, he needed long periods of time to recruit his Muslim contacts,
spin elaborate tales about his terror contacts, and develop solid plans of
action, all the while providing the defendants with large amounts of
resources and cash incentives. In each case, the question remains: Would
either set of defendants have done anything remotely like plant bombs or
launder money for terrorists if not for the prodding and plotting and
encouragement of Malik and the FBI?
Note: For lots more from major media sources on the hidden realities behind
the never-ending "war on terror", click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/terrorismnewsarticles> here.
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Colorful Outsider Is Named No. 3 at the CIA
2001-03-17, Washington Post
Posted: 2009-07-12 17:45:11
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16570-2001Mar16.html
A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard, a ... former investment banker ... was named
yesterday executive director of the CIA, bringing a fast-paced management
style to the agency's No. 3 job. Central Intelligence Agency Director George
J. Tenet announced the appointment, saying he treasures Krongard's "wise
counsel and 'no-nonsense' business-like views." Krongard, 64, former head of
Alex. Brown & Co., an investment bank based in Baltimore, joined the agency
three years ago as a counselor to Tenet. He switched careers shortly after
helping engineer the $2.5 billion merger of Alex. Brown and Bankers Trust
New York Corp., gaining $71 million in Bankers Trust stock. Few of his
former colleagues were surprised by his decision to trade a $4 million
salary and stock options for the far less remunerative job of Tenet's
consigliere. A graduate of Princeton and the University of Maryland Law
School, Krongard has a fondness for extreme military-style activities. Even
as a banking executive, he trained with police SWAT teams for recreation and
worked out with a kung fu master. He maintained a shooting range on the
park-like grounds of his home on the northern edge of Baltimore. In an
interview yesterday, Krongard described his past duties as those of a
"minister without portfolio" whom senior managers felt comfortable talking
to about "sticky subjects." But Krongard exhibited the requisite
secretiveness when asked to explain his interest in intelligence and how he
came to land a job in Tenet's inner circle. If you go back to the CIA's
origins during World War II in the Office of Strategic Services, he
explained, "the whole OSS was really nothing but Wall Street bankers and
lawyers."
Note: Buzzy Krongard was the executive director of the CIA on 9/11. His past
ties to the investment firm which placed most of the extraordinarily high
volume of "put options" on United and American Airlines stocks the week
before the attacks is one of many strange "coincidences" unexplained by the
official story of what happened on that horrific day. For more on this,
click <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#options> here. To read
the entire article free of charge, click here
<http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pen-l/2001m03.3/msg00086.htm> .
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'If I didn't confess to 7/7 bombings MI5 officers would rape my wife,'
claims torture victim
2009-06-25, Daily Mail (a popular U.K. newspaper)
Posted: 2009-06-29 18:41:58
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1195484/If-I-didnt-confess-7-7-bombi
n...
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1195484/If-I-didnt-confess-7-7-bomb
ings-MI5-officers-rape-wife-claims-torture-victim.html>
A British man spoke publicly for the first time yesterday to accuse MI5
officers of forcing him to confess to masterminding the July 7 bombings.
Jamil Rahman claims UK security officers were behind his arrest in 2005 in
Bangladesh. He says he was beaten repeatedly by local officials who also
threatened to rape him and his wife. Mr Rahman, who is suing the Home
Office, said a pair of MI5 officers who attended his torture and
interrogation would leave the room while he was beaten. He claims when he
told the pair he had been tortured they merely answered: 'They haven't done
a very good job on you.' Mr Rahman told the BBC: 'They threatened my family.
They go to me, "In the UK, gas leaks happen, if your family house had a gas
leak and everyone got burnt, there's no problems, we can do that easily".'
He says he eventually made a false confession of involvement in the July 7
bomb plots. The extraordinary allegations will add to pressure on UK
ministers to come clean over the way Britain's intelligence agencies have
been allowed to gather evidence around the world in the eight years since
the September 11 attacks. Jamil Rahman, a former civil servant from south
Wales, is a British citizen who moved to Bangladesh in 2005 and married a
woman he met there. He returned to the UK last year. He said: 'It was all to
do with the British. Jamil Rahman is one of a number of former detainees who
accuse the British Government colluded in their torture abroad. His account
echoes that of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed, who said he
was tortured in Pakistan and Morocco with MI5's knowledge. The 30-year-old
Ethiopian says he was beaten and deprived of sleep to try to make him
confess to an Al Qaeda 'dirty bomb' plot, and his treatment is now the
subject of an unprecedented police investigation into MI5's conduct.
Note: For lots more on the hidden strategies used to maintain the "war on
terror", click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/terrorismnewsarticles> .
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D.C. Crash Kills General Who Scrambled Jets on 9/11
2009-06-24, Bloomberg News
Posted: 2009-06-29 18:37:10
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aGu5lX16VTk8>
&sid=aGu5lX16VTk8
David F. Wherley Jr., the head of the Washington National Guard who
scrambled jets over the city during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was among
those killed in the worst commuter train crash in the city's history,
officials said. Wherley's wife, Ann, was also among the nine people killed
when a train plowed into the rear of a stopped train during rush hour on
June 22, Quintin Peterson, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police
Department, said in a telephone interview. Both were 62 and lived in
southeast Washington. Wherley was commander of the 113th Fighter Wing at
Andrews Air Force base in Maryland during the September 2001 terrorist
attacks and sent up aircraft with orders to protect the White House and the
Capitol, according to the 9/11 Commission report. He commanded the District
of Columbia National Guard from 2003 to 2008, the unit said in a statement.
Wherley flew T-38 training jets and F-105 Thunderchief and F-4 Phantom
combat jets during a military career that began in 1969, according to the
guard's statement. It said he earned a bachelor's degree in economics from
Fordham University in New York City in 1969, and a master's in business
administration from the University of Maryland in 1977.
Note: Could there be something more than a mere accident behind the death of
the commander of the air defense forces over Washington DC on 9/11? Many
questions continue to swirl concerning what was in the air over the city
that morning, what was launched by Gen. Wherley and when, and why no
interception of an attack aircraft approaching the Pentagon occurred. He
knew more than the public does about what really took place in those crucial
hours, but he will now not be available for questioning should a real
investigation into the 9/11 attacks take place. For lots more on the
suspicions that surround the official explanation and calls by highly
respected citizens for just such an investigation, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/officialsquestion911commissionreport> and here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/070618professorsquestion911> .
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Claims of 9/11 conspiracy have suspect running scared
2007-05-25, Rocky Mountain News (One of Denver's two leading newspapers)
Posted: 2009-06-29 18:08:30
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5555425,0
0...
<http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5555425,
00.html>
A former Federal Emergency Management Agency videographer accused of killing
his wife in Denver is seeking political asylum in Argentina, claiming the
U.S. government wants him silenced for what he saw in the smoldering ruins
of the Twin Towers after 9/11. Kurt Sonnenfeld's efforts to avoid
extradition have gained interest from human rights organizations in South
America and broad attention from conspiracy theorists on the Internet.
Sonnenfeld, 44, is charged with first-degree murder in the New Year's Day
2002 shooting death of his 36-year-old wife, Nancy. Sonnenfeld is quoted by
the Argentine newspaper el Pais as saying, "I realized that they were after
something else: the tapes of Ground Zero in my possession." Sonnenfeld said
he was arrested by Interpol agents on the new Denver charges a week after
delivering a demo video of 9/11 footage to a TV producer in Argentina. "I
find that extremely coincidental," he said. In other interviews with
Argentine media, Sonnenfeld is quoted as saying, "What I saw (at 9/11) leads
me to the terrible conclusion that there was foreknowledge of what was going
to happen - the precautions that were taken to save certain things that the
authorities there considered irreplaceable or invaluable. For example,
certain things were missing that could only have been removed with a truck.
Yet after the first plane hit one of the towers, everything in Manhattan
collapsed and no one could have gotten near the towers to do that."
Sonnenfeld is quoted as saying documentation was removed from U.S.
intelligence agencies in the World Trade Center, including the CIA, prior to
the attacks.
Note: To read a more recent, powerful Voltaire Network interview with Kurt
Sonnenfeld, click here <http://www.voltairenet.org/article160636.html> . The
truth is coming out more all the time!
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Architects and Engineers Seek 9/11 Truth
2009-06-03, KGO Radio (San Francisco's top talk-radio station)
Posted: 2009-06-08 10:04:24
http://www.kgoam810.com/Article.asp?id=1353865
<http://www.kgoam810.com/Article.asp?id=1353865&spid=20399> &spid=20399
"Architects know that you can't have 400 structural steel connections
failing per second in a fire-induced gravitational collapse," says architect
Richard Gage about the collapse of World Trade Center 7, a building not
struck by a plane, on September 11, 2001. Richard is with Architects and
Engineers for 9/11 Truth <http://www.ae911truth.org/> , a group of
professionals who have factual reservations about conclusions reached in the
9/11 Report.
Note: To listen to this path-breaking 7-minute broadcast, click on the link
above. For lots more reliable information showing the official story of 9/11
cannot be true, see our 9/11 Information Center
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> .
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Historic Broadcast of "9/11 Press For Truth"
2009-06-06, KBDI-TV (Colorado Public Television station)
Posted: 2009-06-08 10:00:26
http://www.kbdi.org/tv_schedule/program_details.cfm?id=120090606210000
Following the attacks of September 11th, a small group of grieving families
waged a tenacious battle against those who sought to bury the truth about
the event. In this documentary, six of them - including three of the famous
9/11 widows known as the "Jersey Girls" - tell the powerful story of how
they took on the greatest powers in Washington, compelling lawmakers to
launch an investigation that ultimately failed to answer most of their
questions. The filmmakers collaborated with the media group Globalvision to
stitch together overlooked news clips, buried stories, and government press
conferences, revealing a pattern of official lies, deception, and spin. As a
result, a very different picture of 9/11 emerges - one that raises new, and
more pressing, questions. To mark the film's U.S. broadcast premiere,
Executive Producer Kyle Hence, Director Ray Nowosielski, and family member
Bob McIlvaine - who lost his son Bobby in the attacks on New York - will be
in the KBDI studios to discuss the film throughout the evening.
Additionally, volunteers from Colorado 911 Visibility will be on hand to
answer phones.
Note: To watch this important, landmark 9/11 documentary, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911video> . This highly engaging, well
researched film may be the best way yet to open the eyes of those who don't
know about the major 9/11 cover-up.
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Great Day Talks To Architect Richard Gage About 9/11
2009-05-28, KMPH-TV (Fresno, CA Fox Network affiliate)
Posted: 2009-05-31 18:06:43
http://www.kmph.com/Global/story.asp?s=10445264
Kim Stephens: He's an architect experienced in steel structures. Now Richard
Gage is touring the country with a controversial message about September 11.
Kopi Sotiropulos: Richard Gage is here to show us why he's calling for a
more thorough investigation into the collapse of the World Trade Center
buildings. First of all give us a little bit more about your background.
Gage: I'm an architect of twenty years, a member of the American Institute
of Architects, and have been studying steel frame fire proof buildings for
about that long. Kim Stephens: We ask that for clarification because as we
get into this, we want people to make sure that you're not just somebody
with a wacky idea. You come with some science to you. What is the official
reason for the collapse of the World Trade Center towers? Gage: Well we're
told that the planes hit the buildings, and there was an explosion and a
fire, and about a hour and a half later, in the case of the north tower, the
buildings collapsed due to structural weakening, due to the fires. The
problem is that we don't have large gradual deformations associated with
collapses. And fires in high rises have never brought down a steel frame
high rise building at all, ever. And what we have, unfortunately, is the
evidence in the twin towers and the third skyscraper to collapse that day,
which most people don't know anything about it. We have the evidence of the
ten key features of controlled demolition. In the case of building seven, it
collapses <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3E-26oVIIs> straight down into
its own footprint, at free fall speed, in the first hundred feet. It's
dropping, as you can see symmetrically, smoothly, at free fall speed, in the
first hundred feet. Two and a half seconds. This is uncanny, there's forty
thousand tons of structural steel designed to resist this collapse.
Note: The above text is taken from the KMPH interview available here
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO2yT0uBQbM> . Richard Gage, AIA, is the
founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
<http://www.ae911truth.org/> . Remarkably, this interview, though short, was
respectful and evenhanded. No ridicule, no debunking, no "conspiracy theory"
dismissals! To watch a 7-minute video of the interview, click on the link
above. To read a transcript of the interview, click here
<http://www.sheilacasey.com/2009/05/transcript-of-richard-gage-explaining-co
ntrolled-demolition-on-kmph-in-fresno.html> . For an astonishing comment on
PBS by the owner of the building's decision to "pull" the building, click
here <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3E-26oVIIs> .
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Review: 'New World Order' on Independent Film Channel
2009-05-26, Los Angeles Times
Posted: 2009-05-31 17:55:19
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-new-world-order26-2009may26,
0...
<http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-new-world-order26-2009may26
,0,1175219.story>
"New World Order," which premieres today on the Independent Film Channel, is
a film about ... volunteers in an "information war" who see ... that 9/11
was an "inside job," that the military-industrial complex killed Kennedy,
and that an international "power elite" is plotting to enslave us all,
excepting for those it will kill outright. They are hard to pigeonhole
politically, these conspiracy adepts, trusting neither the "socialist
Democrats" nor the "fascist Republicans" -- Ron Paul seems to be their man,
if anyone is -- yet sounding as often like '60s leftist radicals as
right-wing militiamen. They take the 1st Amendment as seriously as any
card-carrying member of the ACLU, styling themselves muckrakers and speakers
of truth to power, often through a bullhorn. The man with the biggest
bullhorn is Alex Jones, an Austin, Texas-based syndicated radio host ... and
the point through which all the strands connect in this unexpectedly
affecting, nonjudgmental documentary by Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel. Much of
what Jones and his fellows and followers believe is, in a general way,
hardly controversial. But whether 9/11 was a plot to bring on world
government, or whether the government you already have has painted a red or
blue dot on your mailbox to indicate whether you will be shot immediately or
merely be sent to the "FEMA camps" when the American Armageddon arrives,
well, that's a pale horse of a different color. (Still, you'll want to check
your mailbox now.) "This is more important than how much Britney Spears'
hair sold for on EBay, 'Dancing With the Stars' or who's gonna be America's
next idol," says one believer. "People think this is a joke. We're not a
joke."
Note: The disparaging tone of this review of the documentary is typical of
mainstream media treatment of 9/11 truth activity, but it makes clear that
the film itself does not share this attitude.
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Traces of explosives in 9/11 dust, scientists say
2009-04-06, Deseret News (One of Salt Lake City's leading newspapers)
Posted: 2009-04-14 20:17:01
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705295677,00.html
Tiny red and gray chips found in the dust from the collapse of the World
Trade Center contain highly explosive materials - proof, according to a
former BYU professor, that 9/11 is still a sinister mystery. Physicist
Steven E. Jones, who retired from Brigham Young University in 2006 after the
school recoiled from the controversy surrounding his 9/11 theories, is one
of nine authors on a paper published last week in the online, peer-reviewed
Open Chemical Physics Journal. Also listed as authors are BYU physics
professor Jeffrey Farrer and a professor of nanochemistry at the University
of Copenhagen in Denmark. For several years, Jones has theorized that
pre-positioned explosives, not fires from jet fuel, caused the rapid,
symmetrical collapse of the two World Trade Center buildings, plus the
collapse of a third building, WTC-7. The newest research, according to the
journal authors, shows that dust from the collapsing towers contained a
"nano-thermite" material that is highly explosive. A layer of dust lay over
parts of Manhattan immediately following the collapse of the towers, and it
was samples of this dust that Jones and fellow researchers requested in a
2006 paper, hoping to determine "the whole truth of the events of that day."
They eventually tested four samples they received from New Yorkers. Red/gray
chips ... were found in all four dust samples. The chips were then analyzed
using scanning electron microscopy and other high-tech tools. The red layer
of the chips, according to the researchers, contains a "highly energetic"
form of thermite.
Note: For the full text of this path-breaking scientific report, click
<http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/content.php?TOCPJ/2009/00000002/00000001/
7TOCPJ.SGM> here. Note that other major media failed to pick up this
important news, though you can watch a Dutch news report (with English
subtitles) on YouTube available here. For more key reports on the
cutting-edge research of Prof. Steven Jones, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/stevenjonesnewsarticles> .
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Fifth Alarm for That Haunted Fireman
2009-04-05, New York Times
Posted: 2009-04-14 20:15:54
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/arts/television/05harr.html?partner=rss
<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/arts/television/05harr.html?partner=rss&e
mc=rss&pagewanted=all> &emc...
In Season 5 of "Rescue Me," which begins Tuesday on FX, the specter of 9/11
becomes a major character once again, when a French journalist starts
interviewing firefighters about their experiences for a commemorative book.
This season one major character will become seriously ill with cancer
apparently caused by his work at ground zero. Another, Franco Rivera (Daniel
Sunjata), will articulate his ... belief that 9/11 was "an inside job," the
result of "a massive neoconservative government conspiracy" that was
designed to increase American power by creating a pretext for seizing
control of the world's oil supplies - a view Mr. Sunjata himself happens to
share. "The reason we wrote it," Mr. Tolan said, "is that Danny was spouting
this stuff and even some of the guys, the firefighters on the set, were
saying 'What is this?' We saw how divisive this was and thought: We have to
do this." Mr. Sunjata admits to some trepidation about how the show's
audience will react to the story line. "I won't say that my opinions were
warmly received on the set," he said. "At one point I thought, 'Maybe I'll
get fired if I keep opening my mouth.' But even though Peter and Denis
didn't sign on to this conspiracy, they were brave enough to include it in
the show. I give them and FX and Fox - I never thought I'd say this - a big
round of applause." Mr. Sunjata certainly had reason to fear losing his job,
since "Rescue Me" has never been timid about dispatching major characters.
Note: To read why hundreds of professors and professionals agree with Daniel
Sunjata, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/070618professorsquestion911>
and here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/officialsquestion911commissionreport> .
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'Global War On Terror' Is Given New Name
2009-03-25, Washington Post
Posted: 2009-04-05 19:45:52
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/24/AR2009032402
8...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/24/AR200903240
2818.html>
The Obama administration appears to be backing away from the phrase "global
war on terror," a signature rhetorical legacy of its predecessor. In a memo
e-mailed this week to Pentagon staff members, the Defense Department's
office of security review noted that "this administration prefers to avoid
using the term 'Long War' or 'Global War on Terror' [GWOT.] Please use
'Overseas Contingency Operation.' " Senior administration officials had been
publicly using the phrase "overseas contingency operations" in a war context
for roughly a month before the e-mail was sent. The Bush administration
adopted the phrase ["Global War on Terror"] soon after the Sept. 11, 2001.
But critics abroad and at home, including some within the U.S. military,
said the terminology mischaracterized the nature of the enemy and its
abilities. Some military officers said, for example, that classifying
al-Qaeda and other anti-American militant groups as part of a single
movement overstated their strength. Last month, the International Commission
of Jurists urged the Obama administration to drop the phrase "war on
terror." The commission said the term had given the Bush administration
"spurious justification to a range of human rights and humanitarian law
violations," including detention practices and interrogation methods that
the International Committee of the Red Cross has described as torture.
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The 9/11 Commission and Torture
2009-03-14, Newsweek Magazine
Posted: 2009-03-28 08:47:01
http://www.newsweek.com/id/189251
Powerful Democrats on Capitol Hill are clamoring for creation of a
bipartisan "9/11 style" commission to investigate the legality of the Bush
administration's antiterrorism tactics-especially its use of harsh
interrogation techniques. The case for a "truth" commission was bolstered by
the disclosure this month that the CIA had destroyed 92 videotapes of the
interrogations and confinement of Al Qaeda suspects. A dozen showed the use
of ... torture. Lawmakers say the obvious model for such an inquiry would be
the 9/11 Commission. [But] the commission appears to have ignored obvious
clues throughout 2003 and 2004 that its account of the 9/11 plot and Al
Qaeda's history relied heavily on information obtained from detainees who
had been subjected to torture, or something not far from it. The
[Commission] raised no public protest over the CIA's interrogation methods.
In fact, the Commission demanded that the CIA carry out new rounds of
interrogations in 2004 to get answers to its questions. That has troubling
implications for the credibility of the commission's final report. In
intelligence circles, testimony obtained through torture is typically
discredited; research shows that people will say anything under threat of
intense physical pain. Former senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, a Democrat on
the commission, told me last year he had long feared that the investigation
depended too heavily on the accounts of Al Qaeda detainees who were
physically coerced into talking. Kerrey said it might take "a permanent 9/11
commission" to end the remaining mysteries of September 11.
Note: For key statements by hundreds of respected scholars and professionals
questioning the accuracy of the 9/11 Commission's report, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/070618professorsquestion911> .
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'Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to
9/11' by Kathryn S. Olmsted
2009-02-28, Chicago Tribune
Posted: 2009-03-07 07:16:42
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/booksmags/chi-0228-real-enemiesfeb28,
0...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/booksmags/chi-0228-real-enemiesfeb28
,0,884402.story>
In August 2006, almost five years after the catastrophic attacks of Sept.
11, 2001, a poll by Scripps Howard and Ohio University found that 36 percent
of respondents thought it "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that officials
of the federal government "either participated in the attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon or took no action to stop them." The poll also
found that those who regularly use the Internet but do not habitually
consult mainstream media "are significantly more likely to believe in 9/11
conspiracies." Kathryn S. Olmsted, in her exquisitely researched and
annotated new book
<http://www.amazon.com/Real-Enemies-Conspiracy-Theories-Democracy/dp/0195183
533/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235924345&sr=1-1> Real Enemies:
Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11, points out
that although such views "may seem to belong to the fringe," they are held
by millions of Americans and a majority of those between the ages of 18 and
29. In fact, Olmsted asserts that the tendency to see conspiracies
everywhere "long ago spread from the margins into the main body of American
political culture," and that the quelling of political dissent is an
exacerbating factor. She has set out to track the history and patterning of
conspiratorial beliefs as they relate to politics and public policy. Her
thesis - that conspiracy theories thrive in part because the government has
misled the public or acted illegally and covertly, and been caught at it
frequently enough to make them credible - is a disconcerting one. But the
historical detail she marshals (which demonstrates a tendency for fusion of
far-left and far-right political views) is persuasive in its cumulative
power.
Note: For more on the important Scripps/Howard poll showing that high
percentages of American citizens suspect US government complicity in the
9/11 attacks, click here <http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/28533> . For a
15-minute clip of a powerfully revealing documentary on this, 9/11: Press
for Truth, click here
<http://personalgrowthcourses.net/video/9-11_truth_documentary> .
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9/11 widow among victims of crash near Buffalo
2009-02-13, MSNBC
Posted: 2009-02-21 09:41:10
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29176877/
One of the victims of Continental Flight 3407, Beverly Eckert, was a Sept.
11 widow who put her never-ending grief to good use to make the country
safer. Just last week, Eckert was at the White House with Barack Obama, part
of a meeting the president had with relatives of those killed in the 2001
attacks and the bombing of the USS Cole to discuss how the new
administration would handle terror suspects. Obama, addressing business
leaders on Friday, referred to her "passionate commitment" to the 9/11
families. "She was an inspiration to me and to so many others, and I pray
that her family finds peace and comfort in the hard days ahead," the
president said during remarks about the crash at the East Room event. "She
was such an important part of all of our work," said Mary Fetchet, another
9/11 family activist.
Note: Mrs. Eckert rejected the $1.8 million payment for 9/11 survivors, as
she would have forfeited the right to sue the government for its role in the
event. ABC
<http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/02/president-oba-8.html> News
quotes her on how she had "chosen to go to court rather than accept a payoff
from the 9/11 victims compensation fund. I want to know why two 110-story
skyscrapers collapsed in less than two hours and why escape and rescue
options were so limited. I am suing because unlike ... congressional
hearings and the 9/11 commission, my lawsuit requires all testimony be given
under oath and fully uses powers to compel evidence." For why Mrs. Eckert
and hundreds of other highly respected politicians and professors are
calling for a new investigation on 9/11, click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/officialsquestion911commissionreport> here.
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The Political Suspicions of 9/11
2009-02-02, New York Times
Posted: 2009-02-06 09:18:19
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/business/media/02fx.html?partner=rss
<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/business/media/02fx.html?partner=rss&emc=
rss&pagewanted=all> &emc=rs...
A coming episode of the acclaimed FX drama "Rescue Me" will tackle what may
sound like a far-fetched plot line: that the attacks of Sept. 11 were an
"inside job." The actor who espouses the theories on camera, it turns out,
also subscribes to them in real life. The second episode of "Rescue Me's"
fifth season, starting in April, may represent the first fictional
presentation of 9/11 conspiracy theories by a mainstream media company (FX
is operated by the News Corporation). "They're not discussed a lot in the
press," Daniel Sunjata, the actor who plays Franco Rivera on "Rescue Me,"
told reporters at a television press tour last month. In the episode, Mr.
Sunjata's character [describes] a "neoconservative government effort" to
control the world's oil, drastically increase military spending and "change
the definition of pre-emptive attack." To put it into action, he continues,
"what you need is a new Pearl Harbor. That's what they said they needed."
Mr. Sunjata surprised some of the TV reporters when he said that he
"absolutely, 100 percent" supports the assertion that "9/11 was an inside
job." The alternative theories "seem to me to make a lot more sense than the
ones that are popularly espoused," he said, calling it admirable that the
conversation was allowed within "Rescue Me." Peter Tolan, an executive
producer, said Mr. Sunjata is "well read" and has "done a lot of research."
"Look, obviously not all of us buy in," he told reporters. "But we went:
'Wow, that's interesting, and he's passionate about it. Let's use that.' "
Note: For a powerful two-page summary of key unanswered questions from major
media sources about what really happened on 9/11, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> . To read charges by hundreds of
professors and top politicians claiming that the U.S. government is lying
about 9/11, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/officialsquestion911commissionreport> .
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Cheney was key in clearing CIA interrogation tactics
2008-12-16, Los Angeles Times
Posted: 2008-12-26 09:23:44
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-cheney16-2008dec1
6...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-cheney16-2008dec
16,0,4343941.story>
Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that he was directly involved in
approving severe interrogation methods used by the CIA, and that the prison
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should remain open indefinitely. Cheney's comments
... mark the first time that he has acknowledged playing a central role in
clearing the CIA's use of an array of controversial interrogation tactics,
including a ... method known as waterboarding. "I was aware of the program,
certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared," Cheney said in
an interview with ABC News. Asked whether he still believes it was
appropriate to use the waterboarding method on terrorism suspects, Cheney
said: "I do." His comments come on the heels of disclosures by a Senate
committee showing that high-level officials in the Bush administration were
intimately involved in reviewing and approving interrogation methods that
have since been explicitly outlawed and that have been condemned
internationally as torture. Soon after the Sept. 11 attacks, Cheney said,
the CIA "in effect came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn't
do. And they talked to me, as well as others, to explain what they wanted to
do. And I supported it." Waterboarding involves strapping a prisoner to a
tilted surface, covering his face with a towel and dousing it to simulate
the sensation of drowning. CIA Director Michael V. Hayden has said that the
agency used the technique on three Al Qaeda suspects in 2002 and 2003.
Cheney has long defended the technique. But he has not previously disclosed
his role in pushing to give the CIA such authority.
Note: For lots more from major media sources on US torture and other war
crimes committed in the Iraq and Afghan wars, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/warnewsarticles> .
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U.N. Rights Investigator Expelled by Israel
2008-12-16, New York Times
Posted: 2008-12-26 09:22:06
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/world/middleeast/16mideast.html?partner=rs
s...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/world/middleeast/16mideast.html?partner=r
ss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all>
Israeli authorities on Monday expelled Richard Falk, a United Nations
investigator of human rights in the Palestinian territories, saying he was
unwelcome because of what the government has regarded as his hostile
position toward Israel. Mr. Falk, an American, arrived in Israel on Sunday.
He was held [overnight] at the airport and placed on the first available
flight back to Geneva, his point of departure. Mr. Falk, a professor of
international law at Princeton, has the title of United Nations Human Rights
Council special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories. He has long been
criticized in Israel for what many Israelis say are unfair and unpalatable
views. He has compared Israel's treatment of the Palestinians to Nazi
atrocities and has called for more serious examination of the conspiracy
theories surrounding the Sept. 11 attacks. Pointing to discrepancies between
the official version of events and other versions, he recently wrote that
"only willful ignorance can maintain that the 9/11 narrative should be
treated as a closed book." In his capacity as a United Nations investigator,
Mr. Falk issued a statement this month describing Israel's embargo on Gaza
... as a crime against humanity. Regardless of Mr. Falk's views, some
Israelis questioned the wisdom of banning him, noting that it would hardly
make his reports more sympathetic. Jessica Montell, the executive director
of B <http://www.btselem.org/> 'Tselem, an Israeli group that monitors human
rights in the occupied territories, said that ... barring his entry was "an
act unbefitting of democracy."
Note: Israel quite explicitly raised the issue of Falk's call for a genuine
investigation of the 9/11 attacks in its explanation of his deportation. Why
would the state of Israel oppose such an investigation? For information from
major media sources on this and many other questions about what really
happened on 9/11, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
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Web Pick of the Week: The New Pearl Harbor Revisited
2008-11-24, Publishers Weekly
Posted: 2008-11-28 12:18:43
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6617001.html?industryid=47159
Author and professor [David Ray] Griffin ... knows his work is referred to
by officials and the media as conspiracy theory, and he has a rebuttal: "the
official theory is itself a conspiracy theory." In [
<http://www.amazon.com/New-Pearl-Harbor-Revisited-Cover-Up/dp/1566567297/ref
=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221592389&sr=1-1> The New Pearl Harbor
Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé, a] companion volume to 2004's
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and
9/11, Griffin provides corrections, raises new issues and discusses "the two
most important official reports about 9/11," the 9/11 Commission Report and
the National Institute of Standards and Technology report on the Twin
Towers, both "prepared by people highly responsive to the wishes of the
White House" and riddled with "omission and distortion from beginning to
end." Griffin addresses many points in exhaustive detail, from the physical
impossibility of the official explanation of the towers' collapse to the
Commission's failure to scrutinize the administration to the NIST's
contradiction of its own scientists to the scads of eyewitness and
scientific testimony in direct opposition to official claims. Citing
hundreds, if not thousands, of sources, Griffin's detailed analysis is far
from reactionary or delusional, building a case that, though not conclusive,
raises enough valid and disturbing questions to make his call for a new
investigation more convincing than ever.
Note: Publishers Weekly reviews have guided the book trade, including
booksellers, publishers, librarians, and literary agents, for 136 years.
"Pick of the Week" sets the standard for the best of the best new books.
This recognition by such a prestigious journal shows the remarkable quality
of the 9/11-truth work of WantToKnow.info team member David Ray
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/aboutus#griffin> Griffin. To read about all his
9/11 books, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/050504davidraygriffin> .
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The 30 greatest conspiracy theories
2008-11-19, The Telegraph (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)
Posted: 2008-11-28 12:12:41
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3483477/The-30-great
e...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3483477/The-30-grea
test-conspiracy-theories-part-1.html>
From the assassination of John F Kennedy to the death of Diana, Princess of
Wales. From Roswell, New Mexico, to Nasa's moon landings. From the bloodline
of Christ to the death of Elvis Presley. From the Moscow appartment bombings
to the Indian Ocean tsunami. From Pearl Harbour to Peak Oil, the
Philadelphia experiment and Pan Am flight 103. Every major event of the last
2,000 years has prompted a conspiracy theory and here we examine those with
the biggest followings and the most longevity. 1. September 11, 2001. Thanks
to the power of the web and live broadcasts on television, the ... theories
surrounding the events of 9/11 ... have surpassed those of Roswell and JFK
in traction. The [alternative] theories continue to grow in strength. At the
milder end of the spectrum are the theorists who believe that the US
government had prior warning of the attacks but did not do enough to stop
them. Others believe that the Bush administration deliberately turned a
blind eye to those warnings because it wanted a pretext to launch wars in
the Middle East to usher in another century of American hegemony. A large
group of people - collectively called the 9/11 Truth Movement - cite
evidence that an airliner did not hit the Pentagon and that the World Trade
Centre could not have been brought down by airliner impacts and burning
aviation fuel alone. Many witnesses - including firemen, policemen and
people who were inside the towers at the time - claim to have heard
explosions below the aircraft impacts (including in basement levels) and
before both the collapses and the attacks themselves.
Note: For a concise two-page summary of many unanswered questions about what
really happened on 9/11, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
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Mark Cuban Is Charged With Insider Trading
2008-11-18, New York Times
Posted: 2008-11-22 09:17:14
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/business/18insider.html?_r=1
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/business/18insider.html?_r=1&partner=rss&
emc=rss&pagewanted=all> &partner=rss&em...
Mark Cuban, the Internet entrepreneur turned owner of the Dallas Mavericks
basketball team, has never shied from a fight. But now the pugnacious
billionaire is squaring off against his biggest adversary yet: the federal
government. On Monday, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil
suit charging Mr. Cuban with insider trading for selling shares of a small
Internet search company in 2004, just before its share price fell.
[Allegedly] Mr. Cuban saved himself a $750,000 loss. Scott W. Friestad, the
S.E.C.'s deputy director of enforcement, said the investigation of Mr.
Cuban's trading began in early 2007, but declined to say what had set off
the inquiry. A person close to Mr. Cuban provided what he said was one of a
series of e-mail messages from Jeffrey B. Norris, an S.E.C. lawyer in Fort
Worth, who accused the billionaire of being unpatriotic for helping to
finance a movie named "Loose Change." In the e-mail message, Mr. Norris
described the movie as a "vicious and absurd documentary" that "posits that
President Bush planned the demolition of the World Trade Center as a pretext
for going to war against Iraq." In the e-mail message, sent from his S.E.C.
e-mail address, Mr. Norris said he was informing Christopher Cox, the
chairman of the S.E.C., of Mr. Cuban's actions. "If this upsets you, I
wonder how George Bush feels," Mr. Norris wrote. "I assume that Mr. Cox
would view your involvement with 'Loose Change' much as I do. After all, he
served his country as a Republican congressman from Orange County for nearly
20 years and was appointed by President Bush."
Note: This New York Times report clearly suggests that Cuban is being
pursued by the SEC because of his support for the 9/11-truth documentary
Loose <http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3719259008768610598> Change
Final Cut, for which WantToKnow team member David Ray Griffin
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/aboutus#griffin> acted as script consultant. To
read the full text of the email from Norris to Cuban, click
<http://norris.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/insider-trading-or-political-per
secution/> here. Another project Mark Cuban supports is the highly useful
website for tracking the Wall Street bailout, bailoutsleuth.com
<http://www.bailoutsleuth.com> , which has recently estimated the bailout to
date at over $2.5 trillion!
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Former CIA executive pleads guilty to defrauding government
2008-09-30, Los Angeles Times
Posted: 2008-10-03 13:11:09
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-foggo30-2008sep30,0,5681841.story
The former No. 3 official at the CIA pleaded guilty Monday to defrauding the
government, closing an investigation that linked the nation's preeminent spy
service to the corruption scandal involving former Rep. Randy "Duke"
Cunningham. In admitting that he abused his rank to steer lucrative
contracts to cronies, Kyle Dustin "Dusty" Foggo, the agency's onetime
executive director, became one of the highest-ranking officials in CIA
history to be convicted of criminal charges. But the deal also involved
major concessions from prosecutors, who allowed Foggo to admit guilt to a
single fraud charge, wiping out 27 additional counts that included money
laundering and conspiracy. Prosecutors indicated that they would recommend
he serve no more than 37 months. The revelations of Foggo's crimes surfaced
two years ago during one of the most tumultuous periods in recent agency
history, and added to the pressure on the Bush administration to remove
Porter J. Goss as CIA director in 2006. Goss selected Foggo for the agency's
third-ranking position. Foggo had never served as a case officer or an
analyst -- the jobs that typically garner the most respect within the CIA.
But as a procurement officer at a secret CIA post in Frankfurt, Germany, he
was in a position to cultivate contacts with members of Congress and other
influential officials who visited during overseas trips to war zones.
Note: Interesting that a guilty plea for one count was exchanged for
dismissing numerous other charges of fraud and money laundering. For an
excellent analysis of the reasons behind this unusual prosecutorial
strategy, click
<http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/10/how-to-make-a-CIA-trial-go-
away.html> here. Buzzy Krongard, the previous #3 man at the CIA, has been
linked to the millions of
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#options> dollars in suspicious
stock option trades made just prior to 9/11 that were never claimed, though
this received little media coverage.
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Bush Doctrine enters American vocabulary
2008-09-26, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper)
Posted: 2008-10-03 13:09:14
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/26/EDGR135ERL.DTL
Thanks to the Sept. 11 interview of Sarah Palin by Charles Gibson of ABC
News, the Bush Doctrine has become part of the American vocabulary. Although
it has been a fateful doctrine - it was used to justify the attack on Iraq -
many Americans reported that they were as clueless about it as Gov. Palin.
So what is the Bush Doctrine? According to international law as generally
understood since the creation of the United Nations, a pre-emptive attack is
legal only if a country has certain knowledge that an attack on it is
imminent - too imminent for the matter to be taken to the U.N. Security
Council. Pre-emptive war is different from preventive war, in which a
country, fearing that another country may become strong enough to threaten
it at some time in the future, attacks it to prevent this possibility.
Preventive wars are illegal under international law. This distinction,
however, creates a terminological problem: Although preventive war is worse
than pre-emptive war, to most ears preemption sounds worse. Many people,
therefore, speak of pre-emptive war when they mean preventive war. To avoid
confusion, we can use the term pre-emptive-preventive war. Neoconservatives,
the most powerful of whom is Vice President Dick Cheney, had long disliked
the idea that America's use of military power could be constrained by the
prohibition against preemptive-preventive war. In 1992, his last year as
secretary of defense, Cheney produced a draft of the Defense Planning
Guidance that said the United States should use force to "pre-empt" and
"preclude threats." After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the neocons were able
to turn their wish into U.S. policy.
Note: This article is by WantToKnow team member David Ray Griffin
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050504davidraygriffin> . He analyzes the
significance of the 9/11 attacks for the acceptance of the Bush Doctrine in
more detail in his recent book
<http://www.amazon.com/New-Pearl-Harbor-Revisited-Cover-Up/dp/1566567297/ref
=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221592389&sr=1-1> The New Pearl Harbor
Revisited, pointing out that the author of the document which first made the
doctrine official policy was Philip Zelikow, who then later became executive
director of the 9/11 Commission.
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Bruce Ivins Wasn't the Anthrax Culprit
2008-08-05, Wall Street Journal
Posted: 2008-09-21 09:08:26
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB121789293570011775.html
Over the past week the media was gripped by the news that the FBI was about
to charge Bruce Ivins, a leading anthrax expert, as the man responsible for
the anthrax letter attacks in September/October 2001. But despite the
seemingly powerful narrative that Ivins committed suicide because
investigators were closing in, this is still far from a shut case. The FBI
needs to explain why it zeroed in on Ivins, how he could have made the
anthrax mailed to lawmakers and the media, and how he (or anyone else) could
have pulled off the attacks, acting alone. The spores could not have been
produced at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases,
where Ivins worked, without many other people being aware of it.
Furthermore, the equipment to make such a product does not exist at the
institute. The product contained essentially pure spores. The particle size
was 1.5 to 3 microns in diameter. There are several methods used to produce
anthrax that small. But most of them require milling the spores to a size
small enough that it can be inhaled into the lower reaches of the lungs. In
this case, however, the anthrax spores were not milled. They were also
tailored to make them potentially more dangerous. The spores were coated
with a polyglass which tightly bound hydrophilic silica to each particle.
Each particle was given a weak electric charge, thereby causing the
particles to repel each other at the molecular level. This made it easier
for the spores to float in the air, and increased their retention in the
lungs. In short, the potential lethality of anthrax in this case far exceeds
that of any powdered product found in the now extinct U.S. Biological
Warfare Program.
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Fire, Not Explosives, Felled 3rd Tower on 9/11, Report Says
2008-08-21, New York Times
Posted: 2008-09-21 08:59:16
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/nyregion/22wtccnd.html?partner=rssuserland
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/nyregion/22wtccnd.html?partner=rssuserlan
d&emc=rss&pagewanted=all> &...
Fires in the 47-story office tower at the edge of the World Trade Center
site undermined floor beams and a critical structural column, federal
investigators [from the National Institute of Standards and Technology]
concluded on Thursday, as they attempted to curb still-rampant speculation
that explosives caused the building's collapse on Sept. 11, 2001. The
collapse of 7 World Trade Center ... is cited in hundreds of Web sites and
books as perhaps the most compelling evidence that an insider secretly
planted explosives, intentionally destroying the tower. [Critics] have
pointed to the fact that the building fell straight down, instead of
tumbling, as proof that explosives were used to topple it, as well as to
bring down the twin towers. Sixteen percent of the respondents in a Scripps
Howard/Ohio University poll said it was very likely or somewhat likely that
explosives were planted. Other towers in New York, Philadelphia and Los
Angeles have remained standing through catastrophic blazes that burned out
of control for hours because of malfunctioning or nonexistent sprinkler
systems. But 7 World Trade Center, which was not struck by a plane, is the
first skyscraper in modern times to collapse primarily as a result of a
fire. Adding to the suspicion is the fact that in the rush to clean up the
site, almost all of the steel remains of the tower were disposed of, leaving
investigators in later years with little forensic evidence. Skeptics ...
have long argued that an incendiary material called thermite, made of
aluminum powder and a metal oxide, was used to take down the trade center
towers. They also have argued that a sulfur residue found at the World Trade
Center site is evidence of an inside job.
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9/11 Rumors That Become Conventional Wisdom
2008-09-09, New York Times
Posted: 2008-09-19 13:30:05
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/world/africa/09cairo.html
Seven years later, it remains conventional wisdom [in Cairo] that Osama bin
Laden and Al Qaeda could not have been solely responsible for the attacks of
Sept. 11, 2001, and that the United States and Israel had to have been
involved in their planning, if not their execution, too. "Look, I don't
believe what your governments and press say. It just can't be true," said
Ahmed Issab, 26, a Syrian engineer who lives and works in the United Arab
Emirates. "Why would they tell the truth? I think the U.S. organized this so
that they had an excuse to invade Iraq for the oil." Again and again, people
said they simply did not believe that a group of Arabs - like themselves -
could possibly have waged such a successful operation against a superpower
like the United States. But they also said that Washington's post-9/11
foreign policy proved that the United States and Israel were behind the
attacks, especially with the invasion of Iraq. "Maybe people who executed
the operation were Arabs, but the brains? No way," said Mohammed Ibrahim,
36, a clothing-store owner in the Bulaq neighborhood of Cairo. "It was
organized by other people, the United States or the Israelis." Zein
al-Abdin, 42, an electrician, [said] "What happened in Iraq confirms that it
has nothing to do with bin Laden or Qaeda. They went against Arabs and
against Islam to serve Israel, that's why."
Note: For a two-page summary of many reports from reliable, verifiable
sources that highlight unanswered questions about what really happened on
9/11, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
_____
Civil liberties: Outrage at New York police plan to track vehicles
2008-08-14, The Guardian (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)
Posted: 2008-08-23 08:07:04
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/14/usa.humanrights
The Big Apple is turning into Big Brother, civil liberties groups have
warned in response to a new plan from New York city's police chiefs to
photograph every vehicle entering Manhattan and hold the details on a
massive database. As well as placing cameras at all tunnels and bridges into
Manhattan, the 36-page plan, called Operation Sentinel, calls for a security
ring to be erected at Ground Zero and for a 50-mile buffer zone around the
city within which mobile units would search for nuclear or "dirty" bombs.
[The] 3,000 cameras that could be mounted as a result of the plans of the
New York police ... have provoked outrage in the United States. Donna
Lieberman, director of the New York Civil Liberties Union
<http://www.nyclu.org/> , said the idea of tracking the movements of
millions of people was "an assault on the country's historical respect for
the right to privacy and the freedom to be left alone". The NYCLU is
pressing the New York police to release further details of its intentions
under freedom of information laws. The toughest element of the scheme
relates to preparations to secure Ground Zero once the six-hectare site is
rebuilt and open to the public again. Those measures include moveable
roadblocks, security cameras across lower Manhattan and an underground
bomb-screening centre through which all delivery vehicles would have to
pass. The plan to video the number plates of every vehicle would be applied
to all points of entry into Manhattan, including the main Brooklyn-Battery,
Holland, Lincoln and Midtown tunnels and Brooklyn, Manhattan and other
bridges.
Note: For lots more on threats to privacy from major media sources, click
here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/privacynewsarticles> .
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The evolution of a conspiracy theory
2008-07-04, BBC News
Posted: 2008-07-10 11:06:14
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7488159.stm
Nearly seven years after the terrible events of that September day, the US
authorities are due to publish the final report on a third tower that also
collapsed on 9/11. Unlike the Twin Towers, this 47-storey, 610-foot
skyscraper was not hit by a plane. The official explanation is that ordinary
fires were the main reason for the collapse of Tower 7. That makes this the
first and only tall skyscraper in the world to have collapsed because of
fire. Yet despite that all the thousands of tonnes of steel from the
building were carted away and melted down. The way official bodies have
investigated Tower 7 at the World Trade Center has made some people think
they're hiding something. Its destruction was never mentioned in the 9/11
Commission Report. An inquiry by the Federal Emergency Management Agency
said the building collapsed because intense fires had burned for hours, fed
by thousands of gallons of diesel stored in the building for emergency
generators. But its report said this had "only a low probability of
occurrence" and more work was needed. That was in May 2002. The task has now
fallen to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) based at
a sprawling campus near Washington DC. For more than two-and-a-half years,
scientists there have been studying Tower 7. The officials have been
criticised for being slow and even of being frightened to publish. Steven
Jones <http://www.wanttoknow.info/stevenjonesnewsarticles> , a former
physics professor at Brigham Young University, who has become [a] leading
academic voice in the movement, first watched a video of the collapse of
Tower 7 in the spring of 2005. But when he did, he said he was taken aback
as a physicist.
Note: For a two-page summary of some unanswered questions about what really
happened on 9/11, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
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9/11 third tower mystery 'solved'
2008-07-04, BBC News
Posted: 2008-07-10 11:04:33
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7485331.stm
The 47-storey third tower, known as Tower Seven, collapsed seven hours after
the twin towers. Investigators are expected to say ordinary fires on several
different floors caused the collapse. Conspiracy theorists have argued that
the third tower was brought down in a controlled demolition. Unlike the twin
towers, Tower Seven was not hit by a plane. The National Institute of
Standards and Technology [NIST] ... is expected to conclude in its
long-awaited report this month that ordinary fires caused the building to
collapse. That would make it the first and only steel skyscraper in the
world to collapse because of fire. [NIST's] lead investigator, Dr Shyam
Sunder, spoke to BBC Two's "The Conspiracy Files": "Our working hypothesis
now actually suggests that it was normal building fires that were growing
and spreading throughout the multiple floors that may have caused the
ultimate collapse of the buildings." However, a group of architects,
engineers and scientists say the official explanation that fires caused the
collapse is impossible. Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
<http://www.ae911truth.org/> argue there must have been a controlled
demolition. The founder of the group, Richard Gage, says the collapse of the
third tower is an obvious example of a controlled demolition using
explosives. "Building Seven is the smoking gun of 9/11. A sixth grader can
look at this building falling at virtually freefall speed, symmetrically and
smoothly, and see that it is not a natural process. Buildings that fall in
natural processes fall to the path of least resistance", says Gage, "they
don't go straight down through themselves."
Note: To watch a one-minute clip of the fall of WTC 7 from a PBS
documentary, click here
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3E-26oVIIs&search=%22pull%20it%22%20silvers
tein> . For a two-page summary of some unanswered questions about what
really happened on 9/11, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> . To learn about over 1,000
architects and engineers who claim a major cover-up around 9/11 click here
<http://www.ae911truth.org/> .
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Controversy and conspiracies
2008-07-02, BBC News
Posted: 2008-07-10 10:57:38
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/07/controversy_conspiracies_iii.h
tml
World Trade Center Building 7 has become the subject of heated speculation
and a host of conspiracy theories suggesting it was brought down by a
controlled demolition. And some people suggest it was not just the
government and foreign intelligence, but ... even the media that were
involved. It is certainly true that on 9/11 the BBC broadcast that WTC7 had
collapsed when it was still standing. Then the satellite transmission seemed
to cut out mysteriously when the correspondent was still talking. Then [head
of BBC News] Richard Porter admitted in his blog
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/02/part_of_the_conspiracy.html>
last year that the BBC had lost those key tapes of BBC World News output
from the day. The internet movie Loose
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8510748876310097541&hl=en> Change
has been viewed by more than 100 million people according to its makers and
it asks this question in the latest film release: "Where did CNN and the BBC
get their information especially considering the building was still standing
directly behind their reporters?" It turns out that the respected news
agency Reuters picked up an incorrect report and passed it on. They have
issued this statement: "On 11 September 2001 Reuters incorrectly reported
that one of the buildings at the New York World Trade Center, 7WTC, had
collapsed before it actually did. The report was picked up from a local news
story and was withdrawn as soon as it emerged that the building had not
fallen." And the reason the interview with the BBC correspondent, Jane
Standley, ended so abruptly? The satellite feed had an electronic timer,
which cut out at 1715 exactly.
Note: How many "coincidences" does it take for people to start to ask
questions? How could people know that the building was going to collapse
when a skyscraper had never collapsed before from fire? For a useful BBC FAQ
on 9/11 alternative theories, click
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/conspiracy_files/7434230.stm> here.
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The 9/11 Commission Second-Guesses the Pentagon
2006-08-02, CNN News
Posted: 2008-07-10 10:46:11
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0608/02/sitroom.01.html
BLITZER: The 9/11 Commission second-guesses the Pentagon on the timeline of
events on that fateful day. What kind of impact might that have? Let's check
... with Jack Cafferty in New York. CAFFERTY: A member of the 9/11
Commission says that the commission didn't trust some of the testimony from
Pentagon officials about the timeline of events on that fateful day,
September 11. The question we asked is: What does it mean if the 9/11
Commission thought the Pentagon wasn't telling the truth? Marie in Bartlett,
Illinois, [writes]: "The 9/11 Commission failed. If they mulled criminal
charges because they doubted the veracity of testimony from Pentagon
personnel, why did they stop at that? And why say so now? If persons are
suspected of lying, they must be brought up on charges, and found either
guilty or innocent. The commission declared themselves to be judge and jury.
And the kangaroo court verdict was not guilty." Paul in Rockville, Maryland
[writes]: "The fact that Henry Kissinger and George Mitchell both took the
job, and then quit, should have been a tip-off to how big a can of worms
they were opening." BLITZER: And, as commercial airliners approached
Washington and New York on 9/11, what did the Pentagon know and when?
Note: The above summary is taken from the section at the very bottom of the
CNN News transcript at the link above. For a three-minute video clip of this
report, click here <http://youtube.com/watch?v=zdnwLdyfGKQ> . For a two-page
summary of some other unanswered questions about what really happened on
9/11, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
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Gov't says FBI agents can't testify about 9/11
2008-06-19, International Herald Tribune/Associated Press
Posted: 2008-06-26 11:04:10
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/19/america/Sept-11-Lawsuits.php
Government lawyers say the ongoing investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks
could be compromised if the airline industry is allowed to seek more
information from the FBI to defend itself against lawsuits brought by
terrorism victims. The government urged a judge to block aviation companies
from interviewing five FBI employees who the companies say will help them
prove the government withheld key information before the 2001 attacks. The
lawyers said it would be impossible to interview the employees without
disclosing classified or privileged material that could "cause serious
damage to national security and interfere with pending law enforcement
proceedings." The largest investigation in FBI history has resulted in
167,000 interviews and more than 155,000 pieces of evidence and involved the
pursuit of 500,000 investigative leads, the lawyers wrote. The airlines and
aviation companies are defending themselves against lawsuits seeking
billions of dollars in damages for injuries, fatalities, property damage and
business losses related to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The companies filed
separate lawsuits against the CIA and the FBI last August to force terrorism
investigators to tell whether the aviation industry was to blame for the
Sept. 11 attacks. Meanwhile, lawyers for the victims of the attacks ...
recounted in court papers numerous hijackings and attacks aboard planes
before Sept. 11 that they said should have put the airline industry on
notice that a disastrous attack could occur.
Note: For a two-page overview of many unanswered questions about what really
happened on 9/11, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
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What happened to building 7?
2008-06-06, Financial Times
Posted: 2008-06-26 10:45:39
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7d174b42-31fa-11dd-9b87-0000779fd2ac,s01=1.html
To the ["9/11 Truth movement"], Building 7 - the third building in the World
Trade Center complex to collapse on September 11 - is evidence that the
mainstream media is in on the plot. On that day, the BBC reported the
building's fall almost half an hour before it happened. Journalist Jane
Standley was broadcast at 4.54pm eastern time reporting that the tower had
collapsed - but in the background, it was still standing. It fell 26 minutes
later, seven hours after the Twin Towers came down. When the Standley clip
hit YouTube <http://youtube.com/watch?v=ejjySUVOGKA> , truthers bombarded
the BBC's website with questions and accusations. Richard Porter, head of
BBC world news, was forced to deny that the broadcaster was reading from the
Bush conspirators' script. He said the BBC had misreported warnings from
fire crews of the building's imminent collapse and instead stated that it
had already happened. He blamed the confusion of the day for the mix-up. CNN
had earlier reported rumours that a third building had either collapsed or
was about to. This explanation was undermined by Porter's admission that the
BBC no longer had the original tapes of its coverage. Building 7 is [a]
smoking gun for other reasons, too. How, they ask, could this modern,
steel-framed skyscraper collapse merely because of fire, without even being
hit by an airliner? The 47-storey WTC7 fell straight down, at almost
free-fall speed, largely into its own footprint: all the hallmarks, the
sceptics say, of a controlled demolition.
Note: To read a related Financial Times report on the 9/11 Truth movement's
claims, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/080607ft.911_truth> .
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Justices Rule Terror Suspects Can Appeal in Civilian Courts
2008-06-13, New York Times
Posted: 2008-06-18 11:04:59
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/washington/13scotus.html?partner=rssuserla
n...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/washington/13scotus.html?partner=rssuserl
and&emc=rss&pagewanted=all>
The Supreme Court ... delivered its third consecutive rebuff to the Bush
administration's handling of the detainees at Guantánamo Bay, ruling 5 to 4
that the prisoners there have a constitutional right to go to federal court
to challenge their continued detention. The court declared unconstitutional
a provision of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that ... stripped the
federal courts of jurisdiction to hear habeas corpus petitions from the
detainees seeking to challenge their designation as enemy combatants.
Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said the truncated
review procedure provided by a previous law, the Detainee Treatment Act of
2005, "falls short of being a constitutionally adequate substitute" because
it failed to offer "the fundamental procedural protections of habeas
corpus." Justice Kennedy declared: "The laws and Constitution are designed
to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times." The decision,
which was joined by Justices John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, and Stephen G. Breyer, was categorical in its rejection of the
administration's basic arguments. Indeed, the court repudiated the
fundamental legal basis for the administration's strategy, adopted in the
immediate aftermath of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, of housing prisoners
captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere at the United States naval base in
Cuba, where Justice Department lawyers advised the White House that domestic
law would never reach.
Note: For many disturbing reports on threats to civil liberties from major
media sources, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/civillibertiesnewsarticles> .
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Detainees Now Have Access to Federal Court
2008-06-13, Washington Post
Posted: 2008-06-18 11:03:28
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR2008061204
2...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR200806120
4202.html>
Defense attorneys for the 270 detainees at Guantanamo Bay said the Supreme
Court decision yesterday that granted detainees habeas corpus rights was a
watershed moment that will allow the men, some held for as long as 6 1/2
years, to challenge their detentions before a civilian judge. The court's
ruling immediately gives the detainees access to a federal court in
Washington, where lawyers will seek to have judges order the men released
from indefinite detention. Legal experts said it is unclear how the hearings
will proceed, but the government could be compelled to present highly
classified evidence, and detainees could for the first time be able to
publicly call witnesses, present evidence of abuse and rebut terrorism
allegations. The decision could force the U.S. government to show why
individual detainees must be held, something U.S. officials have fought for
years. As many as 130 detainees have been deemed dangerous but are unlikely
to ever face criminal charges, according to prosecutors, and now government
officials could have to argue for indefinite detention even if the evidence
is flimsy or nonexistent. "We're going to see a high number of people the
government is going to have to release," said Michael Ratner, president of
the Center for Constitutional Rights, which has represented Guantanamo Bay
detainees since 2002. It is unclear how the Boumediene v. Bush decision will
affect military commissions trials at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where 20
detainees, including ... Khalid Sheik Mohammed, have been charged with war
crimes.
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Officer calls Sept. 11 cases tainted
2008-06-05, Los Angeles Times
Posted: 2008-06-18 10:45:06
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-tribunal5-2008jun05,0,7
9...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-tribunal5-2008jun05,0,
7976145,full.story>
When Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his alleged collaborators in the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks appear before the war crimes tribunal here today, ousted
chief prosecutor Col. Morris D. Davis will not be celebrating. Davis, who
has spent half of his life in the military justice system, still considers
it "the most ethical process in the world." But the Pentagon's push to
prosecute the so-called 9/11 Five is tainted, in his view, by political
intrusions, illegal influence applied by more-senior officers and reliance
on evidence obtained through coercion or torture. Davis drew the wrath of
many in the Pentagon hierarchy when he objected last fall to pressures from
Bush administration political appointees to prosecute Mohammed, known in
intelligence circles as KSM, ahead of other war crimes suspects whose cases
were already researched and on whom vital evidence was declassified. Unless
the evidence prosecutors have against Mohammed and his codefendants is
declassified, much of their prosecution will be conducted behind closed
doors, depriving the American media and public of a clear view of the
proceedings, he says. Davis ran afoul of superiors ... when he advised his
prosecutors against relying on evidence obtained through waterboarding and
other interrogation techniques that have been deemed coercive or tantamount
to torture. Davis resigned after political appointees at the Pentagon
rejected his judgment on the choice of cases to be tried in the months
leading up to this November's election, as well as his advice against
building prosecutions on coerced and potentially unreliable confessions.
_____
The truth is out there
2008-06-07, Financial Times
Posted: 2008-06-10 11:45:52
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8d66e778-3128-11dd-ab22-000077b07658.html
When Cynthia McKinney speaks the words of Martin Luther King Jr, they
resound through the church with some of King�s cadence. �A time
comes,� declares the former US congresswoman from Georgia, �when silence
is betrayal.� Before the packed pews of the Immanuel Presbyterian Church
in Los Angeles, McKinney is speaking of the American government�s war on
its own people. The shock and awe phase of this conflict ... began on
September 11 2001, when the Bush administration launched attacks on New York
and Washington, or at least waved them through. According to a show of hands
that February afternoon, several hundred people in the immaculate church
believe this to be true. They had all come to hear the message of
Architects, Engineers <http://www.ae911truth.org/> & Scientists for 9/11
Truth, one of the dozens of [9/11 truth] groups across the US. Last winter,
�Investigate 9/11� banners seemed to be popping up all over the place.
Bill Clinton was heckled by �truthers� in Denver while campaigning for
his wife. Country music star Willie Nelson
<http://patriotsquestion911.com/media.html#WNelson> ... described as naive
the notion that the �implosion� of the Twin Towers was caused by
crashing jets. Meanwhile the European Parliament screened the Italian
documentary Zero <http://zero911movie.com/site/> , in which Gore Vidal,
Italian playwright Dario Fo, and Italian MEP Giulietto Chiesa blame the US
government, not al-Qaeda, for 9/11. The following month, Japanese MP
Yukihisa Fujita
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2680190129949942423> raised his
own doubts about the official story at a seminar in Sydney. A busy season
for the �9/11 Truth� movement.
Note: This extensive story in The Financial Times shows that the 9/11
movement is having a major impact. For a detailed two-page summary of many
questions about what really happened on 9/11, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
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360 post-9/11 workers have died, including 80 of cancer
2008-05-08, New York Daily News
Posted: 2008-05-15 16:30:44
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/05/08/2008-05-08_360_post911_workers_ha
v...
<http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/05/08/2008-05-08_360_post911_workers_h
ave_died_including_.html>
More than 360 workers who dealt with the aftermath of the World Trade Center
disaster have died, state health officials said Wednesday. Officials have
determined the cause of death of 154 of the responders and volunteers who
toiled at Ground Zero, the blocks nearby and at the Fresh Kills landfill,
where debris from the site was taken. Of those, 80 died of cancer. "It's the
tip of the iceberg," said David Worby, who is representing 10,000 workers -
600 with cancer - who say they got sick after working on rescue and recovery
efforts. "These statistics bear out how toxic that site was," Worby said.
Most of the deadly tumors were in the lungs and digestive system, according
to the tally from the state's World Trade Center Responder Fatality
Investigation Program. Other deaths were traced to blood cancers and heart
and circulatory diseases. Five ex-workers committed suicide, said Kitty
Gelberg, who is tracking the deaths for the program. Gelberg said ... there
is an overall undercount of workers who have died. Last year, the head of
Mount Sinai Medical Center's monitoring and treatment program, Dr. Robin
Herbert, predicted a "third wave" of 9/11-related deaths from cancer. Cathy
Murray, whose husband, Fire Lt. John Murray, died of colon cancer April 30,
"absolutely" connects his disease to his work at Ground Zero. He was
diagnosed in June and was 52 when he died, she said. "He was perfectly
healthy," said Cathy Murray, 53, of Staten Island. "He never smoked a day in
his life, and neither did I. It happened so quick and so aggressive. He was
responding at first, but then he wasn't," she added. "And now he's gone."
Note: For a powerful summary of reports from major media sources questioning
the official story of what happened on 9/11, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
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9/11 theorist not curtailing his research
2008-05-03, Deseret News (One of Utah's leading newspapers)
Posted: 2008-05-08 11:31:30
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695275973,00.html
Sixteen months ago, Brigham Young University and Steven Jones parted ways,
but he said this week he isn't bitter about the academic divorce. He
certainly hasn't curtailed his volatile research on the collapse of the
three World Trade Center towers after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11,
2001. In fact, Jones is the lead author of a paper on the collapses
published April 18 in a civil engineering journal. Most importantly, he is
preparing several more papers that, if they pass peer review and are
published, will give him the peace of mind that his case reached the public.
Jones was energized in November when he ... received a response from the
national lab charged by Congress to determine why and how the towers
collapsed. The letter contained the following phrase: "We are unable to
provide a full explanation of the total collapse." "That," Jones said,
"really was progress. It made me believe we could talk with them." It is
striking. After producing a 10,000-page report, the National Institute of
Standards and Technology can't explain the collapse. Meanwhile, the Federal
Emergency Management Agency has said that its best hypothesis for the fall
of the third tower, WTC 7 - diesel fuel stored in the building caused fires
that collapsed the building - has a "low probability" of being correct.
[Jones'] new peer-reviewed paper in the Open Civil Engineering Journal ...
lays out 14 points of agreement Jones and his colleagues have with the
official government reports. "We're getting to a higher level of discussion
with this paper," Jones said. The open paper can be found for free on the
Web at www.bentham.org.
Note: For many revealing reports on the path-breaking work of renowned
physicist Steven Jones to shed light on what really happened on 9/11, click
here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/stevenjonesnewsarticles> .
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Bush Aware of Advisers' Interrogation Talks
2008-04-11, ABC News
Posted: 2008-05-08 11:24:17
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/LawPolitics/Story?id=4635175
President Bush says he knew his top national security advisers discussed and
approved specific details about how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be
interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to an exclusive
interview with ABC News. "Well, we started to connect the dots in order to
protect the American people," Bush told ABC News White House correspondent
Martha Raddatz. "And yes, I'm aware our national security team met on this
issue. And I approved." As first reported by ABC News, the most senior Bush
administration officials repeatedly discussed and approved specific details
of exactly how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the
CIA. The president had earlier confirmed the existence of the interrogation
program run by the CIA in a speech in 2006. But before [ABC's original]
report, the extraordinary level of involvement by the most senior advisers
in repeatedly approving specific interrogation plans -- down to the number
of times the CIA could use a certain tactic on a specific al Qaeda prisoner
-- had never been disclosed. Critics at home and abroad have harshly
criticized the interrogation program, which pushed the limits of
international law and, they say, condoned torture. In the interview with ABC
News, Bush defended the waterboarding technique used against KSM. "We had
legal opinions that enabled us to do it," Bush said. "And no, I didn't have
any problem at all trying to find out what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed knew." The
president said, "I think it's very important for the American people to
understand who Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was. He was the person who ordered the
suicide attack -- I mean, the 9/11 attacks."
Note: For a transcript of the interview with President Bush on the
Washington Post website, click
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/04/14/BL200804140142
8.html> here. For a powerful two-page summary of many unanswered questions
about who really ordered the 9/11 attacks, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
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Jesse Ventura says he regrets not asking more questions
2008-04-03, WKBT TV/Associated Press
Posted: 2008-04-10 11:23:04
http://wkbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=8115056
Jesse Ventura says he regrets not asking more questions about the 9/11
attacks when he was still governor of Minnesota. Ventura tells the
nationally syndicated radio host Alex Jones that his skepticism about the
official version of events would have then carried more weight. Among many
other things, Ventura questions how the Twin Towers could have fallen so
fast and in such a way as to turn so much of the wreckage into dust. He also
says that after watching the Twin Towers collapse in slow motion, it appears
to him exactly like the controlled demolition of a Las Vegas hotel. Ventura
spoke on Jones' program on Wednesday. Ventura was elected as an independent
in 1998 and left office in 2003 after deciding not to seek re-election.
Jones frequently questions the events surrounding 9/11 and often discusses
conspiracies on his radio show and documentary films.
Note: For a powerful two-page summary of unanswered questions about the
official account of 9/11, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
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Colorado Proposes Tough Law on Executive Accountability
2008-04-01, New York Times
Posted: 2008-04-03 12:33:44
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/business/01fraud.html?ex=1364702400
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/business/01fraud.html?ex=1364702400&en=6a
78e33142b75aa1&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all>
&en=6a78...
For 30 years, Lew Ellingson loved being a telephone man. His job splicing
phone cables was one that he says gave him "a true sense of accomplishment,"
first for Northwestern Bell, then US West and finally Qwest Communications
International. But by the time Mr. Ellingson retired from Qwest last year at
52, he had grown angry. An insider trading scandal had damaged the company's
reputation, and the life savings of former colleagues had evaporated in the
face of Qwest's stock troubles. "It was a good place," he said wistfully.
"And then something like this happened." Now, Mr. Ellingson is the public
face of a proposed ballot measure in Colorado that seeks to create what
supporters hope will be the nation's toughest corporate fraud law.
Buttressed by local advocacy groups and criticized by a Colorado business
organization, the measure would make business executives criminally
responsible if their companies run afoul of the law. It would also permit
any Colorado resident to sue the executives under such circumstances.
Proceeds from successful suits would go to the state. If passed by voters in
November, the proposal would leave top business officers [with]
unprecedented individual accountability, said Mr. Ellingson. "If nothing
else, these folks in charge of the corporations and companies will think
twice about cutting corners to make themselves look more profitable than
they really are," he said. The plight of Mr. Ellingson's former employer,
Qwest, based in Denver, was a motivation for the proposal. Last April, a
jury in Denver convicted Qwest's former chief executive, Joseph P. Nacchio,
of 19 of 42 counts of insider trading. Mr. Nacchio was sentenced to six
years in prison and ordered to pay a fine of $19 million and forfeit $52
million in money he earned from stock sales in 2001.
Note: As reported in the
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR200710120
2485.html> Washington Post, Joseph P. Nacchio, the former Qwest CEO, has
claimed that he was singled out for prosecution because he refused to
cooperate with the National Security Agency's electronic surveillance of
American citizens, which began before 9/11.
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Engineer Society Accused of Cover-Ups
2008-03-25, Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Associated Press
Posted: 2008-04-03 12:24:22
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-gen/ap/National/Embattled_Engineers.
html
After the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center and the levee failures
caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the federal government paid the
American Society of Civil Engineers to investigate what went wrong. Critics
now accuse [ASCE] of covering up engineering mistakes ... and using the
investigations to protect engineers and government agencies from lawsuits.
In the World Trade Center case, critics contend the engineering society
wrongly concluded skyscrapers cannot withstand getting hit by airplanes. The
Federal Emergency Management Agency paid the group about $257,000 to
investigate the World Trade Center collapse. In 2002, the society's report
on the World Trade Center praised the buildings for remaining standing long
enough to allow tens thousands of people to flee. But, the report said,
skyscrapers are not typically designed to withstand airplane impacts.
Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, a structural engineer and forensics expert, contends
his computer simulations disprove the society's findings that skyscrapers
could not be designed to withstand the impact of a jetliner. Astaneh-Asl,
who received money from the National Science Foundation to investigate the
collapse, insisted most New York skyscrapers built with traditional designs
would survive such an impact. He also questioned the makeup of the society's
investigation team. On the team were the wife of the trade center's
structural engineer and a representative of the buildings' original design
team. "I call this moral corruption," said Astaneh-Asl, who is on the
faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.
Note: For a revealing two-page summary of many unanswered questions about
9/11 raised by major media sources, click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> here.
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9/11 Commission Chief's Ties to White House
2008-03-08, Sydney Morning Herald (Australia's leading newspaper)
Posted: 2008-03-11 08:50:33
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/they-knew-but-did-nothing/2008/03/07/120478
0...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/they-knew-but-did-nothing/2008/03/07/12047
80065676.html>
The members of Mike Hurley's [9/11 Commisson investigative] team were ...
alarmed by the revelations, week by week, month by month, of how close the
commission's chief director, Philip Zelikow, was to Rice and others at the
White House. They learned early on about Zelikow's work on the Bush
transition team in 2000 and early 2001, and about how much antipathy there
was between him and ["Counterterrorism Czar"] Richard Clarke. They heard the
stories about Zelikow's role in developing the "pre-emptive war" strategy at
the White House in 2002. Zelikow's friendships with Rice and others were a
particular problem for Warren Bass, since Rice and Clarke were at the heart
of his part of the investigation. It was clear to some members of team that
they could not have an open discussion in front of Zelikow about Rice and
her performance as National Security Adviser. For Hurley's team, there was a
reverse problem with Clarke. It was easy to talk about Clarke in Zelikow's
presence, as long as the conversation centred on Clarke's failings at the
NSC and his purported dishonesty. Long before Bass had seen Clarke's files,
Zelikow made it clear to the team's investigators that Clarke should not be
believed, that his testimony would be suspect. He argued that Clarke was a
braggart who would try to rewrite history to justify his errors and slander
his enemies, Rice in particular.
Note: This critique of the close ties to the White House of Philip Zelikow,
Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission, is an excerpt from Philip
Shenon's new book, The
<http://www.amazon.com/Commission-Uncensored-History-11-Investigation/dp/044
6580759/ref=pd_sim_b_title_3> Commission: The Uncensored History of the
9/11 Investigation. For an even deeper analysis of the Commission's
failings, read WantToKnow.info team member David Ray Griffin's book,
<http://www.amazon.com/11-Commission-Report-Omissions-Distortions/dp/1566565
847/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205172937&sr=1-4> The 9/11 Commission
Report: Omissions and Distortions.
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Marion Cotillard's 9/11 conspiracy theory
2008-03-01, The Telegraph (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)
Posted: 2008-03-11 08:37:47
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/01/wcotillard10
1...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/01/wcotillard1
01.xml>
Oscar-winning Marion Cotillard was facing embarrasment with her new American
public last night after it emerged that she doubted the official account of
the September 11 attacks. The 32-year-old French star has swept this year's
best actress awards, also receiving a Bafta, Golden Globe and a César for
her performance as singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose. But the actress
faces a potential backlash in the US over comments she made in an interview
in France. Footage which surfaced on the internet showed her questioning the
New York terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. "I think we're lied to
about a number of things," she said, singling out September 11. Referring to
the two passenger jets flown into the World Trade Centre, Miss Cotillard
said: "We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes, are they
burned? There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burned for 24
hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [New
York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed." Miss Cotillard
suggested that the towers, planned in the early 1960s, were an outdated
"money sucker" which would have cost so much to modernise that it was easier
to destroy them. Miss Cotillard, who was born and brought up in Paris, made
the comments on Paris Première - Paris Dernière (Paris First - Paris Last),
a programme first broadcast a year ago. They were largely ignored at the
time, but appeared yesterday on a French website. Miss Cotillard's film
career began in Luc Besson's 1998 film Taxi.
Note: For a revealing summary of many unanswered questions about what
happened on 9/11, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
_____
BAE: secret papers reveal threats from Saudi prince
2008-02-15, The Guardian (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)
Posted: 2008-02-25 08:39:41
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/15/bae.armstrade
Saudi Arabia's rulers threatened to make it easier for terrorists to attack
London unless corruption investigations into their arms deals were halted,
according to court documents revealed yesterday. Previously secret files
describe how investigators were told they faced "another 7/7" and the loss
of "British lives on British streets" if they pressed on with their
inquiries and the Saudis carried out their threat to cut off intelligence.
Prince Bandar, the head of the Saudi national security council, and son of
the crown prince, was alleged in court to be the man behind the threats to
hold back information about suicide bombers and terrorists. He faces
accusations that he himself took more than £1bn in secret payments from the
arms company BAE. He was accused in yesterday's high court hearings of
flying to London in December 2006 and uttering threats which made the prime
minister, Tony Blair, force an end to the Serious Fraud Office investigation
into bribery allegations involving Bandar and his family. The threats halted
the fraud inquiry. Lord Justice Moses, hearing the civil case with Mr
Justice Sullivan, said the government appeared to have "rolled over" after
the threats. He said one possible view was that it was "just as if a gun had
been held to the head" of the government. The SFO investigation began in
2004, when Robert Wardle, its director, studied evidence unearthed by the
Guardian. This revealed that massive secret payments were going from BAE to
Saudi Arabian princes, to promote arms deals. Yesterday, anti-corruption
campaigners began a legal action to overturn the decision to halt the case.
They want the original investigation restarted, arguing the government had
caved into blackmail.
Note: This report comes very close to confirming the close link between
terrorist attacks and high-level policy of certain states. For many
revealing clues along these lines from reliable sources, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/terrorismnewsarticles> .
_____
What FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds found in translation
2008-02-17, Dallas Morning News (Dallas' leading newspaper)
Posted: 2008-02-25 08:32:03
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/DN-sib
e...
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/DN-si
beledmonds_17edi.ART.State.Edition1.45b446a.html>
Most Americans have never heard of Sibel Edmonds, and if the U.S. government
has its way, they never will. The former FBI translator turned
whistle-blower tells a chilling story of corruption at Washington's highest
levels - sale of nuclear secrets, shielding of terrorist suspects, illegal
arms transfers, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, espionage. Ms.
Edmonds' account is full of dates, places and names. And if she is to be
believed, a treasonous plot to embed moles in American military and nuclear
installations and pass sensitive intelligence to Israeli, Pakistani and
Turkish sources was facilitated by figures in the upper echelons of the
State and Defense Departments. Her charges could be easily confirmed or
dismissed if classified government documents were made available to
investigators. But Congress has refused to act, and the Justice Department
has shrouded Ms. Edmonds' case in the state-secrets privilege, a rarely used
measure so sweeping that it precludes even a closed hearing attended only by
officials with top-secret security clearances. Ms. Edmonds' revelations have
attracted corroboration in the form of anonymous letters apparently written
by FBI employees. There have been frequent reports of FBI field agents being
frustrated by the premature closure of cases dealing with foreign spying,
particularly when those cases involve Israel, and the State Department has
frequently intervened to shut down investigations based on "sensitive
foreign diplomatic relations." Curiously, the state-secrets gag order
binding Ms. Edmonds, while put in place by DOJ in 2002, was not requested by
the FBI but by the State Department and Pentagon - which employed
individuals she identified as being involved in criminal activities. If her
allegations are frivolous, that order would scarcely seem necessary.
Note: The author of this article, Philip
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Giraldi> Giraldi, is a retired career
CIA officer. For further powerful details of Sibel Edmonds' revelations,
click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/sibeledmondsnewsarticles> .
_____
Willie Nelson doubts official explanation for 9/11
2008-02-05, Houston Chronicle/Associated Press
Posted: 2008-02-17 12:12:46
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5516149.html
Texas icon Willie Nelson said on a nationally syndicated radio show that he
questions the official story of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York
City. "I certainly do," Nelson said ... when asked by talk-show host Alex
Jones. "I saw those towers fall and I've seen an implosion in Las Vegas,
there's too much similarities between the two. And I saw the building fall
that didn't get hit by nothing," the singer-songwriter said. "So, how naive
are we, you know, what do they think we'll go for?" Nelson, 74, said that if
he were president, he would "stop the damn war, it's just that simple." He
said he doesn't [understand] why if Saudi Arabians "hit us in New York ...
we go jump on Afghanistan." Nelson's publicist would not comment on the
remarks.
Note: For an ABC video clip of this news, click here
<http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4244526> .
_____
9/11 Commission controversy
2008-01-30, NBC News
Posted: 2008-02-17 12:07:17
http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/624314.aspx
The 9/11 Commission suspected that critical information it used in its ...
Report was the product of harsh interrogations of al-Qaida operatives -
interrogations that many critics have labeled torture. Yet, commission
staffers never questioned the agency about the interrogation techniques and
in fact ordered a second round of interrogations specifically to ask
additional questions of the same operatives. Much of what was reported about
the planning and execution of the terror attacks on New York and Washington
was derived from the interrogations of high-ranking al-Qaida operatives.
Each had been subjected to "enhanced interrogation techniques." Some were
even subjected to waterboarding. There was a separate, second round of
interrogations in early 2004, done specifically to answer new questions from
the Commission, [involving] more than 30 separate interrogation sessions.
According to both current and former senior U.S. intelligence officials, the
operatives cited by the Commission were subjected to the harshest of the
CIA's methods, the "enhanced interrogation techniques." The techniques
included physical and mental abuse, exposure to extreme heat and cold, sleep
deprivation and waterboarding. In addition, officials of both the 9/11
Commission and CIA confirm the Commission specifically asked the agency to
push the operatives on a new round of interrogations months after their
first interrogations. The Commission, in fact, supplied specific questions
for the operatives to the agency. This new round took place in early 2004,
when the agency was still engaged in the full range of harsh techniques.
Note: WantToKnow team member and renowned theologian David Ray Griffin
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/aboutus#griffin> 's detailed exposure of the
many lies put forth by the 9/11 Commission is available
<http://www.amazon.com/11-Commission-Report-Omissions-Distortions/dp/1566565
847> here. And for a succinct, eye-opening summary of many unanswered
questions about the official account of 9/11, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
_____
Ex-9/11 Panel Chief Denies Secret White House Ties
2008-01-30, ABC News
Posted: 2008-02-03 12:08:29
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4218157
The former executive director of the 9/11 Commission denies explosive
charges of undisclosed ties to the Bush White House or interference with the
panel's report. The charges are ... contained in New York Times reporter
Philip Shenon's [new] book,
<http://www.amazon.com/Commission-Uncensored-History-11-Investigation/dp/044
6580759/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201968241&sr=1-1> The Commission:
The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation, [and are] confirmed by the
book's publisher. [When] 9/11 Commission co-chairs [Thomas] Kean and Lee
Hamilton hired former Condoleezza Rice aide Philip Zelikow to be executive
director, Zelikow failed to tell them ... that he was "instrumental" in
demoting Richard Clarke, the onetime White House counterterrorism czar. In
his book, Shenon also says that while working for the panel, Zelikow appears
to have had private conversations with former White House political director
Karl Rove, despite a ban on such communication. Shenon reports that Zelikow
later ordered his assistant to stop keeping a log of his calls. Zelikow told
ABC News he was under no prohibition that barred his conversations with
Rove, and did not recall asking his assistant to stop logging his calls.
Shenon directed calls to his publisher, Twelve Books, a subsidiary of
Hachette Book Group. Cary Goldstein, a spokesman for Hachette, confirmed the
[above] characterization of the book's contents, but said he could not
confirm direct quotes. "It's not a surprise," Goldstein said when asked his
reaction to the leak of the book's details before its Feb. 5 publication
date. "I think people are really curious to see what the report had looked
like if it hadn't been neutered in [the panel's] effort to be unanimous."
Note: Philip Zelikow co-authored a 1998
<http://cryptome.quintessenz.at/mirror/ct-tnd.htm> Foreign Affairs article,
"Catastrophic Terrorism: Tackling the New Danger," which warned of a
possible catastrophic attack on the World Trade Center and accurately
predicted the governmental aftermath of 9/11. And a highly significant fact
is that before he was selected as Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission,
he authored the Bush administration's
<http://www.isn.ethz.ch/pubs/ph/details.cfm?lng=en&id=7086> National
Security Strategy of the United States of America for 2002. This document
for the first time asserted a national policy of pre-emptive war (the "Bush
Doctrine"), and paved the way for the war on Iraq.
_____
Lost In Translation
2004-08-08, CBS News
Posted: 2008-01-13 08:02:14
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/25/60minutes/main526954.shtml
Sibel Edmonds, a translator who worked at the FBI's language division, says
[that hundreds, if not thousands, of foreign language intelligence
documents] weren't translated because the division was riddled with
incompetence and corruption. Edmonds was fired after reporting her concerns
to FBI officials. Because she is fluent in Turkish and other Middle Eastern
languages, Edmonds, a Turkish-American, was hired by the FBI soon after
Sept. 11 and given top-secret security clearance to translate some of the
reams of documents seized by FBI agents who have been rounding up suspected
terrorists across the United States and abroad. In its rush to hire more
foreign language translators after Sept. 11, the FBI admits it has had
difficulty performing background checks to detect translators who may have
loyalties to other governments, which could pose a threat to U.S. national
security. Take the case of Jan Dickerson, a Turkish translator who worked
with Edmonds. The FBI has admitted that when Dickerson was hired, the bureau
didn't know that she had worked for a Turkish organization being
investigated by the FBI's own counter-intelligence unit. They also didn't
know she'd had a relationship with a Turkish intelligence officer stationed
in Washington who was the target of that investigation. According to
Edmonds, Dickerson tried to recruit her into that organization, and insisted
that Dickerson be the only one to translate the FBI's wiretaps of that
Turkish official. "She got very angry, and later she threatened me and my
family's life," says Edmonds, when she decided not to go along with the
plan. "She said, 'Why would you want to place your life and your family's
life in danger by translating these tapes?'" Edmonds says that when she
reviewed Dickerson's translations of those tapes, she found that Dickerson
had left out information crucial to the FBI's investigation - information
that Edmonds says would have revealed that the Turkish intelligence officer
had spies working for him inside the U.S. State Department and at the
Pentagon.
Note: This article should be read in its entirety. For many revealing
articles on the ongoing efforts by longtime whistleblower Sibel Edmonds to
tell her story, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/sibeledmondsnewsarticles> .
_____
Blame U.S. for 9/11: 'Plots' Thicken in Shocking Poll
2007-11-24, New York Post
Posted: 2007-12-02 13:14:11
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11242007/news/nationalnews/blame_u_s__for_9_11_i
d...
<http://www.nypost.com/seven/11242007/news/nationalnews/blame_u_s__for_9_11_
idiots_in_majority_318165.htm>
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the federal government had warnings
about 9/11 but decided to ignore them, a national survey found. Sixty-two
percent of those polled thought it was "very likely" or "somewhat likely"
that federal officials turned a blind eye to specific warnings of the 2001
attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Only 30 percent said the
9/11 theory was "not likely," according to the Scripps Howard/Ohio
University poll. The findings followed a 2006 poll by the same researchers,
who found that 36 percent of Americans believe federal government officials
"either assisted in the 9/11 attacks or took no action" because they wanted
"to go to war in the Middle East." In that poll, 16 percent said the Twin
Towers might have collapsed because of secretly planted explosives - not
hijacked passenger jets flown into them. And what hit the Pentagon? Twelve
percent figured it was a US cruise missile. In the latest Scripps
Howard/Ohio University poll, 811 US adults were interviewed Sept. 24 to Oct.
10. Among [other] findings: 42 percent believe the federal government knew
in advance of the plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy, compared with 40
percent who call that theory "not likely." 37 percent believe UFOs are real
and that the feds have been hiding the truth about them. Eight out of 10
Americans suspect oil companies are conspiring to keep fuel prices high and
50 percent said a conspiracy is "very likely." Only 14 percent felt it was
unlikely.
Note: We normally don't use the New York Post as a reliable source. Yet this
key news is based on a very reliable poll, which you can read in the Scripps
News Service report available here <http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/28533> .
Sadly, the Post was the only major newspaper to pick up this important news,
and they took a heavy editorial slant against 9/11 truth. For a concise
summary of major media reports suggesting that the official account of 9/11
cannot be true, click here <http://wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
_____
Dan Ellsberg: Sibel Edmonds case "Far More Explosive Than Pentagon Papers
2007-11-19, OpEdNews.com
Posted: 2007-12-02 13:06:02
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_luke_ryl_071119_dan_ellsberg_3a_sibe
l...
<http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_luke_ryl_071119_dan_ellsberg_3a_sib
el_.htm>
Bradblog <http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5260> has been chasing the story about
former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds' offer to 'tell all.' [Daniel] Ellsberg
says: "I'd say what she has is far more explosive than the Pentagon Papers.
From what [Edmonds] has to tell, it has a major difference from the Pentagon
Papers in that it deals directly with criminal activity and may involve
impeachable offenses. And I don't necessarily mean the President or the
Vice-President, though I wouldn't be surprised if the information reached up
that high. But other members of the Executive Branch may be impeached as
well. There will be phone calls going out to the media saying 'don't even
think of touching [Edmonds' case], you will be prosecuted for violating
national security.'" [Edmonds] said: "The media called from Japan and France
and Belgium and Germany and Canada and from all over the world. I'm getting
contact from all over the world, but not from here." More Ellsberg: "I am
confident that there is conversation inside the Government as to 'How do we
deal with Sibel?' The first line of defense is to ensure that she doesn't
get into the media. I think any outlet that thought of using her materials
would go to the government and they would be told 'don't touch this, it's
communications intelligence.' As long as they hold a united front on this,
they don't run the risk of being shamed." [Edmonds:] "I will name the name
of major publications who know the story, and have been sitting on it ---
almost a year and a half." "How do you know they have the story?," we asked.
"I know they have it because people from the FBI have come in and given it
to them. They've given them the documents and specific case-numbers on my
case."
Note: Though this is not from one of our normal reliable sources, Dan
Ellsberg <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg> is a highly
respected whistleblower who has received an abundance of major media
coverage over the years. As the mainstream media are clearly and consciously
ignoring this story, we felt it deserved to be posted, even though we don't
have a major media source to back it up. For lots more reliable information
on this courageous woman, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/sibeledmondsnewsarticles> .
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Brothers, Bad Blood and the Blackwater Tangle
2007-11-17, New York Times
Posted: 2007-11-25 11:16:42
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/us/17brothers.html?ex=1352955600
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/us/17brothers.html?ex=1352955600&en=1cb32
5ee55e75018&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> &en=1cb325e...
They were smart, scrappy brothers who rose from modest circumstances in
Baltimore to become lacrosse stars at Princeton, succeed in business and
land big government jobs. Now the Krongard brothers - who have carried
childhood nicknames, Buzzy and Cookie, through long careers - are tied up in
the tangled story of Blackwater, the security contractor accused in the
deaths of at least 17 Iraqis while guarding a State Department convoy in
Baghdad. The shorthand version boils their involvement down to that
Washington catchall conflict of interest. The full story appears more
complicated. Alvin [Buzzy] Krongard, 71, ... left a $4 million-a-year job in
investment banking to serve in top posts at the Central Intelligence Agency
from 1998 to 2004. Buzzy Krongard spoke [to the New York Times] in his
15,000-square-foot Georgian mansion, Torch Hill, north of Baltimore. After
rising to the helm of Alex. Brown & Sons, the venerable Baltimore investment
banking firm, Buzzy Krongard oversaw its acquisition by Bankers Trust in
1997 and left the next year for the C.I.A., as a counselor to George J.
Tenet, then the director of central intelligence. He became executive
director, the No. 3 post, in 2001 and helped design the agency's secret
detention program after the Sept. 11 attacks. Buzzy Krongard vigorously
defends Blackwater's record in Iraq. "It's very easy to second-guess them
when you're sitting back in an air-conditioned office," he said.
Note: Buzzy Krongard took quite a cut in pay to move from Bankers Trust to
the comparatively modest salary of even a high-ranking CIA position. Bankers
Trust was purchased by the same company that placed the highly unusual and
suspicious "put options" on United Airlines stock just days before 9/11. For
a powerful summary of similarly strange, unexplained facts related to 9/11,
click here <http://wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
_____
O Brother, Who Art Thou?
2007-11-15, Washington Post
Posted: 2007-11-18 10:42:26
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/14/AR2007111402
1...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/14/AR200711140
2127.html>
"I am not my brother's keeper," Howard "Cookie" Krongard, the State
Department's inspector general, testified to the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee yesterday. As Cookie surely must know, that
excuse hasn't worked since Genesis. In this case, the players weren't Cain
and Abel, but Cookie and his brother Buzzy. Cookie, under fire for allegedly
quashing probes of the infamous Blackwater security contractor, began his
testimony by angrily denying the "ugly rumors" that his brother, former CIA
official Alvin "Buzzy" Krongard, is on Blackwater's advisory board. But
during a recess, Cookie called Buzzy and learned that -- gulp -- the ugly
rumors are true: His brother is on the board. When the lawmakers returned,
Cookie revised and extended his testimony. "I had not been aware of that,"
Cookie told the congressmen. "I hereby recuse myself from any matters having
to do with Blackwater." The lawmakers reacted with Old Testament fury. The
swaggering Cookie -- he alternately addressed the lawmakers with his thumb
in his waistband, slouching in his chair, rolling his eyes and making
baffled glances -- had spent the morning aggressively denying the
allegations lodged against him: that he had impeded investigations into
contracting fraud, including weapons smuggling by Blackwater, and that he
had abused his underlings. But then came Buzzy's bombshell -- and Cookie's
credibility crumbled. Either he had lied to Congress, or his own brother had
lied to him. It was only the latest bit of strangeness for the powerful but
eccentric Brothers Krongard. Buzzy [is] known for his cigar chomping,
martial arts and recreational workouts with SWAT teams. "Krongard once
punched a great white shark in the jaw," his hometown Baltimore Sun reported
when he took the No. 3 job at the CIA a decade ago. More recently, Buzzy
joined the advisory board of Blackwater, the firm known for its ready
trigger fingers in Iraq.
Note: Alvin "Buzzy" Krongard was the Executive Director (the third-highest
position) at the CIA on 9/11, and had until 1998 been the head of the firm
used to buy many of the
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#options> "put" options on
United Airlines stock made just prior to 9/11 that were never claimed,
though this received little media coverage.
_____
Was Bin Laden's last video faked?
2007-10-29, MSNBC
Posted: 2007-11-11 08:33:13
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21530470
When [the] first Osama Bin Laden video in nearly three years [appeared],
most of the media attention was focused on Bin Laden's beard. It appeared
either dyed - or perhaps even pasted on. He was ridiculed and a variety of
theories were offered to explain it. But now, there is a running debate
among video analysts about whether, rather than being new, the September 7
[video] may have been something recorded at the same time as [the] last
video in October 2004 (and then released with new audio). Of the 25 minutes
of video tape, only three and a half minutes, were moving video. The rest
was covered by a still image or a frozen still. Moreover, the still covered
the only time references on the 25 minutes of tape- references to political
developments in Iraq, Britain and France. This led to the suspicion that the
video is not new, but disguised to appear as new. The leading proponent of
the theory is computer scientist ... Dr. Neal Krawetz of Colorado ... who
[says] that the similarities between the October 29, 2004 tape and the
September 7, 2007 tape are too great to be coincidental. "Here is Bin Laden
in the same clothing, same studio, same studio setup, and same desk three
years later," [said] Krawetz ... in an interview with NBC News. "In fact,
[the] papers that he reads are moved between the exact same stacks. What are
the chances of nothing changing (except his beard) in three years? Virtually
zero. The clips appear to have been recorded three years ago. I am saying
the two videos were likely made either on the same day or within days of
each other." The CIA will not say what it thinks about the possibility, but
a senior U.S. intelligence official tells NBC News the U.S. believes the
tape is new. He would not discuss the reasons why intelligence analysts feel
that way.
Note: For a succinct summary of many reports from major media sources that
suggest the US government's explanation of what happened on 9/11 cannot be
true, click here <http://wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
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State Department Use of Contractors Leaps in 4 Years
2007-10-19, New York Times
Posted: 2007-11-11 08:29:15
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/washington/24contractor.html?ex=1350878400
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/washington/24contractor.html?ex=135087840
0&en=b3638a61aa9e0d05&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> &...
Over the past four years, the amount of money the State Department pays to
private security and law enforcement contractors has soared to nearly $4
billion a year from $1 billion, ... but ... the department had added few new
officials to oversee the contracts. Auditors and outside exerts say the
results have been vast cost overruns, poor contract performance and, in some
cases, violence that has so far gone unpunished. A vast majority of the
money goes to companies like DynCorp International and Blackwater
[Worldwide] to protect diplomats overseas, train foreign police forces and
assist in drug eradication programs. There are only 17 contract compliance
officers at the State Department's management bureau overseeing spending of
the billions of dollars on these programs, officials said. Two new reports
have delivered harsh judgments about the State Department's handling of the
contracts, including the protective services contract that employs
Blackwater guards whose involvement in a Sept. 16 shooting in Baghdad has
raised questions about their role in guarding American diplomats in Iraq.
The ballooning budget for outside contracts at the State Department is
emblematic of a broader trend, contracting experts say. The Bush
administration has doubled the amount of government money going to all types
of contractors to $400 billion, creating a new and thriving class of
post-9/11 corporations carrying out delicate work for the government. But
the number of government employees issuing, managing and auditing contracts
has barely grown. "That's a criticism that's true of not just State but of
almost every agency," said Jody Freeman, an expert on administrative law at
Harvard Law School.
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The 'Good Germans' Among Us
2007-10-14, New York Times
Posted: 2007-11-11 08:26:11
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/opinion/14rich2.html?ex=1350014400
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/opinion/14rich2.html?ex=1350014400&en=83a
8b8dd9ecffc33&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> &en=83a8b...
"Bush lies" doesn't cut it anymore. It's time to confront the darker reality
that we are lying to ourselves. By any legal standards except those
rubber-stamped by Alberto Gonzales, we are practicing torture, and we have
known we are doing so ever since photographic proof emerged from Abu Ghraib
more than three years ago. As Andrew Sullivan, once a Bush cheerleader,
observed last weekend in The Sunday Times of London, America's "enhanced
interrogation" techniques have a grotesque provenance: "Verschärfte
Vernehmung, enhanced or intensified interrogation, was the exact term
innovated by the Gestapo to describe what became known as the 'third
degree.' It left no marks. It included hypothermia, stress positions and
long-time sleep deprivation." We must ... examine our own responsibility for
the hideous acts committed in our name in a war where we have now fought
longer than we did in the one that put Verschärfte Vernehmung on the map.
The war was sold by a ... fear-fueled White House propaganda campaign
designed to stampede a nation still shellshocked by 9/11. Both Congress and
the press - the powerful institutions that should have provided the checks,
balances and due diligence of the administration's case - failed to do their
job. Had they done so, more Americans might have raised more objections.
This perfect storm of democratic failure began at the top. [But] as the war
has dragged on, it is hard to give Americans en masse a pass. We are too
slow to notice, let alone protest, the calamities that have followed the
original sin. Our humanity has been compromised by those who use Gestapo
tactics in our war. The longer we stand idly by while they do so, the more
we resemble those "good Germans" who professed ignorance of their own
Gestapo.
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TV show host boots out 9/11 conspiracy theorists
2007-10-23, Guardian (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)
Posted: 2007-11-02 16:24:23
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2197237,00.html
It's the conundrum that faces all television personalities broadcasting
live: how to deal with hecklers trying to disrupt the show. Do you ignore
the perpetrators? Do you try to reason with them? Or do you do what the
American comic and talk show host Bill Maher did - jump into the audience,
threaten the hecklers with an "ass kicking" and scream "Get the fuck out of
my building!" In one of the more unconventional displays of audience
interaction on US television in recent years, that is now doing hot trade as
a clip on YouTube, Maher reacted to the interruptions of hecklers in his
studio audience with the memorable words: "Do we have some fucking security
in this building?" He then tore off his lapel microphone and stormed off the
stage and up to some protesters wielding "expose the 9/11 cover-up" banners.
It was at that point during a panel discussion on his HBO show, Real Time
With Bill Maher, that the nature of the comic's difficulties with an element
of his audience became clear. Maher is a darling of the US liberal
intelligentsia for his brand of Bush-bashing and anti-religious pedantry.
But the one point over which he will not bash the Bush administration is the
events of September 11 2001. He does not agree with 9/11 conspiracy
theorists, or Truthers as they call themselves, that the Bush administration
brought down the Twin Towers in a controlled explosion. The trouble started
a few weeks ago when Maher launched a verbal assault on air against the
Truthers, calling them "crazy people". He advised the conspiracy theorists,
who had been demonstrating outside his studio, to visit their doctor to ask
whether the antidepressant Paxil was right for them. In 2002 ABC ended its
relationship with him over comments he made in his former show, Politically
Incorrect, about the 9/11 hijackers.
Note: To watch Bill Maher's performance on YouTube, click here
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzrUD-5hf1A> . For a concise summary of
reliable reports from major media sources which raise many unanswered
questions about what really happened on 9/11, click here
<http://wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
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Former CEO Says U.S. Punished Phone Firm
2007-10-13, Washington Post
Posted: 2007-10-19 07:46:53
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR2007101202
4...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR200710120
2485.html>
A former Qwest Communications International executive, appealing a
conviction for insider trading, has alleged that the government withdrew
opportunities for contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars after
Qwest refused to participate in an unidentified National Security Agency
program that the company thought might be illegal. Former chief executive
Joseph P. Nacchio, convicted in April of 19 counts of insider trading, said
the NSA approached Qwest more than six months before the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks ... about participating in a warrantless surveillance program to
gather information about Americans' phone records. In the court filings
disclosed this week, Nacchio suggests that Qwest's refusal to take part in
that program led the government to cancel a separate, lucrative contract
with the NSA in retribution. He is using the allegation to try to show why
his stock sale should not have been considered improper. He has claimed in
court papers that he had been optimistic that Qwest would overcome weak
sales because of the expected top-secret contract with the government.
Nacchio's account, which places the NSA proposal at a meeting on Feb. 27,
2001, suggests that the Bush administration was seeking to enlist
telecommunications firms in programs without court oversight before the
terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon. The Sept. 11 attacks have
been cited by the government as the main impetus for its warrantless
surveillance efforts. In May 2006, USA Today reported that the NSA had been
secretly collecting the phone-call records of tens of millions of Americans,
using data provided by major telecom firms. Qwest, it reported, declined to
participate because of fears that the program lacked legal standing.
Note: The Bush Administration has claimed that the NSA surveillance of the
American public was a necessary response to the attacks of 9/11. But this
story reveals that the surveillance began before 9/11, shortly after Bush
took office. The obvious question is, why? For many other reliable,
verifiable reports that suggest the official explanation of the events of
9/11 is false, click here <http://wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
_____
Unanswered questions: The mystery of Flight 93
2002-08-13, Independent (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)
Posted: 2007-09-29 08:18:16
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article173206.ece
The shortage of available facts [about the crash of Flight 93 on September
11, 2001] did not prevent the creation of an instant legend ... that the US
government and the US media were pleased to propagate, and that the American
public have been eager, for the most part, to accept as fact. The absence of
official information has led to lively and often well-informed debate [on]
the internet (see www.flight93crash.com <http://www.flight93crash.com/> .)
There are ... a number of important unanswered questions ... based on
evidence, as well as on a manifest absence of candour on the part of the
authorities - which the national US media, typically so sceptical and
inquisitive, have shown a curious reluctance to ask. The alternative
theories, both of which have been denied by the US military and the FBI, are
a) that Flight 93 was brought down by a US government plane; and b) that a
bomb went off aboard. If doubts remain despite the denials, if conspiracy
theories flourish, it is in large part because of the authorities' failure
to address head-on questions, [including:] 1. The wide displacement of the
plane's debris, one explanation for which might be an explosion of some sort
aboard prior to the crash. Letters ... and other papers from the plane were
found eight miles (13km) away from the scene of the crash. A sector of one
engine weighing one ton was found [more than a mile] away . Other remains of
the plane were found two miles away near a town called Indian Lake. 2. A
federal flight controller [was quoted] a few days later in a newspaper
[stating] that an F-16 had been "in hot pursuit" of the hijacked United jet
and "must have seen the whole thing". Everything is speculation - that is
the problem with the story of Flight 93.
Note: For a treasure trove of revealing articles from major media sources
that raise numerous questions about what really happened on 9/11, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911newsarticles> .
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"One of the Eeriest Moments Amid the Carnage of 9/11"
2007-09-12, CNN
Posted: 2007-09-21 07:51:00
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0709/12/acd.01.html
JOHN KING: Today, six years after 9/11, a mystery endures about just what
happened in the skies over the White House that terrible day. A plane flew
right over it, but why, and what was it? For conspiracy theorists, the image
is a gold mine. It appeared overhead just before 10 a.m., a four- engine jet
... in the nation's most off-limits airspace. On the White House grounds and
the rooftop, a nervous scramble. And still today, no one will offer an
official explanation of what we saw. Two government sources familiar with
the incident tell CNN it was a military aircraft. They say the details are
classified. This comparison of the CNN video and an official Air Force photo
suggests the mystery plane is among the military's most sensitive aircraft,
an Air Force E-4B. Note the flag on the tail, the stripe around the
fuselage, and the telltale bubble just behind the 747 cockpit area. MAJ.
GEN. DON SHEPPERD (RET.), U.S. AIR FORCE: There are many commercial versions
of the 747 ... that look similar, but I don't think any of them that have
the communications pod like the ... Air Force E-4 does behind the cockpit.
KING: The E-4B is a state of the art flying command post, built and equipped
for one reason: to keep the government running no matter what, even in the
event of a nuclear war, the reason it was nicknamed the doomsday plane
during the Cold War. Ask the Pentagon, and it insists this is not a military
aircraft, and there is no mention of it in the official report of the 9/11
Commission. [In] sum: the lack of any official explanation feeds an ominous
conspiracy. This is from an online discussion about the plane on the web
site 911blogger.com <http://911blogger.com/> . "I have always thought these
planes were exactly that, mission control for the 9/11 attack on our
country."
Note: For many other anomalous major media reports which collectively
suggest that the official story of 9/11 may be a cover-up, click here
<http://wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
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Robert Fisk: Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11
2007-08-25, Independent (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)
Posted: 2007-09-06 14:09:20
http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article2893860.ece
I am increasingly troubled at the inconsistencies in the official narrative
of 9/11. I am talking about scientific issues. If it is true, for example,
that kerosene burns at 820C under optimum conditions, how come the steel
beams of the
<http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=GRI20060129
&articleId=1846> twin towers - whose melting point is supposed to be about
1,480C - would snap through at the same time? (They collapsed in 8.1 and 10
seconds.) What about the third tower - the so-called World Trade Centre
Building 7 - which collapsed
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3187768192293709776&q=WTC+7+collaps
e&total=552&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2> in 6.6 seconds in
its own footprint at 5.20pm on 11 September? Why did it so neatly fall to
the ground when no aircraft had hit it? The American National Institute of
Standards and Technology was instructed to analyse the cause of the
destruction of all three buildings. They have not yet reported on WTC 7.
Journalistically, there were many odd things about 9/11. Initial reports of
reporters that they heard
<http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20060118104223192> "explosions"
in the towers ... the [FBI's] list of Arab suicide-hijackers, which included
three men who were - and still are - very much alive
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm> and living in
the Middle East. What about the weird letter allegedly written by Mohamed
Atta, whose "Islamic" advice to his gruesome comrades - released by the CIA
- mystified every Muslim friend I know in the Middle East? Like everyone
else, I would like to know the full story of 9/11, not least because it was
the trigger for the whole lunatic, meretricious "war on terror" which has
led us to disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan and in much of the Middle East.
Bush's happily departed adviser Karl Rove once said that "we're an empire
now - we create our own reality". True? At least tell us.
Note: Robert Fisk is an award-winning, veteran Middle East reporter for the
Independent. For a concise summary of reliable news reports that raise
serious questions about what really happened on 9/11, click here
<http://wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up>
_____
Losing bin Laden
2006-02-12, Washington Post
Posted: 2007-09-06 13:21:37
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/09/AR2006020901
6...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/09/AR200602090
1687.html>
Despite a huge and costly effort by the media, the public still has an
incomplete picture of what really happened during the [war in Afghanistan]
and of how Osama bin Laden survived it. Gary Berntsen's Jawbreaker
<http://www.amazon.com/Jawbreaker-Al-Qaeda-Personal-Account-Commander/dp/030
7351068/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-8440910-6384446?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189002171&s
r=1-1> provides a valuable new account by a major participant that fills in
many blanks. Berntsen was a top CIA field commander in the most critical
sector of a new kind of war; at various times, the CIA veteran had elements
of the Delta Force, Army Rangers, Navy SEALs and tactical air units
reporting to him. Crown Publishers has chosen unnecessarily to position it
as a diatribe that the CIA tried to suppress. In fact, while the CIA dragged
its feet in reviewing the manuscript for classified material and redacted
plenty of specifics, the book is hardly an attack on the CIA. In fact, the
overall picture of the CIA here is far more flattering than that in The 9/11
Commission Report. Still, to portray Jawbreaker as "the book the CIA doesn't
want you to read" (as the cover puts it), the publisher has displayed the
redactions throughout the book as large black lines. Contradicting Bush
administration denials, Berntsen writes that his teams discovered bin Laden
and the remnants of his entourage in the now famous Tora Bora Mountains
along the lawless, rugged Afghan-Pakistani border. Berntsen recounts very
credibly how he and others pleaded with Gen. Tommy Franks and the Pentagon
brass to put in blocking forces so that bin Laden and the remnants of al
Qaeda's leadership could not flee into Pakistan. But for reasons that remain
unclear to Berntsen ... the Bush administration or Franks decided to depend
instead on local Afghan warlords rather than put U.S. forces on the ground
to block bin Laden's escape.
Note: To read a concise summary of reliable news reports that raise serious
questions about what really happened on 9/11, click here
<http://wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
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Telecom Firms Helped With Government's Warrantless Wiretaps
2007-08-24, Washington Post
Posted: 2007-08-29 08:03:27
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/23/AR2007082302
0...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/23/AR200708230
2056.html>
The Bush administration acknowledged for the first time that
telecommunications companies assisted the government's warrantless
surveillance program and were being sued as a result, an admission some
legal experts say could complicate the government's bid to halt numerous
lawsuits challenging the program's legality. "[U]nder the president's
program, the terrorist surveillance program, the private sector had assisted
us," Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said in an interview
with the El Paso Times. His statement could help plaintiffs in dozens of
lawsuits against the telecom companies, which allege that the companies
participated in a wiretapping program that violated Americans' privacy
rights. David Kris, a former Justice Department official, ... said
McConnell's admission makes it difficult to argue that the phone companies'
cooperation with the government is a state secret. "It's going to be tough
to continue to call it 'alleged' when he's just admitted it," Kris said.
McConnell has just added to "the list of publicly available facts that are
no longer state secrets," increasing the plaintiffs' chances that their
cases can proceed, Kris said. McConnell's statement "does serious damage to
the government's state secrets claims that are at the heart of its
defenses," said Greg Nojeim, senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and
Technology <http://www.cdt.org/> . Bruce Fein, an associate deputy attorney
general in the Reagan administration, said that McConnell's disclosure shows
that "an important element of a program can be discussed publicly and openly
without endangering the nation. These Cassandran cries that the earth is
going to fall every time you have a discussion simply are not borne out by
the facts," he said.
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CIA Commander: U.S. Let bin Laden Slip Away
2005-08-15, Newsweek magazine
Posted: 2007-08-29 07:42:01
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8853000/site/newsweek/
During the 2004 presidential campaign, George W. Bush and John Kerry battled
about whether Osama bin Laden had escaped from Tora Bora in the final days
of the war in Afghanistan. Bush asserted that U.S. commanders on the ground
did not know if bin Laden was at the mountain hideaway along the Afghan
border. But in a forthcoming book, the CIA field commander for the agency's
Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, says he and other U.S.
commanders did know that ... bin Laden was holed up at Tora Bora ... and
could have been caught. Asked to comment on Berntsen's remarks, National
Security Council spokesman Frederick Jones passed on 2004 statements from
former CENTCOM commander Gen. Tommy Franks. "We don't know to this day
whether Mr. bin Laden was at Tora Bora in December 2001," Franks wrote in an
Oct. 19 New York Times op-ed. [CIA Commander] Berntsen says Franks is "a
great American. But he was not on the ground out there. I was." In his
book-titled "
<http://www.amazon.com/Jawbreaker-Al-Qaeda-Personal-Account-Commander/dp/030
7351068/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-8440910-6384446?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188231597&s
r=1-1> Jawbreaker"-the decorated career CIA officer criticizes Donald
Rumsfeld's Defense Department for not providing enough support to the CIA
and the Pentagon's own Special Forces teams in the final hours of Tora Bora.
Berntsen ... has sued the agency over what he calls unacceptable delays in
approving his book. "They're just holding the book," which is scheduled for
October release, he says. "CIA officers, Special Forces and U.S. air power
drove the Taliban out in 70 days. The CIA has taken roughly 80 days to clear
my book."
Note: For a concise summary of reliable, verifiable information questioning
the official account of 9/11, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
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The Padilla Conviction
2007-08-17, New York Times
Posted: 2007-08-22 07:57:24
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/opinion/17fri1.html?ex=1345003200
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/opinion/17fri1.html?ex=1345003200&en=b04d
dead0920e204&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> &en=b04dde...
It would be a mistake to see [the verdict against Jose Padilla] as a
vindication for the Bush administration's serial abuse of the American legal
system in the name of fighting terrorism. On the way to this verdict, the
government repeatedly trampled on the Constitution, and its prosecution of
Mr. Padilla was so cynical ... that the crime he was convicted of -
conspiracy to commit terrorism overseas - bears no relation to the ambitious
plot to wreak mass destruction inside the United States which the Justice
Department first loudly proclaimed. When Mr. Padilla was arrested in 2002,
the government said he was an Al Qaeda operative who had plotted to detonate
a radioactive dirty bomb inside the United States. Mr. Padilla, who is an
American citizen, should have been charged as a criminal and put on trial in
a civilian court. Instead, President Bush declared him an "enemy combatant"
and kept him in a Navy brig for more than three years. The administration's
insistence that it had the right to hold Mr. Padilla indefinitely - simply
on the president's word - was its first outrageous act in the case, but
hardly its last. Mr. Padilla was kept in a small isolation cell, and when he
left that cell he was blindfolded and his ears were covered. He was denied
access to a lawyer even when he was being questioned. It was only after the
Supreme Court appeared poised last year to use Mr. Padilla's case to decide
whether indefinite detention of an American citizen violates the
Constitution, that the White House suddenly decided to give him a civilian
trial. He will likely never be brought to trial on the dirty-bomb plot. The
administration did everything it could to keep Mr. Padilla away from a jury
and deny him impartial justice.
_____
Source Disclosure Ordered in Anthrax Suit
2007-08-14, Washington Post
Posted: 2007-08-22 07:54:30
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/13/AR2007081300
9...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/13/AR200708130
0991.html>
Five reporters must reveal their government sources for stories they wrote
about Steven J. Hatfill and investigators' suspicions that the former Army
scientist was behind the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001, a federal judge
ruled. The ruling is a victory for Hatfill, a bioterrorism expert who has
argued in a civil suit that the government violated his privacy rights and
ruined his chances at a job by unfairly leaking information about the probe.
He has not been charged in the attacks that killed five people and sickened
17 others, and he has denied wrongdoing. Hatfill's suit, filed in 2003,
accuses the government of waging a "coordinated smear campaign." To succeed,
Hatfill and his attorneys have been seeking the identities of FBI and
Justice Department officials who disclosed disparaging information about him
to the media. In lengthy depositions in the case, reporters have identified
100 instances when Justice or FBI sources provided them with information
about the investigation of Hatfill and the techniques used to probe his
possible role in anthrax-laced mailings. But the reporters have refused to
name the individuals. In 2002, then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft called
Hatfill, who had formerly worked at the Army's infectious diseases lab in
Fort Detrick in Frederick County, a "person of interest" in the anthrax
case. Authorities have not made any arrests in the investigation. Hatfill's
search for government leakers is "strikingly similar" to the civil suit
filed by Wen Ho Lee, a nuclear scientist who became the subject of a flurry
of media stories identifying him as a chief suspect in a nuclear-secrets spy
case. Those stories also relied on anonymous sources. Lee was never charged
with espionage.
Note: For more reliable information about the anthrax attacks that followed
closely after 9/11 and the mysterious deaths of over a dozen renowned
microbiologists shortly thereafter, click
<http://wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#anthrax> here.
_____
Bush administration defends spy law
2007-08-07, Los Angeles Times
Posted: 2007-08-14 11:39:32
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-intel7aug07,0,1631228.story
The Bush administration rushed to defend new espionage legislation Monday
amid growing concern that the changes could lead to increased spying by U.S.
intelligence agencies on American citizens. But officials declined to
provide details about how the new capabilities might be used by the National
Security Agency and other spy services. And in many cases, they could point
only to internal monitoring mechanisms to prevent abuse of the new rules
that appear to give the government greater authority to tap into the traffic
flowing across U.S. telecommunications networks. Officials rejected
assertions that the new capabilities would enable the government to cast
electronic "drift nets" that might ensnare U.S. citizens [and] that the new
legislation would amount to the expansion of a controversial - and critics
contend unconstitutional - warrantless wiretapping program that President
Bush authorized after the 9/11 attacks. Intelligence experts said there were
an array of provisions in the new legislation that appeared to make it
possible for the government to engage in intelligence-collection activities
that the Bush administration officials were discounting. "They are trying to
shift the terms of the debate to their intentions and away from the meaning
of the new law," said Steven Aftergood, an intelligence policy analyst at
the Federation of American Scientists. "The new law gives them authority to
do far more than simply surveil foreign communications abroad," he said. "It
expands the surveillance program beyond terrorism to encompass foreign
intelligence. It permits the monitoring of communications of a U.S. person
as long as he or she is not the primary target. And it effectively removes
judicial supervision of the surveillance process."
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Airlines Sue FBI, CIA Over Sept. 11
2007-08-07, Associated Press
Posted: 2007-08-14 11:37:01
http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/airlines-sue-fbi-cia-over-sept-11/n200
7...
<http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/airlines-sue-fbi-cia-over-sept-11/n20
070807194509990001>
Airlines and aviation-related companies sued the CIA and the FBI on Tuesday
to force terrorism investigators to tell whether the aviation industry was
to blame for the Sept. 11 attacks. The two lawsuits in U.S. District Court
in Manhattan sought court orders for depositions as the aviation entities
build their defenses against lawsuits seeking billions of dollars in damages
for injuries, fatalities, property damage and business losses related to
Sept. 11, 2001. The aviation companies said the agencies in a series of
boilerplate letters had refused to let them depose two secret agents,
including the 2001 head of the CIA's special Osama bin Laden unit, and six
FBI agents with key information about al-Qaida and bin Laden. The
[plaintiffs] said they were entitled to present evidence to show the
terrorist attacks did not depend upon negligence by any aviation defendants
and that there were other causes of the attacks. In the CIA lawsuit,
companies ... asked to interview the deputy chief of the CIA's bin Laden
unit in 2001 and an FBI agent assigned to the unit at that time. The names
of both are secret. In the FBI lawsuit, the companies asked to interview
five former and current FBI employees who had participated in investigations
of al-Qaida and al-Qaida operatives before and after Sept. 11. Those
individuals included Coleen M. Rowley, the former top FBI lawyer in its
Minneapolis office, who sent a scathing letter to FBI Director Robert S.
Mueller in May 2002 complaining that a supervisor in Washington interfered
with the Minnesota investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui weeks before the
Sept. 11 attacks. Requests to interview the agents were rejected as not
sufficiently explained, burdensome or protected by investigative or
attorney-client privilege, the lawsuits said.
Note: For a concise summary of reliable, verifiable information on the 9/11
coverup, click here <http://wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
_____
Ex-CIA official, contractor face new charges
2007-05-11, MSNBC/Associated Press
Posted: 2007-08-09 08:09:56
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18622361
New charges have been filed alleging that a former top CIA official pushed a
proposed $100 million government contract for his best friend in return for
lavish vacations, private jet flights and a lucrative job offer. The
indictment [brings] charges ... against Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, who resigned
from the spy agency a year ago, and ... defense contractor Brent Wilkes. The
charges grew from the bribery scandal that landed former U.S. Rep. Randy
"Duke" Cunningham in prison. The pair now face 30 wide-ranging counts of
fraud, conspiracy and money laundering [including that] Foggo provided
Wilkes with "sensitive, internal information related to ... national
security," including classified information, to help him prepare proposals
for providing undercover flights for the CIA under the guise of a civil
aviation company and armored vehicles for agency operations. Then, he pushed
his CIA colleagues to hire Wilkes' companies without disclosing their
friendship, prosecutors allege. In a June 2005 e-mail to the head of CIA air
operations quoted in the indictment, Foggo offered to "use some 'EXDIR
grease"' on Wilkes' behalf. Foggo was the agency's executive director at the
time. In return, Wilkes offered to hire Foggo after he retired from
government service. [An] initial indictment in February charged the pair
with 11 counts of the same charges in connection with a $1.7 million
water-supply contract Foggo allegedly helped win for one of Wilkes'
companies while he was working as a logistics coordinator at a CIA supply
hub overseas. Foggo, the former No. 3 official at the CIA, resigned from the
spy agency after his house and office were raided by federal agents.
Note: Until just a few years ago, there was a virtual blackout in the media
on any negative coverage of the CIA. The prosecution of the #3 man in the
CIA is an external manifestation of huge shake-ups going on behind the
scenes. Buzzy Krongard, the previous #3 at the CIA has been linked to the
millions <http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#options> of dollars
in suspicious stock option trades made just prior to 9/11 that were never
claimed, though this received little media coverage.
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DeFazio asks, but he's denied access
2007-07-20, The Oregonian (Oregon's leading newspaper)
Posted: 2007-07-27 20:39:22
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/11848965405891
0...
<http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1184896540589
10.xml&coll=7>
Oregonians called Peter DeFazio's office, worried there was a conspiracy
buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the
government after a terrorist attack. As a member of the U.S. House on the
Homeland Security Committee, DeFazio, D-Ore., is permitted to enter a secure
"bubbleroom" in the Capitol and examine classified material. So he asked the
White House to see the secret documents. On Wednesday, DeFazio got his
answer: DENIED. "I just can't believe they're going to deny a member of
Congress the right of reviewing how they plan to conduct the government of
the United States after a significant terrorist attack," DeFazio says.
Homeland Security Committee staffers told his office that the White House
initially approved his request, but it was later quashed. DeFazio doesn't
know who did it or why. "We're talking about the continuity of the
government of the United States of America," DeFazio says. "I would think
that would be relevant to any member of Congress, let alone a member of the
Homeland Security Committee." Bush administration spokesman Trey Bohn
declined to say why DeFazio was denied access: "We do not comment through
the press on the process that this access entails. It is important to keep
in mind that much of the information related to the continuity of government
is highly sensitive." Norm Ornstein, a legal scholar who studies government
continuity at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said he
"cannot think of one good reason" to deny access to a member of Congress who
serves on the Homeland Security Committee. This is the first time DeFazio
has been denied access to documents. "Maybe the people who think there's a
conspiracy out there are right," DeFazio said.
_____
Producer of 9/11 Conspiracy Film 'Loose Change' Arrested for Deserting the
Army
2007-07-26, FOX News
Posted: 2007-07-27 20:36:47
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,290942,00.html
One of the young filmmakers behind a controversial 9/11 conspiracy
documentary was arrested this week on charges that he deserted the Army,
even though ... he received an honorable discharge. Korey Rowe, 24, who
served with the 101st Airborne in Afghanistan and Iraq, told FOXNews.com
that he was honorably discharged from the military 18 months ago - which he
said he explained to sheriffs when they pounded on his door late Monday
night. "When they came to my house, I showed them my paperwork," Rowe said.
"The cops said, 'You're still in the system.'" Rowe is one of the producers
of "Loose Change," a cult hit on the Internet espousing the theory that the
U.S. government and specifically the Bush administration orchestrated the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The movie is set to be released in about 40
British theaters in late August, according to Rowe and fellow filmmakers
Jason Bermas and Dylan Avery. Police arrested Rowe at his house in Oneonta,
N.Y., about 10:45 p.m. on Monday and took him to the Otsego County jail,
where he spent a day-and-a-half before he was released, he said. Rowe was
turned over to officials at Fort Drum - the closest military base - who then
booked him on a flight to Fort Campbell, Ky., where his unit is based, to
try to straighten out why the military issued a warrant for his arrest. "A
warrant for my arrest came down and showed up on the sheriff's desk," Rowe
said. "Where it came from and why it showed up all of a sudden is a mystery
to me." There were at least five sheriffs on hand for his arrest, Rowe said.
"They pulled a whole operation. They cut my phone lines. They came from the
woods. It was crazy - it was ridiculous," he said.
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Special Operations Prepared for Domestic Missions
2007-06-22, washingtonpost.com
Posted: 2007-07-06 08:23:16
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2007/06/special_operations_prepa
r...
<http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2007/06/special_operations_prep
ared_fo.html>
The U.S. Northern Command, the military command responsible for "homeland
defense," has asked the Pentagon if it can establish its own special
operations command for domestic missions. The request ... would establish a
permanent sub-command for responses to incidents of domestic terrorism as
well as other occasions where special operators may be necessary on American
soil. The establishment of a domestic special operations mission, and the
preparation of contingency plans to employ commandos in the United States,
would upend decades of tradition. Military actions within the United States
are the responsibility of state militias (the National Guard), and federal
law enforcement is a function of the FBI. Employing special operations for
domestic missions sounds very ominous, and NORTHCOM's request earlier this
year should receive the closest possible Pentagon and congressional
scrutiny. There's only one problem: NORTHCOM is already doing what it has
requested permission to do. When NORTHCOM was established after 9/11 to be
the military counterpart to the Department of Homeland Security, within its
headquarters staff it established a Compartmented Planning and Operations
Cell (CPOC) responsible for planning and directing a set of "compartmented"
and "sensitive" operations on U.S., Canadian and Mexican soil. In other
words, these are the very special operations that NORTHCOM is now formally
asking the Pentagon to beef up into a public and acknowledged sub-command.
_____
Osama Flight Shocker
2007-06-21, New York Post
Posted: 2007-06-27 07:46:12
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06212007/news/nationalnews/osama_flight_shocker_
n...
<http://www.nypost.com/seven/06212007/news/nationalnews/osama_flight_shocker
_nationalnews_.htm>
Osama bin Laden was suspected of chartering a plane that carried his family
and other Saudis from the United States shortly after 9/11, according to FBI
documents released yesterday. One FBI document referred to a Ryan Air 727
plane that left Los Angeles on Sept. 19, 2001, carrying Saudi nationals.
"The plane was chartered either by the Saudi Arabian royal family or Osama
bin Laden," according to the document obtained by Judicial Watch. The flight
made stops in Orlando, Washington, D.C. and Boston, and terminated in Paris.
Asked about the documents' assertion, an FBI spokesman said, "There is no
new information here. Osama bin Laden did not charter a flight out of the
U.S."
Note: To read an excellent article on the implications of this brief report,
click here <http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062207A.shtml> .
_____
Sandy Berger gives up law license
2007-06-08, MSNBC/Associated Press
Posted: 2007-06-23 06:56:00
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19106937/
Berger, now an international business consultant, said in a statement last
month that he "decided to voluntarily relinquish my license" as a result of
pleading guilty to unauthorized removal and retention of classified
material, a misdemeanor. "I realized then that my law license would be
affected," Berger said in the statement obtained Thursday. In April 2005,
Berger admitted destroying some of the documents and then lying about it. He
called his actions a lapse of judgment that came while he was preparing to
testify before the Sept. 11 commission. The documents he took contained
information on terror threats in the United States during the 2000
millennium celebration. Berger had only copies of documents; all the
originals remain in the government's possession. A report by the archives
inspector general said that Berger acknowledged hiding some of them at a
construction site near the archives building in Washington.
Note: For a more in-depth analysis of Berger's admitted crime, which tries
to answer the question "What information was worth risking his reputation,
his career, and his freedom to keep hidden?", click
<http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/06/sandy_berger_and_the_clin
ton_c.html> here.
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FBI Finds It Frequently Overstepped in Collecting Data
2007-06-14, Washington Post
Posted: 2007-06-23 06:47:16
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/13/AR2007061302
4...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/13/AR200706130
2453.htm>
An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law
or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic
phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more
than was documented in a Justice Department report in March that ignited
bipartisan congressional criticism. The new audit covers just 10 percent of
the bureau's national security investigations since 2002. The vast majority
of the new violations were instances in which telephone companies and
Internet providers gave agents phone and e-mail records the agents did not
request and were not authorized to collect. The agents retained the
information anyway in their files. Two dozen of the newly-discovered
violations involved agents' requests for information that U.S. law did not
allow them to have. The results confirmed what ... critics feared, namely
that many agents did not ... follow the required legal procedures and
paperwork requirements when collecting personal information with one of the
most sensitive and powerful intelligence-gathering tools of the post-Sept.
11 era -- the National Security Letter, or NSL. Such letters are uniformly
secret and amount to nonnegotiable demands for personal information --
demands that are not reviewed in advance by a judge. After the 2001
terrorist attacks, Congress substantially eased the rules for issuing NSLs,
[leading] to an explosive growth in the use of the letters. More than 19,000
such letters were issued in 2005 seeking 47,000 pieces of information,
mostly from telecommunications companies.
_____
FBI Terror Watch List "Out of Control"
2007-06-13, ABC News
Posted: 2007-06-15 10:15:35
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/fbi_terror_watc.html
A terrorist watch list compiled by the FBI has apparently swelled to include
more than half a million names. Privacy and civil liberties advocates say
the list is growing uncontrollably, threatening its usefulness in the war on
terror. The bureau says the number of names on its terrorist watch list is
classified. A portion of the FBI's unclassified 2008 budget request posted
to the Department of Justice Web site, however, refers to "the entire watch
list of 509,000 names." A spokesman for the interagency National
Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), which maintains the government's list of all
suspected terrorists with links to international organizations, said they
had 465,000 names covering 350,000 individuals. Many names are different
versions of the same identity. In addition to the NCTC list, the FBI keeps a
list of U.S. persons who are believed to be domestic terrorists - abortion
clinic bombers, for example, or firebombing environmental extremists, who
have no known tie to an international terrorist group. Combined, the NCTC
and FBI compendia comprise the watch list used by federal security screening
personnel on the lookout for terrorists. While the NCTC has made no secret
of its terrorist tally, the FBI has consistently declined to tell the public
how many names are on its list. "It grows seemingly without control or
limitation," said ACLU senior legislative counsel Tim Sparapani of the
terrorism watch list. Sparapani called the 509,000 figure "stunning. If we
have 509,000 names on that list, the watch list is virtually useless," he
told ABC News. "You'll be capturing innocent individuals with no connection
to crime or terror." U.S. lawmakers and their spouses have been detained
because their names were on the watch list.
_____
RUDY, INTERRUPTED
2007-05-29, MSNBC
Posted: 2007-06-08 08:08:44
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/05/29/206666.aspx
On what should [have been] a happy day of fundraising in the four boroughs
of New York City ... for Rudy Giuliani's 63rd birthday, a few protestors
ruined his first event. At City Island's Sea Shore Restaurant in the Bronx,
a young woman named Sabrina approached the Mayor with a prepared question,
reading it word for word off of a notepad. "You reported to Peter Jennings
on 9/11 that the World Trade Center towers were going to collapse. No steel
structure in history has ever collapsed due to fire. How come the people in
the buildings weren't notified and who else knew about this? How do you
sleep at night?" Matthew Lepaceak, who stood on the other side of Giuliani,
joined in. "But you said on ABC video with Peter Jennings in an interview
that you were aware the towers were going to collapse in advance. Who told
you the towers were going to collapse in advance, sir?" During this time,
Giuliani had an incredulous look on his face, completely caught off guard.
The statement they were referring to is from a phoner Giuliani had with
Jennings. "We set up headquarters at 75 Barclay Street which was right there
with the police commissioner and the fire commissioner, the head of
emergency management, and we were operating out of there when we were told
the World Traded Center was going to collapse." After being interrupted
again, Giuliani responded with an explanation. "Our understanding was that
over a long period of time, the way other buildings collapse, the towers
could collapse. Meaning over a seven-, eight-, nine-, ten-hour period. No
one that I knew of had any idea that they would implode. That was a complete
surprise."
Note: To view a video clip of Rudy Giuliani describing how he was told of
the Towers' collapse ahead of time, click here
<http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc_giuliani.html> . To watch him deny
what he said on this clip, watch this one
<http://video.wnbc.com/player/?id=112179> . When so many have said no one
could have predicted the fall of the towers, how is it that Giuliani knew
otherwise -- and then denied ever knowing it?
_____
Contingencies for nuclear terrorist attack
2007-05-11, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper)
Posted: 2007-05-25 11:30:29
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/11/MNG2OPP22R1.DTL
Senior government and military officials and other experts, organized by a
joint Stanford-Harvard program called the Preventive Defense Project, met
behind closed doors in Washington for a day-long workshop called "The Day
After." The organizers of the nonpartisan project, Stanford's William Perry,
a secretary of defense in the Clinton administration, and Harvard's Ashton
Carter, a senior Defense Department official during the Clinton years,
assumed the detonation of a bomb similar in size to the weapon that
destroyed Hiroshima in World War II. A paper [they] are writing ... urges
local governments and individuals to build underground bomb shelters;
encourages authorities who survive to prevent evacuation of at least some of
the areas attacked for three days ... and proposes suspending regulations on
radiation exposure so that first responders would be able to act, even if
that caused higher cancer rates. "The public at large will expect that their
government had thought through this possibility and to have planned for it,"
Carter said in an interview. "This kind of an event would be unprecedented.
We have had glimpses of something like this with Hiroshima, and glimpses
with 9/11 and with Katrina. But those are only glimpses. If one bomb goes
off, there are likely to be more to follow," Carter said. "This fact, that
nuclear terrorism will appear as a syndrome rather than a single episode,
has major consequences." It would, he added, require powerful government
intervention to force people to do something many may resist -- staying put.
Note: Ashton Carter was co-author, with Philip Zelikow (later Executive
Director of the 9/11 Commission) and John Deutch (former CIA Director), of a
1998 <http://cryptome.quintessenz.at/mirror/ct-tnd.htm> Foreign Affairs
article, "Catastrophic Terrorism: Tackling the New Danger," which warned of
a possible catastrophic attack on the World Trade Center and accurately
described the governmental aftermath of 9/11.
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Bush Changes Continuity Plan
2007-05-10, The Washington Post
Posted: 2007-05-25 11:26:53
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/09/AR2007050902
7...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/09/AR200705090
2719.html>
President Bush issued a formal national security directive yesterday
ordering agencies to prepare contingency plans for a surprise,
"decapitating" attack on the federal government, and assigned responsibility
for coordinating such plans to the White House. The prospect of a nuclear
bomb being detonated in Washington without warning ... has been cited by
many security analysts as a rising concern since the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks. The order makes explicit that the focus of federal worst-case
planning involves a covert nuclear attack against the nation's capital.
"Adequate warning of potential emergencies that could pose a significant
risk to the homeland might not be available, and therefore all continuity
planning shall be based on the assumption that no such warning will be
received," states the 72-paragraph
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html> order.
The statement added, "Emphasis will be placed upon geographic dispersion of
leadership, staff, and infrastructure in order to increase survivability and
maintain uninterrupted Government Functions." After the 2001 attacks, Bush
assigned about 100 senior civilian managers to rotate secretly to locations
outside of Washington for weeks or months at a time [forming] a shadow
government that evolved based on long-standing "continuity of operations
plans." Since then, other agencies including the Pentagon, the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence and the CIA have taken steps to relocate
facilities or key functions outside of Washington for their own reasons,
citing factors such as economics or the importance of avoiding Beltway
"group-think."
Note: Why isn't Congress making these absolutely vital decisions? What gives
these organizations authority to determine what will happen in the case of a
major attack?
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Catastrophic Terrorism: Tackling the New Danger
1998-11-01, Foreign Affairs, (the journal of the Council on Foreign
Relations)
Posted: 2007-05-25 11:20:47
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19981101faessay1434/ashton-carter-john-deutch-
%...
<http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19981101faessay1434/ashton-carter-john-deutch
-%20philip-zelikow/catastrophic-terrorism-tackling-the-new-danger.html>
A successful attack with weapons of mass destruction could certainly take
thousands, or tens of thousands, of lives. If the device that exploded in
1993 under the World Trade Center had been nuclear, or had effectively
dispersed a deadly pathogen, the resulting horror and chaos would have
exceeded our ability to describe it. Such an act of catastrophic terrorism
would be a watershed event in American history. It could involve loss of
life and property unprecedented in peacetime and undermine America's
fundamental sense of security, as did the Soviet atomic bomb test in 1949.
Like Pearl Harbor, this event would divide our past and future into a before
and after. The United States might respond with draconian measures, scaling
back civil liberties, allowing wider surveillance of citizens, detention of
suspects, and use of deadly force.
Note: Is this not a remarkable statement? This 1998 article was written by
Philip Zelikow (who later was Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission!!!),
John Deutch (former CIA Director), and Ashton Carter (former deputy
secretary of defense). Dr. David
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050504davidraygriffin> Ray Griffin, an esteemed
WTK <http://www.WantToKnow.info/aboutus> team member, asks in his new book,
<http://www.amazon.com/Debunking-11-Mechanics-Defenders-Conspiracy/dp/156656
686X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3462640-4229555?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179863658&sr=8
-1> Debunking 9/11 Debunking, "Would it not be interesting if we were to
learn that those who orchestrated the attacks of 9/11 were able to put one
of their own -- someone who at least had foreknowledge of the attacks -- in
charge of carrying out the official investigation into these attacks?" To
view the full article, click here
<http://cryptome.quintessenz.at/mirror/ct-tnd.htm> .
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Senators Want CIA to Release 9 / 11 Report
2007-05-17, New York Times/Associated Press
Posted: 2007-05-25 08:52:40
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-CIA-Sept-11-Probe.html
A bipartisan group of senators is pushing legislation that would force the
CIA to release an inspector general's report on the terrorist attacks of
Sept. 11, 2001. The CIA has spent more than 20 months weighing requests
under the Freedom of Information Act for its internal investigation of the
attacks but has yet to release any portion of it. The agency is the only
federal office involved in counterterrorism operations that has not made at
least a version of its internal 9/11 investigation public. The law requires
agencies to respond to requests within 20 days. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and
two other intelligence committee leaders -- chairman Jay Rockefeller,
D-W.Va., and senior Republican Kit Bond of Missouri -- are pushing
legislation that would require the agency to declassify the executive
summary of the review within one month and submit a report to Congress
explaining why any material was withheld. "It's amazing the efforts the
administration is going to stonewall this,'' Wyden said. "The American
people have a right to know what the Central Intelligence Agency was doing
in those critical months before 9/11.'' Completed in June 2005, the
inspector general's report examined the personal responsibility of
individuals at the CIA before and after the attacks. The CIA has not
released any documents to The Associated Press or other organizations that
began requesting the information at least 20 months ago. Groups including
the National Security Archive have clashed with the agency over its FOIA
policies. Last year, the archive gave the CIA its prize for the agency with
the worst FOIA record. ''CIA has for three decades been one of the worst
FOIA agencies,'' archive Director Thomas Blanton said this week.
Note: For more reliable information on what US intelligence agencies knew
about the coming attacks, click here <http://wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
_____
Trust Busters
2007-04-15, Los Angeles Times
Posted: 2007-04-19 17:43:55
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-neil15apr15,1,43
4...
<http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-neil15apr15,1,4
345274.story>
[ABC's talk show] "The View," by accident or design, has an almost eerie
calibration to the public at large. For example, only one of the four
co-hosts ... is a supporter of President Bush. In other words, 25% of the
cast has a favorable opinion of Bush, pretty much in line with Bush's
approval ratings nationally. Likewise, last year a Scripps Howard poll found
that 36% of the U.S. public believes the government was somehow complicit in
the 9/11 attacks. I estimate Rosie [O'Donnell] constitutes 36% of the cast.
Why does pop culture matter? Because it reveals ... what is really on our
minds. And what's on our minds lately is reasonable doubt. Actor Charlie
Sheen [is] onboard to narrate a new version of the online 9/11 conspiracy
documentary "Loose Change
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11> ," with distribution
by billionaire Mark Cuban's Magnolia Pictures. We're not talking about a
couple of flaky moonbats in an Oakland basement. Cuban owns the Dallas
Mavericks. And just about everywhere you look, official narratives are
coming unglued: Pat Tillman, for example, or the firing of eight federal
prosecutors. The abduction of British sailors in what Prime Minister Tony
Blair claimed was indisputably Iraqi territorial waters has proved to be
quite disputable. [An] ex-British ambassador claims the map used by the
Ministry of Defence to support its case is a fake. I am not a 9/11
conspiracy theorist. At the same time, I'm certain we don't know all there
is to know about those events. The data stream has been so thoroughly
corrupted. Weapons of mass destruction. Abu Ghraib. The silencing of climate
scientists. It's hard for the ministries of Washington to make an appeal to
authority when they have been proven so unreliable.
Note: For an abundance of reliable, verifiable information suggesting a 9/11
cover-up, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
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Clues Alerted White House to Potential Attacks
2002-05-17, Fox News/Associated Press
Posted: 2007-04-19 17:31:38
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,53065,00.html
[There are] many examples of "missed leads" that the Bush administration was
given prior to Sept. 11. An Iranian in custody in New York City told local
police last May of a plot to attack the World Trade Center. German
intelligence alerted the Central Intelligence Agency, Britain's MI-6
intelligence service, Israel's Mossad in June 2001 that Middle Eastern
terrorists were training for hijackings and targeting American and Israeli
interests. Based on its own intelligence, the Israeli government provided
"general" information to the United States in the second week of August that
an Al Qaeda attack was imminent. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said
publicly that he ordered his intelligence agencies to alert the United
States last summer that suicide pilots were training for attacks on U.S.
targets. An Islamic terrorist conspiracy was uncovered in 1996 in the
Philippines to hijack a dozen airplanes and fly them into CIA headquarters
and other buildings. U.S. investigators confirmed in October that a
29-year-old Iranian ... made phone calls to U.S. police from his deportation
cell that an attack on the World Trade Center was imminent in "the days
before the attack." [A] memo from the FBI Phoenix office about Arabs
training in U.S. flight schools never reached headquarters. In 1999, the
Federal Research Division at the Library of Congress published its own
report ... which described that "Suicide bomber(s) belonging to Al Qaeda's
Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives
(C-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the [CIA], or the
White House."
Note: For lots more evidence that suggest 9/11 at the very least may have
been allowed to happen, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> .
_____
Bin Laden comes home to roost
1998-08-24, MSNBC News
Posted: 2007-04-19 17:29:58
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3340101
At the CIA, it happens often enough to have a code name: Blowback. Simply
defined, this is the term describing an agent, an operative or an operation
that has turned on its creators. Osama bin Laden, our new public enemy
Number 1, is the personification of blowback. And the fact that he is viewed
as a hero by millions in the Islamic world proves again the old adage: Reap
what you sow. There are times when the United States, faced with ... moral
dilemmas, should have resisted the temptation to act. Arming a
multi-national coalition of Islamic extremists in Afghanistan during the
1980s ... was one of those times. Bin Laden is the heir to Saudi
construction fortune who ... has used that money to finance countless
attacks on U.S. interests. Bin Laden left Saudi Arabia to fight the Soviet
army in Afghanistan. By 1984, he was running a front organization known as
... the MAK - which funneled money, arms and fighters from the outside world
into the Afghan war. MAK was nurtured by Pakistan's state security services,
the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, the CIA's primary conduit
for conducting the covert war against Moscow's occupation. The CIA ... had
conclusive evidence by the mid-1980s of the deepening crisis of
infrastructure within the Soviet Union. The CIA, as its deputy director
Robert Gates acknowledged under congressional questioning in 1992, had
decided to keep that evidence from President Reagan and his top advisors and
instead continued to grossly exaggerate Soviet military and technological
capabilities. Given that context, a decision was made to provide America's
potential enemies with the arms, money - and most importantly - the
knowledge of how to run a war of attrition violent and well-organized enough
to humble a superpower. That decision is coming home to roost.
Note: The #2 man (who later became #1) at the CIA acknowledges that the CIA
deceived the president in order to forward its own confrontational
objectives. How often do you think this might happen? Who's really in charge
here? For a highly revealing documentary titled "Secrets of the CIA," click
here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/051130ciasecrets> .
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Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast
1993-10-28, New York Times
Posted: 2007-04-12 22:50:44
http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F00617FE3A5C0C7B8EDD
A...
<http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F00617FE3A5C0C7B8ED
DA90994DB494D81>
Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb
that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center. The informer was
to have helped the plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but
the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about
how the informer, Emad A. Salem, should be used. The account, which is given
in the transcript of hundreds of hours of tape recordings Mr. Salem secretly
made of his talks with law-enforcement agents, portrays the authorities as
in a far better position than previously known to foil the Feb. 26 bombing
of New York City's tallest towers. The explosion left six people dead, more
than 1,000 injured and damages in excess of half a billion dollars. The
transcript quotes Mr. Salem as saying that he wanted to complain to F.B.I.
headquarters in Washington about the bureau's failure to stop the bombing,
but was dissuaded by an agent identified as John Anticev. "He said, I don't
think that the New York people would like the things out of the New York
office to go to Washington, D.C." Another agent ... does not dispute Mr.
Salem's account, but rather, appears to agree with it. Other Salem tapes and
transcripts were being withheld pending Government review, of "security and
other issues." William M. Kunstler, a defense lawyer in the case, accused
the Government this week of improper delay in handing over all the material.
The transcripts he had seen, he said, "were filled with all sorts of
Government misconduct." But citing the judge's order, he said he could not
provide any details.
Note: If the above link fails, click
<http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/OK/wtcbomb.html> here.
For a two-minute CBS News clip the same day giving more information on this
little-known story, click here
<http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/wtc_bombing3.wmv> .
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O'Donnell, Sheen Back 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
2007-03-22, WCBS News - New York CBS Affiliate
Posted: 2007-04-04 13:52:06
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_081173332.html
A controversial new film about 9/11 is raising eyebrows, not only for its
content, but also for the people involved in the project: Rosie O'Donnell
and Charlie Sheen. The sitcom actor and talk show hostess have both become
spokespeople for the 9/11 conspiracy movement. The video "Loose Change" ...
has been floating around the Internet for years, but now Sheen is in talks
with Magnolia Pictures to narrate a new version of the video and
redistribute it. Sheen believes the government may have been behind the
attacks. O'Donnell has been using her Web site <http://www.rosie.com/> to
reprint excerpts from the 9/11 conspiracy site, Whatreallyhappened.com
<http://www.Whatreallyhappened.com> . Magnolia Films founder Mark Cuban, who
also owns the Dallas Mavericks, said they're also looking for a film telling
the other side of the story, saying "we like controversial subjects."
Note: To view this film which has awoken tens of millions to the 9/11
cover-up, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11>
.
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Hating America (Dallas Mavericks' billionaire owner on 9/11 cover-up)
2007-03-26, Fox News
Posted: 2007-03-28 12:34:07
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,261242,00.html
There's a movie called "Loose Change
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11> " that asserts
hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans colluded to kill their fellow
citizens on 9/11. That Al Qaeda didn't attack us, we essentially attacked
ourselves. Billionaire Mark Cuban is going to distribute the film so people
all over the world can see it. We reported the situation last night and I
talked with Mr. Cuban today on "The Radio Factor": [BILL] O'REILLY: The
people in my town, Mr. Cuban, do now want "Loose Change" playing in the
theater or Charlie Sheen narrating it. They believe that this is dishonest.
They believe it diverts attention away from the real villains. MARK CUBAN,
OWNER OF THE DALLAS MAVERICKS: Well, let's qualify here. First of all, it's
already been on the Internet. O'REILLY: Rationalization, sir. CUBAN: It's
not rationalization. This is just fact. When you have things that are in the
shadows that people can't find and take on mythic proportions, that's what
they can take. And they can take innuendo. Once you can see something, you
can refute it.
Note: To understand how one of the richest people in the world (Mark Cuban)
and a famous actor (Charlie Sheen
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/cnn9-11cover-up> ) came to believe in a major
cover-up of 9/11, see our 9/11 Information Center
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> . Mr. Cuban is financing a new
version of the Internet blockbuster which opened the eyes of millions to the
cover-up. The new version will be narrated by Charlie Sheen. To see the
earlier version of this powerful documentary, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11> .
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The American Empire and 9/11 by Prof. David Ray Griffin
2007-03-00, Tikkun Magazine - March/April 2007 Issue
Posted: 2007-03-18 09:31:59
http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/tik0703/frontpage/empire911
Literally dozens of
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4194796183168750014> people -
including journalists, police officers, WTC employees, emergency medical
workers, and firefighters - reported hearing explosions in the Twin Towers,
with some of them explicitly saying that the collapses appeared to be
instances of controlled demolition. One fire captain said: "I hear an
explosion and I look up. It is as if the building is being imploded, from
the top floor down, one after another, boom, boom, boom." [A] paramedic
said: "It was [like a] professional demolition where they set the charges on
certain floors." One firefighter said: "It seemed like on television [when]
they blow up these buildings." Given all the features that indicate
controlled demolition, it is not surprising that when a controlled
demolition expert <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgoSOQ2xrbI> in Holland
was shown videos of the collapse of
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5101488991907845273> WTC 7,
without being told what the building was ... he said: "They have simply
blown away columns. A team of experts did this. This is controlled
demolition." Two emeritus professors of structural analysis and construction
at Zurich's prestigious ETH Institute of Technology say that WTC 7 was "with
the highest probability brought down by explosives." FEMA, the first agency
given the task of explaining the collapse of the WTC, said that its best
explanation for the collapse of WTC 7 had "only a low probability of
occurrence." The 9/11 Commission avoided the problem by simply not finding
room to mention this collapse in its 571-page report. This behavior is no
surprise given the fact that the Commission was run by its executive
director, Philip Zelikow, who was virtually a member of the Bush-Cheney
administration.
Note: This article in Tikkun by renowned theologian David Ray Griffin
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050504davidraygriffin> is the first in any
major U.S. national magazine to contain a detailed argument that the attacks
of 9/11 were planned and carried out by rogue elements within the U.S.
government. For additional reliable information on the 9/11 coverup, click
here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> .
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Call to reopen Oklahoma bomb case
2007-03-02, BBC News
Posted: 2007-03-10 23:20:26
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/6275147.stm
The FBI man in charge of collecting evidence from the government building
destroyed by the Oklahoma bomb has called for the case to be reopened.
Former deputy assistant director Danny Coulson ... said a federal grand jury
is now needed to find out what really happened. He argues this is the only
way to prove whether other people were involved in the bombing in a wider
conspiracy beyond Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. Mr Coulson spent 31
years in the FBI. Between 1991 and 1997 he was the deputy assistant director
of the Criminal Division of the FBI in Washington, responsible for all
violent crime cases in the United States. Mr Coulson said there were some
"very strong indicators" that other people were involved with Timothy
McVeigh. The FBI interviewed 24 people who claimed to have seen McVeigh in
Oklahoma City with someone else on the morning of the attack, yet the only
known accomplice of McVeigh, Terry Nichols, was at home in Kansas over 200
miles away on that day. The FBI's investigation concluded that the
eyewitnesses were unreliable. However, Danny Coulson says they were
"extremely credible" and had no reason to make it up. "If only one person
had seen it, or two of three, but 24?" he said. "I know FBI headquarters
told [agents] to close down the investigation in Elohim City which has some
very significant connections to Mr McVeigh. "Never in my career did I have
FBI headquarters tell me not to investigate something." Last December a US
Congressional report found no conclusive evidence of a wider conspiracy, but
the report concluded that "questions remain unanswered and mysteries remain
unsolved."
Note: Don't miss a highly revealing four-minute video-clip showing live
media coverage of the Oklahoma City bomb available
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMXMo3Z0qms> here. The official story is
that one truck with a huge bomb was parked in front of the Oklahoma City
federal building and only Timothy McVeigh and his partner were involved. The
news footage proves that others must have been involved, as multiple
unexploded bombs were recovered from points inside the building. Yet none of
this was questioned in later testimony.
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The 9/11 conspiracy movement
2007-02-14, BBC News
Posted: 2007-02-15 11:56:44
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/conspiracy_files/6354679.stm
9/11 was the first global event in the age of the internet. And now the
world wide web is being used as a platform for a wide range of conspiracy
theories ... which allege that the US government was somehow involved in the
attacks. Those who question the official account of 9/11 form a broad
coalition. Loose Change
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11> has been viewed tens
of millions of times and pulls no punches. [Creator Dylan Avery claims] "our
government will willingly kill its own citizens for whatever gain it deems
necessary ... and then lie as much as they need to cover it up." At the
other extreme [Professor Jim] Fetzer is a former US Marine officer and
retired professor of philosophy. Puzzled by the apparent discrepancies in
the official account of 9/11, he founded a coalition of like-minded
academics called Scholars For 9/11 <http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org>
Truth. Its purpose is to research exactly what happened that day, using the
principles of scientific research. Alex Jones <http://www.infowars.com> , a
nationally syndicated radio talk show host ... believes 9/11 was "an inside
job <http://www.wanttoknow.info/050908insidejob911> ." "It's a self
inflicted wound, it's a false-flag
<http://video.google.com/url?docid=786048453686176230&esrc=sr1&ev=v&q=terror
storm&vidurl=http://video.google.com/videoplay%3Fdocid%3D786048453686176230%
26q%3Dterrorstorm&usg=AL29H20TAAJg-85eKWcft-KoHOnDx2zzmw> terror
operation," he claims. After the attacks, government officials were summoned
to give evidence before a Congressional Inquiry set up to investigate the
intelligence failure before 9/11. Co-chairman Senator Bob Graham told ... of
his frustration at the lack of co-operation from the FBI in that inquiry,
and by the government's decision to censor over 30 pages of his report which
related to Saudi Arabia. "Within 9/11 there are too many secrets," he said,
"withholding of those secrets has eroded public confidence in their
government."
Note: Don't miss the BBC's impressive 9/11 Timeline available
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/conspiracy_files/6338551.stm> here
which is related to the above article. And for lots more reliable,
verifiable information suggesting a 9/11 cover-up, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> . If the above link to the BBC
article does not function, click on The 9/11
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/070307bbc911conspiracymovement> Conspiracy
Movement.
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An explosion of disbelief - fresh doubts over 9/11
2007-02-09, The Daily Mail (The U.K.'s second most popular newspaper)
Posted: 2007-02-15 11:42:03
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_articl
e...
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_artic
le_id=435265&in_page_id=1811>
A recent poll by the respected New York Times revealed that three out of
four Americans now suspect the U.S. government of not telling the truth
about 9/11. This proportion has shot up from a year ago, when half the
population said they did not believe the official story. [The] accepted
version of what happened on 9/11 is being challenged by a 90-minute internet
movie, [Loose Change <http://www.wanttoknow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11>
, which is] so popular that up to 100 million viewers have watched [it]. Why
were no military aircraft scrambled in time to head off the attacks? How
could a rookie pilot - as one of the terrorists was - fly a Boeing 757
aircraft so precisely into the Pentagon? The movie's assertions are being
explored by a number of commentators in America and Britain. Former Labour
Cabinet Minister Michael Meacher ... has said of 9/11: "Never in modern
history has an event of such cataclysmic significance been shrouded in such
mystery." These words were written in a foreword for Professor David Ray
Griffin's bestselling book, The
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1566565529/qid=1085724434/sr=
1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-9122724-8373668?v=glance&s=books> New Pearl Harbour.
Griffin ... is emeritus professor at the Claremont School of Theology in
California and a respected philosopher. Together, the book and the movie
have raised the question: could the attack be a carbon copy of Operation
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/010501operationnorthwoods> Northwoods, an
aborted plan by President Kennedy to stage terror attacks in America and
blame them on Communist Cuba as a pretext for a U.S. invasion to overthrow
Fidel Castro? Initially ... Professor Griffin dismissed claims the attacks
could have been an inside job. It was only a year later ... that the
professor was sent a 'timeline <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> '
on the day's events based entirely on newspaper and television accounts. It
was then that he changed his mind.
Note: The timeline which opened Prof. Griffin's eyes was the two-page 9/11
timeline from WantToKnow.info available at
http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up. This is the most supportive article
yet by the mainstream media. The word is spreading. For lots more reliable,
verifiable information on 9/11, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> .
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Revisiting 9/11 Failures
2007-01-31, Newsweek
Posted: 2007-02-07 20:47:41
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16907952/site/newsweek
Senators are renewing calls for the declassification of a CIA report
documenting the agency's mistakes in preventing the 2001 attacks. The Senate
Intelligence Committee and the CIA may be headed for a new confrontation
over an old issue: why an internal report documenting the agency's failures
in the run up to the September 11 terror attacks is still being withheld
from the public. The report, prepared by the CIA's inspector general, is the
only major 9/11 government review that has still not been made publicly
available. While Bush administration officials are hardly eager for a public
rehash of the 9/11 intelligence failures, the issue is an especially
sensitive one at CIA headquarters. The report provides the CIA's own
internal account of what some believe was the most spectacular of the
pre-9/11 failures: the agency's failure to alert the FBI and other U.S.
government agencies to information showing that two of the hijackers had
entered the United States as early as January 2000.
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Dangerous World Fuels Conspiracy Theorists
2007-01-30, CBS News
Posted: 2007-02-07 20:45:59
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/29/national/main2411081.shtml
Five years later, it's the violent rattling of the ground moments before the
World Trade Center's South Tower fell ... that keeps Gary Welz raising
questions about just what he survived on Sept. 11, 2001. "I felt what was
like an earthquake ... just before the South Tower fell," recalls Welz, an
adjunct math lecturer at John Jay Criminal College and Fordham University.
"The official explanation that I've heard doesn't make sense because it
doesn't explain why I heard and felt an explosion before the South Tower
fell." Welz is among the growing ranks of conspiracy theorists who question
the official explanation of ... the Sept. 11 attacks. The actions of U.S.
administrations in recent American history have done nothing to dissuade
conspiracy theorists. The details of the 1980s Iran-Contra affair, after
all, read like an implausible conspiracy theorist's dream. The Watergate
scandal provides fodder too. The Bush administration, it can be argued, has
encouraged a new generation of theorists after implying there was a link
between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 attacks ... and insisting Iraq was
riddled with weapons of mass destruction. Although he is doubtful of the
official 9/11 story, Welz ... does not consider himself a conspiracy
theorist. Welz' own skepticism toward 9/11, while based on personal
experience, has been reinforced by broadcast quality, highly-polished films
on the Internet such as "9/11 Mysteries." There are hundreds of others out
there. One such film is "Loose Change" ... a polished, albeit
journalistically flawed, attempt to poke holes in the U.S. government's
explanation and response to the Sept. 11 attacks. "Loose Change" has been
downloaded over 30 million times in 50 countries.
Note: For free viewing of "Loose Change," click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11> . To view "9/11
Mysteries," click
<http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%229%2F11+mysteries%22&hl=en> here.
For an abundance of reliable, verifiable information suggesting a major
cover-up of 9/11, click <http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> here.
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'They're all forced to listen to us'
2007-01-26, The Guardian (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)
Posted: 2007-01-31 22:31:24
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1998430,00.html
Like it or loathe it, you can't ignore Loose Change
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11> ... the most
successful movie to emerge from what followers call the 9/11 Truth Movement.
They believe ... that the attacks in New York and Washington on September 11
2001 were [the work of] of elements within the US government. Recent polls
suggest more than a third of Americans believe that either the official
version of events never happened, or that US officials knew the attacks were
imminent, but did nothing to stop them. Google Video acts as a portal for
the movie. The running tally of the number of times it has been viewed since
last August ... stands at 4,048,990. On top of that, the movie was shown on
television to up to 50 million people in 12 countries on September 11 last
year; 100,000 DVDs have been sold and 50,000 more given away free. The film
gained airplay on old media platforms such as Air America and Pacifica radio
stations, local Fox TV outlets and on stations around the world, including
state outlets in Belgium, Ireland and Portugal. The power of the film is
that it lays down layer upon layer of seemingly rational analysis to end up
with a conclusion many would find incredible. It is compiled from original
footage from numerous news sources. Yet to come [is] Loose Change: the Final
Cut, [which] filmed original interviews with Washington players, employed
lawyers to iron out copyright issues with borrowed footage, [and]
commissioned 3D graphics from Germany. The end result ... will be seen at
Cannes and have a cinema release in America and across the world on the
sixth anniversary of 9/11.
Note: To view this highly revealing 9/11 documentary, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11> . For an abundance of
reliable, verifiable information suggesting a 9/11 cover-up, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> .
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Judge dismisses New York Times libel suit
2007-01-12, MSNBC News/Associate Press
Posted: 2007-01-24 22:15:42
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16600278
A federal judge on Friday dismissed a libel lawsuit filed against The New
York Times by a former Army scientist once identified as a person of
interest in the 2001 anthrax attacks. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton in
Alexandria dismissed the case a week after lawyers for the Times argued that
Steven Hatfill should be considered a public figure under libel law, which
makes it much more difficult for a public figure to win a judgment than a
private citizen. The judge did not explain his ruling in the order issued
Friday. Hatfill had claimed that a series of columns falsely implicated him
as the culprit in the anthrax attacks. Kristof said all along that he never
intended to accuse Hatfill but simply wanted to prod a dawdling FBI
investigation. He initially referred to Hatfill in his columns only as "Mr.
X," and identified him by name only after Hatfill held a news conference to
denounce rumors that had been swirling around him. Hatfill argued that the
columns contained enough information about him that people could deduce his
identity. Five people were killed and 17 sickened by anthrax that had been
mailed to lawmakers on Capitol Hill and members of the news media in New
York and Florida just weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The
case remains unsolved.
Note: There is much more here than meets the eye. This article fails to
mention some key facts. As reported by the highly respected Federation
<http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/01/the_state_secrets_doctrine_and.html
> of American Scientists, "the New York Times invoked the 'state secrets'
doctrine last month in a motion to dismiss the libel suit brought against it
by Steven J. Hatfill." What secrets would be divulged? Could this have
anything to do with the many microbiologists who were murdered or died under
mysterious circumstances within months of the anthrax scares? For more,
click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#microbiologists> .
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How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century
2006-12-10, Time Magazine
Posted: 2007-01-24 22:13:31
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1568480,00.html
In an age of overflowing information and proliferating media, kids need to
rapidly process what's coming at them and distinguish between what's
reliable and what isn't. The juniors in Bill Stroud's class are riveted by a
documentary called Loose Change unspooling on a small TV screen at the
Baccalaureate School for Global Education, in urban Astoria, N.Y. The film
uses 9/11 footage and interviews with building engineers and Twin Towers
survivors to make an oddly compelling if paranoid case that interior
explosions unrelated to the impact of the airplanes brought down the World
Trade Center on that fateful day. Afterward, the students--an ethnic mix of
New Yorkers with their own 9/11 memories--dive into a discussion about the
elusive nature of truth. Raya Harris finds the video more convincing than
the official version of the facts. Marisa Reichel objects. "Because of a
movie, you are going to change your beliefs?" she demands. "Just because
people heard explosions doesn't mean there were explosions." Stroud has
posed this question to his class on the blackboard: "If truth is difficult
to prove in history, does it follow that all versions are equally
acceptable?" Throughout the year, the class will examine news reports,
websites, propaganda, history books, blogs, even pop songs. The goal is to
teach kids to be discerning consumers of information and to research,
formulate and defend their own views, says Stroud, who is founder and
principal of [the] school.
Note: To view the highly engaging documentary Loose Change, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11> . For more on 9/11,
click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> .
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[9/11] Suicide hijackers hid behind stolen Arab identities
2001-09-20, WantToKnow.info/London Times
Posted: 2007-01-06 10:11:17
http://www.WantToKnow.info/010920londontimes.hijackers
Five of the [9/11] hijackers were using stolen identities, and investigators
are studying the possibility that the entire suicide squad consisted of
impostors. In Saudi Arabia, five of the alleged hijackers have emerged,
alive, innocent and astonished to see their names and photographs appearing
on satellite television. "The name is my name and the birth date is the same
as mine, but I am not the one who bombed the World Trade Centre," Abdulaziz
Alomari told the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper. Mr Alomari, 28, ...
said that he had left the United States in April 2000. The US-educated
engineer had reported to police that his passport was stolen when his flat
in Denver, Colorado, was burgled in 1995. A Saudi diplomat formerly based in
Washington, Ahmed al-Shehri, told al-Eqtisadiah newspaper that details of
one of the hijackers matched his son, Waleed. The young man, a pilot with
Saudi Arabian Airlines who graduated four years ago from Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University in Florida, is living in Morocco. Another Saudi
pilot, Said Hussein al-Ghamdi, whose photograph was broadcast on CNN when it
portrayed him as a hijacker, is living in Tunis. The family of Ziad
al-Jarrah, an alcohol-drinking Lebanese partygoer, deny he could have been
the fanatical Muslim hijacker whose aircraft crashed in Pennsylvania.
Alarming reports claimed that three of the hijackers -Saeed al-Ghamdi, Ahmed
al-Mani and Ahmed al-Ghamdi -had learned to fly at the Naval Air Station in
Pensacola, Florida, known as the "Cradle of US Naval Aviation".
Note: Yet these individuals are all later listed in the 9/11 Commission
report as the hijackers. Click
<http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch7.htm> here and scroll
down a little over half way to see their photos in the official report. For
more on this, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#hijackersalive> . For an
abundance of reliable information suggesting a major 9/11 cover-up, click
here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> .
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[9/11] Hijack 'suspects' alive and well
2001-09-23, BBC News
Posted: 2007-01-06 09:54:11
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm
Another of the men named by the FBI as a hijacker in the suicide attacks on
Washington and New York has turned up alive and well. The identities of four
of the 19 suspects accused of having carried out the attacks are now in
doubt. Saudi Arabian pilot Waleed Al Shehri was one of five men that the FBI
said had deliberately crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the World
Trade Centre on 11 September. His photograph was released, and has since
appeared in newspapers and on television around the world. He told
journalists there that he had nothing to do with the attacks. He has
contacted both the Saudi and American authorities. He acknowledges that he
attended flight training school at Daytona Beach in the United States, and
is indeed the same Waleed Al Shehri to whom the FBI has been referring. But,
he says, he left the United States in September last year [and] became a
pilot with Saudi Arabian airlines. Abdulaziz Al Omari, another of the Flight
11 hijack suspects ... says he is an engineer with Saudi Telecoms, and that
he lost his passport while studying in Denver. Meanwhile ... a London-based
Arabic daily says it has interviewed Saeed Alghamdi. He was listed by the
FBI as a hijacker in the United flight that crashed in Pennsylvania. And
there are suggestions that another suspect, Khalid Al Midhar, may also be
alive. FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged on Thursday that the
identity of several of the suicide hijackers is in doubt.
Note: Yet these four are all later listed in the 9/11 Commission report as
the hijackers. Click here
<http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch7.htm> and scroll down a
little over half way to see their photos in the official report. For more on
this, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/010920londontimes.hijackers> .
For an abundance of reliable information suggesting a major 9/11 cover-up,
click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> .
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Why I Resigned From the CIA
2004-12-05, Los Angeles Times
Posted: 2007-01-05 21:07:31
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-scheuer5dec05,1,47132
1...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-scheuer5dec05,1,4713
210.story>
Michael Scheuer, a 22-year veteran of the CIA, wrote "Imperial Hubris: Why
the West is Losing the War on Terror." Between January 1996 and June 1999 I
was in charge of running operations against Al Qaeda from Washington. When
it comes to this small slice of the large U.S. national security pie, I
speak with firsthand experience (and for several score of CIA officers) when
I state categorically that during this time senior White House officials
repeatedly refused to act on sound intelligence that provided multiple
chances to eliminate Osama bin Laden - either by capture or by U.S. military
attack. I witnessed and documented, along with dozens of other CIA officers,
instances where life-risking intelligence-gathering work of the agency's men
and women in the field was wasted. I was never charged with deciding whether
to act against Bin Laden. That decision properly belongs solely to senior
White House officials. However, as a now-private American citizen, it is my
right to question their judgment; I am entitled to know why the protection
of Americans - most selfishly, my own children and grandchildren - was not
the top priority of the senior officials who refused to act on the
opportunities to attack Bin Laden provided by the clandestine service. Each
of these officials have publicly argued that the intelligence was not "good
enough" to act, but they almost always neglect to say that they were
repeatedly advised that the intelligence was not going to get better and
that Bin Laden was going to kill thousands of Americans if he was not
stopped.
Note: If the above link fails, click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/eliminatebinladen> here. For many other serious
questions around the 9/11 attacks, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> .
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A Hidden Story Behind Sept. 11? One Man's Ad Campaign Says So
2004-11-08, New York Times
Posted: 2006-12-31 14:30:51
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/08/nyregion/08ads.html?ex=1257656400
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/08/nyregion/08ads.html?ex=1257656400&en=730d
bca6aa104f1a&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland> &en=730dbc...
The grainy 30-second commercials ... suggest a government cover-up of the
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The advertisements, which ran repeatedly ... on
several cable networks, including CNN, Fox News and ESPN, offer a Web site,
an address and a phone number. The ads are the latest salvo from James W.
Walter ... who over the years has financed programs promoting voter
registration in low-income neighborhoods and prison reform. The television
commercials, as well as ads in magazines and newspapers, including The New
York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Daily News, are part of a $3
million national campaign paid for by Mr. Walter in an effort to press for
the reopening of the investigation by the independent Sept. 11 commission.
"We've never gotten solid answers on why Tower 7
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#wtc7> collapsed when it was
two full blocks away from where the planes hit," he said. "We've also never
received an answer for how such a large plane left such a small
<http://www.freedomunderground.org/memoryhole/pentagon.php#Main> hole in
the side of the Pentagon." A Zogby poll
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/zogby911> of New Yorkers' opinions about the
9/11 investigation, released last month, indicated that 49 percent of New
York City residents and 41 percent of New York state residents believed that
some federal officials "knew in advance that attacks were planned on or
around September 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to act." The
poll also found that 66 percent of New York City residents and 56 percent of
state residents wanted a fuller investigation of the "still unanswered
questions."
Note: For lots more reliable information suggesting a major cover-up of
9/11, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> .
_____
Write More About Skull And Bones
2004-10-27, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper)
Posted: 2006-12-30 19:59:52
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/10/27/notes102704.DTL
I get this a lot: Hey Mark ... why don't you quit toeing the typical blasé
journalism line ... and instead write about the real truths? Like for
example how both Kerry and Bush are members of mega-yuppie Yale secret
society/boys' club Skull
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/02/60minutes/main576332.shtml> &
Bones. And why, furthermore, don't you talk about the real truths of 9/11?
Haven't you seen that amazing [9/11] video on
<http://www.freedomunderground.org/memoryhole/pentagon.php#Main> that Web
site? And what about Building
<http://www.911review.org/Wiki/Building7Collapse.shtml> 7? Why did that
47-story tower adjacent to the WTC collapse when it had no fire and no plane
crash? Why isn't the media reporting any of this? Does this make you laugh?
Scoff? It is, after all, incredibly easy to dismiss conspiracy theories. But
you know what? It's not that easy. These people ... have a point. They are
indeed onto something quite large and ominous and it very much has to do
with the media toeing the line of "safe" information. There is indeed ample
evidence that the U.S. government, long before 9/11, had already discussed
the quite plausible possibilities and strategic benefits of unleashing a
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#pnac> "Pearl Harbor"-type event
on America. There are plenty of strangely unanswered questions about 9/11,
about the stunning inaction of NORAD
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911starwars> and Bush's stupefying nonreaction
upon hearing of the attack, not to mention his administration's incredible
attempts to halt any independent 9/11 investigations. Of course, no one in
any major media will touch this stuff. It is professional suicide to dare
suggest an alternate truth to the one supplied by the Pentagon and
regurgitated by the media. And the truth is, we don't really want such
unstable questions answered. We simply cannot tolerate to have our world,
our leaders, our foundations so questioned. We prefer stasis to growth,
security to true knowledge.
_____
Connections And Then Some
2003-03-14, Washington Post
Posted: 2006-12-30 18:54:30
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A
25406-2003Mar14> &node=&contentId=A25...
The Carlyle Group [is] an investment house famous as one of the most
well-connected companies anywhere. Former president George H.W. Bush is a
Carlyle adviser. Former British prime minister John Major heads its European
arm. Former secretary of state James Baker is senior counselor, former White
House budget chief Richard Darman is a partner, former SEC chairman Arthur
Levitt is senior adviser -- the list goes on. Those associations have
brought Carlyle enormous success. The Washington-based merchant bank
controls nearly $14 billion in investments, making it the largest private
equity manager in the world. It buys and sells whole companies the way some
firms trade shares of stock. But the connections also have cost Carlyle. It
has developed a reputation as the CIA of the business world -- omnipresent,
powerful, a little sinister. Media outlets from the Village Voice to
BusinessWeek
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_07/b4021001.htm> have
depicted Carlyle as manipulating the levers of government from shadowy back
rooms. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) even suggested that Carlyle's
and Bush's ties to the Middle East made them somehow complicitous in the
Sept. 11 terror attacks. It didn't help that as the World Trade Center
burned on Sept. 11, 2001, the news interrupted a Carlyle business conference
at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel here attended by a brother of Osama bin Laden.
Former president Bush, a fellow investor, had been with him at the
conference the previous day. Bush['s] primary function is to give speeches
for Carlyle that attract wealthy foreigners in places where the former
president is especially revered, such as Asia. The company has rewarded its
faithful with a 36 percent average annual rate of return.
Note: If the above link fails, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/030316post> . To understand the amazingly
powerful role of this low-profile, yet extremely wealthy and influential
group, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/powercorrupts> to view free a
48-minute documentary shown on Dutch national TV which clearly depicts the
depths of corruption and deceit at the highest levels of government. You
will be thankful that you watched this highly educational film.
_____
The 9/11 Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket
2004-10-19, Los Angeles Times
Posted: 2006-12-30 18:07:39
http://articles.latimes.com/2004/oct/19/opinion/oe-scheer19
It is shocking: The Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11
until after the election, and this one names names. "It is infuriating that
a report which shows that high-level people were not doing their jobs in a
satisfactory manner before 9/11 is being suppressed," an intelligence
official who has read the report told me. [The] release of the report, which
represents an exhaustive 17-month investigation by an 11-member team within
the agency, has been "stalled." First by acting CIA Director John McLaughlin
and now by Porter J. Goss, the former Republican House member (and chairman
of the Intelligence Committee) who recently was appointed CIA chief. The
official stressed that the report was more blunt and more specific than the
earlier bipartisan reports produced by the Bush-appointed Sept. 11
commission and Congress. "The report found very senior-level officials
responsible." By law, the only legitimate reason the CIA director has for
holding back such a report is national security. None of this should
surprise us given the Bush administration's great determination since 9/11
to resist any serious investigation. The president fought against the
creation of the Sept. 11 commission, for example, agreeing only after
enormous political pressure was applied by a grass-roots movement led by the
families of those slain. And then Bush refused to testify to the commission
under oath. Instead he deigned only to chat with the commission members,
with Vice President Dick Cheney present, in a White House meeting in which
commission members were not allowed to take notes.
Note: If the above link fails, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/cia911secret> . For other reliable information
on the 9/11 cover-up, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information>
.
_____
Conspiracy Theories Flourish on the Internet
2004-10-07, Washington Post
Posted: 2006-12-30 14:12:39
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13059-2004Oct6.html
Darren Williams spent four weeks this summer making a short but startling
video that raises novel questions about the 2001 attack. The video, "9/11:
Pentagon Strike," suggests that it was not American Airlines Flight 77 that
slammed into the Pentagon, but a missile or a small plane. The video offers
flashes of photographs taken shortly after impact, interspersed with witness
accounts. The pictures seem incompatible with damage caused by a jumbo jet.
Firefighters stand outside a perfectly round hole in a Pentagon wall where
the Boeing 757 punched through; it is less than 20 feet in diameter.
Propelled by word of mouth, Internet search engines and e-mail, the video
has been downloaded by millions of people around the world. Williams created
a Web site for the video, www.pentagonstrike.co.uk. Then he e-mailed a copy
to Laura Knight-Jadczyk [who] posted a link to the video on the group's Web
site, www.Cassiopaea.org. Within 36 hours, Williams's site collapsed under
the crush of tens of thousands of visitors. But there were others to fill
the void. In Texas, a former casino worker who downloaded the video began
drawing almost 700,000 visitors a day. In Louisiana, a young Navy specialist
put the video on his personal Web page. Suddenly, the site was inundated by
more than 20,000 hits. "Pentagon Strike" is just the latest and flashiest
example of a growing number of Web sites, books and videos contending that
something other than a commercial airliner hit the Pentagon. Knight-Jadczyk
said she never imagined anyone outside her group would ever view "Pentagon
Strike." "The fact everybody's been sending it to his brother and his cousin
... reflects the fact that there is a deep unease," she said.
Note: This five-minute video is well worth watching, even though it was made
a few years ago. To view it free online, click here
<http://www.pentagonstrike.co.uk/flash.htm#Main> . For lots more information
suggesting a major 9/11 cover-up, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> .
_____
9-11 Commission Funding Woes
2003-03-26, Time Magazine
Posted: 2006-12-29 19:44:46
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,437267,00.html
Is the Bush White House trying to put the brakes on the congressional panel
created last fall to investigate 9-11 attacks? The White House brushed off a
request quietly made last week by the 9-11 Commission Chairman Tom Kean, the
Republican former governor of New Jersey, to boost his budget by $11
million. The panel has until the end of May 2004 to complete its work, but
it will spend the $3 million it was originally allotted by around August
2003 - if it doesn't get the supplement. Bush's recent move has miffed some
members of the 9-11 panel. Kean and former congressman Lee Hamilton, the
panel's top Democrat, requested additional funding in a letter to the
administration last week. In denying the request, the White House irritated
many of the members of the commission. The White House sidestepped the issue
of why the request wasn't granted. The latest effort to curtail funding has
angered victims of the attacks. Stephen Push, a leader of the 9/11 victims'
families, who are closely monitoring the commission, said the White House
decision was another in a long line of efforts to water down or shrink the
panel's role. Commission member Tim Roemer ... has gone so far as to draw
comparisons with the $50 million provided to investigate the recent Columbia
tragedy in which seven people died. "If we're looking at well over $11
million for that, we certainly should be looking for at least the same
vicinity of money for how 3,000 people died and how to strengthen our
homeland security," he said.
Note: MSNBC <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14927533> reported that "the Ken
Starr investigation of Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky cost the tax-payer $64
million." The Columbia tragedy invstigation ran $50 million. Yet the White
House wanted to limit the investigation of the worst terror attack ever to
$3 million. What secrets are they hiding? Click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> for more.
_____
Was Use of Cell Phones on 9/11 Flights Possible?
2004-12-15, WantToKnow.info/Washington Post/SF Chronicle/Associated Press
Posted: 2006-12-28 20:10:38
http://www.WantToKnow.info/911cellphonecalls
"Once you get to a certain height, you are no longer in the range of the
cellular network, because cell phone towers aren't built to project their
signals that high."
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50320-2004Dec9.html>
Washington Post, 12/9/04
"Today's vote by the FCC is intended to address whether technology has
improved to the extent that cell phone calls now are possible above 10,000
feet -- they weren't in the past."
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/12/15/MNGUMAC6LB1.
DTL> San Francisco Chronicle, 12/15/04
"With television cameramen hovering, Qualcomm chief executive Irwin Jacobs
sat in the front row of coach and made one of the first legal cell phone
calls from a commercial jetliner. Jacobs pronounced the [brand new]
technology behind the airborne phone call a success, although adding that it
will be improved over the next couple years. Connections from the plane were
generally good, although some calls were dropped."
<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/2004-07-16-jet-phones_x.htm> USA
Today/Associated Press, 7/16/04
Note: To find articles showing multiple cell phone use on Sept. 11, 2001,
type "9/11" and "cell phone calls" into your favorite search engine, or
click <http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14344-2001Sep11> here for
a Washington Post report on an alleged 30-minute uninterrupted cell phone
call from Flight 93. Click here <http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/911.call>
for a CNN report on another call from that flight. Tests have shown it is
not possible to have an extended cell phone conversation above 10,000 feet.
_____
Dayton: FAA, NORAD hid 9/11 failures
2004-07-31, Minneapolis Star Tribune (leading newspaper of Minneapolis)
Posted: 2006-12-28 19:44:56
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1576/4904237.html
Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., charged Friday that the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) and the North American Aerospace Defense Command
(NORAD) have covered up "catastrophic failures" that left the nation
vulnerable during the Sept. 11 hijackings. "For almost three years now,
NORAD officials and FAA officials have been able to hide their critical
failures that left this country defenseless during two of the worst hours in
our history," Dayton declared during a Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
hearing. Dayton told leaders of the Sept. 11 commission, that, based on the
commission's report, a NORAD chronology ... said the FAA notified the
military's emergency air command of three of the hijackings while those
jetliners were still airborne. Dayton cited commission findings that the FAA
failed to inform NORAD about three of the planes until after they had
crashed. Dayton said NORAD officials "lied to the American people, they lied
to Congress and they lied to your 9/11 commission to create a false
impression of competence, communication and protection of the American
people." He [said] if the commission's report is correct, President Bush
"should fire whoever at FAA, at NORAD ... betrayed their public trust by not
telling us the truth." Dayton argued that if the FAA had promptly sent a
systemwide message about the hijackings, the pilot of the fourth plane
seized, United Airlines Flight 93, might have been able to secure the
cockpit doors and land the plane. Dayton said NORAD also falsely claimed
that during the hijackings, it had F-16 Combat Air Patrol planes in place at
Langley Air Force Base in Virginia and an AWAC command ship in the air to
protect the nation's capital.
Note: Click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/sibeledmonds> to visit the
Internet archive, where you will see this article was removed not long after
it was published. No other major media reported this vital news. To see the
original, click
<http://web.archive.org/web/*/http:/www.startribune.com/stories/1576/4904237
.html> here or here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/faanoradaccused> .
_____
Letter to Thomas Kean from Sibel Edmonds
2004-08-05, AsiaTimes ('Asia's most trusted news source')
Posted: 2006-12-28 19:26:09
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FH05Aa01.html
Your commission ... has now issued its "9/11 Commission Report". After
[9/11] we, the translators at the FBI's largest and most important
translation unit, were told to slow down, even stop, translation of critical
information related to terrorist activities. This issue has been confirmed
by the Senate Judiciary Committe. Melek Can Dickerson, with the assistance
of her direct supervisor, forged signatures on top-secret documents related
to certain 9/11 detainees. Not only does the supervisor facilitating these
criminal conducts remain in a supervisory position, he has been promoted. In
April 2001, a long-term FBI informant/asset ... received information that:
1) Osama Bin Laden was planning a major terrorist attack in the United
States targeting 4-5 major cities, 2) the attack was going to involve
airplanes [and] the attack was going to be carried out soon. No action was
taken. After 9/11, the agents and the translators were told to 'keep quiet'
regarding this issue. The translator who was present ... reported this
incident to Director Mueller in writing. Why did your report choose to
exclude the information ... despite the public confirmation by the FBI,
witnesses provided to your investigators, and briefings you received
directly? As you are fully aware, these issues and incidents were found
confirmed by a Senior Republican Senator, Charles Grassley, and a Senior
Democrat Senator, Patrick Leahy. Even FBI officials 'confirmed all my
allegations and denied none' during their unclassified meetings with the
Senate Judiciary staff. However, neither your commission's hearings, nor
your commission's five hundred sixty seven-page report ... include these
serious issues, major incidents, and systemic problems.
Note: If the above link fails, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/sibeledmonds> . Sibel Edmonds is one of the
great heroes of our day. She has been gagged directly by the U.S. Attorney
General from telling what she knows. The above letter was not published in
any major U.S. media, though widely reported in alternative new sources
<http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0802-06.htm> . To understand how such
vital information is hidden from the public, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/mediacover-up> . For lots more on Ms. Edmonds,
click <http://www.wanttoknow.info/sibeledmondsnewsarticles> here.
_____
Local officials rethink recently made plans to deal with terrorism
2002-04-16, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Leading Newspaper of Pittsburgh, PA)
Posted: 2006-12-28 14:34:30
http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_city/20010923city0923p5.asp
Emergency operations officials in Allegheny County and Pittsburgh hadn't
trained for what happened Sept. 11. "Never in our wildest dreams did it ever
come to the table that they would be using passenger aircraft as missiles,"
said Bob Full, chief of emergency operations for Allegheny County. It is
clear from 911 tapes that local officials had less than 15 minutes' warning
that the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 was in Pittsburgh airspace
before the plane crashed at 10:06 a.m. in Somerset County, killing all 44
people aboard. Full learned about the errant plane at 9:53 a.m. That's when
he got a call alerting him that the control tower at Pittsburgh
International Airport had been evacuated. Thirteen minutes earlier, he had
talked to an airport official who had no indication of any threat. Between
those two conversations, the Pittsburgh tower had received a call from the
Cleveland air traffic control tower, saying a plane was heading toward
Pittsburgh and refusing to communicate with controllers. The FAA ordered the
Pittsburgh control tower evacuated at 9:49 a.m.
Note: Why on Earth would they have evacuated the control tower from which
they could best monitor what was going on with errant Flight 93? Could it be
someone didn't want traffic control to see what was really going on? For
lots more, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/controltower911> and here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> .
_____
Fearing Harm, bin Laden Kin Fled From U.S.
2001-09-30, New York Times
Posted: 2006-12-24 17:59:34
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60F14F63F590C738FDDA00894D9
4...
<http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60F14F63F590C738FDDA00894D
9404482%20>
In the first days after the terror attacks on New York and Washington, Saudi
Arabia supervised the urgent evacuation of 24 members of Osama bin Laden's
extended family from the United States, fearing that they might be subjected
to violence. Most of Mr. bin Laden's relatives were attending high school
and college. They are among the 4,000 Saudi students in the United States.
King Fahd, the ailing Saudi ruler, sent an urgent message to his embassy
here saying there were "bin Laden children all over America" and ordered,
"Take measures to protect the innocents," the ambassador said. The young
members of the bin Laden clan were driven or flown under F.B.I. supervision
to a secret assembly point in Texas and then to Washington from where they
left the country on a private charter plane when airports reopened three
days after the attacks. A majority of the men who hijacked four airliners in
the attacks carried Saudi passports. Surprisingly, Osama bin Laden was not a
stranger even to a royal family member like Prince Bandar. In the early
1980's, bin Laden came to greet the prince and thank him for helping to
build the coalition that fought against the Soviet occupation in
Afghanistan. Mr. bin Laden is one of 52 children of a Yemeni-born migrant
who made a vast fortune building roads and palaces in Saudi Arabia.
Note: Should the above link fail to function, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/010930nytimes> . For a Boston Globe article on
this key topic, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/010920globe> . For
more detailed information which both the Times and Globe neglected to
report, click <http://www.wanttoknow.info/saudisflown913fbi> here.
_____
Berg's encounter with 'terrorist' revealed
2004-05-14, CNN News
Posted: 2006-12-24 16:48:30
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/05/13/berg.encounter/
When Nicholas Berg took an Oklahoma bus to a remote college campus a few
years ago, the American recently beheaded by terrorists allowed a man with
terrorist connections to use his laptop computer, according to his father.
Michael Berg said the FBI investigated the matter more than a year ago. He
stressed that his son was in no way connected to the terrorists who captured
and killed him. Government sources told CNN that the encounter involved an
acquaintance of Zacarias Moussaoui -- the only person publicly charged in
the United States in connection with the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.
According to Berg, his son was taking a course a few years ago at a remote
campus of the University of Oklahoma near an airport. He described how on
one particular day, his son met "some terrorist people -- who no one knew
were terrorists at the time." At one point during the bus ride, Berg said,
the man sitting next to his son asked if he could use Nick's laptop
computer. Government sources said Berg gave the man his password, which was
later used by Moussaoui, the sources said. The sources said the man who used
Berg's e-mail knew Moussaoui. But the sources would not disclose details of
how the men were connected.
Note: Other major media
<http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/193331p-166984c.html> articles have
pointed out a number of other strange "coincidences" connecting the man
allegedgly beheaded and those accused of involvement in 9/11. How can that
be? For lots more, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/nickberg911> .
_____
FAA Managers Destroyed 9/11 Tape
2004-05-06, Washington Post
Posted: 2006-12-24 16:36:30
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A6892-2
004May6> &contentId=A6892-200...
Six air traffic controllers provided accounts of their communications with
hijacked planes on Sept. 11, 2001, on a tape recording that was later
destroyed by Federal Aviation Administration managers. It is unclear what
information was on the tape because no one ever listened to, transcribed or
duplicated it. The FAA ... said it took disciplinary action against the
employee who destroyed the tape but declined to elaborate on what kind of
action they took. [Earlier, an FAA official incorrectly stated that the
agency took action against two employees in the case.] Hours after the [9/11
attacks] an FAA manager at the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center
gathered six controllers who communicated or tracked two of the hijacked
planes and recorded in a one-hour interview their personal accounts of what
occurred. The manager, who is not named in the report, said that his
intentions were to provide quick information to federal officials
investigating the attack before the air traffic controllers involved took
sick leave for the stress of their experiences, as is common practice. A
second manager ... destroyed the tape between December 2001 and January 2002
by crushing the tape with his hand, cutting it into small pieces and
depositing the pieces into trash cans around the building. The tape's
existence was never made known to federal officials investigating the
attack. The New York managers acknowledged that they received an e-mail from
FAA officials instructing them to retain all materials related to the Sept.
11 attacks. But the managers decided not to include the tape in a November
2001 "Formal Accident Package" report the office prepared.
Note: Why on earth wouldn't this most important tape have been included in
the FAA's official report. And more importantly, why did someone later
destroy it so carefully and thoroughly. For lots more, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> .
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The Pakistan connection
2004-07-22, The Guardian (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)
Posted: 2006-12-23 17:59:54
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1266520,00.html
There is evidence of foreign intelligence backing for the 9/11 hijackers.
Why is the US government so keen to cover it up? Omar Sheikh, a British-born
Islamist militant, is waiting to be hanged in Pakistan for a murder he
almost certainly didn't commit - of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel
Pearl in 2002. Both the US government and Pearl's wife have since
acknowledged that Sheikh was not responsible. Significantly, Sheikh is also
the man who, on the instructions of General Mahmoud Ahmed, the then head of
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), wired $100,000 before the 9/11
attacks to Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker. It is extraordinary that
neither Ahmed nor Sheikh have been charged and brought to trial on this
count. Ahmed, the paymaster for the hijackers, was actually in Washington on
9/11, and had a series of pre-9/11 top-level meetings in the White House,
the Pentagon, the national security council, and with George Tenet, then
head of the CIA. Why hasn't the US demanded that he be questioned and tried
in court? [Another] witness is Sibel Edmonds ... former FBI translator of
intelligence. She tried to blow the whistle on the cover-up of intelligence
that names some of the culprits who orchestrated the 9/11 attacks, but is
now under two gagging orders that forbid her from testifying in court or
mentioning the names of the people or the countries involved. The FBI,
illegally, [also] continues to refuse the to release of their agent Robert
Wright's 500-page manuscript Fatal Betrayals of the Intelligence Mission,
and has even refused to turn the manuscript over to Senator Shelby,
vice-chairman of the joint intelligence committee charged with investigating
America's 9/11 intelligence failures.
Note: The above article was written by Michael Meacher, who served as the
U.K. Minster of Environment from 1997 to 2003. For lots more reliable
information suggesting a major cover-up around 9/11, click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> here.
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Experts Urging Broader Inquiry In Towers' Fall
2001-12-25, New York Times
Posted: 2006-12-23 16:53:08
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40A11FB3E550C768EDDAB0994D9
4...
<http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40A11FB3E550C768EDDAB0994D
9404482>
Saying that the current investigation into how and why the twin towers fell
on Sept. 11 is inadequate, some of the nation's leading structural engineers
and fire-safety experts are calling for a new, independent and
better-financed inquiry that could produce the kinds of conclusions vital
for skyscrapers and future buildings nationwide. Experts critical of the
current effort ... point out that the current team of 20 or so investigators
has no subpoena power and little staff support and has even been unable to
obtain basic information like detailed blueprints of the buildings that
collapsed. Some structural engineers have said that one serious mistake has
already been made ... the decision to rapidly recycle the steel columns,
beams and trusses that held up the buildings. Interviews with a handful of
members of the team, which includes some of the nation's most respected
engineers, also uncovered complaints that they had at various times been
shackled with bureaucratic restrictions that prevented them from
interviewing witnesses, examining the disaster site and requesting crucial
information like recorded distress calls to the police and fire departments.
Members have been threatened with dismissal for speaking to the press.
Note: Our website has over 30 full articles posted from the New York Times.
This is the only article for which the Times threatened to sue us if we
didn't remove it. We were allowed to replace it with this short summary. For
more on this, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/011225nytimes> . For
more reliable news articles suggesting a major cover-up of 9/11, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> .
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Inspector General Rebukes F.B.I. over Espionage Case and Firing of
Whistle-Blower
2005-01-15, New York Times
Posted: 2006-12-22 20:30:59
http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F60F15F73F5C0C768DDD
A...
<http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F60F15F73F5C0C768DD
DA80894DD404482>
The F.B.I. has failed to aggressively investigate accusations of espionage
against a translator at the bureau and fired the translator's co-worker in
large part for bringing the accusations, the Justice Department's inspector
general concluded. In a long-awaited report that the Justice Department
sought for months to keep classified, the inspector general issued a sharp
rebuke to the F.B.I. over its handling of claims of espionage and ineptitude
made by Sibel Edmonds, a bureau translator who was fired in 2002 after
superiors deemed her conduct "disruptive." The report [came] from the office
of Glenn A. Fine, the Justice Department's inspector general. Mr. Fine's
investigation found that many of Ms. Edmonds's accusations "were supported,
that the F.B.I. did not take them seriously enough and that her allegations
were, in fact, the most significant factor in the F.B.I.'s decision to
terminate her services." Ms. Edmonds's case has become a cause célèbre for
critics who accused the bureau of retaliating against her and other
whistle-blowers who have sought to expose management problems related to the
campaign against terrorism. The American Civil Liberties Union joined her
cause earlier this week, asking an appellate court to reinstate a
whistle-blower lawsuit she brought against the government. The suit was
dismissed last year after Attorney General John Ashcroft, invoking a rarely
used power, declared her case to be a matter of "state secret" privilege,
and the Justice Department retroactively classified a 2002 Congressional
briefing about it.
Note: What this article completely fails to mention is that Ms. Edmonds has
claimed repeatedly that she has key information revealing major corruption
related to 9/11. For a highly revealing report written by Ms. Edmonds to the
9/11 Commission chairman, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/sibeledmonds> . Another highly revealing article
is available here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/sibeledmondsvanityfair> . The
Times link above requires payment. To view the above article free, click
here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/050131sibeledmonds> .
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Lost in Translation: How Bush Interpreter Got Through Security
2005-02-22, Wall Street Journal (Article on website founder Fred Burks)
Posted: 2006-12-22 15:40:24
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110901231065260117,00.html?mod=todays_us_
p...
<http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110901231065260117,00.html?mod=todays_us
_page_one>
Frederick Burks believes in UFOs, communes with dolphins, [and] runs a Web
site that promotes conspiracy theories about U.S. complicity in the 9/11
attacks. And, until last October, he had the ear of the world's most
powerful man ... George W. Bush. When President Bush traveled to Bali for a
meeting with President Megawati in October 2003 ... [Karen] Brooks, then the
National Security Council's Indonesia expert, says she personally requested
that he get the job because he was so good and "Megawati loved him." Now Mr.
Burks has popped up in Jakarta as a star witness for the defense in the
terrorism trial of a fundamentalist Islamic cleric. Speaking to the Jakarta
court in fluent Indonesian, Mr. Burks described a secret 2002 meeting
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050228secretmeeting> between a U.S.
presidential envoy and Indonesia's then president, Megawati Sukarnoputri.
Mr. Burks's testimony, delivered last month in a south Jakarta court, turned
the former White House interpreter ... into a national celebrity
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050129fredburkscelebrity> here in Indonesia.
While working as Mr. Bush's Indonesian-language interpreter, Mr. Burks set
up several Web sites, including momentoflove.org
<http://www.momentoflove.org> , weboflove.org <http://www.weboflove.org>
and WantToKnow.info <http://www.WantToKnow.info> . After 9/11, he began
collecting and then posting documents he believes show that parts of the
U.S. government knew an attack was coming and may even have been complicit
in its execution. "I'm sometimes labeled a conspiracy theorist, but I'm
not," he says. "I'm someone who can handle dark energy, the really ugly
things that are going on behind the scenes, without getting too upset."
Note: This article surprisingly was on the front page of the Wall Street
Journal. The above link requires payment to read the full article. To read
it free and learn much more, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050226fredburkswsj> .
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Opium, thugs bloom under U.S. policies in Afghanistan war
2006-12-17, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper)
Posted: 2006-12-17 23:48:21
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/17/ING08MTPMB1.DTL
The Taliban ... briefly banned poppy cultivation in 2000 in an effort to
gain U.S. diplomatic recognition and aid. When the Bush administration
invaded Afghanistan in October 2001, poppies were grown on only 7,600
hectares. Under the American occupation ... poppy cultivation spread to
every province, and overall production has increased exponentially ever
since -- this year by 60 percent. Within Afghanistan, where perhaps 3
million people draw direct income from poppy, profits may reach $3 billion
this year. In-country profit adds up to an estimated 60 percent of
Afghanistan's gross domestic product, or more than half the country's annual
income. Afghanistan provides 92 percent of the world's heroin. Through many
administrations, the U.S. government has been implicated in the Afghan drug
trade. Before the American and Pakistani-sponsored mujahedeen took on the
Soviets in 1979, Afghanistan produced a very small amount of opium for
regional markets, and no heroin at all. By the end of the jihad against the
Soviet army, it was the world's top producer of both drugs. The CIA made it
all possible by providing legal cover for these operations. The United
States [encouraged] Islamist extremists (then "our" soldiers) and ... set
the stage for the Taliban. [Currently,] President Hamid Karzai['s] strategy
is to avoid confrontation, befriend potential adversaries and give them
offices, often in his Cabinet. The trade penetrates even the elected
Parliament. Among the 249 members of the Wolesi Jirga (lower house) are at
least 17 known drug traffickers, in addition to 40 commanders of armed
militias, 24 members of criminal gangs, and 19 men facing serious
allegations of war crimes.
Note: Could it be that some U.S. officials are turning a blind eye, or even
supporting this drug trade? For some very strong evidence of this from a
former award-winning DEA agent turned journalist and author, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/massmedia#levine> .
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FBI faulted over linguist's complaints: Review deemed lacking
2005-01-15, Boston Globe/Associated Press
Posted: 2006-12-16 23:19:02
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/01/15/fbi_faulted
_...
<http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/01/15/fbi_faulte
d_over_linguists_complaints>
The FBI never adequately investigated complaints by a fired contract
linguist who alleged shoddy work and possible espionage inside the bureau's
translator program, although evidence and witnesses supported her, the
Justice Department's senior oversight official said yesterday. The bureau's
response to complaints by former translator Sibel Edmonds was "significantly
flawed," Inspector General Glenn Fine said in a report that summarized a
lengthy classified investigation into how the FBI handled the case. Fine
said Edmonds's contentions "raised substantial questions and were supported
by various pieces of evidence." "The report substantiated the most serious
of Sibel's allegations and demonstrates that the FBI owes Sibel an apology
and compensation for its unlawful firing of her rather than hiding behind
its false cloak of national security," said Mark Zaid, her lawyer.
Note: Ms. Edmonds deeply revealing allegations are laid out clearly in an
open letter to 9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean available at
http://www.WantToKnow.info/sibeledmonds.
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Justice Dept. Opposes Bid to Revive Case Against F.B.I.
2005-02-26, New York Times
Posted: 2006-12-16 23:15:35
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/politics/26whistle.html
The government has told a federal appeals court that a suit by an F.B.I.
translator who was fired after accusing the bureau of ineptitude should not
be allowed to proceed because it would cause "significant damage to the
national security and foreign policy of the United States." The case has
become a lightning rod for critics who contend that the bureau retaliated
against Ms. Edmonds and other whistle-blowers who have sought to expose
management problems related to the antiterrorism campaign. The suit was
dismissed in July after Attorney General John Ashcroft invoked a rarely used
power and declared the case as falling under "state secret" privilege. The
Justice Department retroactively classified a 2002 Congressional briefing
about the case and some related letters from lawmakers, but this week it
decided to permit the information to be released. The inspector general of
the department concluded last month that the F.B.I. had failed to
aggressively investigate Ms. Edmonds's accusations of espionage and fired
her in large part for raising them. In a report that the department sought
for months to keep classified, the inspector general issued a sharp rebuke
to the bureau over its handling of Ms. Edmonds's accusations.
Note: If the above link fails, click
<http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022605Y.shtml> here. This article fails
to mention Ms. Edmonds claims that top individuals in government concealed
critical information about 9/11 suggesting complicity by compromised
politicians. For more, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/sibeledmondsvanityfair> .
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Security breach of FBI's translator program to be questioned
2005-03-02, USA Today/Associated Press
Posted: 2006-12-16 23:09:50
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-03-02-fbi-translator_x.htm
After listening to former translator Sibel Edmonds complain about her
treatment at the hands of the Justice Department and the FBI, Reps.
Christopher Shays, R-Conn., and Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said their staffs
would debrief Edmonds and confront Justice Department officials with the
information. Edmonds commented on the issue while testifying at a House
Government Reform subcommittee hearing on the government's designation of
information as classified. She told lawmakers the people she accused were
still working at the FBI. The Justice Department's inspector general said
last month that the FBI never adequately investigated Edmonds' complaints,
even though evidence and witnesses supported her. Edmonds filed a lawsuit
seeking to keep her job, but last summer a judge threw out her case after
Attorney General John Ashcroft said her claims might harm national security
by exposing government secrets.
Note: This article fails to mention Ms. Edmonds claims that top individuals
in government concealed critical information about 9/11 suggesting
complicity by compromised politicians. For more, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/sibeledmondsvanityfair> .
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Congressional Testimony Reveals Four Wargames on 9/11
2005-03-11, WantToKnow.info/C-SPAN
Posted: 2006-12-16 22:44:11
http://www.wanttoknow.info/050317wargames911
CMK [Congresswoman Cythia McKinney]: Mr. Secretary, after the last Hearing,
I thought that my office was promised a written response to my question
regarding the four wargames on September 11th. I have not yet received that
response. The question was ... whether or not the activities of the four
wargames going on on September 11th actually impaired our ability to respond
to the attacks. RM [Top Pentagon Chief, General Richard Myers]: The answer
to the question is no, it did not impair our response, in fact General
Eberhart who was in the command of the North American Aerospace Defense
Command as he testified in front of the 9/11 Commission I believe - I
believe he told them that it enhanced our ability to respond, given that
NORAD didn't have the overall responsibility for responding to the attacks
that day. That was an FAA responsibility. But they were two CPXs; there was
one Department of Justice exercise that didn't have anything to do with the
other three; and there was an actual operation ongoing because there was
some Russian bomber activity up near Alaska. CMK: Who was in charge of
managing those wargames? RM: The important thing to realize is that North
American Aerospace Defense Command was responsible. These are command post
exercises; what that means is that all the battle positions that are
normally not filled are indeed filled; so it was an easy transition from an
exercise into a real world situation. It actually enhanced the response;
otherwise, it would take somewhere between 30 minutes and a couple of hours
to fill those positions, those battle stations, with the right staff
officers.
Note: For the full transcript of this testimony and more, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050317wargames911> . Why to this day have all
media (other than C-SPAN) and the 9/11 Commission Report failed to inform
the public that there were four wargames happening at the time of the 9/11
attacks? For possible answers, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> .
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The Secret War
2002-10-27, WantToKnow.info/Los Angeles Times
Posted: 2006-12-16 22:14:58
http://www.wanttoknow.info/021027latimes
The Defense Department is dramatically expanding its 'black world' of covert
operations. The Bush administration has turned to what the Pentagon calls
the "black world" to press the war on terrorism and weapons of mass
destruction. The increasingly dominant role of the military ... reflects the
desire of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to gain greater overall
control of the war on terror. "Our task is to find and destroy the enemy
before they strike us." Though covert action can bring quick results,
because it is isolated from the normal review processes it can just as
quickly bring mistakes and larger problems. The epicenter of the Pentagon's
covert operations remains the North Carolina-based Joint Special Operations
Command, often referred to as Delta Force. The super-secret command is still
not officially acknowledged to exist. Rumsfeld's influential Defense Science
Board ... recommends creation of a super-Intelligence Support Activity, an
organization it dubs the Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group, (P2OG), to
bring together CIA and military covert action, information warfare,
intelligence, and cover and deception. This body would launch secret
operations aimed at "stimulating reactions" among terrorists and states
possessing weapons of mass destruction -- that is, for instance, prodding
terrorist cells into action and exposing themselves to "quick-response"
attacks by U.S. forces. The Air Force is designing its own Global Response
Task Force ... capable of delivering a "worldwide attack within an hour."
Note: For an amazing exposé by a highly decorated U.S. general on the hidden
reasons behind war, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/mediacover-up> .
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NORAD had drills of jets as weapons
2004-04-18, USA Today
Posted: 2006-12-16 21:51:24
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-04-18-norad_x.htm
In the two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, the North American Aerospace
Defense Command conducted exercises simulating what the White House says was
unimaginable at the time: hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into
targets and cause mass casualties. One of the imagined targets was the World
Trade Center. In another exercise ... the target was the Pentagon - but that
drill was not run after Defense officials said it was unrealistic, NORAD and
Defense officials say. NORAD, in a written statement, confirmed that such
hijacking exercises occurred. "Numerous types of civilian and military
aircraft were used as mock hijacked aircraft," the statement said. "These
exercises tested track detection and identification; scramble and
interception; hijack procedures; internal and external agency coordination
and operational security and communications security procedures." On April
8, the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks heard testimony from
national security adviser Condoleezza Rice that the White House didn't
anticipate hijacked planes being used as weapons. President Bush said ...
"Nobody in our government ... could envision flying airplanes into buildings
on such a massive scale." One operation, planned in July 2001 ... involved
planes from airports in Utah and Washington state that were "hijacked."
NORAD officials have acknowledged that "scriptwriters" for the drills
included the idea of hijacked aircraft being used as weapons. "Threats of
killing hostages or crashing were left to the scriptwriters to invoke
creativity and broaden the required response," Maj. Gen. Craig McKinley, a
NORAD official, told the 9/11 commission.
Note: This highly revealing news was reported on the front page of USA
Today, yet no other major media even picked up the story. Why? For lots
more, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> and here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/mediacover-up> .
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Transcript: Rice's Testimony on 9/11 (for 9/11 Commissioner Lehman)
2004-04-08, Washington Post
Posted: 2006-12-16 19:54:47
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61252-2004Apr8_4.html
LEHMAN. Were you told that there were numerous young Arab males in flight
training? RICE. I was not. LEHMAN. Were you told that the red team in F.A.A.
for 10 years had reported ... that the U.S. airport security system never
got higher than 20 percent effective. RICE. To the best of my recollection I
was not told that. LEHMAN. Were you aware that I.N.S. had quietly internally
halved its internal security enforcement budget? RICE. I was not made aware
of that. LEHMAN. Were you aware that it was the U.S. government established
policy not to question or oppose the sanctuary policies [which] prohibited
the local police from cooperating at all with federal immigration
authorities? RICE. I do not believe I was aware of that. LEHMAN. Were you
aware of a program that was well established that allowed Saudi citizens to
get visas without interviews? RICE. I learned of that after 9/11. LEHMAN.
Were you aware of the extensive activities [of] the Saudi government in
supporting over 300 radical teaching schools and mosques around the country,
including right here in the United States? Were you aware at the time of the
fact that Saudi Arabia ... had in their custody the C.F.O. [Chief Financial
Officer] and the closest confidante of Al Qaeda, of Osama bin Laden, and
that they refused direct access to the United States? RICE. I don't remember
anything of that kind. LEHMAN. Were you aware that they would not cooperate
and give us access to the perpetrators of the Cobar Towers attack? RICE. I
was very involved in issues concerning Cobar Towers. LEHMAN. Were you aware
that it was the policy of the Justice Department ... to fine airlines if
they have more than two young Arab males in secondary questioning? RICE. No.
Note: Don't miss the full revealing transcript at the link above. Most of
the quotes above are towards the bottom of the webpage. Why didn't we hear
lots more about these astounding facts put forward by one of the 9/11
commissioners, yet hardly mentioned in the final report? For lots more,
click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> .
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This war on terrorism is bogus (by past U.K. Minister of Environment)
2003-09-06, The Guardian (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)
Posted: 2006-12-16 19:04:26
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1036571,00.html
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1036571,00.html%20>
At least 11 countries provided advance warning
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,53065,00.html> to the US of the 9/11
attacks. Two senior Mossad experts were sent to Washington in August 2001 to
alert the CIA <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#mossadwarning>
and FBI to a cell of 200 terrorists said to be preparing a big operation.
The list they provided included the names of four of the 9/11 hijackers,
none of whom was arrested. In November 2001 the US airforce complained it
had had al-Qaida and Taliban leaders in its sights as many as 10 times over
the previous six weeks, but had been unable to attack because they did
<http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/pilotgunsights.htm> not
receive permission quickly enough. The BBC reported
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1550366.stm> [that] a former
Pakistan foreign secretary was told by senior American officials at a
meeting in Berlin in mid-July 2001 that "military action against Afghanistan
would go ahead by the middle of October". Zacarias Moussaoui ... was
arrested in August 2001. One agent wrote
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#moussaoui> , a month before
9/11, that Moussaoui might be planning to crash into the Twin Towers. US
agents ... sought a warrant to search his
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#moussaouilaptop> computer.
They were turned down by the FBI. [A] PNAC blueprint
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#pnac> supports an earlier
document ... which said the US must "discourage advanced industrial nations
from challenging our leadership". The document also calls for the creation
of "US space forces" to dominate space, and the total
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/060205usmilitarycontrolinternet> control of
cyberspace to prevent "enemies" using the internet. It also hints that the
US may consider developing biological weapons "that can target specific
genotypes [and] may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to
a politically useful tool". The conclusion of all this analysis must surely
be that the "global war on terrorism" has the hallmarks of a political myth
propagated to pave the way for a wholly different agenda - the US goal of
world hegemony, built around securing by force command over the oil supplies
required to drive the whole project.
Note: This is one of the very few articles recommended as a must read.
Michael Meacher was the U.K. Minister of Environment from May 1997 to June
2003. Mr. Meacher lays out a wealth of highly revealing information backed
by reliable sources. To confirm most of his statements on our 9/11 timeline,
click here <http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg> . Mr. Meacher's
cliams were reported on BBC News, as well, though the BBC mentioned
amazingly little on his claims of U.S. involvement in 9/11. To see the BBC
article click here <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3085656.stm> .
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Ex-minister attacks US over war
2003-09-06, BBC News
Posted: 2006-12-16 17:47:40
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3085656.stm
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3085656.stm%20>
Former minister Michael Meacher has blamed the Iraq war on the US desire for
world domination. Mr Meacher also suggested the Americans might have failed
to prevent 11 September as it gave a pretext for military action. Mr Meacher
was environment minister until three months ago and has already spoken out
in opposition to the war. Writing in the Guardian
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1036571,00.html> newspaper,
Mr Meacher said the 11 September attacks gave an invaluable excuse for
attacking Afghanistan. And he said the US Government intended to take
military control of the Gulf region whether or not Saddam Hussein was in
power because of its need for further secure oil supplies. In his piece Mr
Meacher wrote: "It seems that the so-called war on terrorism is being used
largely as a bogus cover for achieving wider US strategic geopolitical
objectives. The evidence again is quite clear that plans for military action
against Afghanistan and Iraq were in hand well before 11 September. The
global war on terrorism has all the hallmarks of a political myth propagated
to pave the way for a wholly different agenda - the US goal of world
hegemony, built around securing by force command over the oil supplies
required to drive the whole project." Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today
programme, he said this agenda had been outlined by the Project for the New
American Century (PNAC <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#pnac> )
- a thinktank associated with leading neoconservative hawks within the US
administration. In his article, Mr Meacher also said the US had passed up
opportunities to catch Osama Bin Laden and other senior al-Qaeda figures.
Note: Mr. Meacher's comments were actually much stronger than the BBC
reports. He stated publicy on the front page of the Guardian his belief that
the U.S. government was very possibly behind the 9/11 attacks. To verify
this, see the Guardian article mentioned in the BBC article above available
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1036571,00.html> here.
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Pentagon resists pleas for help in Afghan opium fight
2006-12-05, Los Angeles Times
Posted: 2006-12-12 19:46:50
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-fg-afghandrugs5dec05
,...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-fg-afghandrugs5dec0
5,1,4018727.story>
The Pentagon ... has resisted entreaties from U.S. anti-narcotics officials
to play an aggressive role in the faltering campaign to curb the country's
opium trade. Military units in Afghanistan largely overlook drug bazaars,
rebuff some requests to take U.S. drug agents on raids and do little to
counter the organized crime syndicates shipping the drug to Europe, Asia
and, increasingly, the United States. Poppy cultivation has exploded,
increasing by more than half this year. Afghanistan supplies about 92% of
the world's opium. "It is surprising to me that we have allowed things to
get to the point that they have," said ... a former top State Department
counter-narcotics official. Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
has said that Afghanistan's flourishing opium trade is a law enforcement
problem, not a military one. The opium trade is one-third of the country's
economy. Several dozen kingpins ... have become more brazen, richer and
powerful. [They] openly run huge opium bazaars and labs that turn opium into
heroin. [The] head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said ...
that the location of major drug operations were "well-known to us and to the
authorities." The Pentagon has balked at drug interdiction efforts even when
it had the resources, said a former senior U.S. anti-drug official. "There
were [drug] convoys where military people looked the other way," the former
official said. "DEA would identify a lab to go hit or a storage facility and
[the Pentagon] would find a reason to ground the helicopters." A recent
congressional report said the DEA asked the Pentagon for airlifts on 26
occasions in 2005, and the requests were denied in all but three cases.
Note: Some observers and insiders believe the reason Afghanistan was
attacked is because the Taliban had virtually stopped the opium
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#opium> trade in 2001. For
reliable evidence supporting these allegations, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/massmedia#levine> .
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The 9/11 Truth Movement's Dangers
2006-12-10, CBS News/The Nation
Posted: 2006-12-12 18:31:10
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/08/opinion/main2242387.shtml
Tens of millions of Americans really believe their government was complicit
in the murder of 3,000 of their fellow citizens. The government these
Americans suspect of complicity in 9/11 has acquired a justified reputation
for deception: weapons of mass destruction, secret prisons, illegal
wiretapping. The Truth Movement's recent growth can be largely attributed to
the Internet-distributed documentary "Loose Change
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501> ." It's been
viewed over the Internet millions of times. Complementing "Loose Change" are
the more highbrow offerings of a handful of writers and scholars, many of
whom are associated with Scholars <http://www.st911.org> for 9/11 Truth.
Two of these academics, retired theologian David Ray Griffin
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050504davidraygriffin> and retired Brigham
Young University physics professor Steven Jones
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/stevenjonesnewsarticles> , have written books
and articles that serve as the movement's canon. The Truth Movement's
relationship to the truth may be tenuous, but that it is a movement is no
longer in doubt. For the Administration, "conspiracy" is a tremendously
useful term, and can be applied even in the most seemingly bizarre
conditions to declare an inquiry or criticism out of bounds. Of course, the
ommission <http://www.wanttoknow.info/officialsquestion911commissionreport>
report was something of a whitewash - Bush would only be interviewed in the
presence of Dick Cheney, the commission was denied access to other key
witnesses, and ... a meeting convened by George Tenet the summer before the
attacks to warn Condoleezza Rice about al Qaeda's plotting ... was nowhere
mentioned in the report. It's hard to blame people for thinking we're not
getting the whole story. For six years, the government has prevaricated and
the press has largely failed to point out this simple truth.
Note: Though this article belittles the 9/11 movement, there is abundant
evidence to support the claim that the 9/11 Commission was a whitewash and
the attacks may have been orchestrated. For more, click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> here.
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New Details on F.B.I. Aid for Saudis After 9/11
2005-03-27, New York Times
Posted: 2006-12-07 23:23:42
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/politics/27exodus.html?ex=1269579600
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/politics/27exodus.html?ex=1269579600&en=e
2d6f668130376a2&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland> &en=e2d...
In the frenzied days after Sept. 11, 2001, when some flights were still
grounded, dozens of well-connected Saudis, including relatives of Osama bin
Laden, managed to leave the United States on specially chartered flights.
Newly released government records show previously undisclosed flights ...
and point to a more active role by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in
aiding some of the Saudis in their departure. The F.B.I. gave personal
airport escorts to two prominent Saudi families who fled the United States,
and several other Saudis were allowed to leave the country without first
being interviewed. The material ... provides details about the F.B.I.'s
interaction with at least 160 Saudis who were living in or visiting the
United States and were allowed to leave the country. Some of the departing
Saudis were related to Osama bin Laden. In several ... cases, Saudi
travelers were not interviewed before departing the country, and F.B.I.
officials sought to determine how what seemed to be lapses had occurred.
"From these documents, [the Saudi interviews that did occur] look like they
were courtesy chats, without the time that would have been needed for
thorough debriefings," said Christopher J. Farrell, who is ... a former
counterintelligence interrogator for the Army. "It seems as if the F.B.I.
was more interested in achieving diplomatic success than investigative
success." The F.B.I. documents left open the possibility that some departing
Saudis had information relevant to the Sept. 11 investigation.
Note: For lots more crucial, verifiable information suggesting a 9/11
cover-up, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> .
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Alleged Hijackers May Have Trained at U.S. Bases
2001-09-15, WantToKnow.info/Newsweek
Posted: 2006-12-07 22:31:48
http://www.WantToKnow.info/010915newsweek
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/010915newsweek%20>
U.S. military sources have given the FBI information that suggests five of
the alleged [9/11] hijackers of the planes that were used in Tuesday's
terror attacks received training at secure U.S. military installations in
the 1990s. Three of the alleged hijackers listed their address on drivers
licenses and car registrations as the Naval Air Station in Pensacola,
Fla.-known as the "Cradle of U.S. Navy Aviation," according to a
high-ranking U.S. Navy source. Another of the alleged hijackers may have
been trained in strategy and tactics at the Air War College in Montgomery,
Ala., said another high-ranking Pentagon official. The fifth man may have
received language instruction at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio,
Tex. The five men were on a list of 19 people identified as hijackers by the
FBI on Friday. The three foreign nationals training in Pensacola appear to
be Saeed Alghamdi and Ahmad Alnami, who were among the four men who
allegedly commandeered United Airlines Flight 93. The third man who may have
trained in Pensacola, Ahmed Alghamdi, allegedly helped highjack United
Airlines Flight 75, which hit the south tower of the World Trade Center.
NEWSWEEK visited the base early Saturday morning, where military police
confirmed that the address housed foreign military flight trainees but
denied access past front barricades. Officials at the base confirmed that
the FBI is investigating the three students.
Note: Why would these high-ranking Pentagon officials be making such
statements just days after 9/11 if they didn't suspect foul play? Two other
hijackers also had possible military connections. For more reliable
information on this crucial matter, click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#hijackersmilitary> here.
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A Scandal Beyond What Has Been Seen Before
2005-12-00, WantToKnow.info/The Journal of Psychohistory Winter 2005 Issue
Posted: 2006-12-07 17:36:01
http://www.wanttoknow.info/050726scandal911
"If what I say is right, the whole US government should end up behind
bars."- Andreas von Bülow, former German government minister and author of
"Die CIA und der 11." .... A Zogby poll
<http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=855> in late August 2004 found
49 per cent of New York City residents and 41 per cent of New York citizens
overall agreed that "some leaders in the U.S. Government knew in advance
that attacks were planned on or around September 11, 2001, and that they
consciously failed to take action." Stanley Hilton -- a former aide to
Senator Bob Dole -- has filed a $7 billion suit on behalf of the families of
14 victims of the 9/11 attacks, alleging that Bush, along with Cheney,
Rumsfeld and others, actually ordered 9/11 to happen for political gain.
Hilton says he has incriminating documents and witnesses showing this. Even
an investigation into just a few of these questions, such as those around
the war games on 9/11 <http://www.WantToKnow.info/050317wargames911> , could
be enough to start a major scandal. However, as numerous writers and
independent researchers have found, there are so many suspicious
circumstances that the truth could be very different to what we have been
led to believe. The human rights lawyer Richard Falk has written: "There are
so many gaping holes in the official accounts of 9/11 that no plausible
coherent narrative remains, and until now we have been staggering forward as
if the truth about these traumatic events no longer mattered." But if the
mainstream press start investigating properly, it could lead to a completely
unprecedented '9/11 scandal.'
Note: The cover of this issue of the respected Journal
<http://www.psychohistory.com/htm/01_journal.html> of Psychohistory is
titled "The New 9/11 Scandal."
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Plane Lands In Cleveland; Bomb Feared Aboard
2001-09-11, WCPO - Cincinnati's ABC Affiliate
Posted: 2006-12-07 15:55:58
http://www.wcpo.com/specials/2001/americaattacked/news_local/story14.html
Reported by: 9News Staff, 9/11/01 11:43:57 AM. A Boeing 767 out of Boston
made an emergency landing Tuesday at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
due to concerns that it may have a bomb aboard, said Mayor Michael R. White.
White said the plane had been moved to a secure area of the airport, and was
evacuated. United identified the plane as Flight 93. The airline did say how
many people were aboard the flight. United said it was also "deeply
concerned" about another flight, Flight 175, a Boeing 767, which was bound
from Boston to Los Angeles. On behalf of the airline CEO James Goodwin said:
"The thoughts of everyone at United are with the passengers and crew of
these flights. Our prayers are also with everyone on the ground who may have
been involved. "United is working with all the relevant authorities,
including the FBI, to obtain further information on these flights," he said.
Note: Remember that Flight 93 reportedly crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11,
with all aboard killed. This story was posted within hours of the 9/11
attacks. Click on the link above and you will see, "This story has been
removed from WCPO.com. It was a preliminary AP story, and was factually
incorrect." However, using the powerful Internet
<http://web.archive.org/web/*/http:/www.wcpo.com/specials/2001/americaattack
ed/news_local/story14.html> Archive, you can see the original
<http://web.archive.org/web/20021109040132/http:/wcpo.com/specials/2001/amer
icaattacked/news_local/story14.html> article here. Click
<http://web.archive.org/web/*/http:/www.wcpo.com/specials/2001/americaattack
ed/news_local/story14.html> here and you can see the article continued to
be posted for all dates through June 2004, and was only removed later. How
can this be?
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The war on paperclips
2005-05-11, The Guardian (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)
Posted: 2006-12-07 15:38:31
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1480940,00.html
The FBI, as we know, blocked all manner of investigations into the [9/11]
plot in the run up to its execution, whether these involved highly specific
warnings from its own agents or from government sources in Afghanistan,
Argentina, Britain, the Cayman Islands, Egypt, France, Germany, Israel,
Italy, Jordan, Morocco and Russia. Meanwhile, I worry why the nearest
military <http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#scrambled> aircraft
weren't scrambled to intercept any of the hijacked flights when this is
standard procedure and why, when more distant jets were finally aloft, they
flew at less <http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#halfspeed> than
half speed, thus failing to prevent the impacts at the twin towers.
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Court Dismisses FBI Contractor's Suit Against U.S.
2005-05-07, Washington Post
Posted: 2006-12-07 15:36:49
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/06/AR2005050601
8...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/06/AR200505060
1815.html>
A federal appeals court rejected a fired FBI contractor's bid to revive her
lawsuit against the government. Sibel Edmonds said she was fired from her
job as a wiretap translator because she told superiors she suspected that a
co-worker was leaking information to targets of an ongoing FBI
investigation. The FBI said it fired her because she committed security
violations and disrupted the office. The Justice Department's inspector
general said Edmonds's allegations about a coworker "raised serious concerns
that, if true, could potentially have extremely damaging consequences for
the FBI."
Note: This article doesn't even mention 9/11, yet Ms. Edmonds has stated
publicly that her testimony would put top government officials behind bars
for their role in blocking information which could have stopped the 9/11
attacks. For more eye-opening information, click here
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#edmonds> and here
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#edmonds2> . Read Ms. Edmond's
open letter <http://www.WantToKnow.info/sibeledmonds> to the chairman of
the 9/11 Commission to find out what key people in government don't want you
to know about her testimony. See also her excellent website
http://www.justacitizen.com She was also instrumental in forming a National
Security <http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0427-15.htm> Whistleblowers
Coalition.
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FBI to Fire Dissident Agent
2005-04-23, Washington Post
Posted: 2006-12-07 15:32:18
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10381-2005Apr22.html
The FBI has moved to fire a veteran agent who alleged that the bureau had
mishandled domestic investigations. On Thursday, Robert Wright was ordered
by superiors at an FBI counterterrorism command office in Washington to hand
over his badge and weapon, was suspended and was told he would be fired
within 30 days, said an official with Judicial Watch, a government watchdog
group whose attorneys represent Wright. Wright was told he was being
dismissed for, among other things, publicly discussing sensitive FBI matters
in 2003, the official said. Wright has been under disciplinary investigation
for almost three years. He has two lawsuits pending against the FBI.
Yesterday, Sens. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) and Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.)
sent FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III a letter repeating their support for
Wright and expressing concern that the FBI was retaliating against him for
his public statements.
Note: What the Post article completely fails to mention is that Robert
Wright was hot on the trail of key terrorists before 9/11, yet he was
ordered to stop the investigation by his FBI supervisors. For past media
stories on this with links to original sources, click here
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#wright> , here
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#wright2> , and here
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#wright3> . Mr. Wright is one of
the FBI agents who approached renowned attorney David Schippers just weeks
before 9/11 to warn that a major terrorist attack was going to take place in
lower Manhattan. For more, click here
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#schippers> .
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Court prevents release of most September 11 emergency calls
2005-03-24, CNN News
Posted: 2006-12-07 15:28:31
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/24/sept11.tapes
The emergency phone calls made by people trapped inside the World Trade
Center on September 11, 2001, need not be released to the public, a New York
court ruled Thursday. The families sought release of the 9-1-1 calls
possessed by the Fire Department of New York, along with department
dispatcher calls and interviews with firefighters who participated in the
September 11 rescue effort. The FDNY had resisted the disclosures, citing
privacy concerns. The FDNY also sought to block the release of six
unidentified tapes and transcripts selected by federal prosecutors as
evidence in the prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person facing
trial in the United States for the September 11 attacks.
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Judge in Moussaoui Case Blocks Release of Sept. 11 Report
2005-04-30, Washington Post
Posted: 2006-12-07 15:26:36
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/29/AR2005042901
4...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/29/AR200504290
1435.html>
The federal judge overseeing the prosecution of admitted al Qaeda operative
Zacarias Moussaoui has blocked an attempt by the Justice Department's
inspector general to release a report on FBI missteps prior to the Sept. 11,
2001, attacks, according to a ruling unsealed yesterday. Without
explanation, U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema denied the request by
Inspector General Glenn A. Fine, who completed the report last July but
since has been unable to get permission to provide an unclassified version
of the document to the public. The report, titled "A Review of the FBI's
Handling of Intelligence Information Related to the September 11 Attacks,"
provides an in-depth examination of three episodes considered potential
missed opportunities to detect the Sept. 11 plot, including Moussaoui's
arrest in August 2001.
Note: Moussaoui is one of only two
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#twocharged> people ever to be
charged with direct involvement in 9/11. For more key info on Moussaoui,
click here <http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#moussaoui> .
According to the Senate
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#moussaouiwtc> Intelligence
Committee, on Aug. 27, 2001, an FBI agent was trying to make sure that
Moussaoui did "not take control of a plane and fly it into the World Trade
Center." Why have we not heard more about all this?
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UPI Hears...
2005-06-13, Washington Times/United Press International
Posted: 2006-12-07 15:20:12
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050613-102755-6408r.htm
A former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing
serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11. Former
chief economist for the Department of Labor during President George W.
Bush's first term Morgan Reynolds comments that the official story about the
collapse of the WTC is "bogus" and that it is more likely that a controlled
demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and adjacent Building No. 7. Reynolds,
who also served as director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National
Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas and is now professor emeritus at Texas
A&M University said, "If demolition destroyed three steel skyscrapers at the
World Trade Center on 9/11, then the case for an 'inside job' and a
government attack on America would be compelling." Reynolds commented from
his Texas A&M office, "It is hard to exaggerate the importance of a
scientific debate over the cause of the collapse of the twin towers and
building 7. If the official wisdom on the collapses is wrong, as I believe
it is, then policy based on such erroneous engineering analysis is not
likely to be correct either. The government's collapse theory is highly
vulnerable on its own terms. Only professional demolition appears to account
for the full range of facts associated with the collapse of the three
buildings."
Note: If the above link fails, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050620officialstory911bogus> . Why wasn't this
widely reported? For 50 other senior government officials who have seriously
questioned the 9/11 Commission Report, click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/officialsquestion911commissionreport> here.
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Federal agency planned plane-crashing-into-building drill [on] Sept. 11
2002-08-22, USA Today/Associated Press
Posted: 2006-12-05 23:31:10
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-08-22-sept-11-plane-drill-_x.htm
In what the government describes as a bizarre coincidence, one U.S.
intelligence agency was planning an exercise last Sept. 11 in which an
errant aircraft would crash into one of its buildings. But the cause wasn't
terrorism - it was to be a simulated accident. Officials at the Chantilly,
Va.-based National Reconnaissance Office had scheduled an exercise that
morning in which a small corporate jet would crash into one of the four
towers at the agency's headquarters building. The agency is about four miles
from the runways of Washington Dulles International Airport. "It was just an
incredible coincidence that this happened to involve an aircraft crashing
into our facility," [NRO spokesman Art] Haubold said. "As soon as the real
world events began, we canceled the exercise." Adding to the coincidence,
American Airlines Flight 77 - the Boeing 767 that was hijacked and crashed
into the Pentagon - took off from Dulles at 8:10 a.m. on Sept. 11, 50
minutes before the exercise was to begin. It struck the Pentagon around 9:40
a.m., killing 64 aboard the plane and 125 on the ground. The National
Reconnaissance Office operates many of the nation's spy satellites. It draws
its personnel from the military and the CIA. In a promotion for speaker John
Fulton, a CIA officer assigned as chief of NRO's strategic gaming division,
the announcement says, "On the morning of September 11th 2001, Mr. Fulton
and his team ... were running a pre-planned simulation to explore the
emergency response issues that would be created if a plane were to strike a
building."
Note: For many more disturbing coincindences and outright cover-ups around
9/11, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up> . And for yet
another amazing "coincidence" surrounding the London bombings, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050713londonbombingcoverup> .
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Former Scotland Yard Official Peter Power on London Bombings
2005-07-07, Global Research/BBC Radio
Posted: 2006-12-05 23:14:21
http://globalresearch.ca/audiovideo/070705londonterrorexercise.mp3
POWER: At half past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise
for a company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous
bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this
morning, so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck standing up right
now. HOST: To get this quite straight, you were running an exercise to see
how you would cope with this, and it happened while you were running the
exercise? POWER: Precisely, and it was about half past nine this morning. We
planned this for a company, and for obvious reasons I don't want to reveal
their name but they're listening and they'll know it. And we had a room full
of crisis managers for the first time they'd met. And so within five minutes
we made a pretty rapid decision that this is the real one, and so we went
through the correct drills of activating crisis management procedures to
jump from slow time to quick time thinking.
Note: For Mr. Power's comments on CBC radio, Canada's PBS, click here
<http://www.cbc.ca/MRL/clips/rm-lo/charles_disasters050711.rm> . For many
more serious questions raised around the London bombings, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050713londonbombingcoverup> and here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/londonbombingsnewsarticles> . For a very similar
"coincidence" on 9/11, click here
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#nro> .
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The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis
1987-11-04, WantToKnow.info/PBS Documentary
Posted: 2006-12-01 20:58:34
http://www.WantToKnow.info/050423secretgovernment
The Secret Government is an interlocking network of official functionaries,
spies, mercenaries, ex-generals, profiteers and superpatriots, who, for a
variety of motives, operate outside the legitimate institutions of
government. The Russians had been our ally against the Nazis, an expedient
alliance for the sake of war. Now they were our enemy. To fight them we
turned to some of the very men who had inflicted on humanity the horrors of
Hitler's madness. We hired Nazis
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/mindcontrol10pg#paperclip> ' as American spies.
Admiral Gene La Rocque: "That National Security Act of 1947 changed
dramatically the direction of this great nation. It established the
framework for a national security state. Never have we had a National
Security Council so concerned about the nation's security that we're always
looking for threats and looking how to orchestrate our society
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/powerofnightmares> to oppose those threats.
National Security was invented, almost, in 1947, and now it has become the
prime mover of everything we do. The National Security Act also gave us the
Central Intelligence Agency." In 1975 ... Congress took its first public
look at the Secret Government. Senator Frank Church chaired the Select
Committee to study government operations. The hearings opened the books on a
string of lethal activities. From the use of electric pistols and poison
pellets, to Mafia connections and drug experiments. And they gave us a
detailed account of assassination plots against foreign leaders and the
overthrowing of sovereign governments. This is a system easily corrupted.
While freedom does have enemies in the world, it can also be undermined here
at home, in the dark, by those posing as its friends.
Note: This highly revealing PBS documentary is available for free viewing on
the Internet. For the link, written text, and much more on this amazingly
revealing documentary, click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050423secretgovernment> here.
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Is Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman?
2005-01-11, Los Angeles Times
Posted: 2006-12-01 20:30:58
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jan/11/opinion/oe-scheer11
Is it conceivable that Al Qaeda, as defined by President Bush as the center
of a vast and well-organized international terrorist conspiracy, does not
exist? To even raise the question amid all the officially inspired hysteria
is heretical. Yet a brilliant new BBC film produced by one of Britain's
leading documentary filmmakers systematically challenges this. "The Power of
Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear" ... argues coherently that
much of what we have been told about the threat of international terrorism
"is a fantasy that has been exaggerated and distorted by politicians. It is
a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned ... around the world." Why have
we heard so much frightening talk about "dirty bombs" when experts say it is
panic rather than radioactivity that would kill people? Why did Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claim on "Meet the Press" in 2001 that Al Qaeda
controlled massive high-tech cave complexes in Afghanistan, when British and
U.S. military forces later found no such thing? The film ... directly
challenges the conventional wisdom by making a powerful case that the Bush
administration, led by a tight-knit cabal of Machiavellian neoconservatives,
has seized upon the false image of a unified international terrorist threat
to replace the expired Soviet empire in order to push a political agenda.
"The nightmare vision of a uniquely powerful hidden organization waiting to
strike our societies is an illusion. Wherever one looks for this Al Qaeda
organization, from the mountains of Afghanistan to the 'sleeper cells' in
America, the British and Americans are chasing a phantom enemy."
Note: If above link fails, click here
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/050111latimes> . This highly revealing film by
one of Britain's most respected documentary makers is available for free
viewing on the Internet. For the link and lots more on this amazingly
revealing documentary, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/powerofnightmares> . For an excellent review of
the film in one of the U.K.'s leading newspapers, click here
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,,1327905,00.html> .
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Ex-employee says FAA warned before 9/11
2006-11-24, USA Today
Posted: 2006-11-26 13:37:07
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-23-whistle-blower-faa_x.htm
From 1995 to 2001, Bogdan Dzakovic served as a team leader on the Federal
Aviation Administration's Red Team. Set up by Congress to help the FAA ...
the elite squad tested airport security systems. In the years leading up to
the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Dzakovic says, the team was able to
breach security about 90% of the time, sneaking bombs and submachine guns
past airport screeners. Expensive new bomb detection machines consistently
failed. The team repeatedly warned the FAA of the potential for security
breaches and hijackings but was told to cover up its findings. Eventually,
the FAA began notifying airports in advance when the Red Team would be doing
its undercover testing. He and other Red Team members approached the
Department of Transportation's Office of the Inspector General, the General
Accounting Office and members of Congress about the FAA's alleged
misconduct. No one did anything. "Immediately (after 9/11), numerous
government officials from FAA as well as other government agencies made
defensive statements such as, 'How could we have known this was going to
happen?' " Dzakovic testified later before the 9/11 Commission. After filing
[a] complaint, Dzakovic was removed from his Red Team leadership position.
He now works for the Transportation Security Administration. His primary
assignments include tasks such as hole-punching, updating agency phonebooks
and "thumb-twiddling." At least he hasn't received a pay cut, he says. He
makes about $110,000 a year for what he describes as "entry-level idiot
work."
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'State secrets privilege' blocks fired translator from suing FBI
2006-11-24, USA Today
Posted: 2006-11-26 13:35:41
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-23-whistleblower-translator_
x...
<http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-23-whistleblower-translator
_x.htm>
Sibel Edmonds, who formed the 100-plus member National Security
whistle-blowers Coalition <http://www.nswbc.org> in 2002, began working as
a linguist for the FBI the week after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack.
Several months into her contract, she discovered "shoddy" translations
relevant to 9/11 created by translators who had "failed the proficiency
exams." Edmonds says the translator was sent to Guantanamo Bay to translate
"the most sensitive terrorist-related information" from interviews of
detainees. Edmonds also notified her superiors that a co-worker was
responsible for translating wiretaps of a company the latter used to work
for. [Edmonds] was fired in March 2002. When Edmonds asked why, she received
a letter saying her contract had been "terminated completely for the
government's convenience." In its final report, the inspector general
concluded that "we believe that many of (Edmonds') allegations were
supported, that the FBI did not take them seriously enough, and that her
allegations were, in fact, the most significant factor in the FBI's decision
to terminate her services." The same month the report was released, Edmonds'
lawsuit to contest her firing was dismissed. Legal briefs show the
government had invoked the so-called state secrets privilege, arguing that
the lawsuit would jeopardize national security. "Instead of protecting and
standing up for whistle-blowers, this is just giving the complete green
light to retaliate," says Edmonds, who lost her appeal.
Note: This article fails to mention that Edmonds has repeatedly stated in
public forums and in the press that she has specific information on the
involvement of certain high officials in 9/11. For more on this vital topic,
click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/sibeledmondsnewsarticles> .
_____
Able Danger disabled
2005-08-13, Toledo Blade
Posted: 2006-11-24 00:00:49
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050813/COLUMNIST14/50813
0...
<http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050813/COLUMNIST14/5081
30375/-1/ARCHIVES30>
What may be a bigger scandal is that the staff of the 9/11 Commission knew
of Able Danger and what it had found, but made no mention of it in its
report. This is as if the commission that investigated the attack on Pearl
Harbor had written its final report without mentioning the Japanese. Mr.
Weldon unveiled Able Danger in a speech on the House floor June 27, but his
remarks didn't attract attention until the New York Times reported on them
Tuesday. When the story broke, former Rep. Lee Hamilton, a Democrat from
Indiana, co-chairman of the 9/11 Commission, at first denied the commission
had ever been informed of what Able Danger had found, and took a swipe at
Mr. Weldon's credibility: "The Sept. 11th Commission did not learn of any
U.S. government knowledge prior to 9/11 of the surveillance of Mohammed Atta
or his cell," Mr. Hamilton said. "Had we learned of it obviously it would
have been a major focus of our investigation." Mr. Hamilton changed his tune
after the New York Times reported Thursday, and the Associated Press
confirmed, that commission staff had been briefed on Able Danger in October,
2003, and again in July, 2004. The 9/11 commission wrote history as it
wanted it to be, not as it was. The real history of what happened that
terrible September day has yet to be written.
_____
An Inconvenient Patriot
2005-09-00, Vanity Fair September 2005 Issue
Posted: 2006-11-23 23:56:33
http://www.WantToKnow.info/sibeledmondsvanityfair
Love of country led Sibel Edmonds to become a translator for the F.B.I.
following 9/11. But everything changed when she accused a colleague of
covering up illicit activity involving Turkish nationals. Fired after
sounding the alarm, she's now fighting for the ideals that made her an
American, and threatening some very powerful people. Edmonds has given
confidential testimony inside a secure Sensitive Compartmented Information
facility on several occasions: to congressional staffers, to investigators
from the O.I.G., and to the staff from the 9/11 commission. Sources familiar
with this testimony say that, in addition to her allegations about the
Dickersons, she reported hearing Turkish wiretap targets boast that they had
a covert relationship with a very senior politician indeed - Dennis Hastert,
Republican congressman from Illinois and Speaker of the House since 1999.
The targets reportedly discussed giving Hastert tens of thousands of dollars
in surreptitious payments in exchange for political favors and information.
"The Dickersons," says one official familiar with the case, "are only the
tip of the iceberg."
Note: Sibel Edmonds is a courageous FBI whistleblower who is one of the
great heroes of the 9/11 movement. For more mainstream media reports on her
case with links to original sources provided, click
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#edmonds> here and here
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#edmonds2> . For a nationally
broadcast August 10th radio interview (written transcript provided) of Ms.
Edmonds describing her case, click here
<http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/10/1346254> . For an
article on her own website describing how the FBI had clear foreknowledge of
9/11, see http://justacitizen.com/articles_documents/FBI%20
<http://justacitizen.com/articles_documents/FBI%20&%20911.htm> &%20911.htm
_____
McKinney reopens 9/11
2005-07-23, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta's leading newspaper)
Posted: 2006-11-23 23:56:05
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/0705/23natmckinney.html
Rep. Cynthia McKinney led a Capitol Hill hearing Friday on whether the Bush
administration was involved in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
"What we are doing is asking the unanswered questions of the 9/11 families,"
McKinney, a DeKalb County Democrat...said during the proceedings. The
eight-hour hearing, timed to mark the first anniversary of the release of
the Sept. 11 commission's report on the attacks, drew dozens of contrarians
and conspiracy theorists who suggest President Bush purposely ignored
warnings or may even have had a hand in the attack - claims participants
said the commission ignored. "Congresswoman McKinney is viewed as a
contrarian," panelist Melvin Goodman, a former CIA official, said. "And I
hope someday her views will be considered conventional wisdom."
Note: Other than this article and C-SPAN (see below), no major media covered
this important event. C-SPAN 2 eventually aired
<http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/fullschedule.csp?month=8&day=31
&year=2005> the hearing on August 31, 2005 at 8 PM. Many thanks to C-SPAN
for being the only media outlet that consistently reports on 9/11
information that should be making headlines in all major media.
_____
9/11 on Trial
2005-08-06, Daily Mail (Second largest circulation English-language
newspaper in the world)
Posted: 2006-11-23 23:43:32
http://www.WantToKnow.info/911dailymailarticle
Towers that fell 'like a controlled demolition'. Planes that vanished then
mysteriously reappeared, And crucial evidence that has been lost for ever. A
new book raises bizarre yet deeply unsettling questions about the world's
worst terror atrocity. Henshall and Morgan say the...call for transparency
is the thrust of their whole argument. It is time, they say, for a full and
truly independent inquiry into 9/11 that will reveal all the facts and
silence the rumours. With public trust one of the major casualties of the
war, can any of us be absolutely sure we have not been caught up in a lie
and perhaps a bigger one even than we ever though possible?
Note: This is one of the longest, most thorough articles on 9/11 cover-ups
in the mainstream media yet to be published. Click on the link above to read
the full article. To give an idea of the contents, here are the section
titles of this eye-opening article:
* Did the CIA actively help the hijackers?
* 'The fire wasn't hot enough to cause a collapse'
* One expert said there were bombs inside the towers
* Why didn't fighter planes intercept the hijackers?
* The hole in the Pentagon was too small for a Boeing
* The air force scrambled from the wrong base
* So how did the passengers make those phone calls?
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Getting Agnostic About 9/11
2005-08-28, Los Angeles Times
Posted: 2006-11-22 22:02:05
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-crgriffin35aug28
,...
<http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-crgriffin35aug2
8,1,3835884.story>
Anyone who types the words "9/11" and "conspiracy" into an online search
engine soon learns that not everybody buys the official narrative of what
took place on Sept. 11, 2001. As a professor emeritus at the Claremont
School of Theology, 66-year-old David
<http://www.ctr4process.org/about/CoDirectors/CPSCoDirectors.htm> Ray
Griffin would seem to have more affinity for leather elbow patches than tin
hats, yet after friends and colleagues prodded him into sifting through the
evidence, he experienced a conversion. "For the first year and a half I just
accepted the conventional view ... that this was blowback for our foreign
policy. When a colleague suggested to me ... forces within our own
government had arranged it, I didn't accept that. Then several months later
another colleague sent me a website
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up> that had a timeline. Once I ...
saw all those stories drawn from mainstream sources that contradicted the
official account, I decided I needed to look into it more carefully, and the
more I looked, the worse it got. The fact that Building 7
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#wtcinvestigation3> ...
collapsed when it had not been hit by an airplane ... that's a smoking gun.
The fact that standard operating procedures were not followed that morning,
and we've gotten three different stories now by the U.S. military as to why
they did not intercept
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#scramble> the planes, that's a
smoking gun. The 9/11 commission simply ignored those questions. The
official account itself is a conspiracy theory. It says that 19 Arab
Muslims...conspired to pull off this operation. The question is not whether
one is a conspiracy theorist about 9/11. It's which conspiracy theory do you
find most supported by the evidence?"
Note: If the Los Angeles Times link does not work, click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911conspiracy> here for the full article. The
timeline to which Prof. Griffin refers is the WantToKnow.info timeline at
http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up
_____
500 Conspiracy Buffs Meet to Seek the Truth of 9/11
2006-06-05, New York Times
Posted: 2006-11-22 19:00:58
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/us/05conspiracy.html?ex=1307160000
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/us/05conspiracy.html?ex=1307160000&en=2d3
267519cd39885&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> &en=2d326...
In the ballroom foyer of the Embassy Suites Hotel, the two-day International
Education and Strategy Conference for 9/11 Truth was off to a rollicking
start. More than 500 people - from Italy to Northern California - gathered
for the weekend at a major chain hotel near the runways of O'Hare
International. There were talks on the Reichstag fire and the sinking of the
Battleship Maine as precedents for 9/11. There were speeches by the lawyer
for James
<http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10D1FFB3D590C758DDDA90994D
A404482> Earl Ray, who claimed that a military conspiracy killed the Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther King <http://www.wanttoknow.info/060416newsarticles#2> ,
and by a former operative for the British secret service, MI5. 9/11 Truthers
[are] a group that, in its rank and file, includes professors
<http://www.st911.org/> , chain-saw operators, mothers, engineers,
activists, used-book sellers, pizza deliverymen, [and] college students.
Steven E. Jones [is] a professor of physics at Brigham Young University and
the movement's expert in the matter of collapse. Dr. Jones...is a
soft-spoken man who lets his writing do the talking. He composed an account
<http://web.archive.org/web/20051231045301/http:/www.physics.byu.edu/researc
h/energy/htm7.html> of the destruction of the towers...that holds that
"pre-positioned cutter-charges" brought the buildings down. There is a plan
by the British delegation...to get members of Parliament to watch "Loose
Change <http://www.WantToKnow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11> ," the seminal
movement DVD. The Truthers are not alone in believing the whole truth has
not come out. A poll released last month
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/060523newsarticles#1> by Zogby International
found that 42 percent of all Americans believe the 9/11 Commission
"concealed or refused to investigate critical evidence" in the attacks. [And
a] Zogby poll <http://www.WantToKnow.info/zogby911> two years ago that
found that 49 percent of New York City residents agreed with the idea that
some leaders "knew in advance" that the attacks were planned and failed to
act.
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Click Here for Conspiracy
2006-08-00, Vanity Fair August 2006 Issue
Posted: 2006-11-22 18:42:58
http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/articles/060717roco02
Nine-eleven conspiracy theories have been circulating for years, producing
millions
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=9%2F11+cover-up&btnG=Google+Search>
of Web links, scores of books <http://www.WantToKnow.info/911resources> ,
and a nationwide collection of doubters known as the "9/11 Truth" movement.
For those who can't find information about the alleged cover-up on the
nightly news, there is Loose Change
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11> , a documentary about
9/11. Since it appeared on the Web in April 2005, the 80-minute film has
been climbing up and down Google Video's "Top 100," rising to No. 1 this
May, with at least 10 million viewings. It's safe to say that, if it were a
theatrical release, Loose Change would be one of the most popular-and
incendiary-movies in the country right now. Most of what we see on-screen
during Loose Change are actually news reports from mainstream-media outlets
like CBS News, Newsweek, CNN, the Associated Press, even Fox News. Loose
Change is an investigation into the official story of 9/11 as told by The
9/11 Commission Report. Why were the black boxes from American Airlines
Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 never found, when the passport of
one of Flight 11's alleged hijackers, Satam Al Suqami, turned up unscathed a
few blocks from the World Trade Center? Hani Hanjour, one of the alleged
hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, had trouble controlling and
landing a single-engine Cessna 172 when he did test runs. Yet according to
the official version of events, if Hani Hanjour had been the pilot he would
have had to execute a perfect 330-degree turn at 530 miles per hour,
descending 7,000 feet in two and a half minutes, in order to crash Flight
77, a Boeing 757, into the Pentagon.
Note: To watch this incredibly revealing documentary free online, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11> .
_____
Senior Government Officials Question 9/11 Commission Report
2006-09-11, Boston Globe/Fox News/Wall Street Journal, More
Posted: 2006-11-22 16:46:31
http://www.WantToKnow.info/officialsquestion911commissionreport
Many respected senior members of the U.S. military, intelligence services,
and government have expressed significant criticism of the 9/11 Commission
Report. Some even allege government complicity in the terrible acts of 9/11.
Below are the highly revealing statements on this vital topic of over 50
prominent public servants with links for verification and further
investigation. The collective voices of these respected senior officials
give credibility to the claim that the 9/11 Commission Report is tragically
flawed. These dedicated individuals from both political parties cannot be
simply dismissed as irresponsible believers in some 9/11 conspiracy theory.
Their sincere concern, backed by decades of service to their country,
demonstrate that criticism of the 9/11 Commission Report is not only
reasonable and responsible, it is in fact a patriotic duty.
_____
Congressman Curt Weldon's Speech to Congress
2005-10-19, Official Website of Congressman Weldon (R-Pa)
Posted: 2006-11-22 00:01:57
http://curtweldon.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=35792
"I have been in this institution 19 years. I am the vice chairman of [the
Committee on Armed Services] and chairman of the subcommittee that oversees
the purchase of our weapons systems. I am a strong supporter of our
military. I am a strong supporter of President Bush. I campaigned for him. I
am a strong supporter of Secretary Rumsfeld. I say all of that, Mr. Speaker,
because...there is something desperately wrong here. There is a bureaucracy
in the Defense Intelligence Agency that is out of control. They want to
destroy the reputation of a 23-year military officer, Bronze Star recipient,
hero of our country, with two kids because people in defense intelligence
are embarrassed at what is going to come out. I have met with at least 10
people who fully corroborate what Tony Shaffer says. This is not [about]
Republicans or Democrats. It is about what is fundamental to this country. I
would ask our constituents across America [who] we represent to join us, to
express their outrage, to e-mail, make phone calls, write letters to the
Secretary of Defense, the President of the United States, to Members of
Congress to...let the Able Danger story finally come out to the American
people. Let them understand what really happened. Let Scott Philpott talk.
Let Tony Shaffer talk. Let the others who have been silenced have a chance
to tell their story to Congress and openly to the American people. In the
end, the country will be stronger.
Note: For lots more reliable, verifiable information specifically on Able
Danger:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeli
ne
<http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timel
ine&before_9/11=ableDanger> &before_9/11=ableDanger
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9/11 Commission's Staff Rejected Report on Early Identification of Chief
Hijacker
2005-08-11, New York Times
Posted: 2006-11-21 23:57:37
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/11/politics/11intel.html?ex=1281412800
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/11/politics/11intel.html?ex=1281412800&en=3c
4c0f2346a58391&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> &en=3c4c...
The Sept. 11 commission was warned by a uniformed military officer 10 days
before issuing its final report that the account would be incomplete without
reference to what he described as a secret military operation that by the
summer of 2000 had identified as a potential threat the member of Al Qaeda
who would lead the attacks more than a year later. The officials said that
the information had not been included in the report because aspects of the
officer's account had sounded inconsistent with what the commission knew
about that Qaeda member, Mohammed Atta, the plot's leader. [Republican
Congressman Curt] Weldon has accused the commission of ignoring information
that would have forced a rewriting of the history of the Sept. 11 attacks.
He has asserted that the Able Danger unit...sought to call their superiors'
attention to Mr. Atta and three other future hijackers in the summer of
2000. In a letter sent Wednesday to members of the commission, Mr. Weldon
criticized the panel in scathing terms, saying that its "refusal to
investigate Able Danger after being notified of its existence, and its
recent efforts to feign ignorance of the project...brings shame on the
commissioners." Al Felzenberg, who served as the commission's chief
spokesman, said earlier this week that staff members who were briefed about
Able Danger at a first meeting, in October 2003, did not remember hearing
anything about Mr. Atta or an American terrorist cell. On Wednesday,
however, Mr. Felzenberg said the uniformed officer who briefed two staff
members in July 2004 had indeed mentioned Mr. Atta.
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More remember Atta ID'd as terrorist pre-9/11
2005-09-01, MSNBC/Associated Press
Posted: 2006-11-21 23:53:56
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9163145
Pentagon officials said Thursday they have found three more people who
recall an intelligence chart that identified Sept. 11 mastermind Mohamed
Atta as a terrorist one year before the attacks on New York and Washington.
But they have been unable to find the chart or other evidence that it
existed. On Thursday, four intelligence officials provided the first
extensive briefing for reporters on the outcome of their interviews with
people associated with Able Danger and their review of documents. They said
they interviewed at least 80 people over a three-week period and found
three, besides Philpott and Shaffer, who said they remember seeing a chart
that either mentioned Atta by name as an al-Qaida operative or showed his
photograph. Four of the five recalled a chart with a pre-9/11 photo of Atta;
the other person recalled only a reference to his name. The intelligence
officials said they consider the five people to be credible but their
recollections are still unverified.
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U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba
2001-05-01, ABC News
Posted: 2006-11-19 19:16:47
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662
In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans
to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to
create public support for a war against Cuba. Code named Operation
Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of
Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking
planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in
U.S. cities. The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public
and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's ...
Fidel Castro. America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S.
military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo
Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a
helpful wave of national indignation." The plans had the written approval of
all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and were presented to President Kennedy's
defense secretary, Robert McNamara, in March 1962. But they apparently were
rejected by the civilian leadership and have gone undisclosed for nearly 40
years. The Joint Chiefs even proposed using the potential death of astronaut
John Glenn during the first attempt to put an American into orbit as a false
pretext for war with Cuba. Should the rocket explode and kill Glenn, they
wrote, "the objective is to provide irrevocable proof ... that the fault
lies with the Communists." The scary thing is none of this stuff comes out
until 40 years after.
Note: Many military and political leaders tend to look at the world as a
chess board <http://www.wanttoknow.info/brzezinskigrandchessboard> .
Sacrificing pawns (innocent civilians) is sometimes necessary to capture the
queen. Is it beyond comprehension that this might have been the case with
9/11 <http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up> ? And why was ABC the only
major news source to report this highly revealing story? To read the
shocking declassified documents on Operation Northwoods, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/010501operationnorthwoods> .
_____
9/11 conspiracy theorists multiply
2006-09-08, MSNBC/Washington Post
Posted: 2006-11-19 17:57:05
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14723997
A recent Scripps <http://www.scrippsnews.com/911poll> Howard/Ohio
University poll of 1,010 Americans found that 36 percent suspect the U.S.
government promoted the attacks or intentionally sat on its hands. Sixteen
percent believe explosives brought down the towers. A Zogby International
poll <http://www.zogby.com/news/readnews.cfm?ID=855> of New York City
residents two years ago found 49.3 percent believed the government
"consciously failed to act." The loose agglomeration known as the "9/11
Truth Movement" has stopped looking for truth from the government. The
academic wing <http://www.st911.org> is led by [Prof. David Ray] Griffin,
who founded the Center for a Postmodern World at Claremont University; James
Fetzer, a tenured philosopher at the University of Minnesota; and Daniel
Orr, the retired chairman of the economics department at the University of
Illinois. The movement's de facto minister of engineering is Steven Jones
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_E._Jones> , a tenured physics professor
at Brigham Young University, who's ... concluded that the collapse of the
twin towers is best explained as controlled demolition. Catherine Austin
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050908insidejob911#fitts> Fitts served as
assistant secretary of housing in the first President Bush's administration.
[Robert] Bowman <http://www.wanttoknow.info/050908insidejob911#bowman> was
chief of advanced space programs under presidents Ford and Carter. Fitts and
Bowman agree that the "most unbelievable conspiracy" theory is the one
retailed by the government. It was a year before David Ray Griffin
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050504davidraygriffin> , an eminent liberal
theologian and philosopher, began his stroll down the path of disbelief. He
wondered why ... military jets failed to intercept even one airliner. He
read the 9/11 Commission report with a swell of anger. Contradictions were
ignored and no military or civilian official was reprimanded. Griffin's
book, "The
<http://www.amazon.com/New-Pearl-Harbor-Disturbing-Administration/dp/1566565
529/sr=1-1/qid=1163987185/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-3462640-4229555?ie=UTF8&s=books>
New Pearl Harbor" ... never reviewed in a major U.S. newspaper, sold more
than 100,000 copies and became a movement founding stone.
Note: If the above link fails, click here
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003250424_911conspire09.
html> .
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Conspiracy theories propel AM radio show into Top 10
2006-11-12, San Francisco Chronicle
Posted: 2006-11-16 21:59:36
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/11/12/MNGV9MBB3T1.D
TL
There was a time when "Coast to Coast AM," the late-night syndicated talk
radio show dedicated to paranormal activities and political conspiracies,
didn't get much respect. That all changed when millions from the mainstream
met up with the after-midnight fringe folks to make "Coast to Coast AM" a
top-rated radio show. George Noory...has hosted the program on weeknights
from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. PST full time since 2003. The show...was taking calls
about Sept. 11 conspiracy theories just two weeks after the terrorist
attacks. "Coast to Coast AM"...can now reach upward of 3 million listeners
through 500 stations each week. "There's absolutely a growing conspiracy
climate," said Noory. "People are tired of being misled and confused from
taking information directly from a government official." Noory, 56, took
over "Coast to Coast AM" when the show's founder, Art Bell, retired. Bell,
who has come in and out of retirement several times over the years, now
hosts the program on weekends from his new home in the Philippines. Judging
by the 300-plus phone calls and 1,000 e-mails the show receives on an
average night...listeners include liberals, conservatives, senior citizens
in San Francisco, college students in South Carolina and even soldiers in
Iraq. Talkers magazine, the trade publication that tracks radio ratings, has
Noory in the top 10 of its "Top Talk Radio Audiences," alongside Rush
Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly [and] Sean Hannity. "Coast to Coast" has on occasion
scooped major media outlets like the New York Times and CNN, according to
Noory. "We broke the story on the Dubai ports," said Noory. "We broke the
story on SARS, and we were the first to report on the bird flu pandemic."
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Bin Laden, Most Wanted For Embassy Bombings?
2006-08-28, Washington Post
Posted: 2006-11-16 20:54:54
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/27/AR2006082700
6...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/27/AR200608270
0687.html>
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is a longtime and prominent member of the
FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list, which notes his role as the suspected
mastermind of the deadly U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa on Aug. 7,
1998. But another more infamous date -- Sept. 11, 2001 -- is nowhere to be
found on the same FBI notice. The curious omission underscores the Justice
Department's decision, so far, to not seek formal criminal charges against
bin Laden for approving al-Qaeda's most notorious and successful terrorist
attack. The notice says bin Laden is "a suspect in other terrorist attacks
throughout the world" but does not provide details. The absence has also
provided fodder for conspiracy theorists who think the U.S. government or
another power was behind the Sept. 11 hijackings. From this point of view,
the lack of a Sept. 11 reference suggests that the connection to al-Qaeda is
uncertain. FBI officials say the wanted poster merely reflects the
government's long-standing practice of relying on actual criminal charges.
Bin Laden was placed on the Ten Most Wanted list in June 1999 after being
indicted for murder, conspiracy and other charges in connection with the
embassy bombings, and a $5 million reward was put on his head at that time.
The listing was updated after Sept. 11, 2001, to include a higher reward of
$25 million, but no mention of the attacks was added.
Note: For an article in the Ithaca Journal which probes much deeper into
this matter, click
<http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060629/OPINION
02/606290310/1014> here. To see the FBI's page on bin Laden:
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm. Many people forget
that Bin Laden initially stated that though he applauded the attacks, he did
not plan them. To see this reported on CNN, click here
<http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/16/inv.binladen.denial/> . Why would he
deny involvement? For lots more, click here
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/911information> .
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Backers hail 9/11 theorist's speech
2006-10-30, Denver Post
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_4572518
The standing ovation has finally died down, and Steven E. Jones, a
soft-spoken physics professor, finds himself pinned against the stage by
some of the enthusiastic fans who packed a University of Denver auditorium.
"Can I just shake your hand?" a woman in a baggy red sweater asks Jones.
"You're doing such important work." If anything, Jones appears embarrassed
by all the attention. Quiet and self-effacing, he's an unlikely hero for
9/11 conspiracy theorists of every stripe, but that's exactly what he's
become. A physicist whose background includes work on nuclear fusion, Jones
was put on leave by Brigham Young University in September after publishing a
<http://worldtradecentertruth.com/volume/200609/WhyIndeedDidtheWorldTradeCen
terBuildingsCompletelyCollapse.pdf> paper saying that the twin towers
couldn't have collapsed solely as a result of the planes that rammed the
upper floors on Sept. 11. The paper theorizes that explosives planted inside
the building must have been involved. Though Jones doesn't specify who he
believes planted the charges, he concedes it would have had to be "an inside
job" and likely would have included either very powerful figures on the
American scene or entities inside the government. Jones and his work reflect
the mainstreaming of a movement that has defied the Bush administration's
efforts to put it to rest and mystified people who have studied the events
of that day closely. A startlingly large percentage of the population simply
doesn't believe the official explanation. A national poll
<http://newspolls.org/story.php?story_id=55> by the Scripps Survey Center
at Ohio University conducted in the summer found that more than a third of
people questioned believed the government either planned the attacks or
could have stopped them but didn't.
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9/11 theorists are either silly or shrewd
2006-10-29, Denver Post
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.denverpost.com/lifestyles/ci_4543650
They believe the federal government had a hand in the terrorist attacks of
Sept. 11, 2001. Members of Colorado911Visibility.org
<http://www.Colorado911Visibility.org> include psychologists, lawyers,
civil engineers, electrical engineers, an aerospace engineer, physicists and
lots of people with doctorates and master's degrees in the sciences. They
understand why people want to dismiss them. They say people want to attack
them as messengers because it's too disturbing to believe the government
that is supposed to protect us would orchestrate the deaths of more than
3,000 Americans. One of the organizers invited three scholars to speak...to
"take this out of the realm of conspiracy theory." (Details at
denverpostbloghouse.com/rodriguez
<http://www.denverpostbloghouse.com/rodriguez/> .) The year-old group has an
e-mail list of about 350 people. Among them is Earl Staelin, a 66-year-old
civil litigator. He said many of his friends who are engineers didn't
believe the official story, that the towers fell because [of] burning fuel
from the planes. After he showed films, such as "9-11
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6708190071483512003> Mysteries,"
they came to the same conclusion: demolition experts must have planned this
in advance. Why would the government do it? The explanations are plentiful,
as is the evidence that groups such as this one, which exist throughout the
nation...share on such websites as 911truth.org <http://www.911truth.org> .
And for those who say these groups are wacko fringe groups, think again:
According to a poll <http://newspolls.org/story.php?story_id=55> by the
Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University taken this August, 36
percent of Americans believe the government was either complicit in the 9/11
attacks or knew about it and didn't try to stop it. 16 percent believe
explosives were used to bring down the towers.
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Can the '20th hijacker' of Sept. 11 stand trial?
2006-10-24, MSNBC
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15361462/
Mohammed al-Qahtani, detainee No. 063, was forced to wear a bra. He had a
thong placed on his head. He was massaged by a female interrogator who
straddled him like a lap dancer. He was told that his mother and sisters
were whores. He was told that other detainees knew he was gay. He was forced
to dance with a male interrogator. He was strip-searched in front of women.
He was led on a leash and forced to perform dog tricks. That much is known.
These details were among the findings of the U.S. Army's investigation of
al-Qahtani's aggressive interrogation at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But only now
is a picture emerging of how the interrogation policy developed, and the
battle that law enforcement agents waged, inside Guantanamo and in the
offices of the Pentagon, against harsh treatment of al-Qahtani and other
detainees by military intelligence interrogators. In interviews with
MSNBC.com - the first time they have spoken publicly - former senior law
enforcement agents described their attempts to stop the abusive
interrogations. The agents of the Pentagon's Criminal Investigation Task
Force, working to build legal cases against suspected terrorists, said they
objected to coercive tactics used...after Guantanamo's prison camp opened in
early 2002. They ultimately carried their battle up to the office of
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, who approved the more aggressive
techniques. And they described their disappointment when military
prosecutors told them not to worry about making a criminal case against
al-Qahtani, the suspected "20th hijacker" of Sept. 11, because what had been
done to him would prevent him from ever being put on trial.
_____
Controversial prof to leave BYU
2006-10-22, Salt Lake Tribune
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_4528049
Steven Jones, the Brigham Young University physics professor embroiled in
controversy over his theories on the Twin Towers' collapse, is retiring Jan.
1. "I am electing to retire so that I can spend more time speaking and
conducting research of my choosing," Jones said in an interview Friday. "I
appreciate the wonderful opportunity I have had to teach and serve and do
research at BYU for more than 21 years." In September, the
university...placed Jones on paid leave in order to conduct a professional
review of his controversial Sept. 11 theories. The review...has been
canceled due to Jones' retirement. The professor had given several public
lectures on his theories of why the World Trade Center collapsed. Jones
published
<http://worldtradecentertruth.com/volume/200609/WhyIndeedDidtheWorldTradeCen
terBuildingsCompletelyCollapse.pdf> the paper, "Why Indeed Did the World
Trade Center Buildings Collapse?" online and began lecturing about his
theories. Jones also recently was appointed co-chairman of Scholars
<http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org> for 9/11 Truth, "a nonpartisan
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." He is also the
co-editor of Journal of 9/11 Studies <http://www.journalof911studies.com> .
He said he is not bitter toward BYU, and hopes to continue his research.
[Jones' letter states] "Two structural engineering professors in Switzerland
have recently spoken out as I have also done, declaring that explosives were
with 'utmost probability' responsible for the collapse of World Trade Center
7 on Sept. 11."
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Police 'exaggerated evidence' against British 9/11 suspect
2006-10-09, London Times
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2395400,00.html
Police and prosecutors are facing allegations that they misled a judge and
grossly exaggerated evidence against the only man to be detained in Britain
over September 11. There is renewed scrutiny on two fronts of the role
played by Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service in making
unfounded claims that Lotfi Raissi trained the 9/11 hijackers. The
Independent Police Complaints Commission has opened an investigation into
the conduct of the Anti-Terrorist Branch detectives who arrested Mr Raissi
in 2001 and prepared the evidence against him. The alleged terrorist link
was one of a number of false allegations made against Mr Raissi. Prosecutors
claimed in court that he was the "lead instructor" for the main hijackers
who crashed aircraft into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. The FBI
was said to have video material showing him in the company of Hani Hanjour,
one of the hijack pilots. However, all the evidence was shown to be
unsubstantiated and, in February 2002, District Judge Timothy Workman
ordered Mr Raissi's release. Mr Raissi has since made several unsuccessful
attempts to obtain an official apology from the Home Office and the
Metropolitan Police. Successive Home Secretaries have resisted his request
for an acknowledgment that he was wrongfully arrested. Mr Raissi said: "My
life has been ruined. I lost my freedom, my reputation and my career. The
courts have said I am innocent - why does the Home Secretary not accept
this?"
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Tenet told 9/11 panel that he warned Rice of Al Qaeda
2006-10-03, Boston Globe/Washington Post
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/10/03/tenet_told_
9...
<http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/10/03/tenet_told
_911_panel_that_he_warned_rice_of_al_qaeda/>
Former CIA director George Tenet told the 9/11 Commission that he had warned
of an imminent threat from Al Qaeda in a July 2001 meeting with Condoleezza
Rice, adding that he believed Rice took the warning seriously, according to
a transcript of the interview and the recollection of a commissioner who was
there. The meeting has become the focus of a fierce and often confusing
round of finger-pointing involving Rice, the White House, and the 9/11
Commission, all of whom dispatched staffers to the National Archives and
other locations yesterday in attempts to sort out what had occurred. Members
of the commission, an independent bipartisan panel created by Congress to
investigate the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, have said for days that they
were not told about the July 10 meeting and were angry at being left out. As
recently as yesterday afternoon, both commission chairman Thomas H. Kean and
vice chairman Lee Hamilton said they believed the panel had not been told
about the July 10 meeting. But it turns out that the panel was, in fact,
told about the meeting, according to the interview transcript and Democratic
commission member Richard Ben-Veniste, who sat in on the interview with
Tenet. Rice added to the confusion yesterday by strongly suggesting that the
meeting may never have occurred at all, even though administration officials
had conceded for several days that it had.
Note: Could it be possible that some of our nation's top leaders are lying?
How could they have just forgotten about such important matters? For lots
more see http://www.WantToKnow.info/911information.
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9/11 Panel Members Weren't Told of Meeting
2006-10-02, New York Times
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/washington/01cnd-book.html?ex=1317355200
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/washington/01cnd-book.html?ex=1317355200&
en=beb29e8f20ad8f76&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> &en...
Members of the Sept. 11 commission said today that they were alarmed that
they were told nothing about a White House meeting in July 2001 at which
George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, is reported to
have warned Condoleezza Rice...about an imminent Al Qaeda attack and failed
to persuade her to take action. Details of the previously undisclosed
meeting on July 10, 2001, two months before the Sept. 11 terror attacks,
were first reported last week in a new book by the journalist Bob Woodward.
The final report from the Sept. 11 commission made no mention of the meeting
nor did it suggest there had been such an encounter between Mr. Tenet and
Ms. Rice. Although passages of the book suggest that Mr. Tenet was a major
source for Mr. Woodward, the former intelligence director has refused to
comment on the book. The disclosures took members of the bipartisan Sept. 11
commission by surprise. Some questioned whether information about the July
10 meeting was intentionally withheld from the panel. [A] Democratic
commissioner, former Watergate prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste, said that the
staff of the Sept. 11 commission was polled in recent days on the
disclosures in Mr. Woodward's book and agreed that the meeting "was never
mentioned to us." Philip D. Zelikow, the executive director of the Sept. 11
commission and now a top aide to Ms. Rice at the State Department, agreed
that no witness before the commission had drawn attention to a July 10
meeting at the White House, nor described the sort of encounter portrayed in
Mr. Woodward's book.
Note: Isn't it interested that the executive director of the 9/11
Commission, Mr. Zelikow, co-authored
<http://www.amazon.com/Germany-Unified-Europe-Transformed-Statecraft/dp/0674
353242/ref=ed_oe_h/104-3462640-4229555?ie=UTF8> a book with Condaleeza Rice
prior to 9/11 and is now a top aide of hers. As executive director, Mr.
Zelikow had more say than anyone else over who was interviewed and what went
into the final report. Do you think he might have had some bias? Is it
possible he's not telling the truth here?
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Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice
2006-10-01, Washington Post
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093000
2...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR200609300
0282.html>
On July 10, 2001...then-CIA Director George J. Tenet met with his
counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, at CIA headquarters. Black laid out
the case...showing the increasing likelihood that al-Qaeda would soon attack
the United States. It was...so compelling to Tenet that he decided he and
Black should go to the White House immediately. Tenet called Condoleezza
Rice...and said he needed to see her right away. He and Black hoped to
convey the depth of their anxiety and get Rice to kick-start the government
into immediate action. Two weeks earlier, he had told Richard A. Clarke:
"It's my sixth sense, but I feel it coming. This is going to be the big
one." But Tenet had been having difficulty getting traction on an immediate
bin Laden action plan, in part because Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
had questioned all the National Security Agency intercepts and other
intelligence. Black emphasized that...the problem was so serious that it
required an overall plan and strategy. Rice...was polite, but they felt the
brush-off. President Bush had said he didn't want to swat at flies. Tenet
left the meeting feeling frustrated. No immediate action meant great risk.
The July 10 meeting...went unmentioned in the various reports of
investigations into the Sept. 11 attacks. Though the investigators had
access to all the paperwork on the meeting, Black felt there were things the
commissions wanted to know about and things they didn't want to know about.
Afterward, Tenet looked back on the meeting with Rice as a tremendous lost
opportunity to prevent or disrupt the Sept. 11 attacks. Black later said,
"The only thing we didn't do was pull the trigger to the gun we were holding
to her head."
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Hijackers Were Not Identified Before 9/11, Investigation Says
2006-09-22, Washington Post
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR2006092101
8...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR200609210
1831.html>
The Defense Department's inspector general has concluded that a top secret
intelligence-gathering program did not identify Mohamed Atta or any other
hijacker before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, determining that there is no
evidence to substantiate claims that Atta's name and photograph were on
charts collected by military officials before the strikes. Pentagon
officials said that the recollections of several officials involved in the
"Able Danger" data-mining operation "were not accurate" and that a chart
they said included a blurry image of Atta and his name never existed. The
report concluded that there were no efforts to prevent contact between the
Pentagon group and the FBI. The investigation began after members of
Congress raised concerns over reports that Navy Capt. Scott Philpott and
Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer remembered seeing Atta's photograph on
documents collected by the intelligence program, and that the commission
investigating the attacks had ignored their assertions. The assertions
gained considerable steam when Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) said...that, two
weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, he presented White House officials with a
chart that depicted people affiliated with al-Qaeda, including lead hijacker
Atta. "I am appalled that the DoD IG would expect the American people to
actually consider this a full and thorough investigation," Weldon said. "I
question their motives and the content of the report, and I reject the
conclusions they have drawn." Shaffer has consistently maintained that he
believes he saw Atta's image.
Note: This article is a prime example of how the media at times is seriously
biased to support the official story of 9/11. I invite you to read the
article and then read our summary of information gathered from highly
respected media at http://www.WantToKnow.info/abledanger911. When a
prominent Republican congressman and several military officers have clearly
stated the opposite, is it really possible to conclude that "there is no
evidence to substantiate claims that Atta's name and photograph were on
charts collected by military officials before the strikes." Were these
military and government representatives all lying, and if so, why?
_____
Press Conference of the President
2006-09-15, Official White House Website
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060915-2.html
The information that the Central Intelligence Agency has obtained by
questioning men like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has provided valuable
information and has helped disrupt terrorist plots, including strikes within
the United States. For example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the design
of planned attacks of buildings inside the U.S. and how operatives were
directed to carry them out. That is valuable information for those of us who
have the responsibility to protect the American people. He told us the
operatives had been instructed to ensure that the explosives went off at a
high -- a point that was high enough to prevent people trapped above from
escaping.
Note: What exactly did he mean by explosives going off in the planned
attacks of building inside the U.S.? And wouldn't you want to hit low to
keep more people trapped above?
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The Path from 9/11
2006-09-13, The Guardian (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/rory_oconnor/2006/09/the_path_from_911.h
tml
Attention still must be paid...to the many questions about 9/11 that remain
unanswered...such as why the Pentagon held back so much information about
air defense deficiencies from the 9/11 commission that Chairmen Kean and
Hamilton came close to asking the Justice Department to launch a criminal
investigation; such as why the Able Danger
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/abledanger911> intelligence program...was
ignored and closed down; such as why Osama bin Laden was allowed to escape
from Afghanistan when cornered in Tora Bora. There is little doubt that that
the 9/11 commission report has become the Warren commission report of our
time. Chairman Thomas Kean's recent paid involvement with ABC's fictitious
"historical" docudrama is but the latest reminder that the 9/11 tragedy has
yet to be investigated fully or fairly. Both Kean and his Democratic Party
counterpart Lee Hamilton now acknowledge...that they and their fellow
commissioners bowed to political pressure when they didn't fully question
New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani about his management decisions and emergency
responses. Other commissioners complained repeatedly about White House
obstacles put in their path. The commissioners also allowed the president
and vice president to testify together (and not under oath) and went along
with other administration demands, such as the one that only a minority of
the commissioners could see a minority of the documents requested - and even
then had to vet their notes with the White House before sharing them with
the full Commission! We must continue to "press for truth" in connection
with the events of September 11, 2001.
Note: The author is the executive director of the stunning new documentary
9/11: Press for the Truth. To watch this powerful, inspiring documentary
which is available for free viewing, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911video> . And for an excellent new list of top
officials who have publicly slammed the 9/11 Commission Report, click
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/officialsquestion911commissionreport> here.
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Robert Scheer: Gaping Holes in the 9/11 Narrative
2006-09-11, Yahoo! News
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20060911/cm_huffpost/029174
What we still don't know about 9/11 could kill us. The public that has been
kept in the dark for five years by a president who may know the truth but
has chosen to ignore it. The belated release of the Senate Intelligence
Committee's second report...concluded that there not only was zero
connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, but that Iraq was the one
country in the region where Osama bin Laden could not operate. Fifteen of
the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, and yet there has been no serious
investigation of the extended Royal family's roll in the recruitment of bin
Laden's "soldiers" and the ease with which they secured legal visas
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#visas> to enter the United
States. Last week, Bush conceded that there were indeed secret CIA prisons.
Some [key 9/11 witnesses] have been interrogated in secret for up to five
years. After five years of official deceit, it is not too difficult to
believe that the isolation of those prisoners was done less for reasons of
learning the truth about 9/11 and more in an effort to politically manage
the narrative released to the public. There is glaring evidence that the
latter was the case. The 9/11 Commission report contains a disclaimer box on
page 146, in which it is stated that the report's account of what happened
on 9/11 was in considerable measure based on what those key witnesses
allegedly told interrogators, and that the commissioners were not allowed to
meet the witnesses or their interrogators. In short, the most cited source
that we have on what happened on 9/11, the much celebrated 9/11 Commission
Report, was stage-managed by the Bush administration, just as it has
controlled and distorted so much other information.
Note: Robert
<http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/results.html?st=advanced&QryTxt=&type=c
urrent&sortby=REVERSE_CHRON&datetype=0&frommonth=01&fromday=01&fromyear=1985
&tomonth=11&today=11&toyear=2006&By=Robert+Scheer&Title=&at=ALL&Sect=ALL&x=3
4&y=11> Scheer frequently writes for the Los Angeles Times, though this
article did not appear there.
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More Canadians blaming U.S. policies for Sept. 11 attacks
2006-09-11, Ottawa Citizen
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=864d6b12-1abd-49d3-b24f-06
b...
<http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=864d6b12-1abd-49d3-b24f-0
6b73bed0d41&k=21573>
A poll conducted for Canwest News Service indicates that 53 per cent of
Canadians believe the attacks were "a very specific violent reaction to
foreign policies of the U.S. government." The results show that Canadians
are more firm in their blame since the first anniversary of Sept. 11, in
2002, when only 15 per cent said that U.S. foreign policy was responsible.
Only 36 per cent reported that the terrorist bombings signalled an attack
against "all western-style, affluent democracies because they hate their
ideas and values, symbolized most by the United States." In a bizarre
finding, the polling firm reported that 22 per cent of Canadians believe in
a conspiracy theory in which the terrorist attacks were orchestrated by a
"group of highly influential Americans and others" rather than by supporters
of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida terrorist network. The theory that the
U.S. pulled off an inside job to ultimately justify going to war for Iraqi
oil persists in Canada and in the United States, fuelled by a few books and
a compelling Internet documentary called Loose Change
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11> , created by two
young Americans, which has been viewed by millions and is particularly
popular on university campuses and in Internet chat rooms. The poll shows
young adults aged 18 to 34 are most likely to believe in the conspiracy
theory (26 per cent).
Note: For our reliable, verifiable 9/11 Information Center:
http://www.WantToKnow.info/911information
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The 9/11 conspiracy: Rubbish or reality?
2006-09-11, MSNBC
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14789644/
It is a bright and hopeful morning that greeted Americans on Sept. 11, 2001.
Then it starts. By lunchtime, both buildings are gone, having crumbled to
the ground, neatly compacting themselves in the descent. In the ensuing
hours we begin to learn the names of those involved in the tragedy. Their
passports sitting atop the smoldering rubble prove easier to find than
virtually indestructible black-box data recorders that vanish without a
trace. We are told that Osama bin Laden -- a known terrorist who had been
trained in war tactics by the United States -- is to blame. The destruction
of a third Manhattan skyscraper -- the 47-story
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#silverstein> Building #7 --
also collapsed, although no plane struck it
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#wtc7> . It's owner, Larry
Silverstein, insured the
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#wtcpurchase> building for $7
billion shortly before the disaster. "You have to ask yourself some simple
questions, like how is it that Morgan Bush, the president's younger brother,
owned the company that was in charge of security for the World Trade Center,
yet it has never appeared in The New York Times?"
Note: This article largely seeks to debunk the 9/11 cover-up, yet it does
give some good information.
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9/11's Las Vegas Connection
2006-09-10, CBS News
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/10/eveningnews/main1992178.shtml
The title is "Loose Change." It may be the internet's first blockbuster
movie. It says: "If the government has nothing to hide, why are they so
afraid to answer a few questions?" Ten million have watched so far, and
that's only a fraction of the 42 percent of Americans recently polled by
Reuters who believe its message -- that our own government covered up
critical evidence of 9/11. But it's more than conspiracy theories on the
Internet at work here. Some of the very people who first investigated 9/11
admit there's still a lot they don't know about the plot. Dale Watson ran
counterterrorism for the FBI and led the investigation into 9/11. And one of
the things that still puzzles him most is the Las Vegas connection. All four
of the 9/11 hijacker pilots flew Las Vegas in the months preceding the
attack. Some came twice. But once here, the men essentially disappeared. On
his first trip here hijacker Muhammad Atta rented a car, and drove it 110
miles in two days. But where did he go? Who did he visit with, if anyone?
There's not a clue. Why did Muhammad Atta and his sidekick travel all the
way to Portland, Maine, to connect with -- and almost miss -- the Boston
flight they later hijacked? Why did Atta earlier travel all the way from
Florida to Virginia Beach, Va., just to rent a mailbox? The FBI still
doesn't know -- but hasn't stopped looking. Five years after the crime a
dozen agents remain on the 9/11 case. And they still get 20 new leads a
week.
Note: Is it possible that practically no one supported the alleged hijackers
prior to 9/11? Why has only one man every been caught and tried? And FBI
agents were stymied by top officials in their attempts to search his laptop
before 9/11. Why haven't we heard that they are still investigating the Las
Vegas connection?
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The enduring conspiracy factor
2006-09-10, Toronto Star
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
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Five years after the most reported and recorded cataclysmic event in world
history, one would expect the conspiracy theorists to have been pushed to
society's margins. Think again. As time passes, more and more Americans are
convinced the most bizarre theory is that 19 guys with box cutters, directed
by a bearded man in a cave in Afghanistan, pulled off the attacks of Sept.
11, 2001. An inside job? Those who believe that are not crackpots, says Mark
Fenster, a University of Florida law professor and author of Conspiracy
Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture. Fenster says the John F.
Kennedy assassination and the 9/11 attacks are huge events that have been
officially explained by tiny scenarios, something people find unsatisfying.
Kevin Ryan, a leading figure in the conspiracy movement, [will] tell you
what started him down the conspiracy path. "I first began to be suspicious
... after it was clear the Bush administration had lied to us about the
reasons for going to war in Iraq," says Ryan, who was lab director at an
Underwriters Laboratory subsidiary in South Bend, Ind., until he was fired
after questioning official reports on the collapse of the twin towers.
"Since then, I've wondered when the lying began." In Christian Faith and the
Truth Behind 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action, David Ray Griffin
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/050504davidraygriffin> , a professor emeritus of
philosophy and theology at California's Claremont School of Theology,
accuses the Bush administration of orchestrating the attacks. Some of the
leading conspiracy theorists are scientists, engineers, theologians and
university professors, 75 of whom formed Scholars For 9/11 Truth
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9/11 Conspiracy Theorists Gather in N.Y.
2006-09-10, Los Angeles Times
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-conspiracy10sep10,1,
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Striding into Washington Square Park with a fistful of photocopied circulars
and an earnest expression, Eric Williams could have been an environmental
canvasser or a hip missionary. In fact, he is a pastry chef - or was until
last week, when he quit his job to devote himself full time to proving that
the World Trade Center attack was ordered not by terrorists but by officials
in the U.S. government. As New York readied for another anniversary of the
Sept. 11 attacks, conspiracy theorists and researchers who belong to a group
known as the 9/11 Truth Movement gathered in Greenwich Village. Among them
were proponents of the "LIHOP" theory, who believe that members of the
government "let it happen on purpose," and the "MIHOP" theory, who hold that
government officials "made it happen on purpose." A Zogby International poll
taken in May found that 42% believed the government concealed evidence that
contradicts official accounts. Last week, Brigham Young University announced
that physics professor Steven E. Jones, co-chairman of the group Scholars
for 9/11 Truth, would be put on indefinite leave while authorities
investigated his claims that the buildings were intentionally demolished
using explosives. For Williams, the former chef...his fascination with the
events of Sept. 11 grew so intense over the last two years that making
pastries seemed pointless. He...now devotes six to eight hours a day to
researching and writing, and hosts an Internet radio show and website. He
has just sold the German and Turkish rights to two of his books, "The Puzzle
of 9/11" and "9/11 101." Europeans are always interested, he said. Engaging
New Yorkers is more challenging.
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Indications add up to government conspiracy
2006-09-08, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (One of Seattle's two leading
newspapers)
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/284273_conspire08.html
An Aug. 8 Seattle P-I editorial asked, "Where is the evidence?" about
government complicity in the 9/11 attacks. In a 2000 paper titled
"Rebuilding <http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#pnac> America's
Defenses," Project for a New American Century, whose founding members were
Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz, argued for vast increases
in military spending to assure American global dominance. Such a process,
PNAC said, would take time absent "a catastrophic and catalyzing event --
like a new Pearl Harbor." The picture becomes clearer through considering
the following: The head of the Pakistani intelligence service was in
Washington when the attacks occurred conferring with government officials.
The Indian press subsequently implicated him in wiring $100,000 to Mohamed
Atta, the lead hijacker. When the story broke, he was pressured into
retirement at U.S. insistence. Two FBI agents approached attorney David
Schippers <http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#schippers> with
specific foreknowledge about the attacks. They claimed that knowledge of the
plot was widespread within the FBI for months before 9/11. His repeated
calls to Attorney General John Ashcroft were never returned. An article in
New American on March 11, 2002, corroborated the agents' story. From the
beginning, the Bush administration delayed and otherwise impeded the
investigation. Those are but some of many indications that together add up
to government complicity. For the sake of the common welfare, the truth
behind 9/11 must be exposed.
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BYU places '9/11 truth' professor on paid leave
2006-09-08, Deseret News
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,645199800,00.html
Brigham Young University placed physics professor Steven Jones on paid leave
Thursday while it reviews his involvement in the so-called "9/11 truth
movement" that accuses unnamed government agencies of orchestrating the
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. Such a review is rare for
a professor with "continuing status" at BYU, where Jones has taught since
1985. Jones was teaching two classes this semester, which began Tuesday.
Other professors will cover those classes, and Jones will be allowed to
continue to do research in his area of academic study. Jones became a
celebrity among 9/11 conspiracy-theory groups after he wrote a paper titled
"Why Indeed Did the World Trade Center Buildings Collapse?" The paper was
published two weeks ago in the book "9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals
Speak Out" and lays out Jones' hypothesis that the three towers fell because
of pre-positioned demolition charges -- not because of the planes that hit
two of the towers. Recent articles about Sept. 11 conspiracy theories that
focused at least in part on Jones have appeared in the New York Times, the
Washington Post, the Guardian in London and other publications. A modified
<http://worldtradecentertruth.com/volume/200609/WhyIndeedDidtheWorldTradeCen
terBuildingsCompletelyCollapse.pdf> version of Jones' paper was scheduled
to be published this week in the online Journal of 9/11 Studies
<http://www.journalof911studies.com> . Jones is a co-editor of the journal.
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Disturbing 9/11 film is work of Hoosier
2006-09-07, Indianapolis Star
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
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Familiar, disturbing images from five years ago flash by in "9/11: Press for
Truth." But the 86-minute documentary, directed by Ray Nowosielski of
Indianapolis, also asks what warnings top government officials received
before the terrorist attacks, and why so many questions remain unanswered.
The limited-run movie, opening in 27 cities, premieres tonight in Manhattan.
It will show in Indianapolis Friday through Monday. Nowosielski, 25, and
co-producer John Duffy got the idea for the movie in 2003, during their last
semester of film school at Columbia College Chicago. It was there they
learned of Paul Thompson's "The Complete 9/11 Timeline
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline25pg> ," and went online to read the
researcher's compilation detailing the events surrounding that fateful day.
"We ended up reading until the sun came up," said Nowosielski, who recently
opened a Massachusetts Avenue office. Nowosielski said he double-checked
whatever they used. "We did everything we could" to ensure accuracy. The
documentary prominently features Thompson; Bob McIlvaine, whose son died in
the World Trade Center attack; and several 9/11 widows who became known as
"the Jersey Girls <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Girls> ." McIlvaine,
after screening a rough version of the film, sent Nowosielski an e-mail
signed "Forever grateful," thanking the filmmakers and saying, "Every high
school, college and university should have a copy of this documentary."
Note: Don't miss this amazing, moving 9/11 documentary (86 minutes) now
available for free viewing on Google video at
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1016720641536424083. The film is
also available for purchase at
http://cooperativeresearch.org/911_press_for_truth.html.
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Who really blew up the twin towers?
2006-09-05, The Guardian
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,,1864657,00.html
Shards of glass and dust from the World Trade Centre towers sit on Professor
Steven Jones's desk at Brigham Young University in Utah. Evidence, he says,
of the biggest cover-up in history - one too evil for most to believe, but
one he has staked his academic career on exposing. Jones, a physics
professor, is not alone. He is a member of 9/11 Scholars for Truth
<http://www.st911.org> , a recently formed group of around 75 US professors
determined to prove 9/11 was a hoax. In essays and journals, they are using
their association with prominent universities to give a scholarly stamp to
conspiracy theories long believed in parts of Europe and the Arab world, and
gaining ground among Americans. It is impossible, says Jones, for the towers
to have collapsed from the collision of two aeroplanes, as jet fuel doesn't
burn at temperatures hot enough to melt steel beams. The horizontal puffs of
smoke - squibs - emitted during the collapse of the towers are indicative of
controlled implosions on lower floors. The scholars have collected
eyewitness accounts of flashes and loud explosions immediately before the
fall. What's more, the nearby World Trade Centre 7 also collapsed later that
afternoon. The building had not been hit by a plane, only damaged by fire.
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Study Finds Lung Problems in WTC Workers
2006-09-05, New York Times/Associated Press
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Attacks-Health.html
Nearly 70 percent of the rescue and cleanup workers who toiled in the dust
and fumes at ground zero have had trouble breathing, and many will probably
be sick for the rest of their lives, doctors said Tuesday in releasing
results of the biggest Sept. 11 health study yet. The Mount Sinai Medical
Center study is conclusive proof of a link between recovery work at the
World Trade Center ruins and long-term respiratory problems, doctors aid.
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Why The 9/11 Conspiracies Won't Go Away
2006-09-03, Time Magazine
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1531304,00.html
A Scripps-Howard poll of 1,010 adults last month found that 36% of Americans
consider it "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that government officials
either allowed the attacks to be carried out or carried out the attacks
themselves. Thirty-six percent adds up to a lot of people. This is not a
fringe phenomenon. It is a mainstream political reality. Although the 9/11
Truth Movement, as many conspiracy believers refer to their passion, has
been largely ignored by the mainstream media, it is flourishing on the
Internet. One of the most popular conspiracy videos online is Loose Change
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11> , a 90-min. blizzard
of statistics, photographs, documents, eyewitness accounts and expert
testimony set to a trippy hip-hop backbeat. It's designed to pick apart,
point by point, the conventional narrative of what happened on Sept. 11,
2001. Loose Change is a compelling experience. Take the section about the
attack on the Pentagon. As the film points out...the crash site doesn't look
right. There's not enough damage. The hole smashed in the Pentagon's outer
wall was 75 ft. wide, but a Boeing 757 has a 124-ft. wingspan. Why wasn't
the hole wider? There's something empowering about just exploring such
questions. Loose Change appeals to the viewer's common sense: it tells you
to forget the official explanations and the expert testimony, and trust your
eyes and your brain instead. It implies that the world can be grasped by
laymen without any help or interference from the talking heads. Watching
Loose Change, you feel as if you are participating in the great American
tradition of self-reliance and nonconformist, antiauthoritarian dissent.
You're fighting the power. You're thinking different.
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The Conspiracy to Rewrite 9/11
2006-09-03, San Francisco Chronicle
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/03/INGR0KRCBA1.DTL
According to a poll by Ohio University and Scripps Howard News Service, 36
percent of Americans believe that government officials "either assisted in
the 9/ 11 attacks or took no action to stop the attacks." Sixteen percent of
Americans, the survey indicates, believe that "secret explosives"...brought
down the World Trade Center towers. Robert Bowman
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050908insidejob911#bowman> , who directed the
"Star Wars" defense program under Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter,
reached his own conclusion after questioning...why the American military
hadn't intercepted the hijacked planes before they hit the Pentagon and the
World Trade Center [and] why the Pentagon didn't release surveillance tapes
of American Airlines Flight 77 hitting the military complex. A former U.S.
Air Force lieutenant colonel with a doctorate from the California Institute
of Technology...Bowman theorizes that Cheney and other officials stood to
benefit financially. Bowman says they had a long-standing desire to control
Iraq's oil and to use the country as a strategic hub for controlling the
entire Middle East. The Sept. 11 commission, he says, neglected to
investigate these possible connections, leaving a huge gap in the official
account. Scholars for 9/11 Truth <http://www.st911.org> [is] an
organization that believes the U.S. government "permitted 9/11 to occur."
Among the group's members are Paul W. Rea, a humanities lecturer at St.
Mary's College in Moraga; Tracy Belvins, a research scientist in
bioengineering at Rice University; Kevin Barrett, a lecturer at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison...and Stephen LeRoy, an economics professor
at UC Santa Barbara who has been a visiting economist at the Federal Reserve
Bank of San Francisco.
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Opium Bumper Crop Seen to Benefit Taliban
2006-09-03, ABC News
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=2390033
<http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=2390033&page=1> &page=1
Already the world's largest producer of opium, Afghanistan's 2006 output has
soared a staggering 59 percent, according to a survey by the U.N.'s drug
control program. So this year, the country that the United States invaded
five years ago to stabilize will produce 16,000 tons of opium. Drugs now
make up more than half of gross domestic product. Top government officials
are tied to the drug trade. Corruption runs rampant. Addiction rates in
Afghanistan and neighboring Central Asia, Iran and Pakistan are
skyrocketing.
Note: How is it possible that the opium production continues to skyrocket in
Afghanistan, when it was <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#opium>
decimated the year before the U.S. invaded Afghanistan? For a possible
answer, click here <http://www.WantToKnow.info/massmedia#levine> .
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Report Urges F.A.A. to Act Regarding False 9/11 Testimony
2006-09-02, New York Times
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/02/washington/02faa.html?ex=1314849600
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/02/washington/02faa.html?ex=1314849600&en=a5
b7cacbe1ca8cea&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> &en=a5b7...
The Transportation Department's inspector general urged the Federal Aviation
Administration on Friday to consider disciplinary action against two
executives who failed to correct false information provided to the
independent commission that investigated the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The
acting inspector general, Todd J. Zinser, whose office acts as the
department's internal watchdog, found in a new report that the F.A.A.
executives...learned after the fact that false information was given to the
commission in May 2003 about the F.A.A.'s contacts with the Air Force on the
morning of Sept. 11. The inspector general's report, prepared in response to
complaints from the independent Sept. 11 commission, found that the three
F.A.A. executives failed to act on an "obligation" to correct the false
information provided to the commission, which found widespread confusion
within the aviation agency and the military on the morning of the attacks.
The F.A.A., part of the Transportation Department, declined to identify the
three executives, whose names and titles were not revealed in the inspector
general's report. Nor did the agency say whether it would consider
disciplinary action. Richard Ben Veniste, a commission member, said in an
interview on Friday that he was troubled that it had taken the inspector
general two years to complete his investigation -- more time than it took
the 9/11 commission to complete all of its work -- and that he released the
report "on the Friday afternoon before the Labor Day weekend."
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2 U.S. Reports Seek to Counter Conspiracy Theories About 9/11
2006-09-02, New York Times
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/02/nyregion/02conspiracy.html?ex=1314849600
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/02/nyregion/02conspiracy.html?ex=1314849600&
en=cc63610e3b69c5ca&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> &en...
Faced with an angry minority of people who believe the Sept. 11 attacks were
part of a shadowy and sprawling plot run by Americans, separate reports were
published this week by the State Department and a federal science agency
insisting that the catastrophes were caused by hijackers who used commercial
airliners as weapons. The official narrative of the attacks has been
attacked as little more than a cover story by an assortment of radio hosts,
academics, amateur filmmakers and others. As a motive, they suggest that the
Bush administration wanted to use the attacks to justify military action in
the Middle East. A nationwide poll taken earlier this summer...found that
more than a third of those surveyed said the federal government either took
part in the attacks or allowed them to happen. And 16 percent said the
destruction of the trade center was aided by explosives hidden in the
buildings. Details are available at http://newspolls.org. The State
Department report...is titled, "The Top Sept. 11 Conspiracy Theories" and
says, "Numerous unfounded conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11 attacks
continue to circulate, especially on the Internet." Produced by an arm of
the State Department known as a "counter-misinformation team," the report is
dated Aug. 28...at http://usinfo.state.gov/media/misinformation.html. Among
those now propelling the argument that explosives took down the trade center
is Steven E. Jones, a physics professor at Brigham Young University,
coeditor with Mr. Ryan of www.journalof911studies.com, which published his
paper, "Why Indeed Did the World Trade Center Buildings Completely Collapse
on 9-11-2001?"
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Religious book points 9/11 finger at Bush
2006-09-01, Indianapolis Star/Associated Press
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060829/LIVING/608290305
/...
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The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has tumbled into a new dispute over the
Sept. 11 attacks of five years ago. Its Presbyterian Publishing Corp. has
issued "Christian
<http://www.amazon.com/Christian-Faith-Truth-Behind-Reflection/dp/0664231179
/ref=sr_11_1/104-3462640-4229555?ie=UTF8> Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11"
(Westminster John Knox), containing perhaps the most incendiary accusations
leveled by a writer for a mainline Protestant book house. Author David Ray
Griffin <http://www.wanttoknow.info/050504davidraygriffin> tells of
concluding that "the Bush-Cheney administration had orchestrated 9/11 in
order to promote this (American) empire under the pretext of the so-called
war on terror." Griffin has solid mainline credentials. He's an ordained
minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and recently retired
after a long teaching career at the United Methodists' Claremont (Calif.)
School of Theology. Such a massive cover-up is possible, he explains,
because people don't want to believe high officials would "launch an attack
on their own citizens." Griffin also asserts claims about "abundant
evidence" of Bush administration orchestration of 9/11 in a separate
anthology from Westminster and also did so in two previous books for a small
secular publisher. He also has spoken to campus and church groups. He's a
member of "Scholars for 9/11 <http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/> Truth"
along with Kevin Barrett, a Muslim instructor at the University of Wisconsin
who is under fire for making similar accusations. The publisher's publicity
contends that Griffin "applies Jesus' teachings to the current political
administration" and puts forth "an abundance of evidence and disturbing
questions that implicate the Bush administration."
Note: The article also tries to tear down Prof. Griffin. It is interesting
to note that none
<http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=%22containing+perhaps+the+most+i
ncendiary+accusations%22&ie=UTF-8&filter=0> of the top U.S. papers picked
up this important Associated Press article.
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Grenades 'caused Beslan tragedy'
2006-08-29, BBC News
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5294548.stm
A Russian investigator has said grenades fired by surrounding Russian forces
could have triggered the Beslan school bloodbath in September 2004. Yuri
Savelyev's conclusions contradict the official view that bombs planted by
the hostage-takers in the school gym went off just before the gun battle. Mr
Savelyev is a member of the Russian parliamentary commission investigating
the siege, in which 331 people died. Mr Savelyev, a weapons and explosives
expert, said that during the investigation, he "discovered that the
consequences of those blasts could not at all be explained by the explosions
of the home-made devices installed by the rebels". The head of the
commission, Stanislav Kesayev, said he had confidence in Mr Savelyev's
conclusions. "He had more resources than our commission. He relied on his
own knowledge as a weapons specialist and mathematician," Mr Kesayev told
the radio. For weeks after the siege Russian officials had denied the use of
flamethrowers.
Note: The Russian school bombing is very likely one of many examples of a
false-flag operation -- a terrorist act staged secretly by a government and
blamed on another group or government in order to achieve a certain agenda.
To understand more about that agenda, see
http://www.WantToKnow.info/brighterfuture. To see Terrorstorm, an excellent,
free documentary on false flag operations, click here
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5948263607579389947> .
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9/11: Truth, Lies and Conspiracy
2006-08-25, CBC (Canada's equivalent to PBS)
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/911griffin.html
Solomon: I've put many of the questions that you raise in your book to Lee
Hamilton <http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/911hamilton.html> , and he simply said
that they were inundated. [They couldn't] possibly respond to every
question. [David Ray] Griffin: I'm sure there's an element of truth in that.
On the other hand, the questions that I summarized in my book were not
idiosyncratic - these were the main questions that had been raised by many,
many members of the 9/11 Truth movement. I'm afraid his answer is just an
excuse for not dealing with any of these questions. They have constantly
refused to enter into any public debate with any of the members of the 9/11
truth movement on these issues. We would like to have a genuine
investigation...one that is not controlled by an insider to the Bush
administration. The [9/11] Commission was really run by Philip Zelikow, the
executive director. Zelikow determined what subjects would be investigated
and what ones not. Zelikow would also have been in the position of
determining what got deleted and what got included in the final report.
Zelikow...was essentially was a member of the Bush administration. He and
Condi Rice had served together in the administration of Papa Bush. They
wrote a book together. Then when George W. Bush became President, and named
Condi the National Security Adviser, she brought Zelikow on to help with the
transition. Then he was appointed to the President's Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board. I do not develop a theory as to what really happened, there
are so many mysteries. But what I say we can be confident of is that the
official story is false, and if the administration is the one putting out
the official story, it should be the number one suspect for who actually
orchestrated the attacks.
Note: For excellent information and free videos of Prof. Griffin:
www.WantToKnow.info/050504davidraygriffin
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Author, filmmakers fight over adaptation of 9/11 expose
2006-08-18, Miami Herald (Miami's leading newspaper)
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/television/15308882.htm
What was already expected to be a controversial documentary that charges
that Osama bin Laden's top spy infiltrated three different branches of U.S.
national security has gotten even hotter. Veteran investigative reporter
Peter Lance call[ed] the TV documentary based on his book a whitewash. The
documentary, Triple Cross, is scheduled to air on the National Geographic
Channel Aug.
<http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ET/daily/20060828.html> 28,
with Lance's book
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060886889/sr=1-1/qid=1156454130/ref=pd_bb
s_1/104-3462640-4229555?ie=UTF8&s=books> of the same name set for
publication a few weeks later. But their accounts of the way bin Laden's
master spy Ali A. Mohamed outwitted the CIA, the FBI and the U.S. Army may
be overshadowed by the acrimonious war of words. National Geographic's
producers at one point held back transcripts of interviews they were
supposed to share with Lance, and still won't let him see the final
documentary unless he signs what they call a "non-disparagment agreement."
Mohamed turned up in FBI surveillance photos as early as 1989, training
radical Muslims who would go on to...detonate a truck bomb at the World
Trade Center. He not only avoided arrest, but managed to become an FBI
informant at the same time he was smuggling bin Laden in and out of
Afghanistan, writing most of the al Qaeda terrorist manual and helping plan
attacks on American troops in Somalia and U.S. embassies in Africa. Finally
arrested in 1998, Mohamed cut a deal with the Justice Department. His
whereabouts remain shrouded in official secrecy. Lance, an Emmy winner who
spent nine years as a producer-reporter at ABC, was one of the first
journalists on the trail of the Mohamed story. "The FBI allowed the chief
spy for al Qaeda to...plan the bombings of the embassies in Africa right
under their noses.''
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CNN Asks Why Government is Lying about 9/11
2006-08-09, CNN News
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0608/09/ldt.01.html
A shocking new book by the 9/11 Commission co-chairmen Thomas Kean and Lee
Hamilton says Americans still don't know the whole truth about their
government's initial response to those terrorist attacks that day. [The
book] outlines repeated misstatements by the Pentagon and Federal Aviation
Administration. Fog of war ... could not explain why all of the after-action
reports, accident investigations, and public testimony by FAA and NORAD
officials advanced an account of 9/11 that was untrue. Untrue -- the
military's original timeline of United Flight 93. Equally untrue, the
government's timeline for American Flight 77 and details about fighter jets
scrambled to intercept it. DOD did not accurately report to the 9/11
Commission on the response to the September 11, 2001 hijackings. So far,
government investigators stopped short of calling all of these inaccuracies
lies. If all of the after-action reports are untrue, for whatever reason,
that's a lie. Incompetence and ineptitude on the part of this government ...
in the weeks leading up to 9/11 are established. The fact that the
government would permit deception ... the fact that they would continue and
perpetuate the lie suggests that we need a full investigation of what is
going on and what is demonstrably an incompetent and at worst deceitful
federal government.
_____
Bush Behind 9/11? Tucker Carlson with Professor David Ray Griffin
2006-08-09, MSNBC
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14285603/
CARLSON: My next guest is one of the leading voices in the increasingly
noisy movement that claims our own government orchestrated the attacks of
September 11th. David Ray Griffin
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/050504davidraygriffin> is a theology professor
and a member of the group Scholars <http://www.st911.org> for 9/11 Truth.
He's also the author of the book, Christian
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0664231179/ref=sr_11_1/104-3462640-4229555
?ie=UTF8> Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action.
That book is published by the Presbyterian Church's publishing arm. Mr.
Griffin...you have no evidence that the government's behind 9/11. GRIFFIN:
These things have to be determined in terms of evidence. If you read this
book and...my two previous books, The
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566565529/qid=1085943747/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_
1/104-3462640-4229555?n=283155> New Pearl Harbor, and then The
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566565847/sr=1-3/qid=1155428425/ref=sr_1_
3/104-3462640-4229555?ie=UTF8&s=books> 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions
and Distortions, you will see there are literally dozens of reasons to
disbelieve the official theory about 9/11. CARLSON: I'm merely saying it is
wrong, blasphemous, and sinful for you to suggest, imply, or help other
people come to the conclusion that the U.S. government killed 3,000 of its
own citizens. GRIFFIN: I thought the same thing for the first year and a
half. But then when I finally looked at the evidence, I saw that it was
truly overwhelming. CARLSON: You say six of the hijackers may still be
alive. What's the evidence? GRIFFIN: Both the BBC and the
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#hijackersalive> "Telegraph"
put out stories -- let's take the one about Waleed al-Shehri. Several days
after 9/11, he...announced to the world that he's still alive in Morocco
where he's a pilot. We didn't get a word of that from the 9/11 Commission.
[The 47-story WTC] Building 7 was not hit by an airplane. CARLSON: And it
came down. GRIFFIN: The 9/11 Commission did not even mention in their
571-page report the fact that Building 7 collapsed
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#WTC7> .
Note: To see the video clip on the MSNBC website, click
<http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00&g=2a3290a0-4b79-4bf5-8119-b91b7ded
e110&p=News_Comment%20-%20Analysis&t=m5&rf=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/80632
92/&fg=> here. Though Carlson clearly is attacking Griffin, I am thrilled
that this interview was aired. At this stage, I believe any publicity is
good publicity.
_____
9/ 11 Conspiracy Theorists Thriving
2006-08-06, ABC News/Associated Press
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2279963
Kevin Barrett believes the U.S. government might have destroyed the World
Trade Center. Steven Jones is researching what he calls evidence that the
twin towers were brought down by explosives detonated inside them, not by
hijacked airliners. These men aren't uneducated junk scientists: Barrett
will teach a class on Islam at the University of Wisconsin this fall. Jones
is a tenured physicist at Brigham Young University. The movement claims to
be drawing fresh energy and credibility from a recently formed group called
Scholars for 9/11 Truth <http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org> . Publicity
over Barrett's case has helped boost membership to about 75 academics. Some
are well educated, with degrees from elite universities such as Princeton
and Stanford and jobs at schools including Rice, Indiana and the University
of Texas. Members of the group don't consider themselves extremists. They
simply believe the government's investigation was inadequate, and maintain
that questioning widely held assumptions has been part of the job of
scholars for centuries. Daniel Orr, a Princeton Ph.D. and widely published
retired economics chair at the University of Illinois, said he knew
instantly from watching the towers fall that they had been blown apart by
explosives. David Gabbard, an East Carolina education professor,
acknowledges this isn't his field, but says "I'm smart enough to know ...
that fire from airplanes can't melt steel." Judy Wood, until recently an
assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Clemson University, has
been cited by conspiracy theorists for her arguments the buildings could not
have collapsed as quickly as they did unless explosives were used.
Note: This article was published on the website of more
<http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=%22community+that+believes+widel
y+discredited%22&ie=UTF-8&filter=0> than 100 media outlets. People are
waking up all over!
_____
Sept. 11 Panel Doubted Officials
2006-08-05, MSNBC/Associated Press
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14191255/
The Sept. 11 commission was so frustrated with repeated misstatements by the
Pentagon and FAA about their response to the 2001 terror attacks that it
considered an investigation into possible deception, the panel's chairmen
say in a new book. Republican Thomas Kean and Democrat Lee Hamilton also say
in "Without Precedent" that their panel was too soft in questioning former
New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and that the 20-month investigation may
have suffered for it. The book...recounts obstacles the authors say were
thrown up by the Bush administration, internal disputes over President
Bush's use of the attacks as a reason for invading Iraq, and the way the
final report avoided questioning whether U.S. policy in the Middle East may
have contributed to the attacks. "Fog of war...could not explain why all of
the after-action reports, accident investigations and public testimony by
FAA and NORAD officials advanced an account of 9/11 that was untrue," the
book states. The questioning of Giuliani was considered by Kean and Hamilton
"a low point" in the commission's examination of witnesses during public
hearings. "We did not ask tough questions, nor did we get all of the
information we needed to put on the public record." In their book, which
goes on sale Aug. 15, Kean and Hamilton recap obstacles they say the panel
faced in putting out a credible report in a presidential election year,
including fights for access to government documents and an effort to reach
unanimity.
_____
Was 9/11 an 'inside job'?
2006-08-03, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/279827_conspiracy02ww.html
More than a third of the American public suspects that federal officials
assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the
United States could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new Scripps
Howard/Ohio University poll. Suspicions that the 9/11 attacks were "an
inside job"...quickly have become nearly as popular as decades-old
conspiracy theories that the federal government was responsible for
President John F. Kennedy's assassination and that it has covered up proof
of space aliens. Thirty-six percent of respondents overall said it is "very
likely" or "somewhat likely" that federal officials either participated in
the attacks...or took no action to stop them. "One out of three sounds high,
but that may very well be right," said Lee Hamilton, former vice chairman
of...the 9/11 Commission. "A lot of people I've encountered believe the U.S.
government was involved," Hamilton said. "Many say the government planned
the whole thing," he said. The poll also found that 16 percent of Americans
speculate that secretly planted explosives, not burning passenger jets, were
the real reason the massive twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed.
Twelve percent suspect the Pentagon was struck by a military cruise missile
in 2001 rather than by an airliner captured by terrorists. "We know that
there are a lot of people now asking questions," said Janice Matthews,
executive director of 911Truth.org, one of the most sophisticated Internet
sites raising doubts about official explanations of the attacks. "We didn't
have the Internet after Pearl Harbor, the Gulf of Tonkin or the Kennedy
assassination. But we live in different times now."
_____
9/11 Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon
2006-08-02, Washington Post
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101
3...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR200608010
1300.html>
Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that
the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks
may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the
public. Suspicion of wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-member commission,
in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated
referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation.
Staff members and some commissioners thought that e-mails and other evidence
provided enough probable cause to believe that military and aviation
officials violated the law by making false statements to Congress and to the
commission. Thomas H. Kean, the former New Jersey Republican governor who
led the commission [said], "It was just so far from the truth." In an
article <http://www.vanityfair.com/features/general/060801fege01> scheduled
to be on newsstands today, Vanity Fair magazine reports aspects of the
commission debate...and publishes lengthy excerpts from military audiotapes
recorded on Sept. 11. ABC News aired excerpts last night. For more than two
years after the attacks, officials with NORAD and the FAA provided
inaccurate information about the response to the hijackings in testimony and
media appearances. Authorities suggested that U.S. air defenses had reacted
quickly, that jets had been scrambled in response to the last two hijackings
and that fighters were prepared to shoot down United Airlines Flight 93 if
it threatened Washington. In fact, the commission reported a year later,
audiotapes from NORAD's Northeast headquarters and other evidence showed
clearly that the military never had any of the hijacked airliners in its
sights.
Note: Why didn't they report this in the media when the 9/11 report was
issued?
_____
A Skeptic on 9/11 Prompts Questions on Academic Freedom
2006-08-01, New York Times
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/education/01madison.html?ex=1312084800
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/education/01madison.html?ex=1312084800&en
=dbabe7b2c8e94d64&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> &en=d...
Kevin Barrett ticked off a few examples of what he saw as evidence that the
Sept. 11 attacks had been an "inside job
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/050908insidejob911> ." Mr. Barrett, 47,
described how some news orgainzations
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up#kidney> ...had reported that an
agent from the Central Intelligence Agency visited with Osama bin Laden two
months before the attacks. He also said fires could not have caused the
collapse of the World Trade Center towers at free-fall speed, as reported by
the special Sept. 11 commission. "The 9/11 report
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#commission> will be
universally reviled as a sham and a cover-up
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up> very soon," said Mr. Barrett, who
has been a teacher's assistant or lecturer on Islam, African literature and
other subjects at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, since 1996. "The
9/11 commission has its conspiracy theory, and we have ours." Mr. Barrett's
views, which he described on a conservative radio talk show in June, have
outraged some Wisconsin legislators and generated a fierce debate about
academic freedom on a campus long known as a haven for progressive
ideologies and student activism. Mr. Barrett, a co-founder of a group called
Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance <http://www.mujca.com/> for 9/11 Truth,
argued that he had never presented his personal opinions in class and that
he was free to offer those opinions on his own time outside the classroom.
Mr. Barrett and [University of Wisconsin] Chancellor Wiley both said the
controversy might actually be helping provide Mr. Barrett with a larger
platform to voice his ideas.
_____
September 11th Terrorist Attacks
2006-07-29, C-SPAN
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram
<http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&reco
rd=546878176> &record...
Panelists talked about the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade
Center and Pentagon. Among the issues they addressed were various theories
concerning the origins of the attacks, charges of a government and media
cover-up <http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up> of key facts, the
results of investigations into the attacks, and public perceptions of the
events of September 11, 2001. Participants...called on citizens to question
official versions of the terrorist attacks, examine independent sources of
information, and conduct grassroots education campaigns to change public
opinion. Following their presentations they answered questions from the
audience. The two-day event, "American Scholars Symposium: 9/11 and The
Neo-Con Agenda," was held in the ballroom of the Sheraton Los Angeles
Downtown.
Note: This 105-minute program was aired on C-SPAN four times over the course
of four days! Click on the links to see the schedule: July
<http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/fullschedule.csp?timeid=2120209
23509> 29th, 8:00 PM, July
<http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/fullschedule.csp?timeid=2120209
23509> 29th 11:00 PM, July
<http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/fullschedule.csp?timeid=2120210
09909> 30th, 3:18 PM, and Aug.
<http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/fullschedule.csp?timeid=2120211
82709> 1st, 6:11 PM. To view the program on C-SPAN's website as broadcast,
see rtsp://video.c-span.org/60days/ap072906_theories.rm or see
http://www.911blogger.com/2006/07/cspans-coverage-of-american-scholars.html.
We express gratitude to C-SPAN for their courage in broadcasting this
program and helping people to question what really happened on that fateful
day.
_____
Lecturer Under Fire for 9/11 Conspiracy Belief
2006-07-25, ABC News
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2233348
<http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2233348&page=1> &page=1
Wisconsin lawmakers are demanding that a University of Wisconsin-Madison
lecturer be pulled from his fall teaching position because of his belief
that the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks were not carried out by terrorists, but by
the U.S. government. Kevin Barrett...drew widespread criticism, including
action from 52 Wisconsin state Assembly representatives and nine state
senators [who] signed a letter last week [which] demands that Barrett be
released from his lecturing post. Barrett maintains, however, that he will
not present only his views in the classroom. "I present what I consider to
be interesting and/or defensible positions, and urge the students to come to
their own conclusions. I've been saying these things for three years on
local and national radio and TV," he said. "Nobody even complained before,
least of all the students." It appears he is not alone with his [views].
According to a March 2004 Gallup poll, 53 percent of those surveyed said
they thought the Bush administration was covering up pre-9/11 intelligence.
University of Wisconsin provost Patrick...Farrell's investigation concluded
that Barrett would be a qualified instructor. Barrett is co-founder of an
organization called the Muslim-Jewish-Christian <http://www.mujca.com>
Alliance. The organization says on its Web site that it is "dedicated to
uniting members of the Jewish, Islamic and Christian faiths in pursuit of
9/11 truth."
Note: For why Barrett makes these claims, don't miss our two-page summary of
reliable information from major media sources (links included):
http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up. And for a two-star U.S. general on
video questioning what really hit the Pentagon:
http://www.undersiegemovie.com/media/stubblebine.wmv
_____
Supporter Defends Controversial Univ. Lecturer's Theories About 9/11
2006-07-13, Fox News
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,203415,00.html
KEVIN BARRETT, PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: I know that 9/11 was an
inside job. Professor Steven Jones has found residue on the steel samples
from the World Trade Center. We now know that it was taken down in a
controlled demolition. (END VIDEO CLIP) SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: That was a
clip from our exclusive interview Monday night with University of Wisconsin
Islamic studies professor Kevin Barrett. Now the university, in fact, says
they will allow him to teach his class on Islam, in spite of his
controversial theories about 9/11. But Professor Barrett isn't alone in his
beliefs. One of his supporters joins us now. Dr. Bob Bowman
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/050908insidejob911#bowman> is a member of
Scholars for 9/11 <http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org> Truth, currently a
Florida Democratic congressional candidate. So you believe this is an inside
job. You believe this was a controlled demolition as he does? BOWMAN: I
don't know who did it, and neither do you. We have a right to know who did
it. And so do the families of the victims. We need a truly independent
investigation to find out the truth. The most unbelievable of all the wild
conspiracy theories is the one that our government has told us. COLMES: You
believe the United States government itself is putting forth a conspiracy
theory when it talks about 19 people with box cutters in an airplane and
Usama bin Laden being the mastermind? BOWMAN: Absolutely. There [were] 20
people involved, right? That makes it a conspiracy. More than one person
plans a crime. That's a conspiracy.
_____
9-11 Conspiracy Theory
2006-07-11, NBC Milwaukee Affiliate
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.todaystmj4.com/_content/news/special/story_3451.asp
Could the attacks of September 11 have been planned by someone other than
terrorists? Some people are blaming our own government. The booming
conspiracy theory movement claims the point was to launch wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan. There are thousands
<http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&q=%229%2F11+cover-up%22&btnG
=Search> of Web pages that talk about a cover up. The theorists believe it
was an inside job <http://www.WantToKnow.info/050908insidejob911> . "There
isn't a single word of truth in [the 9/11 Commission Report]," begins Kevin
Barrett. Barrett is a lecturer at UW Madison. He's part of a group that
calls itself the 9-11 Truth Movement. "I'm sure that the official story that
we've been given about what happened is a lie," he says. The 9-11 Truth
Movement also believes a tape of Osama Bin Ladin confessing to the
attacks... is a fake. They compare the tape to other pictures, and believe
the "fake" Osama is too fat. They say the guys is obviously an imposter - a
guy that weighs fifty pounds more than Osama ever did - and who has a
completely different facial structure and looks about as much like Osama as
Laurel looks like Hardy is in this video claiming responsibility for 9-11.
Barrett has caught a lot of heat for his ideas because he teaches at UW
Madison. The UW Provost says despite complaints against Barrett, he will be
allowed to continue teaching.
Note: For an hour-long interview on Wisconsin Public Radio with Kevin
Barrett, click here
<http://clipcast.wpr.org:8080/ramgen/wpr/bme/bme060714m.rm> . The most
interesting thing about this interview is that at least half of the
listeners who called in to the program supported Barrett's position that
there was a major cover-up of what really happened on 9/11.
_____
Wis. school lets radical instructor teach
2006-07-10, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (One of Seattle's two leading
newspapers)
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Instructor_Sept_11.html
An instructor at the University of Wisconsin who has said he believes U.S.
officials orchestrated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, will be
allowed to teach a course on Islam, the school said Monday. Some state
politicians had called for the University of Wisconsin-Madison to fire
part-time instructor Kevin Barrett after he spoke about his theories on a
radio talk show last month. "We cannot allow political pressure from critics
of unpopular ideas to inhibit the free exchange of ideas," Provost Patrick
Farrell said in a statement. "To the extent that his views are discussed,
Mr. Barrett has assured me that students will be free - and encouraged - to
challenge his viewpoint." The university does not endorse Barrett's
theories, Farrell said, noting they are widely believed in parts of the
Muslim world.
Note: Kevin Barrett has drawn quite a bit of attention on Fox News and in
the media in Wisconsin. Other than Fox and the above article, no major media
picked up this story. In the charged interview on Fox News, he did quite a
respectable job. You can view it at
http://www.911podcasts.com/display.php?vid=135.
_____
Scholars for 9/11 Truth Under Attack
2006-07-04, July 4, 2006, PRWeb
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/7/prweb406904.htm
The author of an article about the attack on the World Trade Center has
found himself under attack for having published it in a new on-line
publication, Journal of 9/11 <http://www.journalof911studies.com> Studies.
Entitled "The Third Elephant", the article discusses evidence that a third
airplane was captured on video at the time of the WTC attack. He has now
received a thinly-veiled threat against his children, who are cited by name,
suggesting it would be a good idea if his article were to simply "go away".
Scholars for 9/11 Truth <http://www.st911.org> is a non-partisan society of
experts and scholars committed to exposing falsehoods and revealing truths
about the events of 9/11. The journal, which is archived at
journalof911studies.com <http://www.journalof911studies.com> , is its latest
attempt to create forums for discussion and debate about these important
issues beyond its web site, which is archived at st911.org
<http://www.st911.org> . The author, Reynolds Dixon, a writer and Professor
of English, former lecturer and Fellow at Stanford University, has withdrawn
from the society. Prominent experts and scholars who are members of S9/11T
include Steven Jones, a professor of physics at Brigham Young University;
Morgan Reynolds <http://www.WantToKnow.info/050908insidejob911#reynolds> ,
former Chief Economist for the Department of Labor in the George W. Bush
administration; Bob <http://www.WantToKnow.info/050908insidejob911#bowman>
Bowman, who directed research on the "Star Wars" program in both Republican
and Democratic administrations; Andreas von Buelow
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_von_B%C3%BClow> , the former director
of Science and Technology for Germany; and David Ray Griffin
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/050908insidejob911#griffin> , professor emeritus
of theology at the Claremont Graduate School and author or editor of four
books on the events of 9/11.
Note: We rarely use PRWeb as a source for articles, but as I helped with the
formation of Scholars for 9/11 Truth and know key people there, and as no
other major media are reporting on this alarming news, I'm including this
here for those who want to know.
_____
C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden
2006-07-03, New York Times
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/washington/04intel.html?ex=1309665600
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/washington/04intel.html?ex=1309665600&en=
3f79ed9398039d22&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> &en=3f...
The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the
mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence
officials confirmed Monday. The unit, known as Alec Station, was disbanded
late last year and its analysts reassigned within the C.I.A.
Counterterrorist Center, the officials said. The decision is a milestone for
the agency, which formed the unit before Osama bin Laden became a household
name and bolstered its ranks after the Sept. 11 attacks, when President Bush
pledged to bring Mr. bin Laden to justice "dead or alive." "The efforts to
find Osama bin Laden are as strong as ever," said Jennifer Millerwise Dyck,
a C.I.A. spokeswoman. "This is an agile agency, and the decision was made to
ensure greater reach and focus." Michael Scheuer, a former senior C.I.A.
official who was the first head of the unit, said the move reflected a view
within the agency that Mr. bin Laden was no longer the threat he once was.
Mr. Scheuer said that view was mistaken. "This will clearly denigrate our
operations against Al Qaeda," he said.
Note: They disband the unit to capture the man on the most wanted list?
What's up with that?
_____
Wis. lawmaker wants lecturer fired for 9-11 conspiracy views
2006-06-29, CBS News Chicago, Associated Press
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://cbs2chicago.com/wisconsinwire/WI--Instructor-Sept.1_k_n_0wi--/resourc
e...
<http://cbs2chicago.com/wisconsinwire/WI--Instructor-Sept.1_k_n_0wi--/resour
ces_news_html>
A state lawmaker is calling on the University of Wisconsin-Madison to fire a
part-time instructor who has spoken out on his beliefs that figures in the
U.S. government, not al-Qaida, were behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Kevin Barrett is scheduled to teach a class in the fall in the UW-Madison
Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia. During his appearance
Wednesday night on Jessica McBride's show on WTMJ, Barrett disputed most of
the widely accepted information about the attacks that brought down the
World Trade Center. Among other things, he claimed the group believed to
have carried out the attacks was "a bunch of losers who couldn't even fly
planes," and that evidence indicates the buildings were brought down by
controlled demolitions. He acknowledged discussing Sept. 11 in teaching
classes, but said it was only to give both sides of the issue, not to
convert anyone to his point of view. State Rep. Stephen Nass...issued a
statement demanding Barrett be fired immediately, calling him an
embarrassment and accusing him of spewing "garbage." Barrett received his
doctorate from UW-Madison in 2004 in African languages and literature and
folklore
Note: Vote in a website poll on this issue at
http://www.channel3000.com/news/9457154/detail.html. Kevin Barrett is the
courageous director of a 9/11 website at http://www.mujca.com and a member
of the influential group of professors and scholars who make up Scholars For
9/11 Truth: http://www.st911.org
_____
9/11 Skeptics Share Theories
2006-06-26, Washington Post
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/25/AR2006062501
0...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/25/AR200606250
1085.html>
About 1,200 people gathered over the weekend for what organizers billed as
the largest conference on the conspiracy theories that consider the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks to be a result of official negligence or a U.S. attempt to
incite world war. "There are so many prominent
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/050908insidejob911> people . . . who have
stated that the evidence is overwhelming that 9/11 was an inside job,"
syndicated radio talk show host Alex Jones said at a news conference.
Conspiracy theorists are convinced that the U.S. military command "stood
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#scrambled> down" on the day of
the attacks, that the hijackers were trained at
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#hijackersmilitary> U.S.
military bases and that the World Trade Center towers collapsed because of a
series of controlled <http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html>
explosions set before they were hit by two hijacked planes. Suggested
motives include expected benefits for U.S. arms and oil conglomerates, and
revolutionary plans for a new world order headed by the United States.
Note: We are grateful that the media is actually paying some attention to
the 9/11 movement these days. With over 1,000 people attending 9/11
conferences, it is getting harder to justify not covering the movement.
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The search for reconciliation
2006-06-25, San Francisco Chronicle
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/06/25
/...
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/06/2
5/EDGS0INKBL1.DTL>
South Africa's acclaimed Truth and Reconciliation Commission...was an
ambitious effort to provide a forum to uncover the truth about apartheid-era
abuses -- as well as to promote reconciliation between opposing factions in
the fight to end racial rule. Its terms were simple: Tell the truth about
political acts of violence you committed -- on either side of the struggle
-- and you would receive amnesty. Tell only part of the truth -- or fail to
testify altogether -- and you would be liable for criminal prosecution. The
commission heard from 10,000 victims of apartheid rule, as well as victims
of abuses by anti-apartheid forces. The Truth Commission, now widely viewed
as a model for other countries attempting to transcend their divided pasts,
granted amnesty to about 1,000 of the more than 7,000 perpetrators who
applied for it. It recommended that 300 people face prosecution for failing
to tell the complete truth, or failing to testify at all. Testimony at
multiple, often searing, hearings provided an incontrovertible, although not
necessarily complete, record of abuses committed in the name of apartheid.
As a result, it will be difficult for anyone, both now and in future
generations, to deny apartheid's brutality and the lengths agents of the
white minority government went to perpetuate it. The commission...can
certainly claim to have played a part in keeping the peace.
Note: This article is included as a growing
<http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2006/05/truth-and-reconciliation.html>
number of people in the 9/11 movement feel that a truth and reconciliation
commission is what is needed to bring out the truth of what happened on that
fateful day.
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9/11 Thefts Not Prosecuted
2006-06-16, CBS News/Associated Press
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/16/ap/national/mainD8I9H5EG4.shtml
A disaster relief company that took supplies that were supposed to go to
Sept. 11 rescuers at the World Trade Center escaped punishment after the
government discovered its own employees had stolen artifacts from ground
zero, once-secret federal documents show. Dan L'Allier...told The Associated
Press he witnessed 45 tons of the New York loot being unloaded in Minnesota
at his company's headquarters. He and a colleague...complained to a company
executive but were ordered to keep quiet. They went instead to the FBI. The
two whistleblowers eventually lost their jobs, received death threats and
were blackballed in the disaster relief industry. But they remained
convinced their sacrifice was worth it to make sure justice was done. They
were wrong. Federal prosecutors eventually charged KEI...but excluded the
Sept. 11 thefts. The lead investigators for the FBI and [FEMA] told AP that
the plan to prosecute...stopped as soon as it became clear in late summer
2002 that an FBI agent in Minnesota had stolen a crystal globe from ground
zero. That prompted a broader review that ultimately found 16 government
employees, including a top FBI executive and Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld, had such artifacts from New York or the Pentagon. "It's a sad
indictment of our justice system that they would let people go in order to
cover up misconduct by federal employees," said Jane Turner, the lead FBI
agent. She too became a whistleblower alleging the bureau tried to fire her
for bringing the stolen artifacts to light.
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Mission Accomplished
2006-06-12, Washington Post (second article on webpage)
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/11/AR2006061100
7...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/11/AR200606110
0739.html>
The doors may be closing shortly on the nine-year-old Project for a New
American Century, the neoconservative think tank headed by William Kristol,
former chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle. The PNAC was short on
staff -- having perhaps a half-dozen employees -- but very long on heavy
hitters. The founders included Richard B. Cheney, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Paul
D. Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, William J. Bennett, Zalmay
Khalilzad and Quayle. PNAC and its supporters dominated the Bush
administration's foreign policy apparatus and championed a policy to get rid
of Saddam Hussein long before Sept. 11, 2001. In its famous 1998 letter to
President Bill Clinton, PNAC said "removing Saddam Hussein and his regime .
. . now needs to become the aim of American foreign policy. The signatories
wrote that "we are fully aware of the dangers of implementing this policy."
Note: Though the PNAC was staffed by some of the most powerful people in the
U.S. government who clearly wanted Hussein out of power long before 9/11, no
major papers were willing to report these crucial facts. Had Americans known
of this, many likely would not have initially supported the war on Iraq. For
more on this important information:
http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#pnac
_____
Invoking Secrets Privilege Becomes a More Popular Legal Tactic
2006-06-04, New York Times
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/washington/04secrets.html?ex=1307073600
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/washington/04secrets.html?ex=1307073600&e
n=148f9b543454ec60&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> &en=...
Facing a wave of litigation challenging its eavesdropping at home and its
handling of terror suspects abroad, the Bush administration is increasingly
turning to a legal tactic that swiftly torpedoes most lawsuits: the state
secrets privilege. Officials have used the privilege...to ask the courts to
throw out three legal challenges to the National Security Agency's domestic
surveillance program. The privilege claim, in which the government says any
discussion of a lawsuit's accusations would endanger national security, has
short-circuited judicial scrutiny and public debate. While the
privilege...was once used to shield sensitive documents or witnesses from
disclosure, it is now often used to try to snuff out lawsuits at their
inception. "If the very people you're suing are the ones who get to use the
state secrets privilege, it's a stacked deck," said Representative
Christopher Shays, Republican of Connecticut. Robert M. Chesney, a law
professor at Wake Forest University...said the administration's legal
strategy "raises profound legal and policy questions." Under Mr. Bush, the
secrets privilege has been used to block a lawsuit by a translator at the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Sibel
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/sibeledmondsvanityfair> Edmonds, who was fired
after accusing colleagues of security breaches. Two lawsuits challenging the
government's practice of rendition, in which terror suspects are seized and
delivered to detention centers overseas, were dismissed after the government
raised the secrets privilege.
Note: Sibel Edmonds is one of several whistleblowers with powerfully
incriminating information on 9/11 who have been silenced with tactics like
those mentioned above. To learn more about this critical case which has been
blocked, see http://www.WantToKnow.info/050131sibeledmonds
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Opinion split over 9/11 report
2006-05-28, The Times Herald (a small Pennsylvania newspaper)
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.timesherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16703919
<http://www.timesherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16703919&BRD=1672&PAG=461&d
ept_id=33380&rfi=6> &BRD=1672&PAG=461&dep...
More than 40 percent of Americans believe that the 9/11 Commission Report
that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is a cover-up,
according to a recent poll. And nearly half surveyed said the attacks should
be reinvestigated. In May, a Zogby International poll of adults found that
42 percent of adults polled believe the U.S. government and the 9/11
Commission "concealed or refused to investigate critical evidence" that
contradicts the official explanation of the attacks. The Zogby poll was
sponsored by a leading activist group, 911 Truth.org
<http://www.911truth.org/> , which is highly skeptical of the official
report published in July 2004. "With half the country believing as we do,
(the poll) is some form of vindication," said Jonathan Gold, a former member
of 911 Truth's steering committee. Gold, who lives in Plymouth Meeting,
complained that major media has ignored the truth movement. "The media is
not covering that fact that 45 percent of voting Americans believe we should
have another investigation," he said. "It deserves attention."
Note: Small newspapers like this are rarely included in these summaries, but
as only the
<http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/05/911_truth_i_dont_think_
so.html> Washington Post and Yahoo!
<http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20060522/bs_prweb/prweb388743> News
covered this key poll, this article is included here. Though the Yahoo!
article was balanced, the Post article claimed that the poll (done by one of
the most respected polling agencies <http://www.zogby.com/about/clients.cfm>
in the world) was complete bunk. The Times Herald actually ran this on their
front page! For lots more, see http://www.wantToKnow.info/911information
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Over 70 Million American Adults Support New 9/11 Investigation
2006-05-22, Yahoo! News/PRWeb
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20060522/bs_prweb/prweb388743_4
A new <http://www.zogby.com/features/features.dbm?ID=231> Zogby poll
reveals that less than half of the American public trusts the official 9/11
story or believes the attacks were adequately investigated. The poll is the
first scientific survey of Americans' belief in a 9/11 cover up. Poll
results indicate 42% believe there has indeed been a cover up. 45% think
"Congress or an International Tribunal should re-investigate the attacks,
including whether any US government officials consciously allowed or helped
facilitate their success." According to Janice Matthews, executive director
of 911truth.org, "These results are both heartening and frankly quite
amazing, given the mainstream media's ongoing refusal to cover the most
critical questions of that day. The collapse of WTC 7
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#wtc7> ...was not even mentioned
by the 9/11 Commission and has seldom been reported in the media. [The poll
showed that] only 52% had known about it, but over 70% of this group believe
it should have been investigated. 911truth.org <http://www.911truth.org> is
a coalition of researchers, journalists and victim family members working to
expose and answer the hundreds of still unresolved questions concerning
9/11, especially the nearly 400 questions that the Family Steering Committee
filed with the 9/11 Commission. Initially welcomed by the commissioners as
their "road map"...the Commission ultimately ignored 80% of these issues.
The victim families' most incisive questions remain unaddressed to this day.
Note: Zogby is a higly respected polling
<http://www.zogby.com/about/clients.cfm> agency used by many major media
organizations. Why did the media largely ignore the results of this
astounding poll? A previous Zogby poll
<http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=855> showed that half of New
Yorkers believe US leaders had foreknowledge of the impending 9-11 attacks
and 'consciously failed' to act. The highly revealing 9/11 documentary
"Loose <http://www.WantToKnow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11> Change" has
at times been ranked the #1 most popular of the many thousands of videos
available on Google. In spite of the virtual media blackout, an ever
increasing number of people are willing to ask the hard questions.
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Conspiracy theorists down but not out
2006-05-17, BBC News
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4990686.stm
The release of new video
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5658198482624505213> pictures of
the Pentagon being attacked on 9/11 will not quell the endless claims in the
world of conspiracy theorists that a missile or military aircraft hit the
building instead. If you look closely, you do see what could be a plane,
flying very low and then hitting the building, causing a huge fireball. It
is consistent with the official account. However, the new frames do not
absolutely without doubt show that this was American Airlines 77 in its
final moments, so hope will spring eternal for the conspiracists that they
have not been knocked out. To understand the conspiracy theory, it is worth
considering a film called "Loose Change: 2nd
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11> edition". Available
on the internet, it reveals the full alternative version of what happened to
the Pentagon in all its glory. It states AA 77 did not crash into the
building. And if there was no AA 77, it must have been a missile, a military
aircraft or a drone that did it. The alleged pilot Hani Hanjour was not
skilled enough to execute the manoeuvre and the plane would have stalled in
the tight turn alleged. The film is quite professionally done on a technical
level, with sinister music and fast cutting. It is proving popular on the
internet in reinforcing beliefs that 9/11 might not have been all it seems.
Note: Thank you BBC for having the courage to recommend this amazing 9/11
documentary! To see an engaging, recent BBC News video clip on 9/11
conspiracies in which they also mention the powerful five-minute video
"Pentagon <http://www.freedomunderground.org/memoryhole/pentagon.php>
Strike" and the longer video "In Plane Site" (which has its weaknesses),
click
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi/nb_rm_fs.stm?nbram=1&news=1
&nbwm=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&nol_storyid=4992282> here. And why won't the
government release several other videotapes of the alleged plane hitting the
Pentagon on 9/11?
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9/11 Commission report is a lie
2006-05-16, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (One of Seattle's two leading
newspapers)
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/270284_connellyrebut16.html
The [9/11] commission's conclusions and recommendations should be totally
rejected. Its story is full of lies, distortions and omissions of fact.
Following are two of the more than 40 reasons why the official story about
what happened on 9/11 is untrue. First, who were the hijackers? None of
those named appear on any of the passenger lists released by the airlines.
Six of the men named by the government are still
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#hijackersalive> alive. We know
that because European media have interviewed them. In his book, "The 9/11
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/resources#a911> Commission Report: Omissions
and Distortions," Dr. David Ray Griffin documents all that and concludes the
whole report is one long lie. Second, in the months after 9/11 all of the
surviving New York City Fire Department personnel who were on the scene were
interviewed. Those oral histories were recorded and withheld from the public
until Aug. 15, 2005. Only after losing in court three times did the city of
New York finally release them. All 503 are now posted on The New York Times
Web site. Why did the city fight so hard to keep them from the public? It
turns out those oral
<http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/Gregory_
Stephen.txt> histories reveal details
<http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2005/10/below-belt.html> about what
was happening in the World Trade Center buildings that are completely
inconsistent with the tale told by the commission. Dozens of firefighters
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2032865563019209801&q=9%2F11+firefi
ghters> and medics reported hearing, seeing and feeling explosives
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1951610169657809939> going off in
the buildings that collapsed. Why were there explosives, very powerful
explosives by all accounts, going off in the buildings? The report seems to
be an obvious cover-up. The question that we all need to ask is: What is the
commission covering up? Was 9/11, in fact, an inside job?
_____
A case for conspiracy theorists
2006-05-12, Newsweek
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12759539/site/newsweek/
Is there a case for conspiracy theories about 9/11 and the Iraq war? About
10 minutes into the ultra-low-budget documentary 'Loose Change
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11> ,' now making its way
around the Internet, that late, great genius of addled truth-telling, Hunter
S. Thompson, is heard giving his gonzo opinion of the way the American press
behaved after 9/11. "Well, let's see, 'shamefully' is the word that comes to
mind," he says. The kernel of truth in all the conspiracy theories is that
the Bush administration's biggest supporters and closest political allies
have benefited mightily from its policy of open-ended war. Halliburton, Vice
President Dick Cheney's old company -- which is all about both oil and
defense -- has seen its stock rise from about $12 a share to about $80 a
share under this administration. ExxonMobil, which has contributed mightily
to the Republican Party, has seen its stock soar from about $32 to $64 since
Bush took office. Share prices in both companies, and in their industries,
were plunging before the Bush administration came to office in early 2001.
'Loose Change' doesn't present a plausible case for conspiracy, only a
collection of innuendoes. But the invasion of Iraq, well, that's a rather
different matter. As a whole raft of books by former members of the
administration, Bush admirers and outside analysts have established over the
last couple of years, the president and vice president were hell-bent on
toppling Saddam Hussein even before September 2001.
Note: Though the author belittles 'Loose Change,' he also makes some great
points and alerts people to the fact that this free documentary has gained
wide popularity.
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F.B.I. Says House of Ex-C.I.A. Deputy Is Searched
2006-05-12, New York Times
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/washington/11cnd-foggo.html?ex=1305086400
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/washington/11cnd-foggo.html?ex=1305086400
&en=1a178f6d0d9ac1ce&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> &e...
The home and office of Kyle Foggo, who stepped down on Monday as the Central
Intelligence Agency's No. 3 official, were searched today. Mr. Foggo
resigned after becoming entangled in a widening investigation that has
already brought down former Representative Randy Cunningham. Mr. Foggo's
workplace in Langley, Va., and his residence in Virginia were searched this
morning by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the C.I.A.
inspector general's office. April Langwell, a spokeswoman for the F.B.I.'s
San Diego office, said Mr. Foggo had been under investigation by the
Internal Revenue Service and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service of
the Defense Department's inspector general's office, as well as by the
C.I.A.'s inspector general and the F.B.I. The inquiry by the C.I.A.'s
inspector is examining whether he improperly awarded agency contracts to a
longtime friend, Brent R. Wilkes, a military contractor whose companies have
received nearly $100 million in government contracts over the years. Mr.
Foggo, 51, has admitted attending poker parties throughout the 1990's that
Mr. Wilkes held in a suite at the Watergate Hotel in Washington. The parties
were primarily attended by C.I.A. officials and congressmen, and Mr.
Cunningham, a California Republican, occasionally attended. Several news
media accounts have reported that prostitutes frequented the parties.
Note: This article has huge significance. Until just a few years ago, there
was a virtual blackout in the media on any negative coverage of the CIA. The
fact that the Feds raided the home of the #3 man in the CIA and it was
reported in top newspapers is an external manifestation of huge shake-ups
going on behind the scenes. Buzzy Krongard, the previous #3 at the CIA has
been linked to the <http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#options>
millions of dollars in suspicious stock option trades made just prior to
9/11 that were never claimed, though this received little media coverage.
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Kevin Barrett: Media hide truth: 9/11 was inside job
2006-05-11, The Capital Times
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/index.php?ntid=83698
<http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/index.php?ntid=83698&ntpid=1>
&ntpid=1
Last Saturday, former Bush administration official Morgan Reynolds drew an
enthusiastic capacity crowd to the Wisconsin Historical Society auditorium.
Reynolds, the ex-top economist
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/050908insidejob911#reynolds> for George W.
Bush's Labor Department, charged the Bush administration with gross
malfeasance, and proposed the prosecution of top administration officials.
Normally, if a prestigious UW alumnus and ex-Bush administration official
were to come to the Wisconsin Historical Society to spill the beans about a
Bush administration scandal, it would make the news. The local TV stations
would cover it, and it would merit front page headlines in The Capital Times
and Wisconsin State Journal. When a former Bush administration insider makes
such charges, how can the media ignore them? Is Reynolds a lone crank?
Hardly. A long list of prominent Americans have spoken out for 9/11 truth:
Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Sen. Barbara Boxer, former head of the Star Wars
program Col. Robert <http://www.WantToKnow.info/050908insidejob911#bowman>
Bowman, ex-Reagan administration economics guru Paul Craig Roberts
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/050908insidejob911#roberts> , progressive Jewish
author-activist Rabbi Michael Lerner, former CIA official Ray McGovern,
author-essayist Gore Vidal, and many other respected names
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/050908insidejob911> from across the political
spectrum have gone on the record for 9/11 truth. It is time to break the
9/11 truth blackout. Please put pressure on your local media through letters
to the editor, call-ins to talk radio, and phone calls to local and national
journalists.
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No Trials for Key Players
2006-05-04, Los Angeles Times
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-legal4may04,0,2472327.s
tory
Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person prosecuted in connection with the worst
terrorist attack in American history, did not get the death penalty because
some jurors concluded that he had little to do with Sept. 11. Yet two
presumed key planners of the Al Qaeda [9/11] plot, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
and Ramzi Binalshibh, have not been charged, though they have been in U.S.
custody for more than three years. A central contradiction in the Bush
administration's fight against terrorism is that bit players often have been
put on trial, while those thought to have orchestrated the plots have been
held in secret for questioning. Current and former intelligence officials
have said that the CIA has used aggressive interrogation techniques --
including "waterboarding," which makes a suspect feel as if he is drowning
-- on captured Al Qaeda leaders. As a result, many legal experts say it may
be too late to try Mohammed and Binalshibh in a regular court of law. "They
cannot be prosecuted because of the way they have been interrogated," said
University of Maryland law professor Michael Greenberger. "They have been
subjected to very aggressive questioning, and any statements they made now
can't be used against them." An open trial for the Al Qaeda leaders could
reveal that U.S. agents used harsh methods, even torture, to extract
information, he added. "We have prosecuted a marginal character who appeared
unmoored from reality, while the real planners of the crime will not be
brought before justice in the United States," Greenberger said.
Note: The powerful 9/11 documentary "Loose Change" was listed in the top ten
of Google's most popular videos every day for the month of April 2006 (see
http://video.google.com/videoranking) <http://video.google.com/videoranking>
. People are waking up all over. Tell your friends and colleagues about this
history-making documentary and consider ordering 10 copies for $30 at
http://www.loosechange911.com/order.htm
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Conspiracy film rewrites Sept. 11
2006-04-27, USA Today
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-04-27-conspiracies-sept-11_x.htm
Loose Change...is being downloaded from the Internet and shown in small
screenings here and overseas. The film appears especially popular among
young people immersed in a Web culture brimming with sites that question the
credibility of government. They see 9/11 as the defining moment of their
lives. Professors and researchers of film and politics say the Internet is
making it far easier to spread such theories because the traditional media
are losing their hold on the news. Internet chat rooms are full of promos
for screenings of Loose Change. Most of what the film alleges is refuted by
the evidence at hand. Anything not answered definitively by the government
is interpreted by the film as proof of a coverup. Some college students who
saw Loose Change and are promoting it say it's good to raise questions. The
film "at the very least suggests that we don't know the whole truth" says
Matt Latham, a freshman at the University of California, Santa Cruz. People
believe in conspiracy theories because the truth "is either too simple or
too remote," says sociologist Clifton Bryant of Virginia Tech University.
"We're always ready to believe something about which we know nothing."
Note: A big thank you to USA Today for carrying this article, even though
overall it is trying to debunk the film. Loose Change ranked in the top 10
most <http://video.google.com/videoranking> viewed videos on Google for
many months, and even reached the #1 position for a number of days. Don't
miss this incredibly eye-opening film which is waking up caring citizens
around the world. Click here
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11> .
_____
Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi
2006-04-10, Washington Post
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/09/AR2006040900
8...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/09/AR200604090
0890.html>
[April 10, 2006] The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to
magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal
military documents. The effort has raised his profile in a way that some
military intelligence officials believe may have...helped the Bush
administration tie the war to...Sept. 11. Although Zarqawi and other foreign
insurgents in Iraq have conducted deadly bombing attacks, they remain "a
very small part of the actual numbers," [said] Col. Derek Harvey, who...was
one of the top officers handling Iraq intelligence issues on the staff of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "Our own focus on Zarqawi has enlarged his
caricature...made him more important than he really is." One briefing slide
about U.S. "strategic communications" in Iraq, prepared for Army Gen. George
W. Casey Jr., the top U.S. commander in Iraq, describes the "home audience"
as one of six major targets of the American side of the war. There were
direct military efforts to use the U.S. media to affect views of the war.
One slide in the same briefing, for example, noted that a "selective leak"
about Zarqawi was made to Dexter Filkins, a New York Times reporter.
Filkins's resulting article...ran on the Times front page. U.S. propaganda
efforts in Iraq in 2004 cost $24 million. "Villainize Zarqawi" one U.S.
military briefing from 2004 stated. It listed..."PSYOP," the U.S. military
term for propaganda work. One internal briefing, produced by the U.S.
military headquarters in Iraq, said..."The Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most
successful information campaign to date."
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Physicist says heat substance felled WTC
2006-04-10, Deseret News (a leading newspaper in Utah)
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635198488,00.html
A Brigham Young University physicist said he now believes an incendiary
substance called thermite, bolstered by sulfur, was used to generate
exceptionally hot fires at the World Trade Center on 9/11, causing the
structural steel to fail and the buildings to collapse. "It looks like
thermite with sulfur added," Steven Jones, professor of physics at BYU, told
a meeting of the Utah Academy of Science, Arts and Letters. Jones is
co-chairman, with James H. Fetzer, a distinguished professor of philosophy
at the University of Minnesota of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, a group of
college faculty members who believe conspirators other than pilots of the
planes were directly involved in bringing down New York's Trade Towers. The
group, which Jones said has 200 members, maintains a Web site at
www.st911.org. A 40-page paper by Jones, along with other peer-reviewed and
non-reviewed academic papers, are posted on the site. Last year, Jones
presented various arguments for his theory that explosives or incendiary
devices were planted in the Trade Towers, and in WTC 7, a smaller building
in the Trade Center complex, and that those materials, not planes crashing
into the buildings, caused the buildings to collapse. Jones said his studies
are confined to physical causes of the collapses, and he doesn't like to
speculate about who might have entered the buildings and placed thermite and
sulfur.
Note: For lots more reliable, verifiable information suggesting a 9/11
cover-up:
http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up
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An Inside Job? Theologian scoffed at 9/11 conspiracy theories, then looked
closer
2006-03-30, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper)
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/30/NSGB3HTBQ61.DTL
When David Ray Griffin
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/050908insidejob911#griffin> , noted theologian
and professor emeritus at the Claremont School of Theology, first heard
someone say that Sept. 11 was an inside job, he scoffed. [But later] Griffin
began to delve into 9/11 conspiracy theories after looking at a time line of
the events <http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up> of Sept. 11, 2001...on
the Internet. He found himself swayed by the catalog of inconsistencies and
strange coincidences. Griffin points to historical evidence that the U.S.
government would be capable of such a thing. Operation
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/010501operationnorthwoods> Northwoods, a plan
concocted by the Pentagon in the '60s as a way of taking Castro from power,
included ideas about how a terrorist attack on U.S. soil could provide a
pretext for military action. While many conspiracy theories have been passed
around, it's been very easy to dismiss many of the theorists as...crazy. But
Griffin comes to his controversial conclusions with lucidity and calm. He
even sees a connection between his long-standing work as a theologian and
his new position as a political writer. "In both cases, the concern is for
the good of the world as a whole."
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The Ground Zero Grassy Knoll
2006-03-27, New York Magazine
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.nymetro.com/news/features/16464
Why, if the impact destroyed the planes' supposedly crash-proof
flight-recorder black boxes, was the FBI able to find, in perfect condition,
the passport <http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#passport> of
Satam al Suqami, one of the...Flight 11 hijackers? How could they, an hour
after the first World Trade Center crash, allow an obviously hostile
airplane to smash into the Pentagon, headquarters of the entire
military-industrial complex? A story in Newsweek
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/010924newsweek> ...said these generals were told
earlier that week not to fly. [On 9/11 a] fireman indicated the building in
front of us. "That building is coming down," he said. At 47 stories, it
would be a skyscraper in most cities. Five minutes later, at 5:20, the
building, 7 World Trade Center, crumbled. What happened at 7 WTC might be
the key to the entire mystery. The $500 million insurance profit made by
Larry Silverstein [and] the list of 7 WTC tenants
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#wtc7> sets conspiracy heads
spinning: The IRS, the Department of Defense, and the CIA kept offices on
the 25th floor. The Secret Service occupied the ninth and tenth. The
Securities and Exchange Commission (home to vast records of bank
transactions) was on floors 11 through 13. The 23rd floor was home to Rudy
Giuliani's Office of Emergency Management, his crisis center. Central to the
scenario is a comment made by Silverstein in a 2002 PBS
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjcdfujCTxc&search=wtc%207> documentary.
"We've had such a terrible loss of life. Maybe the smartest thing to do is
pull it." "Pull it"...is the term usually used for controlled demolition. 7
WTC is not even mentioned in The 9/11 Commission Report.
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Unwelcome Attention From Moussaoui Trial
2006-03-25, New York Times
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/25/politics/25moussaoui.html?ex=1300942800
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/25/politics/25moussaoui.html?ex=1300942800&e
n=6ce0cb910cec5960&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> &en=...
The sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui was supposed to have been the
government's best opportunity to hold someone accountable for the deaths on
Sept. 11, 2001. But after federal prosecutors finished laying out their case
this week, even those who strongly supported an aggressive prosecution may
wonder whether the trial has shed as much light on Mr. Moussaoui's
culpability as it has on the missteps and mistakes by law enforcement
agencies. The testimony of two prosecution witnesses, in particular, has
brought renewed and unwelcome attention to how the [FBI] dealt with early
warning signs. Mr. Moussaoui is the sole person to go to trial in an
American courtroom for the attacks. Under cross-examination...Mr. Samit
acknowledged that after the attacks he had written strongly worded reports
saying his superiors had improperly blocked his efforts to investigate Mr.
Moussaoui. He added that he was convinced that Mr. Moussaoui was a terrorist
involved in an imminent hijacking plot. He offered a devastating comment
from a supervisor who said pressing too hard to obtain a warrant for Mr.
Moussaoui would hurt his career. Mr. Samit also wrote that his superiors did
not act because they were guilty of "criminal negligence" and they were
gambling that Mr. Moussaoui had little to offer. The lost wager, Mr. Samit
said, was paid in many lives.
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CNN Raises Serious Questions About 9/11 Over Several Days
2006-03-22, CNN
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.WantToKnow.info/cnn9-11cover-up
[March 22] HAMMER: A Charlie Sheen shocker. Tonight, the actor`s stunning
statements on 9/11. Maybe the airplanes did not take down the Twin Towers.
And maybe the government is covering it all up. SHEEN: The more you look at
stuff, especially specific incidents, specific events in and around the
fateful day, it just -- it just raises a lot of questions. HAMMER: Charlie
Sheen, star of CBS`s successful sitcom, "Two and a Half Men", says point
blank, 9/11, the Pentagon, the World Trade Center, this is all a cover up.
[March 23] It's been pretty hard to believe the response we got today to the
incredible story Showbiz Tonight broke last night, after Charlie Sheens'
startling claims that the government may be covering up what really happened
on 9/11. So many emails coming in...we've been really overwhelmed today.
Between the emails, the blogs, the websites -- everybody is writing and
talking about it. [March 27] HAMMER: Over the weekend I had the opportunity
to sit down with Sharon stone. She commended Charlie Sheen for having the
guts to speak his mind. SHARON STONE: I think you have to be brave enough to
say how you feel and stand in the face of authority and say it. That`s why
we have freedom of speech. HAMMER: Responses at SHOWBIZ TONIGHT absolutely
overwhelming. The e-mails continue to flood in. They were coming in all
weekend long. We were asking the question; do you agree there is a
government cover-up of 9/11? More than 53,000 of you voted in our online
poll. Eighty-three percent of you agreed and said yes; 17 percent of you
said no.
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FBI Agent Slams Bosses at Moussaoui Trial
2006-03-21, CBS News/Associated Press
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/21/ap/national/mainD8GFLTIGA.shtml
The FBI agent who arrested Zacarias Moussaoui in August 2001 testified
Monday he spent almost four weeks trying to warn U.S. officials about the
radical Islamic student pilot but "criminal negligence" by superiors in
Washington thwarted a chance to stop the 9/11 attacks. Samit told MacMahon
he couldn't persuade FBI headquarters or the Justice Department to take his
fears seriously. Samit's complaints echoed those raised in 2002 by Coleen
Rowley, the bureau's agent-lawyer in the Minneapolis office. Rowley went
public <http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020603/memo.html> with her
frustrations, was named a Time magazine person of the year for
whistleblowing. Samit revealed far more than Rowley of the details of the
investigation. For each nugget of information, MacMahon asked Samit if
Washington officials called to assess the implications. Time after time,
Samit said no.
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Moussaoui Jury Riveted by 9/11 Transcript
2006-03-08, CBS/Associated Press
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/08/ap/national/mainD8G7AG300.shtml
The details of what happened to the four hijacked jetliners on Sept. 11,
2001, have been known for years, but when a prosecutor read a simple
minute-by-minute account of the attacks, the jury deciding the fate of
confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui hung on every word. In a
similar vein, the missed opportunities of the FBI and other agencies to
prevent Sept. 11 have been known for years, but when FBI agents are forced
to admit them on cross-examination, they seem fresh to the jury. FBI agents
have been forced to admit under cross-examination that the FBI knew
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#1998fbimemo> years before
Sept. 11 that al-Qaida had plans to use planes as missiles to destroy
prominent buildings. They also had to acknowledge numerous missed
opportunities in the months before Sept. 11 to catch two of the hijackers
with terror links known to the government, even though the pair frequently
used their own names in this country to rent cars, purchase plane tickets
and even, once, to file a police report after getting mugged.
Note: What all of the media articles on this important case fail to mention
is the laptop computer of Moussaoui was confiscated weeks before 9/11, yet
FBI headquarters systematically undermined requests by Minneapolis FBI
agents to search the computer. See
http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#moussaouilaptop. And a full two
weeks before 9/11 an FBI Minnesota supervisor said he was trying keep
Moussaoui from "taking control of a plane and fly it into the WTC," yet his
investigation was repeatedly blocked by top officials. See
http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#moussaoui
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Suit airs Able Danger claims
2006-03-04, Sacramento Bee (Leading newspaper of California's capital city)
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/14225641p-15049903c.html
Two operatives at the center of the Able Danger controversy have sued the
Defense Department for denying them contact with their lawyers during closed
congressional hearings. Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and J.D. Smith were
among a dozen intelligence officers and contractors who worked on the
clandestine program set up long before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
to track al-Qaida. They are accusing the Pentagon...of violating their First
Amendment rights by blocking their access to legal counsel during the closed
sessions. "Able Danger identified the Sept. 11, 2001, attack leader Mohamed
Atta, and three of the 9/11 plot's 19 hijackers, as possible members of an
al-Qaida cell linked to the 1993 World Trade Center attack or its
participants," the suit said. Shaffer, a Bronze Star recipient who fought
undercover in Afghanistan, caused a stir in August when he stepped forward
to say that he and other Able Danger operatives had identified Atta as long
as 21 months before the Sept. 11 attacks. That claim - later supported by
the Able Danger team's leader, Navy Capt. Scott Phillpott - contradicted a
central finding of the commission Congress had set up to probe the Sept. 11
attacks, which concluded that none of the hijackers had been known to U.S.
authorities before the assault.
Note: Though the major media once gave Able Danger good coverage, only the
Sacramento Bee has mentioned that the team's leader is one of the
individuals who stepped forward. For lots more on the vitally important Able
Danger program, click here
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/abledangernewsarticles> .
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Experts Call for Release of 9/11 Evidence
2006-03-01, Yahoo News/PR Web
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20060301/bs_prweb/prweb352979_1
A society of experts and scholars has now joined with Judicial Watch
<http://www.judicialwatch.org/> in calling for release of videos that are
being held by the Department of Defense, which are essential to
understanding events at the Pentagon that transpired on September 11, 2001.
Scholars for 9/11 Truth, which is dedicated to exposing falsehoods and
establishing truths about the events of 9/11, has gone beyond Judicial Watch
by calling for the release of other films and evidence that, its officers
maintain, are essential to understanding 9/11. "It is outrageous that the
government is withholding this vital information", said James H. Fetzer,
founder and co-chair of the society. They are calling for immediate release
of the full Pentagon
<http://www.freedomunderground.org/memoryhole/pentagon.php> surveillance
tape as well as video
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/12/1211_wirepentagon.html>
tapes seized by FBI agents minutes after the Pentagon hit; a complete
inventory of the plane wreckage and debris from Flights 11, 77, 93, 175 or
any other aircraft that crashed or was destroyed on September 11, 2001.
Note: Though Yahoo! News picked up this important article, no major media
found it newsworthy until many months later.
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The basics of alternative 9-11 theories
2006-02-21, Village Voice (alternative NY newspaper - liberal)
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0608,murphy,72255,6.html
Operation <http://www.wanttoknow.info/010501operationnorthwoods>
Northwoods. This 1962 white paper from the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
suggested possible justifications for a war against Cuba, including a never
executed idea in which the CIA would detonate a drone aircraft to make it
look like Fidel Castro had shot down an American passenger plane. Project
for the New American Century [PNAC
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#pnac> ]. As evidence of the
motives behind a government-planned 9-11, theorists point to one 28-word
passage in a September 2000 [PNAC] report written with help from the likes
of Scooter Libby and Paul Wolfowitz: "The process of transformation, even if
it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some
catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor. "Theorists
point to Attorney General John Ashcroft's decision to
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#ashcroftstops> stop flying
commercial [planes] in the summer of 2001, as well as a San
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/1
2/MN229389.DTL> Francisco Chronicle report that Mayor Willie Brown received
a warning of 9-11, as evidence that some people had foreknowledge of the
attack. World
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#wtcinvestigation3> Trade
Center 7. This building -- the last to fall on 9-11 -- is key to all
controlled-demolition theories. Its sudden fall onto its own footprint, and
developer Larry Silverstein's reference on TV
<http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/pullIt3.wmv> to telling the FDNY
to "pull it," are seen as evidence that WTC7 was rigged to fall. Meanwhile,
a convincing official explanation hasn't exactly been forthcoming.
Note: We generally avoid partisan sources, but as so few are reporting the
vital questions around 9-11, we've included this article. You can find
another informative article from the same newspaper on the same day at
http://villagevoice.com/news/0608,murphy,72254,6.html. For our highly
reliable, verifiable information on the 9-11 cover-up, see
http://www.WantToKnow.info/911information. For an amazing free video with
testimony from dozens of survivors on all of this, see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psP_9RE0V2I
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The suppression of Able Danger
2006-02-18, Toledo Blade
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060218/COLUMNIST14/60218
0...
<http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060218/COLUMNIST14/6021
80351/-1/NEWS01>
Mr. Kleinsmith and the two colleagues who testified with him in [a House
Armed Services Committee] open session are convinced that had the
information they developed been acted on, not only 9/11, but also the
October 2000, attack on the destroyer USS Cole in which 17 sailors died
could have been prevented. Through computer scanning of some 2.5 terabytes
of classified and unclassified data, the Able Danger team identified five
"nodes" of al-Qaeda activity. One was in Brooklyn. Another was in the port
of Aden in Yemen, where the USS Cole was attacked. Able Danger linked
Mohamed Atta and three other 9/11 hijackers to the Brooklyn cell, said Lt.
Col. Tony Shaffer, who was the liaison between the Defense Intelligence
Agency and the Able Danger team. Colonel Shaffer testified he tried three
times to have Able Danger data on the Brooklyn cell presented to the FBI,
but that on each occasion Pentagon lawyers forbade the meeting. In a
commentary in the Wall [Street]
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/051126abledangerlouisfreeh> Journal last
November, Louis Freeh, who was FBI director at the time, said that if he had
been told about what Able Danger had learned, 9/11 likely would have been
prevented. In March, 2000, Mr. Kleinsmith was ordered to stop all work on
Able Danger, and, later, to delete all the information collected. It is
clear there is a cover-up. One would think a Washington press corps
obsessing about a hunting accident in Texas would be more curious about it.
Note: Though Able Danger received wide media coverage when first reported
six months ago, the amazing revelations of the recent hearings have received
very little attention, which is why we include this article from the leading
newspaper of Toledo, Ohio. For lots more reliable, verifiable information on
Able Danger, see http://www.WantToKnow.info/abledanger911
_____
National security whistle-blowers allege retaliation
2006-02-16, Sacramento Bee (leading newspaper of California's capital city)
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/politics/story/3168792p-11877323c.html
Military and intelligence officers told spellbound lawmakers Tuesday that
their careers had been ruined by superiors because they refused to lie about
Able Danger, Abu Ghraib and other national security controversies. Lt. Col.
Anthony Shaffer...told a House Government Reform subcommittee that he and
other intelligence officers and contractors working on the top-secret
program code-named "Able Danger" had identified Mohammed Atta, ringleader of
the Sept. 11 attacks, but were prevented from passing their findings to the
FBI. "Many of us have a personal commitment to ... going forward to expose
the truth and wrongdoing of government officials who, before and after the
9/11 attacks, failed to do their job." Shaffer contradicted recent
statements by Philip Zelikow, former executive director of the Sept. 11
commission, who denied having met with Shaffer and other Able Danger
operatives in Afghanistan in October 2003. "I did meet with him," Shaffer
said. "I have the business card he gave me. I find it hard to believe that
he could not remember meeting me." The commission's chairman and vice
chairman, former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean and former Rep. Lee Hamilton,
released a statement saying the panel had looked into the work of Able
Danger and found it "historically insignificant."
Note: Though Able Danger received wide media coverage when it first came out
six months ago, CNN <http://www.mediachannel.org/mv19.shtml> was the only
major media outlet to give significant coverage to this most important news.
Yet CNN did not post the text of the program on their website. Why isn't our
media covering this vital topic? For lots more on this, see
http://www.WantToKnow.info/911information and
http://www.WantToKnow.info/abledanger911
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Panel Weighs Whistleblower Law Changes
2006-02-14, Washington Post/Associated Press
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/14/AR2006021401
5...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/14/AR200602140
1522.html>
Five government whistleblowers said Tuesday they had faced retaliation for
calling attention to alleged government wrongs. They told their stories to
the House Government Reform Committee's national security subcommittee,
whose chairman, Rep. Chris Shays, R-Conn., indicated an interest in altering
the law to better protect national-security whistleblowers. Army Spc. Samuel
Provance laid out what he considers to be a pattern of systemic abuses at
Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. He said his rank was reduced for disobeying orders
not to speak about mistreatment he saw at the prison. Russ Tice, a former
NSA analyst, has called attention to possible constitutional abuses and
security breaches at NSA. He said he was given psychological evaluations
deeming him mentally unstable, and his clearance was revoked. He's now
unemployed. Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer says the Defense Intelligence Agency
has made a series of allegations against him since he disclosed information
about a program known as Able Danger. He says the program identified four
Sept. 11 hijackers before the attack. Richard Levernier, a retired Energy
Department nuclear security specialist, said he lost his security clearance
and effectively his job for giving the media an unclassified report about
shortfalls in nuclear security.
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Court Frees Sept. 11 Convict
2006-02-07, ABC/Reuters
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1589740
A Moroccan convicted of belonging to a terrorist cell that included three
Sept. 11 hijackers was freed from prison Tuesday after a federal court ruled
he shouldn't be jailed with appeals still pending. A statement by Germany's
Federal Constitutional Court said the lower court had been wrong to order el
Motassadeq returned to custody because appeals by both the defense and
prosecutors were still pending. Mounir el Motassadeq, 31, was sentenced to
seven years in prison in August by a court in Hamburg. In 2003, he became
the first person anywhere to be convicted in connection with the Sept. 11
attacks when he was found guilty of membership in a terrorist organization.
The Moroccan acknowledges he was close to the hijackers but insists he knew
nothing of their plans. Defense lawyers criticized the lack of direct
testimony from witnesses such as Ramzi Binalshibh, a key Sept. 11 suspect
held by the U.S.
Note: See http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#hijackersmilitary to
read news articles by CBS, New York Times, and Los Angeles times describing
how the FBI identified 50 individuals involved in orchestrating 9/11 and had
40 of them in custody. Yet not one of these people was ever tried. Is it
logically possible that the 19 hijackers could have pulled off 9/11 without
any support? Why have only two people worldwide ever been officially accused
on involvement in 9/11 planning? And one of those two is now freed?
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Judge Slams Ex-EPA Chief Over Sept. 11
2006-02-02, ABC/Associated Press
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1574465
A federal judge blasted former Environmental Protection Agency chief
Christine Todd Whitman on Thursday for reassuring New Yorkers soon after the
Sept. 11 attacks that it was safe to return to their homes and offices while
toxic dust was polluting the neighborhood. U.S. District Judge Deborah A.
Batts refused to grant Whitman immunity against a class-action lawsuit
brought in 2004 by residents, students and workers in lower Manhattan and
Brooklyn who said they were exposed to hazardous materials from the
destruction of the World Trade Center. "No reasonable person would have
thought that telling thousands of people that it was safe to return to lower
Manhattan, while knowing that such return could pose long-term health risks
and other dire consequences, was conduct sanctioned by our laws," the judge
said. She called Whitman's actions "conscience-shocking," saying the EPA
chief knew that the collapse of the twin towers released tons of hazardous
materials into the air. In her ruling, Batts noted that the EPA and Whitman
said repeatedly beginning just two days after the attack that the air
appeared safe to breathe. The EPA's internal watchdog later found that the
agency, at the urging of White House officials, gave misleading assurances.
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9/11 Attacks: Avoiding the hard questions
2006-02-01, Miami Herald
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/columnists/robert_steinback/137607
2...
<http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/columnists/robert_steinback/13760
721.htm>
Our nation was irretrievably transformed by 9/11 -- and yet there remain
troubling questions about what really happened. Why did building WTC-7 fall
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#wtc7> , though no aircraft
struck it? Fire alone had never before caused a steel skyscraper to
collapse. Why did no U.S. military
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#scrambled> jet intercept the
wayward aircraft? Why has there been no investigation of BBC reports that
five of the alleged 9/11 hijackers were alive and
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#hijackersalive> accounted for
after the event? A group of experts and academicians devoted to applying the
principles of scientific reasoning to the available evidence [and] 'letting
the chips fall where they may,' last week accused the government of covering
up evidence that the three destroyed New York City buildings were brought
down that day by controlled demolition rather than structural failure. The
group, called Scholars for 9/11 Truth, has a website, www.st911.org.
Note: This article is also available at
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0201-28.htm
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No evidence? It must be conspiracy
2005-11-20, Sydney Morning Herald (Australia's leading newspaper)
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/no-evidence-it-must-be-conspiracy/2005/11/2
0...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/no-evidence-it-must-be-conspiracy/2005/11/
20/1132421549267.html>
The twin towers
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#wtcinvestigation> did not fall
because aircraft
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#wtcinvestigation2> hit them.
Demolition explosive charges made them collapse. If you look at close-up
video you see puffs of explosives coming out the sides of the buildings as
they topple. An advertisement that makes this allegation has been airing in
New York for months. It ends with a voice saying: "Reopen the investigation
and address the unanswered questions of 9/11." If you go to the website
reopen911.org <http://www.reopen911.org> you find a series of even more
startling claims. Did a plane actually hit the Pentagon
<http://www.pentagonstrike.co.uk/flash.htm#main> ? Photos taken on September
11, 2001, show no cabin, no tail and no engines. What about the phone calls
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911cellphonecalls> by passengers from the
hijacked planes? "You can't make calls from aircraft."
Note: Though this article pokes fun at people who challenge the 9/11 story,
yet it also raises serious questions. We are thankful for any media
attention, even that which refutes the 9/11 movement, as any press brings
the subject more fully into public awareness. See our 9/11 Information
Center <http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information> for more.
_____
More than half of the U.S. House of Representatives wants open hearings on
Able Danger
2005-11-18, US House of Representatives Website of Curt Weldon (R-Pa)
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://curtweldon.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=37076
U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), vice chairman of the House Armed Services and
Homeland Security Committees, has sent a letter to Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld signed by over half of the House of Representatives
requesting that he allow "former participants in the intelligence program
known as ABLE DANGER to testify in an open hearing before the United States
Congress." The letter has 246 signatures (144 Republicans, 101 Democrats,
and one Independent), including senior members and leadership on both sides
of the isle. "The full story of ABLE DANGER deserves to be heard by the
American people," said Weldon. "Secretary Rumsfeld must understand that the
will of Congress is behind allowing members of the ABLE DANGER effort to
testify in an open hearing about the work they were doing prior to 9-11 to
track the linkages and relationships of al-Qaeda worldwide. Congressional
efforts to investigate ABLE DANGER have been obstructed by Department of
Defense insistence that certain individuals with knowledge of ABLE DANGER be
prevented from freely and frankly testifying in an open hearing.
Note: Why did no media found this key story worth covering? The request was
never granted, while the investigation was eventually declared closed by the
military without any significant outside investigation.
_____
Why did the 9/11 Commission ignore 'Able Danger'
2005-11-17, Wall Street Journal Article by Former FBI Director Louis Freeh
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007559
The Able Danger intelligence, if confirmed, is undoubtedly the most relevant
fact of the entire post-9/11 inquiry. Even the most junior investigator
would immediately know that the name and photo ID of Atta in 2000 is
precisely the kind of tactical intelligence the FBI has many times employed
to prevent attacks. Yet the 9/11 Commission inexplicably concluded that it
"was not historically significant." This astounding conclusion -- in
combination with the failure to investigate Able Danger and incorporate it
into its findings -- raises serious challenges to the commission's
credibility and, if the facts prove out, might just render the commission
historically insignificant itself. The Able Danger team had identified Atta
and three other 9/11 hijackers by mid-2000 but were prevented by military
lawyers from giving this information to the FBI. The Pentagon...blocked
several military officers from testifying...about the Able Danger program.
The chairman of the 9/11 Commission reacted to Able Danger with the standard
Washington PR approach. [He] demanded that the Pentagon conduct an
"investigation" to evaluate the "credibility" of Col. Shaffer and Capt.
Phillpott. The final 9/11 Commission report...concluded that "American
intelligence agencies were unaware of Mr. Atta until the day of the
attacks." This now looks to be embarrassingly wrong. The Joint Intelligence
Committees should reconvene and, in addition to Able Danger team members, we
should have the 9/11 commissioners appear as witnesses so the families can
hear their explanation why this doesn't matter.
Note: If the above link fails, click here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911/9-11_summary_articles/051117_wsj_freeh_able_
danger> .
_____
BYU Professor Has Theory About 9/11 Attacks
2005-11-10, CBS Affiliate KUTV
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_314234334.html
A BYU [Brigham Young University] professor has developed a new theory about
the terrorist attack in New York on September 11, 2001. Both towers
collapsed in place after the attacks, and later that day, 7 World Trade
Center, which was never hit by a plane, fell in less than seven seconds.
Professor Steven E. Jones says that planes alone did not bring down the
towers. Jones is a 20-year physics professor at BYU, who's penned an
academic paper raising another hypothesis - explosives may have been
pre-positioned in the buildings. "Notice how it's straight down," Jones says
referring to the fall of one of the buildings. Especially intriguing to
Jones was the destruction of 7 World Trade Center, damaged and ablaze from
tower debris but never hit by a plane. "Symmetrically now, it doesn't topple
over, as you might expect. It comes straight
<http://st12.startlogic.com/~xenonpup/video%20archive/wtc-7_collapse.mpa>
down. This is the goal of prepositioned explosives in a controlled
demolition," says Jones. He wants a fresh new independent investigation.
Note: For other media coverage of Prof. Jones' claims, click here
<http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635160132,00.html> . For his paper
describing how he came to these conclusions, click here
<http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html> . For a short video
clip of the collapse of WTC 7, click
<http://st12.startlogic.com/~xenonpup/video%20archive/wtc-7_collapse.mpa>
here.
_____
Supreme Court Denies FBI Translator's Case
2005-10-28, CBS/Associated Press
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/28/ap/national/mainD8E5IMD00.shtml
A former FBI translator failed Monday to persuade the Supreme Court to
revive her lawsuit alleging she was fired for reporting possible wrongdoing
by other linguists involved in counterterrorism investigations.
Edmonds...argued that a trial court judge was wrong to accept the Justice
Department's claim that allowing her lawsuit to go forward would threaten
"state secrets," or national security. Edmonds' firing was controversial
among some lawmakers in Congress, especially after the Justice Department's
inspector general found that the FBI had not taken her complaints seriously
enough and had fired her for lodging complaints about the translation unit.
Note: The article fails to mention Edmonds' allegations of the criminal
involvement in 9/11-related matters of top government officials. For more on
this, see http://www.wanttoknow.info/sibeledmonds To sign Congressman
Weldon's petition for open testimony on the Able Danger program, click here
<http://www.petitiononline.com/weldon> .
_____
Dick Cheney's Song of America
2005-10-26, Harpers Magazine
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.harpers.org/DickCheneysSongOfAmerica.html
Drafting a plan for global dominance. Few writers are more ambitious than
the writers of government policy papers, and few policy papers are more
ambitious than Dick Cheney's masterwork. It has taken several forms over the
last decade and is in fact the product of several ghostwriters (notably Paul
Wolfowitz and Colin Powell), but Cheney has been consistent in his
dedication to the ideas in the documents that bear his name, and he has
maintained a close association with the ideologues behind them. Let us,
therefore, call Cheney the author, and this series of documents the Plan.
The Plan was published in unclassified form most recently under the title of
<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/naarpr_Defense.pdf> Defense
Strategy for the 1990s, as Cheney ended his term as secretary of defense
under the elder George Bush in early 1993. The Plan is for the United States
to rule the world. The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a
story of domination. It calls for the United States to maintain its
overwhelming military superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to
challenge it on the world stage. It calls for dominion over friends and
enemies alike. It says not that the United States must be more powerful, or
most powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful. The Plan is
disturbing in many ways, and ultimately unworkable. Yet it is being sold now
as an answer to the 'new realities' of the post-September 11 world, even as
it was sold previously as the answer to the new realities of the post-Cold
War world. For Cheney, the Plan has always been the right answer, no matter
how different the questions.
_____
Bush team sought to snuff CIA doubts
2005-10-26, San Francisco ChronicleCongressional Quarterly
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/10/26/MNG62FDUGL1.D
TL
In the 1970s, when President Richard Nixon's policy of détente was under
attack by some former military officials and conservative policy
intellectuals, Ford administration officials Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld
were among those challenging as too soft the CIA's estimate of Moscow's
military power. Rumsfeld and Cheney wanted to create a "Team B." CIA
Director William Colby rejected the Team B idea and was fired. Colby's
successor as head of the spy agency, George H.W. Bush, the current
president's father, accepted it. Rumsfeld was reprising Team B by creating
his own intelligence shop. The Chalabi organization's alarmist reports on
Hussein's nuclear weapons, which later proved to be false, bypassed the CIA
and went directly to the White House. "In retrospect, and with the Team B
report and records now largely declassified, it is possible to see that
virtually all of Team B's criticisms ... proved to be wrong," Raymond
Garthoff, a former U.S. ambassador to Bulgaria, wrote in a paper for the
CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence three years ago. "On several
important specific points it wrongly criticized and 'corrected' the official
estimates, always in the direction of enlarging the impression of danger and
threat." When Reagan's Secretary of State George Schultz wanted to secretly
back Saddam Hussein against the Iranians, Schultz bypassed the CIA and sent
Rumsfeld, then a businessman, to Baghdad to seal the deal.
_____
The President's 'Pit Bull'
2005-10-04, Los Angeles Times
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-profile4oct04,0,7005879
....
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-profile4oct04,0,700587
9.story?coll=la-home-headlines>
After they left Texas for Washington following the 2000 presidential
election, Miers assumed such an insider role that in 2001 it was she who
handed Bush the crucial "presidential daily briefing" hinting at terrorist
plots against America just a month before the Sept. 11 attacks.
Note: No other major media reported this significant fact on the topic of
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. The respected Editor and Publisher
had this to say: "On its front page Tuesday, The New York Times published a
photo <http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100405A.shtml> of new U.S. Supreme
Court nominee Harriet Miers going over a briefing paper with President
George W. Bush at his Crawford ranch 'in August 2001,' the caption reads.
USA Today and the Boston Globe carried the photo labeled simply '2001,' but
many other newspapers ran the picture in print or on the Web with a more
precise date: Aug. 6, 2001. The
<http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#memo> PDB [Presidential Daily
Briefing] was headed 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.,' and notes,
among other things, FBI information indicating 'patterns of suspicious
activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or
other types of attacks.' " For the entire article, click
<http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001
221205> here.
_____
Pentagon Revokes 9/11 Officer's Clearance
2005-09-30, ABC/Associated Press
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1173334
An officer who has claimed that a classified military unit identified four
Sept. 11 hijackers before the 2001 attacks is facing Pentagon accusations of
breaking numerous rules, charges his lawyer suggests are aimed at
undermining his credibility. The alleged infractions by Army Lt. Col.
Anthony Shaffer, 42, include obtaining a service medal under false
pretenses, improperly flashing military identification while drunk and
stealing pens, according to military paperwork shown by his attorney to The
Associated Press. Shaffer was one of the first to publicly link Sept. 11
leader Mohamed Atta to the unit code-named Able Danger. Shaffer was one of
five witnesses the Pentagon ordered not to appear Sept. 21 before the Senate
Judiciary Committee to discuss the unit's findings. The military revoked
Shaffer's top security clearance this month, a day before he was supposed to
testify to a congressional committee.
_____
Atta known to Pentagon before 9/11
2005-09-28, Chicago Tribune
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509280150sep28,1,3686073
....
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509280150sep28,1,368607
3.story>
Four years after the nation's deadliest terror attack, evidence is
accumulating that a super-secret Pentagon intelligence unit identified the
organizer of the Sept. 11 hijackings, Mohamed Atta, as an Al Qaeda operative
months before he entered the U.S. Had the FBI been alerted to what the
Pentagon purportedly knew in early 2000, Atta's name could have been put on
a list that would have tagged him as someone to be watched the moment he
stepped off a plane in Newark, N.J., in June of that year. Physical and
electronic surveillance of Atta, who lived openly in Florida for more than a
year, and who acquired a driver's license and even an FAA pilot's license in
his true name, might well have made it possible for the FBI to expose the
Sept. 11 plot before the fact. Anthony Shaffer, a civilian Pentagon
employee, says he was asked in the summer of 2000 by a Navy captain, Scott
Phillpott, to arrange a meeting between the FBI and representatives of the
Pentagon intelligence program, code-named Able/Danger. But he said the
meeting was canceled after Pentagon lawyers concluded that information on
suspected Al Qaeda operatives with ties to the U.S. might violate Pentagon
prohibitions on retaining information on "U.S. persons," a term that
includes U.S. citizens and permanent resident aliens. Asked by Sen. Arlen
Specter (R-Pa.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, at a hearing
last week whether Atta...was a "U.S. person," a senior Pentagon official
answered, "No, he was not."
Note: If the above link fails, click here
<http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092805D.shtml> .
_____
Sibel Edmonds v. Department of Justice: A Patriot Silenced
2005-09-26, ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.aclu.org/court/court.cfm?ID=19163
<http://www.aclu.org/court/court.cfm?ID=19163&c=317> &c=317
The American Civil Liberties Union is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to
review a lower court's dismissal of the case of Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI
translator who was fired in retaliation for reporting security breaches and
possible espionage within the Bureau. Lower courts dismissed the case when
former Attorney General John Ashcroft invoked the rarely used "state
secrets" privilege. An unclassified summary of a report by the DOJ's
Inspector General, released in January 2005, corroborates Edmonds'
allegations. The IG report concludes that the FBI had retaliated against
Edmonds for reporting serious security breaches, stating that "...her
allegations were, in fact, the most significant factor in the FBI's decision
to terminate her services." Fourteen 9/11 family member advocacy groups and
public interest organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support
of Edmonds case before the District Court. Edmonds' ordeal is highlighted in
a 10-page article <http://www.WantToKnow.info/sibeledmondsvanityfair> in
the September 2005 issue of Vanity Fair titled "An Inconvenient Patriot."
The article, which chronicles FBI wrongdoing and possible corruption charges
involving a high-level member of Congress, further undercuts the
government's claim that the case can't be litigated because certain
information is secret.
_____
Pentagon, Senate committee bicker over 9/11 probe
2005-09-23, ABC/Reuters
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1154206
The Pentagon and the Senate Judiciary Committee squabbled publicly on Friday
about whether lawmakers could question five key witnesses in public about
their claims the U.S. military identified four September 11 hijackers long
before the 20001 attacks. The panel's chairman, Republican Sen. Arlen
Specter of Pennsylvania, said at Wednesday's hearing the Pentagon could be
guilty of obstructing congressional proceedings. Other lawmakers accused the
Defense Department of orchestrating a cover-up. On Friday, the Senate
committee announced the Pentagon had reversed its position and would allow
the five witnesses to testify at a new public hearing scheduled for October
5. The five witnesses in question were all involved with Able Danger and
contend the team identified September 11 ringleader Mohamed Atta and three
other hijackers as members of an al Qaeda cell in early 2000. One
prospective witness, Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, has said publicly that
Able Danger members tried to pass the information about Atta along to the
FBI three times in September 2000 but were forced by Pentagon lawyers to
cancel the meetings. Much of the information related to Able Danger was
destroyed in 2000.
_____
Senators Accuse Pentagon of Obstructing Inquiry on Sept. 11 Plot
2005-09-22, New York Times
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/politics/22intel.html?ex=1285041600
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/politics/22intel.html?ex=1285041600&en=be
75f65b369fa799&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> &en=be75...
Senators from both parties accused the Defense Department on Wednesday of
obstructing an investigation into whether a highly classified intelligence
program known as Able Danger did indeed identify Mohamed Atta and other
future hijackers as potential threats well before the terrorist attacks of
Sept. 11, 2001. The complaints came after the Pentagon blocked several
witnesses from testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee at a public
hearing on Wednesday. The only testimony provided by the Defense Department
came from a senior official who would say only that he did not know whether
the claims were true. But members of the panel, led by Senator Arlen
Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, said they regarded as credible
assertions by current and former officers in the program. The officers have
said they were prevented by the Pentagon from sharing information about Mr.
Atta and others with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Pentagon has
acknowledged that at least five members of Able Danger have said they recall
a chart produced in 2000 that identified Mr. Atta, who became the lead
hijacker in the Sept. 11 plot, as a potential terrorist.
_____
Military Bars 9/11 Intel Testimony
2005-09-21, CBS/Associated Press
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/21/terror/main871800.shtml
The Department of Defense forbade a military intelligence officer to testify
Wednesday about a secret military unit that the officer says identified four
Sept. 11 hijackers as terrorists more than a year before the attacks,
according to the man's attorney. The Judiciary Committee was hearing
testimony about the work of a classified unit code named "Able Danger."
Zaid, appearing on behalf of Shaffer and contractor John Smith [stated] that
Able Danger, using data mining techniques, identified four of the terrorists
who struck on Sept. 11, 2001 - including mastermind Mohamed Atta. "At least
one chart, and possibly more, featured a photograph of Mohamed Atta," Zaid
said. Maj. Paul Swiergosz, a Defense Department spokesman, said Wednesday
that open testimony would not be appropriate. "There's nothing more to say
than that," Swiergosz said. "It's not possible to discuss the Able Danger
program because there are security concerns." Zaid also charged that records
associated with the unit were destroyed during 2000 and March 2001, and
copies were destroyed in spring 2004. Former members of the Sept. 11
commission have dismissed the "Able Danger" assertions.
_____
Panel rejects assertion US knew of Atta before Sept. 11
2005-09-15, Boston Globe/Associated Press
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/09/15/panel_rejec
t...
<http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/09/15/panel_reje
cts_assertion_us_knew_of_atta_before_sept_11/>
Former members of the Sept. 11 commission on Wednesday dismissed assertions
that a Pentagon intelligence unit identified lead hijacker Mohamed Atta as
an member of al-Qaida long before the 2001 attacks. Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa.,
had accused the commission of ignoring intelligence about Atta while it
investigated the attacks. The commission's former chairman, Thomas Kean,
said there was no evidence anyone in the government knew about Atta before
Sept. 11, 2001. Two military officers, Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and
Navy Capt. Scott Phillpott, claimed a classified military intelligence unit,
known as 'Able Danger,' identified Atta before the attacks. Shaffer has said
three other hijackers were identified, too. Kean said the recollections of
the intelligence officers cannot be verified by any document. 'Bluntly, it
just didn't happen and that's the conclusion of all 10 of us,' said a former
commissioner, ex-Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash. Weldon's spokesman, John
Tomaszewski, said no commissioners have met with anyone from Able Danger
'yet they choose to speak with some form of certainty without firsthand
knowledge.'
Note: If you read the
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/11/politics/11intel.html?ex=1281412800&en=3c
4c0f2346a58391&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> New York Times article
from Aug. 11th, commission officials clearly stated that they were warned by
a uniformed military officer 10 days before issuing the commission's final
report that the account would be incomplete without reference Able Danger
and Atta, as confirmed by the commission's own chief spokesperson. Is this
more recent article a rewriting of the facts?
_____
Pentagon Employee Was Ordered to Destroy Data Identifying Atta As a
Terrorist
2005-09-15, ABC/Associated Press
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1131137
A Pentagon employee was ordered to destroy documents that identified Mohamed
Atta as a terrorist two years before the 2001 attacks, a congressman said
Thursday. The employee is prepared to testify next week before the Senate
Judiciary Committee and was expected to identify the person who ordered him
to destroy the large volume of documents, said Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa.
Weldon declined to identify the employee, citing confidentiality matters.
Weldon described the documents as "2.5 terabytes" as much as one-fourth of
all the printed materials in the Library of Congress, he added.
_____
F.A.A. Alerted on Qaeda in '98, 9/11 Panel Said
2005-09-14, New York Times
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/14/politics/14terror.html?ex=1284350400
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/14/politics/14terror.html?ex=1284350400&en=d
e784103170160e3&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> &en=de7...
American aviation officials were warned as early as 1998 that Al Qaeda could
"seek to hijack a commercial jet and slam it into a U.S. landmark,"
according to previously secret portions of a report prepared last year by
the Sept. 11 commission. The officials also realized months before the Sept.
11 attacks that two of the three airports used in the hijackings had
suffered repeated security lapses. Federal Aviation Administration officials
were also warned in 2001 in a report prepared for the agency that airport
screeners' ability to detect possible weapons had "declined significantly"
in recent years, but little was done to remedy the problem. The White House
and many members of the commission...have been battling for more than a year
over the release of the commission's report on aviation failures. A footnote
that was originally deleted from the report showed that a quarter of the
security screeners used in 2001 by Argenbright Security for United Airlines
flights at Dulles Airport had not completed required criminal background
checks. Much of the material now restored in the public version of the
commission's report centered on the warnings the F.A.A. received about the
threat of hijackings, including 52 intelligence documents in the months
before the Sept. 11 attacks that mentioned Al Qaeda or Osama bin Laden.
Richard Ben-Veniste, a former member of the Sept. 11 commission, said the
release of the material more than a year after it was completed underscored
the over-classification of federal material. "It's outrageous that it has
taken the administration a year since this monograph was submitted for it to
be released," he said.
_____
Britain now faces its own blowback
2005-09-10, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,1566919,00.html
Omar Sheikh...at the behest of General Mahmood Ahmed, head of the ISI
[Pakistan's secret service], wired $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, the leading
9/11 hijacker, before the New York attacks, as confirmed by Dennis Lormel,
director of FBI's financial crimes unit. Yet neither Ahmed nor Omar appears
to have been sought for questioning by the US about 9/11. Indeed, the
official 9/11 Commission Report of July 2004 sought to downplay the role of
Pakistan with the comment: "To date, the US government has not been able to
determine the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks. Ultimately the
question is of little practical significance" - a statement of breathtaking
disingenuousness. All this highlights the resistance to getting at the truth
about the 9/11 attacks and to an effective crackdown on the forces fomenting
terrorist bombings in the west.
_____
Bush Renews Sept. 11 Emergency Declaration
2005-09-08, Washington Post
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090801
5...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR200509080
1550.html>
President Bush on Thursday renewed the national emergency he declared after
the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. In a letter to Congress, Bush said
the nation is still under the terrorist threat that led him to declare a
national emergency three days after the attacks on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon. The president's declaration allows for the mobilization of
reserve military forces and other steps. By law, a national emergency
declaration automatically expires on the anniversary date of its declaration
unless the president renews it. Bush's action will renew the declaration for
another year.
_____
Weldon doubts DoD on Able Danger
2005-09-08, UPI
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20050908-122856-3635r
The congressman who first made public claims that a secret Pentagon data
mining project linked the Sept. 11 attacks ringleader to al-Qaida more than
a year before the attacks took place says he does not believe the military's
account of how the results of the project's work came to be destroyed. "I
seriously have my doubts that it was routine," Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Penn.,
told United Press International. Weldon said he had asked the Pentagon for
the certificates of destruction that military officials must complete when
classified data is destroyed. He said that there had been "a second
elimination of data in 2003," in addition to the destruction acknowledged
last week. "For some reason, the bureaucracy in the Pentagon -- I mean the
civilian bureaucracy -- didn't want this to get out," he said.
Note: The <http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11timeline60pg#abledanger> New York
Times reported that the 9/11 Commission was informed of Able Danger and of
lead hijacker Mohamed Atta being identified as a threat and an al Qaeda
member more than a year before 9/11. Why was this crucial fact not even
mentioned in the 9/11 Commission report?
_____
9/11 Revealed: Challenging the Facts behind the War on Terror
2005-09-04, The Sunday Times (Book review in England's leading newspaper)
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1757744,00.html
By allowing the attacks to happen -- or in the case of the most extreme
theories, by organising them under a "false flag" -- the military-industrial
complex in America, headed by Dick Cheney and his neocon supporters in the
Project for a New <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#pnac>
American Century, guaranteed that America would stay at war and that profits
would stay high. The authors of
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786716134/104-5464190-6120734?v=glance&n=
283155&s=books&v=glance> Revealed, both radical journalists, have subjected
the official version of what happened to intense scrutiny and found huge
gaps. Recalling that most of what we know about what happened on the planes
comes from alleged calls <http://www.wanttoknow.info/911cellphonecalls>
made by passengers on mobile phones, they point out that most experts say
that, for technical reasons, this contact would have been impossible to
make. They highlight the absence of Mayday distress signals, the failure to
find the black-box flight
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#blackboxes> recorders for the
WTC aircraft...the failure to carry out a full engineering investigation
into why the towers
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#wtcinvestigation> collapsed so
fast and the failure to scramble military aircraft
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#scramble> to intercept the
hijacked aircraft. Even more intriguing is the role of Hani Hanjour, the
pilot of Flight 77 that hit the Pentagon. Anyone who examines the route
taken by Hanjour will see that it required a complex maneuver by an
experienced pilot. Yet in 2001, when Hanjour tried to fly down the Hudson
air corridor in a light aircraft, his trainer was so unnerved that he denied
him a <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#hanjourskills> second
run. You don't have to be a conspiracy nut to see that the official account
published by the 9/11 Commission is full of gaps.
Note: England's popular Daily Mail also had a long, detailed article on 9/11
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786716134/104-5464190-6120734?v=glance&n=
283155&s=books&v=glance> Revealed, which you can read here
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/911dailymailarticle> . The US State Department
decided that this book was dangerous enough to post a webpage dedicated to
disproving its theories: read here
<http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2005/Sep/16-241966.html> . The
authors' rebuttal to the State Department's claims is available here
<http://www.911dossier.co.uk/rebuttal.html> .
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Pentagon Finds More Who Recall Atta Intel
2005-09-02, Washington Post
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/02/AR2005090200
5...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/02/AR200509020
0519.html>
Pentagon officials said Thursday they have found three more people who
recall an intelligence chart that identified Sept. 11 mastermind Mohamed
Atta as a terrorist one year before the attacks on New York and Washington.
But they have been unable to find the chart or other evidence that it
existed. On Thursday, four intelligence officials provided the first
extensive briefing for reporters on the outcome of their interviews with
people associated with Able Danger and their review of documents. They said
they interviewed at least 80 people over a three-week period and found
three, besides Philpott and Shaffer, who said they remember seeing a chart
that either mentioned Atta by name as an al-Qaida operative or showed his
photograph. Four of the five recalled a chart with a pre-9/11 photo of Atta;
the other person recalled only a reference to his name. The intelligence
officials said they consider the five people to be credible but their
recollections are still unverified. Navy Cmdr. Christopher Chope, of the
Center for Special Operations at U.S. Special Operations Command, said there
were "negative indications" that anyone ever ordered the destruction of Able
Danger documents, other than the materials that were routinely required to
be destroyed under existing regulations.
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Report on CIA before 9/11 slams Tenet
2005-08-26, San Francisco Chronicle/New York Times
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/26/MNG4PEDOTL1.D
TL
New director must decide whether to discipline any of the dozen-plus
criticized. A long-awaited CIA inspector-general's report on the agency's
performance before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks includes detailed
criticism of more than a dozen former and current agency officials, aiming
its sharpest language at George Tenet, the former director of central
intelligence. Tenet is censured for failing to develop and carry out a
strategic plan to take on al Qaeda in the years before 2001, even after he
wrote in a 1998 memo to the intelligence agencies that "we are at war" with
the terrorist group. The findings place Goss in a delicate position. Now, as
director of the CIA, he will have to decide whether to discipline any of
those criticized, risking a further blow to the morale of an agency still
charged with protecting the country against future terrorist attacks.
Note: Though various whistleblowers on the 9/11 cover-up have been fired or
demoted, there has never been a report of a single government official being
disciplined for failures which led to the 9/11 attacks. As pressure builds
for accountability, Tenet, who resigned over a year ago, may be the chosen
scapegoat.
_____
Naval officer says Atta's identity known pre-9/11
2005-08-23, San Francisco Chronicle/New York Times
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/23/MNG66EBPJ71.D
TL
An active-duty Navy captain has become the second military officer to come
forward publicly to say that a secret defense intelligence program tagged
the ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks as a possible terrorist more than a
year before the attacks. The officer, Capt. Scott Phillpott, said in a
statement Monday that he could not discuss details of the military program,
which was called Able Danger, but confirmed that its analysts had identified
the Sept. 11 ringleader, Mohamed Atta, by name by early 2000. His comments
came on the same day that the Pentagon's chief spokesman, Lawrence Di Rita,
told reporters that the Defense Department had been unable to validate the
assertions made by an Army intelligence veteran, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer,
and now backed up by Phillpott, about the early identification of Atta.
Shaffer went public with his assertions last week, saying that analysts in
the intelligence project had been overruled by military lawyers when they
tried to share the program's findings with the FBI in 2000 in hopes of
tracking down terrorist suspects tied to al Qaeda.
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'Able Danger' Could Rewrite History
2005-08-12, Fox News
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,165414,00.html
The federal commission that probed the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks was
told twice about "Able Danger," a military intelligence unit that had
identified Mohamed Atta and other hijackers a year before the attacks. Rep.
Curt Weldon, R-Pa.,...wrote to the former chairman and vice-chairman of the
Sept. 11 commission late Wednesday, telling them that their staff had
received two briefings on the military intelligence unit -- once in October
2003 and again in July 2004. Weldon...wrote to former Chairman Gov. Thomas
Kean and Vice-Chairman Rep. Lee Hamilton. "The 9/11 commission staff
received not one but two briefings on Able Danger from former team members,
yet did not pursue the matter. "The commission's refusal to investigate Able
Danger after being notified of its existence, and its recent efforts to
feign ignorance of the project while blaming others for supposedly
withholding information on it, brings shame on the commissioners"
Note: For an abundance of excellent, incriminating information on this, see
our Able Danger Information Center
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/abledanger911> .
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Four in 9/11 Plot Are Called Tied to Qaeda in '00
2005-08-09, New York Times
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/politics/09intel.html?ex=1281240000
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/politics/09intel.html?ex=1281240000&en=bc
4d02afa0a46012&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> &en=bc4d...
More than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a small, highly classified
military intelligence unit identified Mohammed Atta and three other future
hijackers as likely members of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in the United
States, according to a former defense intelligence official and a Republican
member of Congress. In the summer of 2000, the military team, known as Able
Danger, prepared a chart that included visa photographs of the four men and
recommended to the military's Special Operations Command that the
information be shared with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the
congressman, Representative Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania, and the former
intelligence official said Monday. The recommendation was rejected and the
information was not shared, they said, apparently at least in part because
Mr. Atta, and the others were in the United States on valid entry visas.
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Suit claims CIA hindering bin Laden book
2005-07-28, CNN
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/07/28/cia.book.ap/
The CIA is squelching publication of a new book detailing events leading up
to Osama bin Laden's escape from his Tora Bora mountain stronghold during
the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, says a former CIA officer who led much
of the fighting. In a story he says he resigned from the agency to tell,
Gary Berntsen recounts the attacks he coordinated at the peak of the
fighting in eastern Afghanistan in late 2001, including how U.S. commanders
knew bin Laden was in the rugged mountains near the Pakistani border and the
al Qaeda leader's much-discussed getaway. During the 2004 election,
President Bush and other senior administration officials repeatedly said
that commanders did not know whether bin Laden was at Tora Bora when U.S.
and allied Afghan forces attacked there in 2001. A Republican and avid Bush
supporter, Berntsen, 48, retired in June and hasn't spoken publicly before.
Berntsen's book is one of a handful written recently by former CIA officers
who have wrestled with the agency over what could be published.
_____
London Bombings: Strange Coincidences Raise Serious Questions
2005-07-13, BBC/MSNBC/London Times/More
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.WantToKnow.info/050713londonbombingcoverup
At half past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise for a
company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous bombs
going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning,
so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck standing up right now. --
Former Scotland Yard Official Peter Power on BBC
<http://globalresearch.ca/audiovideo/070705londonterrorexercise.mp3> Radio,
7/7/05 (the day of the bombings)
"The explosives appear to be of military origin, which is very worrying,"
said Christophe Chaboud, head of the French Anti-Terrorism Coordination Unit
and one of five top officials sent by Paris to London immediately after
Thursday's attacks. -- Reuters
<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10335378> ,
7/11/05
A SINGLE bombmaker using high-grade military explosives is believed to be
responsible for building the four devices that killed more than 50 people
last week. Similar components from the explosive devices have been found at
all four murder sites, leading detectives to believe that each of the 10lb
rucksack bombs was the work of one man. They also believe that the materials
used were not home made but sophisticated military explosives. --
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-20749-1690391-20749,00.html
> London Times, 7/12/05
Translator Jacob Keryakes, who said that a copy of the message was later
posted on a secular Web site, noted that the claim of responsibility
contained an error in one of the Quranic verses it cited. That suggests that
the claim may be phony. "This is not something al-Qaida would do." he said.
- MSNBC News <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8496293/> , 7/7/05
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Report Details F.B.I.'s Failure on 2 Hijackers
2005-06-10, New York Times
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/10/politics/10fbi.html?ex=1276056000
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/10/politics/10fbi.html?ex=1276056000&en=5c94
25649ad6ae11&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> &en=5c9425...
The F.B.I. missed at least five chances in the months before Sept. 11, 2001,
to find two hijackers as they prepared for the attacks and settled in San
Diego, the Justice Department inspector general said in a report
<http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/0506/final.pdf> made public on Thursday
after being kept secret for a year. Investigators were stymied by
bureaucratic obstacles, communication breakdowns and a lack of urgency, the
report said. In the case of the San Diego hijackers, for instance, the
report disclosed that an F.B.I. agent assigned to the Central Intelligence
Agency wanted to pass on information to the F.B.I. about the two men in
early 2000 - 19 months before the attacks - but was blocked by a C.I.A.
supervisor and did not aggressively follow up. That set the stage for a
series of bungled opportunities in an episode that many officials now regard
as their best chance to have detected or disrupted the Sept. 11 plot. Many
passages in the public version of the report were blacked out to shield
information still considered sensitive by the government; an entire 115-page
section on one terror suspect was withheld.
_____
Controllers' tale of Flight 11
2005-05-11, Christian Science Monitor
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0913/p1s2-usju.html
Flight 11's transponder had stopped working. It was no longer sending a
radar pulse. The plane's altitude also became a matter of guesswork for
controllers, though the Boeing 767 was still visible on radar. Two F-15 jets
were reportedly dispatched from Otis Air Force Base. Just before or after
the military planes got off the ground, however, the controllers report they
lost site of Flight 11's radar signal over Manhattan. The controller who had
handled the plane from the beginning of the ordeal was stunned. A few
minutes later, the Nashua controllers heard reports that a plane had crashed
into a building.
Note: According to the official story, once the transponders were turned off
in the four 9/11 airplanes, they could no longer be tracked. As the above
article and air traffic controllers will tell you, though the altitude is no
longer reported, planes are still visible on radar once the transponder is
off. The plane that flew into the Pentagon was known to be hijacked for over
half an hour <http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#77lost> before it
struck. Military radar also can rapidly track incoming missiles that
obviously don't send out transponder signals. So how is it possible that the
military headquarters of the entire United States was hit, when radar must
have tracked this plane on it's way there?
_____
Court Closes FBI Case Arguments to Public
2005-04-21, Los Angeles Times/Associated Press
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-fbi-contractor-
l...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-fbi-contractor
-lawsuit,1,3001295.story>
A federal appeals court Thursday barred the public from arguments in the
case of a fired FBI contractor who alleged security breaches and misconduct
at the agency. Sibel Edmonds' lawsuit against the government was thrown out
of a lower court when the Bush administration invoked the state secrets
privilege, which allows the government to withhold information to safeguard
national security. The Justice Department's inspector general said Edmonds'
allegations to her superiors about a co-worker "raised serious concerns
that, if true, could potentially have extremely damaging consequences for
the FBI." The inspector general concluded that the FBI did not adequately
investigate the allegations and that Edmonds was retaliated against for
speaking out.
Note: Ms. Edmonds has repeatedly claimed that top government officials had
clear foreknowledge of 9/11, yet 9/11 is not even mentioned in the article.
_____
Theologian calls for response to 9/11
2005-04-18, The Capitol Times (Madison, Wisconsin)
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.madison.com/tct/mad/local/index.php?ntid=36617
David Ray Griffin asks the tough questions about Sept. 11, contending U.S.
officials had some knowledge of what was coming and possibly orchestrated
the attacks. Griffin, whose book, "The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing
Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11," came out a year ago, drew
an enthusiastic standing ovation from the majority of the 400 or so people
who packed his lecture Monday night at Bascom Hall. A retired Christian
theologian, Griffin, 65, taught for more than 30 years at the Claremont
School of Theology in California. While Griffin noted that his books and
talks have not received attention from the mainstream media, C-SPAN had a
cameraman at the event and plans to air the lecture at a future date.
_____
Secret US plans for Iraq's oil
2005-03-17, BBC
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm
The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq's oil before the
9/11 attacks, sparking a policy battle between neo-cons and Big Oil. Two
years ago today - when President George Bush announced US, British and
Allied forces would begin to bomb Baghdad - protesters claimed the US had a
secret plan for Iraq's oil once Saddam had been conquered. In fact there
were two conflicting plans, setting off a hidden policy war between
neo-conservatives at the Pentagon, on one side, versus a combination of "Big
Oil" executives and US State Department "pragmatists". "Big Oil" appears to
have won. The latest plan [was] drafted with the help of American oil
industry consultants. Insiders told Newsnight that planning began "within
weeks" of Bush's first taking office in 2001, long before the September 11th
attack on the US. The industry-favoured plan was pushed aside by a secret
plan, drafted just before the invasion in 2003, which called for the
sell-off of all of Iraq's oil fields. The new plan was crafted by
neo-conservatives intent on using Iraq's oil to destroy the Opec cartel.
Philip Carroll, the former CEO of Shell Oil USA who took control of Iraq's
oil production for the US Government a month after the invasion, stalled the
sell-off scheme. Mr Carroll told us he made it clear to Paul Bremer, the US
occupation chief who arrived in Iraq in May 2003, that: "There was to be no
privatisation of Iraqi oil resources or facilities while I was involved."
Formerly US Secretary of State, [James] Baker is now an attorney
representing Exxon-Mobil and the Saudi Arabian government.
_____
Secret FBI Report Questions Al Qaeda Capabilities
2005-03-09, ABC News
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=566425
<http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=566425&page=1> &page=1
No 'True' Al Qaeda Sleeper Agents Have Been Found in U.S. A secret FBI
report obtained by ABC News concludes that while there is no doubt al Qaeda
wants to hit the United States, its capability to do so is unclear. The
32-page assessment says flatly, "To date, we have not identified any true
'sleeper' agents in the US," seemingly contradicting the "sleeper cell"
description prosecutors assigned to seven men in Lackawanna, N.Y., in 2002.
It also differs from testimony given by FBI Director Robert Mueller, who
warned in the past that several sleeper cells were probably in place.
_____
French buy into 9/11 conspiracy
2002-06-26, CNN News
Posted: 2006-11-11 00:00:00
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/06/26/france.book
Throughout the spring, and into this summer, a leading bestseller in France
has not been some great work of French literature but a $17-dollar paperback
called the "Horrifying Fraud." The book casts doubt on the official version
of the events of September 11, substituting an elaborate conspiracy
concocted by America's military-industrial complex in order to increase U.S.
military budgets. It has sold more than 200,000 copies here. Thierry
Meyssan, author of "The
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592090265/qid=1144098241/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bb
s_b_2_1/104-2497887-6726326?s=books&v=glance&n=283155> Horrifying
Fraud"...insists, among other things, that it was not a hijacked American
Airlines 757 that crashed into the Pentagon
<http://www.freedomunderground.org/memoryhole/pentagon.php#Preloader> on
9/11 but a missile fired by the military itself. Meyssan said: "The official
version is incomplete and on certain points is wrong. In addition to selling
hundreds of thousands of copies of his first book, Meyssan's follow-up sold
15,000 copies two days after launch and is now number seven on one
bestseller list.
Note: Though this article is almost four years old, we only recently
received the above link to the article on the CNN website from a supporter.
If you want to be educated on this extremely important topic, I cannot
recommend highly enough the Google video "Loose Change," which is filled
with verifiable information on 9/11 at
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848. I urge to
watch even just the first 10 or 15 minutes of this highly educational
documentary. By educating ourselves, we can work more effectively to build a
build a better world.
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