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1)
AWOL Chain of Command a. It is well documented that the officials topping the chain of
command for response to a domestic attack - George W. Bush, Donald
Rumsfeld, Richard Myers, Montague Winfield - all found reason to do
something else during the actual attacks, other than assuming their
duties as decision-makers.
b. Who was actually in charge? Dick Cheney, Richard Clarke, Norman
Mineta and the 9/11 Commission directly conflict in their accounts of
top-level response to the unfolding events, such that several (or all)
of them must be lying.
2) Air Defense Failures
a. The US air defense system failed to follow standard procedures for responding to diverted passenger flights.
b. Timelines: The various responsible agencies - NORAD, FAA, Pentagon,
USAF, as well as the 9/11 Commission - gave radically different
explanations for the failure (in some cases upheld for years), such
that several officials must have lied; but none were held accountable.
c. Was there an air defense standdown?
3) Pentagon Strike
How was it possible the Pentagon was hit 1 hour and 20 minutes
after the attacks began? Why was there no response from Andrews Air
Force Base, just 10 miles away and home to Air National Guard units
charged with defending the skies above the nation''s capital? How did
Hani Hanjour, a man who failed as a Cessna pilot on his first flight in
a Boeing, execute a difficult aerobatic maneuver to strike the
Pentagon? Why did the attack strike the just-renovated side, which was
largely empty and opposite from the high command?
4) Wargames
a. US military and other authorities planned or actually rehearsed
defensive response to all elements of the 9/11 scenario during the year
prior to the attack - including multiple hijackings, suicide
crashbombings, and a strike on the Pentagon.
b. The multiple military wargames planned long in advance and held on
the morning of September 11th included scenarios of a domestic air
crisis, a plane crashing into a government building, and a large-scale
emergency in New York. If this was only an incredible series of
coincidences, why did the official investigations avoid the issue?
There is evidence that the wargames created confusion as to whether the
unfolding events were "real world or exercise." Did wargames serve as
the cover for air defense sabotage, and/or the execution of an "inside
job"?
5) Flight 93
Did the Shanksville crash occur at 10:06 (according to a seismic
report) or 10:03 (according to the 9/11 Commission)? Does the
Commission wish to hide what happened in the last three minutes of the
flight, and if so, why? Was Flight 93 shot down, as indicated by the
scattering of debris over a trail of several miles?
THE DAY - POSSIBLE SMOKING GUNS
6) Did cell phones work at 30,000 feet in 2001? How many hijackings were attempted? How many flights were diverted?
7) Demolition Hypothesis
What caused the collapse of a third skyscraper, WTC 7, which was
not hit by a plane? Were the Twin Towers and WTC 7 brought down by
explosives? (See "The Case for Demolitions," the websites wtc7.net and 911research.wtc7.net, and the influential article by physicist Steven Jones. See also items no. 16 and 24, below.)
FOREKNOWLEDGE & THE ALLEGED HIJACKERS
8)
What did officials know? How did they know it? a. Multiple allied foreign agencies informed the US government of a
coming attack in detail, including the manner and likely targets of the
attack, the name of the operation (the "Big Wedding"), and the names of
certain men later identified as being among the perpetrators.
b. Various individuals came into possession of specific advance
knowledge, and some of them tried to warn the US prior to September
11th.
c.
Certain prominent persons received warnings not to fly on the week or on the day of September 11th.
9)
Able Danger, Plus - Surveillance of Alleged Hijackers
a. The men identified as the 9/11 ringleaders were under
surveillance for years beforehand, on the suspicion they were
terrorists, by a variety of US and allied authorities - including the
CIA, the US military''s "Able Danger" program, the German authorities,
Israeli intelligence and others.
b. Two of the alleged ringleaders who were known to be under
surveillance by the CIA also lived with an FBI asset in San Diego, but
this is supposed to be yet another coincidence.
10) Obstruction of FBI Investigations prior to 9/11
A group of FBI officials in New York systematically suppressed
field investigations of potential terrorists that might have uncovered
the alleged hijackers - as the Moussaoui case once again showed. The
stories of Sibel Edmonds, Robert Wright, Coleen Rowley and Harry Samit,
the "Phoenix Memo," David Schippers, the 199i orders restricting
investigations, the Bush administration''s order to back off the Bin
Ladin family, the reaction to the "Bojinka" plot, and John O''Neil do
not, when considered in sum, indicate mere incompetence, but high-level
corruption and protection of criminal networks, including the network
of the alleged 9/11 conspirators. (Nearly all of these examples were
omitted from or relegated to fleeting footnotes in The 9/11 Commission Report.)
11) Insider Trading
a. Unknown speculators allegedly used foreknowledge of the Sept. 11th
events to profiteer on many markets internationally - including but not
limited to "put options" placed to short-sell the two airlines, WTC
tenants, and WTC re-insurance companies in Chicago and London.
b.
In addition, suspicious monetary transactions worth hundreds of
millions were conducted through offices at the Twin Towers during the
actual attacks.
c. Initial reports on these trades were suppressed and forgotten, and
only years later did the 9/11 Commission and SEC provide a partial, but
untenable explanation for only a small number of transactions (covering
only the airline put options through the Chicago Board of Exchange).
12) Who were the perpetrators?
a. Much of the evidence establishing who did the crime is dubious and
miraculous: bags full of incriminating material that happened to miss
the flight or were left in a van; the "magic passport" of an alleged
hijacker, found at Ground Zero; documents found at motels where the
alleged perpetrators had stayed days and weeks before 9/11.
b. The identities of the alleged hijackers remain unresolved, there are
contradictions in official accounts of their actions and travels, and
there is evidence several of them had "doubles," all of which is
omitted from official investigations.
c. What happened to initial claims by the government that 50 people
involved in the attacks had been identified, including the 19 alleged
hijackers, with 10 still at large (suggesting that 20 had been
apprehended)?
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THE 9/11 COVER-UP, 2001-2006
13) Who Is Osama Bin Ladin?
a. Who judges which of the
many conflicting and dubious statements and videos attributed to Osama
Bin Ladin are genuine, and which are fake? The most important Osama Bin
Ladin video (Nov. 2001), in which he supposedly confesses to
masterminding 9/11, appears to be a fake. In any event, the State
Department''s translation of it is fraudulent.
b. Did Osama Bin Ladin visit Dubai and meet a CIA agent in July 2001
(Le Figaro)? Was he receiving dialysis in a Pakistani military hospital
on the night of September 10, 2001 (CBS)?
c. Whether by Bush or Clinton: Why is Osama always allowed to escape?
d. The terror network associated with Osama, known as the "base"
(al-Qaeda), originated in the CIA-sponsored 1980s anti-Soviet jihad in
Afghanistan. When did this network stop serving as an asset to covert
operations by US intelligence and allied agencies? What were its
operatives doing in Kosovo, Bosnia and Chechnya in the years prior to
9/11?
14) All the Signs of a Systematic 9/11 Cover-up
a. Airplane black boxes were found at Ground Zero, according to two
first responders and an unnamed NTSB official, but they were
"disappeared" and their existence is denied in The 9/11 Commission Report.
b. US officials consistently suppressed and destroyed evidence (like
the tapes recorded by air traffic controllers who handled the New York
flights).
c. Whistleblowers (like Sibel Edmonds and Anthony Shaffer) were
intimidated, gagged and sanctioned, sending a clear signal to others
who might be thinking about speaking out.
d. Officials who "failed" (like Myers and Eberhard, as well as Frasca, Maltbie and Bowman of the FBI) were given promotions.
15) Poisoning New York
The White House deliberately pressured the EPA into giving false public
assurances that the toxic air at Ground Zero was safe to breathe. This
knowingly contributed to an as-yet unknown number of health cases and
fatalities, and demonstrates that the administration does consider the
lives of American citizens to be expendable on behalf of certain
interests.
16) Disposing of the Crime Scene
The rapid and illegal scrapping of the WTC ruins at Ground Zero
disposed of almost all of the structural steel indispensable to any
investigation of the collapse mechanics. (See also item no. 23, below.)
17) Anthrax
Mailings of weapons-grade anthrax - which caused a practical
suspension of the 9/11 investigations - were traced back to US military
stock. Soon after the attacks began in October 2001, the FBI approved
the destruction of the original samples of the Ames strain, disposing
of perhaps the most important evidence in identifying the source of the
pathogens used in the mailings. Were the anthrax attacks timed to
coincide with the Afghanistan invasion? Why were the letters sent only
to media figures and to the leaders of the opposition in the Senate
(who had just raised objections to the USA PATRIOT Act)?
18) The Stonewall
a. Colin Powell promised a "white
paper" from the State Department to establish the authorship of the
attacks by al-Qaeda. This was never forthcoming, and was instead
replaced by a paper from Tony Blair, which presented only
circumstantial evidence, with very few points actually relating to
September 11th.
b. Bush and Cheney pressured the (freshly-anthraxed) leadership of the
Congressional opposition into delaying the 9/11 investigation for
months. The administration fought against the creation of an
independent investigation for more than a year.
c. The White House thereupon attempted to appoint Henry Kissinger as
the chief investigator, and acted to underfund and obstruct the 9/11
Commission.
19) A Record of Official Lies
a. "No one could have imagined planes into buildings" - a transparent falsehood upheld repeatedly by Rice, Rumsfeld and Bush.
b. "Iraq was connected to 9/11" - The most "outrageous conspiracy theory" of all, with the most disastrous impact.
20) Pakistani Connection - Congressional Connection
a.
The Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, creator of the Taliban and close
ally to both the CIA and "al-Qaeda," allegedly wired $100,000 to
Mohamed Atta just prior to September 11th, reportedly through the ISI
asset Omar Saeed Sheikh (later arrested for the killing of Wall Street
Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was investigating ISI connections to
"al-Qaeda.")
b. This was ignored by the congressional 9/11 investigation, although
the senator and congressman who ran the probe (Bob Graham and Porter
Goss) were meeting with the ISI chief, Mahmud Ahmed, on Capitol Hill on the morning of September 11th.
c. About 25 percent of the report of the Congressional Joint Inquiry
was redacted, including long passages regarding how the attack (or the
network allegedly behind it) was financed. Graham later said foreign
allies were involved in financing the alleged terror network, but that
this would only come out in 30 years.
21) Unanswered Questions and the "Final Fraud" of the 9/11 Commission:
a. The September 11th families who fought for and gained an independent
investigation (the 9/11 Commission) posed 400-plus questions, which the
9/11 Commission adopted as its roadmap. The vast majority of these
questions were completely ignored in the Commission hearings and the
final report.
b. The membership and staff of the 9/11 Commission displayed awesome
conflicts of interest. The families called for the resignation of
Executive Director Philip Zelikow, a Bush administration member and
close associate of "star witness" Condoleezza Rice, and were snubbed.
Commission member Max Cleland resigned, condemning the entire exercise
as a "scam" and "whitewash."
c.The 9/11 Commission Report is
notable mainly for its obvious omissions, distortions and outright
falsehoods - ignoring anything incompatible with the official story,
banishing the issues to footnotes, and even dismissing the
still-unresolved question of who financed 9/11 as being "of little
practical significance."
22) Crown Witnesses Held at Undisclosed Locations
The alleged masterminds of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohamed (KSM) and
Ramzi Binalshibh, are reported to have been captured in 2002 and 2003,
although one Pakistani newspaper said KSM was killed in an attempted
capture. They have been held at undisclosed locations and their
supposed testimonies, as provided in transcript form by the government,
form much of the basis for The 9/11 Commission Report
(although the Commission''s request to see them in person was denied).
After holding them for years, why doesn''t the government produce these
men and put them to trial?
23) Spitzer Redux
a. Eliot Spitzer, attorney general of New York State, snubbed pleas by New York citizens to open 9/11 as a criminal case (Justicefor911.org).
b. Spitzer also refused to allow his employee, former 9/11 Commission
staff member Dietrich Snell, to testify to the Congress about his
(Snell''s) role in keeping "Able Danger" entirely out of The 9/11 Commission Report.
24) NIST Omissions
After the destruction of the WTC structural steel, the official
Twin Towers collapse investigation was left with almost no forensic
evidence, and thus could only provide dubious computer models of
ultimately unprovable hypotheses. It failed to even test for the
possibility of explosives. (Why not clear this up?)
25) Radio Silence
The 9/11 Commission and NIST both allowed the continuing cover-up
of how Motorola''s faulty radios, purchased by the Giuliani
administration, caused firefighter deaths at the WTC - once again
showing the expendability, even of the first responders.
26) The Legal Catch-22
a. Hush Money - Accepting victims'' compensation barred September 11th families from pursuing discovery through litigation.
b. Judge Hallerstein - Those who refused compensation to pursue
litigation and discovery had their cases consolidated under the same
judge (and as a rule dismissed).
27) Saudi Connections
a. The 9/11 investigations made light of the "Bin Ladin Airlift" during
the no-fly period, and ignored the long-standing Bush family business
ties to the Bin Ladin family fortune. (A company in which both families
held interests, the Carlyle Group, was holding its annual meeting on
September 11th, with George Bush Sr., James Baker, and two brothers of
Osama Bin Ladin in attendance.)
b. The issue of Ptech.
28) Media Blackout of Prominent Doubters
The official
story has been questioned and many of the above points were raised by
members of the US Congress, retired high-ranking officers of the US
military, the three leading third-party candidates for President in the
2004 election, a member of the 9/11 Commission who resigned in protest,
a former high-ranking adviser to the George W. Bush administration,
former ministers to the German, British and Canadian governments, the
commander-in-chief of the Russian air force, 100 luminaries who signed
the "9/11 Truth Statement," and the presidents of Iran and Venezuela.
Not all of these people agree fully with each other, but all would
normally be considered newsworthy. Why has the corporate-owned US mass
media remained silent about these statements, granting due coverage
only to the comments of actor Charlie Sheen?
GEOPOLITICS, TIMING AND POSSIBLE MOTIVES
29) "The Great Game"
The Afghanistan invasion was ready for Bush''s go-ahead on
September 9, 2001, with US and UK force deployments to the region
already in place or underway. This followed the failure earlier that
year of backdoor diplomacy with the Taliban (including payments of $125
million in US government aid to Afghanistan), in an attempt to secure a
unity government for that country as a prerequisite to a Central Asian
pipeline deal.
30) The Need for a "New Pearl Harbor"
Principals in US foreign policy under the current Bush
administration (including Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle and
others) have been instrumental in developing long-running plans for
worldwide military hegemony, including an invasion of the Middle East,
dating back to the Ford, Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations. They
reiterated these plans in the late 1990s as members of the "Project for
a New American Century," and stated a clear intent to invade Iraq for
the purpose of "regime change." After 9/11, they lost no time in their
attempt to tie Iraq to the attacks.
31) Perpetual "War on Terror"
9/11 is supposed to provide carte-blanche for an open-ended, global and
perpetual "War on Terror," against any enemy, foreign or domestic, that
the executive branch chooses to designate, and regardless of whether
evidence exists to actually connect these enemies to 9/11.
32) Attacking the Constitution
a. The USA PATRIOT Act was written before 9/11, Homeland Security
and the "Shadow Government" were developed long before 9/11, and plans
for rounding up dissidents as a means for suppressing civil disturbance
have been in the works for decades.
b. 9/11 was used as the pretext to create a new, extra-constitutional
executive authority to declare anyone an "enemy combatant" (including
American citizens), to detain persons indefinitely without habeas
corpus, and to "render" such persons to secret prisons where torture is
practiced.
33) Legal Trillions
9/11 triggers a predictable shift of public spending to war, and
boosts public and private spending in the "new" New Economy of
"Homeland Security," biometrics, universal surveillance, prisons, civil
defense, secured enclaves, security, etc.
34) Plundered Trillions?
On September 10, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld announced a "war on waste" after
an internal audit found that the Pentagon was "missing" 2.3 trillion
dollars in unaccounted assets. On September 11th, this was as good as
forgotten.
35) Did 9/11 prevent a stock market crash?
Did anyone benefit from the destruction of the Securities and Exchange
Commission offices at WTC 7, and the resultant crippling of hundreds of
fraud investigations?
36) Resource Wars
a. What was discussed in the Energy
Task Force meetings under Dick Cheney in 2001? Why is the documentation
of these meetings still being suppressed?
b.
Is Peak Oil a motive for 9/11 as inside job?
37) The "Little Game"
Why was the WTC privatized just before its destruction?
HISTORY
38) "Al-CIA-da?"
The longstanding relationship between US intelligence networks and
radical Islamists, including the network surrounding Osama Bin Ladin.
(See also point 13d.)
39) Historical Precedents for "Synthetic Terror"
a. In the past many states, including the US government, have sponsored
attacks on their own people, fabricated the "cause for war," created
(and armed) their own enemies of convenience, and sacrificed their own
citizens for "reasons of state."
b. Was 9/11 an update of the Pentagon-approved "Project Northwoods"
plan for conducting self-inflicted, false-flag terror attacks in the
United States, and blaming them on a foreign enemy?
40) Secret Government
a. The record of criminality and sponsorship of coups around the world
by the covert networks based within the US intelligence complex.
b. Specifically also: The evidence of crime by Bush administration
principals and their associates, from October Surprise to Iran-Contra
and the S&L plunder to PNAC, Enron/Halliburton and beyond.
REASON NUMBER 41:
RELATED MOVEMENTS AND PARALLEL ISSUES
Ground Zero aftermath movements:
- Justice for the air-poisoning cover-up (wtceo.org)
- "Radio Silence" (radiosilencefdny.com)
- Skyscraper Safety (www.skyscrapersafety.org).
Election fraud and black box voting, 2000 to 2004. (BlackBoxVoting.org)
Lies to justify the invasion of Iraq. (afterdowningstreet.org)
Use of depleted uranium and its multi-generational consequences on human health and the environment.
Longstanding development of contingency plans for civil disturbance and military rule in the USA (See, "The War at Home")
Oklahoma City Truth movement. (Offline, but not forgotten - May 9, 2008!)
Whether you call it "Globalization" or "The New World Order" - An
unsustainable system of permanent growth ultimately requires warfare,
fraud, and mass manipulation.
