"Acharya" wrote:
Walter E. Davis, PhD blames the entire tragedy
on the victims. Now we will
see the criminals pay.
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.. .
Just as illegal business deals were at the
heart of Iran-Contra, so
are they at the heart of 9/11. Once again
with the CIA, and ex-CIA
director HW Bu$h in the middle. This time,
Bin Laden, not the Contras
was at the other end of the deal.
Bu$h went from petty Texas corporate crook,
to CIA director, to
president, and now finally to Emperor of the
fledgling Amerikan
Empire/NWO. Don't think Bu$h, Jr is in control
of the country, he's a
semi-retarded puppet, the people truly behind
the terror are no
innocent, jovial fools who have the interests
of the "comman man" in
mind. That innocent image cultivated by Bu$h
Jr hides the horrific
evil that is currently in control of Amerika's
military and
finances...
September 11th And The Bush Administration
Compelling Evidence for Complicity
Walter E. Davis, PhD
Information Clearing House
Introduction
Clearly, one of the most critical questions
of the twenty-first
century concerns why the terrorist attacks
of September 11, 2001 were
not prevented. As I outline below, there are
numerous aspects
regarding the official stories about September
11th which do not fit
with known facts, which contradict each other,
which defy common
sense, and which indicate a pattern of misinformation
and coverup. The
reports coming out of Washington do very little
to alleviate these
concerns.
For example, the Congressional report released
on July 25, 2003 by a
joint panel of House and Senate intelligence
committees concluded that
9/11 resulted in C.I.A. and F.B.I. "lapses."
While incompetence is
frightening enough given a $40 billion budget,
it is simply not
consistent with known facts. It is consistent
with the reports from
other government scandals such has the Iran
Contra Affair which
produced damage control and cover up but not
answers to the more
probing questions. But perhaps a comparison
to Watergate is more
apropos since we now have twenty-eight pages
of this report, which the
Bush Administration refuses to release. The
report from the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is believable
unless you are
seriously interested in the truth. Under more
careful scientific
scrutiny, it does not answer some very important
questions.
Newspapers across the country call for an
investigation into Bush's
lies about the reasons for war on Iraq. Many
people may accept the
fact of Bush's false pretext for a war on
Arab people in a distant
place, especially after the fact. However,
few people will be as
accepting if it is shown that this Administration
was complicit in
acts of atrocities against its own people.
The magnitude of the crisis is readily apparent
by noting that 9/11
serves as a pretext for a never-ending war
against the world,
including preemptive strikes against defenseless,
but resource rich
countries. It also serves as a pretext for
draconian measures of
repression at home, including the cabinet
level Department of Homeland
Security and Patriot Act I, and its sequel.
September 11th has become
the cause for numerous other acts from massive
increases in military
spending and to a Fast Track Trade Agreement
for the President.
To date, investigations stop far too short,
the public is left in the
dark on too many questions easily answered,
and no one in the Bush
Administration has been held accountable for
any actions surrounding
the attacks of September 11, 2001. The National
Commission on
Terrorists Attacks Upon the United States,
which was formed at the
insistence of the family of some of the victims,
is continuing to hold
hearings and a final report is expected by
May, 2004. It remains to be
seen if, after a two-year lapse, they can
come closer to the truth
about September 11th. I believe that this
would only happen if public
pressure were brought to bear and accountability
demanded from the
Bush Administration. Accountability for any
atrocity should attract
the attention of serious investigative reporters,
media critics and
even news commentators. That is their chosen
responsibility. Who is to
raise the question of why journalists and
others in the mass media are
failing the people of the U.S. and the world?
In this article, I outline twenty-two items
of evidence and questions,
each one sufficient reason to demand an investigation
into why
September 11th was not prevented. Together,
these items suggest that
the most plausible explanation of events is
that the Bush
Administration was complicit in the terrorist
attacks. This should be
a national and international scandal. What
is being discovered will
shock many people, which is one of the reasons
for deliberate
corporate media coverup. But a significant
number of people within the
U.S. see (or will see) the consistencies in
the events surrounding
9/11 as described below, and what they know
about U.S. foreign policy.
Nevertheless, the degree to which this Administration
is pursuing a
course of world domination at any cost is
unprecedented. One of the
best ways of putting a halt to this destructive
course is to expose
the Bush Administration and insist on their
accountability to the
American people. Thus, the intent of this
article is to help fill the
void in the media on the issue of the Bush
Administration's complicity
in 9/11.
Here is the official story: On the morning
of September 11, 2001 four
Boeing passenger jets were hijacked within
an hour by nineteen Arab
terrorists armed with boxcutters. Pilots among
these terrorists took
control of the commercial planes and changed
course toward targets in
New York City and Washington D.C. Two of the
planes were deliberately
crashed into the Twin Towers, causing fires
within the towers, which
melted the steel support structures, thereby
causing the buildings to
collapse completely. A third plane was deliberately
crashed into the
Pentagon. Passengers on the fourth plane overpowered
the hijackers and
caused the plane to crash in Pennsylvania.
This was an attack on
America planned and directed by Osama bin
Laden as the leader of
Al-Qaeda, a previously obscure anti-U.S. international
terrorist
organization composed mainly of Arabs. This
story cries out for
further explanations, but nothing official
is forthcoming. People are
simply expected to believe the official version
without question.
Evidence of Complicity by the Bush Administration
in 9/11 Terrorist
Attacks
The following twenty-two separate and related
points, citing evidence
requiring further investigation, and include
questions that demand
answers, were formulated on the basis of the
information from the
several sources cited at the end, which should
be consulted for
verification and documentation. These sources
contain extensive
detailed information and analysis beyond what
is provided in this
summary. I hope that this information will
incite public outrage
leading to full accountability.
1) The entire United States intelligence community
knew of the 9/11
attacks before hand, including the fact that
commercial jets were to
be used as bombs; they also knew the approximate
dates and possible
targets but were called off their investigations.
Western intelligence
had been aware of plans for such terrorist
attacks on U.S. soil as
early as 1995. The plan was known as "Project
Bojinka." It was known
to both the CIA and FBI and was described
in court documents in the
trial in New York of Ramzi Yousef and Abdul
Murad for their
participation in the 1993 bombing of the World
Trade Center (WTC).
Seven to eight weeks prior to September 11th,
all internal U.S.
security agencies were warned of the impending
Al-Qaeda attacks. The
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was
warned of the attack but did
nothing to beef up security. At least two
weeks prior to September
11th the FBI agents again confirmed that an
attack on lower Manhattan
was imminent. However, the FBI agents were
commanded to cut short
their investigations into the attacks and
those involved. Agents were
threatened with prosecution under the National
Security Act if they
publicized information pertaining to their
investigations. Some field
agents predicted, almost precisely, what happened
on September 11th.
As early as 1997, Russia, France, Israel,
the Philippines and Egypt
all warned the U.S. of the possibility of
the attack. Warning also
came from came from several others sources
as well. Recently (May 25,
2002), CBS revealed that President Bush had
been warned in an
intelligence briefing on August 6, 2001that
bin Laden might be
planning to hijack commercial planes for a
domestic attack in the U.S.
2) There is incontrovertible evidence that
the US Air Force all across
the country was comprehensively "stood down"
on the morning of
September 11th. Routine security measures,
normally in place, which
may well have been able to prevent the attacks,
or reduce their
impact, were suspended for one hour while
the attacks were in
progress, and re-instated once they were over.
Sequence of events:
8:46 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 11 from
Boston smashed into the
north tower of the WTC. The tower collapses
at 10:28 a.m.
9:03 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 175 from
Boston smashed into the
south tower. It completely collapses at 9:59am.
9:38 a.m.: AA Flight 77 from Dulles hits the
Pentagon.
10:10 a.m.: United Flight 93 from Newark crashed
in Shanksville,
Pennsylvania.
Andrews Air Force Base is a huge military
installation about 10 miles
from the Pentagon. On September 11th there
were two entire squadrons
of combat-ready fighter jets at Andrews. They
failed to do their job
of protecting the skies over Washington D.C.
Despite over one hour's
advance warning of a terrorist attack in progress,
not a single
Andrews fighter tried to protect the city.
The FAA, NORAD and the
military have cooperative procedures enabling
fighter jets to
automatically intercept commercial aircraft
under emergency
conditions. They do not need instructions
from the White House to
carry out these procedures, yet they were
not followed.
American Airline Flight 11 departed from Boston
Logan Airport at 7:45
a.m. Between 8:13 and 8:20 a.m. Flight 11
became unresponsive to
ground control and radar indicated that the
plane had deviated from
its assigned path of flight. Two Flight 11
airline attendants had
separately called American Airlines reporting
a hijacking, the
presence of weapons, and the infliction of
injuries on passengers and
crew. At this point an emergency was undeniably
clear. Yet, according
to NORAD's official timeline, NORAD was not
contacted until 20 minutes
later at 8:40 a.m. Tragically the fighter
jets were not deployed until
8:52 a.m., a full 32 minutes after the loss
of contact with Flight 11.
Flights 175, 77 and 93 all had this same pattern
of delays in
notification and delays in scrambling fighter
jets. Delays that are
difficult to imagine considering a plane had,
by this time, already
hit the WTC. The plane striking the pentagon
is particularly
spectacular. After it was known that the plane
had a problem, it was
nevertheless able to change course and fly
towards Washington, for
about 45 minutes, fly past the White House,
and crash into the
Pentagon, without any attempt at interception.
All the while two
squadrons of fighter aircraft were stationed
just 10 miles from the
eventual target. Unless one is prepared to
allege collusion, such a
scenario is not possible by any stretch of
the imagination.
3) Neither the Joint Chief of Staff, the Secretary
of Defense nor the
President of the United States acted according
to well established
emergency protocols. Acting Joint Chief of
Staff General Richard B.
Myers stated that he saw a TV report about
a plane hitting the WTC but
thought it was a small plane. So he went ahead
with his meeting. By
the time he came out of the meeting the Pentagon
had been hit. Whose
responsibility was it to relay this emergency
to the Joint Chief of
Staff?
The Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was
at his desk when AA77
crashed into the Pentagon. How is it possible
that the National
Military Command Center, located in the Pentagon
and in contact with
law enforcement and air traffic controllers
from 8:46 a.m., did not
communicate to the Secretary of Defense, also
at the Pentagon, about
the other hijacked planes especially the one
headed to Washington?
After he was notified, why did he go to the
war room?
The actions of the President, while the attacks
were occurring,
indicate that he deliberately avoided doing
anything reasonably
expected of a President wanting to protect
American citizens and
property. Why didn't the Secret Service inform
him of this national
emergency? When is a President supposed to
be notified of everything
the agencies know? Why was the President permitted
by the Secret
Service to remain in the Sarasota elementary
school? At 9.05, nineteen
minutes after the first attack and two minutes
after the second attack
on the WTC, Andrew Card, the presidential
chief of staff, whispered
something in President Bush's ear. The president
did not react as if
he was interested in trying to do something
about the situation. He
did not leave the school, convene an emergency
meeting, consult with
anybody, or intervene in any way, to ensure
that the Air Force
completed it's job. He did not even mention
the extraordinary events
occurring in New York, but simply continued
with the reading class.
His own explanations of his actions that day
contradict known facts.
In the case of a national emergency, seconds
of indecision could cost
thousands of lives; and it's precisely for
this reason that the
government has a whole network of adjuncts
and
advisors to insure that these top officials
are among the first to be
informed, not the last. Where were these individuals
who did not
properly inform the top officials?
In short, the CIA, the DCI, the State Department,
the President, and
key figures around him in the White House,
were ultimately responsible
for doing nothing in the face of the mounting
evidence of an impending
threat to U.S. national security. Incompetence
is a highly improbable
explanation.
4) Prior to 9/11, the US intelligence agencies
should have stopped the
nineteen terrorists from entering this country
for intelligence
reasons, alone. Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers'
visas should have
been unquestionably denied because their applications
were incomplete
and incorrect. Most of the 19 hijackers were
young, unmarried, and
un-employed males. They were, in short, the
"classic over-stay
candidates". A seasoned former Consular officer
stated in the National
Review magazine, "Single, idle young adults
with no specific
destination in the United States rarely get
visas absent compelling
circumstances."
There are several cases damaging to the credibility
of the official
accounts of 9/11. But the U.S. response to
Mohamed Atta, the alleged
lead hijacker, is most extraordinary. The
FBI had been monitoring
Atta's movements for several months in 2000.
According to PBS'
Frontlines, the Immigration and Naturalization
Service failed to stop
Atta from entering the U.S. three times on
a tourist visa in 2001,
even though officials knew the visa had expired
in 2000, and that Atta
had violated its terms by taking flight lessons.
Furthermore, Atta had
already been implicated in a terrorist bombing
in Israel, with the
information passed on to the United States
before he was first issued
his tourist visa.
5) How did many of the hijackers receive clearance
for training at
secure U.S. military and intelligence facilities,
and for what
purposes? Many of the terrorist pilots received
their initial training
in Venice, Florida at one of two flight schools
of highly questionable
credibility and with approval of US intelligence.
Mohamed Atta had
attended International Officers School at
Maxwell Air Force Base in
Montgomery, Alabama; Abdulaziz Alomari had
attended Aerospace Medical
School at Brooks Air Force base in Texas;
Saeed Alghamdi had been to
the Defense Language Institute in Monterey,
California. These are all
names of identified hijackers, so why has
the U.S. government
attempted to deny the match? As early as three
days after the 9/11
attacks, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III
claimed that these
findings were new and had not been known by
the FBI previously. This
claim is a lie.
Zacarias Moussaouri was arrested after his
flight trainers at the
Minnesota flight school, Pan Am International
Flight Academy, reported
highly suspicious behavior. He was greatly
unqualified; he wanted to
learn to fly a 747 but wasn't interested in
takeoffs or landings; he
was traveling on a French passport, said he
was from France, but could
not speak French. When
contacted, the French said he was a suspected
terrorist connected to
Al-Qaeda. However, a special counter terrorism
panel of the FBI and
CIA reviewed the case and dismissed it.
There are numerous glaring anomalies, illegalities
and scandals
connected with Wally Hilliard and Rudi Dekker's
Huffman Aviation
School at Venice, Florida where other hijackers
trained. Dekkers had
no aviation experience and was under indictment
in his native country,
The Netherlands, on financial charges. He
purchased his aviation
school at just about the time the terrorist
pilots moved into town and
began their lessons. He has yet to be investigated
even though he
initially trained most of the hijackers.
Britannia Aviation was awarded a five-year
contract to run a large
regional maintenance facility at Lynchburg
at a time when the company
virtually had no assets, employees, or corporate
history and did not
posses the necessary FAA license needed to
perform the maintenance.
Britannia was a company with known CIA connections.
It was operating
illegally out of Huffman Aviation, the flight
school which trained
Al-Qaeda hijackers and was given a "green
light" from the Justice
Department's Drugs Enforcement Administration,
and the local Venice
Police Department was warned to "leave them
alone." Why?
6) How were the hijackers able to get specifically
contraband items
such as box-cutters, pepper spray and, according
to one FAA executive
summary, a gun on those planes? On the morning
of September 11th, when
the 19 hijackers went to purchase their tickets
and to receive their
boarding passes, nine were singled out and
questioned through a
screening process. But they passed the screening
process and were
allowed to continue on with their mission.
7) At a time when the U.S. intelligence community
was on alert for an
imminent Al-Qaeda attack, the Bush Administration
made it easier for
Saudi visitors to come to the U.S. under a
program called U.S. Visa
Express, introduced four months before September
11th. Michael
Springmann, former head of the Visa Bureau
at the U.S. Consulate in
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia said that he was repeatedly
ordered by high-level
State Departtment officials to issue visas
to unqualified applicants.
His complaints to higher authorities at several
agencies went
unanswered. In a CBC interview, he indicated
that the CIA was indeed
complicit in the attacks.
8) Most of the hijackers were Saudis, as is
Osama bin Laden, and the
Saudi Arabian government is known to give
financial support to
terrorist organizations. Why is Iraq and not
Saudi Arabia a target if
the US government is concerned about terrorism?
Saudi Arabia's
government cooperates with US oil and arms
industries; Iraq did not.
Iraq is forced to now, of course. At least
fifteen of the far-flung
network of terrorist pilots received their
money from the same source.
There is specific evidence that Osama bin
Laden continues to receive
extensive support, not only from members of
his own family, but also
from members of the Saudi establishment. A
New Statesman report stated
that "Bin Laden and his gang are just the
tentacles; the head lies
safely in Saudi Arabia, protected by U.S.
forces." The hijackers
responsible for 9/11 were not illiterate,
bearded fanatics from
Afghanistan. They were all educated, highly
skilled, middle-class
professionals. Of the 19 men involved, 13
were citizens of Saudi
Arabia.
9) Why were the FBI called off its investigation
of Osama bin Laden
and the Saudi Royal Family prior to 9/11?
Moreover, why were the FBI
Agents ordered to curtail their investigation
of these attacks on
October 10, 2001? The FBI has repeatedly complained
that it has been
muzzled and restricted in its attempts to
investigate matters
connected to Bin Laden and Al Qeada. One law
enforcement official was
quoted as saying, "The investigative staff
has to be made to
understand that we're not trying to solve
a crime now." FBI Agents are
said to be in the process of filing a law
suit agents the Agency for
the right to go public.
10) Osama Bin Laden was unofficially convicted
of the attacks within a
time frame that could not possibly have allowed
any intelligence to
have been gathered which supported the accusation.
That is, it would
be impossible if they did not already have
that information. How could
they have had no warning of an operation,
which must have been very
difficult to keep under wraps, but then be
able to name the culprit in
less than a day? And if they had some forewarning
of the attack, even
if it was not specific, then it raises even
more questions about
government agencies' complicity.
It is not logical that Bin Laden was involved,
and actually
impossible, unless he was involved in the
capacity of collusion with
US authorities, or at best, in the context
of the US knowing all along
what he was up to, and deliberately allowing
him to do it. The point
has already been made that if he was involved,
then it cannot have
been a surprise, which in turn, points to
the President and others in
his administration.
From day one, there has not been a shred of
publicly available
evidence against Bin Laden. Up until mid December,
there was nothing
but the continued repetition of his name.
The official documents
detailing allegations against Bin Laden provide
no convincing
evidence. Of the 69 points of "evidence" cited,
ten relate to
background information about the relationship
between Bin Laden and
the Taliban. Fifteen relate to background
information regarding the
general philosophies of Al Qeada, and it's
relationship to Bin Laden.
None give any facts concerning the events
of 9/11. Most do not even
attempt to directly relate anything mentioned
to the events of that
day. Twenty-six list allegations related to
previous terrorist
attacks. Even if they were convictions of
previous terrorist attacks,
everybody knows that this isn't worth the
paper it's written on, in
terms of evidence for involvement of September
11th.
Within less than four hours of the attacks
taking place, the media
were fed comments, which assumed Bin Laden's
guilt, comments made on
the basis of events, which could not possibly
have occurred. The
Pentagon and the Department of Defense used
dialogue attributed to Bin
Laden, in an effort to incriminate him, while
refusing to release all
of the dialogue, and refusing to issue a verbatim,
literal
translation. Why was it considered necessary
to lie, in order to
create a case against Bin Laden? The truth
could well implicate the
Bush administration.
11) Pakistan's Intelligence Agency (ISI) was
indirectly involved in
September 11th. The links between Al Qaeda,
Pakistan's ISI and the
CIA; and, between the ISI, Osama bin Laden
and the Taliban Axis are a
matter of public record. Pakistan has also
long been a supporter of Al
Qeada. The Pakistani ISI (secret service)
has been a mechanism by
which the CIA indirectly channeled support
to Al Qeada and has been
used by successive US administrations as a
"go-between." Pakistan's
military-intelligence apparatus constitutes
the core institutional
support to both Osama's Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Without this
institutional support, there would be no Taliban
government in Kabul.
In turn, without the unbending support of
the US government, there
would be no powerful military-intelligence
apparatus in Pakistan.
It was reported that ISI's Director-General,
General Mahmoud Ahmad,
had funneled $100,000 to the lead hijacker,
Mohamed Atta, shortly
before September 11th. The U.S. government
protected him, and itself,
by asking him to resign quietly after the
discovery, thus blocking a
further inquiry and a potential scandal. In
the wake of 9/11, the Bush
Administration consciously sought the "cooperation"
of the ISI, which
had been supporting and abetting Osama bin
Laden and the Taliban. In
other words, the Bush Administration's relations
with Pakistan's ISI,
including its "consultations" with General
Mahmoud Ahmad in the week
prior to September 11th, raise the issue of
"cover-up" as well as
"complicity". While Ahmad was talking to U.S.
officials at the CIA and
the Pentagon, the ISI allegedly had contacts
with the 9/11 terrorists.
12) The USA and Bin Laden are not the enemies
they pretend to be. It
is established beyond doubt that senior members
of the Bush
administration have close links to the Bin
Laden Family and this
relationship is still going on behind the
scenes. In fact, there is
plenty of circumstantial evidence to indicate
that Bin Laden, may have
had something to do with 9/11, but the problem
is that it also
implicates the Bush Administration, the CIA,
George Bush Senior,
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and The United Arab
Emirates.
It is well known that Bin Laden's close working
relationship with the
CIA began in the 1980's. The claim is that
they have since fallen out,
but this story is a lie. According to the
mainstream media spin, this
is OK, because the rest of the family has
disowned Osama for his
terrorist activities and anti-US views. This
spin is also a lie.
The "blowback" thesis is a fabrication. The
evidence amply confirms
that the CIA never severed its ties to the
"Islamic Militant Network".
Since the end of the Cold War these covert
intelligence links have not
only been maintained, they have become increasingly
sophisticated.
13) How was it possible for the World Trade
Center's two towers to
have completely collapsed as a result of two
jet planes? The towers in
fact stood for forty-five and ninety minutes
after the crashes. The
official story is that the burning jet fuel
caused the steel girders
supporting them to melt. However, there is
simply no credibly
scientific evidence to support this story.
The WTC towers were
designed to take the impact of a Boeing 707.
It is highly unlikely
that fire from the jet fuel could have melted
the steel girders. This
is especially true of the South tower since
the plane did not hit it
directly. Therefore most of the fuel did not
fall inside the building.
The South Tower was hit second and fell first.
Both towers collapsed
evenly and smoothly in a manner consistent
with that caused by a
planned demolition. Based upon scientific
evidences, photos and videos
of the event, and reports of scientists, the
WTC architect and
engineers, it is highly unlikely that the
Towers collapsed because of
burning jet fuel rather than demolition. There
are also serious
questions regarding the collapse of the building
known as WTC7. It is
also noteworthy that ownership of the WTC
changed hands several months
earlier because if the towers collapsed because
of inside demolition,
such accomplishment would require cooperation
from the extensive WTC
security forces.
14) Why was Bin Laden not captured before
9/11, and why has he not
been captured since? There have been several
opportunities to capture
Osama bin Laden, but no effort to do so was
made. Two US allies, Saudi
Arabia, and The United Arab Emirates, have
colluded in deliberately
allowing Bin Laden to stay free. Bin Laden
was meeting with the CIA as
late as July 2001. An examination of U.S.
attempts to capture Osama
bin Laden show they have in fact consistently
blocked attempts to
investigate and capture him. Eleven bin Laden
family members were
flown safely out of the same Boston airport
where the highjacking took
place a few days earlier. Why were they not
detained for questioning?
15) The September 11th disaster has resulted
in power and profit at
home and abroad by both the Bin Laden and
the Bush families. There are
significant business ties between Bin Laden
and senior members of the
Bush administration. Reports have emerged
that Carlyle Group, the
giant U.S. defence contractor that employs
former President George W.
Bush Sr., has had long-standing financial
ties to the bin Laden
family. So while there is compelling evidence
that Osama bin Laden has
not broken away from his family, it is also
a matter of record that
the Bush administration is in turn very significantly
tied to the same
family. The Carlyle Group has profited immensely
from the wars on
Afghanistan and Iraq and from the militarization
of U.S. foreign
policy.
16) Revelations of profits made by insider
trading relating to the
9/11 attacks, point to the top levels of US
business and the CIA. The
intelligence community regularly analyzes
financial transactions for
any suspicious activity. Only three trading
days before September
11th, shares of American and United Airlines
-- the companies whose
planes were hijacked in the attacks on New
York and Washington -- were
massively "sold short" by investors. Executive
CIA Director AB "Buzzy"
Krongard was one of those who profited from
the deal. The names of the
other investors remain undisclosed and the
$5 million in profit taking
remains unclaimed in the Chicago Exchange
account. No similar trading
in other airlines occurred on the Chicago
exchange in the day
immediately preceding Black Tuesday. There
were also unusual trades on
several companies occupying the World Trade
Center, including Morgan
Stanley Dean Witter & Co., and Merrill Lynch
& Co. These multiple,
massive and unprecedented financial transactions
point unequivocally
to the fact that the investors behind these
trades were speculating in
anticipation of a mid-September 2001 catastrophe
that would involve
both United and American Airlines and offices
in the Twin Towers. To
date, both the Securities & Exchange Commission
and the FBI have been
tight-lipped about their investigations of
trades. A probe could
isolate the investors. Why has nothing been
made public?
17) Selected persons were told not to fly
that day. Newsweek reported
that on September 10th, "a group of top Pentagon
officials suddenly
canceled travel plans for the next morning,
apparently because of
security concerns." Why was that same information
not made available
to the 266 people who died aboard the four
hijacked commercial
aircraft? A significant number of selected
people were warned about
flying or reporting for work at the WTC. San
Francisco Mayor Willie
Brown received a phone call eight hours before
the hijacking warning
him not to travel by air. Salman Rushdie is
under a 24-hour protection
of UK Scotland yard; he was also prevented
from flying that day. Ariel
Sharon canceled his address to Israeli support
groups in New York City
just the day before his scheduled September
11th address. John
Ashcroft stopped flying on public airplanes
in July of 2001.
Other evidence exists indicating that government
officials knew of the
attacks beforehand. For example, Tom Kenny
who was with a rescue squad
from FEMA told Dan Rather of CBS News that,
"We arrived on Monday
night (September 10th) and went into action
of Tuesday." How is it
possible for high government officials to
have been caught by surprise
as some claimed?
18) There are reasonable grounds for suspicion
that the U.S. attack on
Afghanistan was already planned before September
11th. A pretext for
war is always needed. From investigative journalist
Patrick Martin,
"[t]his examination has found that a specific
war on Afghanistan . . .
launched in October 2001 had been planned
for at least a year, and in
general terms related to regional strategic
and economic interests,
had actually been rooted in at least four
years of strategic planning.
This planning, in turn, is the culmination
of a decade of regional
strategizing. All that was required was a
trigger for these war plans,
which was amply provided by the tragic events
of 11th September."
It is public knowledge that Unocal and others
in the oil industry were
negotiating with Afghan officials for a pipeline
across their country
as part of the "Silk Road" strategy. It was
also reported that the
talks had broken down. A specific threat made
at a meeting: the
Taliban can choose between a "carpets of bombs"
- an invasion - or a
"carpets of gold" - the oil and gas pipelines.
Experts agree that
Central Asia and the Caspian Basin are central
to energy in the 21st
century and that energy is central to political,
economic and military
power. James Dorian noted in the Oil & Gas
Journal: "Those who control
the oil routes out of Central Asia will impact
all future direction
and quantities of flow and the distribution
of revenues from new
production" (cited in Ahmed, 2002, p. 69).
The plans for global domination developed
by those of Project for the
New American Century, a neoconservative think
tank formed in the
Spring of 1997, are also a matter of public
record. These plans
included specifics for taking military control
of Central Asia,
including regime change in Iraq. The primary
architects of these plans
include Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearle, Richard
Cheney and Donald
Rumsfeld, all part of the first Bush Administration
ousted by Bill
Clinton and now back in power with George
W. Bush.
19) The 9/11 attacks came at an extremely
fortuitous time for the Bush
administration, the Pentagon, the CIA, the
FBI, the weapons industry,
and the oil industry, all of which have benefited
immensely from this
tragedy. It is worth noting the acute observations
of Canadian social
philosopher John McMurtry: "To begin with,
the forensic principle of
'who most benefits from the crime?' clearly
points in the direction of
the Bush administration. . . . The more you
review the connections and
the sweeping lapse of security across so many
coordinates, the more
the lines point backwards [to the White House]."
20) Both the U.S. and the USSR are responsible
for the rise of
religious extremism, terrorism and civil war
within Afghanistan since
the 1980s. The U.S., however, is directly
responsible for the
cultivation of a distorted 'jihadi' ideology
that fueled, along with
U.S. arms and training, the ongoing war and
acts of terrorism within
the country after the withdrawal of Soviet
forces.
21) The Bush Administration is clearly capable
of creating or allowing
such atrocities to occur. Hitler was able
to play the anti-communist
card to win over skeptical German industrialists.
Certainly the Bush
family are not newcomers to melding political
and business interests,
they got their start as key Hitler supporters.
Prescott Bush, father
of George Bush Sr., was Hitler's banker and
propaganda manager in New
York, until FDR confiscated his holdings.
George Bush Sr. used Manuel
Noriega as a scapegoat, killing thousands
of innocent Panamanians in
the process of re-establishing U.S. control
over Panama. It is also
widely believed that the current Bush Administration
knowingly misled
the people about the war in Iraq.
22) There are precedents for these kinds of
acts of complicity and
fabrications. Rejecting claim that the evidence
for collusion is
over-ruled by a belief that no country would
do this to its own
citizens, simply requires pointing out that
the contemplation of
terrorist attacks on U.S. citizens by the
CIA is a matter of public
record. The previously classified "Operation
Northwoods" document
reveals that in 1962, the CIA seriously considered
the possibility of
carrying out terrorist attacks against US
citizens, in order to blame
it on Cuba. The plans were never implemented,
but were given approval
signatures by all the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The plan included several
options, including killing Cuban defectors
or U.S. soldiers, sinking
ships, and staging simulations of planes being
shot down. All this was
done to blame on Castro as a pretext for launching
a war against Cuba.
Far from being an unprecedented shocker, suspected
government
complicity in 9/11 builds on an august and
cynical tradition. "It's
the oldest trick in the book, dating back
to Roman times." Examples of
democracy being hoaxed include the sinking
of the Maine, Pearl Harbor
bombardment, which President Roosevelt is
believed to have known about
beforehand, and the hoax of the Gulf of Tonkin
provocation.
Conclusions
The evidence seems clear that if the many
agencies of the U.S.
government had done their jobs, the September
11th attack would likely
have been prevented. If there had been an
immediate investigation into
the September 11th attacks, the wars on Afghanistan
and Iraq could not
have been justified simply on the basis of
terrorism. Surely questions
must be asked about why there is yet no accountability
of the Bush
administration and why the journalists and
others in mass media are
not held responsible for the coverup, deception
and lack of
investigative reporting. From the evidence
presented it would seem
that much public whistle-blowing ought to
be taking place. Why is it
not yet evident?
I believe that it is important not to approach
9/11 as the possibility
of some grand conspiracy, but a possible conspiracy
of some sort
nevertheless. One important insight is how
hierarchical authoritarian
social systems function. Top down directives
and commands, especially
if they carry the weight of threats of censorship
and punishment serve
to keep any dissent in check. There is a great
deal of self-censorship
operating in all institutions in the United
States. It is also
important to recognize the role of a shared
ideology among the
decision makers, or perhaps more specifically
the role of what social
psychologists, in studies of organizational
behavior, call
"groupthink." Groupthink is decision making
characterized by
uncritical acceptance of and conformity with
the prevailing view.
Thus, the will of a few key persons can be
spread within and across
government agencies.
Thus the possibility of complicity on the
part of the Bush
Administration is very real. At the very least,
further and more
honest investigations must take place and
some accountability exacted
from those responsible.
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Executive Director
of the Institute for Policy
Research & Development, Brighton, England,
suggests,
The executive branch of the federal government
has apparently enabled
a lethal surprise attack with mass murder
against two of the founding
thirteen colonies, New York and Virginia.
By such an act, the federal
government would grossly violate and void
its contract with the
states, and abrogate its own constitutional
rights and privileges.
Even if you do not accept the complicity argument,
it has failed to
protect its largest city from the consequences
of its overweening
foreign policies.
Like a loose handgun, our Federal government
has backfired on its
owners, the States. The executive has gone
to war in defiance of the
Constitution, and Congress has abdicated its
war-making authority on
at least 200 occasions since 1945, according
to the Federation of
American Scientists. The federal government
has proven utterly
incapable and unwilling to remedy its chronic
and world-threatening
sickness (p. 376-377).
It seems apropos to conclude: "if you are
part of the problem, then
you are not part of the solution." The solution
then lies with the
people themselves and not with any US government
agency, least of all
the Executive Branch.
Sources
Ahmed, Nafeez Mosaddeq (2002). The war on
freedom: How and why America
was attacked September 11, 2001. Joshua Tree,
CA: Tree of Life
Publications. AThe War on Freedom rips apart
the veil of silence
surrounding 9/11, and lets readers look at
the facts for themselves.
This riveting and thoroughly documented study
[718 citations] is a
"must" resource for everyone seeking to understand
the attack on the
World Trade Center of New York on September
11, 2001 and "America's
New War."
Bamford, James (2001). Body of secrets : anatomy
of the ultra-secret
National Security Agency : from the Cold War
through the dawn of a new
century. New York: Doubleday, 2001. See for
detailed information on
Operation Northwood and other "secrets."
Burbach, Roger, & Clarke, Ben (Eds.) (2002).
September 11 and the U.S.
war: Beyond the curtain of smoke. San Francisco:
City Light Books.
This is an anthology of 41 short pieces by
more than 30 authors who
dissent from the bellicose actions of the
U.S. government since
9-11-01. These essays provide the essential
background and analysis
needed to understand the origins and consequences
of the attack of
September 11th and the U.S. government's response.
Chossudovsky, Michel (2002). War and globalisation:
The truth behind
September 11. London: Zed Books. "In this
timely study, Michel
Chossudovsky blows away the smokescreen, put
up by the mainstream
media, that 9-11 was an 'intelligence failure'.
Through meticulous
research, the author uncovers a military-intelligence
ploy behind the
September 11 attacks, and the coverup and
complicity of key members of
the Bush Administration."
Grey, Steve (2002). September 11 Attacks:
Evidence of U.S. collusion.
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Hopsicker, Daniel: http://www.madcowprod.com/archive.htm.
Jones, Alex: http://.
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon
the United States
http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/. See
especially the testimony
of Mindy Kleinberg, Stephen Push and others
on the First Public
Hearings Archives, p. 163.
Thompson, Paul: http://cooperativeresearch.org.
See "US preparing for
a war with Afghanistan before 9/11, increasing
control of Asia before
& since" and several other articles.
http://emperors-clothes.com. See several short
articles by Jared
Israel, John Flaherty, Illarion Bykov, Francisco
Gil-White and George
Szamuely.
http://globaloutlook.ca. This site has numerous
links to documented
articles and other valuable resources.
. This web site has extensive information
and detailed analysis. It
raises many serious questions about the official
stories and reports.
It has undergone recent revisions based upon
new evidence.
http://www.UnansweredQuestions.org.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com.
Address correspondence to: Walter E. Davis.
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Some of the criminals have already been caught and will pay-Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed, Ramzi Binalshibh, Abu Zubyadah, to name three of them; Mohammed
Atef was KIA in a airstrike in Afghanistan just before Kabul fell. And a
lot of smaller fry have either been caught or sent to the morgue. Next up
(and hopefully soon) is Bin Laden himself. Whether or not he winds up in
court or in a body bag is his choice, not ours....
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