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INDEX: warning signs | 9/11/01 | coverup | commission |
timelines | truth movement | wildcards | bad science?
----ONE STOP SHOPPING OPTIONS--------
The Enemy Within by Gore Vidal (Oct 2002)
The Coincidence Theorist's Guide to 9/11
For one-stop shopping, Rigorous Intuition provides a smart annotated summary of reasons for 9/11 skepticism.
· LIHOP, MIHOP, NOHOP: an overview of theories and paradigms for understanding 9/11
---Before 9/11: Warning Signs------------------
"The President is not the President. He is a potentate. He is a Caesar." From the floor of the House, Rep. Henry Gonzalez delivers a historic reckoning against the first Bush administration, covert support for Saddam Hussein reaching back into the Reagan years, the CIA, the Federal Reserve, the insanity of war for empire, and Congress's abdication of its responsibilities under the Constitution (Sep 1992)
WTC 1993: Growing evidence points to role of FBI operative by Ralph Schoenman (Nov 1993)
Operation Bojinka (Ramzi Yusef's 1995 kamikaze plot)
The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror by David Hoffman (book online, 1998)
Moscow, Sep 1999: Inside-job false-flag terror attacks by FSB catapult former KGB chief Putin to absolute power and trigger Second Chechnya War.
· "I have looked into his eyes and seen that he is a man with a good soul."
U.S. Military Civil Disturbance Planning: The War at Home by Frank Morales (1999), on the long history of the U.S. military's preparations for martial law and "homeland security"
· Total Dominance, Chipped Humans: Military Aerospace Planning for 2025 (Exec. Summary, PDF, 1996)
Rebuilding America's Defenses PDF file: Manifesto of the Project for a New American Century, contains infamous statement on the need for a "new Pearl Harbor" (Sep 2000)
· The Great Game for Caspian Oil, Washington Post (1998)
Northwoods chapter of Body of Secrets by James Bamford (Apr 2001)
· Operation Northwoods document released (Apr 2001)
· ABCNEWS story on Northwoods - still on web (May 2001)
· The Lone Gunmen: TV Show Imagines 9/11 as CIA Plot (Mar 2001!)
· TIME mag: Rumors of Bin Laden plot to crash plane into Bush's hotel at Genoa Summit in July (June 2001)
· Jim Hatfield's last article before ruled-suicide guesses CIA spreading false rumor of Genoa plot (Jul 2001)
"The USA PATRIOT Act was planned before Sept. 11" by Jennifer Van Bergen
· Rumsfeld: "What we decide to do, we'll decide to do and we'll do it, rather than announcing it" (Aug 2001)
· Largest British fleet since Falklands sets sail to Gulf for Sep '01 "Swift Sword 2" wargame - cynics suspect it won't be a game by the time they get there (Aug 2001)
· Saudi intel chief Prince Turki resigns after 22 years at top, immediately following visit to Pakistan (Sep 2001)
(See Prince Turki interview)
· Northern Alliance leader Massood assassinated; context of U.S. military activity in Central Asia (Sep 9, 2001)
Sep 9: Afghan invasion plans placed on Bush's desk
· "Forbidden Truth": Negotiations with Taliban
· Taliban wipes out opium production (Feb 2001)
· Bush sends $43 million to Taliban (May 2001)
· Carpet of gold or carpet of bombs?
· India to support plan for Afghanistan invasion (Jun 2001)
· Timeline of planning for Afghanistan invasion
Sep 10, 2001: Rumsfeld says Pentagon "missing" 2.3 trillion dollars (CBS)
---September 11th, 2001-----------------------
List of the Fallen
As of 8/8/2004, confirmed dead: 2948; reported dead or missing: 48; total: 2996. Nationals of more than 70 countries. (This does not include many reports of undocumented workers and homeless persons said to have perished.)
Smoking Guns: Air Defense and Chain of Command
· The Emperor's New Clothes 9/11 Page by Jared Israel & Illarion Bykov. First to provide compelling analyses of two smoking guns:
1) The "failure" of standard air defense procedures, under which jet fighters should have been scrambled in time to intercept the hijacked jets, reconnoiter and await further orders; and
2) The absence from authority of the top men in the military chain of command during the two hours of the actual attacks, according to their own accounts. (Bush and entourage in the school; Rumsfeld; Myers; later it was revealed that Gen. Winfield was also away from his post during the attacks).
· Question for NORAD and FAA: What were the response times on the 67 occasions when interceptors were routinely scrambled to intercept off-course planes in the year prior to June 1, 2001? What about the 129 cases when jets were scrambled in 2000? Remember, when the Sept. 11 hijackings began, these were "errant planes" and should have been subject to the routine response.
· The Failure to Defend the Skies on 9/11 by Paul Thompson
· Another amazing coincidence: "Limited System in One Area Made Flight 77 Invisible to Controllers for Half-Hour"
(See Flight 77 ground-to-air transcripts, as obtained by NY Times, Oct 2001)
· On these issues, the 9/11 Commission ran afoul of its own contradictions
See below: "The Emperor's New Timelines"
An Interesting Day: Bush's Movements and Actions on 9/11 by Allan Wood and Paul Thompson
· Question for Secret Service: After the second plane hit and it was clear "America is under attack," who told you not to whisk Bush out of the school? It wasn't Bush, because the video record shows he was busy listening to "The Pet Goat"
· " Okay. What I'd like to do is just try to give you a walk through of the President's day" (Ari Fleischer press gaggle, evening of 9/11/01)
· "Lucky Me, Guess I Hit the Trifecta" (WAV file)
· Rumsfeld's AWOL on 9/11
· Rumsfeld's reaction: "Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not."
· General Myers's testimony to the Senate (Sep 13, 2001)
· "Press Picks Up on Sept. 11's AWOL Chain of Command" (Aug 2004)
The Pakistani Connection
· Timeline of Pakistani ISI connection to financing of the alleged 9/11 hijackers On the morning of Sept. 11, ISI chief Mahmud Ahmad had breakfast at the Capitol with the later directors of the Congressional probe into 9/11: Bob Graham and Porter Goss. (Why wasn't Goss asked about this at his Senate confirmation hearings as Director CIA?) Ahmad was later accused of sending $100,000 to Mohamed Atta, and forced to resign. Why isn't this explained or even mentioned in any official U.S. investigation? The agent said to be responsible for the cash transfer was Omar Saeed Sheikh, see:
· Sept. 11's Smoking Gun: The Many Faces of Saeed Sheikh by Paul Thompson
· The 9/11 Commission Report fails to mention reports of a Pakistani connection, but does offer this: "To date, the U.S. 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... Similarly, we have seen no evidence that any foreign government - or foreign government official - supplied any funding." (p. 172)
Rule 1: Don't follow the money!
· Former ISI chief and "Father of the Taliban" Hamid Gul accuses Israel of staging 9/11 (Sep 14, 2001)
· Or was Pakistan "fully involved" in 9/11?
· "Pakistan: The Masters of Jihad" (Der Spiegel)
· CBS reports Osama was in Pakistani military hospital for dialysis treatments on the evening of Sept. 10 (Jan 2002)
· Nov. 2001: U.S. forces open safe flight corridor to allow airlift of besieged ISI and Qaeda operatives from Afghanistan to Pakistan by Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker (Jan 2002)
· There's Something About Omar: Truth, Lies, and The Legend of 9/11, analysis by Chaim Kupferberg
Prior Knowledge and Imagination
Who knew, what did they know, what did they do about it? How did so many governments and individuals develop information indicating hijackings and aerial attacks on New York and DC in September? Jordan provided the correct name of the operation, Israel provided names of several of the alleged hijackers, the Russian president says he warned suicide pilots were training for an attack in the U.S. How does this square with the official FBI account, in which a perfectly secretive, insulated terror cell of 19 men left as good as no clues before they struck? What were the original sources for the many advance warnings to the U.S. government? And how can anyone claim they couldn't have even imagined the method of attack?
· Summary of warnings from foreign intelligence agencies, converging on Sept. 11 by Paul Thompson
· Bush, Rice and the Genoa Warning: Documenting a demonstrable falsehood
· Timeline of prior knowledge reports
· Let's Rehearse I: Mass Casualty exercise simulates aircrash into Pentagon, military reports (Oct 2000)
· NORAD plans to rehearse Pentagon crash scenario considered in April 2001, rejected as "too unrealistic," postponed until...?
· Ashcroft stops flying commercial (June 2001)
· Mayor Brown of San Francisco warned not to fly to New York on Sept. 11
· Newsweek reports Pentagon brass received 9/10 warning, cancelled 9/11 travel plans
· Odigo employees near WTC receive instant message warning two hours before attacks
· Let's Rehearse II: On 9/11, CIA Was Running Simulation of Plane Crashing Into Building
· Sen. Hatch inadvertantly reveals that Bin Laden communications are monitored (Chicago Tribune, Sep 14)
· Former Clinton impeachment attorney David Schippers claims prior knowledge of 9/11
· "Warning Signs of 9/11" by Nafeez Ahmed, Chapter 4 of The War on Freedom
· FAA agent wrote May 2001 letter to Sen. Kerry warning Logan Airport ripe for multiple-hijacking "jihad" scenario
· Propaganda Preparation for 9/11 by Chaim Kupferberg
For more indications of piror knowledge see "The 9/11 Cover-up"
Insider trading based on foreknowledge?
The Herzliyah Policy Institute in Tel Aviv initially broke the story that an unusually high number of put options (short-sells) were placed on the stock of the attacked airlines in the week before Sept. 11. Within days of 9/11, officials at financial centers around the world - including the head of the German Bundesbank - announced they had discovered countless suspicious trades indicating foreknowledge. This was the smoking gun, they said. Thorough investigations were promised. Suddenly, the story was dropped...
· Archive of many related news reports from 2001-2003
· Mayo Shattuck resigns (Sep 14, 2001)
· Suspicious profits sit uncollected - airline investors lying low - San Francisco Chronicle (Sep 29, 2001)
· Suppressed details of criminal insider trading lead directly into CIA's highest ranks by Michael Ruppert (Oct 2001)
· Profits of Death by Tom Flocco (Dec 2001)
· Data Dump: a further sampling of news reports from financial centers around the world (from Sep-Oct 2001)
There were also indications of shady dealings at the WTC itself, where many millions were transferred out of accounts during the attacks, see:
· German Firm Probes Final World Trade Center Deals
A footnote to "The 9/11 Commission Report" dismisses these leads (as did the SEC - after waiting until Aug 2004). The report mentions only the put options on the airlines, ignoring other companies such as the WTC tenants and reinsurers. It does not name who made the put-option trades in the U.S., but exculpates these parties simply because they are "have no conceivable connection to al-Qaeda" (as though no one outside of al-Qaeda could have had prior knowledge of the attacks). And what about the investigations of suspicious trades outside the U.S.?
Who is Osama Bin Ladin? by Michel Chossudovsky
· Review of Dollars for Terror - The United States and Islam by Carol Brouillet
· When Osama Bin Ladin was Tim Osman by J. Orlin Grabbe (How Osama went on a weapons shopping tour of U.S. bases in the mid-1980s)
· Bin Ladin in the Balkans (news archive, TENC)
· CIA Met Bin Ladin in Dubai in July 2001?! (Translation of the Le Figaro report of Oct 2001 - CIA denies)
· CBS reports Osama was in Pakistani military hospital for dialysis treatments on the evening of Sept. 10 (Jan 2002)
· In Pakistan newspaper interview, Bin Ladin claims he had nothing to to do with the attacks (Ummat, Oct 2001) - or is this a fake?
· Was the Bin Ladin "confession video" a fake? (Nov 2001)
· Reported Sightings of Bin Ladin: The Indispensable "Osama-o-Meter" by Nico Haupt (Sep 2001-Nov 2002)
· Archive of 1001 Bin Ladin stories
· Shaylergate: PDF capture of site suppressed by the UK under Official Secrets Act in Jan 2002, after David Shayler revealed MI6 cooperation with al-Qaeda networks in plot to kill Ghaddafi and UK cooperation with terrorists (More here)
· Mystery of Ali Mohamed, convicted al-Qaeda operative, U.S. sergeant and probable U.S. army intelligence agent by Xymphora - a typical story?
· Afghanistan under CIA and Bin Ladin ally Hekmatyar
· Ghost Wars: CIA and Bin Ladin, 1980s to 9/10/01
Hijacker Oddities
Says the 9/11 Commission Report: As many as 13 of the alleged hijackers' passports "may have been" doctored "in a manner that has subsequently been associated with al Qaeda" (Ch. 12, fn 32, p. 563, italics mine)
· First report of magic passport: "ABCNEWS sources identify another hijacker as Satan Suqami (sic)... whose passport was recovered in the [Ground Zero] rubble" (Sep 12)
· Stolen Passports? (Guardian, Sep 21, 2001)
· Hijackers Likely Skilled with False ID (CNN, Sep 21)
· False Identities? (Daily Telegraph, Sep 23)
· Alive and Well? (BBC, Sep 23)
· "Insider" official story of how hijackers were ID'ed
· Newsweek: Hijackers may have trained at U.S. airbases (Sep 15)
· Senator Seeks Answers on Hijacker Ties to Navy Base (Pensacola News Journal, Sep 17)
· USAF spokesperson Ken McClellan: Hijackers trained at U.S. bases (Gannett, Sep 17)
· The 9/11 Hijackers Who Should Have Been Caught by Paul Thompson
· Almidhar and Alhazmi hosted in San Diego by longstanding FBI informant Prof. Abdusattar Shaikh - Although this story has been public since 2002, the 9/11 Commission report still cites him as an "unidentified witness."
· The Two Ziad Jarrahs by Paul Thompson
· CIA tried in 1999 to recruit associate of 9/11 hijackers in Germany
· Government worker Johnelle Bryant recalls meeting a suspicious Atta who more or less told her about the 9/11 plot, in Florida at a time - Apr 2000 - when the official timeline still has him in Germany (June 2002)
· Xymphora's analysis of the Johnelle Bryant story - was this an effort to create the legend for a patsy?
· File on Khalid Sheikh Mohamed (KSM), the allegedly captured living mastermind of 9/11, said to be held in an "undisclosed location" and constantly cited by U.S. authorities as the leading source for the 9/11 investigations (June 2004)
· Observation of Atta and Hamburg Cell in Germany by BND and CIA - and in Florida by the Mossad? (Translations of German press articles from Sep 2001, Oct 2002)
· The Original "Mad Cow" Articles by Daniel Hopsicker
Tracking Mohamed Atta and his Florida drug connections, well worth reading in the original order (2001-2002). Interesting nuggets with independent confirmation: "Magic Dutch boy" Florida flight school owners Dekkers and Kruithof claimed not to know each other, but had prior business relationship in Netherlands. Three of the alleged 9/11 pilots trained at their schools. Jeb Bush personally present as federal agents impounded police records of flight schools after 9/11 attacks, according to local police. Real owner of Dekkers's school, Wally Hilliard, owned Lear jet impounded with 43 lbs. of cocaine in 2000 (on a regular flight), indicating involvement in covert drug operations. Katharine Harris endorsed Hilliard's bankrupt, pond-hopper airline. Dekkers and Kruithof survived separate suspicious air crashes within weeks of each other in 2002. Atta apparently a heavy-drinking, free-spending, aggressive party monster. Official timeline of Atta's movements contradicted by eyewitness accounts. Possible military school connections.
The Israeli Art Student Files (2001 forward) Before and after 9/11, around 120 Israelis posing as art students, many of whom tried to infiltrate federal facilities, were arrested and later deported. Evidence suggests some members of this apparent spy ring were tracking the alleged 9/11 hijackers. Were they the source for the Mossad warning of Aug 2001, which specified the names of at least four of the allaeged ringleaders? See also:
· "To say that Israel did not perpetrate the attacks of 9/11 is not to deny that the Israeli government was very close to those attacks and may have played a role in them. There is evidence that points both ways." (Click on link and scroll down for passage from Crossing the Rubicon by Mike Ruppert)
Were the Towers demolished?!
· Military contractor Van Romero says explosives were planted in towers - later retracts (Sep 2001)
· Fire Engineering Editor Bill Manning decries destruction of Ground Zero evidence (Jan 2002)
· Silverstein on WTC 7: "Pull It" (2002, first noticed by researchers in early 2004)
· The history of WTC 7 - headquarters to CIA and the SEC, compiled by John Horne
· Blackstone Group, owner of WTC 7 (like Carlyle but possibly worse)
· The case for a WTC 7 demolition by Jim Hoffman
If WTC 7 was demolished, what else does this imply?
· The case that the Towers were demolished by Jim Hoffman
· The case that the Towers were demolished by Jeff King
· Seismic data on WTC crashes and collapses (to establish times: 7 Mb PDF of report by Tom Irvine, Vibration Data, Nov 2001)
Time of UA 93 Crash: 10:03 or 10:06?
· News reports and a seismic study that give rise to suspicions about UA 93 shootdown (by Stickdog)
· UA 93 Crash Investigation Site
9/11 Wargames
· On 9/11, CIA Was Running Simulation of Plane Crashing Into Building (first revealed in Sep 2002)
· The U.S. Government, Not the Hijackers, 'Chose' the Date of the 9-11 Attacks by Barbara Honegger (Oct 2002)
· NORAD plans to rehearse Pentagon crash scenario considered in April 2001, rejected as "too unrealistic," postponed until...? (MS-NBC, Apr 2004)
· Possible mechanics of 9/11 standdown via wargames by Mike Ruppert (June 2004)
· 9/11 wargames research page on "Oil Empire" by Mark Robinowitz
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Oct 2001: Anthrax attacks on media and Democratic leaders in the Senate smooth the way for USA PATRIOT Act and Shadow Government and shrink FBI investigation of 9/11 (coming soon)
· Why did White House staff start taking Cipro on 9/11/01?
· Why did FBI and Iowa State University agree to destroy original samples of Ames-strain anthrax on Oct 10, after the attacks had begun? (NYT, Nov 9, 2001)
Destruction of evidence...
· National Security Agency: destroyed evidence relating to U.S. companies and 9/11 (Boston Globe, Nov 2001)
· FAA: destroyed 9/11 tape evidence after attacks (NYT, May 2004)
· Ground Zero: Ruins scrapped before forensic investigation (Jan 2002)
· Question for all workers and federal agents at Ground Zero: Did you really find no trace of the black boxes?
...blocking investigation...
· Has Someone Been Sitting on the FBI? (Nov 2001)
Greg Palast on BBC Newsnight reveals incoming Bush White House issued Jan 2001 order to "back off" on investigations of Saudi and Bin Laden family funding of terror networks.
(View extract of a sample 199i document from Clinton era)
· Interview with Palast on FBI obstruction & Florida election
· FBI told to "Back Off" Bin Laden Family in Jan 2001
· John O'Neill: timeline and sources (background story here) After claiming oil was the motive behind high-level obstruction of FBI terror investigations, top Osama hunter John O'Neill resigned, took a job as WTC security chief, and died on his second day in the office (Sep 11, 2001)
· David Schippers: Former Clinton impeachment attorney alleges government obstructed FBI's pre-9/11 efforts (Oct 2001)
Bush, Cheney pressure Daschle to avoid 9/11 investigation (archive of CNN report, Jan 2002)
...silencing whistleblowers
· Tyrone Powers: former FBI agent, now head of a criminology institute, alleges government deliberately allowed 9/11 (May 2002)
· Cynthia McKinney: ridiculed for asking who knew what when (article archive, Mar-July 2002)
· Coleen Rowley: Letter to Robert Mueller on high-level obstruction of Moussaoui investigation (May 2002)
· Andreas Von Buelow: Former German Science Minister Calls it an Inside Job (Jan 2002)
· Robert Wright: FBI muzzles agent Robert Wright, who claims he could have stopped 9/11 (LA Weekly, Aug 2002)
· FBI still refuses to release Robert Wright whistleblower charges (Mar 2003)
· Robert Wright timeline
· Steve Butler: Air Force Colonel disciplined for saying Bush had prior knowledge of 9/11 (June 2002)
· Sibel Edmonds: Ashcroft "retroactively classifies" (!) revelations "...even basic facts that have been posted on websites and discussed openly in meetings with members of Congress for two years. The Department of Justice also invoked the seldom-used ''state secrets" privilege to silence Edmonds in court..."
· Indira Singh: breaking the PTECH scandal (Dec 2002)
· "FBI shuts down investigation into Boston terror cell."
· Behrouz Sarshar: FBI translator says FBI had Apr 2001 tip of coming suicide attacks - not pursued (Apr 2004)
· Whistle-blowing said to be factor in FBI firing of translator Edmonds (NYT, July 29, 2004)
· Edmonds claims FBI knew of 9/11 plans in April 2001, cites racketeering and criminal conspiracy (Aug 2004)
FBI still clueless?
"In our investigation, we have not uncovered a single piece of paper--either here in the United States or in the treasure trove of information that has turned up in Afghanistan and elsewhere--that mentioned any aspect of the Sept. 11 plot."
-- FBI Director Robert Mueller, at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, April 19, 2002, on evidence linking the 19 alleged hijackers to the Sept. 11 attacks
Question: How does this square with the certainty about hijacker identities, let alone the many stories of advance warnings and near-misses that could have stopped them?
· John Roberts: retired FBI Internal Affairs chief, who " is not permitted to discuss the Edmonds case," says he found cases since Sept. 11 where people were involved in misconduct and were not reprimanded but promoted ("Lost In Translation," CBS, Aug 2004)
Mission accomplished? Long list of promotions of FBI and other officials responsible for pre-9/11 obstruction
Bush family: war, oil, drugs, Saudi connections?
(very partial list)
· The Bush-Bin Ladin Money Connection
· A dossier on The Carlyle Group: former world leaders and DC insiders making billions on the "War on Terrorism"
· Carlyle's Way by Dan Briody, Red Herring mag (Jan 2002)
Baker and former CIA covert operator Frank Carlucci watched the 9/11 attacks live together with two Bin Laden bros., at the annual meeting of The Carlyle Group
· In Dutch documentary, Charles Lewis of Center for Public Integrity lays out (in English) claim that George H.W. Bush was also at the Carlyle meeting on 9/11/04 - after breakfast at the White House with Cheney
· Rep. Waxman demands Cheney reveal energy task-force planning documents (Dec 2001)
· Urban Legends site admits post-9/11 airlift of Bin Ladin family members not an urban legend - why weren't his two brothers questioned?
· Lawsuit: Sept. 11 Families vs. Saudi defendants
(Download PDF document of charge, 2002)
· James Baker defending Saudis against 9/11 families' lawsuit (MSNBC, 2002)
· Post-invasion boom in Afghan opium production
· What Congress Does Not Know About Enron and 9/11
By John Loftus (2002)
· Judicial Watch/Sierra Club sues Cheney for energy documents (2003)
· Cheney goes on hunting trip with Justice Scalia (Jan 2004)
· Supreme Court rules Cheney can keep energy documents secret (MSNBC, June 2004)
(Note, Apr 2002: Revived Iran-Contra Crew Fails to Overthrow Elected Government of Venezuela)
"Bush Knew", New York Post headline (May 2002)
But no one could have imagined kamikaze attacks on buildings, Rice says. (See transcript of her May 16 press conference, including the curious omission of a reference to the Pakistani ISI connection in transcripts published by the White House and CNN; the same reference was rendered properly by the Federal News Service.)
Unanswered Questions: Breakthrough press conference at the National Press Club in Washington brings together researchers and Sept. 11 family members to demand accountability (June 10, 2002)
9/11: They Let It Happen On Purpose - Top 20 Suspects by Nico Haupt (Aug 2002)
"Outrageous Conspiracy Theories"
· Cheney link of 9/11, Iraq Challenged
· Cheney's Credibility Problem on 9/11 and Iraq
Congressional 9/11 Inquiry (2002)
· Bush, Cheney pressure Daschle to avoid 9/11 investigation (archive of CNN report, Jan 2002)
· Lawmakers charge CIA, DOJ obstructing 9/11 probes
· Statement of widow Kristen Breitweiser to the Congressional Joint Inquiry (Sep 2002)
· Sen. Graham: Foreign governments helped along 9/11 (Dec. 2002)
· Slow-Walked and Stonewalled by John Prados (Mar 2003) How the Congressional 9/11 inquiry was obstructed
· Report of Congressional joint inquiry into 9/11, as released in summer 2003 minus 28 pages and assorted other "redactions" amounting to more than 20% of length
Programs indicating a government run amok
· P2OG: The Pentagon Plan to Provoke Terrorist Attacks by Chris Floyd. See also David Isenberg, "P2OG allows Pentagon to fight dirty" (Oct 27, 2002): "P2OG would launch secret operations aimed at 'stimulating reactions' among terrorists and states possessing weapons of mass destruction, meaning it would prod terrorist cells into action, thus exposing them to "quick-response" attacks by US forces."
· TIA: Total Information Awareness (Dec 2002)
Original logo and site of TIA, the Pentagon/DARPA office for developing an all-encompassing surveillance technology, run by convicted Iran-Contra felon John Poindexter. TIA was "suspended" (i.e, outsourced to other companies and agencies). A year later Poindexter had to leave the government again, after proposing it sponsor a market for trading in "terror futures." That idea is also being pursued in the private sector.
· Outsourcing Big Brother
· Google these: Office of Strategic Influence (OSI), Office of Special Plans (OSP)
Run-up to the Iraq invasion: Analyses of Motive Reveal Longstanding Plans for Global Domination
· Dick Cheney's Song of America: Drafting a Plan for Global Dominance by David Armstrong, Harper's Magazine (Oct 2002)
· The Current Strategic Agenda of the United States
From the journal Aspects of India's Economy (Dec 2002)
· The Thirty-Year Itch by Robert Dreyfuss, Mother Jones Magazine (Mar 2003). On U.S. military preparations to invade the Middle East, dating back to the 1970s
· The Economics of Empire by William Finnegan, Harper's Magazine (May 2003). On the collapse of the "Washington Consensus" and the crisis in U.S. and bank ability to keep a stranglehold on Third World countries solely by financial means
2 Years Later, 9/11/03:
Yes, New York was poisoned
· EPA reveals White House watered down reports of Ground Zero air toxicity (Sep 2003)
· WTC - Environmental Action
· WTC - Environmental Organization
This War on Terrorism is Bogus by Michael Meacher MP (Sep 2003)
Why Don't We Have the Answers to These 9/11 Questions? by William Bunch, Philadelphia Daily News (Sep 2003)
Berlin research conference issues "starter questions" for seven sets of witnesses in a future criminal investigation of 9/11 (Sep 2003)
Tommy Franks Predicts Martial Law After Next Attack (Nov 2003)
---The 9/11 Commission and Report-------------
The Rice/Zelikow Connection: A Brief History of the
Kean Commission and Its Conflicts of Interest
· The Kissinger Bombshell (Nov 2002)
· Who's Who on the 9/11 Commission by Michel Chossudovsky (2003)
· The 9/11 Cover-up Commission by Joyce Lynn
· The Official 9/11 Commission Site
· Opening statement by widow Mindy Kleinberg to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Mar 31, 2003)
· Questions posed to the commission and its witnesses by the Family Steering Committee, the Sept. 11 relatives who lobbied for it in the first place
· Bush Bribes Max Cleland to Shut Up? (Dec 2003)
· In Struggle with White House for PDB Access, the Kean Commission Courageously Considers Issuing Subpeona for Its Own Notes (Jan 2004)
· "Stewardess ID'ed Hijackers Early, Transcripts Show" by Gail Sheehy, NY Observer (Feb 2004) - Hard-hitting on Zelikow's suppressions and other stories revealing workings of the Commission. Establishes insiders' official story of how alleged hijackers were identified.
· White House finally releases 2 pages from the 11-page Presidential Daily Briefing of Aug 6, 2001 (Apr 2004: media pretend that this was the whole document)
· The Total Failure of the Kean Commission by Michael Kane How the 9/11 commission avoided key questions to Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Myers (Mar 2004)
· Kean Commission fails to grille Mueller about Sarshar and Edmonds revelations (Apr 2004)
· Richard Clarke plays the limited hangout by Jamey Hecht (Apr 2004)
· A different take on Clarke: "Clarke's Tall Tale" by Ronald L. Ecker (Apr 2004)
· File on Khalid Sheikh Mohamed (KSM), the allegedly captured living mastermind of 9/11, said to be held in an "undisclosed location" and constantly cited by U.S. authorities as the leading source for the 9/11 investigations (June 2004)
· The 9/11 Commission Charade by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
· A Review of the 9/11 Commission Report by Sander Hicks
· Chapter-by-chapter notes of omissions in the report by Rodger A. Herbst
· Sibel Edmonds: Open Letter to the Chairman of the 9/11 Commission (Aug 2004)
· Citizens' Watch: issues "Omissions Report" in response to Commission Report (PDF, Aug 2004)
· 25 National Security Experts Speak Out: 9/11 Commission Falls Short (Sep 2004)
· Harper's Magazine: Benjamin DeMott calls the 9/11 report "Whitewash as Public Service" (Oct 2004)
· Open Letter: "Zelikow: Losing to the Bacteria"
The Emperor's New Timelines
· Analysis of the 9/11 report's fraudulent account of air defense response on September 11 by Michael Kane and Bryan Sacks (Sep 2004)
· The emperor's original story: In testimony to the Senate, Gen. Myers says no interceptor planes were scrambled before Pentagon hit (Sep 13, 2001)
· First revision to the story: NORAD's press release detailing air defense response on Sept. 11 (Sep 18, 2001) (Sep 18, 2001) (Sep 18, 2001)
· Gen Arnold testimony to Commission (May 2003)
Fleshes out and revises NORAD's published account of air defense, not-so subtly laying blame on FAA, but specifying for the first time that FAA informed NORAD about UA 93 hijacking at 9:16 am, about 50 minutes before crash time.
· FAA "clarification memo" disputes NORAD account and claims there was rapid and continuous communication on 9/11 via phone bridges (May 21, 2003)
· FAA destroyed 9/11 tape evidence (May 2004)
· The Failure to Defend the Skies on 9/11 by Paul Thompson (Jun 2003)
· Kean Commission issues completely new version of air defense response in "Staff Statement No. 17" (June 17, 2004) Exonerates NORAD and blames FAA, but is in complete conflict with NORAD's earlier public statements. Claims FAA did not alert NORAD about UA 93 until 10:06. This prompted the first legislator's statement on the matter:
· Sen. Dayton: NORAD Lied About 9/11 (Aug 2004)
Who if anyone is telling the truth? Will any of these public officials be held accountable for issuing false accounts for more than two years?
· Press Picks Up on Sept. 11's AWOL Chain of Command
(Aug 2004)
· Time of UA 93 Crash: 10:03 or 10:06?
---9/11 Truth Movement---------------------
Diverse early milestones of 9/11 skepticism
· Sept. 11: Unanswered Questions by MalcontentX -
The most important article of the first year
· The So-Called Evidence Is A Farce by Stan Goff
· America Through the Looking Glass by Dave McGowan
· "Oh Lucy, You Gotta Lotta 'Splaining to Do" by Mike Ruppert, the timeline of events pointing to complicity that inspired many others (Oct 2001, revised Sep 2002)
· 9/11: A Desperate Provocation by U.S. Capitalism by Max Kolskegg
· "Written in Belief" by Michael Rowbowtham (Oct 2001)
· "Troubling Questions in Troubling Times" by James Adams (Oct 2001)
· Bin Laden? Better Be Sure by Boris Kagarlitsky, Moscow Times (Oct 2001)
· 9/11 "Conspiracies" and the Defactualisation of Analysis - Nafeez Ahmed's brilliant reply to "Conspiracy Theory? A ZNet Primer"
· Make Them Accountable: Who Knew What When?
by Carolyn Kay
· "Make No Mistake About It: 9/11 Was an Inside Job" by Voxfux (Dec 2002)
2004: The Truth Movement Takes Off
· Widow files lawsuit alleging Bush administration complicity in attacks (Boston Globe, Dec 2003)
· 9/11 in Never-Never Land: Widow's Bush Treason Suit Vanishes in Blink of Media Eye by David Kubiak - voted "9th Most Censored Story of 2004" by Project Censored
· Mariani v. Bush
· Sept. 11 Families Pose 39 Questions to Bush (Mar 2004)
· "Nine hundred and Eleven Missing Pieces: What don't we know, and why don't we know it?" By Alan Cabal, N.Y. Press (Mar 2004)
· "With 9/11 in the News, Conspiracy Buffs Gather," San Francisco Chronicle on the International Citizens' Inquiry into 9/11, Phase 1 (Mar 2004)
· The Explosion of the 9/11 Truth Movement by Bill Douglas, Newtopia Magazine
· Zogby Poll: 49% of NYC Residents Say U.S. Govt. Let 9/11 Happen on Purpose (Aug 2004)
· The 9/11 Truth Movement by Sander Hicks (Sept. 2004)
· A glossary of 9/11 research terms: In case you don't know the meaning of "magic passport" or "limited hangout"
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Recent Wildcards
· Ruppert names Cheney as prime suspect in speech at Commonwealth Club, San Francisco (Sep 2004)
· Stanley Hilton claims he has all the smoking guns (Sep 2004)
· Dave McGowan proposes a complete scenario of what really happened (Oct 2004)
Wildcard: What hit the Pentagon?
· "Hunt the Boeing" sets off raging debate among 9/11 skeptics themselves about what really hit the Pentagon
(Nov 2001)
· Interesting response to "Hunt the Boeing" speculation by apparent supporter of official story on 9/11
· "Pentagon Strike" flash video sets Internet on fire (Sep 2004)
· The Pentagon Attack by Dave McGowan (strongest argument for no AA77)
· 9/11 skeptic Jean-Pierre Desmoulins comes up with scenario for why it was AA77
· The rather unusual passenger list of AA77
· "Perhaps the really important question is not how the Pentagon was hit, but where it was hit"
Wildcard: Remote-control Boeings?
· "Anti-9/11 Device Can Control Planes" (Aug 2004)
· Robolander site (one of countless examples of diverse, 60-year old technologies in auto-piloting, UAVs, drones, etc.) See Raytheon trials of Oct 2001 (flying airliners by remote control).
· The Pentagon attack and evidence for remote control planes by Mark Robinowitz
· "Home Run" remote control theory
· Remote control claims of Col. Donn de Grand Pre
· "Bumble Planes" Theory
Misc. Wildcards
· Connection to Warren Buffett? (Speculation revolving around his charity breakfast, 9/11/01 at Offutt AFB: greeting a CEO who would have died at the Towers had she showed for work as usual, at the military control center for the nuclear arsenal, where Bush made a surprise visit later in the day on his long retreat from Florida.)
(Editorial)
The following expresses the opinion of this site's editor, and not necessarily the consensus among all New York 9/11 truth movement activists.
Bad Science
Much attention since 2004 has been devoted to a series of dubious physical evidence bombshells, especially those promoted in the film "911: In Plane Site" and at the site LetsRoll911.org. While I do not automatically rule out any theory, the evidence these two sources present for their particular theories is fallacious, and their insistence on its validity, despite a series of embarrassing refutations, is wearying. No offense is meant to those who have been taken in by false interpretations of video clips; most of the people spreading these fallacies mean well, and on first sight, I thought I saw "the pod" too. But these claims are superfluous to the 9/11 skeptics' case and easily refuted - which is why those who wish to "debunk" 9/11 research invariably focus on them. The big picture still points towards complicity in the attacks by elements of the U.S. government. We don't need invented evidence.
Judge for yourself:
· On "In Plane Site" and other dubious treatments of physical evidence
· "The Plume," one of many false calls in the best-selling documentary DVD, "911: In Plane Site"
· "The Flash" and "The Pod," two more false calls propagated by "In Plane Site" and the popular bad-science medley at LetsRoll911.org
· Comparison photos of Letsroll911.org's "smoking gun" photo and a standard Boeing reveal no "pods"
· Results of an informal assessment of claims made in "911: In Plane Site"
· The Webfairy "No-Planes-at-WTC" Theory
· wtc7.net's big review of trojan horses and honest mistakes
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