9/11: allowed to happen

September 11 is a political Rorschach Test. Most perspectives contain pieces of truth but are wrong.

The official story that there are Muslims who want to attack the US has some truth but ignores how that anger is a reaction to US intervention in the Middle East. The 9/11 Commission claimed the feds were too incompetent to "connect the dots" and creating a surveillance society is needed to prevent a repeat attack.

Many liberals / leftists / progressives highlight "blowback" -- the attackers were motivated by revenge for US policies. But blowback alone does not explain how the attacks were allowed to happen. US allies provided specific warnings about who, what, where and when. The FBI agents who tried to stop the attacks were blocked by headquarters, which was obstruction, not incompetence.

The 9/11 truth movement correctly says there was a deliberate conspiracy but their most popular claims contain discrediting disinformation. Mixing true conclusions with false evidence -- conspiracies to make fake claims of conspiracy -- is an effective way to cover up conspiracy.

The media correctly state that Flight 77 hit the Pentagon, thermite isn't used to demolish buildings and the firefighters watched the twin towers and Building 7 bulge and lean before they fell down. They ignore the suppressed warnings, the best evidence of complicity.

Neither the media nor some of the conspiracy crowd highlight the CIA's "plane into building" exercise and the NORAD war games that morning -- the real failure to connect the dots.

Official Story

The official 9/11 coverup commission promotes the lie that 9/11 was a surprise attack, and turning the country into a police state will prevent a repeat.

Incompetence

The media, both political parties in Washington and even most of the liberal opposition say that incompetence was the reason that 9/11 was not stopped. While government operations are not perfect, incompetence cannot explain the suppression of efforts to prevent the attacks.

Blowback

Most Bush critics argue 9/11 was blowback - revenge for US policies in the Middle East. While there are many people motivated to retaliate for US foreign policies, the war games on 9/11 were not coordinated by Muslims.

Foreknowledge

• failure to follow standard operating procedures
• Bush read “Pet Goat” story instead of reacting
• suppressed warnings from US allies
• thwarted FBI flight school investigations before 9/11
• Rumsfeld’s September 10 admission that $2.3 trillion was unaccounted for
• US / Saudi / Pakistan / Taliban / al-Qaeda covert connections
• put options betting on American and United Airlines

Technical Assistance

• Air Force / NORAD war games that confused the air defenses on 9/11
• plane into building exercise (CIA and Nat’l Recon. Office)
• fighter planes moved out of region, making interception impossible
• fake blips on radars diverted interception efforts

Maybe

remote control of the four Boeings - the “hijacking the hijackers” theory. the technology is not theoretical and best explains how Flight 77 was steered into the Pentagon’s mostly empty sector - it is likely, but not provable, that the Boeing “auto-land” uninterruptable autopilot was used on 9/11. the “black boxes” from all four planes were recovered, which would refute or confirm this claim

Maybe Not

There are numerous claims that the twin towers were intentionally demolished by the Bush administration, but the method of destruction was allowing (and possibly steering) Flight 11 and Flight 175 to crash into the buildings. The sober and fantastical claims for explosives, thermite, and even exotic unconventional weapons are not supported by peer reviewed, independently verifiable investigations and are an enormous distraction from solid evidence. The core of the case for complicity has nothing to do with the collapses. Complicity is completely provable without touching the issue of the twin towes or even WTC 7.

Disinformation

• no plane hit the Pentagon a hoax created by Donald Rumsfeld on Oct 12, 2001
• no planes hit WTC: less popular than Pentagon "no plane"
• "no phone calls" hoax kept 9/11 families from working with 9/11 truth movement
• inclusion of white supremacist American Free Press as credible source of info, their "Barnes Review" publication says Hitler deserved the Nobel Peace Prize

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9/11 was the psychological pretext used to get the Wars on Afghanistan, Iraq and possibly Iran started. While it is a relief to finally see much of the country turn against the War on Iraq, there has been very little overt discussion of this pretext, or what the motivations were to start the illegal, unnecessary, destabilizing wars. While the full details remain obscure, it is documented beyond any reasonable doubt that the administration was repeatedly warned (by Britain, France, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Germany, Russia and other countries) that 9/11 was about to happen and at least five FBI investigations were squashed to make sure the attacks were not stopped. It is also very well documented that the administration knew the world was about to reach "Peak Oil" and that soon demand for petroleum would start to outstrip supplies. Cheney's secretive Energy Task Force examined maps of Middle East oil fields in the months before 9/11 and the start of the alleged "War on Terror" - so it seems reasonable to conclude that 9/11 was desired in order to allow the seizure of Iraqi oil fields, the second largest on the planet.

September 11 was allowed and assisted engineered to create the psychological trigger to seize the Earth's diminishing oil supplies (the real reason behind the Iraq war) and to impose a "neo-feudalist" Homeland Security police state to suppress dissent.

The best list of "unanswered questions" about 9/11 is from the 9/11 Family Steering Committee, which includes the widows who forced through the creation of the (severely flawed) official 9/11 commission. Their list is posted at their website -- www.911independentcommission.org -- and it is an excellent reference for any further investigation of these important issues. It should not be surprising that the official Commission praised the widows for their tenacity and then ignored almost all of their questions.

In addition, the Complete 9/11 Timeline at www.cooperativeresearch.org is the most detailed, careful compilation of evidence (sourced from the mass media and direct testimony), and should be required reading for anyone wondering why some people question the official story. The 9/11 families and the "Timeline" are profiled in a 2006 movie "9/11: Press for Truth" which is an excellent introduction to these topics. The film does not address every issue, but it carefully sticks to facts that are solidly documented, which is the best strategy for success.

The best books about 9/11 are Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil by Michael Ruppert and The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism by Nafeez Ahmed.

Unfortunately, there is a campaign to persuade skeptics that the plane crashes were faked and other debunked, speculative and even ridiculous claims, which makes the documented facts much more difficult to discern. While the "Timeline" documents how at least 15 countries provided warnings to the Bush administration - some of them extremely specific about what, when, how -- the "wilder" claims about alleged lack of plane crashes and demolition theories gather most of the media attention. There are a number of hoaxes and speculations that allegedly "prove" 9/11 complicity yet lack evidence that is documented beyond websites referencing each other. Some of the false claims have been repeatedly debunked by 9/11 truth activists but that doesn't prevent their continued dissemination. Focusing on the core issues of how efforts to stop the attacks were thwarted and how standard operating procedures were not followed that morning avoids most of this problem.

There is a legitimate need for the country to understand the motive: why 9/11 was allowed to happen to enable the Iraq war (part of a larger effort to control the Middle East oil fields as the world passes the point of Peak Oil). Please take a small amount of time to do a little homework to sift through the claims to understand the documentation for them. The best documentation is not provided in video clips of uncertain origin or speculation bounced from website to website.

9/11: Bush’s Achilles Heel

The main reason Bush is still in the White House is that many people think he responded well to the attacks. The film "Fahrenheit 9/11" was hated by the Bush administration because it touched on the deeper, dangerous issues that could topple the regime. The images of Bush reading "My Pet Goat" while the towers burned raises the question why Bush was not engaged as Commander-in-Chief, summoning the air defenses to stop the attacks. And if Bush wasn’t in charge, who was?

Cheney’s crime

A book that was published during the 2004 election campaign provides credible evidence that Vice President Richard Cheney, the man behind the throne, was in charge of numerous military and intelligence "war games" on 9/11. "Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil" by Michael Ruppert, accuses Cheney with coordinating "war game" exercises that morning that made the attacks possible. One of these was a "plane into building scenario" at the National Reconnaissance Office near Dulles Airport, Virginia (which runs US spy satellites). NORAD, the Air Force division in charge of air defense, was running multiple exercises, including live fly simulations, and radar “injects” (fake blips) that confused air traffic controllers.

While Ruppert’s work has been ridiculed by the liberal "alternative" media and ultra-conspiracy theorists (some of whom promote disinformation claims that discredit real investigations), no one has made a substantial challenge to the information about the role of the war games in ensuring that the Air Force would not be able to stop 9/11.

A Zogby poll of New York City residents in August 2004 found that half thought Bush Knew about 9/11 in advance. Many leading Democrats privately think this, yet are scared to publicly say it -- even though it is probably the only scandal that could lead to impeachment of Bush and Cheney. (The webmaster of oilempire.us was once privately told by a U.S. Senator that he knew Cheney ran wargames in the basement of the White House during the attacks. Other Democratic Party officials have also privately acknowledged to this writer that they know these facts.)

Follow the Money

On September 10, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference to admit that the Pentagon could not account for $2.3 trillion (not billion) in spending. While this story is still on CBS’s website, events the next day drowned out the coverage of this amazing scandal. At that time, the Pentagon’s Comptroller (in charge of the money), was Mr. Dov Zakheim, a member of the "Project for a New American Century." Before he was put in charge of the Pentagon’s budget, Mr. Zakheim was with a defense contractor that makes remote control guidance systems for planes.

The Archeology of 9/11: unearthing the evidence

Sifting through the volumes of 9/11 evidence is analogous to archeology. Only some of the evidence for the distant ancestors of all living beings has been unearthed and catalogued. However, the fact that the currently known fossil record is incomplete does not prevent science from attempting to determine patterns and draw tentative conclusions about the history of life on Earth, knowing that additional evidence is likely to alter the story as we gain further knowledge. The early days of archeology saw spectacular forgeries "revealed" by unscrupulous advocates of particular theories, which parallels current efforts to distract and discredit 9/11 skeptics with disinformation. It is unlikely that any story of 9/11 is completely true, and hopefully enough of the documentation will be made public in the years to come - and enough whistleblowers step forward - so that historians will be able to more fully explain what happened to the United States of America.

Whatever details future archeologists of truth will unearth are unlikely to discredit the Reichstag Fire paradigm for understanding 9/11 - they merely will add to our understanding of the details of how the "Reichstag" was burned. The real issue is to explain why the attacks were permitted.

For most North Americans, 9/11 is a "cut and dried" story - evil Arab terrorists attacked the US, there's nothing more to learn. At worst, in many people's minds, there was an "intelligence failure" of missed warnings that need to be addressed to prevent a repeat (the excuse for the new Homeland Security behemoth). However, there are lots of "unanswered questions" that suggest a much different story:

- a flight school drop out managed to execute a high speed, high G fighter pilot maneuver into the nearly empty, under reconstruction part of the Pentagon despite the refusal to rent him a single engine plane the previous month (they said he had no flying skills),

- that the hijackers left behind an Arabic language flight manual in their rental car in Boston (similar to evidence planted to incriminate Lee Harvey Oswald as the assassin despite the physical impossibility of the claim that he was the "lone gunman")

- The BBC reported that several of the alleged hijackers were still alive, protesting their innocence and saying that their identities were stolen.

- why the "black boxes" couldn't be found from the planes yet a paper passport of a hijacker somehow survived the fireballs and was found on the streets of lower manhattan

- why Bush thought that reading to second graders was more important for him than to respond to the alleged surprise attacks (at 9:05 am on 9/11/2001)

- why was the CIA was running a simulation of a plane hitting the National Reconnaissance Office HQ (near Dulles) on 9/11

- why numerous warnings from allied governments were supposedly ignored (at least a dozen countries, possibly more, warned the US that 9/11 was coming)

- the absolute failure to scramble interceptors in a timely fashion, despite decades of well-established military and FAA procedures. The fact that Bush stayed in a second grade classroom reading about a "Girl and her pet goat" instead of cancelling the event and pretending to be commander-in-chief is damning evidence of prior knowledge by Bush, his staff, the secret service and the military hierarchy (or at least a faction of it). http://www.oilempire.us/standdown.html

- why the General in charge of Air Defense received a PROMOTION to run the "domestic" use of the US military (the "Northern Command," established October 2002)

- why the planes that eventually were scrambled traveled much, much slower than they are capable of traveling, especially in an emergency (ie. after the second tower was hit but before the Pentagon)

- why the part of the Pentagon that was hit was the only part that had almost no one in it, and the part that had been recently strengthened against such an attack

- why the CEO of Fiduciary (in the towers) just happened to be at a breakfast "fundraiser" sponsored by Warren Buffett at Offutt AFB (strange place for a charity fundraiser) on 9/11, the same base that Bush went to in the afternoon

- On the morning of 9/11, Sen. Graham met with the head of Pakistan's ISI (their CIA), who is alleged to have sent $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, the alleged leader of the alleged terrorists ("alleged" because several of those names were identity thefts - the people named are still alive, according to the BBC and several other media sources).

- why Bush showed no reaction when told of the attacks, and kept reading to second graders (and why his aide, Andrew Card, didn't even wait to ask for a reply from the "President")

- why Bush had anti-aircraft missiles set up around Genoa, Italy during the July 2001 G-8 summit (due to concerns about a 9-11 type attack) but not around the Capitol despite numerous warnings that 9-11 was coming

- long standing ties between the CIA, Pakistan's ISI, the Saudis, al-Qaeda, and between the Bush and Bin Laden families

- the anthrax attacks traced back to Fort Detrick - www.oilempire.us/anthrax.html

- repeated pattern of manufactured pretexts for galvanizing support for imperial wars - the blowing up of the Maine (1898), Pearl Harbor (which was allowed to happen, FDR had prior knowledge due to communication intercepts), the Gulf of Tonkin (1964), Operation Northwoods (1962 Pentagon plan to stage terror attacks on US citizens to justify invasion of Cuba), the encouragement of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait (1990), the first WTC attack in 1993 (which the FBI knew about in advance), Oklahoma City in 1995 (in which there was also "prior knowledge" at the very least) - www.oilempire.us/parallels.html

- why the director of the "commission" to investigate 9/11 is a business partner of Osama bin Laden's brother in law (Gov Thomas Kean, formerly of New Jersey, is a director of Amerada Hess, which is invested in the Saudi consortium to build the fabled pipeline across Afghanistan ...) Even Fortune magazine has picked up on that.

- why the Bush regime interfered with the investigation of al-Qaeda before 9/11, something that FBI whistleblowers, journalist Greg Palast and FBI counterterrorism director John O'Neill charged.

www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/AOPof911p11.html
David Ratcliffe, Domestic Terrorism: The Big Lie - The "War" On Terrorism is a Total Fabrication, September 2002

"We are being told to accept an assemblage of facts that would not stand up in a court of law to prove the guilt of a man, bin Laden and his organization, that somehow succeeded in penetrating the most restricted airspace in the world approximately 55 minutes after the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center. These facts, while not sufficient to prevent the day that changed the world, nonetheless were more than sufficient to identify the culprit in less than the next 24 hours; who was then the justification for embarking on a war that, according to Dick Cheney, "may never end. At least, not in our lifetime"; and who less than a year later has dropped off the world stage slowing down this lifetime war, on his behalf, not one iota. Whose interests are advanced by this monumental campaign to trade our liberty for security?

 

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SMOKING GUN feedback:
Where Was G.W. Bush on the Morning of Sept. 11?
by Cheryl Seal, Monday, June 10, 2002

I feel that people cannot have an entire barrel of facts and red herrings dumped in their laps and expect to sort it all out...the tendency is to throw up their hands in despair, confusion and frustration. Which is just what Bush and Co. would like everyone to do. What I tried to do was to sort through and identify the most tangible facts, then present these, along with all the factual connections between people, places and things, then allow people to ponder it for themselves. I did not set out to "sell" a "conspiracy theory," but if the facts presented happen scream conspiracy, that message will be heard loud and clear. One thing I have learned is that people 1. are generally quicker on the uptake than the media gives them credit for, and 2. generally recognize the truth when they see it plainly presented. That is why the corporate powers that be and their pals in the mainstream media work very hard to avoid presenting important facts plainly and work even harder to disguise the truth.

www.911truth.org/statement.html
(from 2003 - before the organization 911truth.org was created)

That's why we say that this investigation must be more a movement of concerned citizens than just a mechanical weighing of facts. In the light of our ongoing march to war, and the wholesale sacrifice of the Bill of Rights for an illusory security, this movement is both urgent and timely.
Some may say, "What's to discover? Usama Bin Laden and his network hijacked some planes and flew them into buildings."
To you we say, "Study the evidence. We think you will be amazed and shocked at how flimsy the "official" explanations actually are - and how the media seems prepared to not take a closer look.
We have no time for those who would dismiss our misgivings as "conspiracy theory" (a term most often used by people who haven't done their homework).
We demand evidence, credible inquiry, commitment to find the truth, and a faith in the ability of the people to reason things out. If no one else is going to step forward, then we must.
Citizens, friends, our nation has been swept up in a tide of vengeance and price-tag patriotism. We have been given no meaningful opportunity to publicly discuss the stubborn mysteries surrounding 9/11. We are being denied our right to direct the course of our democracy -even as our civil liberties are being stripped away; and beneath all this, there lies a dark day, whose real meaning has yet to be unveiled.

 

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Extra Pieces of the Puzzle of 911 Published Passenger Lists
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001
From: John Judge

Another "four Arab men" were reported to have had a heated argument in the parking area around Logan airport with a passenger who later recalled them when he heard one of the planes was hijacked from there, and led the FBI back to their rented car. The four men, part of the list of 19, were reported to have come into the US via Canada and then rented a car in Boston which they drove to Logan airport. Presumably this story is based on use of 4 passports or ID cards at the border and the car rental agency. In the car the FBI reportedly found a copy of the Koran in a suitcase, a flight manual for the type of plane hijacked written in Arabic, and one of several instruction letters to the hijackers also in Arabic.
This story and its details strike me as completely false and planted evidence for a number of reasons. The "road rage" part may not have happened, since the person leading the FBI to false evidence may have been part of the game. No one seriously involved in such an operation would risk such notice, no devout Muslim would put a Koran in a suitcase, and no sensible person would deliver a flight manual in Arabic to the airport and fail to take it onto the plane for use, it seems to me. If the incident happened as reported, did the four men using these ID's actually board the plane? Or did they just stage an incident to take the FBI by the nose to the planted evidence? ....

The sophistication of the events of September 11 suggest to anyone who knows about covert operations that this had to be state sponsored, at a level of resources and training and planning that the al'Quaida are not capable of, nor the Taliban. In any covert operation, far more time and effort is put into the cover story than into the event. Given the sophistication of the event, we should expect a sophisticated cover story.
In the past, covert operations have often used a bait and switch approach. First we are given a plausible patsy, but the evidence is meant to be transparent and fall apart after buying some time. This is false sponsorship. However, when the first layer erodes, there is a second layer of even more plausible but equally false sponsorship, including organizations or countries that either willingly or unwittingly contributed or been involved for their own reasons to the plan and will take credit, at least silently, at first, and can be used to take blame later. They will still not be the authors.
For instance, even if all those on the planes were Arab/Afghanis linked to al'Quaida and bin Laden, that does not tell us the real sponsor of the event. After all, bin Laden has had many sponsors in many countries, including Pakistani ISI and American CIA for starters. False sponsorship is key to a good cover story.

....

Extra pieces of the puzzle:
* All printed and electronic media references I saw or heard reported on September 11 and 12 about the cell phone conversations and their content mentioned "guys with knives . . . boxknives . . . bombs" doing the hijacking. They did not mention Arabs.
On September 13 the NYT carried a story of a call received by Mrs. Glick, wife of one of the men who reportedly decided to "do something" on the plane that went down in Pennsyvania. Mrs. Glick mentioned a detail from her husband's call (or the NYT added one) about "four Arab men in red headbands". Red headbands? Another puzzle in my book, or a stereotypically racist canard. Soon after, we got the official list of 19 names of the hijackers.
* Another "four Arab men" were reported to have had a heated argument in the parking area around Logan airport with a passenger who later recalled them when he heard one of the planes was hijacked from there, and led the FBI back to their rented car. The four men, part of the list of 19, were reported to have come into the US via Canada and then rented a car in Boston which they drove to Logan airport. Presumably this story is based on use of 4 passports or ID cards at the border and the car rental agency. In the car the FBI reportedly found a copy of the Koran in a suitcase, a flight manual for the type of plane hijacked written in Arabic, and one of several instruction letters to the hijackers also in Arabic.
This story and its details strike me as completely false and planted evidence for a number of reasons. The "road rage" part may not have happened, since the person leading the FBI to false evidence may have been part of the game. No one seriously involved in such an operation would risk such notice, no devout Muslim would put a Koran in a suitcase, and no sensible person would deliver a flight manual in Arabic to the airport and fail to take it onto the plane for use, it seems to me. If the incident happened as reported, did the four men using these ID's actually board the plane? Or did they just stage an incident to take the FBI by the nose to the planted evidence?
* Since the 19 names were first put out there, two of them named as pilots at were later found to be dead for some time. Another group of people were reported in Saudi Arabia to be the actual people on the ID's but still living there and uninvolved on September 11. Those ID's that were traced back for history here in the US led to a pattern of very aggressive behavior that got many of them noticed and reported to authorities at both CIA and FBI. At least one was reported to have been on an FBI "watch list". Some had been to "flight training" schools, which could not actually have trained them well enough to do what was done by those planes on September 11.
I suggest you ask any pilot that has flown one what it takes to bank into a building at 550 miles an hour, or to dive in a 270 degree turn from 5000 feet to fly so low that streetlamps are clipped off, into a building. There are two options: Military or experienced civilian pilots (many are military anyway) piloted these planes. The planes were flown on remote control.
* The sophistication of the events of September 11 suggest to anyone who knows about covert operations that this had to be state sponsored, at a level of resources and training and planning that the al'Quaida are not capable of, nor the Taliban. In any covert operation, far more time and effort is put into the cover story than into the event. Given the sophistication of the event, we should expect a sophisticated cover story.
In the past, covert operations have often used a bait and switch approach. First we are given a plausible patsy, but the evidence is meant to be transparent and fall apart after buying some time. This is false sponsorship. However, when the first layer erodes, there is a second layer of even more plausible but equally false sponsorship, including organizations or countries that either willingly or unwittingly contributed or been involved for their own reasons to the plan and will take credit, at least silently, at first, and can be used to take blame later. They will still not be the authors.
For instance, even if all those on the planes were Arab/Afghanis linked to al'Quaida and bin Laden, that does not tell us the real sponsor of the event. After all, bin Laden has had many sponsors in many countries, including Pakistani ISI and American CIA for starters. False sponsorship is key to a good cover story.
Right now it looks like layer two will be Iraq, among other countries. This was apparent to me the week of the event in early statements about "state sponsorship" by James Woolsey (former CIA director) and by a conservative think tank member at the Johns Hopkins Center for Advanced International Studies. The academic laid out many of the same items I noticed, but ended up saying it was Iraq. I talked to him subsequently and he admitted he has no proof about Iraq as the sponsor, only suspicion. Iraq has been named more recently as the source of the anthrax, but the type discovered is US manufacture with some foreign distribution, not easy to get hold of in Iraq.
* Finally, the BBC and other media reported on an airline attendant on flight #11 who called on a cell phone to report to American Airlines the seat numbers of the "hijackers". The seat numbers given, according to these articles, did not match the seats assigned to the "Arab terrorists". This is interesting given your information that suggests they had no seat numbers, eh? Whose seat numbers were they?
So, the bottom line is, we still do not know who hijacked the planes or how. We do not know who piloted the planes so expertly into the buildings or how that was accomplished. And we do not know how they got onto the flights, if they did. Your food service/cleaning crew speculation is a good one but as I said, flight attendants count and know which seats are assigned. Ever try to sit in the wrong one?
Who were the "guys with box knives"? Were their identities removed from the passenger lists because they were NOT among the 19 named? Were they even Arabs? And did they actually fly the planes into the buildings? I for one am very suspicious of mass suicide pacts and have, with detailed work, deconstructed many of the recently reported ones from Jonestown forward, and back as far as Massada. Almost all are actually mass murders.
If there were 19 in the plot, perhaps only one in each plane knew they were all to die. You can get a pilot to kamikaze, we know that much. But a whole crew? I know, for the "greater glory of Allah against the infidels", or for a preacher in Guyana, or for a UFO cult in California, or for a sun cult in France. Right. Just don't check the details. Which leaves two unexplored options: mind control or remote control. But those are "conspiracy theories" aren't they. Sorry, I forgot. Is bin Laden and his thugs a conspiracy theory? Does it require a modicum of proof?
The secret evidence was viewed by foreign leaders, who are more qualified than the American public, and even they called it "circumstantial" and "not enough to take into court" but they agreed it was "sufficient" to go to WAR. Probably true, the first casualty of war is always the truth, and you don't need much "evidence" to get a war going. Ask Goering. But you can't even get the secret evidence to work if you can't put the suspects on the planes now can you? It's tough. You can't put Oswald on the 6th floor of the Book Depository either, or James Earl Ray in the bathroom window, or Sirhan's bullets into RFK; not if you pay attention to details anyway.
Oh, dear, have I revealed that I am not a "coincidence theorist"? Let's just stick to the evidence, it will lead us where we need to go if we ever get to see it. For now the lack of it is enough for me. Good luck on a great puzzle. As my old pal Penn Jones used to say, "Take any one piece and research the hell out of it. It will eventually show you the whole".

Thanks for thinking - John Judge

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Monday, December 08, 2003

There have been three bumps in the history of the discussion of the truth of what happened on November 22, 1963: the Garrison investigation of the late 1960's, the official investigations of the mid-1970's, and the release of the Oliver Stone film and the resulting forced disgorging of some secret documents during the 1990's. Between those bumps there have been long stretches of wheel-spinning, where absence of new information meant that conspiracy buffs spent their time constructing dream palaces in the air of their own imaginations. Those who conspire must love this, as the buffs themselves create the forest of misleading data in which the truth can easily hide. The main problem of conspiracy research now is separating the disinformation from the truth, with by far the greatest collection of disinformation created by well-meaning but misguided 'researchers' who, in the absence of new data, let their imaginations run wild. It is sad to see exactly the same thing happening in the field of discussion of September 11. The Bush Administration has successfully managed to completely stonewall even the rather suspicious official investigation, and I have not seen any new important revelations in at least a year. People who rode hobbyhorses in the months after September 11 are still riding the same hobbyhorses, in love with their own theories more than the truth (my personal hobbyhorse is that November 22 and September 11 were arranged by the same two American institutional groups). Now we're even beginning to see the beginnings of the grand meta-theories, with the attack blamed on some secret conspiracy involving Israel (with the happy Israeli witnesses making a video of the attack paralleling the fact that Yitzhak Rabin was in Texas at Fort Bliss on November 22, 1963; it's as if Israel makes a point of sending witnesses whenever they hear about such things), or, in a possible attempt to shield Israel, weird conspiracy chestnuts like the Bilderbergers or the Illuminati (whatever happened to the Rockefellers, who used to be blamed for everything?). These meta-theories are worse than useless, serving as a method of appearing to discuss the case while simply constructing a wall of smoke. There is significant real information readily available if the American political situation would allow it to be released. I'd like to start with testimony from the pilots who just missed reaching the targets on time, and ask them who arranged for them to be so near and yet so far.

Phony Evidence in support of the official conspiracy theory

The perpetrators of the 9/11 are still unknown to us. The instant recovery of a hijacker’s passport intact on the place of jet crush should be counted among the most spectacular miracles of all times, well ahead of Daniel’s trip into the fiery furnace. The old Babylonian furnace surely did not develop the temperature of burning jet fuel. Arab-language flying manuals in the trunk of a car, inaudible videotapes and other conveniently recovered exhibits make Moscow trials of 1937 a bright example of justice incorrupt. The prisoners of Afghani war have been kept away from prying eyes, in the limbo of Guantanamo, lest they disclose the greatest secret of all: their innocence."
Islamic Terror? What Islamic Terror?"
by Israel Shamir
http://globalist.org/world_regions/asia/palestine-israel/020407_shamir_islamic_terror.html
http://www.israelshamir.net/

be mindful of the fundamental contradictions that misrepresent the very foundations of Bush II's purported "war" on terrorism. Our U.S. intelligence agencies, funded annually for decades with increasingly extravagant budgets, claim they were unable to prevent the 9-11 bombings due to the lack of correlated intelligence gathered. Yet within the span of less than a day, these same agencies asserted the identity of those responsible with such certainty as to preclude any serious investigation of other possible perpetrators. Whose interests are truly served by such investigations and their near instantaneous conclusions?
Domestic Terrorism: The Big Lie
The "War" On Terrorism is a Total Fabrication
www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/AOPof911p11.html

The view that the official conspiracy theory (19 hijackers, an evil man in a cave, and perhaps a few accomplices) did 9-11 by themselves and caught the government by surprise has zero evidence to justify it. It's reminiscent of the JFK assassination coverup, where Lee Harvey Oswald's bio was immediately given to the media (and in at least one case, before the assassination happened, according to Col. Fletcher Prouty, who was then the Pentagon liaison officer to the CIA). The phony evidence "found" in the immediate wake of 911 is symptomatic of this type of propaganda campaign - the paper passport on the streets of NYC even though the black boxes weren't found, the Arabic flight manual found in the Boston airport parking lot that was supposedly left behind by the terrorists, the "wag the dog" stories of flight 93 even though the aircraft left debris scattered over 8 miles indicating a mid-air explosion, etc.

Cheryl's Daily Diatribe: Monday, June 10, 2002 -- SMOKING GUN feedback:
Where Was G.W. Bush on the Morning of Sept. 11?
www.unknownnews.net/cdd061002.html

As to Smoking Gun, I feel that people cannot have an entire barrel of facts and red herrings dumped in their laps and expect to sort it all out...the tendency is to throw up their hands in despair, confusion and frustration. Which is just what Bush and Co. would like everyone to do. What I tried to do was to sort through and identify the most tangible facts, then present these, along with all the factual connections between people, places and things, then allow people to ponder it for themselves. I did not set out to "sell" a "conspiracy theory," but if the facts presented happen scream conspiracy, that message will be heard loud and clear. One thing I have learned is that people 1. are generally quicker on the uptake than the media gives them credit for, and 2. generally recognize the truth when they see it plainly presented. That is why the corporate powers that be and their pals in the mainstream media work very hard to avoid presenting important facts plainly and work even harder to disguise the truth.
I lean towards the theory that the 19 Arab hijackers are a complete fiction, which raises very hard questions about the integrity of these so called warnings which were ignored. I'm not saying that they shouldn't be looked at, because this piece of the puzzle is far from clear, but my point is -- how could there have been warnings about the hijackers, if they never existed.

www.villagevoice.com/issues/0417/mondo2.php

Mondo Washington
by James Ridgeway
Grilled to Order
What we’d Like to ask when Bush and Cheney take the hot seat
April 27th, 2004 11:45 AM
Related Info: John Kerry Must Go Note to Democrats: it's not too late to draft someone-anyone-else
So Many Questions . . . But where are the answers? Bush and Cheney's private chat is a public disgrace.

On Thursday, Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney will sit together and speak—off the record and in private—to the 9-11 Commission. Bush and Cheney can make a record of the interview, but the commission, under a bizarre agreement, is prohibited from doing so.
By refusing to appear separately or in public, the two may have taken the panel for a ride, but they can't avoid the tough questions forever. Both give every sign of having been asleep at the switch on 9-11. Worse, for months they have been engaged in collusion to obstruct justice by thwarting first congressional and then commission investigations. Sooner or later, both must be served with subpoenas, sworn to tell the truth, and ordered to testify under threat of impeachment and/or criminal prosecution.
Let's start with Bush. Here's the setup: Morning, September 11, 2001. At 8:40 NORAD is notified Flight 11 has been hijacked. At 8:43 NORAD is notified Flight 175 is hijacked. At 9, Bush arrives at the Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, where he takes a call from Condoleezza Rice before entering an elementary school classroom for a photo op. Certainly by that moment Rice must have known that one plane had hit the World Trade Center and another had been hijacked.
Now a few simple questions for our president, the last six from the Family Steering Committee, whose members lost loved ones on 9-11:
1. What did you know about the emerging crisis before speaking to Rice?
2. Who told you? What was your response?
3. What did Rice tell you?
4. And why, after speaking to her, did you go ahead with a meaningless photo op?
5. Why was Flight 77 allowed to plow into the Pentagon 52 minutes after Flight 11 had smashed into the WTC?
6. Given the warnings on hijackings and flying bombs, why were there only 14 fighter planes assigned to cover the entire U.S., with only seven airborne that morning?
7. A briefing prepared for senior U.S. officials in early July 2001 stated: "Based on a review of all-source reporting over the last five months, we believe that [bin Laden] will launch a significant terrorist attack against U.S. and/or Israeli interests in the coming weeks. The attack will be spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualties against U.S. facilities or interests. Attack preparations have been made. Attack will occur with little or no warning." As the weeks went by, senior officials continued to receive intelligence information warning of an imminent Al Qaeda attack.
Did you receive such warnings before 9-11? If so, what did you do in response?
8. Mr. President, European security forces were widely reported to have prepared elaborate measures to prevent a possible bin Laden attempt to assassinate you at the G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy, in July 2001. According to German intelligence sources, the plot involved bin Laden paying German neo-Nazis to fly remote-controlled model aircraft packed with Semtex into the conference hall and blow the leaders of the industrialized world to smithereens. The reports were taken so seriously that you stayed overnight on an aircraft carrier offshore, according to CNN, and other world leaders stayed on a luxury ship. Two days before the summit began, the BBC reported: "The huge force of officers and equipment which has been assembled to deal with unrest has been spurred on by a warning that supporters of Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden might attempt an air attack on some of the world leaders present."
Italy surrounded the summit with anti-aircraft batteries, kept fighters overhead, and closed off local airspace. No attack occurred. U.S. officials at the time stated that the warnings were "unsubstantiated," but after 9-11 reversed themselves and took credit for preventing an attack. Were you aware of the planned Al Qaeda attack on Genoa using planes as weapons? If so, what did you do to safeguard the homeland and U.S. facilities overseas?
9. As commander in chief on the morning of 9-11, why didn't you return immediately to Washington, D.C., or the National Military Command Center once you became aware that America was under attack? At specifically what time did you become aware that America was under attack? Who informed you of this fact?
10. Please explain why you remained at the Sarasota, Florida, elementary school for a press conference after you had finished listening to the children read, when, as a terrorist target, your presence potentially jeopardized their lives?
11. What was the purpose of the several stops of Air Force One on September 11? Was Air Force One at any time during the day a target of the terrorists? Was Air Force One's code ever breached on September 11?
12. Was there a reason for Air Force One lifting off without a military escort, even after ample time had elapsed for military jets to arrive?
13. What prompted your refusal to release the information regarding foreign sponsorship of the terrorists, as illustrated in the inaccessible redacted 28 pages from the Joint Intelligence Committee Inquiry Report? What actions have you personally taken since 9-11 to thwart foreign sponsorship of terrorism?
14. Who approved the flight of the bin Laden family out of the United States when commercial flights were grounded, when there was time for only minimal questioning by the FBI, and especially when two of those same individuals had links to WAMY, a charity suspected of funding terrorism? Why were bin Laden family members granted that special privilege and protection, when protection wasn't available to American families whose loved ones were killed on 9-11?
Now for the vice president:
1. Mr. Cheney, we know—more or less—what Bush did on 9-11. What did you do? A chronology, please.
2. Did you receive any orders from Bush that morning? If so, what were they?
3. Did you issue any orders, either in your own or in the president's name, to civilian and/or military agencies of the U.S. government that day? If so, what were they?
4. Before 9-11, Bush entrusted you to head a task force to work alongside the new Office of National Preparedness, a part of FEMA. This office is supposed to oversee a "national effort" to coordinate all federal programs for responding to domestic attacks. You told the press, "One of our biggest threats as a nation" may include "a terrorist organization overseas. We need to look at this whole area, oftentimes referred to as homeland defense."
The focus was to be on state-funded terrorists using weapons of mass destruction, and you mentioned neither bin Laden nor Al Qaeda. Your task force was supposed to report to Congress by October 1, 2001, after a review by the National Security Council. Bush stated that he would "periodically chair a meeting of the National Security Council to review these efforts." Yet neither your review nor Bush's seems to have taken place before 9-11. Your deadline was a couple of weeks later.
What had you done up to then? How many meetings had you held? Who were the members of your task force?
Additional reporting: Alicia Ng and Phoebe St John

www.911truth.org/statement.html
That's why we say that this investigation must be more a movement of concerned citizens than just a mechanical weighing of facts. In the light of our ongoing march to war, and the wholesale sacrifice of the Bill of Rights for an illusory security, this movement is both urgent and timely.
Some may say, "What's to discover? Usama Bin Laden and his network hijacked some planes and flew them into buildings."
To you we say, "Study the evidence. We think you will be amazed and shocked at how flimsy the "official" explanations actually are - and how the media seems prepared to not take a closer look.
We have no time for those who would dismiss our misgivings as "conspiracy theory" (a term most often used by people who haven't done their homework).
We demand evidence, credible inquiry, commitment to find the truth, and a faith in the ability of the people to reason things out. If no one else is going to step forward, then we must.
Citizens, friends, our nation has been swept up in a tide of vengeance and price-tag patriotism. We have been given no meaningful opportunity to publicly discuss the stubborn mysteries surrounding 9/11. We are being denied our right to direct the course of our democracy -even as our civil liberties are being stripped away; and beneath all this, there lies a dark day, whose real meaning has yet to be unveiled.

Rebuilding America's Defenses, September 2000, Project for a New American Century
Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush and the rest of the neo-conservatives

... While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein ...
... the process of [military] transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor ...
... advanced forms of biological warfare that can "target" specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.

"Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat."
-- "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives," by Zbigniew Brzezinski (1997), Council on Foreign Relations, National Security Advisor to President Carter and adviser to Presidents Reagan and Bush the First

"To be truthful about it, there was no way we could have got the public consent to have suddenly launched a campaign on Afghanistan but for what happened on September 11."
-- Tony Blair comments to the Commons liaison committee, (London) Times, July 17 2002 http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,1036687,00.html

The American Reichstag Fire The Achilles heel of the Bush regime Cheney's crime, not an intelligence "failure" an inside job, but not all claims are true the 21st Century began on September 11, 2001 The intelligence failure of 9/11 is the failure of the media and much of the public to point out the obvious flaws in the official stories of September 11. PEAK OIL is the real connection between Iraq and 9/11. 9/11 was allowed to happen (and given technical assistance) to provide the pretext to seize the Middle East oil fields in preparation for Peak Oil. the Republican convention in New York, 911/2004 -- returning to the scene of their crime the myth of 9/11 is that a larger police state system would have been able to stop it from happening however, the evidence strongly suggests that 9/11 was an inside job, with the goals of domestic fascism and global empire

The Department of Homeland Security's national ID card would not have done anything to prevent 9/11.

Warnings came from 15 countries, some of them very specific: there was no "intelligence failure" that requires more police state powers -- it was an intelligence CRIME.

Michael Moore's movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" did not analyze who the perpetrators of 9/11 were. To answer that question, one must ask: "Who had the power to turn off the Air Force protection of New York and Washington?" None of the various "fall guys" -- Saudis, Pakistanis, Egyptians and Israelis -- have that power.

On September 11, the National Reconnaissance Office (which runs the spy satellites), ran a "plane into building" scenario with the CIA at the NRO's Virginia headquarters (near Dulles airport). This was not a "terrorism" exercise, it merely tested the emergency response that would be be needed if a plane crashed into the NRO headquarters. This exercise resulted in the evacuation of America's spy satellite control center just as the 9/11 "attacks" began, reducing the number of intelligence officials capable of monitoring what was going on.

NORAD was also conducting war games on 9/11 -- Vigilant Guardian, Vigilant Warrior, Northern Guardian and Northern Vigilance -- war games that managed to paralyze part of the air defense system, making an effective response to the hijacked planes impossible. The "new Warren Commission" did not investigate the NRO or NORAD war games on 9/11.

Gen. Ralph Eberhart, commander of NORAD on 9/11 was promoted to head the new "Northern Command" afterwards if 9/11 had been an intelligence "failure" General Eberhart would have been court-martialed

The 9/11 Commission report blames the failure of the military to protect the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on the Federal Aviation Administration's alleged incompetence. Supposedly, the FAA was unable to follow long established procedures to alert the Air Force that four planes were off course. However, the FAA was competent enough to safely land more than four thousand four hundred planes at airports that were not expecting them (when all planes were ordered out of the air shortly after the second tower was struck). Obviously, the FAA has less political power than NORAD, and therefore had to take the blame.

New York newspapers, May 2002

9/11 research is a rabbit-hole of Byzantine complexity full of snares and delusions and peopled with false friends, lunatics, earnest lost souls and a few heroes. It's not necessary to understand all the nuances of science and bureaucracy that allowed the government to get away with mass murder, blame it on swarthy foreigners (of whom many are eager accomplices) and use the incident as (in the words of the Cheney, Jeb Bush et al cabal, the Project for a New American Century) "a new Pearl Harbor." At this critical juncture in human history, it's only necessary to understand why they did it. The motive was Peak Oil, a disaster which will affect everyone on the planet, about which all must enlighten themselves and for which all must prepare.
-- Jenna Orkin, World Trade Center Environmental Organization
http://mikeruppert.blogspot.com/2007/05/epa-whistleblower-alleges-more-fraud.html

Crossing the Rubicon: Simplifying the case against Dick Cheney
by Michael Kane
www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/011805_simplify_case.shtml

• Means - Dick Cheney and the Secret Service: Dick Cheney was running a completely separate chain of Command & Control via the Secret Service, assuring the paralysis of Air Force response on 9/11. The Secret Service has the technology to see the same radar screens the FAA sees in real time. They also have the legal authority and technological capability to take supreme command in cases of national emergency. Dick Cheney was the acting Commander in Chief on 9/11.
• Motive - Peak Oil: At some point between 2000 and 2007, world oil production reaches its peak; from that point on, every barrel of oil is going to be harder to find, more expensive to recover, and more valuable to those who recover and control it. Dick Cheney was well aware of the coming Peak Oil crisis at least as early as 1999, and 9/11 provided the pretext for the series of energy wars that Cheney stated, "will not end in our lifetime."
• Opportunity - 9/11 War Games: The Air Force was running multiple war games on the morning of 9/11 simulating hijackings over the continental United States that included (at least) one "live-fly" exercise as well as simulations that placed "false blips" on FAA radar screens. These war games eerily mirrored the real events of 9/11 to the point of the Air Force running drills involving hijacked aircraft as the 9/11 plot actually unfolded. The war games & terror drills played a critical role in ensuring no Air Force fighter jocks - who had trained their entire lives for this moment - would be able to prevent the attacks from succeeding. These exercises were under Dick Cheney's management.

best 9/11 websites

• 911independentcommission.org - family member questions
• 911pressfortruth.com - best documentary
• cooperativeresearch.org - Complete 9/11 Timeline, best research guide
• flight93crash.com - Flight 93 shootdown
• fromthewilderness.com - Michael C. Ruppert, Crossing the Rubicon - 9/11 & Peak Oil
• frustratingfraud.blogspot.com - the hijacking of the 9/11 truth movement
• judgeforyourself.org - John Judge
• justacitizen.com - Sibel Edmonds, 9/11 whistleblower
• justicefor911.com - real effort to get justice (which was not successful)
• nafeez.blogspot.com - Nafeez Ahmed, author, "The War on Truth"
• oilempire.us - a political map to understand Peak Oil Wars
• politicalassassinations.com - JFK and 9/11
• ratical.org - covert operations, 9/11, and positive visions
• rigorousintuition.ca - what you don't know can't hurt them
• thememoryhole.org - The Memory Hole (no longer on line - it's gone down the "memory hole")
• truthmove.org - Truth Move (perhaps the only group called "truth" that admits the "no plane" claim is a hoax)
• wtceo.org - World Trade Center Environmental Organization (health effects of WTC dust)

911independentcommission.org

family members had tough "unanswered questions" for Bush, the official Commission, Giuliani and others. Most of their questions were ignored by the official Comission report, although many chose to endorse the Commission anyway. Some of the Independent Commission affiliated family members endorsed Paul Thompson's excellent book "The Terror Timeline," which documents how 9/11 was not a surprise attack using well documented, verifiable evidence.

911pressfortruth.com

Website for the movie Press for Truth about the 9/11 families (who were part of the "independent commission" effort) and Paul Thompson, creator of the Complete 9/11 Timeline.

flight93crash.com

the story of the shootdown of the fourth plane

a useful antidote to two type of propaganda: the official story, and the disinformation claiming the plane crashes did not happen

fromthewilderness.com

The best investigation of how and why 9/11 was perpetrated.

Michael Ruppert's book "Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil" This investigation has been publicly attacked more than any other independent effort, which is a testament to its effectiveness. This site probed deeper than the corporate press into the "insider trading" on United and American Airlines just before 9/11 (a story abandoned by the corporate press after the trail didn't lead to anyone Islamic - but rather to CIA connected businesses on Wall Street). From the Wilderness has done the deepest examination of the 9/11 war games, and has the best analysis of the motivation of Peak Oil in allowing 9/11 to happen.

Crossing the Rubicon: Simplifying the case against Dick Cheney
by Michael Kane
www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/011805_simplify_case.shtml

• Means - Dick Cheney and the Secret Service: Dick Cheney was running a completely separate chain of Command & Control via the Secret Service, assuring the paralysis of Air Force response on 9/11. The Secret Service has the technology to see the same radar screens the FAA sees in real time. They also have the legal authority and technological capability to take supreme command in cases of national emergency. Dick Cheney was the acting Commander in Chief on 9/11.
• Motive - Peak Oil: At some point between 2000 and 2007, world oil production reaches its peak; from that point on, every barrel of oil is going to be harder to find, more expensive to recover, and more valuable to those who recover and control it. Dick Cheney was well aware of the coming Peak Oil crisis at least as early as 1999, and 9/11 provided the pretext for the series of energy wars that Cheney stated, "will not end in our lifetime."
• Opportunity - 9/11 War Games: The Air Force was running multiple war games on the morning of 9/11 simulating hijackings over the continental United States that included (at least) one "live-fly" exercise as well as simulations that placed "false blips" on FAA radar screens. These war games eerily mirrored the real events of 9/11 to the point of the Air Force running drills involving hijacked aircraft as the 9/11 plot actually unfolded. The war games & terror drills played a critical role in ensuring no Air Force fighter jocks - who had trained their entire lives for this moment - would be able to prevent the attacks from succeeding. These exercises were under Dick Cheney's management.

frustratingfraud.blogspot.com
the Hijacking of the 9/11 Truth Movement by the No-Plane-at-the-Pentagon Theory

a website started in Fall 2006 that focuses on what happened to the "truth" movement, although some of the specific details about the history of the hoax are not correct. It spends too much on the obscure conspiracy theorists who are peripheral to the actual story. This site has been pressured by "no-planers" and has been renamed part of the title from "No Plane" to "No 757" in deference to those who pretend there is any evidence (there isn't) for an alleged crash of a smaller-than-757 plane.

historycommons.org

The Complete 9/11 Timeline from History Commons, formerly the Center for Cooperative Research.
the basis for Paul Thompson's book "The Terror Timeline: Year by Year, Day by Day, Minute by Minute"
an amazing, impeccable, irrefutable database of over 1,000 corporate media articles that show that 9/11 was not a surprise attack. The best site to show to anyone still clinging to the official story that 9/11 was a surprise attack or to those who think the collapse of the towers is the best evidence of complicity.

The best research guide about 9/11.

John Judge

John Judge's research on 9/11 and other scandals

His writings are archived at www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/ -- some of the best analyses of deep politics.

justacitizen.com

Sibel Edmonds, an FBI whistleblower gagged by a federal Court injunction, discloses some of what she knows on her website.

justicefor911.org

an effort to get then New York's attorney general Spitzer to prosecute the crimes -- which was ignored, especially after "no planers" flooded Spitzer's office with wild speculation and hoaxes, thus letting him know that if opened this can of worms this is the type of material he would be associated with in the public mind - Spitzer ignored 9/11 issues and successfully ran for Governor of New York. Sill on line but no longer active.

nafeez.blogspot.com

writings by Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed, author of "The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation, and the Anatomy of Terrorism."

http://nafeez.blogspot.com/2006/09/what-911-families-are-saying.html
Friday, September 15, 2006
What the 9/11 Families are Saying
One of the things that really bothers me is the marginalization of the 9/11 families, the people who lost their loved ones in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Not only have the families, and their call for an investigation even now, been marginalized by the Bush administration; they have also been marginalized by the 9/11 "truth" movement which has largely shown little interest in what the families have been saying.
More than anyone, it's been the 9/11 families who have been at the forefront of the ongoing campaign for an independent public inquiry into the attacks that might truly hold the authorities to account, and result in full disclosure of what happened, how and why. Indeed, one of the most powerful resources demonstrating how little we really know about 9/11 comes in the form of the huge list of 9/11 Unanswered Questions on the website of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee for the 9/11 Independent Commission.

oilempire.us (this website)

A political map
Limited Hang Outs, Best Evidence, Discrediting Disinformation
www.oilempire.us/map.html

Connected Dots:
www.oilempire.us/dots.html

Jamey Hecht

http://poetrypoliticscollapse.blogspot.com/2008/09/seeking-to-hire-ignorant-ghostwriter.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
Seeking to Hire Ignorant Ghostwriter for Book That Already Exists

Beginning on the day of the attack, the 9/11 Truth Movement ran the same inevitable course repeated by domestic dissent and political critique so many times: formation, momentum, growth, penetration by unidentified representatives of the critiqued; disinformation campaigns; factionalization, and fizzle. It is always possible, however, to rebuild and extend the work of social repair that such movements represent. Apart from that utopian ambition, it’s inherently valuable just to make sense of the attacks and assassinations, the engineered coups des etats and the falsely triggered wars. That sense-making happens in paperback-and-podium argumentation pitched at various levels of sophistication for various audiences; it happens in documentaries; and it can happens in the arts. It cannot happen in the courts: published in September 2004, Mike Ruppert’s Crossing the Rubicon was a solidly documented, robustly argued legal case against Dick Cheney and others, constructed strictly around means, motive, and opportunity. Though it remains the 2nd or 3rd best-selling book on 9/11 after the Kean Report itself, Rubicon has been resolutely ignored by the mainstream media and gone unchallenged by any legal (or other) representative of those it accuses. The way to get media attention is to publish – wittingly or unwittingly – a true story mixed with a poison pill of disinformation.

politicalassassinations.com

www.politicalassassinations.com/New%20Research.html

“JFK, Watergate, 9/11:
Recurring Patterns in America’s Deep Events"
Professor Peter Dale Scott

ratical.org

Crimes Against Humanity: 9/11, covert operations, and alternative visions
one of the best sites on the internet

Domestic Terrorism: The Big Lie
The "War" On Terrorism is a Total Fabrication
www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/AOPof911p11.html

"be mindful of the fundamental contradictions that misrepresent the very foundations of Bush II's purported "war" on terrorism. Our U.S. intelligence agencies, funded annually for decades with increasingly extravagant budgets, claim they were unable to prevent the 9-11 bombings due to the lack of correlated intelligence gathered. Yet within the span of less than a day, these same agencies asserted the identity of those responsible with such certainty as to preclude any serious investigation of other possible perpetrators. Whose interests are truly served by such investigations and their near instantaneous conclusions?"

rigorousintuition.ca

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com

http://rigint.blogspot.com

The best "blog" (web-log) on 9/11 related information. It covers a lot of topics, including some very fringe material (which it handles well, although 100% accuracy is always a challenge when exploring these depths - it would be a relief if some of this material is exaggerated). Rigorous Intuition is one of the few 9/11 related websites to recommend that "truth activists" focus on what is proven and provable, instead of speculations and hoaxes about alleged physical evidence.

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/06/dont-get-used-to-it.html

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/06/sound-of-one-hand-slapping.html
FBI foreknowledge and the excuse of incompetence

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/05/cynical-sophisticated-and-subtle.html
parallels between the JFK and 9/11 truth movements

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/05/let-me-put-it-this-way.html
more on fake versus real evidence

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/05/guns-of-911.html
9/11 evidence and lessons from the JFK Truth Movement

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/02/sibels-way.html
Sibel Edmonds, 9/11 whistleblower

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/01/michael-chertoff-and-sabotage-of-ptech.html
Homeland Security and 9/11 complicity

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/12/ten-things-we-learned-in-2004-about.html
an update on the real new news about 9/11 during 2004

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/09/riddle-of-transponders.html
good analysis of war games

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/09/flying-wedge.html
how the "no plane" hoax divided the skeptics

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/08/coincidence-theorists-guide-to-911.html
original article on this site, great summary of basic issues

thedossier.info

http://www.thedossier.info/war-on-terrorism.htm

Excellent list of stories about 9/11 foreknowledge plus large collection of audio interviews and movies about 9/11, oil, the "intelligence" agencies, foreign policy and much more.

thememoryhole.org

www.thememoryhole.org/911/ has archived documentation about foreknowledge, video of Bush reading "the Pet Goat" and other useful pieces of evidence.

note: as of 2012, this website is no longer on-line, it has gone down the "memory hole"

they-let-it-happen.blogspot.com
The Synchronized Failures of Defense on 9/11
(from the same author of Frustrating Fraud)

totuus

www.kolumbus.fi/totuus/index.html
What is the Truth on 9/11?

a website in Finland with sensible (truthful) perspectives on 9/11, including the "no plane" and "mini-nuke" nonsense

truthmove.org

website about 9/11 truth in context with broader perspectives
the best new 9/11 website of 2006

the "truth move" discussion forum has the best signal to noise ratio of any of the on-line discussion forums - the greatest amount of good information and the least amount of attacking disinformation, although at least one poster calls this website government sponsored for pointing out that the plane really did hit the Pentagon. This verifies the conclusion taken by this website in 2004 that a "free for all" forum on these controversies is probably impossible to screen out shrill attackers who promote false claims.

www.truthmove.org/911voices/
nice slideshow introduction to key concerns and credible skeptics of the official story

www.truthmove.org/content/9-11-truth/
introduction to 9/11 pages

www.truthmove.org/content/disinformation/
Disinformation - Infiltration, Misinformation, Disruption
The 9/11 truth movement is a prime target for disinformation, infiltration, and other forms of sabotage by forces who do not want the truth to be known. You can imagine that if mainstream anti-war and environmental groups have regularly been infiltrated, something as radical and revolutionary as 9/11 truth would demand a very sophisticated counterintelligence campaign.
Agents of disinformation may not “play their hand” until the right moment and disinformation must appear credible in order to be effective. Deceptive evidence is often delivered alongside accurate information.
Disinformation requires intentionality while misinformation does not. In the 9/11 truth movement, you will come across both—evidence, materials, researchers, and groups that either consciously or unconsciously promote false or misleading information. Much incorrect information within the 9/11 truth community likely began as disinformation but has been perpetuated as unintentional misinformation.

The objectives and methods of disinformation are quite sophisticated. Here are a few of the main strategies:

1. The Straw Man Argument/Sensationalism - by promoting speculative, sensational, and false evidence, opponents can setup easily debunkable or dismissable points that can be used to lend credence to their position. ....
2. Muddying the Waters - making it harder to discern the real evidence/researchers/websites from the fake ones. ....
3. Death by Association - by including the target idea/individual/movement along with another topic or personality that is disliked or discredited (UFOs, anti-semitism, nazis, etc.), the original subject can be smeared and dismissed. ....
4. Paranoia/Divide and Conquer - one of the most effective ways to destroy a group is to sow distrust among members.

wtceo.org

World Trade Center Environmental Organization (advocacy for those poisoned by the dust clouds from the collapsing towers)
also mirrored at 911ea.org 9/11 Environmental Action

New York City based effort for truth and justice about 9/11

www.counterpunch.org/orkin03052005.html
"Racism, Fairy-tale Wealth and Idi Amin
Memories of Kawaggi, Saudi Arabia"
By JENNA ORKIN
March 5 / 6, 2005