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- Source: http://physics911.net/pdf/honegger.pdf
- THE PENTAGON ATTACK PAPERS
- Updated January 2011
- by
- Barbara Honegger
- Earlier edition Appendix to
- THE TERROR CONSPIRACY
- by Jim Marrs
- Barbara Honegger, M.S. is Senior Military Affairs Journalist with the Naval Postgraduate School
- (1995-present), DoD’s graduate science, technology, national security and homeland security
- research university. This White Paper, as all of the author’s research, publications and presentations
- on September 11th, are in her capacity as a private citizen and do not imply official endorsement.
- The author served as Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President and White House Policy
- Analyst (1981-83); was the pioneering Irangate author and whistleblower on the October Surprise
- (October Surprise, Tudor, 1989); was featured in the Iran-Contra expose documentary “Cover-Up”;
- and was called as an investigator-witness at both the October 23, 2004 and August 27, 2005
- Los Angeles Citizens 9/11 Grand Jury hearings held at Patriotic Hall in Los Angeles, Calif.
- Much of the information and analysis contained in this evidence and analysis summary was
- presented at the L.A. Grand Juries and at numerous 9/11 Truth conferences throughout the US.
- World 9/11 Truth authority Prof. David Ray Griffin has included the core finding of this white paper
- – evidence for inside-the-building explosives at the Pentagon on 9/11 paralleling the alreadywell-
- known inside-the building explosives at the WTC in New York – in his latest and most
- definitive book on the September 11th attacks, The New Pearl Harbor Revisited (Chapter 2,
- ‘Reports of Bombs’). In a previous book, Prof. Griffin said that any serious reinvestigation of 9/11
- should include the information and analysis contained in this White Paper. Honegger’s two-hour
- under-oath videotaped interview/testimony of key Pentagon eyewitness April Gallop, cited in the
- below, provided the basis for a critical 9/11 lawsuit filed in Manhattan on Dec. 15, 2008.
- The San Francisco Chronicle commemorated the 100th anniversary of
- the Great California 1906 Earthquake with front-page articles featuring a single
- iconic image -- a charred clock frozen in time at 5:12 a.m. -- the exact moment
- “The Big One” hit.1 Over a century after that devastating event, this stopped clock
- still serves as the ultimate evidence and the historic icon that “captures it all.”
- Another series of clocks and watches frozen in time at the exact moment
- of the first violent event at the Pentagon on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 also
- “capture it all” and serve as the ultimate evidence shattering the official theory
- of what happened there that terrible morning – and narrows the range of who
- was really responsible for the horrific acts.
- Converging Lines of Evidence of a 9:30-to-9:32 a.m. Inside Violent Event
- at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001 well before the Official Story says
- anything approached and hit the building
- The Pentagon was first attacked shortly after 9:30 a.m. – almost
- 8 minutes before the official ‘impact’ time of 9:37:46, when the Official
- Conspiracy Theory (OCT) says a plane hit the building from the outside.
- Both DoD and mainstream media initially reported the time of the
- alleged Flight 77 impact similarly, as “about 9:30”, but government censors
- quickly began moving the alleged outside strike time later and later.1B
- Some early reports of the alleged impact time quoting official sources were
- as late as 10:00. The time given by Pentagon officials for the claimed outside
- impact on the building finally “settled” at 9:37:47, or almost 9:38.
- Multiple standard-issue battery- and electric-operated wall clocks
- in the heliport just outside the west wall and in the inside areas of
- the Pentagon attacked on 9/11 were stopped between 9:30 and 9:32.
- as a result of the first violent event
- The Navy, itself part of ‘the Pentagon’, posted a photo of a Pentagon
- wall clock stopped at 9:31:40 on one of its official websites; and the Pentagon
- wall clock chosen for the national 9/11 exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution
- was stopped at 9:31:30.2 These are just some of the west-section Pentagon
- clocks that were stopped shortly after 9:30 on Sept. 11, 2001.
- In addition, April Gallop’s wrist watch was stopped “just after 9:30”
- April Gallop, an Army employee with a Top Secret clearance
- specializing in the declassification of documents was at her desk in the
- Army area in the west section of the Pentagon on 9/11, the part of the
- building most heavily destroyed and with the most casualties, when what
- she said sounded and felt “like a bomb” went off, soon followed by a
- second explosion. According to the Pentagon’s own building performance
- report researched and completed in the wake of the attacks, Gallop’s desk
- was approx. 30 feet from the alleged inside trajectory of the alleged
- impactor plane.
- “Being in the Army with the training I had, I know what a bomb
- sounds and acts like, especially the aftermath, and it sounded and acted like
- a bomb,” Gallop told the author in an under-oath videotaped interview.2A
- “There was no plane or plane parts inside the building, and no smell of jet
- fuel.” In those two hours of under-oath videotaped testimony, Gallop states
- that the explosion went off at the precise instant that she hit the ‘power on’
- button on her computer in the Army area, to which she had just returned
- that morning after some months of pregnancy and childbirth leave, and
- that the first explosion stopped her wrist watch “just after 9:30 a.m.” 2B
- She has kept the stopped wrist watch in a safe deposit box as evidence
- of the exact moment of the initial Pentagon explosion. (Significantly,
- one of the witnesses to an inside-the-building explosion going off at the
- Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City separate from the well known
- outside Ryder truck bomb, Jane Graham, went on record to host Bonnie
- Faulkner in a Pacifica KPFA radio interview that the moment she also
- pressed the on button on her computer at her desk inside the building,
- an internal explosion went off.2C The parallel inside-bomb-with-outsideattack-
- cover-story modus operandi of the Murrah Building and Pentagon
- attacks point to the same inside perpetrators as being responsible for the
- planning and execution of both.)
- The huge explosion and massive damage experienced by Gallop
- at/by her desk inside the west section only about 30 feet from the alleged
- ‘entrance’ hole of the claimed impactor, combined with the fact that the
- Pentagon's thick west outer wall had just been fortified to withstand
- damage from an external bomb and/or external impactor, make it almost
- certain that the explosion and internal damage experienced by Gallop
- and other witnesses came -- at least first -- from inside, not outside,
- the building.
- Some 9/11 researchers, notably Jim Hoffman, have studied the
- evidence surrounding the Pentagon attack and, though acknowledging
- evidence for an explosion not explained by a plane impact or resultant
- jet fuel combustion, nevertheless claim a Boeing 757 or similarly sized
- aircraft probably hit the building, based predominantly on witnesses
- who say they saw a large plane approach and impact the west wedge.
- For such witnesses to believe the incoming plane hit the building,
- however, the large smoke cloud could not have already been billowing
- up and above the Pentagon; had it been, they would have known it was
- due to some other, prior cause. Thus, if the early 9:30-9:32 inside
- explosions were the cause of the fireball and smoke cloud, any plane
- that witnesses saw approaching and believed hit the building had to
- have approached near-simultaneously with the cause of the cloud,
- or just after 9:30 -- no where close to the 9:37:46 official story alleged
- impact time.
- Other 9/11 researchers, notably the Citizens Investigation Team
- (CIT), assume as fact the author’s original finding that inside-the-building
- explosion(s) caused the fireball and billowing black smoke cloud which
- only some of the CIT witnesses say they saw immediately after a large
- plane passed to the north of the Citgo gas station, contrary to the official
- story which claims a plane hit the light poles while approaching south of
- the Citgo station. But CIT’s witnesses for the north-of-the-station path
- don’t give a time for the plane’s approach, and CIT’s website and videos
- assume that time to be just before the official story alleged impact time
- of 9:37:46. But this is almost certainly not the case. If the internal
- explosion causing the fireball and smoke cloud happened just after 9:30,
- as compellingly supported by the evidence here, so also must have the
- approach of the plane that CIT’s witnesses saw to the north of the Citgo
- station -- not at the much later official impact time of almost 9:38.
- It is important here to note that internal explosion(s) between 9:30
- and 9:32 a.m. on the first and/or second floors of the west wedge of the
- Pentagon are not inconsistent with there possibly having also been a
- near-simultaneous and/or later impact by some airborne object much
- smaller than a 757/Flight 77 -- a piloted plane, an unmanned drone, or
- a missile -- into the same or a nearby section of the building. Indeed,
- if a heat-seeking missile hit the building following the explosion(s),
- the heat from the earlier explosion(s) would have become the target
- for the missile. (See below for reports that A-3 Sky Warrior planes
- were retrofitted shortly before 9/11 enabling them to be remotely
- controlled, and fitted with missiles.) More specifically, if a missile
- approached along the south-of-the-Citgo-station “light pole” path and
- hit the west side heat target where the explosives had already gone off
- just as the plane CIT’s witnesses saw approach along the north-of-thestation
- path overflew the building through the smoke cloud, it would
- explain why some of CIT’s witnesses believed the plane caused the
- impact noise actually caused by the simultaneously-hitting missile.
- As further evidence of internal explosions at the Pentagon on 9/11,
- survivor witnesses from inside the west section reported that the blast
- caused its newly-hardened windows to first expand outwards, and then
- inwards, consistent with an internal-explosion-caused pressure wave.7
- And the outermost columns closest to where the official story says the
- right wing of a 757 crashed into the building appear to be blown up and
- out from the inside, not inward, in photos.
- Multiple witnesses also said they smelled cordite after the initial
- explosion at the Pentagon, an explosive which has a distinct and very
- different smell from that of burning jet fuel, which would have been
- the smell if Flight 77 had hit and entered the building. And, as already
- noted, Gallop said there was no smell of jet fuel inside the most-damaged
- section of the West wedge, where she worked in the Army area, shortly
- after the first violent event that stopped her watch there just after 9:30.
- Pentagon eyewitness Don Perkal stated to MSNBC, “Even before stepping
- outside, I could smell the cordite. I knew explosives had been set off
- somewhere.” Witness Gilah Goldsmith reported, “We saw a huge
- black cloud of smoke. It smelled like cordite, or gun smoke.” And witness
- Samuel Danner, an AmTrak electrical engineer, was at the site and said
- he smelled cordite.8 Cordite N -- which consists of the main explosive
- compounds nitroguanidine, nitrocellulose, and nitroglycerin -- is coolburning
- and produces little smoke and no flash but, like other explosives,
- produces a strong detonation shock wave. Several witnesses also reported
- seeing a bright silvery flash, which is inconsistent with either jet fuel
- combustion from a plane impact, which produces a bright yellow not a
- white or silvery fireball, or with cordite explosions which are not
- accompanied by a flash.
- Even Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld told Sam Donaldson in an
- ABC News interview shortly after 9/11 that his first thought, being in
- the building when the initial attack happened, was that a bomb had gone
- off. Donaldson asked, “What did you think it was?” Rumsfeld replied,
- “A bomb?”
- The author also interviewed the taxi driver whose cab is the only
- car visible still parked on I-395 above the Pentagon lawn looking down
- at the west face after the other cars have left the freeway (not Lloyd
- England). This taxi can be seen in overhead photos taken on the morning
- of 9/11 and viewable on the Internet. The driver said his was the last car
- allowed onto that section of I-395 before police put up a barricade and
- that he decided not to immediately leave the scene like the others “because
- I realized this was history and I wanted to see for myself.” He stated that
- he saw no evidence of a plane having hit the building nor any visible plane
- pieces on the lawn at the time he arrived, which was after the first violent
- event had occurred at the building, as black smoke was already streaming
- up and to the right from inside-the-building fires. The taxi cab driver drew
- a diagram of what he saw that morning while overlooking the Pentagon’s
- west face from I-395, which the author has retained.
- The author has interviewed an Army auditor from Ft. Monmouth,
- New Jersey, who was on temporary duty assignment at the Pentagon before,
- on and after 9/11. He was in the Army financial management spaces only
- minutes before the Pentagon explosion on the morning of 9/11. He had just
- returned to his temporary office on the ground floor of the adjacent south
- side of the Pentagon by the cafeteria when he heard an explosion and felt the
- building shake. Immediately afterwards, he said, hundreds of panicked
- Pentagon personnel ran by him down the corridor just outside his office
- and out the South Entrance, yelling “Bombs!” and “A bomb went off!”
- The witness has requested that his name not be used in this evidence
- summary, but is willing to testify to a grand jury or independent official
- investigation; his name and contact information have been provided to
- Prof. David Ray Griffin as bona fides for the ‘Reports of Bombs’ section
- of the chapter on the Pentagon attack, Chapter 2, in Griffin’s book
- The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, as has the two-hour under-oath testimony
- interview with April Gallop.
- This Army financial management/audit area was part of or contiguous
- to the Army personnel office, and this general Army administrative area was
- one of the two west wedge functions most heavily damaged and with the
- greatest number of fatalities in the Pentagon attack -- the other being the
- Naval Command Center, more of which below. The day before 9/11, on
- September 10, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld had publicly announced and
- acknowledged that the Pentagon was “missing” – that it allegedly could
- not account for and needed to “find” -- $2.3 Trillion dollars (other reports
- have put the amount at $2.6 Trillion). Were some of the auditors who
- could “follow the money” -- and the computers whose data mining could
- help them do it -- intentionally targeted by the inside-the-building explosions
- at the Pentagon on September 11th ? In his books, Professor Griffin states
- that this possibility, first suggested based on publicly known circumstantial
- evidence by the author, deserves serious investigation. It is worth noting
- that the Pentagon’s top financial officer leading up to and at the time of
- the attacks, Dov Zakheim, who also acknowledged the “missing” Trillions,
- had a company specializing in aircraft remote-control technology. As some
- analyses claim a part found in the Pentagon wreckage is the front-hub
- assembly of the front compressor of a JT8D turbojet engine used in the
- A-3 Sky Warrior jet fighter,5 and as Air Force A-3 Sky Warriors -- normally
- piloted planes -- were reportedly secretly retrofitted into remote-controlled
- drones and fitted with missiles in a highly-compartmented operation at
- an airport near Ft. Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport in Colorado in
- the months before 9/11,6 the question further arises as to whether Pentagon
- auditors trying to “follow the money” and their computerized databases
- were intentionally targeted by inside-the-building explosives on 9/11,
- with a plane impact as the preplanned cover story.
- Once it is realized that the real story at the Pentagon – as at the WTC
- in New York City – is inside explosives, the possibility that specific offices,
- functions or even individuals were targeted to be ‘taken out’ becomes very
- real, whereas the cover story that a Boeing 757 hit the building immediately
- leads to the assumption -- probably desired by the real perpetrators -- that
- any specific deaths and destruction were random.
- The Ft. Monmouth Army auditor and his two colleagues were also
- eyewitnesses to multiple teams of bomb-sniffing dogs and their K-9 handlers
- in camouflage uniform at the Pentagon metro station just outside the
- building at approximately 7:30 am on Sept. 11. He said that canine bomb
- squads had not been at the Pentagon metro stop before 9/11, or since, but
- only that day. Since K-9 dog squads don’t search for airliners, but bombs,
- some kind of an explosives attack was apparently anticipated. Ms. Gallop
- said she also saw the bomb-sniffing K-9 teams that morning, from the top
- of the Pentagon Metro stop looking down. (A possible explanation for
- the dogs could be advance security for President Bush’s anticipated arrival
- at the Pentagon heliport, then scheduled for later that afternoon at
- approximately 12:30 p.m.)
- As mentioned above, in addition to the Army administrative area,
- the second most-destroyed area of the Pentagon on 9/11 was the Naval
- Command Center (NCC). The Official Conspiracy Theory contained in
- the 9/11 Commission Report and repeated by the mainstream media holds
- that 44 Naval Command Center personnel were physically present in that
- space on the morning of 9/11, and that 43 of the 44 died. The author,
- however, was told a very different story by the top military officer in charge
- of the Navy Anti-Terrorism Division in the NCC on the morning of 9/11,
- Coast Guard Reserve Rear Adm. Jeffrey Hathaway.6A After the attack
- on the U.S.S. Cole in Aden Harbor in Yemen, Hathaway was put in charge
- of Navy anti-terrorism force protection and was temporarily assigned to
- the NCC before the attacks. Upon the author telling Hathaway that the
- reported sole survivor of the Naval Command Center on 9/11 was Navy
- Lt. Kevin Shaeffer, Adm. Hathaway immediately responded that that
- wasn’t the whole story, and that a secret 19-or-so-person intelligence cell
- were in a hardened room at the NCC that morning and all also survived
- the attack. Given that everyone officially present in the Naval Command
- Center, except for Shaeffer, reportedly died – by far the greatest
- acknowledged fatalities-per-capita of any section of the Pentagon – the
- possibility again immediately presents itself that this secret intelligence
- cell was intentionally targeted by the internal explosives. The author has
- queried Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer -- author of the expose
- book Operation Dark Heart censored by the Defense Intelligence Agency
- (DIA), a key operative in the pre-9/11 Special Operations Command
- (SOCOM) “Able Danger” intelligence analysis group that identified
- two of the three ‘Al Qaeda’ cells allegedly responsible for the 9/11 attacks
- including ‘ringleader’ Mohammed Atta over a year before 9/11 -- as to
- whether this Naval Command Center intelligence cell potentially targeted
- by the inside-the-building explosives was part of ‘Able Danger’ despite the
- fact that the operation was reportedly shut down the Rumsfeld Pentagon
- immediately after Bush and Cheney took control of the White House in Jan.
- 2001. He said that to his knowledge it was not. (Shaffer said he is no
- known immediate relation to the Official Theory Naval Command Center
- alleged sole survivor Lt. Kevin Shaeffer, who, following months of surgery
- and physical therapy after sustaining 60% burns from the attacks was then
- hired as the key staff member on the critical 9/11 Commission subgroup
- “investigating” DoD’s (non)response which censored not only “Able
- Danger” but the Pentagon’s inside-the-building explosions as well as
- NORAD’s hijack-scenario counter-terrorism exercises being conducted on
- the morning of 9/11.
- The author also interviewed a Navy public affairs officer assigned
- to the Naval Command Center before and on 9/11, Lt. Cmdr. David
- Nunally. This officer was not in the building that morning, having been
- temporarily assigned elsewhere, but was quickly called back after the attacks
- and assigned to be the deputy public affairs officer at the underground
- “back-up Pentagon” location in Pennsylvania near the Maryland border,
- called Site R. Lt. Cmdr. Nunnally said that Deputy Secretary of Defense
- Paul Wolfowitz and later Vice President Cheney were flown to the Site R
- underground bunker as a result of Richard Clarke’s official declaration
- of “Continuity of Government/Continuity of Operations” (COG/COOP)
- on the morning of 9/11. This is confirmed in Clarke’s book, Against
- All Enemies, which reports that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld chose
- Wolfowitz to be the designated COG/COOP official at Site R in his stead.
- Perhaps significantly, the ‘crash’ site of Flight 93 is not far from Site R
- and Camp David, which early reports on the morning of 9/11, presumably
- taken from official sources, said may have been the flight’s intended target
- (the Official Theory claims the believed Flight 93 target was the Capitol
- bldg.), whose surrounding airspace, like that around Washington, D.C.,
- is a standing shoot down area. Additional information about Site R, on
- and after 9/11, can be found in James Bamford’s book, A Pretext for War.
- The author has interviewed the then Acting Assistant Secretary of
- Defense for Special Operations on 9/11, Robert Andrews, the top civilian
- official then in charge of special operations under Secretary of Defense
- Rumsfeld and a former Green Beret whose office was on the second floor
- of the south section of the Pentagon, adjacent to the west section. Perhaps
- significantly, the pre-9/11 Al Qaeda-tracking and data-mining operation
- ‘Able Danger’ was under the Special Operations Command (SOCOM).
- While drawing the path that he took that morning on a sketch of
- the Pentagon for the author, Mr. Andrews revealed the following:
- Immediately after the second World Trade Center attack of 9:03,
- Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld left his office on the Potomac side of
- the Pentagon and went (merely) across the hall on the same floor to his
- Executive Support Center (ESC), which is set up for teleconferencing.
- There, he joined the now-famous teleconference of top government
- officials run by White House NSC counterterrorism ‘czar’ Richard Clarke
- out of the White House Situation Room area media room. Clarke, in his
- book Against All Enemies, confirms that Rumsfeld was among the first
- officials on this teleconference shortly after the second WTC tower
- was hit. Clarke’s account and Andrews’ confirmation of it are thus
- completely at odds with the Official Theory and the 9/11 Commission
- report, which claim that no one could “find” Secretary Rumsfeld until
- approximately 10:30 a.m. when he walked into the National Military
- Command Center (NMCC) in the Pentagon. The fact that Rumsfeld,
- the military’s top civilian official, was on Clarke’s teleconference along
- with the top official of the Federal Aviation Administration, FAA
- Director Jane Garvey, also unmasks the total lie of the official story
- that Air Force interceptors weren’t scrambled in time “because the
- military and the FAA couldn’t talk each other” that morning. The
- top-most officials of the Pentagon and the FAA were talking to one
- another constantly and being recorded on Clarke’s teleconference from
- as early as 9:15 a.m. This videotaped Clarke teleconference is thus
- “The Butterfield Tape” of 9/11 which, not surprisingly, has never been
- released to the public. [During the 1970s Watergate scandal, secretlymade
- tapes of President Nixon’s Oval Office conversations revealed by
- Alexander Butterfield were the “smoking guns” which forced Nixon
- to resign or face certain impeachment by the House and trial in the
- Senate.]
- According to Andrews, immediately after he learned the second
- WTC tower was hit just after 9:03 a.m. from watching television in his
- office, he and his aide left and ran as fast as they could down to “the
- Secretary of Defense’s West section Counterterrorism Center (CTC)”
- arriving at approximately 9:10 a.m. While they were in the CTC, a
- violent event caused the ceiling tiles to fall from the ceiling and smoke
- to pour into the room. Andrews immediately looked at his watch, which
- read approximately 9:35 a.m. but which was set fast to ensure timely
- arrival at meetings, so the actual time was closer to 9:32. He and his aide
- then immediately evacuated the CTC with the goal of joining Rumsfeld
- in the Secretary of Defense’s Executive Support Center (ESC) across
- the hall from Rumsfeld’s main office. He said that Rumsfeld was already
- on Clarke’s White House teleconference when they arrived. En route
- to Rumsfeld’s ESC, Andrews said that when he and his aide entered
- the corridor on the inside ring of the West section, the A Ring, “We had
- to walk over dead bodies” to get to the inner courtyard. This is two rings
- further in towards the center than the purported Official Theory ‘exit’ hole
- in the inside wall of the center C Ring allegedly made by the alleged
- Official Theory Flight 77 penetration of the building.
- Once in the inner courtyard, Andrews and his aide ran as fast as they
- could to Rumsfeld’s Executive Support Center, where he joined Rumsfeld
- as his special operations/counterterrorism adviser during Clarke’s White
- House teleconference. Andrews also said that Secretary of Defense
- Rumsfeld spoke with President Bush while in the ESC. Whether this was
- via Clarke’s teleconference or by phone or other means was not stated.
- The fact that Rumsfeld personally communicated with Bush on 9/11 while
- Rumsfeld was in his Executive Support Center across from his Pentagon
- office has been published on an official DoD website.9
- High-Level Official Testimony to the 9:30-9:32 First Violent Event Time
- In addition to the already legion evidence that Flight 77, a large
- Boeing 757-200 passenger plane, did not hit the Pentagon -- i.e. the toosmall
- hole in the west side of the Pentagon being not nearly large enough
- for the width of the plane’s fuselage let alone wingspan; no visible damage
- to the lawn where Flight 77 allegedly skidded before hitting the building
- at the ground floor; plane part wreckage at the site not from a 757 but
- from a much smaller aircraft; Pentagon requests to TV media on the
- morning of 9/11 not to take up-close images of the building damage, etc. --
- there is also official evidence for the “too-early-for-the-Official-Story”
- circa 9:32 time of the first violent event.
- The FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] Timeline document
- “Executive Summary—Chronology of a Multiple Hijacking Crisis––
- September 11, 2001” includes the following entry: “0932: ATC
- [Air Traffic Control] AEA reports aircraft crashes into west side of
- Pentagon.” 3 The earlier-than-official-time of 9:32 is the critical fact
- here, and not the stated cause, which was taken from the official narrative
- and not from any direct ATC eyewitness reports.
- On August 27, 2002, then White House Counsel and subsequently
- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales gave an audio-taped Secretary of the
- Navy Guest Lecture at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey , Calif.,
- a Department of Defense university, in which he explicitly and clearly states
- that “The Pentagon was attacked at 9:32.” A tape of this segment of
- Gonzales’ talk was played at the 9/11 Emergency Truth Convergence held
- at American University in Washington , D.C. in July 2005, and is on the
- public record.
- Denmark ’s soon-to-be Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller was in a
- building in Washington, D.C. on 9/11 from which he looked out, heard an
- explosion and saw the smoke first rise from the Pentagon. He immediately
- looked at his wrist watch, which read 9:32 a.m. He gave interviews to
- Denmark media the next morning in which he stated that the Pentagon
- had been attacked at 9:32.4
- In the Air Force’s own account of the events of 9/11, Air War Over
- America, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)
- general who finally ordered interceptor jets scrambled on 9/11, although
- too late, General Larry Arnold, revealed that he ordered one of his fighter
- jets to fly down low over the Pentagon shortly after the attack there that
- morning, and that the pilot reported back that there was no evidence that
- a plane had hit the building. This fighter—not Flight 77—is almost certainly
- the plane seen on the Dulles Airport Air Traffic Controller’s screen making
- a steep, high-speed 270- to 330-degree descent before disappearing from
- the radar. When a plane flies low enough to go undetected, usually at
- or below 500 feet, it is said to be flying “under the radar.” The
- Pilotsfor911Truth website and their Pandora’s Black Box video
- documentary have determined from official data released by the National
- Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) that the true altitude/height of the
- plane represented by the blip seen on the Dulles ATC screen was 476 feet --
- way to high to have hit the Pentagon at all, let alone its ground floor, but,
- significantly, just the right height range to been seen by controllers to
- have just gone off radar so it could be said to have crashed into the building.
- Military pilots—like the one sent by Gen. Arnold on 9/11 to report on the
- Pentagon’s damage—are trained to fly just under approx. 500 feet above
- ground in order to evade radar detection. In fact, when the Air Traffic
- Controller responsible for the plane and her colleagues watched the
- extremely difficult 330-degree maneuver (originally reported as a
- 270-degree maneuver, since updated) on her screen, they were certain
- that the plane whose blip they were watching perform this extremely
- difficult ‘Top Gun’ feat was in fact a military aircraft, and said so at
- the time. And it almost certainly was.
- Thus, the likely reason the Pentagon has refused to lower its official
- “Flight 77 impact” time of 9:37:46 -- usually ‘rounded down’ to 9:37 in
- mainstream media reports -- to the actual 9:30- to 9:32-range time of the
- first explosions there -- is that they decided to pretend the blip represented
- by Gen. Arnold’s surveillance fighter jet was “Flight 77,” despite the fact
- that the 9:37:46 approach path is for a plane that flies north of the Citgo
- station, not the south-of-the-station path where the Official Theory says
- the light poles were struck by the plane. Also, the Official Story claims
- that the alleged 9:37:46 impact was the only Pentagon attack that morning,
- yet by the time Arnold’s surveillance jet arrived on the scene, at least the
- first internal violent event had already happened as the pilot reported
- damage to the building, so DoD cannot acknowledge the actual earlier
- 9:30-9:32 time without revealing an inside attack on the building prior to
- the Official Theory’s alleged outside impact.
- Even the famous Naudet brothers’ video of the first attack of 9/11,
- on World Trade Center 1 in New York, shows, at 42:27 minutes into the
- tape, that there were reports at 9:30 that the Pentagon had been hit.4A
- There is even some evidence of internal explosions prior to 9:30 a.m.
- Pentagon Police officer Roosevelt Roberts Jr. was watching the NYC attacks
- on TV when he got a call from his sergeant telling him that the Pentagon had
- gone to ThreatCon Delta; then, just as he hung up the phone, he experienced
- a violent explosion “at 9:12 or 9:11” as if “it was almost timed for precision,”
- after which dust fell from the ceiling of the east loading dock where he was
- working and he heard people screaming.
- Significantly, all of this also happened just after 9:30 a.m.
- (from The Complete 9/11 Timeline at www.HistoryCommons):
- * After an inexplicable delay during which they knew that both WTC towers
- had been attacked, the Secret Service suddenly acted as if the 9/11 attacks
- were serious and “real”, rushing President Bush out of the library at the
- Florida school where they had allowed him to continue to read to children
- as much as 10 minutes after being told by Andy Card that the second NYC
- tower had been hit.
- * Firefighters were suddenly ordered out of WTC 1 in New York City.
- * The New York Stock Exchange was ordered closed.
- * The takeover of Flight 93 reportedly began, with the stabbing of a
- flight attendant and one of the alleged hijackers announcing that there
- was a bomb on board, picked up by air traffic controllers.
- But perhaps the most convincing evidence for the Sept. 11 attacks
- being an inside job is that the actual attacks were mirrored by Air Force
- hijack-scenario counterterrorism ‘exercises’ being conducted by NORAD’s
- (an Air Force agency’s) North East Sector (NEADS) on the morning of
- 9/11 itself. The author’s original research and analysis first revealed the
- NEADS hijack-scenario exercises that ‘went live’ on 9/11 as the modus
- operandi for the planning, execution and cover-up of the attacks, credited
- as ‘The Holy Grail’ of 9/11 research by author Michael Ruppert in his
- early 9/11 expose book Crossing the Rubicon.
- Critically, the author has recently interviewed White House NSC
- counterterrorism ‘czar’ Richard Clarke, who confirmed that NORAD
- was conducting hijack-scenario exercises in the N.E. Sector – where
- all three NYC, Pentagon and Pennsylvania attacks took place – on the
- morning of 9/11 to an audience of 75, published on an official DoD
- web site.4B The key excerpt from that article:
- “Regarding 9/11 itself, Clarke noted that part of the little known
- history of that day was confusion by NORAD’s North East Sector, which
- was about to conduct an exercise on a partial hijack scenario as the actual
- hijackings began, as to whether the unfolding events were ‘real world’ or
- part of the exercise – a confusion whose cause bears an eerie similarity to
- the ‘arm reaching out of the computer’ danger Cyber War [Clarke’s latest
- book] warns about. “Yes, this happened on 9/11, and it happened with
- TWA Flight 800, when the Navy was doing a sea search exercise in the
- very area where the plane went down. And though the White House clears
- every major exercise, on Sept. 11th just last year, the Coast Guard ran
- an exercise on the Potomac River right near where the President was at
- the time. I’m a firm believer in exercises, and we have to make sure that
- firewalls in the future are tight. I wouldn’t have been able to respond
- the way we did on 9/11 if we hadn’t exercised it five times.”
- Also, critically, the operational head of NORAD NEADS on 9/11,
- Air Force Col. Bob Marr, an expert on “Red Team” verisimilitude --
- making military exercises and wargames as realistic or “real world” as
- possible -- has also now publicly acknowledged that his Air Force agency
- was conducting a plane-hijack-scenario counterterrorism exercise on the
- morning of 9/11.4C
- It is impossible that the highest levels of the Bush-Cheney White
- House “couldn’t imagine” using planes as weapons when its own military
- was practicing how to defend against exactly such a hijack-scenario attack
- on the morning of 9/11 itself. In particular, Clarke stressed that the White
- House advance approves all major military exercises, of which those
- planned for and conducted on 9/11 more than qualified, and the White
- House official most likely to have given that pre-approval, National
- Security Council Director Condolezza Rice, is the very person who
- publicly insisted that the administration “couldn’t imagine” that very
- scenario. Rice was and is also a close colleague of and co-authored
- a book with the 9/11 Commission’s Executive Director Phillip Zelikow,
- whose Report pushed the Official Lie of 9/11 and didn’t mention the
- hijack-scenario NORAD “exercises” being conducted that very morning.
- On February 4, 2004, the author interviewed Air Force General
- Ralph Eberhart, Commander of NORAD on 9/11, about NORAD’s
- hijack-scenario exercise on the morning of 9/11. To the author’s knowledge,
- the top NORAD official has granted no other interview since the events
- of September 11. Before being asked questions, Gen. Eberhart was given
- copies of all mainstream press articles published as of that date on the
- subject of the confusion on 9/11 of his Northeast Sector (NEADS) personnel
- running NORAD’s “Vigilant Guardian/Vigilant Warrior” emergency
- response exercises that morning. As of the date of the interview, therefore,
- the then head of NORAD was made aware of the initial confusion by his
- own NEADS “game” players on 9/11 between incoming exercise reports
- and incoming reports of actual hijacks.
- The author first asked Gen. Eberhart if there was any connection
- between NORAD’s “Vigilant Guardian/Vigilant Warrior” exercise being
- run on 9/11 and the plane-crashing-into-tower emergency response exercise
- simultaneously being held at National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
- headquarters outside Washington, D.C.12/first cite He replied, “No.”
- This response was surprising, as a large percentage of NRO personnel
- are reportedly from his own agency, the Air Force. He was asked for
- reconfirmation, to which he again said, “No.” Laying the ground for
- the next question, the author mentioned that NEADS’ “exercise” director
- on the morning of 9/11, Lt. Col. Dawne Deskins, has said that she was
- confused as to whether initial reports of the hijacked planes on the morning
- of 9/11 were “real world” or “part of the game.” This, the author noted,
- showed that the NORAD exercises that morning had to have been on
- a hijack scenario at least similar to the actual attacks, as otherwise there
- wouldn’t have been any grounds for confusion. After considering this
- for a moment, Gen. Eberhart refused to answer any further questions
- and abruptly ended the interview. As we have seen above, subsequent
- to the initial publication of this white paper in the first printing of
- The Terror Conspiracy, NORAD officials confirmed that their ‘exercise’
- on the morning of 9/11 did, indeed, include a hijack scenario (Touching
- History, pp. 3-6 and 24-27).
- Explosive Revelations Regarding the WTC Attacks
- Millions in the U.S. and around the world now know World Trade
- Center Towers 1 and 2 as well as WTC Building 7, not hit by any plane,
- fell due to controlled demolitions using pre-planted super-military-grade
- thermite explosives pre-planted inside the buildings, to which ‘Al Qaeda’
- could never have obtained access – especially to WTC 7, which housed
- multiple U.S. Government agencies including the CIA, FBI, Secret Service,
- SEC and even NYC Mayor Giuliani’s own Emergency Operations Center
- from which emergency counterterrorism responses were to have been run --
- thanks to the impeccable and courageous efforts of Prof. David Ray Griffin
- and Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (www.ae911truth.org), among
- others. Over 1,300 licensed architects and engineers have signed Architects
- & Engineers’ petition calling for a new, truly independent investigation of
- the events leading up to and on 9/11.
- Among the most explosive revelations of what really happened at
- the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 is WTC 7 owner and WTC 1 and 2
- lease-holder Larry Silverstein’s admission, in an interview on PBS
- Television that the NYC “fire department commander,” after a discussion
- in a phone call with Silverstein late on the afternoon of 9/11, made the
- decision “to pull [the building, a professional term for triggering the
- controlled demolition of a structure with preplaced explosives] and we
- watched the building collapse.” This claim takes on sinister dimensions
- when combined with the below inside information received from American
- Helicopter Society Executive Director M.E. Rhett Flater, who knows many
- of the principals involved:
- “The NYC Police [Dept.] had two Bell 412’s [helicopters] equipped
- with hoists and rescuers in the air on 9/11 next to the WTCs. One of these
- was the same 412 and police crew which assisted with rooftop rescues when
- one of the buildings was attacked by Al Qaeda bombers several years earlier
- [in 1993]. The NYC Fire Department, which has no love for the NYC
- Police Department, assumed jurisdiction and denied access to the roof by
- the NYC Police helicopters. Complicating matters, the rooftop doors were
- [double] locked prior to 9/11 at the direction of the NYC Fire Department.
- As a result, there were no helicopter rescue attempts. When a fleet of
- Sikorsky U-60L Black Hawks arrived from Stratford with medics and
- supplies, they were ordered to a local airport and directed to stay away
- from the towers. The same was true of other rescue attempts by civil and
- military and paramilitary helicopters.” 9A
- Amazingly, the pilot of one of the NYC Police Dept. helicopters
- who sent two of his crew members down to the WTC 1 roof to rescue
- survivors after the basement bombing of the building in 1993, Det. Greg
- Semendinger, was the official NYPD photographer in one of its four
- helicopters circling around the Towers on 9/11, and expressed ‘surprise’
- that there was no one on the roof to rescue9B, though it was well known –
- even infamous – throughout the Police Department that the NYC Fire
- Department had ordered the roof doors double-locked. Further,
- Semendinger’s helicopter that morning was equipped with the same winch
- and foldable rescue seat he had used to rescue almost two dozen from the
- WTC roof eight years earlier. Of the 2,770 photos Semendinger took from
- the NYPD helicopter on 9/11, which were provided to the National Institute
- of Standards and Technololgy (NIST) as background for their report that
- refused to even consider the controlled demolition hypothesis for what
- caused the Towers to fall and which NIST then provided to the 9/11
- Commission, and which subsequently were given to ABC News as a result
- of its FOIA demand, only 24 have been released to the public (see above
- link). The remaining 2,746 photos almost certainly contain literal
- ‘smoking guns’ and need to be forced into the public domain by a new,
- truly independent investigation of Sept. 11th.
- Putting two and two together, the NYC Fire Dept. commander(s)
- who ordered the WTC 1 and 2 rooftop doors double-locked -- closing off
- the only hope of escape for victims caught above the point of the plane
- impacts and fires, many of whom were forced to jump to their deaths –
- also refused to allow NY Police Department helicopters equipped and
- ready to rescue anyone able to get to the roofs – or any of the other dozens
- of civilian, military and paramilitary helicopters that rushed to Manhattan
- ready to rescue them – to do so; and, after talking with WTC 7 owner
- Silverstein, ordered that that building be destroyed by classic remotecontrolled
- demolition. And what’s ‘good’ for the goose (WTC 7) is ‘good’
- for the gander (WTC 1 and 2): i.e., it is almost certain that Silverstein and
- the NYC Fire Department Commander also made the decision to bring
- down WTC 1 and 2 by controlled demolition earlier in the day.
- This is a high evil forcing a “devil’s alternative” on the WTC victims
- caught above the plane impacts and fires that would make Hitler’s SS shake
- with rage.
- To add fuel to the fire, Fox News reporter and former Gannett News
- journalist Jeffrey Shapiro has claimed that NYC Police Department officials
- told him late on the afternoon of 9/11 that Silverstein also was on the phone
- with his insurance company trying to talk them into approving the controlled
- demolition destruction of WTC 7, the one WTC structure he owned outright,
- using language similar to that Silverstein told PBS he and the Fire Department
- Commander had used as the pretext for ‘pulling’ the building
- (http://www.prisonplanet.com/bombshell-silverstein-wanted-to-demolishbuilding-
- 7-on-911.html ).
- Further, WTC janitor William “Willy” Rodriguez, the last nonemergency-
- responder to leave the WTC alive on 9/11, has testified that he
- was in the first basement level of the WTC when an immense explosion
- went off below him in the even-deeper subbasement level(s) of the building
- a few seconds before the plane hit the tower high above.10 Just as Robert
- Andrews revealed that the West-side sub-level of the Pentagon was damaged
- at approximately 9:32 a.m. on 9/11, and as we know that the cause of the
- first 9:32 a.m. Pentagon attack was not an impact event but inside
- explosives, there thus are eye- and ear witness reports of bombs going off
- in both the Pentagon and the WTC underground level(s) before either were
- hit by anything from the outside.
- As no “outside” terrorist, al Qaeda or otherwise, could have had
- access to either the Pentagon or the sustained advance access needed to preplace
- explosives inside the WTC, only domestic insiders could have preplaced
- the explosives in both the Pentagon and the WTC. Further, because
- the WTC1 deep-basement explosions(s) experienced by Willy Rodriguez
- happened before the tower was hit by a plane; as any incoming plane not
- controlled by the same agents that triggered the sub-basement detonation(s)
- could have veered off from the building at the last second thereby ruining
- the plane-impact-as-cover-story for the later building collapse; and as the
- sub-basement explosions were necessary for the actual later collapse of the
- buildings by controlled demolition, the same domestic U.S. insiders had
- to have controlled both the internal sub-basement detonations and the
- incoming plane(s). Thus, even if al Qaeda hijackers were on the incoming
- planes, they were not in control of the final approach and impact of the
- planes, which had to have been 100 percent guaranteed and thus 100 percent
- controlled by domestic U.S. insiders to ensure that, once the WTC1 subbasement
- explosions went off, the plane could not veer off and miss the
- building ruining the plane-impact-and-fires cover story for its collapse.
- This fact is crucial, as it can take jurisdiction for the mass murders at the
- WTC out of the hands from the FBI, which oversees crimes committed
- in the air, as a compelling legal argument can be made that the real crime
- of controlling the planes’ impacts into the towers was committed by ground
- controllers in a terrestrial building or vehicle. In fact, it has been reported
- that just-former FBI top ‘Al Qaeda’ hunter John O’Neill, who began his
- new job as head of security for the WTC on 9/11, told his assistant in his
- last phone call from the towers that the planes were being controlled “from
- the ground.” If so, this places the jurisdiction of the crime of the WTC
- mass murders squarely with the State of New York, as murder is a State
- crime and multiple mass murders are the sum of individual State crimes.
- And because the controllers of the timing of the WTC 1 basement-level
- explosives had to have also been the controllers of the final approach and
- impact of the planes, and the former was arguably, and provably with
- legal discovery and subpoena power, on the ground and not in the air,
- a Manhattan Grand Jury can be given the case and pull the jurisdiction
- for the Bush-Cheney Reichstag Fire out of Federal jurisdiction.
- Because the real modus operandi of both the Pentagon and WTC
- attacks are the same -- inside explosions with plane-impacts-and-fire
- cover stories -- it is logical to deduce that the same insider terrorists
- were responsible for pre-placing and detonating the explosives inside
- both the WTC and the Pentagon. That is, a single group of domestic
- conspirators—not al Qaeda or any other outside terrorists—almost
- certainly planned and executed both the WTC and Pentagon attacks,
- which significantly narrows the range for the identities of the real
- perpetrators.
- In addition to the already well known and officially acknowledged
- evidence of Bush Administration foreknowledge of the broad outlines
- of the September 11 attacks – i.e. advance warnings from intelligence
- agencies of as many as 11 foreign countries and the content of the
- now-famous August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Brief (whose 10-page
- attachment still has not been made public), etc. -- there is strong
- evidence that Bush-Cheney administration insiders had near perfect --
- if not complete -- advance knowledge of the planned attacks and both
- mirrored them by controlling the actual attacks under cover of the
- 9/11 hijack-scneario ‘exercises’ and chose the date for the actual attacks,
- which was therefore also the date for the exercises.
- (Note: The fact that Bush Admin. insiders had advance knowledge of the
- details of a planned “outside” attack, as detailed below, is not inconsistent
- with these insiders having facilitated and even orchestrated the actual
- attacks to both ensure they happened ‘successfully’ and to blame them
- on the planners. That is, the real plot behind the Sept. 11 attacks is similar
- to that of the Nazi Reichstag Fire, through which Hitler rapidly consolidated
- power, which was its purpose. Like the Nazi-facilitated Reichstag fire,
- the above and below evidence makes it highly likely that the true story
- of Sept. 11 is that there was a real though highly-unlikely-to-succeed
- “outside” plot about which U.S. and allied intelligence gained detailed
- advance knowledge and the Administration then secretly protected and
- enabled the plot to ensure not only that it succeeded, but succeeded
- spectacularly as the psychological operation needed to justify the entire
- subsequent Bush-Cheney global-military and domestic-surveillance
- agenda.
- Below is just some of the compelling evidence that the Bush-
- Cheney Administration had detailed advance knowledge of the attack plans:
- 1) Shortly after September 11, Newsweek reported that before
- 9/11, the Bush Administration initiated a Foreign Intelligence
- Surveillance Act (FISA) Court surveillance/tap of “up to 20” suspected al
- Qaeda-linked terrorists then in the U.S., but that then FISA Court Chief
- Justice Royce Lamberth subsequently ordered the then-already-ongoing
- surveillance stopped. This can only mean one thing -- that the Bush
- Justice Dept./FBI/NSA initiated the tap before asking the FISA Court for
- a warrant for it, as with the now-famous post-9/11 NSA taps initiated by
- the Bush administration without first applying for FISA warrants.
- As “up to 20” is a clever way of saying “19” without making the
- link to 9/11 explicit, the Bush Administration Justice Dept/FBI/NSA
- almost certainly initiated surveillance of all 19, or close to all 19, of the
- soon-to-be alleged 9/11 hijackers before 9/11, and probably did so based
- at least in part on the findings of Special Operations Command’s “Able
- Danger” data mining intelligence operation which Bush and Rumsfeld
- ordered shut down just after taking office in late Jan. 2001. Though Judge
- Lamberth ordered the surveillance ended once the administration filed the
- formal warrant application, there is evidence that the Bush administration
- ignored his order to cease the tap and continued its surveillance of the
- alleged 9/11 hijackers up to and including the day of 9/11:
- Zacarias Moussaoui—the only person indicted by the Bush
- Administration for anything even related to 9/11—has stated in court
- filings that both he “and my (al Qaeda) brothers” then in the U.S. were
- surveilled by the Bush administration before 9/11 and that the Bush
- Administration knew he could prove it. How could this be the case?
- If Moussaoui was one of the “up to 20” al Qaeda-linked terrorist suspects
- the U.S. surveilled before 9/11 without an advance FISA warrant, as
- reported by Newsweek, then Moussaoui was also one of the “up to 20”
- whose warrantless surveillance Judge Lamberth ordered stopped.
- Moussaoui, after all, was originally named as the “20th hijacker” of
- the 9/11 plot. Amazingly, the FISA Act requires that, if the FISA Court
- rejects a surveillance that was initiated before a warrant has been
- applied for, as in this case, the court must inform “the target(s)” of
- the surveillance and give him/them the government’s stated reason for
- initiating the tap in the FISA application. Thus Moussaoui can “prove”
- the Bush Administration/FBI initiated surveillance on him before 9/11
- because, it can thus be deduced, the FISA Court itself -- or some U.S.
- agency it ordered to do so on its behalf -- told him so after Lamberth
- ordered his surveillance and that of the other “up to 20” plotters stopped.
- Those other “19 or so” plotters who were required by law to have also
- been officially informed before the attacks that they had been surveilled
- and for what stated reason would have also included Mohammad Atta,
- Ramzi Binalshibh and all of the other official story hijackers. And
- because it was almost certainly the FBIthat surveilled the “19 or 20”
- inside the U.S. without warrants before the attacks, explains why the FBI
- was able to so quickly identify the 19 official-story hijackers immediately
- after the attacks, though it falsely claimed they knew nothing about the
- hijackers ahead of time and that the attacks were a complete surprise.
- Given the above, the fact that the FISA Court was required to
- inform most or all 19 of the “up to 20” alleged 9/11 hijackers before 9/11
- that they were being surveilled by the Bush Administration—and the
- reason for such surveillance -- throws new light on the claims by the
- Pentagon’s then-secret data mining task force“Able Danger” to have
- tracked lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta and at least four of the other
- 19 hijackers beginning in January 2000, when Atta actually did enter the
- country according to Daniel Hopsicker’s taped interview with Atta’s
- live-in girlfriend Amanda Keller reported in his book Welcome to
- Terrorland. The FBI falsely claimed, and still falsely claims, that Atta
- did not enter the U.S. until the summer of 2000, six months after he
- actually did so. The likely reason for this intentional lie about when
- Atta first entered the country is what Atta is known to have done while
- inside the U.S. between January and the Summer of 2000. Hopsicker
- reveals that, among other activities, Atta visited Portland, Maine, in
- March, 2000, and perhaps even earlier. An abiding “mystery” of the
- official 9/11 cover story is why Atta drove to this very city -- Portlanf,
- Maine -- on September 10, the day before 9/11, and then flew from
- Portland to Boston early on the morning of September 11. The answer
- to this “mystery,” which the FBIclearly already knows, is the link
- between what Atta was doing in Portland before the Bush Administration
- said he was even in the country, as well as what he was doing there the
- day before 9/11 and early on the morning of 9/11. This probably has
- something to do with the fact that the CIA reportedly runs secret flights
- out of an airport in Portland , Maine , and that “rendition” detainees
- have said they were flown out of the country on special jets after first
- stopping at Portland ’s International Jet Port.12
- 2) The FBI’s top bin Laden/al Qaeda hunter until shortly before
- 9/11, John O’Neill, “happened” to be at the same hotel in the same town
- near Tarragona , Spain in mid-July 2001 just before lead hijacker
- Mohammed Atta and 9/11 plot “coordinator” Ramzi Binalshibh arrived
- there. Some Bush administration officials now also believe that 9/11
- “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) met there for what the
- 9/11 Commission calls “the Final 9/11 Planning Meeting.” This cannot
- be—and is not—a coincidence. O’Neill, who was in close contact with
- German intelligence -- Atta led the “German cell” for the 9/11 attacks --
- and Spanish intelligence, clearly had been alerted to the upcoming
- “Final Planning Meeting” meeting and was at the hotel to surveil/tap/bug
- the room and/or monitor the surveillance/taps/bugs of German and/or
- Spanish intelligence where it was about to be held. O’Neill and his
- agency, the Bush-Cheney Administration’s FBI, thus knew every detail --
- or nearly every detail, see below -- of the planned 9/11 plot at least
- two months in advance of the attacks.
- Perhaps just as significantly, European media reported that bin
- Laden was in an American hospital in Dubai incapacitated for surgery
- during precisely this same mid-July 2001 period of the Spanish ”Final
- 9/11 Planning Meeting.” Reportedly, bin Laden was visited in the
- hospital by the CIA’s then UAE station chief. The question naturally
- arises whether bin Laden was telephoned by Atta, Binalshibh and
- perhaps even also KSM, or visa versa, while the latter were at the
- “Final 9/11 Planning Meeting” in the hotel that O’Neill had pre-bugged.
- If so, then O’Neill, the FBI, and the highest levels of the Bush Admin. –
- including O’Neill’s then boss Attorney General Ashcroft, who suddenly
- stopped flying commercial aircraft about this time -- knew not only
- every detail of the 9/11 plot as of that date, but almost certainly
- recorded all the key conspirators plotting their “final plans” including
- possibly bin Laden himself, on tape—clearly another “Butterfield” tape
- to be demanded by subpoena in a new 9/11 investigation. In fact, former
- FBI translator and 9/11 whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has revealed,
- based on documents she saw as part of her official duties, that bin Laden
- himself was working for the U.S. up to and on the day of 9/11 itself.
- This almost certainly is the reason the FBI has never listed bin Laden as
- wanted for 9/11 on its “Most Wanted Terrorists” web page, and why
- the FBI’s chief investigative spokesman Rex Tomb has said the reason
- bin Laden is not officially wanted for 9/11 is because there is no real
- evidence linking him to the attacks.
- That is, there may be, and probably is, evidence linking bin
- Laden,Binalshibh, KSM and Al Qaeda to a 9/11-like plot and planning,
- but not to the actual attacks, as they were physically carried out by
- insiders under cover of U.S. Air Force counterterrorism “exercises” that
- mirrored the “final plans” discussed at the July 2001Tarragona meeting.
- As noted above, on 9/11 itself the U.S. military was conducting
- NORAD emergency response exercises on scenarios involving plane
- hijacks, and the NRO was conducting an emergency response exercise
- on the scenario of a plane crashing into one of the towers of is
- headquarters just outside Washington, D.C.11 where many NRO
- personnel are from the Air Force and CIA. It is next to impossible for
- this to have been the case unless the exercises were intentionally
- scripted to mirror what had been learned from the above-mentioned
- detailed advance intelligence. That is, the “cover-story” purpose of the
- military exercises held on 9/11 was to practice how to defend against
- the very attacks that John O’Neill’s Tarragona meeting surveillance, the
- Pentagon’s “Able Danger” data-mining operation and the FBI’s preattack
- FISA-warrant-less surveillance of the “up to 20” (19)
- suspected al Qaeda terrorists had already revealed. You don’t practice
- defending against something in multi-million-dollar hijack-scenario
- exercises on the morning of 9/11 that you “can’t imagine.”
- A few paragraphs above it was stated that, because of O’Neill’s
- surveillance of the Al Qaeda mastermind’s and lead hijacker’s “Final
- Planning Meeting” in Tarragona, Spain, he and the Bush-Cheney FBI
- knew nearly every significant operational detail of the plot. The one
- “burning” exception to this, however, is the date of the 9/11 attacks.
- Perhaps the most compelling proof of active Bush administration
- complicity in 9/11is that lead hijacker Mohamed Atta took the
- information to this critical mid-July “Final 9/11 Planning Meeting” that
- “the date [for the attacks] has been set” -- i.e. set by someone else other
- than Atta) -- and that he, Atta, didn’t yet know it, but would “know it”
- in five to six weeks, by late August 2001.13 Atta was clearly waiting
- to learn the date of what the Bush Administration and 9/11 Commission
- allege was “his own” attack. This last key piece of the puzzle fell into
- place during the first phase of Zacarias Moussaoui’s sentencing trial,
- in the 58-page transcript of “9/11 mastermind” Khalid Sheikh
- Mohammed’s interrogation “testimony” read into the trial record by
- the Bush Department of Justice prosecution. In this transcript, KSM
- says that he and bin Laden “allowed Atta to choose” both the final
- targets and the attack date.”14 However, from what Atta said to
- Binalshibh and probably also to KSM and possibly even also to
- bin Laden by phone at the “Final Planning Meeting” in Spain, we know
- that Atta did not set the attack date, as he was waiting to learn it five
- to six weeks after that mid-July “Final Planning Meeting.” Putting
- two and two together from the above, therefore, we know that
- neither bin Laden nor alleged “mastermind” KSM nor alleged
- “coordinator” Binalshibh set the date for “their own” attacks, though
- setting the date of an attack is the one thing that translates a mere plan –
- a plot or conspiracy -- into reality. That is, none of the top alleged
- “outside’ conspirators set the date for the September 11 attacks.
- If the “9/11 conspirators” didn’t set the date to turn their plot
- into a reality, then who did?
- The key and central fact of the entire 9/11 plot is that the attack
- date Atta was “waiting for” was the date of the Bush Administration’s
- planned counterterrorism exercises, which, in a vicious circle, were
- scripted to mirror Atta’s and Binalshibh’s attack plan gleaned via
- advance intelligence obtained from O’Neill’s surveillance of the
- “Final 9/11 Planning Meeting” near Tarragona, from the Pentagon’s
- “Able Danger” tracking of Atta and other of the 19 hijack-plotters,
- and the FBI’s warrantless surveillance of Atta and other of the aboutto-
- be alleged hijackers. And because Atta was “waiting to hear” the
- attack date, which was the hijack-scenario U.S. military exercise
- date, Atta was the sole plotter to whom the Bush Administration
- finally chose to tell the actual attack date – Sept.11th -- as soon as
- it was selected, and he bought his one-way ticket as soon as he learned
- it, in late August 2001, just as he had predicted at the “Final Planning
- Meeting.”
- The No. 1 inside conspirator, therefore, is whoever gave the
- Pentagon’s own hijack-scenario counterterrorism exercise details
- and their date -- Sept. 11 -- to Mohamed Atta or to a middleman who,
- in turn, gave the date to Atta.
- Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Ahmed, then head of Pakistan’s military
- intelligence agency ISI, is the prime suspect for a second-level
- middleman who laundered this No. 1 inside-conspirator’s NORAD
- hijack-scenario exercise date to Atta. On the morning of 9/11,
- Ahmed was in Washington, D.C. having breakfast with future CIA
- Director Porter Goss and Senator Bob Graham, soon to co-chair of
- the joint House-Senate “investigation” of the 9/11 attacks, and had
- met with CIA Director George Tenet and with top officials at the
- Pentagon, about to conduct the exercises, in the few days leading
- up to 9/11. He is therefore the most likely person who was told
- the date and details of the Pentagon’s hijack-scenario emergency
- response exercises and communicated them, directly or via an
- intermediary, to Atta, as Ahmed also approved wiring $100,000
- to Atta shortly before 9/11. (Interestingly, it has been reported that
- $100,000 is an amount the FBI often pays to key informants). It is
- also known that Atta then confirmed 9/11 as the date for the exercises—
- which was to be the date for the attacks—in his now-famous NSAintercepted
- call with KSM of September 10, 2001, in which he related
- “The Match is about to begin. Zero hour is tomorrow.” “Match” is
- a way of saying “exercise” or “game.” This critical September 10th
- telephone intercept was almost certainly made without an advance
- FISA warrant, putting the lie to then NSA Director and later CIA
- Director Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden’s patently false claim that
- the “first” warrantless taps were initiated only as a defensive response
- to 9/11 following the attacks.
- Another abiding “mystery” of September 11 is why Gen. Eberhart,
- the commander of NORAD on 9/11, claimed to the 9/11 Commission
- that on the morning of 9/11 NORAD was conducting, among others,
- a preplanned “Soviet-era” emergency response exercise15 in which U.S.
- fighter jets were to defend against “Russian” nuclear bombers played by
- U.S. military “Red Team” planes. Why “Soviet era” when the Soviet
- Union had ceased to exist ten years before? He didn’t say “Russian,”
- he said “Soviet.” This is very strange until one discovers that, despite
- repeated official and media claims that Sept. 11 was “completely unique”
- and that the skies over America had “never before” been cleared of all
- commercial and private/civilian aircraft, NORAD (the Air Force) had
- conducted a previous emergency response exercise 40 years earlier
- which also completely cleared the skies over the mainland U.S.
- This was on October 14, 1961, in a war game called “Sky Shield II,”
- which was based on a scenario of defending against an air attack by
- Soviet bombers on New York City.16 The main difference between the
- 1961 exercise and September 11th is that the clearing of the skies was
- publicly announced in advance in “Sky Shield.” This actual Soviet-era
- exercise (and the fact that it was labeled II implies there was yet an earlier
- one), which included 1,800 U.S. and 15 Canadian military planes and was
- billed as “the greatest exercise ever conducted by Western air defense
- forces,” is even mentioned in the Air Force’s own account of the events
- of Sept. 11, Air War Over America. In fact, Gen. Larry Arnold, NORAD’s
- commander for the continental U.S. on 9/11 directly under Eberhart, who
- finally ordered interceptor jets scrambled to belatedly meet the hijack threat,
- made a point of including the eerily similar 1961 Air Force war game
- in the book. Not only did both the 1961 and September 11 NORAD
- “Soviet-era” wargame scenarios include attacks on New York City; in
- the 1961 exercise, U.S. military planes played the role of the Soviet attack
- bombers. That is, the U.S.military pre-scripted both the defense and the
- “attack”by its own planes pretending to be Soviet aircraft. If Eberhart’s
- testimony to the 9/11 Commission about NORAD’s conducting a “Sovietera”
- attack scenario exercise on 9/11 to the Commission is correct, his
- own Air Force agency was conducting an exercise much like the one
- in 1961 on 9/11, for which NORAD therefore pre-scripted the 9/11 “attack”
- scenario, which was “made real” in the actual attacks that morning.
- If a high-level cabal inside the U.S. military and intelligence
- community intended to make the 9/11 hijack-scenario “exercise(s)” based
- on Atta’s “Final Planning Meeting” plot become real that morning, they
- had to have a plan for ensuring the planes actually made it to their targets.
- Taking control of the original flight(s) and substituting military planes made
- to look like them would be the “safest” way to achieve this. In this light,
- it is significant that mainstream press stories contain intriguing reports
- pointing to the possibility that there were two American Airlines “Flight
- 11s,” leaving from two different gates at Boston Logan airport within
- a few minutes of one another on 9/11, as well as emerging evidence of
- other of the Official-Theory-hijacked 9/11 flight numbers being “twinned,”17
- or duplicated. The question thus naturally arises, were these “twin” planes
- U.S. military or CIA planes “playing” hijacked-airliner “attackers,” similar
- to the 1961 “Sky Shield” scenario except substituting commandeered
- airliners for Soviet bombers? And could the planned 9/11 NORAD
- exercises have included a “trigger” event to clear the skies over the mainland
- U.S. so that a realistic test of U.S. air defenses could be conducted without
- interference from the thousands of civilian aircraft normally in the air?
- Key quotes from New York Times articles before, during and
- immediately after the 1961 NORAD “Sky Shield” exercise are eerily
- similar to stories appearing on 9/11 [text in parentheses and italics added]:
- “It is not so much the fear of collisions with military aircraft that has caused
- civilian planes to be ordered out of the skies, as it is the knowledge that
- inadequate [civilian FAA] electronic flight controls will be available during
- the exercise to guide them. [U.S.] Strategic Air Command (SAC) bombers,
- playing the role of the marauding forces, will seek to foul communications
- and radar. They will drop tinsel-like pieces of metal called “chaff” overhead
- [similar to the myriad small pieces of metal scrap found on the Pentagon
- lawn and at the Shanksville, Pennsylvania “crash” site on 9/11?]…that will
- throw radarscopes [including the FAA’s] into a confusion of false signals.”
- “All the [exercise “Red Team”] bomber missions were laid out ahead of
- time and fed into the NORAD computer.” “An automated shorthand
- running display of the entire battle was provided at NORAD combat center
- and in similar centers at Strategic Air Command headquarters [to which
- President Bush was taken on 9/11] and in the Pentagon [which was attacked
- on 9/11].” “A fight plan for every [exercise] aircraft is fed into the
- computer’s memory beforehand. When a plane shows on the radarscope,
- a console operator picks up an aluminum electronic gun, points it at the blip,
- and squeezes the trigger. That brings the flight to the computer’s attention.
- If the flight [plan] is filed in its memory, the computer automatically replies,
- ‘Yes, I am aware of that [plane].’ It does this by marking the flight with
- an F for Friendly. While the computer compares the flight with its
- memorized data, it marks the flight P for Pending. Finally, it may mark it
- H for Hostile. ‘We have two minutes to identify a flight [as Friendly] before
- we scramble [interceptor jets]…to make a visual identification of an
- uncertain aircraft or to attack it.’” ‘We do not train [in exercises like the
- 1961 ‘Sky Shield II, or on 9/11] with Hostile symbology [showing on
- screens]; therefore, the Strategic Air Command’s bombers playing the role
- of the attacking [Soviet-Russian] force [on October 14, 1961] were marked
- K, for Faker.’” “There are seventeen units of Army Air Defense Artillery
- with ground-to-air anti-aircraft missiles near New York [in 1961; how many
- more were there on 9/11, 40 years later, when none, according to the official
- story, were used?]”
- The 1961 wargame was directed by then NORAD commander
- Air Force Gen. Laurence Sherman Kuter from his combat operations center
- at NORAD’s Colorado Springs headquarters, which in the mid-1960s moved
- to Cheyenne Mountain, also Gen. Eberhart’s command center on 9/11.
- It may also be significant that the Air Force’s war games simulation center
- is at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, which Gen. Kuter had earlier
- commanded and where lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta had received
- training prior to 9/11.
- The Pentagon’s “Able Danger” data miners claim that “Department
- of Defense lawyers” -- almost certainly from the National Security Agency,
- then headed by Gen. Hayden, an officer in the Air Force, the same service
- that planned the 9/11 war games -- blocked planned meetings with the FBI
- at which they wanted to tell the FBI that they had “tracked” Atta and other
- of the 9/11 hijackers prior to 9/11 and ask the FBI to initiate additional
- surveillance on them. The fact that the FBI did initiate exactly such a
- surveillance of the “up to 20 Al Qaeda linked terrorist suspects” before
- 9/11 (see above) is strong evidence that, despite its claims to the contrary,
- the Pentagon’s “Able Danger” team, or someone who knew what they
- had found, did communicate what they had learned from tracking Atta and
- the others to the FBI before 9/11, and that the FBI then initiated FISAwarrant-
- less surveillances of Atta and others subsequently ordered stopped
- by then Chief FISA Court Judge Lamberth -- all prior to 9/11. The fact that
- initially-suspected “20th 9/11 hijacker” Moussaoui officially filed claims
- that he “and my brothers” were surveilled before 9/11 is further evidence
- that the FBI continued to watch all or most of the 9/11 hijackers right up
- until the attacks, despite Lamberth’s order to cease and desist. In the days
- leading up to 9/11, FBI Headquarters supervisors David Frasca and his
- deputy Michael Maltbie refused 70 urgent requests by Moussaoui’s
- FBI interrogator for either a FISA Court warrant or an “ordinary” criminal
- warrant to get into Moussaoui’s computer and surveil anyone mentioned
- therein. Doing so, it is claimed, would have stopped the plot, as Moussaoui
- now claims to have personally known 17 -- almost all -- of the alleged
- 19 hijackers.18
- In addition to all the evidence that plane-impacts-and-fire was the
- carefully planned cover story for the cause of collapse of WTC 1, 2
- and 7, as well as the west façade of the Pentagon, both of which were
- initially hit by inside-the-buildings explosives, not planes, the other
- overwhelming line of evidence for 9/11 being an “Inside Job” is the
- anthrax attacks. A summary of the anthrax links to 9/11 itself –
- not just to the known mid-October 2001 letters – follows.
- For full details on these links, see The Scarlet A: The Anthrax Links
- to 9/11 by the author.
- Any evidence linking 9/11 to the anthrax letters -- dated September 11
- but sent in mid-October and only to Democratic leaders in Congress, no
- Republicans -- is direct evidence of an inside job because that particular type
- of anthrax is known to have been of the highly controlled “Ames strain”
- developed by the U.S. Army at Ft. Detrick, Maryland, and at the University
- of Iowa in Ames, Iowa. It was also high-spore-count, super military-grade
- weaponized anthrax refined according to a trade secret reportedly personally
- held by William Patrick, former Ft. Detrick bio-weapons expert and mentor
- of Steven Hatfill, the only “person of interest” stalked by the FBI as a
- suspect in the still “unsolved” anthrax case, and the close friend and
- colleague of Bush Administration bio-counterterrorism expert Jerry Hauer,
- a signer of the pre-9/11 Project for New American Century (PNAC)
- manifesto noting the “opportunities” that would be created by “a new
- Pearl Harbor” attack.
- On September 11, 2001 this same Jerry Hauer reportedly personally
- delivered the anti-anthrax medication Cipro to Vice President Cheney’s staff
- at the White House. Why? The conservative legal watchdog group Judicial
- Watch has filed a suit against Vice President Cheney and other Bush Admin.
- officials demanding to know why Cipro was delivered to the executive
- mansion -- and only to the executive mansion -- on the day of the attacks.
- So far the response has been deafening silence. On September 10th, the day
- before 9/11, FEMA and other emergency response personnel arrived in
- New York City for a counter-bioterrorism exercise called “Tripod II”
- claimed by the Bush administration to have been scheduled to begin
- September 12. There is reason to believe that the bio-agent this drill was to
- practice defending against was anthrax, as Jerry Hauer was also a major
- planner of the New York City exercise. And there is also a strong possibility
- the true start date for the exercise was Sept. 11, not Sept. 12, as many
- “exercise” personnel were already in place in New York City on September
- 10. As NORAD’s (U.S. Air Force’s) hijack-scenario ‘counterterrorism’
- exercise had just “come to life” in real attacks on 9/11, were Hauer and
- Cheney worried that the same thing might be about to happen with the
- counter-bioterrorism “exercise” Tripod II? Is this why the anti-anthrax
- drug Cipro was distributed to the White House on 9/11 -- “just in case”?
- If so, it would be strong evidence that Tripod II was on the scenario of
- defending New York City -- and perhaps also the White House --
- against an anthrax attack. Was the “vector” -- the delivery vehicle --
- for that anthrax-attack-scenario emergency response exercise to have
- been via hijacked plane(s)?
- Notably, in their book on bio-terrorism, Germs, Judith Miller and
- William Broad claim, apparently from inside sources, that Ramzi Yousef’s
- plans for the first World Trade Center attack in 1993 included explosively
- pushing large quantities of cyanide out into New York City. Khalid Sheikh
- Mohammed, the official story “mastermind” of 9/11, is Yousef’s uncle.
- Finally, former New York City mayor Rudolf Giuliani testified to the
- 9/11 Commission that even before WTC7, the location of his emergency
- operations center, collapsed on 9/11, he moved those operations to the
- command and control center set up for the “Tripod II” bio-terrorism exercise
- on Pier 92 and that it worked even better than the original. Giuliani told the
- 9/11 Commission, “The reason Pier 92 was selected as a command
- center was because on the next day, on September 12, Pier 92 was going
- to have a drill. It had hundreds of people there -- from FEMA, from the
- Federal Government, from [the] State [Dept.], from the [ New York ]
- State Emergency Management Office – and they were getting ready for
- a drill for bio-chemical attack. So that was going be the place they were
- going to have the drill. The equipment was already there, so we were able
- to establish a command center there that was two and a half to three times
- bigger than the command center that we had lost at 7 World Trade Center.
- And it was from there that the rest of the [9/11 and subsequent] search and
- rescue effort was completed.”
- Conclusion
- A cabal of covert elements within the U.S. military and intelligence
- community, not al Qaeda, had the classification-controlled access to plant
- explosives inside its own most heavily defended world headquarters, the
- Pentagon. The U.S. military and intelligence community, not al Qaeda,
- had the access to plant the explosives Willy Rodriguez heard and felt go
- off deep in the sub-basement of the World Trade Center on 9/11. The
- U.S. military and intelligence community, not al Qaeda, had offices in
- WTC 7 and had the sustained access in the lead up to 9/11 to plant the
- controlled demolition charges throughout the superstructures of WTC 1,
- WTC2 and WTC7 in New York City which brought down all three buildings
- on 9/11. The U.S. military and intelligence community, not al Qaeda, had
- access to the sulfur-enhanced super-military-grade nano-thermite (thermate)
- detected in the WTC dust needed to melt the steel found molten deep in
- its basement levels as long as two months later, and to the super-militarygrade
- nano anthrax spores in the letters sent to just the Democratic
- leadership of the Congress -- no Republicans -- and to top media. Al Qaeda
- would never target only Democrats, especially as the U.S. leadership at the
- time of the 9/11 attacks was Republican. When he received the anthrax letter
- dated Sept.11, then Senate Democratic leader Thomas Daschle was calling
- for a Congressional investigation of 9/11 and had already been warned off
- from “looking too closely at” 9/11 by personal calls from both President
- Bush and Vice President Cheney. When he received his anthrax letter,
- another Democratic leader, Senator Patrick Leahy, was leading Congress’
- resistance to the Patriot Act, a premeditated assault on Americans’ privacy
- rights and civil liberties justified by “al Qaeda’s” alleged 9/11 attack
- clearly drafted by the Bush Administration well before 9/11 and “in the can”
- awaiting its desired “New Pearl Harbor” trigger event. The U.S. military
- and intelligence community, not al Qaeda, would have chosen the leastpopulated
- and most-reinforced section of the Pentagon––its newly upgraded
- west wedge—to strike in order to minimize casualties while being able to
- blame outside attackers, whereas real terrorists would have done everything
- they could to maximize them. Real terrorists, also, would have maximized
- casualties at the World Trade Center by placing explosives so as to allow
- the buildings to haphazardly fall on other buildings and the surrounding
- streets, not bring them neatly down by controlled demolition designed
- to minimize casualties and collateral damage. A U.S. military plane,
- not one piloted by al Qaeda, had to have performed the steep ‘Top Gun’
- high-speed 270- to 330-degree dive towards the Pentagon that Dulles
- Air Traffic Controllers thought was a military plane as they watched it
- on their screens that morning. Only a military aircraft, not a civilian airliner
- flown by al Qaeda, would have given off the “Friendly” signal needed not
- to trigger the Pentagon’s anti-aircraft missile batteries as it approached
- the building. Only the U.S. military, not al Qaeda, had the ability to break
- its own Standard Operating Procedures and paralyze its own emergency
- response system on 9/11.
- And who in the U.S. military, intelligence and military contractor
- chains of command and U.S. civilian leadership in the Bush-Cheney
- Administration are among the prime suspects for these Acts of High
- Treason?
- First and foremost are the signatories of the pre-9/11 Project for
- a New American Century (PNAC) manifesto calling for “a new Pearl
- Harbor” to catalyze its radical right-wing global domination and domestic
- surveillance-and-control agenda: 1) Vice President Dick Cheney;
- 2) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; 3) then Deputy Secretary of
- Defense Paul Wolfowitz; 4) Richard Perle, then head of Secretary
- Rumsfeld’s Defense Policy Board; 5) Jerry Hauer, one of the U.S.
- government’s top bio-terrorism experts who reportedly took anti-anthrax
- Cipro to the White House on 9/11.15A Hauer had been director of NYC
- Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM),
- whose personnel were moved to a New York pier on 9/11 just before its
- WTC7 offices were destroyed by pre-placed controlled demolition charges.
- A central player in scripting the bio-chem terrorism attack scenario for the
- Sept. 10/11/12 TRIPOD II exercise in NYC, Hauer is also an expert in
- the response to building collapses (New York Times, July 27, 1999).
- It was Hauer who insisted, despite the 1993 terrorist attack on WTC1,
- that Giuliani still locate his Office of Emergency Management, from which
- a response to another terrorist attack would be expected to be orchestrated,
- in WTC7 next door15B, and also Hauer who zealously pushed the ‘bin Laden
- did it and planes-and-fires brought down the Towers’ official story on CBS
- News on 9/11 in the immediate aftermath of the attacks before anyone
- without insider knowledge could have possibly determined the actual cause
- of the collapses, taking pains to state that explosives were not involved,
- when they were. The OEM opened on the 23rd floor of WTC7 in June 1999,
- where Hauer, its director, had his office. Hauer was also managing director
- of Kroll Associates before and on 9/11, the company that provided ‘security’
- for the World Trade Center, including all three buildings brought down by
- controlled demolition that morning, and thus had complete access to preplace
- the explosive charges he adamantly insisted on national TV on 9/11
- were not involved. Hauer became a National Security adviser to the
- National Institutes of Health on Sept. 10, the very day TRIPOD II personnel
- arrived in New York City , from which new NIH post he managed the Bush
- Administration’s ‘response’ to the imminent anthrax attacks and the
- initial cover up of the insider anthrax killers. 6) Gary Bauer, the rightwing
- ‘family values’ zealot who ‘happened’ to be one of the ‘witnesses’
- to immediately claim publicly to have seen ‘Flight 77 hit the Pentagon’,
- proven by the evidence to be a physical impossibility; and 7) then National
- Security Council Middle East adviser Zalmay Khalizad close to NSC
- Director Condolezza Rice, soon to be the first US Ambassador to
- Afghanistan after 9/11 and then U.S. Ambassador to Iraq – the very
- two countries whose invasions were rationalized as retaliation for the 9/11
- attacks. During the Cold War, Khalizad was reportedly a liaison to then
- CIA “bag man” Osama bin Laden in the CIA-Pakistani ISI-Saudi covert
- war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, the crucible from which al Qaeda
- later emerged. ‘Al Qaeda’, in fact, was originally the CIA’s and ISI’s
- list of anti-Soviet foreign fighters in Afghanistan.
- Other key suspects are New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani;
- Air Force General William Hayden, later Director of the CIA and then
- head of the National Security Agency (NSA), which tapped the calls of
- lead hijacker Mohamed Atta and 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh
- Mohammed the day before 9/11, and surely on many other occasions
- before 9/11 as well—all almost certainly without FISA warrants as
- required by law. These pre-9/11 warrant-less NSA taps put the lie to
- President Bush’s claim that he initiated the program of warrant-less
- NSA taps of al Qaeda suspects because of—and thus only after—9/11.
- Yet another key suspect is Army Lieutenant General William “Jerry”
- Boykin, the radical Christian fundamentalist Special Operations commando
- recently proposed to head the Army’s Special Operations Command.
- Another is the Pentagon’s POP2 office, which reportedly plans and
- scripts “false flag” operations—attacks planned and orchestrated by the
- U.S. military but made to appear perpetrated by an outside enemy to
- justify U.S. military “retaliation.” Two other key suspects are Defense
- Intelligence Agency (DIA) Iran expert Lawrence “Larry” Franklin,
- who was “loaned” to Perle and Wolfowitz’s neocon co-conspirator
- Douglas Feith and arrested for passing national security secrets to
- Israeli operatives at a meeting of top American-Israel Public Affairs
- Committee (AIPAC) personnel. Franklin also was and is an officer
- in the Air Force Reserves, which directed NORAD’s “Vigilant
- Guardian/Vigilant Warrior” hijack-scenario exercises on 9/11.
- Scrutiny should also be leveled at the scriptwriters for the
- NORAD hijack-scenario and NRO plane-into-tower emergency
- response exercises planned for and held on 9/11, especially members
- of their lead “White Teams,” which set the content and then oversee
- both “Red Team attackers” and “Blue Team defenders” on the actual
- day of an exercise, in this case on 9/11 itself. And every one of the
- as-yet-to-be-identified “top Pentagon officials” who on Sept. 10, 2001,
- the day before 9/11, according to Newsweek, suddenly cancelled their
- already-booked flights for September 11.19 Also National Military
- Command Center (NMCC) commander Brig. Gen. Montague Winfield,
- who on that same day, September 10, asked his deputy, Navy Capt.
- Charles Leidig to take over for him the next morning between 8:30
- and 10:30 -- precisely the time window of the “exercises” whose details
- and date had been given to Mohammed Atta. Further investigation should
- be directed at the (government) “agency”, variously reported as the sole
- client of Deutsche Bank, that the 9/11 Commission revealed, without
- identifying by name, took out the vast majority of the put options on
- American Airlines, United Airlines, Boeing and Morgan Stanley Dean
- Witter in the few days before 9/11. Also, Michael Chertoff, U.S. Attorney
- for the District of New Jersey during the first 1993 attack on the World
- Trade Center who, as a private attorney, represented Egyptian-born US
- resident Magdy Elamir, under investigation for illegally diverting millions
- of dollars and whose brother, Mohammed Elamir, funded arms smugglers
- linked to al Qaeda.20 Significantly, Mohamed Atta’s name in his country
- of birth, Egypt, was also Mohamed Elamir. In other words, the very man
- President Bush put in charge of the entire 9/11 “investigation” as then
- Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division soon to be appointed
- Director of the new Department of Homeland Security -- the top official
- charged with defending the U.S. mainland from an attack by al Qaeda --
- may have himself been directly involved with Al Qaeda and even with
- Mohamed Atta himself. In fact, Chertoff may well have been the top
- Bush-Cheney insider whom we know (see above) was the source for
- Atta’s finally being told the date of “his own” attack. Also, FBI
- headquarters supervisor on 9/11 David Frasca and his deputy Michael
- Maltbie, who ignored 70 pleas by Zacarias Moussaoui’s FBI interrogator
- to let him investigate the contents of Moussaoui’s computer before 9/11.
- Attention should especially be directed to Phillip Zelikow, a Bush-Cheney
- White House NSC staff member along with Zalmay Khalizad to then NSC
- Adviser Condoleezza Rice before and on 9/11. Zelikow both orchestrated
- the 9/11 Commission Report cover up of the administration’s inside job
- and, at Rice’s personal request, rewrote the Bush Administration’s official
- national strategic plan draft to better match the global domination agenda
- of the pre-9/11 PNAC manifesto brought to life by the Sept. 11 attacks.
- Zelikow specializes in political mythologies, clearly the most important
- qualification for being the orchestrator of the Official Myth of Sept. 11 --
- The 9/11 Commission Report. Only someone in the innermost circle of
- the real criminal conspirators would be trusted with this critical mission
- of covering up their mass crime.
- These are just some of the names knit into the Scroll of the
- September 11 Truth Revolution.
- Notes:
- 1A) The clock stopped at the moment the Great Earthquake hit San
- Francisco on April 18, 1906 is at http://sfgate.com/greatquake/.
- 1B) List of widely varying initial reports of alleged Flight 77 impact times:
- http://stevenwarran.blogspot.com/2007/02/when-did-pentagon-get-attackedexactly.
- html.
- 2) This photo of a Pentagon wall clock frozen at 9:31:40 am by the first
- violent event at the Pentagon was posted on an official Navy web site at:
- http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=2480Pentagonclock_BBC.
- Note that whoever took this official Navy photo placed the clock in front of
- a poster of the controversial Marine Corps part-helicopter/part-fixed-wing
- plane the Osprey, perhaps thereby suggesting what may have struck the
- building (after the inside explosions went off), if anything did. Though the
- Osprey officially existed only in prototype at the time, a prototype Osprey
- would be unique in that its military IFF transponder would have given off
- a ‘friendly’ signal and it could have approached the Pentagon helipad
- in its helicopter mode and changed over into fixed-wing plane mode at
- the last second, taking defenses off guard. The “official” Pentagon clock
- in the national 9/11 exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution, the electric
- Skillcraft wall clock that hung on the wall of the Pentagon Heliport fire
- station, is stopped at 9:31:30 -- only 10 seconds difference:
- http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/september11/collection/search.asp?searc
- h=1&keywords=Wall+clock&location= .
- 2A) Videotaped under-oath testimony of April Gallop to the author, Irvine,
- California, March 2007, approx. two hours. This testimony formed the basis
- for a lawsuit filed by Ms. Gallop.
- 2B) April Gallop’s watch, which was stopped just after 9:30 by the
- explosion that happened at the precise moment she hit the ‘power on’ button
- on her computer on the morning of 9/11, is evidence that the actual time of
- the initial explosive violent at the Pentagon was closer to 9:30 than 9:32.
- As the information about Gallop’s wrist watch was obtained after the first
- version of this white paper was published, the author has retained 9:32
- as a shorthand for the time window 9:30 to 9:32 within which, from the
- subsequent additional evidence, the initial explosion at the Pentagon
- occurred.
- 2C) Audio of Jane Graham interview, KPFA Radio, Berkeley, Calif.
- http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/62892
- 3) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) timeline document “Executive
- Summary Chronology of a Multiple Hijacking Crisis, September 11, 2001.”
- 4) Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller interview with Denmark Radio
- P3, September 12, 2001, 6:15 am Denmark time. “…I saw smoke and fire
- rising from the Pentagon at 9:32…My first impression was that a bomb had
- been detonated at the Pentagon.” The audio of this radio interview is in the
- 9/11 video documentary “Bomberne som Forsvandt” by Danish researcher
- Henrik Melvang, available at www.unmask.dk and at
- www.bombsinsidewtc.dk. See also the 9/11 timeline by European
- researcher Jose Garcia in Reality, Truth and Evil Facts, Questions and
- Perspectives on September 11, 2001, Temple Lodge Publications, 2005.
- 4A) Naudet Brothers video:
- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2457244225269763926&hl=en#
- at 42:27.
- 4B) Richard Clarke interview article at
- http://www.nps.edu/About/News/Counterterrorism-Czar-Richard-Clarke-
- Calls-for-New-National-Cyber-Defense-Policy-to-Prevent-a-Cyber-9/11-
- .html
- 4C) Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded
- in the Skies Over America on 9/11, pp. 24-27.
- 5) The 9/11 Conspiracy, Catfeet Press/Open Court , James Fetzer, editor,
- 2006, chapter by Prof. James Fetzer; and photos of a JT8D turbojet engine
- and the remnant found at the Pentagon at
- http://www.simmeringfrogs.com/articles/jt8d.html.
- 6) Report by two civilian defense contractor employees at
- “Secret Global Hawk Refit for Sky Warrior,”
- http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/05/318250.shtml.
- 6A) Rear Admiral Hathaway bio information
- (http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=complete_911_timeline_
- 3229#complete_911_timeline_3229).
- 7) 9/11 -- Coup Against America: The Pentagon Analysis, compilation
- of Pentagon eyewitness reports, photos and analyses with hundreds of
- references, by Peter Tiradera, Book Surge LLC, 2006, available from
- 8) Perkal and Goldsmith:
- http://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/witnesses/explosive.html.
- Danner: American Free Press, July 7, 2006, reporting based on audio
- report by Republic Broadcasting Network, summary at
- http://www.total911.info/2006/07/pentagon-eyewitness-ids-globalhawk.
- html.
- 9) Author interview with former Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense
- for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, Monterey, California;
- summary posted on Naval Postgraduate School web site www.nps.navy.mil,
- subsequently changed to www.nps.edu. Article no longer posted; hard copy
- available from the author.
- 9A) Personal communication to the author by Rhett Flater, Executive
- Director of the American Helicopter Society.
- 9B) “Chilling Aerial Photos of 9/11 Attack Released: Police Aerial Photos
- Show World Trade Center Collapse”
- http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9796098.
- 10) Videotaped testimony of William (“Willy”) Rodriguez, former World
- Trade Center janitor and the last person to leave the WTC alive on
- September 11, in the 9/11 documentary “Loose Change,” second edition,
- text in parentheses added: “All of a sudden we hear ‘Boom!’ in the
- basement. I thought it was a generator that blew up, and I said to myself,
- ‘Oh, my God, I think it was a generator. And I was going to verbalize it,
- and when I finished saying that in my mind I heard (another, second)
- ‘Boom!’ right on the top (above), pretty far away. And so it was a
- difference (in space and time) between coming from the basement and
- coming from the top…and a person comes running into the office (in
- the first basement level, from a deeper basement level) saying
- ‘Explosion!’…and he said ‘(it was from) The elevators!’ And there
- were many (deep basement WTC1) explosions.”
- 11) “Agency (NRO) Planned Exercise on September 11 Built Around a
- Plane Crashing into a Building,” Associated Press, August 22, 2002; by
- Jonathan Lumpkin; “They Scrambled Jets, but It was a Race They Couldn’t
- Win,” Syracuse Post-Standard, January 20, 2002, by Hart Seely; “Rome
- Staff’s Efforts on 9/11 Earn Praise, Commission Says Military Did
- the Best It Could with the Information It Had,” Syracuse Post-Standard,
- June 18, 2004, by Hart Seely; Complete 9/11 Military Exercises Timeline,
- Cooperative Research, at
- http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_ti
- meline&before-9/11=militaryExercises;
- Crossing the Rubicon, by Michael Ruppert, Chapter 19: “Wargames
- and High Tech: Paralyzing the System to Pull Off the Attacks” and
- Chapter 20: “Q&A: Many Asked, Some Answered––and a Golden
- Moment,” New Society Publishers, 2004. In the Acknowledgements
- to Rubicon, p. xi, Ruppert credits the author with what he refers to as
- “the Holy Grail of 9/11 research” (p. 336): Thanks to Barbara Honegger,
- who kept hammering on the wargames until we all paid notice…
- you showed me the most important lead I needed to put it all together.”
- 12) “Detainee’s Suit Gains Support from Jet’s Log,” New York Times,
- March 30, 2005, p. A1. Key excerpt, text in parentheses added: “Mr. Arar
- (a “rendered” detainee) says he followed the (Gulfstream jet) plane’s
- movements on a map displayed on a video screen (inside the plane),
- watching it as he traveled to Dulles Airport outside Washington, to a
- Maine Airport he believed was in Portland (Maine), to Rome, and finally
- to Amman, Jordan, where he was blindfolded and driven to Syria.”
- Though the FAA claims its records show a plane on that date making
- the other stops but landing in Bangor, not Portland , Maine, the detainee’s
- account may be accurate, as only Portland ’s airport is labeled an
- “International Jet Port ,” specializing in landings and takeoffs of just
- such private, corporate and government jets.
- 13) Ironically, at the final hearing of the Kean Commission, where its report
- was released to the press and public, commissioner John Lehman responded
- to the question, What if anything remained unknown, by noting that the
- Commission still wasn’t clear as to “how Atta chose the date for the attacks.”
- 14) Summary interrogation of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, claimed
- “mastermind” of the September 11 attack plot, read into the Zacarias
- Moussaoui sentencing trial record by the prosecution on March 27, 2006;
- the full text is part of the court proceedings transcript for that date available
- through Exemplaris.com.
- 15) The 9/11 Commission Report, note 116, p. 458, at http://www.9-
- 11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf. Key excerpt: “On 9/11,
- NORAD was scheduled to conduct a military exercise, Vigilant Guardian,
- which postulated a bomber attack from the former Soviet Union .”
- 15A) http://www.judicialwatch.org/1967.shtml
- 15B) http://truthmovecom.blogspot.com/2008/07/jerome-hauer-911-
- suspect-awaiting.html
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