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Complete 9/11 Timeline (formerly known as cooperativeresearch.org) and the NY Attorney General Spitzer petition and complaint (
Justicefor911.org).
THE DAY ITSELF – EVIDENCE OF COMPLICITY
1)
AWOL Chain of Command
a. It is well documented that the
officials topping the
chain of command for response to a domestic attack –
George W.
Bush,
Donald Rumsfeld,
Richard Myers,
Montague Winfield,
Ralph Eberhart – all found reason to
do something else during the actual attacks, other than assuming their duties as
decision-makers.
b. Who was actually
in charge?
Dick Cheney, Richard
Clarke,
Norman Mineta and the
9/11 Commission directly
conflict in their accounts of top-level response to the unfolding
events, such that several (or all) of them must be lying.
2)
Air Defense Failures
a. The US air
defense system failed to follow standard
procedures for responding to diverted
passenger flights.
b. Timelines: The various responsible agencies – NORAD,
FAA,
Pentagon, USAF, as well as the
9/11 Commission –
gave radically different explanations for the failure (in some cases
upheld for years), such that several officials must have
lied; but none were held accountable.
c. Was there an air defense
standdown?
3)
Pentagon Strike
How was it possible the
Pentagon was
hit 1 hour and 20 minutes after the attacks began? Why was there no
response from Andrews Air Force Base, just 10 miles away and home to Air
National Guard units charged with defending the skies above the
nation’s capital? How did Hani
Hanjour,
a man who failed as a Cessna pilot on his first flight in a Boeing,
execute a difficult aerobatic maneuver to strike the Pentagon? Why did
the attack strike the just-renovated side, which was largely empty and
opposite from the high command?
4)
Wargames
a.
US military and
other authorities planned or actually
rehearsed defensive response to all elements of the 9/11 scenario during the year prior to the attack – including
multiple hijackings, suicide crashbombings, and a strike on the
Pentagon.
b. The
multiple military wargames planned long in advance and held
on the morning ofSeptember 11th included scenarios of a
domestic air crisis, a plane
crashing into a government building, and
a large-scale bio-terrorism emergency in New York. If this was only an incredible series of
coincidences,
why did the official investigations avoid the issue? There is evidence
that the wargames created confusion as to whether the unfolding events
were “real world or exercise.” Did
wargames serve as the cover for air defense sabotage, and/or the execution of an “inside job”?
5)
Flight 93
Did the Shanksville crash occur at 10:06 (according to a
seismic report) or 10:03 (according to the 9/11 Commission)? Does the
Commission wish
to hide what happened in the last three minutes of the flight, and if so, why? Was
Flight 93 shot down, as indicated by the scattering of debris over a trail of several miles?
THE DAY – POSSIBLE SMOKING GUNS
6) Did
cell phones work at
30,000 feet in 2001? How many hijackings were attempted? How many flights were diverted?
7)
Demolition Hypothesis
What caused the collapse of a third skyscraper,
WTC 7, which was not hit by a plane? Were the Twin Towers and
WTC 7 brought down by explosives? (See “
The Case for Demolitions,” the websites
wtc7.net and
911research.wtc7.net, and the influential article by physicist
Steven Jones. See also items no. 16 and 24, below.)[See
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth]
FOREKNOWLEDGE & THE ALLEGED HIJACKERS
8)
What did officials know? How did they know it?
a. Multiple allied foreign agencies
informed the US government of a
coming attack in detail, including the manner and likely
targets of the attack, the name of the operation (the “Big Wedding”), and the names of
certain men later identified as being among
the perpetrators.
b. Various
individuals came into
possession of
specific advance
knowledge, and some of them
tried to warn the US
prior to September 11th.
c. Certain
prominent persons received
warnings not to fly on the week or on the day of September 11th.
9)
Able Danger, Plus – Surveillance of Alleged Hijackers
a. The men identified as the 9/11 ringleaders were under
surveillance for
years beforehand, on the suspicion they were terrorists, by a variety of
US and allied authorities – including the
CIA, the US military’s “
Able Danger” program, the German authorities, Israeli intelligence and others.
b.
Two of the alleged ringleaders who were known to be
under surveillance by the
CIA also lived with an FBI asset in
San Diego, but this is supposed to be yet another coincidence.
10)
Obstruction of FBI Investigations prior to 9/11
A group of FBI officials in New York systematically suppressed
field investigations of potential terrorists that might have uncovered
the alleged hijackers – as the
Moussaoui case once again showed. The stories of
Sibel Edmonds, Robert Wright,
Coleen Rowley and
Harry Samit, the “
Phoenix Memo,”
David Schippers, the 199i orders restricting investigations, the Bush
administration’s order to back off the Bin Ladin family, the reaction to
the “Bojinka” plot, and John O’Neil do not, when considered in sum,
indicate mere incompetence, but high-level corruption and protection of
criminal networks, including the network of the alleged 9/11
conspirators. (Nearly all of these examples were omitted from or
relegated to fleeting footnotes in /11 Commission Report.)
11)
Insider Trading
a.
Unknown speculators allegedly used foreknowledge of the Sept. 11th events to profiteer on many markets
internationally – including but not limited to “
put options” placed to short-sell the two airlines,
WTC tenants, and
WTC re-insurance companies in Chicago and London. See
Billions in Pre-911 Insider Trading Profits Leaves a Hot Trail and
Criminal Insider Trading leads directly to CIA.
b. Initial reports on these trades, such as
Profiting from Disaster and
Suspicious Trading,were
suppressed and forgotten, and only years later did the 9/11 Commission
and SEC provide a partial, but untenable explanation for only a small
number of transactions (covering only the airline put options through
the Chicago Board of Exchange).
c. In addition,
suspicious monetary transactions worth hundreds of millions were conducted through offices at the Twin Towers during the actual attacks. The German firm,
Convar, recovered financial data from hard drives recovered from Ground Zero although the Commission published this
FBI briefing on trading in
which agents expressed a lack of knowledge and doubt about the data
recovery long after the data was transmitted to the FBI. Here is an
update on
Oh the places you go (when you follow the money).
d. See this interview with
Bill Bergman who
worked at the Chicago Federal Reserve for over 13 years as an economist
and financial markets policy analyst. He was fired when he raised
concerns about unusual currency transactions pre- 9-11.
12)
Who were the perpetrators?
a. Much of the evidence establishing who did the crime is
dubious and miraculous: bags full of
incriminating material that happened to miss the flight or were left in a van; the “magic passport” of an alleged hijacker, found at
Ground Zero; documents found at motels where the alleged perpetrators had stayed days and weeks before 9/11.
b. The identities of the alleged hijackers remain unresolved, there are
contradictions in official accounts of their
actions and travels, and there is evidence several of them had “doubles,” all of which is omitted from official investigations.
c. What happened to initial claims by the government that 50 people
involved in the attacks had been identified, including the 19 alleged
hijackers, with 10 still at large (suggesting that 20 had been
apprehended)?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-worldtrade-50suspects,0,1825231.story
d. How did
they enter the US?
Where did they
get their VISAS?
THE 9/11 COVER-UP, 2001-2006
13)
Who Is Osama Bin Ladin?
a. Who judges which of the many
conflicting and
dubious statements and videos attributed to
Osama Bin Ladin are
genuine, and which are fake? The most important Osama Bin Ladin video
(Nov. 2001), in which he supposedly confesses to masterminding 9/11,
appears to be a fake. In any event, the
State Department‘s translation of it is fraudulent.
b. Did Osama Bin Ladin visit Dubai and meet a CIA agent in July 2001 (Le
Figaro)? Was he receiving dialysis in a Pakistani military hospital on
the night of September 10, 2001 (CBS)?
c. Whether by
Bush or Clinton:
Why is
Osama always
allowed to escape?
d.
The terror network associated with Osama, known as the “base”
(al-Qaeda), originated in the CIA-sponsored 1980s anti-Soviet jihad in
Afghanistan. When did this network stop serving as an asset to covert
operations by US intelligence and allied agencies? What were its
operatives doing in Kosovo, Bosnia and Chechnya in the years prior to
9/11?
14)
All the Signs of a Systematic 9/11 Cover-up
a. 911Truth.Org broke the story that
Airplane black boxes were found at Ground Zero, according to two first responders and an
unnamed NTSB official, but they were “disappeared” and their existence is denied in /11 Commission Report.
b. US officials consistently suppressed and
destroyed evidence (like the
tapes recorded by
air traffic controllers who handled the New York flights).
NEADS recordings damaged during transcription. Ground Zero
steel sold for scrap.
c. Whistleblowers (like
Sibel Edmonds and
Anthony Shaffer) were intimidated, gagged and sanctioned, sending a
clear signal to others who might be thinking about speaking out.
d. Officials who “failed” (like Myers and Eberhard, as well as
Frasca,
Maltbie and
Bowmanof the
FBI) were given promotions.
15)
Poisoning New York
The
White House deliberately pressured the
EPA into
giving false public assurances that the
toxic air at Ground Zero was safe to breathe. This knowingly contributed to an
as-yet unknown number
of health cases and fatalities, and demonstrates that the
administration does consider the lives of American citizens to be
expendable on
behalf of certain interests.
16)
Disposing of the Crime Scene
The rapid and illegal scrapping of the WTC ruins at Ground Zero
disposed of almost all of the structural steel indispensable to any
investigation of the collapse mechanics. (See also item no. 23, below.)
17)
Anthrax
Mailings of
weapons-grade anthrax – which caused a practical suspension of the 9/11 investigations – were traced back to
US military stock. Soon after the attacks began in October 2001, the
FBI approved the destruction of the original samples of the Ames strain, disposing of perhaps the most important
evidence in
identifying the source of the pathogens used in the mailings. Were the
anthrax attacks timed to coincide with the Afghanistan invasion? Why were the letters sent only to
media figures and to the
leaders of the opposition in the Senate (who had just raised objections to the USA PATRIOT Act)? Calls were issued to
investigate the investigators.
18)
The Stonewall
a. Colin Powell promised a “
white paper” from the
State Department to establish the authorship of the attacks by
al-Qaeda.
This was never forthcoming, and was instead replaced by a paper from
Tony Blair, which presented only circumstantial evidence, with very few
points actually relating to September 11th.
b. Bush and Cheney pressured the (freshly-anthraxed) leadership of the
Congressional opposition into delaying the 9/11 investigation for
months. The administration fought against the creation of an independent
investigation for more than a year.
c. The White House thereupon attempted to appoint Henry Kissinger as the
chief investigator, and acted to underfund and obstruct the 9/11
Commission.
d.
Failure to release the missing 28 pages from the Joint Inquiry.
19)
A Record of Official Lies
a. “No one could have imagined planes into buildings” – a transparent falsehood upheld repeatedly by Rice,
Rumsfeld and Bush.
b. “
Iraq was connected to 9/11″ – The most “outrageous conspiracy theory” of all, with the most disastrous impact.
c.
CIA misleads FBI about hijackers in US.
20)
Pakistani Connection – Congressional Connection
a. The Pakistani intelligence agency
ISI,
creator of the Taliban and close ally to both the CIA and “al-Qaeda,”
allegedly wired $100,000 to Mohamed Atta just prior to September 11th,
reportedly through the
ISI asset
Omar Saeed Sheikh (later arrested for the killing of Wall Street
Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was investigating ISI connections to
“al-Qaeda.”)
b. This was ignored by the congressional 9/11 investigation, although
the senator and congressman who ran the probe (Bob Graham and Porter
Goss)
were meeting with the ISI chief, Mahmud Ahmed,
on Capitol Hill on the morning of September 11th.
c. About 25 percent of the report of the Congressional Joint Inquiry was
redacted, including long passages regarding how the attack (or the
network allegedly behind it) was financed. Graham later said foreign
allies were involved in financing the alleged terror network, but that
this would only come out in 30 years.
21)
9/11 Commission:
a. The September 11th families who fought for and gained an independent investigation (the
9/11 Commission) posed 400-plus questions, which the 9/11 Commission adopted as its roadmap. The vast majority of
these questions were completely
ignored in the
Commission hearings and the
final report.
b. The membership and staff of the 9/11 Commission displayed awesome
conflicts of interest. The families called for the resignation of
Executive Director Philip Zelikow,
a Bush administration member and close associate of “star witness”
Condoleezza Rice, and were snubbed. Commission member Max Cleland
resigned, condemning the entire exercise as a “scam” and “whitewash.”
c./11 Commission Report is notable mainly for its
contradictions, obvious
omissions, distortions and
outright falsehoods –
ignoring anything incompatible with the official story, banishing the
issues to footnotes, and even dismissing the still-unresolved question
of who financed 9/11 as being “of little practical significance.”
22)
Crown Witnesses Held at Undisclosed Locations
The alleged masterminds of 9/11,
Khalid Sheikh Mohamed (
KSM) and Ramzi
Binalshibh,
are reported to have been captured in 2002 and 2003, although one
Pakistani newspaper said KSM was killed in an attempted capture. They
have been held at undisclosed locations and their supposed testimonies,
as provided in transcript form by the government, form much of the basis
for the 9/11 Commission Report (although the Commission’s request to
see them in person was denied). After holding them for years, why
doesn’t the government produce these men and put them to trial?
23)
Spitzer Redux
a. Eliot Spitzer, attorney general of New York State, snubbed pleas by New York citizens to open 9/11 as a criminal case (
Justicefor911.org).
b. Spitzer also refused to allow his employee, former 9/11 Commission
staff member Dietrich Snell, to testify to the Congress about his
(Snell’s) role in keeping “
Able Danger” entirely out of /11 Commission Report.
24)
NIST Omissions
After the destruction of the WTC structural steel, the official
Twin Towers collapse investigation was left with almost no forensic
evidence, and thus could only provide
dubious computer models of ultimately unprovable hypotheses. It failed to even test for the possibility of explosives. (Why not clear this up?)
25)
Radio Silence
The
9/11 Commission and NIST both allowed the continuing cover-up of how
Motorola’s faulty radios, purchased by the Giuliani administration, caused firefighter deaths at the
WTC – once again showing the expendability, even of the
first responders.
26)
The Legal Catch-22
a. Hush Money – Accepting victims’
compensation barred September 11th families from pursuing discovery through litigation.
b. Judge Hellerstein – Those who refused compensation to pursue
litigation and discovery had their cases consolidated under the same
judge (and as a rule dismissed).
c. Foreign states have
sovereign immunity. [See Saudi Connections below]
27)
Saudi Connections
a. The 9/11 investigations made light of the “Bin Ladin Airlift” during the no-fly period, and ignored the long-standing
Bush family business ties to
the Bin Ladin family fortune. (A company in which both families held
interests, the Carlyle Group, was holding its annual meeting on
September 11th, with George Bush Sr., James Baker, and two brothers of
Osama Bin Ladin in attendance.)
b. The issue of
Ptech.
c.
Saudi connections to
terrorism financing and
9/11 hijackers.
28)
Media Blackout of Prominent Doubters
The official story has been questioned and many of the above points were
raised bymembers
of the US Congress, retired high-ranking officers of the US military,
the three leading third-party candidates for President in the 2004
election, a member of the 9/11 Commission who resigned in protest, a
former high-ranking adviser to the George W. Bush administration, former
ministers to the German, British and Canadian governments, the
commander-in-chief of the Russian air force, 100 luminaries who signed
the “
9/11 Truth Statement,”
and the presidents of Iran and Venezuela. Not all of these people agree
fully with each other, but all would normally be considered newsworthy.
Why has the corporate-owned US mass media remained silent about these
statements, granting due coverage only to the comments of actor Charlie
Sheen?
GEOPOLITICS, TIMING AND POSSIBLE MOTIVES
29)
“The Great Game”
The
Afghanistan invasion was
ready for Bush’s go-ahead on September 9, 2001, with US and UK force
deployments to the region already in place or underway. This followed
the failure earlier that year of
backdoor diplomacy with
the Taliban (including payments of $125 million in US government aid to
Afghanistan), in an attempt to secure a unity government for that
country as a prerequisite to a Central Asian pipeline deal.
30)
The Need for a “New Pearl Harbor”
Principals in US foreign policy under the current Bush
administration (including Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle and others)
have been instrumental in developing long-running plans for
worldwide military hegemony,
including an invasion of the Middle East, dating back to the Ford,
Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations. They reiterated these plans in the
late 1990s as members of the “Project for a New American Century,” and
stated a clear intent to invade
Iraq for the purpose of “regime change.” After 9/11, they lost no time in their attempt to tie
Iraq to the attacks.
31)
Perpetual “War on Terror”
9/11 is supposed to provide carte-blanche for an
open-ended, global and perpetual “
War on Terror,” against any enemy,
foreign or domestic, that the executive branch chooses to designate, and regardless of whether
evidence exists to actually connect these
enemies to 9/11.
32)
Attacking the Constitution
a. The USA PATRIOT Act was written before 9/11,
Homeland Security and
the “Shadow Government” were developed long before 9/11, and plans for
rounding up dissidents as a means for suppressing civil disturbance have
been in the works for decades.
b. 9/11 was used as the pretext to create a new, extra-constitutional
executive authority to declare anyone an “enemy combatant” (including
American citizens),
to detain persons indefinitely without habeas corpus, and to “render”
such persons to secret prisons where torture is practiced.
33)
Legal Trillions
9/11 triggers a predictable shift of public spending to war,
and boosts public and private spending in the “new” New Economy of “
Homeland Security,” biometrics,
universalsurveillance, prisons, civil defense, secured enclaves, security,
etc.
34)
Plundered Trillions?
On September 10, 2001,
Donald Rumsfeld announced a “war on waste” after an internal audit found that the
Pentagon was “
missing” 2.3 trillion dollars in unaccounted assets. On September 11th, this was as good as forgotten.
35)
Did 9/11 prevent a stock market crash?
Did anyone benefit from the destruction of the
Securities and Exchange Commission offices at
WTC 7, and the resultant crippling of hundreds of fraud investigations?
36)
Resource Wars
a. What was discussed in the
Energy Task Force meetings under
Dick Cheney in 2001? Why is the documentation of these meetings still being suppressed?
b. Is Peak Oil a motive for 9/11 as inside job?
37)
The “Little Game”
Why was the
WTC privatized just before its destruction?
HISTORY
38)
“Al-CIA-da?”
The longstanding relationship between US intelligence networks and radical Islamists, including the
network surrounding Osama Bin Ladin. (See also point 13d.)
39)
Historical Precedents for “Synthetic Terror”
a. In the past many states, including the US government, have sponsored
attacks on their own people, fabricated the “cause for war,” created
(and armed) their own enemies of convenience, and sacrificed their own
citizens for “reasons of state.”
b.Was 9/11 an update of the
Pentagon-approved
“Project Northwoods” plan for conducting self-inflicted, false-flag
terror attacks in the United States, and blaming them on a foreign
enemy?
40)
Secret Government
a. The record of criminality and sponsorship of coups around the world
by the covert networks based within the US intelligence complex.
b. Specifically also: The evidence of crime by Bush administration principals and their associates, from October Surprise to
Iran-Contra and the S&L plunder to PNAC, Enron/Halliburton and beyond.
REASON NUMBER 41:
RELATED MOVEMENTS AND PARALLEL ISSUES
Ground Zero aftermath movements:
– Justice for the air-poisoning cover-up (
wtceo.org)
– “Radio Silence” (
radiosilencefdny.com)
– Skyscraper Safety (
www.skyscrapersafety.org).
Election fraud and black box voting, 2000 to 2004. (
BlackBoxVoting.org)
Lies to
justify the invasion of
Iraq. (
afterdowningstreet.org)
Use of depleted uranium and its multi-generational consequences on human health and the environment.
Longstanding development of contingency plans for civil disturbance and military rule in the USA (See,
“The War at Home”)
Oklahoma City Truth movement. (Offline, but not forgotten – May 9, 2008!)
Whether
you call it “Globalization” or “The New World Order” – An unsustainable
system of permanent growth ultimately requires warfare, fraud, and mass
manipulation.
GOING FORWARD …
“But an
inside job would involve thousands of people! How could they keep a
secret?” Counter-arguments, red herrings, speculations and false
information.
Selected essays,
books and websites that
make the case for 9/11 as inside job. (See
Resources)
Demanding a real investigation of the September crimes – Not just a patriotic duty, but a matter of survival.
Source:
http://911truth.org
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