40 REASONS TO DOUBT THE OFFICIAL STORY OF SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001
.... An outline in simple talking points ...
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Version of May 22, 2006: This overview is in development. If you use
the search function with key words, you will discover that
911Truth.org is home to articles backing virtually every point made
below. Much of the basic research is available at the Complete 9/11
Timeline (hosted by cooperativeresearch.org), the 9/11 Reading Room
(911readingroom.org), and the Spitzer petition and complaint
(Justicefor911.org). For physical evidence discussion, see Point 7.
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 - 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? ***** 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 of September 11th included scenarios of a domestic air
crisis, a plane crashing into a government building, and a large-scale
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.)
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 a 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
The 9/11 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.
b. In addition, suspicious monetary transactions worth hundreds of
millions were conducted through offices at the Twin Towers during the
actual attacks.
c. Initial reports on these trades 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).
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
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 dyalisis 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 "data
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. 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 The 9/11 Commission
Report.
b. US officials consistently suppressed and destroyed evidence (like
the tapes recorded by air traffic controllers who handled the New York
flights).
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 Bowman of 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)?
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.
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.
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) Unanswered Questions and the "Final Fraud" of the 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.The 9/11 Commission Report is notable mainly for its 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 The 9/11
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 Hallerstein - Those who refused compensation to pursue
litigation and discovery had their cases consolidated under the same
judge (and as a rule dismissed).
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.
28) Media Blackout of Prominent Doubters
The official story has been questioned and many of the above points
were raised by members 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, universal surveillance, 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 *****
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. (nov9truth.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. (okctruth.org)
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.
Please take the time to view the following important video which
examines the scientific evidence for
controlled demolitions of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11.
To view click the following link:
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=4026073566596731782
Improbable Collapse -Demolition of our Republic
A look at the collapse of the WTC Towers and WTC 7 by scholars for
9/11 truth. To learn more about the 9/11 attacks, visit
www.truth911.net
www.improbablecollapse.com
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