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Was September 11th an inside job?

9/11TRUTH: More and more people in the USA are convinced that the
American authorities are concealing their involvement in the September
11th tragedy. Statements from witnesses, marked confidential for
several years, now show that controlled demolition may have taken
place. The US government had long anticipated such an incident – as
the Republican document from 2000 Rebuilding America's defenses
indicates. The 9/11Truth organisation believes that the USA probably
orchestrated an incident of this type in order to justify the invasion
of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the curtailing of civil liberties
within the US through the introduction of The Patriot Act. It has now
emerged that the America's most senior military leader in 1962 devised
a plan for a premeditated attack on Americans, which would have
involved shooting down a passenger plane, so that the blame could be
cast on Cuba. So why should this be excluded today? Many also believe
that Pakistani intelligence cooperated with the CIA and Al-Qaida
because the former transferred significant sums of money to the
hijacker Mohammed Atta in the days leading up to the 11th of
September. They even had Bin Laden under surveillance during the time
of his treatment in a military hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan in
September 2001.

Kim Bredesen


Journalist for Le Monde diplomatique.
Most of us would think it strange if the impact of a passenger plane
wasn't sufficient to cause a skyscraper to collapse. So there were few
who doubted what it was that hit the Twin Towers on the 11th of
September 2001 or the identities of the perpetrators. However, in the
intervening years, several individuals and groups, both in North
America and in Europe, began to doubt whether this necessarily
constitutes accuracy. For them, a set of contradictory circumstances
surrounding the attacks do not correspond with the explanations of the
American authorities and the Congress-appointed 9/11 Commission.
A key reason for this doubt could be that there are witnesses and
participants in September 11th who describe events that do not tally
with events in the official story. An example is provided by
onlookers who heard and saw what they believed to be explosions around
the Twin Towers before they were struck by the planes. Policemen
thought it looked like "planned implosion". Fireman Richard Banaciski
reported that: "It seemed like on television when they blow up these
buildings. It seemed like it was going all the way around like a belt,
all these explosions." Assistant Fire Commissioner Stephen Gregory
claimed:

"I saw a flash flash flash [at] the lower level of the building. You
know like when they demolish a building?"
Assistant Fire Commissioner Stephen Gregory

Another controversial witness statement came from maintenance worker,
William Rodriguez who was working in the North Tower on the 11th of
September. In an interview with New York Magazine he claimed that he
first heard a huge explosion when he was in one of the sub-basements
of the skyscraper and witnessed the appearance of victims, the skin
burnt off their arms by fires in the lift shaft. After the explosion
in the sub-basement he heard another one from above. It was a Boeing
767. Williams was the last survivor to be rescued from the World Trade
Center's Ground Zero. He was hailed as a hero and invited to visit
George Bush and the White House. Later, when he attempted to publicise
his story about the sub-basement explosion, it was rejected by the
American authorities. He has now filed a lawsuit against these same
authorities under the RICO Statute, a legal ruling originally designed
to prosecute Mafia families.

Besides witness statements describing a controlled demolition of the
Twin Towers with explosives, critics of the Bush administration
believe there are several sets of circumstances around September 11th
that give good reason to suspect the official story is incorrect. It
is a fact that none of the four hijacked planes were intercepted by
fighter planes. That this did not happen, combined with the fact that
the majority of the air force was engaged in military exercises, has
given weight to suspicion that the American air defense force gave the
order to "stand down" so that the terrorist attacks could proceed
unhindered. Another suspicious circumstance is that WTC 7- also known
as Building 7 - a 47-storey skyscraper, collapsed without having been
hit by any of the planes. Conversely, the buildings that stood
adjacent are still intact.

When it comes to any forewarning of the attacks, claims that the NSA
monitored fully translated conversations in the summer of 2001 - in
real-time - between Mohammed Atta and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed have
raised concern. In one of the conversations, Atta purportedly gave
Mohammed the green light for the attacks; NSA therefore should have
been forewarned.

FBI-agent Colleen Rowley claims that the FBI's directors intentionally
obstructed her investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui
In relation to investigation that could have led to the apprehension
of the hijackers, FBI agent Colleen Rowley claims that the FBI's
directors intentionally obstructed her investigation of Zacarias
Moussaoui – at the time he was attending flight school in Minneapolis.
They did this despite having received warnings from French
intelligence. Rowley believes that, had the FBI approved the
investigation, they could have uncovered Moussaoui's plans as well as
those of several other hijackers enrolled in flight schools. That
Pakistani intelligence (ISI) transferred significant sums of money to
Mohammed Atta in the days leading up to the 11th of September, some
believe, is evidence of cooperation between the ISI, CIA and Al-Qaida.

It may also seem suspicious that George Bush has maintained that
American authorities have stepped down the hunt for Osama bin Laden,
the main suspect behind September 11th. General Richard Myers also
stated that the war in Afghanistan was not about finding bin Laden. A
former CIA agent, Gary Berntsen, has furthermore claimed that the Bush
administration let bin Laden escape when he was cornered in a pocket
of the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan in 2001. It is also known
that American intelligence were fully aware of bin Laden's whereabouts
as early as July 2001 when he was treated for a kidney condition at an
American hospital in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates. A few months
later in September, he also received treatment in a military hospital
in Peshawar, Pakistan under the surveillance of Pakistani
intelligence.

THE EXISTENCE OF CIRCUMSTANCES and witness accounts that contradict
aspects of the official story has led some individuals and groups to
search for alternative explanations for what happened on the 11th of
September 2001. Consequently, a veritable jungle of theories about
what really happened in the US five years ago has sprung up. The
theories unfurl in a several, interconnected directions. A comparison
of different opinions is presented in the book The New Pearl Harbor –
Disturbing Questions about the Bush-Administration and 9/11 (2004), by
David Ray Griffin, Professor of Theology and the Claremont School of
Theology in Claremont, California. A key premise he presents in the
book is that the responsibility for the attacks of September 11th can,
to a large extent, be attributed to former members of the
Neo-Conservative think tank Project for a New American Century (PNAC),
who are now key players in the Bush administration. In the document
Rebuilding Amercia's defenses: strategies, forces and resources for a
New American Century (2000), written by PNACs members, it is claimed
that:

"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings
revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some
catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor".
The title of Griffin's book refers to PNAC's statement the
transformation of the American military necessitated "a new Pearl
Harbor". Griffin looks at this quotation in the light of the legal
principle of the profit motive, or qui bono and concludes that
September 11th was precisely the catalyst the Bush administration
needed. For Griffin, it is therefore probable that the US orchestrated
an incident of this type in order to justify the invasion of Iraq and
Afghanistan, as well as the curtailment of civil liberties in the US
through the introduction of The Patriot Act. That they have chosen to
invade countries in the Middle East he regards as simply an extension
of the cooperation the US already had with the power elite in Saudi
Arabia, the Pakistani intelligence (ISI), the Taliban regime and
regimes in Central Asia. And for Griffen, the agenda in the Middle
East and Central Asia is quite clear: it is about controlling both the
production and transportation of oil via pipes and tankers. Griffin
does not point to any specific figures responsible for arranging the
September 11th attacks. He states only that there are different
opinions about this issue. For some, speculation about the identity of
those responsible surrounds intelligence agencies like the NSA, FBI
and CIA. Others believe it was the White House. A third group believe
that is was individual figures like Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Jed
Bush, George Tenet and Donald Rumsfeld who were the real architects of
the attacks. Alternatively, other possible combinations of
perpetrators and organisations may have worked together. In his paper,
"What is your 'HOP'level?" Nicholas Levis categorises opinions on the
attacks under four main headings:

a) The Official Story: That Osama bin Laden was responsible, that the
planes were hijacked by 19 Muslim fundamentalists and that the White
House did not receive any warning.

Incompetence Theory: Accepts the official history but blames the
White House, FBI, CIA, NSA and others for not following up the many
warnings. This was the line taken, with a great deal of cover-up and
spin, in the 9/11 Commission's report.

c) LIHOP ("Letting It Happen on Purpose"): There are a number of
variations on this one. Is mainly about how factions within the
American authorities and the private sector were aware of the
hijackers' plans but did nothing to stop them, since September 11th
was in line with political objectives.

d) MIHOP ("Making It Happen on Purpose"): US authorities or private
forces planned and carried out the attacks.

For the sceptics, the common denominator is their belief that at least
one of the elements of the official presentation of September 11th is
inaccurate. For those who subscribe to the radical MIHOP hypothesis, a
key premise is that the Twin Towers – including Building 7 – collapsed
as a result of controlled demolition with explosives; that it was an
inside job. The technical/construction part of this claim has however
been directly refuted in a report of approximately 10,000 pages
written by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
who claim that it was fuel from the passenger planes that disturbed
the structure of the towers and that it was this that eventually
caused them to collapse. NIST is unable to offer a satisfactory
explanation as to why the third building collapsed, WTC 7, did so
without having been struck by a plane. Professor of physics at
Brigham Young University in Utah, Steven E. Jones, rejects NIST's
claims about the Twin Towers (see also Greig's article). He relates,
for example, how eyewitnesses had observed that steel from all three
skyscrapers had melted, (in some cases, the steel was found glowing
three weeks after the attack) and was twisted in a way that can only
have been caused by what he describes as pre-positioned "cutter
charges". According to Jones, these charges consisted of thermate, HMX
or RDX, and these are only used in explosives that are used in
controlled demolitions. Another important point for Jones is that the
fires in the buildings and the fuel from the passenger planes, (the
maximum temperature for airplane fuel is 1000 degrees Celsius) did not
produce sufficient heat to melt the steel - which would require
temperatures of between 1550-1990 grader Celsius - within the 1-1½
hours it took the Twin Towers to collapse.. Jones' claims are
supported by the data engineer Jim Hoffman. After video and photo
analysis of the events, Hoffman concludes that all three buildings
fell almost symmetrically, at close to freefall speed and directly
downwards onto their own foundations. According to Hoffman therefore,
the speed of the collapse, the pulverisation of the concrete to a
"milky" powder and the presence of horizontal dust clouds observed
alongside WTC 7 are associates with the use of pre-positioned
explosives in buildings.

MANY NO LONGER BELIEVE the official explanation, but are convinced
that the Towers' collapse was an inside job – either that the
authorities "let it happen" or "made it happen".
Many who put their trust in other hypotheses, have joined forces with
the umbrella organisation 9/11Truth. – an ad hoc organisation, formed
to exist until the last unanswered question about September 11th has
been answered. 9/11Truth has brought together a cross-section of
society; members with different political allegiances manage the same
organisations and lobby groups. This cooperation is mainly
concentrated on meetings, demonstrations, the production of
documentary films, Internet fora, online publications and conferences.
In the UK, a local branch of 9/11Truth has been set up called
JulySeventhTruth, so called as it seeks to piece together what
happened during the terrorist attacks in London on the 7th of July
2005.

9/11Truth poses questions about why no fighter planes managed to
intercept the four hijacked planes. 9/11Truth searches for the answer
to whether or not the Bush administration is lying when it says they
had no foreknowledge of the terrorist attacks. And as to whether
intelligence agencies like the FBI, CIA and NSA deliberately failed to
investigate leads and dismissed evidence that could have identified
the hijackers before September 11th. 9/11Truth organised a major
conference entitled "9/11 Revealing The Truth/ Reclaiming our Future"
in Chicago between the 2nd and 4th of June. Every day, the media
spokesman for NY9/11Truth, Les Jamieson is in southern Manhattan,
where each Sunday he helps to arrange demonstrations at Ground Zero or
seminars in St. Mark's Church, made available by priest, Frank
Morales. Jamieson made the following responses to questions from Le
Monde Diplomatique:

– Does September 11th represent further justification to declare war?

– No. It happened before in Germany when the Reichstag was set on
fire. Those responsible dressed Germans up to look like Communists and
made it look as though Russians were setting fire to the German
parliamentary building. The Germans did the same with Poland. They
dressed prisoners to look like German soldiers and shot them. In this
way, they made it look like Polish soldiers were shooting Germans –
and used this as an excuse to invade Poland. And it has recently
emerged that, here in the USA, the authorities planned a similarly
staged operation, Operation Northwoods: A plan was devised in 1962 by
the most senior-ranking military leader in the US. The plan was to
arrange a terrorist attack inland, on the coast of Florida where
Americans would be killed, a passenger plane shot down, a ship sunk –
and all the blame would be laid on the Cubans. So this is nothing new,
it's been done before.

– How cynical can a government become?

– A lie precipitated the Vietnam War too – the events in the Tonkin
Gulf. It was reported that Vietnamese torpedo boats had shot at
American ships in the Tonkin Gulf. But these reports were fictitious.
President Lyndon B. Johnson and foreign minister Robert McNamara
exploited these reports to pass the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in Congress
– which was really a declaration of war. 50,000 Americans ended up
dead, hundreds of thousands tragically affected. The herbicide Agent
Orange was used to poison farms and land use. This is what happens
when governments and the power elite orchestrate wars. There really is
a level of evil, a loathing of humanity. That's why Henry Kissinger
said once about the war between Iraq and Iran: "I hope they kill each
other," or: "Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the
hands of the Arabs."
– Is it similarly possible to suggest that there could have been a
secret group connected to the government, a "state within a state,"
that planned and brought about September 11th?
– Yes. One has to remember that there are private groups of agents,
private armies that exist outside Congress' field of vision. They
carry out covert operations deep inside the CIA, and have severed all
contact with the American government, who for their part, have no
knowledge about what is going on. This has been happening since the
50's. When Dwight Eisenhower left his presidency he said that one
should be vigilant over the overarching control of the
Military-Industrial Complex. To this day, we still have a shadow
government, an invisible government and we believe this one works
together with elements within the intelligence agencies MI5, MI6 and
perhaps Mossad. MI5 and the CIA definitely work together in
translating the agenda for the international power elite.

– Are you not afraid of being labelled a conspiracy theorist?

– The term "Conspiracy Theory" must also be understood as a strategy
of the mass media and individuals within the power elite to sew seeds
of doubt about this kind of information. The fact is that, on the
contrary, there are a range of examples of real conspiracies by the
authorities. For example, the Iran-Contras affair was a result of a
huge conspiracy that enabled the sale of narcotics to buy weapons for
the Contras. And we have the BCCI scandal in 1991 – a massive banking
scandal. There's also the vote in Florida in 2000 and in Ohio in 2004.
If one studies these things, mammoth conspiracies can be uncovered.
What about all the lies that led to the invasion of Iraq? We were told
that weapons of mass destruction definitely existed and that Saddam
tried to buy "yellow cake" from Nigeria. It was all lies and
deception. These kinds of events need a conspiracy! The American
government's official version of what happened on September 11th is a
scandalous conspiracy theory; it's not to be believed! In our
organisation we are detectives and investigators. We put together a
theory and are actually extremely stringent in finding the best
possible analysis.

The American government's official version of what happened on
September 11th is a scandalous conspiracy theory; it's not to be
believed!

Les Jamieson

JAMIESON IS NOT THE ONLY ONE subscribing to such theories. The
participation of many community groups and service personnel connected
to 9/11Truth has generated a trail of research and articles. A group
called Scholars for 911Truth describes itself as "..a non-partisan
association of faculty, students, and scholars, in fields as diverse
as history, science, military affairs, psychology, and philosophy,
dedicated to exposing falsehoods and to revealing truths behind 9/11.
It was established by philosophy professor James H. Fetzer and
professor of physics Steven E. Jones – the movement's foremost expert
on the collapse of the Twin Towers. The latter's work will be
published in September, a contribution to the anthology 9/11 &
American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out (2006). In the book, edited
by David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott, there is input also from
Ola Tunander, professor at the PRIO – the International Peace Research
Institute Oslo with the article "The War on Terror and Pax Americana"
(see under).

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed wrote one of the first books published to
question the official version of September 11th – The War on Freedom:
How and Why America was Attacked, September 11th, 2001 (2002). It
expresses profound criticism of American foreign policy, both leading
up to and subsequent to 9/11.

Paul Thompson, from Scholars for 9/11Truth, is the author of The
Terror Timeline, A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Road to 9/11 and
America's Response. This is a comprehensive collection of news
articles about the terrorist attacks on the 11th of September 2001.
Thompson works at the Center for Cooperative Research. Another
much-talked about member of Scholars for 9/11Truth is David Ray
Griffin. In addition to books on theology, religion and philosophy, he
wrote The New Pearl Harbour (2004) and 9/11 Commission Omissions and
Distortions (2005). In the latter, Griffin highlights 115 areas where
the 9/11 Commission's report failed to evaluate important evidence or
deduced fundamentally flawed conclusions from existing evidence.
Griffin is also a dynamic force behind the organisation MUJCA-net – a
discussion forum for Christians, Jews, Muslims and other believers who
are sceptical of the official explanation for September 11th. The
head of the organisation is the intellectual, doctor and imam Faiz
Khan, who works at a Jewish hospital in New York. In the essay The
Paralysis of Discourse; The Incompetence of Academia, and The Need for
an Accurate Diagnosis, he argues that September 11th precipitated a
simplification of language and ideas about what it means to be Muslim
and Arab – especially when Muslims the world over are to be held
responsible for actions a small minority of terrorists have carried
out. Khan believes the hijackers were most probably "fake" Muslims,
i.e. that they were not Muslim in their beliefs in the way that
American foreign policy is American. That the blame for the terrorist
attacks is attributed to something as diffuse as a "military Islamic
network," he believes, is tantamount to an abdication of
responsibility by the US, since the latter worked in tandem with the
ISI (Pakistani intelligence) and Saudi-Arabia to build those networks
up.

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