Excerpt From 9/11 Synthetic Terror by Webster Tarpley

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According to Bob Woodward's canonical mainstream account: "At about 10:30am Cheney reached Bush again on Air Force One, which was still on its way toward Washington. The White House had received a threat saying: 'Angel is next'. Since Angel was the codeword for Air Force One, it could mean that terrorists had inside information. Allegedly because of this report, Cheney argued that Bush should not return to Washington, "There's still a threat", said Cheney. (Woodward 18). Within minutes, the plane changed course and flew to Louisiana instead. Washington Post, January 27, 2002) Was this now a third threat, after the post-Booker threat and the "Air Force One is next threat"? Did the terrorist controllers now add the code word "Angel" to further document their insider status, and their possible access to nuclear codes? Or are we dealing with two versions of the same threat?
We will return to "Angel is next". This represents the single most important clue as to the sponsorship of 9/11, since it was at this point that the sponsors showed their hand. They were not located in a cave in Afghanistan, but were rather a network located high within the US government and military. It was a moment of capital importance, the thread which, if properly pulled, will unravel the entire fabric of 9/11 deceit.

Around 10:55am, there was another threat to Air Force One. The pilot, Colonel Mark Tillman, said he was warned that a suspect airliner was approaching from dead ahead. "Coming out of Sarasota there was one call that said there was an airliner off our nose that they did not have contact with", Tillman related. Tillman took evasive action, pulling his plane even higher above normal traffic. (CBS, September 11, 2002). Reporters on board noticed the increased elevation (Dallas Morning News, August 28, 2002). It has not been possible to establish exactly what the basis of this threat report was. Was the rogue network blackmailing Bush? Was this suspect airliner a military aircraft using participation in Vigilant Guardian/Vigilant Warrior as a cover story for assisting the plot?
Air Force One had some protection against heat-seeking missiles in the form of an infrared jammer code-named "Have Charcoal". There were also other electronic missile countermeasures. The plane is shielded against the electro-magnetic pulse effect (EMP) which can be generated by nuclear explosions, and which causes damage even at a considerable distance. (Bamford 2004 84).

At this time of this incident, it is apparent that Air Force One still had no fighter escort. Why were the fighters being withheld, and by whom? It was later reported that, in Cheney's 10:32 phone call, he told Bush that another 40 to 90 minutes would be required to get protective fighters up to escort Air Force One (Washington Post, 1/27/02). This would have left Bush without fighter cover until noon. What was the tone of this remark by Cheney? Was it a threat? Was it blackmail? Our only certainty is that at the time of the 10:55am evasive action, there was still no fighter escort. By 1:30 there were reportedly six fighters protecting Air Force One (Sarasota Magazine, September 19, 2001). According to another version, when the Air Force sent an AWACS early warning radar aircraft plus two F-16s to escort Air Force One, the presdential party treated them on a need-to-know basis. "We were not told where Air Force One was going. We were just told to follow the President", said Major-General Larry Arnold of NORAD (Bamford 2004 87) Was the Bush party suspicious of certain military elements?

Aboard Air Force One on the way to Barksdale, passengers, including the numerous press corps, were told to turn off their cell phones. the Secret Service then came around and removed the batteries from each phone to prevent the emission of any kind of signal that might reveal the plane's location. These measures turned out to be of dubious value, since the Shreveport television stations had placed at least one camera crew near the main runway. "The strange part about it was, here we are turning off cell phones and taking precautions, and we could see ourselves landing at Barkdale Air Force Base in Louisiana on the TV", recalled Eric Draper, Bush's personal photographer (Bamford 2004 86).

Air Force One landed at Barksdale Air Force Base near Shreveport, Louisiana at about 11:45am. (CBS, September 11, 2002 Daily Telegraph, December 16, 2001) "According to intelligence sources, a key reason for deciding to land there was that Barksdale was home to the US Strategic (Air) Command's alternate underground command post, a bunker from which Bush could run a war if necessary. It was also a place where the President could rendezvous with the 'Night Watch', the 'Doomsday Plane'. Once a specially outfitted Boeing 707 known as the National Emergency Airborne Command Post, by 2001, it had become a heavily modified military version of the Boeing 747-200, similar to Air Force One.

It was at Barksdale that Bush made a second statement for television broadcast. It was taped and put on air only after he had left the base. While Bush was reading the statement "he looked nervous", said The New York Times reporters David E Sanger and Don Van Natta Jr. Washington Post reporters Dan Balz and Bob Woodward agreed. When Bush appeared on television "it was not a reassuring picture. He spoke haltingly, misprouncing several words as he looked down at his notes".
The crucial point here is all reference to terrorism or terrorists had disappeared. Bush was now speaking under the impact of "Angel is next" which had given him the idea that his adversaries were not what the term "terrorists" would normally suggest.

While at Barksdale, Bush "spent the next hour and a half talking on the phone". Were Bush and Cheney haggling about whether or how to accept the rogue group's demands, such as the war of civilisations?

Later, Bush received word of yet another threat, a high-speed object was headed for his ranch in Crawford, TX, but yet again, it turned out to be a false alarm.

Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Nebraska was the principal headquarters of the US Strategic Command (STRATCOM). Bush arrived here on Air Force One at 2:50 Eastern Daylight Time. He went at once to the bunker, which was several stories underground. The conference room was ABC-proof, that is, secure against atomic, biological and chemical weapons.

Was this because of terrorism, or was there some more serious threat of subversion to the state, perhaps complicated by the danger of a thermonuclear exchange? All of this behaviour suggests at the very least that the White House thought that forces far more formidable than bin Laden and his Afghan troglodytes were involved.

Omaha's resident plutocrat and the world's second richest man, Warren Buffett was scheduled to appear at Offutt that day, hosting an unpublicised charity event benefit inside the base at 8:00am. In attendance were business leaders, and executives from the World Trade Center in New York, including Mrs Ann Tatlock, the CEO of Fiduciary Trust Co. International. whose presence there was fortuitous, as the plane that hit the North Tower, entered through the company's windows.

Air Force One left Offutt around 4:30pm and landed at Andrews Air Force Base at 6:34, escorted by two F-15 fighters and one F-16. Bush then took the Marine One helicopter to the White House, arriving shortly before 7:00pm. He gave a nationally televised speech at 8:30pm, speaking for about five minutes.

It is too long to be included here, but it is readily available. The change of tone is remarkable. Bush is now possessed of a Manichean certainty about the events of the day. He is back to the line that the perpetrators were terrorists. One important passage came at the beginning, where Bush stated: "Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts . . .Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, dispicable acts of terror". Later, in his statement, Bush presented the kernel of what would later be termed the Bush doctrine, his declaration of war on the world. "We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts, and those who harbor them". (Bush 2)

What had changed for Bush during the course of the afternoon and early evening? It may have been only at this moment that Bush began to recover from the panic which had gripped him around 9:00am that morning. Clarke noted that "unlike in his three television appearances that day, Bush was confident, determined, forceful" (Clarke 23). As we will argue below, there is persuasive evidence that he had decided to capitulate to the demands of the sponsors of the terrorist attacks by launching the war of civilisations which this network had demanded. This surrender, carried out sometime in the afternoon or evening of September 11, constitutes Bush's great betrayal of the Constitution and his great crime against humanity. Everything Bush has done since, down to the very structure of his personality, has been determined by the moment in which he declined to fight the rogue network, but rather preferred to follow its orders, in violation of his oath of office. Never before had the United States surrendered to an enemy in this way.