9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB: IT’S NOT JUST A LEFT-WING CONSPIRACY THEORY September 19, 2008

Despite the American government-media complex’s concerted effort to smear as tinfoil-hat wearing nut jobs everyone who doesn’t agree with their official story about 9/11, a number of conservatives who were officials in the Reagan and Bush Administrations have now concluded that 9/11 Was An Inside Job. Check it out at THIS webpage.

Moreover, three major U.S. news sources - Newsweek, the Washington Post, and the New York Times - reported on 9/15-16/01 that several of the 9/11 hijackers, including ringleader Mohammed Atta, probably received pilot training at U.S. military installations (and yet the military never provided any information to refute the many detailed claims in these articles): http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#hijackersmilitary

Furthermore, a coalition of American and international scientists, researchers, engineers, academicians, and diplomats concluded that 9/11 was an inside job: http://www.scholarsfortruth.org

Therefore, it’s hardly a settled question as to what really happened on 9/11, because there is copious probative evidence that it was an inside job, and that evidence cannot be dismissed as if it were merely coincidental or another left-wing conspiracy theory.

CIA’s destroyed tapes renews talks of 9/11 conspiracy theories

US Congress has called for an investigation into the CIA’s destruction of interrogation videotapes claiming there may be an illegal cover-up. The call follows an admission by the agency’s Director-General Michael Hayden that in 2005 the CIA destroyed two videotapes of interrogations of al-Qaeda prisoners. Hayden said the tapes were destroyed to protect the identities of the CIA interrogators. But his admission has raised questions about trust and what other evidence the CIA has destroyed.

Because of the tapes featured 9/11 suspect Abu Zubaydah, these latest revelations are a boon to those who believe in the 9/11 conspiracy theory. Writing in Time magazine ex-CIA operative Robert Baer says that although he didn’t believe the World Trade Center was brought down by explosives, or that a rocket struck the Pentagon, he says he has "felt the pull of the conspiracy theorists". But he dismisses the idea as something the CIA were capable of doing. "I spent a career in the CIA trying to orchestrate plots, wasn’t all that good at it, and certainly couldn’t carry off 9/11," he said. "Nor could the real pros I had the pleasure to work with."

Veteran Canadian political activist and journalist Barrie Zwicker is less certain that Baer knows the truth about 9/11. In 2002, he was one of the first mainstream journalists to question the official word on what happened that day. In 2006 he published the book "Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-up of 9/11" which forensically examines much of the evidence and finds the official record wanting. His book provides 26 exhibits (conveniently labelled A to Z) which he claims provides proof "beyond a reasonable doubt" that 9/11 was an inside job. Zwicker calls this a "false flag" operation and he described many examples of similar operations from history.

The subtitle of Zwicker’s book alludes to the heart of what he sees as the problem: a media cover-up. Zwicker says that the world’s media and their wealthy owners have colluded to prevent discussion of alternative scenarios of what might have happened on 11 September 2001. He claims the three biggest secrets about 9/11 are a) the size of the constituency of non-believers in the official story b) the body of evidence that disputes the official record and c) the fact that the media have steered clear of this evidence, although readily available. Zwicker castigates the politically motivated 9/11 Commission report which found that 19 Arabs, funded by Bin Laden and others, organised and planned the operation catching the entire US intelligence, military, political and diplomatic establishment off guard.

Exhibit A in Zwicker’s repudiation is the collapse of the third building, WTC7, at 5:20pm on 9/11. The 9/11 commission report does not describe how the building collapsed but the official story is that the building was struck by debris falling from the collapsing twin towers and then fires made it unstable. Firefighters evacuated the building after they heard creaking sounds. The building collapsed a couple of hours later. The official cause was "Loss of structural integrity was likely a result of weakening caused by fires". Zwicker disputes this. He says the building was the home to CIA and Secret Service offices and the collapse had all the hallmarks of a controlled demolition.

Zwicker’s next fiver most important piece of evidence all relate to North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD). He says NORAD did not follow standard operating procedures (SOP) that day. SOP states that in the event of a major problem such as a hijacking, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) contacts NORAD who can scramble fighters to the scene ’within a matter of minutes’. The 9/11 report says NORAD had just nine minutes notice for the New York attacks and none at all for the others. Zwicker says this is contradicted by evidence from the FAA’s Laura Brown.

Once scrambled by NORAD, the F-15s from Otis air base did not know where to go and were ordered out into the Atlantic in a holding pattern awaiting further instructions. Meanwhile Andrews Air Force Base less than 20km from Washington was unable to protect the capital. The commission claimed Andrews had no fighters on alert but Zwicker cites Aviation Week which said three F-16s were nearby on a training mission. Zwicker also says NORAD has had plans for precisely just such an emergency since the Soviet threat of 1961. Scrambling fighter aircraft has been a routine occurrence for years before 9/11.

Zwicker quotes Michael Ruppert who said in 2004 that the "mysterious and inexplicable failure" of US’s air defences is the "most glaring and gaping hole" in the official story. Barely mentioned in the official testimony is the fact that the US was conducting major war games on 9/11. These included Northern Vigilance, Vigilant Guardian, Vigilant Warrior and Tripod II. These games included scenarios of hijacked airplanes in the area where all four attacks actually occurred. The flood of "noise" from these games caused what Ruppert called a "paralysis of fighter response".

The next five pieces of Zwicker’s evidence (H through L) relate to the Twin Towers. He says the WTC collapse revealed many features of controlled demolitions (including oral testimony from firefighters), and the Twin Towers were designed to withstand the impact of a Boeing 707. He also cited evidence from similar out-of-control highrise fires in Los Angeles and Philadelphia that showed steel-framed towers don’t collapse because of them. Finally Zwicker says the steel from the WTC was removed from the scene before it could be examined which was a federal offence.

Exhibit M looked at President Bush’s immediate response. Zwicker says that Bush’s decision to stay in the Florida classroom for eight minutes after being told of the second attack was inconsistent with official protocol. Zwicker asks why didn’t the Secret Service remove him? His answer is that their behaviour suggested they knew what was going to happen and did not fear for their lives.

The next two points cover the Pentagon. The 9/11 Commission claims Pentagon officials did not know about the hijacking of Flight 77 which it says struck the building at 9.38am local time. Again Laura Brown disputes this saying the FAA shared details of all hijacked flights to NORAD. Zwicker also disputes what hit the building saying alleged pilot Hani Hanjour was too incompetent to fly a Cessna, the hole was not big enough to cover the wings and videotape evidence shows no airplane.

9/11 conspiracy theories are the best of their kind. i mean really, a separate 737 came out of one of the 767’s before crashing into one of the towers and it was filled with napalm and it was all set up by al gore who was in hiding in austria at the time?!? apparently all news reporters know about it but are keeping it a secret. WHAT A CONSPIRACY INDEED

i don’t know where this is all going but i am going to update this blog often. very often. at least everyday until june 1st 2009.

Posted by Admin Political Analyst

CIA: Bin Laden doesn’t oversee day-to-day al Qaeda operations September 17, 2008

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) - Osama bin Laden is no longer believed to be the head of al Qaeda’s day-to-day operations, but the United States’ capturing or killing him would still have a powerful effect on the organization, CIA Director Michael Hayden said Tuesday.

Osama bin Laden is spending a great deal of his energy merely surviving, CIA Director Tom Hayden says.

Osama bin Laden is spending a great deal of his energy merely surviving, CIA Director Tom Hayden says.

There is no greater security threat facing the United States than al Qaeda and its associates, Hayden said in a speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.

The CIA’s top issues, however, also include nuclear proliferation - particularly in countries like Iran, North Korea and more recently Syria, he said. The greatest challenge lies in detecting those countries who might be developing in secret, Hayden said, as access to sensitive technologies is no longer the exclusive domain of a few advanced nations.

"Bin Laden said repeatedly that he considers acquisition of nuclear weapons a religious duty, and we know that al Qaeda remains determined to attack our country in ways that inflict maximum death and destruction," he said.

Although he took questions from members of the audience, Hayden declined interview requests from journalists covering the event.

Seven years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, Bin Laden and his second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, have yet to be captured.