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Paranoid Fantasies About Sept 11 Distract From the Real Issues
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Astute observers of history are aware that for every notable event
there will usually be at least one, often several wild conspiracy
theories which spring up around it. "The CIA killed Hendrix" "The Pope
had John Lennon murdered", "Hitler was half Werewolf", "Space aliens
replaced Nixon with a clone", etc, etc. The bigger the event, the more
ridiculous and more numerous are the fanciful rantings which circulate
in relation to it.

So its hardly surprising that the events of Sept 11 2001 have spawned
their fair share of these ludicrous fairy tales. And as always, there
is -- sadly -- a small but gullible percentage of the population eager
to lap up these tall tales, regardless of facts or rational analysis.
One of the wilder stories circulating about Sept 11, and one that has
attracted something of a cult following amongst conspiracy buffs is
that it was carried out by 19 fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded
by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, with no apparent motivation
other than that they "hate our freedoms."

Never a group of people to be bothered by facts, the perpetrators of
this cartoon fantasy have constructed an elaborately woven web of
delusions and unsubstantiated hearsay in order to promote this garbage
across the internet and the media to the extent that a number of
otherwise rational people have actually fallen under its spell.

Normally I don't even bother debunking this kind of junk, but the
effect that this paranoid myth is beginning to have requires a little
rational analysis, in order to consign it to the same rubbish bin as
all such silly conspiracy theories. These crackpots even contend that
the extremist Bush regime was caught unawares by the attacks, had no
hand in organizing them, and actually would have stopped them if it
had been able.

Blindly ignoring the stand down of the US air-force, the insider
trading on airline stocks -- linked to the CIA, the complicit behavior
of Bush on the morning of the attacks, the controlled demolition of
the WTC, the firing of a missile into the Pentagon and a host of other
documented proofs that the Bush regime was behind the attacks, the
conspiracy theorists stick doggedly to a silly story about 19 Arab
hijackers somehow managing to commandeer 4 planes simultaneously and
fly them around US airspace for nearly 2 hours, crashing them into
important buildings, without the US intelligence services having any
idea that it was coming, and without the Air Force knowing what to do.
The huge difficulties with such a stupid story force them to invent
even more preposterous stories to distract from its core silliness,
and thus the tale has escalated into a mythic fantasy of truly
gargantuan proportions.

It's difficult to apply rational analysis to such unmitigated
stupidity, but that is the task which I take on in this article.
However, it should be noted that one of the curious characteristics of
conspiracy theorists is that they effortlessly change their so called
evidence in response to each aspect which is debunked. As soon as one
delusion is unmasked, they simply invent another to replace it, and
deny that the first ever existed. Eventually, when they have turned
full circle through this endlessly changing fantasy fog , they then re-
invent the original delusion and deny that you ever debunked it, thus
beginning the circle once more.

This technique is known as "the fruit loop" and saves the conspiracy
theorist from ever having to see any of their ideas through to their
(ill)logical conclusions. According to the practitioners of the fruit
loop, 19 Arabs took over the 4 planes by subduing the passengers and
crew through the use of guns,knives,box cutters and gas, and then used
electronic guidance systems which they had smuggled on board to fly
the planes to their targets.

The suspension of disbelief required for this outrageous concoction is
only for the hard core conspiracy theorist. For a start, they
conveniently skip over the awkward fact that there weren't any Arabs
on the planes. If there were, one must speculate that they somehow got
on board without being filmed by any of the security cameras and
without being registered on the passenger lists. But the curly
question of how they are supposed to have got on board is all too
mundane for the exciting world of the conspiracy theorist. With vague
mumblings that they must have been using false ID ( but never
specifying which IDs they are alleged to have used, or how these were
traced to their real identities), they quickly bypass this problem, to
relate exciting and sinister tales about how some of the fictitious
fiends were actually searched before boarding because they looked
suspicious.

However, as inevitably happens with any web of lies, this simply
paints them into an even more difficult corner. How are they supposed
to have got on board with all that stuff if they were searched? And if
they used gas in a confined space, they would have been affected
themselves unless they also had masks in their luggage. "Excuse me
sir, why do you have a boxcutter, a gun, a container of gas, a gas
mask and an electronic guidance unit in your luggage?" "A present for
your grandmother? Very well sir, on you get." "Very strange", thinks
the security officer. "That's the fourth Arabic man without an Arabic
name who just got on board with a knife, gun or boxcutter and gas
mask. And why does that security camera keep flicking off every time
one these characters shows up? Must be one of those days I guess..."

Asking any of these basic questions to a conspiracy theorist is likely
to cause a sudden leap to the claim that we know that they were on
board because they left a credit card trail for the tickets they had
purchased and cars they had rented. So if they used credit cards that
identified them, how does that reconcile with the claim that they used
false IDs to get on to the plane? But by this time, the fruit loop is
in full swing, as the conspiracy theorist

tries to stay one jump ahead of this annoying and awkward rational
analysis.They will allege that the hijackers' passports were found at
the crash scenes. "So there!" they exalt triumphantly, their fanatical
faces lighting up with that deranged look of one who has just a
revelation of questionable sanity. Hmm? So they got on board with
false IDs but took their real passports with them?

However, by this time the fruit loop has been completely
circumnavigated,and the conspiracy theorist exclaims impatiently, "Who
said anything about false IDs? We know what seats they were sitting
in! Their presence is well documented!" And so the whole loop starts
again. "Well, why aren't they on the passenger lists?" "You numbskull!
They assumed the identities of other passengers!" And so on...

Finally, out of sheer fascination with this circular method of
creative delusion, the rational sceptic will allow them to get away
with this loop, in order to move on to the next question, and see what
further delights await us in the unraveling of this marvelously stupid
story. "Uh, how come their passports survived fiery crashes that
completely incinerated the planes and all the passengers? "

The answer of course is that its just one of those strange co-
incidences, those little quirks of fate that do happen from time to
time. You know, like the same person winning the lottery four weeks in
a row. The odds are astronomical, but these things do happen...

This is another favourite deductive method of the conspiracy theorist.
The "improbability drive", in which they decide upon a conclusion
without any evidence whatsoever to support it, and then continually
speculate a series of wildly improbable events and unbelievable co-
incidences to support it, shrugging off the implausibility of each
event with the vague assertion that sometimes the impossible happens
(just about all the time in their world).

There is a principle called "Occam's razor" which suggests that in the
absence of evidence to the contrary, the simplest explanation is most
likely to be correct. Conspiracy theorists hate Occam's razor. Having
for the sake of amusement, allowed them to get away with with the
silly story of the 19 invisible Arabs, we move on to the question of
how they are supposed to have taken over the planes. Hijacking a plane
is not an easy thing to do. Hijacking it without the pilot being able
to alert ground control is near impossible. The pilot has only to
punch in a four digit code to alert ground control to a hijacking.

Unconcerned with the awkward question of plausibility, the conspiracy
buffs maintain that on that Sept 11, the invisible hijackers took over
the plane by the rather crude method of threatening people with
boxcutters and knives, and spraying gas (after they had attached their
masks, obviously), but somehow took control of the plane without the
crew first getting a chance to punch in the hijacking code. Not just
on one plane, but on all four.

At this point in the tale, the conspiracy theorist is again forced to
call upon the services of the improbability drive. So now that our
incredibly lucky hijackers have taken control of the planes, all four
pilots fly them with breath taking skill and certainty to their fiery
end, all four pilots unflinching in their steely resolve for a swift
meeting with Allah. Apart from their psychotic hatred of "our
freedoms", it was their fanatical devotion to Islam which enabled them
to summon up the iron will to do this. Which is strange, because
according to another piece of hearsay peddled by the conspiracy buffs,
these guys actually went out drinking and womanizing the night before
their great martyrdom, even leaving their Korans in the bar -really
impeccable Islamic behavior -- and then got up at 5am the next morning
to pull off the greatest covert operation in history.

This also requires us to believe that they were even clear headed
enough to learn how to fly the huge planes by reading flight manuals
in Arabic in the car on the way to the airport. We know this because
they supposedly left the flight manuals there for us to find. It gets
better. Their practical training had allegedly been limited to Cessnas
and flight simulators, but this was no barrier to the unflinching
certainty with which they took over the planes and skillfully guided
them to their doom. If they are supposed to have done their flight
training with these tools, which would be available just about
anywhere in the world, its not clear why they would have decided to
risk blowing their cover to US intelligence services by doing the
training in Florida, rather than somewhere in the Middle East, but
such reasoning is foreign to the foggy world of the conspiracy
theorist, too trapped in the constant rotation of the mental fruit
loop to make their unsubstantiated fabrications seem even semi-
believable.

Having triumphantly established a circular delusion in support of the
mythical Arabs, the conspiracy theorist now confronts the difficult
question of why there's nothing left of the planes.

Anybody who has seen the endlessly replayed footage of the second
plane going into the WTC will realize that the plane was packed with
explosives. Planes do not and cannot blow up into nothing in that
manner when they crash. Did the mythical Arabs also haul a huge heap
of explosives on board, and mange to deploy them in such a manner that
they went off in the exact instant of the crash, completely
vapourizing the plane?

This is a little difficult even for the conspiracy theorist, who at
this point decides that its easier to invent new laws of physics in
order to keep the delusion rolling along. There weren't any
explosives. It wasn't an inside job. The plane blew up into nothing
from its exploding fuel load! Remarkable! Sluggishly combustible jet
fuel which is basically kerosine,and which burns at a maximum
temperature of around 800 C has suddenly taken on the qualities of a
ferociously explosive demolition agent, vapourizing 65 tons of
aircraft into a puff of smoke. Never mind that a plane of that size
contains around 15 tons of steel and titanium, of which even the
melting points are about double that of the maximum combustion
temperature of kerosine -- let alone the boiling point -- which is
what would be required to vapourize a plane. And then there's about 50
tons of aluminium to be accounted for. In excess of 15lbs of metal for
each gallon of kerosine.

For the conspiracy theorist, such inconvenient facts are vaguely
dismissed as "mumbo jumbo". This convenient little phrase is their
answer to just about anything factual or logical. Like a conjurer
pulling a rabbit out of a hat, they suddenly become fanatically
insistent about the devastating explosive qualities of kerosine,
something hitherto completely unknown to science, but just discovered
by them, this very minute.

Blissfully ignoring the fact that never before or since in aviation
history has a plane vapourized into nothing from an exploding fuel
load, the conspiracy theorist relies upon Hollywood images, where the
effects are are always larger than life, and certainly larger than the
intellects of these cretins. "Its a well known fact that planes blow
up into nothing on impact." they state with pompous certainty. "Watch
any Bruce Willis movie." "Care to provide any documented examples? If
it's a well known fact, then presumably this well known fact springs
from some kind of documentation -- other than Bruce Willis movies?"

At this point the mad but cunning eyes of the conspiracy theorist will
narrow as they sense the corner that they have backed themselves into,
and plan their escape by means of another stunning backflip. "Ah, but
planes have never crashed into buildings before, so there's no way of
telling." they counter with a sly grin.

Well, actually planes have crashed into buildings before and since,
and not vapourized into nothing. "But not big planes, with that much
fuel ", they shriek in hysterical denial. Or that much metal to
vapourize. "Yes but not hijacked planes!"

"Are you suggesting that whether the crash is deliberate or accidental
affects the combustion qualities of the fuel?" "Now you're just being
silly". Although collisions with buildings are rare, planes frequently
crash into mountains, streets, other aircraft, nosedive into the
ground,or have bombs planted aboard them, and don't vapourize into
nothing. What's so special about a tower that's mostly glass?

But by now, the conspiracy theorist has once again sailed happily
around the fruit loop. "Its a well documented fact that planes explode
into nothing on impact." Effortlessly weaving back and forth between
the position that its a "well known fact" and that "its never happened
before, so we have nothing to compare it to", the conspiracy theorist
has now convinced themselves ( if not too many other people) that the
WTC plane was not loaded with explosives, and that the instant
vapourization of the plane in a massive fireball was the same as any
other plane crash you might care to mention. Round and round the
fruit. loop...

But the hurdles which confront the conspiracy theorist are many, and
they are now forced to implement even more creative uses for the newly
discovered shockingly destructive qualities of kerosine. They have to
explain how the Arabs also engineered the elegant veritcal collapse of
both the WTC towers, and for this awkward fact the easiest counter is
to simply deny that it was a controlled demolition, and claim that the
buildings collapsed from fire caused by the burning kerosine. For
this, its necessary to sweep aside the second law of thermodynamics
and propose kerosine which is not only impossibly destructive, but
also recycles itself for a second burning in violation of the law of
degradation of energy.

You see, it not only consumed itself in a sudden catastrophic
fireball, vapourizing a 65 ton plane into nothing, but then came back
for a second go, burning at 2000C for another hour at the impact
point, melting the skyscraper's steel like butter. And while it was
doing all this it also poured down the elevator shafts, starting fires
all through the building.

When I was at school there was a little thing called the entropy law
which suggests that a given portion of fuel can only burn once,
something which is readily observable in the real world, even for
those who didn't make it to junior high school science. But this is no
problem for the conspiracy theorist. Gleefully, they claim that a few
thousand gallons of kerosine is enough to: completely vapourize a 65
ton aircraft: have enough left over to burn ferociously enough for
over an hour at the impact point to melt steel ( melting point about
double the maximum combustion temperature of the fuel ): still have
enough left over to pour down the elevator shafts and start similarly
destructive fires all through the building.

This kerosine really is remarkable stuff! How chilling to realize that
those kerosine heaters we had in the house when I was a kid were
deadly bombs, just waiting to go off. One false move and the entire
street might have been vapourized. And never again will I take
kerosine lamps out camping. One moment you're there innocently holding
the lamp -- the next -- kapow! Vapourized into nothing along with with
the rest of the camp site, and still leaving enough of the deadly
stuff to start a massive forest fire.

These whackos are actually claiming that the raging inferno allegedly
created by the miraculously recycling, and impossibly hot burning
kerosine melted or at least softened the steel supports of the
skyscraper. Oblivious to the fact that the smoke coming from the WTC
was black, which indicates an oxygen starved fire -therefore, not
particularly hot, they trumpet an alleged temperature in the building
of 2000 C, without a shred of evidence to support this curious
suspension of the laws of physics. Not content with this ludicrous
garbage, they then contend that as the steel frames softened, they
came straight down instead of buckling and twisting and falling
sideways.

Since they're already re-engineered the combustion qualities of jet
fuel, violated the second law of thermodynamics, and re-defined the
structural properties of steel, why let a little thing like the laws
of gravity get in the way?

The tower fell in a time almost identical to that of a free falling
object, dropped from that height, meaning that its physically
impossible for it to have collapsed by the method of the top floors
smashing through the lower floors. But according to the conspiracy
theorists, the laws of gravity were temporarily suspended on the
morning of Sept 11.

It appears that the evil psychic power of those dreadful Arabs knew no
bounds. Even after they were dead, they were able, by the power of
their evil spirits, to force down the tower at a speed physically
impossible under the laws of gravity, had it been meeting any
resistance from fireproofed steel structures originally designed to
resist many tons of hurricane force wind as well as the impact of a
Boeing passenger jet straying off course.

Clearly, these conspiracy nuts never did their science homework at
school, but did become extremely adept at inventing tall tales for
why. "Muslim terrorists stole my notes, sir" "No miss, the kerosine
heater blew up and vapourized everything in the street, except for my
passport." "You see sir, the schoolbus was hijacked by Arabs who
destroyed my homework because they hate our freedoms."

Or perhaps they misunderstood the term "creative science" and
mistakenly thought that coming up with such rubbish was in fact, their
science homework. The ferocious heat generated by this ghastly
kerosine was, according to the conspiracy theorists, the reason why so
many of the WTC victims can't be identified. DNA is destroyed by heat.
(Although 2000 C isn't really required, 100C will generally do the
job.)

This is quite remarkable, because according to the conspiracy
theorist, the nature of DNA suddenly changes if you go to a different
city. That's right! If you are killed by an Arab terrorist in NY, your
DNA will be destroyed by such temperatures. But if you are killed by
an Arab terrorist in Washington DC, your DNA will be so robust that it
can survive temperatures which completely vapourize a 65 ton
aircraft.

You see, these loonies have somehow concocted the idea that the
missile which hit the pentagon was not a missile at all, but one of
the hijacked planes. And to prove this unlikely premise, they point to
a propaganda statement from the Bush regime, which rather stupidly
claims that all but one of the people aboard the plane were identified
from the site by DNA testing, even though nothing remains of the
plane. The plane was vapourized by the fuel tank explosion maintain
these space loonies, but the people inside it were all but one
identified by DNA testing.

So there we have it. The qualities of DNA are different, depending
upon which city you're in, or perhaps depending upon which fairy story
you're trying to sell at any particular time. This concoction about
one of the hijacked planes hitting the Pentagon really is a howler.
For those not familiar with the layout of the Pentagon, it consists of
5 rings of building, each with a space inbetween. Each ring of
building is about 30 to 35 ft deep, with a similar amount of open
space between it and the next ring. The object which penetrated the
Pentagon went in at about a 45 degree angle, punching a neat circular
hole of about a 12 ft diameter through three rings ( six walls).A
little later

a section of wall about 65 ft wide collapsed in the outer ring. Since
the plane which the conspiracy theorists claim to be responsible for
the impact had a wing span of 125 ft and a length of 155 ft, and there
was no wreckage of the plane, either inside or outside the building,
and the lawns outside were still smooth and green enough to play golf
on, this crazy delusion is clearly physically impossible.

But hey, we've already disregarded the combustion qualities of jet
fuel, the normal properties of common building materials, the
properties of DNA, the laws of gravity and the second law of
thermodynamics, so what the hell -- why not throw in a little spatial
impossibility as well? I would have thought that the observation that
a solid object cannot pass through another solid object without
leaving a hole at least as big as itself is reasonably sound science.
But to the conspiracy theorist, this is "mumbo jumbo". It conflicts
with the delusion that they're hooked on, so it "must be wrong"
although trying to get them to explain exactly how it could be wrong
is a futile endeavour.

Conspiracy theorists fly into a curious panic whenever the Pentagon
missile is mentioned.They nervously maintain that the plane was
vapourized by it's exploding fuel load and point to the WTC crash as
evidence of this behavior. (That's a wonderful fruit loop.)

Like an insect which has just been sprayed, running back and forth in
its last mad death throes, they first argue that the reason the hole
is so small is that the plane never entered the wall, having blown up
outside, and then suddenly backflip to explain the 250 ft deep missile
hole by saying that the plane disappeared all the way into the
building, and then blew up inside the building (even though the
building shows no sign of such damage). As for what happened to the
wings -- here's where they get really creative. The wings snapped off
and folded into the fuselage which then carried them into the
building, which then closed up behind the plane like a piece of meat.

When it suits them, they'll also claim that the plane slid in on its
belly, (ignoring the undamaged lawn) while at the same time citing
alleged witnesses to the plane diving steeply into the building from
an "irrecoverable angle."

How they reconcile these two scenarios as being compatible is truly a
study in stupidity. Once they get desperate enough, you can be sure
that the UFO conspiracy stuff will make an appearance.

The Arabs are in league with the Martians. Space aliens snatched the
remains of the Pentagon plane and fixed most of the hole in the wall,
just to confuse people. They gave the Arabs invisibility pills to help
get them onto the planes. Little green men were seen talking to Bin
Laden a few weeks prior to the attacks.

As the nation gears up to impeach the traitor Bush, and stop his
perpetual oil war, it's not helpful to have these idiots distracting
from the process by spreading silly conspiracy theories about mythical
Arabs, stories which do nothing but play into the hands of the
extremist Bush regime.

At a less serious time, we might tolerate such crackpots with amused
detachment, but they need to understand that the treachery that was
perpetrated on Sept 11, and the subsequent war crimes committed in
"retaliation" are far too serious for us to allow such frivolous self
indulgence to go unchallenged.

Those who are truly addicted to conspiracy delusions should find a
more appropriate outlet for their paranoia. Its time to stop loony
conspiracy theories about Sept 11.

Copyright =A9 2003 Gerard Holmgren

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Conspiracy Theories" & FACTS!

The greatest threat to liberty is a government obsessed with alleged =
"public safety"
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"They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety =
deserve neither
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they had better not
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Debunking Conspiracy Theorists Paranoid Fantasies About Sept 11
Distract From the Real Issues
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Astute observers of history are aware that for every notable event
there will usually be at least one, often several wild conspiracy
theories which spring up around it. "The CIA killed Hendrix" "The Pope
had John Lennon murdered", "Hitler was half Werewolf", "Space aliens
replaced Nixon with a clone", etc, etc. The bigger the event, the more
ridiculous and more numerous are the fanciful rantings which circulate
in relation to it.

So its hardly surprising that the events of Sept 11 2001 have spawned
their fair share of these ludicrous fairy tales. And as always, there
is -- sadly -- a small but gullible percentage of the population eager
to lap up these tall tales, regardless of facts or rational analysis.
One of the wilder stories circulating about Sept 11, and one that has
attracted something of a cult following amongst conspiracy buffs is
that it was carried out by 19 fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded
by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, with no apparent motivation
other than that they "hate our freedoms."

Never a group of people to be bothered by facts, the perpetrators of
this cartoon fantasy have constructed an elaborately woven web of
delusions and unsubstantiated hearsay in order to promote this garbage
across the internet and the media to the extent that a number of
otherwise rational people have actually fallen under its spell.

Normally I don't even bother debunking this kind of junk, but the
effect that this paranoid myth is beginning to have requires a little
rational analysis, in order to consign it to the same rubbish bin as
all such silly conspiracy theories. These crackpots even contend that
the extremist Bush regime was caught unawares by the attacks, had no
hand in organizing them, and actually would have stopped them if it
had been able.

Blindly ignoring the stand down of the US air-force, the insider
trading on airline stocks -- linked to the CIA, the complicit behavior
of Bush on the morning of the attacks, the controlled demolition of
the WTC, the firing of a missile into the Pentagon and a host of other
documented proofs that the Bush regime was behind the attacks, the
conspiracy theorists stick doggedly to a silly story about 19 Arab
hijackers somehow managing to commandeer 4 planes simultaneously and
fly them around US airspace for nearly 2 hours, crashing them into
important buildings, without the US intelligence services having any
idea that it was coming, and without the Air Force knowing what to do.
The huge difficulties with such a stupid story force them to invent
even more preposterous stories to distract from its core silliness,
and thus the tale has escalated into a mythic fantasy of truly
gargantuan proportions.

It's difficult to apply rational analysis to such unmitigated
stupidity, but that is the task which I take on in this article.
However, it should be noted that one of the curious characteristics of
conspiracy theorists is that they effortlessly change their so called
evidence in response to each aspect which is debunked. As soon as one
delusion is unmasked, they simply invent another to replace it, and
deny that the first ever existed. Eventually, when they have turned
full circle through this endlessly changing fantasy fog , they then re-
invent the original delusion and deny that you ever debunked it, thus
beginning the circle once more.

This technique is known as "the fruit loop" and saves the conspiracy
theorist from ever having to see any of their ideas through to their
(ill)logical conclusions. According to the practitioners of the fruit
loop, 19 Arabs took over the 4 planes by subduing the passengers and
crew through the use of guns,knives,box cutters and gas, and then used
electronic guidance systems which they had smuggled on board to fly
the planes to their targets.

The suspension of disbelief required for this outrageous concoction is
only for the hard core conspiracy theorist. For a start, they
conveniently skip over the awkward fact that there weren't any Arabs
on the planes. If there were, one must speculate that they somehow got
on board without being filmed by any of the security cameras and
without being registered on the passenger lists. But the curly
question of how they are supposed to have got on board is all too
mundane for the exciting world of the conspiracy theorist. With vague
mumblings that they must have been using false ID ( but never
specifying which IDs they are alleged to have used, or how these were
traced to their real identities), they quickly bypass this problem, to
relate exciting and sinister tales about how some of the fictitious
fiends were actually searched before boarding because they looked
suspicious.

However, as inevitably happens with any web of lies, this simply
paints them into an even more difficult corner. How are they supposed
to have got on board with all that stuff if they were searched? And if
they used gas in a confined space, they would have been affected
themselves unless they also had masks in their luggage. "Excuse me
sir, why do you have a boxcutter, a gun, a container of gas, a gas
mask and an electronic guidance unit in your luggage?" "A present for
your grandmother? Very well sir, on you get." "Very strange", thinks
the security officer. "That's the fourth Arabic man without an Arabic
name who just got on board with a knife, gun or boxcutter and gas
mask. And why does that security camera keep flicking off every time
one these characters shows up? Must be one of those days I guess..."

Asking any of these basic questions to a conspiracy theorist is likely
to cause a sudden leap to the claim that we know that they were on
board because they left a credit card trail for the tickets they had
purchased and cars they had rented. So if they used credit cards that
identified them, how does that reconcile with the claim that they used
false IDs to get on to the plane? But by this time, the fruit loop is
in full swing, as the conspiracy theorist

tries to stay one jump ahead of this annoying and awkward rational
analysis.They will allege that the hijackers' passports were found at
the crash scenes. "So there!" they exalt triumphantly, their fanatical
faces lighting up with that deranged look of one who has just a
revelation of questionable sanity. Hmm? So they got on board with
false IDs but took their real passports with them?

However, by this time the fruit loop has been completely
circumnavigated,and the conspiracy theorist exclaims impatiently, "Who
said anything about false IDs? We know what seats they were sitting
in! Their presence is well documented!" And so the whole loop starts
again. "Well, why aren't they on the passenger lists?" "You numbskull!
They assumed the identities of other passengers!" And so on...

Finally, out of sheer fascination with this circular method of
creative delusion, the rational sceptic will allow them to get away
with this loop, in order to move on to the next question, and see what
further delights await us in the unraveling of this marvelously stupid
story. "Uh, how come their passports survived fiery crashes that
completely incinerated the planes and all the passengers? "

The answer of course is that its just one of those strange co-
incidences, those little quirks of fate that do happen from time to
time. You know, like the same person winning the lottery four weeks in
a row. The odds are astronomical, but these things do happen...

This is another favourite deductive method of the conspiracy theorist.
The "improbability drive", in which they decide upon a conclusion
without any evidence whatsoever to support it, and then continually
speculate a series of wildly improbable events and unbelievable co-
incidences to support it, shrugging off the implausibility of each
event with the vague assertion that sometimes the impossible happens
(just about all the time in their world).

There is a principle called "Occam's razor" which suggests that in the
absence of evidence to the contrary, the simplest explanation is most
likely to be correct. Conspiracy theorists hate Occam's razor. Having
for the sake of amusement, allowed them to get away with with the
silly story of the 19 invisible Arabs, we move on to the question of
how they are supposed to have taken over the planes. Hijacking a plane
is not an easy thing to do. Hijacking it without the pilot being able
to alert ground control is near impossible. The pilot has only to
punch in a four digit code to alert ground control to a hijacking.

Unconcerned with the awkward question of plausibility, the conspiracy
buffs maintain that on that Sept 11, the invisible hijackers took over
the plane by the rather crude method of threatening people with
boxcutters and knives, and spraying gas (after they had attached their
masks, obviously), but somehow took control of the plane without the
crew first getting a chance to punch in the hijacking code. Not just
on one plane, but on all four.

At this point in the tale, the conspiracy theorist is again forced to
call upon the services of the improbability drive. So now that our
incredibly lucky hijackers have taken control of the planes, all four
pilots fly them with breath taking skill and certainty to their fiery
end, all four pilots unflinching in their steely resolve for a swift
meeting with Allah. Apart from their psychotic hatred of "our
freedoms", it was their fanatical devotion to Islam which enabled them
to summon up the iron will to do this. Which is strange, because
according to another piece of hearsay peddled by the conspiracy buffs,
these guys actually went out drinking and womanizing the night before
their great martyrdom, even leaving their Korans in the bar -really
impeccable Islamic behavior -- and then got up at 5am the next morning
to pull off the greatest covert operation in history.

This also requires us to believe that they were even clear headed
enough to learn how to fly the huge planes by reading flight manuals
in Arabic in the car on the way to the airport. We know this because
they supposedly left the flight manuals there for us to find. It gets
better. Their practical training had allegedly been limited to Cessnas
and flight simulators, but this was no barrier to the unflinching
certainty with which they took over the planes and skillfully guided
them to their doom. If they are supposed to have done their flight
training with these tools, which would be available just about
anywhere in the world, its not clear why they would have decided to
risk blowing their cover to US intelligence services by doing the
training in Florida, rather than somewhere in the Middle East, but
such reasoning is foreign to the foggy world of the conspiracy
theorist, too trapped in the constant rotation of the mental fruit
loop to make their unsubstantiated fabrications seem even semi-
believable.

Having triumphantly established a circular delusion in support of the
mythical Arabs, the conspiracy theorist now confronts the difficult
question of why there's nothing left of the planes.

Anybody who has seen the endlessly replayed footage of the second
plane going into the WTC will realize that the plane was packed with
explosives. Planes do not and cannot blow up into nothing in that
manner when they crash. Did the mythical Arabs also haul a huge heap
of explosives on board, and mange to deploy them in such a manner that
they went off in the exact instant of the crash, completely
vapourizing the plane?

This is a little difficult even for the conspiracy theorist, who at
this point decides that its easier to invent new laws of physics in
order to keep the delusion rolling along. There weren't any
explosives. It wasn't an inside job. The plane blew up into nothing
from its exploding fuel load! Remarkable! Sluggishly combustible jet
fuel which is basically kerosine,and which burns at a maximum
temperature of around 800 C has suddenly taken on the qualities of a
ferociously explosive demolition agent, vapourizing 65 tons of
aircraft into a puff of smoke. Never mind that a plane of that size
contains around 15 tons of steel and titanium, of which even the
melting points are about double that of the maximum combustion
temperature of kerosine -- let alone the boiling point -- which is
what would be required to vapourize a plane. And then there's about 50
tons of aluminium to be accounted for. In excess of 15lbs of metal for
each gallon of kerosine.

For the conspiracy theorist, such inconvenient facts are vaguely
dismissed as "mumbo jumbo". This convenient little phrase is their
answer to just about anything factual or logical. Like a conjurer
pulling a rabbit out of a hat, they suddenly become fanatically
insistent about the devastating explosive qualities of kerosine,
something hitherto completely unknown to science, but just discovered
by them, this very minute.

Blissfully ignoring the fact that never before or since in aviation
history has a plane vapourized into nothing from an exploding fuel
load, the conspiracy theorist relies upon Hollywood images, where the
effects are are always larger than life, and certainly larger than the
intellects of these cretins. "Its a well known fact that planes blow
up into nothing on impact." they state with pompous certainty. "Watch
any Bruce Willis movie." "Care to provide any documented examples? If
it's a well known fact, then presumably this well known fact springs
from some kind of documentation -- other than Bruce Willis movies?"

At this point the mad but cunning eyes of the conspiracy theorist will
narrow as they sense the corner that they have backed themselves into,
and plan their escape by means of another stunning backflip. "Ah, but
planes have never crashed into buildings before, so there's no way of
telling." they counter with a sly grin.

Well, actually planes have crashed into buildings before and since,
and not vapourized into nothing. "But not big planes, with that much
fuel ", they shriek in hysterical denial. Or that much metal to
vapourize. "Yes but not hijacked planes!"

"Are you suggesting that whether the crash is deliberate or accidental
affects the combustion qualities of the fuel?" "Now you're just being
silly". Although collisions with buildings are rare, planes frequently
crash into mountains, streets, other aircraft, nosedive into the
ground,or have bombs planted aboard them, and don't vapourize into
nothing. What's so special about a tower that's mostly glass?

But by now, the conspiracy theorist has once again sailed happily
around the fruit loop. "Its a well documented fact that planes explode
into nothing on impact." Effortlessly weaving back and forth between
the position that its a "well known fact" and that "its never happened
before, so we have nothing to compare it to", the conspiracy theorist
has now convinced themselves ( if not too many other people) that the
WTC plane was not loaded with explosives, and that the instant
vapourization of the plane in a massive fireball was the same as any
other plane crash you might care to mention. Round and round the
fruit. loop...

But the hurdles which confront the conspiracy theorist are many, and
they are now forced to implement even more creative uses for the newly
discovered shockingly destructive qualities of kerosine. They have to
explain how the Arabs also engineered the elegant veritcal collapse of
both the WTC towers, and for this awkward fact the easiest counter is
to simply deny that it was a controlled demolition, and claim that the
buildings collapsed from fire caused by the burning kerosine. For
this, its necessary to sweep aside the second law of thermodynamics
and propose kerosine which is not only impossibly destructive, but
also recycles itself for a second burning in violation of the law of
degradation of energy.

You see, it not only consumed itself in a sudden catastrophic
fireball, vapourizing a 65 ton plane into nothing, but then came back
for a second go, burning at 2000C for another hour at the impact
point, melting the skyscraper's steel like butter. And while it was
doing all this it also poured down the elevator shafts, starting fires
all through the building.

When I was at school there was a little thing called the entropy law
which suggests that a given portion of fuel can only burn once,
something which is readily observable in the real world, even for
those who didn't make it to junior high school science. But this is no
problem for the conspiracy theorist. Gleefully, they claim that a few
thousand gallons of kerosine is enough to: completely vapourize a 65
ton aircraft: have enough left over to burn ferociously enough for
over an hour at the impact point to melt steel ( melting point about
double the maximum combustion temperature of the fuel ): still have
enough left over to pour down the elevator shafts and start similarly
destructive fires all through the building.

This kerosine really is remarkable stuff! How chilling to realize that
those kerosine heaters we had in the house when I was a kid were
deadly bombs, just waiting to go off. One false move and the entire
street might have been vapourized. And never again will I take
kerosine lamps out camping. One moment you're there innocently holding
the lamp -- the next -- kapow! Vapourized into nothing along with with
the rest of the camp site, and still leaving enough of the deadly
stuff to start a massive forest fire.

These whackos are actually claiming that the raging inferno allegedly
created by the miraculously recycling, and impossibly hot burning
kerosine melted or at least softened the steel supports of the
skyscraper. Oblivious to the fact that the smoke coming from the WTC
was black, which indicates an oxygen starved fire -therefore, not
particularly hot, they trumpet an alleged temperature in the building
of 2000 C, without a shred of evidence to support this curious
suspension of the laws of physics. Not content with this ludicrous
garbage, they then contend that as the steel frames softened, they
came straight down instead of buckling and twisting and falling
sideways.

Since they're already re-engineered the combustion qualities of jet
fuel, violated the second law of thermodynamics, and re-defined the
structural properties of steel, why let a little thing like the laws
of gravity get in the way?

The tower fell in a time almost identical to that of a free falling
object, dropped from that height, meaning that its physically
impossible for it to have collapsed by the method of the top floors
smashing through the lower floors. But according to the conspiracy
theorists, the laws of gravity were temporarily suspended on the
morning of Sept 11.

It appears that the evil psychic power of those dreadful Arabs knew no
bounds. Even after they were dead, they were able, by the power of
their evil spirits, to force down the tower at a speed physically
impossible under the laws of gravity, had it been meeting any
resistance from fireproofed steel structures originally designed to
resist many tons of hurricane force wind as well as the impact of a
Boeing passenger jet straying off course.

Clearly, these conspiracy nuts never did their science homework at
school, but did become extremely adept at inventing tall tales for
why. "Muslim terrorists stole my notes, sir" "No miss, the kerosine
heater blew up and vapourized everything in the street, except for my
passport." "You see sir, the schoolbus was hijacked by Arabs who
destroyed my homework because they hate our freedoms."

Or perhaps they misunderstood the term "creative science" and
mistakenly thought that coming up with such rubbish was in fact, their
science homework. The ferocious heat generated by this ghastly
kerosine was, according to the conspiracy theorists, the reason why so
many of the WTC victims can't be identified. DNA is destroyed by heat.
(Although 2000 C isn't really required, 100C will generally do the
job.)

This is quite remarkable, because according to the conspiracy
theorist, the nature of DNA suddenly changes if you go to a different
city. That's right! If you are killed by an Arab terrorist in NY, your
DNA will be destroyed by such temperatures. But if you are killed by
an Arab terrorist in Washington DC, your DNA will be so robust that it
can survive temperatures which completely vapourize a 65 ton
aircraft.

You see, these loonies have somehow concocted the idea that the
missile which hit the pentagon was not a missile at all, but one of
the hijacked planes. And to prove this unlikely premise, they point to
a propaganda statement from the Bush regime, which rather stupidly
claims that all but one of the people aboard the plane were identified
from the site by DNA testing, even though nothing remains of the
plane. The plane was vapourized by the fuel tank explosion maintain
these space loonies, but the people inside it were all but one
identified by DNA testing.

So there we have it. The qualities of DNA are different, depending
upon which city you're in, or perhaps depending upon which fairy story
you're trying to sell at any particular time. This concoction about
one of the hijacked planes hitting the Pentagon really is a howler.
For those not familiar with the layout of the Pentagon, it consists of
5 rings of building, each with a space inbetween. Each ring of
building is about 30 to 35 ft deep, with a similar amount of open
space between it and the next ring. The object which penetrated the
Pentagon went in at about a 45 degree angle, punching a neat circular
hole of about a 12 ft diameter through three rings ( six walls).A
little later

a section of wall about 65 ft wide collapsed in the outer ring. Since
the plane which the conspiracy theorists claim to be responsible for
the impact had a wing span of 125 ft and a length of 155 ft, and there
was no wreckage of the plane, either inside or outside the building,
and the lawns outside were still smooth and green enough to play golf
on, this crazy delusion is clearly physically impossible.

But hey, we've already disregarded the combustion qualities of jet
fuel, the normal properties of common building materials, the
properties of DNA, the laws of gravity and the second law of
thermodynamics, so what the hell -- why not throw in a little spatial
impossibility as well? I would have thought that the observation that
a solid object cannot pass through another solid object without
leaving a hole at least as big as itself is reasonably sound science.
But to the conspiracy theorist, this is "mumbo jumbo". It conflicts
with the delusion that they're hooked on, so it "must be wrong"
although trying to get them to explain exactly how it could be wrong
is a futile endeavour.

Conspiracy theorists fly into a curious panic whenever the Pentagon
missile is mentioned.They nervously maintain that the plane was
vapourized by it's exploding fuel load and point to the WTC crash as
evidence of this behavior. (That's a wonderful fruit loop.)

Like an insect which has just been sprayed, running back and forth in
its last mad death throes, they first argue that the reason the hole
is so small is that the plane never entered the wall, having blown up
outside, and then suddenly backflip to explain the 250 ft deep missile
hole by saying that the plane disappeared all the way into the
building, and then blew up inside the building (even though the
building shows no sign of such damage). As for what happened to the
wings -- here's where they get really creative. The wings snapped off
and folded into the fuselage which then carried them into the
building, which then closed up behind the plane like a piece of meat.

When it suits them, they'll also claim that the plane slid in on its
belly, (ignoring the undamaged lawn) while at the same time citing
alleged witnesses to the plane diving steeply into the building from
an "irrecoverable angle."

How they reconcile these two scenarios as being compatible is truly a
study in stupidity. Once they get desperate enough, you can be sure
that the UFO conspiracy stuff will make an appearance.

The Arabs are in league with the Martians. Space aliens snatched the
remains of the Pentagon plane and fixed most of the hole in the wall,
just to confuse people. They gave the Arabs invisibility pills to help
get them onto the planes. Little green men were seen talking to Bin
Laden a few weeks prior to the attacks.

As the nation gears up to impeach the traitor Bush, and stop his
perpetual oil war, it's not helpful to have these idiots distracting
from the process by spreading silly conspiracy theories about mythical
Arabs, stories which do nothing but play into the hands of the
extremist Bush regime.

At a less serious time, we might tolerate such crackpots with amused
detachment, but they need to understand that the treachery that was
perpetrated on Sept 11, and the subsequent war crimes committed in
"retaliation" are far too serious for us to allow such frivolous self
indulgence to go unchallenged.

Those who are truly addicted to conspiracy delusions should find a
more appropriate outlet for their paranoia. Its time to stop loony
conspiracy theories about Sept 11.

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terror attack was
to crash a plane into CIA headquarters. [
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=3Darticle&node=3D&cont=
entId=3DA10840-2001Se
p22> Washington Post, 9/23/01,
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/30/national/main510607.shtml> =
CBS, 5/30/02,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#training> more]=20

1996=962001: On multiple occasions spies give detailed reports on bin =
Laden's location.
Each time, the CIA director or top White House officials prevent bin =
Laden's
elimination. [ <http://www.wanttoknow.info/041205latimes> Los Angeles =
Times, 12/5/04,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/011230nytimes> New York Times, 12/30/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#binladenstrikeaborted> =
more]

2000=962001: 15 of the 19 hijackers fail to fill in visa documents =
properly in Saudi
Arabia. Only six are interviewed. All 15 should have been denied entry =
to the US. [
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=3Darticle&node=3D&cont=
entId=3DA62033-2002Oc
t21&notFound=3Dtrue> Washington Post, 10/22/02,  =
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/021023abc>
ABC, 10/23/02] Two top Republican senators say if State Department =
personnel had merely
followed the law, 9/11 would not have happened. [ =
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/021218ap>
AP, 12/18/02,  <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#visas> more]

2000=962001: The military conducts exercises simulating hijacked =
airliners used as weapons
to crash into targets causing mass casualties. One target is the World =
Trade Center
(WTC), another the Pentagon. Yet after 9/11, over and over the White =
House and security
officials say they=92re shocked that terrorists hijacked airliners and =
crashed them into
landmark buildings. [ =
<http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-04-18-norad_x.htm>
USA Today, 4/19/04,  =
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/001103mdwpentagonattack> Military
District of Washington, 11/3/00,  =
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/011003nytimes> New York
Times, 10/3/01,  =
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#pentagondrill> more]

Jan 2001: After the Nov 2000 elections, US intelligence agencies are =
told to =93back off=94
investigating the bin Ladens and Saudi royals. There have always been =
constraints on
investigating Saudi Arabians. [
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/events/newsnight/1645527.stm> BBC, 11/6/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#backoffsaudis> more]

Spring 2001: A series of military and governmental policy documents is =
released that
seek to legitimize the use of US military force in the pursuit of oil =
and gas. One
advocates presidential subterfuge and hiding the reasons for warfare =
=93as a necessity for
mobilizing public support.=94 [
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/25/1040511092926.html> Sydney =
Morning Herald,
12/26/02,  <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#subterfuge> =
more]

May 2001: For the third time, US security chiefs reject Sudan=92s offer =
of thick files on
bin Laden and al-Qaeda. A senior CIA source calls it =93the worst single =
intelligence
failure in the business.=94 [
<http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,560675,00.html> =
Guardian,
9/30/01,  <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#sudanfiles> more]

June-Aug 2001:  German intelligence warns the CIA that Middle Eastern =
terrorists are
training for hijackings and targeting American interests. Russian =
President Vladimir
Putin alerts the US of suicide pilots training for attacks on US =
targets. In late July,
a Taliban emissary warns the US that bin Laden is planning a huge attack =
on American
soil. In August, Israel warns of an imminent Al Qaeda attack. [
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,53065,00.html> Fox News, 5/17/02,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/020907independent> Independent, 9/7/02,
<http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/18/intelligence.hearings/> =
CNN, 9/12/02,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#foreknowledge> more]

July 4-14, 2001: Bin Laden reportedly receives kidney treatment from =
Canadian-trained
Dr. Callaway at the American Hospital in Dubai. Dr. Callaway declines to =
comment. During
his stay, bin Laden is allegedly visited by one or two CIA agents. [
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,584444,00.html> =
Guardian, 11/1/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/011031smhbinladenkidneyshospitalized> Sydney =
Morning Herald,
10/31/01,  <http://www.wanttoknow.info/011101londontimes> London Times =
11/1/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/011101upi> UPI, 11/1/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#kidney> more]

July 26, 2001: Attorney General Ashcroft stops flying commercial =
airlines due to a
threat assessment. [
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/main303601.shtml> =
CBS, 7/26/01] In
May 2002, Ashcroft walks out of his office rather than answer questions =
about it. [
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,52982,00.html> Fox News/AP, =
5/16/02,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#ashcroftstops> more]

Aug 6, 2001: President Bush receives an intelligence briefing warning =
that bin Laden
might be planning to hijack commercial airliners. Titled =93Bin Ladin =
Determined To Strike
in US,=94 the briefing specifically mentions the WTC. Yet Bush later =
claims it =93said
nothing about an attack on America.=94 [
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/040412postbinladenattackmemo> Washington =
Post, 4/12/04,
<http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB116/pdb8-6-2001.pdf> =
Briefing, 8/6/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#briefing> more]

Aug 27, 2001: An FBI supervisor says he=92s trying to keep a hijacker =
from =93flying a plane
into the WTC.=94 [
<http://foi.missouri.edu/terrorintelligence/intelligcomm/oct172002.html> =
Senate Report
(Hill #2), 10/17/02] Headquarters chastises him for notifying the CIA. [
<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,249997,00.html> Time, =
5/21/02,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#moussaouiwtc> more]=20

Sep 10, 2001: A number of top Pentagon brass suddenly cancel travel =
plans for the next
morning, apparently because of security concerns. Why isn't this news =
spread widely? [
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/010913newsweek> Newsweek, 9/13/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/010924newsweek> Newsweek, 9/24/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#pentagoncancels> more]

9/11/2001: Data recovery experts extract data from 32 damaged WTC =
computer drives. The
data reveals a surge in financial transactions shortly before the =
attacks. Illegal
transfers of over $100 million may have been made through WTC computer =
systems
immediately before and during the 9/11 disaster. [
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/011218reuters> Reuters, 12/18/01,
<http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/12/20/wtc.harddrives.idg/> =
CNN, 12/20/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#911transactions> more]

9/11/2001: Described as a bizarre coincidence, a US intelligence agency =
was scheduled
for an exercise on 9/11 at 9:00 AM in which an aircraft would crash into =
one of its
buildings near Washington, DC. [
<http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-08-22-sept-11-plane-drill-_x.ht=
m> USA
Today/AP, 8/22/02,  <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#nro> =
more]=20

9/11/2001: Hours after the attacks, a "shadow government" is formed. Key =
congressional
leaders say they didn=92t know this government-in-waiting had been =
established. [
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/03/01/attack/main502530.shtml> CBS, =
3/2/02,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/020302post> Washington Post, 3/2/02,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#shadowgovt> more]

9/11/2001: Six air traffic controllers who dealt with two of the =
hijacked airliners make
a tape recording describing the events within hours of the attacks. The =
tape is never
turned over to the FBI. It is later illegally destroyed by a supervisor =
without anyone
making a transcript or even listening to it. [
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A6632-2004May6> Washington =
Post, 5/6/04,
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/06/national/06CND-TAPE.html> New York =
Times, 5/6/04]

Sep 13-19, 2001: Bin Laden's family is taken under FBI supervision to a =
secret assembly
point. They leave the country by private plane when airports reopen days =
after the
attacks. [ <http://www.wanttoknow.info/010930nytimes> New York Times, =
9/30/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/010920globe> Boston Globe, 9/20/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#binladenkin> more]

Sep 15-16, 2001: Several of the 9/11 hijackers, including lead hijacker =
Mohamed Atta,
may have had training at secure US military installations. [
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/010915newsweek> Newsweek, 9/15/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/010916post> Washington Post, 9/16/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/010915nytimes> New York Times, 9/15/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#hijackersmilitary> more]

Sept 20, 2001: Several 9/11 hijackers later mentioned in the
<http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch7.htm> 9/11 Commission =
Report turn up
alive. "Five of the alleged hijackers have emerged, alive, innocent and =
astonished to
see their names and photographs appearing on satellite television...The =
hijackers were
using stolen identities." [quote in
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/010920londontimes.hijackers> London Times, =
9/20/01, see also
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm> BBC, 9/23/01,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#hijackersalive> more]

Dec 2001-Feb 2002: The US engineers the rise to power of two former =
Unocal Oil
employees: Hamid Karzai, the interim president of Afghanistan, and =
Zalmay Khalizad, the
US envoy. The big American bases created in the Afghan war are identical =
to the route of
the projected oil pipeline. [ =
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/020318chicagotribune> Chicago
Tribune, 3/18/02,  =
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#unocalappointees> more]

May 17, 2002: Dan Rather says that he and other journalists haven't been =
properly
investigating since 9/11. He graphically describes the pressures to =
conform that built
up after the attacks. [ =
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,717097,00.html>
Guardian, 5/17/02,  <http://www.wanttoknow.info/massmedia#rather> more]

May 23, 2002: President Bush says he is opposed to establishing an =
independent
commission to probe 9/11. [
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/15/attack/main509096.shtml> CBS, =
5/23/02] Vice
President Cheney earlier opposed any public hearings on 9/11. [
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/020204newsweek> Newsweek, 2/4/02,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#bushopposes> more]

May 30, 2002: FBI Agent Wright formally accuses the FBI of deliberately =
curtailing
investigations that might have prevented 9/11. He is threatened with =
retribution if he
talks to Congress about this. [ =
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,54070,00.html> Fox
News, 5/30/02,  <http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#wright3> =
more]=20

July 22, 2004: The 9/11 Commission Report is published. It fails to =
mention that a year
before the attacks a secret Pentagon project had identified four 9/11 =
hijackers,
including leader Mohamed Atta. The Commission spokesperson initially =
states members were
not informed of this, but later acknowledges they were. [
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/11/politics/11intel.html?ex=3D1281412800&=
en=3D3c4c0f2346a583
91&ei=3D5090&partner=3Drssuserland&emc=3Drss> New York Times, 8/11/05,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/abledanger911> more]

2004 - 2005: A growing number of top government officials and public =
leaders express
disbelief in the official story of 9/11. 100 prominent leaders and 40 =
9/11 family
members sign a statement calling for an unbiased inquiry into evidence =
suggesting
high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the =
attacks to occur. [
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/050908insidejob911> Various Publications]=20

Aug 9, 2006: A
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307263770/sr=3D1-1/qid=3D1156207288/re=
f=3Dpd_bbs_1/104-3462
640-4229555?ie=3DUTF8&s=3Dbooks> book by 9/11 Commission chairmen Kean =
and Hamilton outlines
repeated deceptions by the Pentagon and FAA, including the timelines of =
Flights 77 and
93. CNN News: "The fact that the government would...perpetuate the lie =
suggests that we
need a full investigation of what is going on." [
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/060809cnn.911commissioners> CNN, 8/9/06 ,
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14191255/> MSNBC/AP, 8/4/06,
<http://www.wanttoknow.info/060811newsarticles#commission> more]=20

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<http://www.wanttoknow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11>
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A TIMELINE SURROUNDING SEPTEMBER 11TH - IF THE CIA AND THE GOVERNMENT =
WEREN'T INVOLVED
IN THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS WHAT WERE THEY DOING?=20

WHAT ROLE DID CANADA'S CSIS OR MILITARY HAVE, GIVEN THEIR INTIMATE TIES =
TO U.S.
INTELLIGENCE?
=20

by Michael C. Ruppert

[Expanded and Revised Sept. 4, 2002 - Evidence of Bush Administration
Foreknowledge and complicity is now overwhelming. Since our last =
revision
July 11, 2002, 16 New Items!]


Nov. 2, 2001, 12:00 PST -- On Oct. 31 the French daily Le Figaro dropped =
a
bombshell. While in a Dubai hospital receiving treatment for a chronic
kidney infection last July, Osama bin Laden met with a top CIA official =
--
presumably the chief of station. The meeting, held in bin Laden's =
private
suite, took place at the American hospital in Dubai at a time when he =
was a
wanted fugitive for the bombings of two U.S. embassies and last year's
attack on the USS Cole. Bin Laden was eligible for execution according =
to a
2000 intelligence finding issued by President Bill Clinton before =
leaving
office in January. Yet on July 14, 2001 he was allowed to leave Dubai on =
a
private jet, and there were no Navy fighters waiting to force him down.

In 1985 Oliver North -- the only member of the Reagan-Bush years who =
doesn't
appear to have a hand in the current war -- sent the Navy and commandos
after terrorists on the cruise ship Achille Lauro. In his 1991 =
autobiography
"Under Fire," while describing terrorist Abu Abbas North wrote, "I used =
to
wonder: how many dead Americans will it take before we do something?" =
One
could look at the number of Americans Osama bin Laden is alleged to have
killed before Sept. 11 and ask the same question.

It gets worse, much worse. A more complete timeline listing crucial =
events
both before and after the Sept. 11 suicide attacks, which have been =
blamed
on bin Laden, establishes CIA foreknowledge of them and strongly =
suggests
that there was criminal complicity on the part of the U.S. government in
their execution. It also makes clear that the events that have taken =
place
since Sept. 11 are based upon an agenda that has little to do with the
attacks.

[June 19, 2002] -- As the revelations of Bush Administration =
foreknowledge
have progressed from silence, to trickle, to cascade, the question has =
now
changed from forcing the evidence into the open into one of forcing both =
the
media and the people to avoid denying this information in the hopes that
their desire for a sense of "normalcy" can be fulfilled. As many of us =
have
known for years, normalcy went out the window forever when the first =
plane
hit the tower. And what has been revealed will not be resolved with an
expensive fact-finding commission, a few firing, or even an impeachment
proceeding. What is needed in America -- and in the global economic
system -- is an overhaul, not a tune up.

1. 1991-1997 - Major U.S. oil companies including ExxonMobil, Texaco,
Unocal, BP Amoco, Shell and Enron directly invest billions in cash =
bribing
heads of state in Kazakhstan to secure equity rights in the huge oil
reserves in these regions. The oil companies further commit to future =
direct
investments in Kazakhstan of $35 billion. Not being willing to pay
exorbitant prices to Russia to use Russian pipelines, the major oil
companies have no way to recoup their investments. [Source: "The Price =
of
Oil" by Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, July 9, 2001 - The Asia Times, =
"The
Roving Eye Part I Jan. 26, 2002.]

2.    January 1995 - Philippine police investigating a possible attack =
on
the Pope uncover plans for Operation Bojinka, connected to World Trade
Center (WTC) bomber Ramsi Youssef. Parts of the plan call for crashing
hijacked airliners into civilian targets. Details of the plan are =
disclosed
in Youssef's 1997 trial for the 1993 WTC bombing. [Source: Agence
France-Presse, Dec. 7, 2001]

3.  Dec. 4, 1997 - Representatives of the Taliban are invited guests to =
the
Texas headquarters of Unocal to negotiate their support for the =
pipeline.
Subsequent reports will indicate that the negotiations failed, allegedly
because the Taliban wanted too much money. [Source: The BBC, Dec. 4, =
1997]

4. Feb. 12, 1998 - Unocal Vice President John J. Maresca -- later to =
become
a special ambassador to Afghanistan -- testifies before the House that =
until
a single, unified, friendly government is in place in Afghanistan, the
trans-Afghani pipeline needed to monetize the oil will not be built.
[Source: Testimony before the House International Relations Committee:
 <http://www.house.gov/international_relations/105th/ap/wsap212982.htm>
http://www.house.gov/international_relations/105th/ap/wsap212982.htm]

5.  August 1998 - After the U.S. cruise missile attacks on Al Qaeda =
targets
in Afghanistan in retaliation for the African embassy bombings, Unocal
officially withdraws from participation in the CentGas trans-Afghani gas
pipeline project. [Various sources, Unocal]

6.  1998 - The CIA ignores warnings from Case Officer Robert Baer that =
Saudi
Arabia was harboring an Al Qaeda cell led by two known terrorists. A =
more
detailed list of known terrorists is offered to Saudi intelligence in =
August
2001 and refused. [Source: Financial Times Jan. 21, 2001; "See No Evil" =
by
Robert Baer (release date February 2002)]

7.  April 1999 - Enron with a $3 billion investment to build an =
electrical
generating plant at Dabhol, India loses access to plentiful LNG supplies
from Qatar to fuel the plant. Its only remaining option to make the
investment profitable is a trans-Afghani gas pipeline to be built by =
Unocal
from Turkmenistan that would terminate near the Indian border at the =
city of
Multan. [Source: The Albion Monitor, Feb. 28, 2002]

8.  July 4, 1999 - President Clinton signs Executive Order 13129, which
freezes Taliban assets in the U.S. and prohibits trade between the =
Afghan
fundamentalist regime and U.S. entities. [Source: Federal Register, Vol. =
64,
No. 129, July 7, 1999]

9.  1998 and 2000 - Former President George H.W. Bush travels to Saudi
Arabia on behalf of the privately owned Carlyle Group, the 11th largest
defense contractor in the U.S. While there he meets privately with the =
Saudi
royal family and the bin Laden family. [Source: Wall Street Journal, =
Sept.
27, 2001. See also FTW, Vol. IV, No. 7 - "The Best Enemies Money Can =
Buy"
 <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/carlyle.html>
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/carlyle.html]

10.  March 2000 - An FBI agent, reportedly angry over a glitch in =
Carnivore
that has somehow mixed innocent non-targeted emails with those belonging =
to
Al Qaeda, destroys all of the FBI's Denver-based intercepts of bin =
Laden's
colleagues in a terrorist investigation. [Source: The Washington Post, =
May
29, 2002]

11.  2000 (est.) - The FBI refuses to disclose the date of an internal =
memo
stating that a Middle Eastern nation had been trying to purchase a =
flight
simulator. [Source: Los Angeles Times, May 30, 2002]

12.  August 2000 -- Suspected Al Qaeda operatives wiretapped by Italian
police made apparent references to plans for major attacks involving
airports, airplanes and the United States according to transcripts =
obtained
by the Los Angeles Times. The Times suggests that the information might =
not
have been passed to U.S. authorities (hard to believe), but it did =
report
that Italian authorities would not comment on the report. The Times also
noted that "Italian and U.S. anti-terrorism experts cooperate closely."
[Source: The Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2002]

13.  Oct. 24-26, 2000 - Pentagon officials carry out a "detailed" =
emergency
drill based upon the crashing of a hijacked airliner into the Pentagon.
[Source: The Mirror, May 24, 2002]

14.  January 2001 - The Bush Administration orders the FBI and =
intelligence
agencies to "back off" investigations involving the bin Laden family,
including two of Osama bin Laden's relatives (Abdullah and Omar) who =
were
living in Falls Church, Va. -- right next to CIA headquarters. This =
followed
previous orders dating back to 1996 that frustrated efforts to =
investigate
the bin Laden family. [Source: BBC Newsnight, Correspondent Gregg =
Palast,
Nov. 7, 2001]

15.  Jan. 30, 2001 - Sept. 11 hijacker Ziad Jarrah was questioned in the
United Arab Emirates (UAE). A number of UAE, Middle Eastern, European, =
and
U.S. sources were cited in this CNN report, which said the CIA requested
Jarrah be interrogated because he had been in Afghanistan and was =
suspected
to have ties to terrorists. An unnamed CIA spokesman said the other =
sources'
claims that the agency knew anything about Jarrah before Sept. 11 were
"flatly untrue." Jarrah's Jan. 30 detainment at the airport in Dubai, =
UAE
came six months after he took flying lessons in the U.S. Jarrah was =
released
because "U.S. officials were satisfied," said the report. [Source: CNN, =
Aug.
1, 2002  <http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/01/cia.hijacker/index.html>
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/01/cia.hijacker/index.html]

16.  Feb. 13, 2001 - UPI terrorism correspondent Richard Sale -- while
covering a trial of bin Laden's Al Qaeda followers -- reports that the
National Security Agency has broken bin Laden's encrypted =
communications.
Even if this indicates that bin Laden changed systems in February, it =
does
not mesh with the fact that the government insists that the attacks had =
been
planned for years.

17.  May 2001 - Secretary of State Colin Powell gives $43 million in aid =
to
the Taliban regime, purportedly to assist hungry farmers who are =
starving
since the destruction of their opium crop in January on orders of the
Taliban regime. [Source: Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2001]

18.  May 2001 - Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, a career =
covert
operative and former Navy Seal, travels to India on a publicized tour, =
while
CIA Director George Tenet makes a quiet visit to Pakistan to meet with
Pakistani leader Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Armitage has long and deep =
Pakistani
intelligence connections. It would be reasonable to assume that while in
Islamabad, Tenet, in what was described as "an unusually long meeting," =
also
met with his Pakistani counterpart, Lt. Gen. Mahmud Ahmad, head of the =
ISI.
[Source: The Indian SAPRA news agency, May 22, 2001]

19.  June 2001 - German intelligence, the BND, warns the CIA and Israel =
that
Middle Eastern terrorists are "planning to hijack commercial aircraft to =
use
as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture."
[Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Sept. 14, 2001; See
 <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/f_a_zeitung_story.html>
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/f_a_zeitung_story.html]

20.  June 8, 2001 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) publishes a
story headlined, "Central Asia: Charges Link Russian Military to Drug
Trade." According to the article, figures for 1999 published in a report =
by
the United Nations Drug Control Program (UNDCP) revealed that 80 percent =
of
the heroin consumed in Western Europe originated in Afghanistan and
Pakistan. The UNDCP report also revealed half of the drugs in that 80
percent traveled through Central Asia. A study by the Carnegie Endowment =
for
International Peace published in March 2000 said Russian soldiers
headquartered in Tajikistan were suspected of helping drug traffickers =
by
providing them with transportation facilities. This was confirmed by a
Russian intelligence officer who told the Moscow News weekly, "You can =
come
to an arrangement [with custom officials] so that the search of military
transport planes remains purely formal. The same goes for train convoys
carrying military cargo [to Russia from Tajikistan]." [Source:
 <http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2001/06/08062001111711.asp>
www.rferl.org/nca/features/2001/06/08062001111711.asp]

21.  July 2001 - FBI agents in Arizona write a memorandum warning about
suspicious activities involving a group of Middle Eastern men taking =
flight
training lessons in Phoenix. The memorandum specifically mentions Osama =
bin
Laden and warns of connections to terrorist activities. [Source: The New
York Times, May 14, 2002]

22.  summer 2001 - The National Security Council convenes a Dabhol =
working
group as revealed in a series of government e-mails obtained by the
Washington Post and the New York Daily News. [Source: The Albion =
Monitor,
Feb. 28, 2002]

23.  summer 2001 - According to a Sept. 26 story in Britain's The =
Guardian,
correspondent David Leigh reported that "U.S. department of defense
official, Dr. Jeffrey Starr, visited Tajikistan in January. The =
Guardian's
Felicity Lawrence established that U.S. Rangers were also training =
special
troops in Kyrgyzstan. There were unconfirmed reports that Tajik and =
Uzbek
special troops were training in Alaska and Montana."

24.  summer 2001 (est.) - Pakistani ISI Chief Gen. Ahmad (see above) =
orders
an aide to wire transfer $100,000 to Mohammed Atta who was, according to =
the
FBI, the lead terrorist in the suicide hijackings. Ahmad recently =
resigned
after the transfer was disclosed in India and confirmed by the FBI. The
individual who makes the wire transfer at Ahmad's direction is Ahmad =
Umar
Sheik, the lead suspect in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street =
Journal
reporter Daniel Pearl. [Source: The Times of India, Oct.11, 2001.]

25.  summer 2001 - The online newswire online.ie reports on Sept. 14 =
that an
Iranian man phones U.S. law enforcement to warn of an imminent attack on =
the
WTC in the week of Sept. 9. German police confirm the calls but state =
that
the U.S. Secret Service would not reveal any further information. =
[Source:
 <http://www.online.ie/news/viewer.adp?article=3D1512332>
http://www.online.ie/news/viewer.adp?article=3D1512332.
 <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/online_ie_story.html>
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/online_ie_story.html ]

26.  summer 2001 - Jordanian intelligence, the GID, makes a =
communications
intercept deemed so important that King Abdullah's men relay it to
Washington, probably through the CIA station in Amman. To make doubly =
sure
the message got through it was passed through an Arab intermediary to a
German intelligence agent. The message: A major attack was planned =
inside
the U.S., and aircraft would be used. The code name of the operation was
"The Big Wedding."  "When it became clear that the information was
embarrassing to Bush Administration officials and congressmen who at =
first
denied that there had been any such warnings before Sept. 11, senior
Jordanian officials backed away from their earlier confirmations." This =
case
was authenticated by ABC reporter John K. Cooley. [Source: International
Herald Tribune (IHT), May 21, 2002]

27.  summer 2001 (est.) - The National Security Agency intercepts =
telephone
conversations between bin Laden aide Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Mohammed
Atta and does not share the information with any other agencies. =
[Source:
Jonathan Landay, Knight Ridder Newspapers, June 6, 2002]

28.  June 26, 2001 - The magazine indiareacts.com states that "India and
Iran will 'facilitate' U.S. and Russian plans for 'limited military =
action'
against the Taliban." The story indicates that the fighting will be done =
by
U.S. and Russian troops with the help of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. =
[Source:
indiareacts.com, June 26, 2001]

29.  summer 2001 - Russian intelligence notifies the CIA that 25 =
terrorist
pilots have been specifically training for missions involving hijacked
airliners. This is reported in the Russian press and news stories are
translated for FTW by a retired CIA officer. (Note: The story currently =
on
the Izvestia web site has been edited to delete a key paragraph.) =
[Source:
Izvestia, Sept. 12, 2001,
 <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/izvestia_story_pic.html>
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/izvestia_story_pic.html]


30.  July 4-14, 2001 - Osama bin Laden receives treatment for kidney =
disease
at the American hospital in Dubai and meets with a CIA official, who =
returns
to CIA headquarters on July 15. [Source: Le Figaro, Oct. 31, 2001]
 <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/Le>
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/Le Figaro_osama_dubai.html

31.  July 15, 2001 - Members of the G8, meeting in Genoa, Italy, discuss =
the
Taliban, pipelines, and the handing over of Osama bin Laden. According =
to
Pakistani representative Ambassador Naiz Naik, the U.S. delegation, led =
by
former Clinton Ambassador to Pakistan Tom Simmons warned of a "military
option" if the Taliban did not change position. [Source: Jean-Charles
Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, "Bin Laden: La Verite Interdite," pp76-7.
Thanks to Prof. Peter Dale Scott]

32.  July 2001 - Immediately after the G8 Summit three American =
officials --
Tom Simmons (former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan), Karl Inderfurth =
(former
assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs) and Lee Coldren
(former State Department expert on South Asia) -- meet with Pakistani =
and
Russian intelligence officers in Berlin and tell them that the U.S. is
planning military strikes against Afghanistan in October. A French book
released in November, "Bin Laden - La Verite Interdite," discloses that
Taliban representatives often sat in on the meetings. British papers =
confirm
that the Pakistani ISI relayed the threats to the Taliban. [Source: The
Guardian, Sept. 22, 2001; the BBC, Sept. 18, 2001; The Inter Press =
Service,
Nov. 16, 2001; Alexander's Gas and Oil Connections, Feb. 21, 2002]

33.  July 2001 - The G8 summit at Genoa, Italy is surrounded by
anti-aircraft guns, and local airspace is closed off after Italian and
Egyptian officials (including President Hosni Mubarak) warn American
intelligence that airliners stuffed with explosives might be used to =
attack
President Bush. U.S. officials state that the warnings were
"unsubstantiated." (But I wonder if they would have taken away the
anti-aircraft artillery?) [Source: Los Angeles Times, Sept. 27, 2001]

34.  July 26, 2001 - CBS News reports that John Ashcroft has stopped =
flying
commercial airlines due a threat assessment. Ashcroft told the press =
that he
didn't know anything about what had caused it.

35.  Aug. 2, 2001 - U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Christine Rocca (a =
former
CIA officer), meets in Islamabad with a Taliban ambassador and demands =
the
extradition of bin Laden. This was the last known meeting on the =
subject.
[Source: Brisard and Dasquie, p 79. Thanks to Prof. Peter Dale Scott]

36.  August 2001 - The FBI arrests an Islamic militant linked to bin =
Laden
in Boston. French intelligence sources confirm that the man is a key =
member
of bin Laden's network and the FBI learns that he has been taking flying
lessons. At the time of his arrest the man is in possession of technical
information on Boeing aircraft and flight manuals. [Source: Reuters, =
Sept.
13, 2001]

37.  Aug. 11 or 12, 2001 , U.S. Navy Lt. Delmart "Mike" Vreeland, jailed =
in
Toronto on U.S. fraud charges and claiming to be an officer with U.S. =
naval
intelligence, writes details of the pending WTC attacks and seals them =
in an
envelope, which he gives to Canadian authorities. [Source: The Toronto =
Star,
Oct. 23, 2001; Toronto Superior Court Records]

38.  August 2001 - As reported in the IHT both a French magazine (name =
not
given) and a Moroccan newspaper simultaneously report that a Moroccan =
agent
named Hassan Dabou had penetrated Al Qaeda to the point of getting close =
to
bin Laden, who was "very disappointed" that the 1993 bombing had not =
toppled
the WTC. Dabou was called to the U.S. after reporting this, which =
curtailed
his ability to stay in touch with the organization and gather additional
intelligence that might have prevented the attacks. Though not proved =
beyond
a doubt, these stories have been met with a wall of silence. [The IHT, =
May
21, 2002]

39.  August 2001 - Russian President Vladimir Putin orders Russian
intelligence to warn the U.S. government "in the strongest possible =
terms"
of imminent attacks on airports and government buildings. [Source: MSNBC
interview with Putin, Sept. 15, 2001]

40.  August 2001 - President Bush receives classified intelligence =
briefings
at his Crawford, Texas ranch indicating that Osama bin Laden might be
planning to hijack commercial airliners. [CBS News; CNN, May 15, 2002]

41.  late-August 2001 - Prince Turki, the pro-U.S. head of Saudi
intelligence (also known to be close to bin Laden), is replaced by his =
more
neutral half-brother, Prince Nawwaf who is an ally of Crown Prince =
Abdullah.
[Source: Saudi Arabian Information Resource, Aug. 31, 2001;
 <http://www.saudinf.com/> http://www.saudinf.com/ - Thanks to Prof. =
Peter Dale Scott]

42.  August/September 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops =
nearly
900 points in the three weeks prior to the attack. A major stock market
crash is imminent.

43.  August/September 2001 - According to a detailed 13-page memo =
written by
Minneapolis FBI legal officer Colleen Rowley, FBI headquarters ignores
urgent, direct warnings from French intelligence services about pending
attacks. In addition, a single Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) in =
Washington
expends extra effort to thwart the field office's investigation of =
Zacarias
Moussaoui, in one case rewriting Rowley's affidavit for a search warrant =
to
search Moussaoui's laptop. Rowley's memo uses terms like "deliberately
sabotage," "block," "integrity," "omitted," "downplayed," "glossed =
over,"
"mis-characterize," "improper political reasons, "deliberately =
thwarting,"
"deliberately further undercut," "suppressed," and "not completely =
honest."
These are not terms describing negligent acts but rather, deliberate =
acts.
FBI field agents desperately attempt to get action, but to no avail. One
agent speculates that bin Laden might be planning to crash airliners =
into
the WTC, while Rowley ironically noted that the SSA who had committed =
these
deliberate actions had actually been promoted after Sept. 11. [Source:
Associated Press, May 21, 2002]

44.  Sept. 3-10, 2001 - MSNBC reports on Sept. 16 that a caller to a =
Cayman
Islands radio talk show gave several warnings of an imminent attack on =
the
U.S. by bin Laden in the week prior to 9-11.

45.  early-September 2001 - An FBI internal document, based upon field =
notes
from Minnesota field agents discloses that the agents had been =
investigating
and had questioned the "20th hijacker," Zacarias Moussaoui. The field =
notes
speculate that Moussaoui, who had been taking flight lessons, might =
crash an
airliner into the WTC. Interestingly, the field agents' requests to =
obtain a
search warrant for his personal computer were denied. French =
intelligence
confirms to the FBI that Moussaoui has ties to terrorist groups and may =
have
traveled to Afghanistan. The agents also had no knowledge of the Phoenix
memo (See Item #18). One news story states that agents were in "a =
frenzy,"
absolutely convinced that he was "going to do something with a plane."
[Source: Newsweek, May 20, 2002 issue, story by Michael Isikoff].

46.  Sept. 1-10 2001 - In an exercise, called Operation "Swift Sword" =
and
planned for four years, 23,000 British troops are steaming toward Oman.
Although the 9-11 attacks caused a hiccup in the deployment, the massive
operation was implemented as planned. At the same time two U.S. carrier
battle groups arrive on station in the Gulf of Arabia just off the =
Pakistani
coast. Also at the same time, some 17,000 U.S. troops join more than =
23,000
NATO troops in Egypt for Operation "Bright Star." All of these forces =
are in
place before the first plane hits the WTC. [Sources: The Guardian; CNN; =
Fox;
The Observer; International Law Professor Francis Boyle, the University =
of
Illinois.]

47.  Sept. 4-5, 2001 - A freshman at Brooklyn's New Utrecht High School =
who
had recently emigrated from Pakistan reportedly predicts the destruction =
of
the World Trade Center a week prior to the 9-11 attacks, according to =
the
JournalNews newspaper in White Plains, N.Y. Citing "three police sources =
and
a city official familiar with the investigation" as well as confirmation
from the FBI that the bureau had received this information, the paper
reported that in the midst of a heated class discussion the student =
pointed
to the World Trade Center from a third story window and said, "Do you =
see
those two buildings? They won't be standing there next week." New York =
City
Board of Education spokeswoman Catie Marshall confirmed for the =
JournalNews
"that school officials reported the matter to police within minutes of =
the
Sept. 11 attack" and students told the paper that "FBI agents and NYPD
detectives descended on the school on Sept. 13 to interrogate the =
student
[who made the prediction] and others in his class," which was "an =
English
class for Arab-American students." [Source: The JournalNews, Oct. 11, =
2001,
 <http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/101101/11warumors.html>
http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/101101/11warumors.html]

48.  Sept. 5, 2001 - "Five hundred websites -- many of them with an Arab =
or
Muslim connection -- crash when an anti-terrorism taskforce raids =
InfoCom
Corp. in Texas," reported Britain's the Guardian on Sept. 10, 2001. A
taskforce of approximately 80 federal agents and officials from the FBI,
Secret Service, INS, Customs, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, IRS, and
Commerce Department occupied InfoCom's office building in the Dallas =
suburb
of Richardson, Texas for four days, "copying every hard disc they could
find." InfoCom hosts many websites for Middle Eastern clients and is =
located
across the street from the Holy Land Foundation, a charitable =
organization
which has been alleged to have connections with terrorist groups. =
InfoCom's
vice president of marketing, Ghassan Elashi, is also the chairman of the
Holy Land Foundation. [Source: The Guardian, Sept. 10, 2001,
 =
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,549590,00.ht=
ml>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,549590,00.htm=
l]

49.  Sept. 7, 2001 - Florida Governor Jeb Bush signs a two-year =
emergency
executive order (01-261) making new provisions for the Florida National
Guard to assist law enforcement and emergency-management personnel in =
the
event of large civil disturbances, disaster or acts of terrorism. =
[Source:
State of Florida website listing of Governor's executive orders]

50.  Sept. 6-7, 2001 - Put options (a speculation that the stock will go
down) totaling 4,744 are purchased on United Air Lines stock, as opposed =
to
only 396 call options (speculation that the stock will go up). This is a
dramatic and abnormal increase in sales of put options. Many of the =
United
puts are purchased through Deutschebank/A.B. Brown, a firm managed until
1998 by the current executive director of the CIA, A.B. "Buzzy" =
Krongard.
[Source: The Herzliyya International Policy Institute for =
Counterterrorism
(ICT),  <http://www.ict.org.il/> http://www.ict.org.il/, Sept. 21, 2001 =
(Note:The ICT
article on
possible terrorist insider trading appeared eight days *after* the 9/11
attacks.); The New York Times; The Wall Street Journal; The San =
Francisco
Chronicle, Sept. 29, 2001]

51.  Sept. 10, 2001 - Put options totaling 4,516 are purchased on =
American
Airlines as compared to 748 call options. [Source: Herzliyya Institute -
above]

52.  Sept. 6-11, 2001 - No other airlines show any similar trading =
patterns
to those experienced by United and American. The put option purchases on
both airlines were 600 percent above normal. This at a time when Reuters
(Sept. 10) issues a business report stating, "Airline stocks may be =
poised
to take off."

53.  Sept. 6-10, 2001 - Highly abnormal levels of put options are =
purchased
in Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, AXA Re(insurance) which owns 25 =
percent of
American Airlines, and Munich Re. All of these companies are directly
impacted by the Sept. 11 attacks. [Source: ICT, above;
FTW, Oct. 18, 2001,
 <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/oct152001.html>
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/oct152001.html]

54.  2001-2002 - It has been documented that the CIA, the Israeli =
Mossad,
and many other intelligence agencies monitor stock trading in real time
using highly advanced programs reported to be descended from Promis
software. This is to alert national intelligence services of just such =
kinds
of attacks. Promis was reported as recently as June 2001 to be in Osama =
bin
Laden's possession and, as a result of recent stories by Fox, both the =
FBI
and the Justice Department have confirmed its use for U.S. intelligence
gathering through at least summer 2002. This would confirm that CIA had
additional advance warning of imminent attacks. [Sources: The Washington
Times, June 15, 2001; Fox, Oct. 16, 2001;
FTW, Oct. 26, 2001, -
 <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/11_19_01_magic_carpet.html>
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/11_19_01_magic_carpet.html
FTW, Vol. IV, No. 6, Sept. 18, 2001 -
 <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/sept1801.html>
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/sept1801.html;
FTW, Vol. III, No. 7, Sept. 30, 2000 -
 <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/pandora/052401_promis.html>
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/pandora/052401_promis.html]

55.  Sept. 9, 2001 - President George W. Bush is presented with detailed =
war
plans to overthrow Al Qaeda, according to U.S. and foreign sources =
speaking
to NBC News. [Source: MSNBC, May 16, 2002. Thanks to Prof. Peter Dale =
Scott]

56.  Sept. 10, 2001 - This item has been removed solely at the request =
of
the party previously named in this entry. Recent court proceedings - =
which
occurred after the news story we had cited - have indicated that there =
was
no connection between the story listed here, the person named therein =
and
the attacks of 9-11-01. At the request of the previously named party, =
FTW
has replaced the $1,000 reward with a $1,000 donation to The Childrens
Defense Fund on behalf of the named party and the issue is now amicably
resolved without any hard feelings between that party and FTW.

57.  Sept. 10, 2001 - According to Newsweek, a group of top Pentagon
officials suddenly cancelled travel plans for the next morning, =
apparently
because of security concerns. [Source: Newsweek, Sept. 24, 2001]

58.  Sept. 10, 2001 - The Houston Chronicle reports the FBI was notified =
of
a fifth grader from a Dallas suburb who told his teacher, "Tomorrow, =
World
War III will begin. It will begin in the United States, and the United
States will lose." The Chronicle was unclear on specifically when =
Garland,
Texas school district officials told the FBI about the incident, but it =
was
some time between Sept. 13, 2001 and the story's publication date of =
Sept.
19, 2001. [Source: Houston Chronicle, Sept. 19, 2001
 <http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1055222>
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1055222]

59.  Sept. 10, 2001 - San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown receives a call =
from
what he described as "his security people at the airport" eight hours =
before
the terrorist attacks "advising him that Americans should be cautious =
about
their air travel," as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. Brown was
scheduled to fly to New York from San Francisco International Airport. =
He
told the Chronicle the call "didn't come in any alarming fashion, which =
is
why I'm hesitant to make any alarming statement." [Source: San Francisco
Chronicle, Sept. 12, 2001,
 <http://www.sfgate.com/today/0912_chron_mnreport.shtml>
http://www.sfgate.com/today/0912_chron_mnreport.shtml]

60.  Sept. 11, 2001 - The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the =
federal
agency that runs many of the nation's spy satellites, schedules an =
exercise
involving a plane crashing into one of the agency's buildings. "On the
morning of Sept. 11, 2001," according to a website advertising a =
homeland
security conference in Chicago run by the National Law Enforcement and
Security Institute, CIA official John Fulton and his team "were running =
a
pre-planned simulation to explore the emergency response issues that =
would
be created if a plane were to strike a building. Little did they know =
that
the scenario would come true in a dramatic way." Fulton is the head of =
the
NRO's strategic gaming division. [Source: National Law Enforcement and
Security Institute,  <http://www.nlsi.net> http://www.nlsi.net,
 =
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=3Dstory&u=3D/ap/20020821/ap_wo_en_=
ge/us_se>
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=3Dstory&u=3D/ap/20020821/ap_wo_en_g=
e/us_se
pt_11_plane_exercise_1]

61.  Sept. 11, 2001 - After the attacks on the World Trade Center and
Pentagon occur, National Public Radio's congressional correspondent =
David
Welna reports, "I spoke with congressman Ike Skelton, a Democrat from
Missouri and a member of the Armed Services Committee, who said that =
just
recently the director of the CIA warned that there could be an attack -- =
an
imminent attack - on the United States of this nature. So this is not
entirely unexpected." [Source:  =
<http://www.thememoryhole.org/updates.htm>
http://www.thememoryhole.org/updates.htm]

62.  Sept. 11, 2001 - United Air Lines flight 23, scheduled to fly from =
New
York City to Los Angeles was delayed after four Muslim passengers began
demanding that the plane take off immediately. This happened apparently
after the first plane had hit the WTC. The passengers were thrown off =
the
flight. [Source: The Globe and Mail, June 13, 2002]

63.  Sept. 11, 2001 - Gen. Mahmud of the ISI (see #16), friend of =
Mohammed
Atta, is visiting Washington on behalf of the Taliban. He is meeting =
with
the Chairmen of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Rep. =
Porter
Goss, R-Fla., and Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., [Source: MSNBC, Oct. 7, 2001; =
The
New York Times, Feb. 17, 2002]

64.  Sept. 11, 2001 - Employees of Odigo, Inc. in Israel, one of the =
world's
largest instant messaging companies with offices in New York, receive =
threat
warnings of an imminent attack on the WTC less than two hours before the
first plane hits. Law enforcement authorities have gone silent about any
investigation of this. The Odigo research and development offices in =
Israel
are located in the city of Herzliyya, a ritzy suburb of Tel Aviv that is =
the
same location as the Institute for Counter Terrorism, which eight days =
later
reports details of insider trading on 9-11. [Source: CNN's Daniel =
Sieberg,
Sept. 28, 2001; MSNBC Newsbytes, Brian McWilliams, Sept. 27, 2001; =
Ha'aretz,
Sept. 26, 2001]

65.  Sept. 11, 2001 - For 50 minutes, from 8:15 AM until 9:05 AM, with =
it
widely known within the FAA and the military that four planes have been
simultaneously hijacked and taken off course, no one notifies the =
President
of the United States. It is not until 9:30 that any Air Force planes are
scrambled to intercept, but by then it is too late. This means that the
National Command Authority waited for 75 minutes before scrambling =
aircraft,
even though it was known that four simultaneous hijackings had occurred.
[Source: CNN; ABC; MSNBC; Los Angeles Times; The New York Times;
 <http://www.tenc.net> www.tenc.net]

66.  Sept. 11-12, 2001 - Nearly a month before the first reported =
outbreak,
White House officials start taking the powerful antibiotic Cipro to =
treat
anthrax. By the end of the year it will be known that the Ames strain of
anthrax used in the attacks against Sens. Leahy and Daschle was produced =
by
CIA programs coordinated through Fort Detrick, the Batelle Memorial
Institute and the Dugway Proving Ground. [Source: NBC; CNN;
 <http://www.tetrahedron.org> www.tetrahedron.org,  =
<http://www.judicialwatch.org>
www.judicialwatch.org]

67.  Sept. 13, 2001 - China is admitted to the World Trade Organization
quickly, after years of unsuccessful attempts. [Source: The New York =
Times,
Sept. 30, 2001]

68.  Sept. 14, 2001 - Canadian jailers open the sealed envelope from =
Mike
Vreeland in Toronto and see that is describes attacks against the WTC =
and
Pentagon. The U.S. Navy subsequently states that Vreeland was discharged =
as
a seaman in 1986 for unsatisfactory performance and has never worked in
intelligence. [Source: The Toronto Star, Oct. 23, 2001; Toronto Superior
Court records]

69.  Sept. 15, 2001 - The New York Times reports that Mayo Shattuck III =
has
resigned, effective immediately, as head of the Alex Brown (A.B.) unit =
of
Deutschebank.

70.  Sept. 29, 2001 - The San Francisco Chronicle reports that $2.5 =
million
in put options on American and United airlines are unclaimed. This is =
likely
the result of the suspension in trading on the New York Stock Exchange =
after
the attacks, which gave the Securities and Exchange Commission time to =
be
waiting when the owners showed up to redeem their put options.

71.  Oct. 10, 2001 - The Pakistani newspaper The Frontier Post reports =
that
U.S. Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain has paid a call on the Pakistani oil
minister. A previously abandoned Unocal gas pipeline project from
Turkmenistan, across Afghanistan, to Pakistan is now back on the table =
"in
view of recent geopolitical developments."

72.  Oct. 11, 2001 - The Ashcroft Justice Department takes over all
terrorist prosecutions from the U.S. Attorneys office in New York, which =
has
had a highly successful track record in prosecuting terrorist cases
connected to Osama bin Laden. [Source: The New York Times, Oct. 11, =
2001]

73.  mid-October 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average, after having
suffered a precipitous drop has recovered most of its pre-attack losses.
Although still weak and vulnerable to negative earnings reports, a crash =
has
been averted by a massive infusion of government spending on defense
programs, subsidies for "affected" industries and planned tax cuts for
corporations.

74.  Oct. 29, 2001 - The Bush Administration drafts "an executive order =
that
would usher in a new era of secrecy for presidential records and allow =
an
incumbent president to withhold a former president's papers even if the
former president wanted to make them public," wrote the Washington Post. =
The
order also required members of the public to prove "at least a
=D4demonstrated, specific need'" for a president's papers to be =
released.
Critics contend this would overturn the 1978 Presidential Records Act, =
which
releases documents after 12 years. The White House maintained that a =
Supreme
Court decision in 1977 allows presidents various privileges for their
records. [Source: Washington Post, Nov. 1, 2001,
 =
<http://washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20731-2001Oct31?language=3Dprinter=
>
http://washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20731-2001Oct31?language=3Dprinter]=


75.  Nov. 21, 2001 - The British paper The Independent runs a story
headlined, "Opium Farmers Rejoice at the Defeat of the Taliban." The =
story
reports that massive opium planting is underway all over the country.

76.  Nov. 25, 2001 - The Observer runs a story headlined "Victorious
Warlords Set To Open the Opium Floodgates." It states that farmers are =
being
encouraged by warlords allied with the victorious Americans are "being
encouraged to plant as much opium as possible."

77.  Dec. 4, 2001 - Convicted drug lord and opium kingpin Ayub Afridi is
recruited by the U.S. government to help establish control in =
Afghanistan by
unifying various Pashtun warlords. The former opium smuggler who was one =
of
the CIA's leading assets in the war against the Russians is released =
from
prison in order to do this. [Source: The Asia Times Online, Dec. 4, =
2001]

78.  Dec. 25, 2001 - Newly appointed Afghani Prime Minister Hamid Karzai =
is
revealed as being a former paid consultant for Unocal. [Source: Le =
Monde]

79.  Jan. 3, 2002 - President Bush appoints Zalmy Khalilzad as a special
envoy to Afghanistan. Khalilzad, a former employee of Unocal, also wrote
op-eds in the Washington Post in 1997 supporting the Taliban regime.
[Source: Pravda, Jan. 9, 2002]

80.  Jan. 4, 2002 - Florida drug trafficking explodes after 9-11. In a =
surge
of trafficking reminiscent of the 1980s the diversion of resources away =
from
drug enforcement has opened the floodgates for a new surge of cocaine =
and
heroin from South America. [The Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 4, 2002]

81.  Jan. 10, 2002 - In a call from a speaker phone in open court, =
attorneys
for Mike Vreeland call the Pentagon's switchboard operator, who confirms
that Vreeland is indeed a naval lieutenant on active duty. She provides =
an
office number and a direct dial phone extension to his office in the
Pentagon. [Source: Attorney Rocco Galati; Toronto Superior Court =
records]

82.  Jan. 10, 2002 - Attorney General John Ashcroft recuses himself from =
the
Enron investigation because Enron had been a major campaign donor in his
2000 Senate race. He fails to recuse himself from involvement in two =
sitting
federal grand juries investigating bribery and corruption charges =
against
ExxonMobil and BP Amoco, which have massive oil interests in Central =
Asia.
Both were major Ashcroft donors in 2000. [Source: CNN, Jan. 10, 2002; =
FTW,
"The Elephant in the Living Room, Part I," April 4, 2002,
 <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/04_04_02_elephant.html>
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/04_04_02_elephant.html]

83.  Jan. 23, 2002 - Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is =
kidnapped
in Pakistan. Pearl is reported dead on Feb. 21. Lead suspect Ahmad Umar
Sheik, former colleague of Gen. Ahmad, is arrested on Feb. 12 and named =
as
the lead suspect in the kidnapping and murder. Legal sources close to =
the
Pakistani government tell FTW that Pearl was investigating the ISI. =
[Source:
CNN.com]

84.  Feb. 9, 2002 - Pakistani leader Gen. Musharraf and Afghan leader =
Hamid
Karzai announce their agreement to "cooperate in all spheres of =
activity,"
including the proposed Central Asian pipeline. Pakistan will give $10
million to Afghanistan to help pay Afghan government workers. [Source: =
The
Irish Times, Feb. 9, 2002]

85.  Feb. 18, 2002 - The Financial Times reports that the estimated =
opium
harvest in Afghanistan in the late-spring 2002 will reach a world record
4,500 metric tons.

86.  mid-April, 2002 - World Bank chief James Wolfensohn, at the opening =
of
the World Bank's offices in Kabul, states he has held talks about =
financing
the Trans-Afghanistan gas pipeline. He confirms $100 million in new =
grants
for the interim Afghani government. Wolfensohn also states that a number =
of
companies have already expressed interest in the project. [Source:
Alexander's Gas and oil Connections, citing an Agence France-Presse =
story]

87. May 13, 2002 - The BBC reports that Afghanistan is about to close a =
deal
for construction of the $2 billion gas pipeline to run from Turkmenistan =
to
Pakistan and India. The story states, "work on the project will start =
after
an agreement is expected to be struck" at a summit scheduled for the end =
of
the month. Unocal will build the pipeline. [Source: BBC, May 13, 2002]

88.  May 2002 - A number of sources report progress on both oil and gas
pipelines. Regional sources state that Unocal will re-emerge as a =
pipeline
contender after withdrawing from the CentGas pipeline project in 1998.
Unocal denies plans to revive the gas pipeline but curiously neglects to
mention whether or not it has any interest in the oil pipeline, which =
local
sources say is moving ahead. [Source: The Dawn Group of Newspapers, May =
7,
May 17, May 22, 2002]

89. May 30, 2002 - Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai,
Turkmenistan's President Niyazov, and Pakistani President Musharraf meet =
in
Islamabad to sign a memorandum of understanding on the trans-Afghanistan =
gas
pipeline project. The three leaders will meet for more talks on the =
project
in October. The Turkmen-Afghan-Pakistani gas pipeline accord has been
published and can be viewed at the following website:
 <http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/nts22622.htm>
http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/nts22622.htm. [Source: NewsBase, June =
5,
2002]

90.  May 16, 2002 - White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer states
unequivocally that while President Bush had been warned of possible
hijackings, "The president did not -- not -- receive information about =
the
use of airplanes as missiles by suicide bombers." [Source: CBS News, May =
15,
2002]

91. May 19, 2002 - Former FBI Agent Tyrone Powers, now a professor at =
Anne
Arundel Community College states on radio station KISS 98.7 that he has
credible evidence suggesting that the Bush Administration did in fact =
allow
the Sept. 11 attacks to further a hidden agenda. [Source:
 <http://www.indymedia.org> http://www.indymedia.org - May 20, 2002]

92. May 31, 2002 - FBI Agent Robert Wright delivers a tearful press
conference at the National Press Club describing his lawsuit against the =
FBI
for deliberately curtailing investigations that might have prevented the
9-11 attacks. He uses words like "prevented," "thwarted," "obstructed,"
"threatened," "intimidated," and "retaliation" to describe the actions =
of
his superiors in blocking his attempts to shut off money flows to Al =
Qaeda
and other terrorist groups. These are not words of negligence. They are
words describing deliberate and malicious actions. [Source: C-SPAN =
website]

93. June 4, 2002 - Air Force Lt. Col. Steve Butler, who had called =
President
Bush a joke and accused him of allowing the Sept. 11 attacks to happen, =
is
suspended from his post at the Defense Language School in Monterey, =
Calif.
and could face a court martial. [Source: Associated Press, June 4, 2002]

94.  June 14, 2002 - Common Dreams website publishes an account from a
former member of the 1/118th Infantry Battalion of the South Carolina
National Guard: "My unit reported for drill in July 2001 and we were
suddenly and unexpectedly informed that all activities planned for the =
next
two months would be suspended in order to prepare  for a mobilization
exercise to be held on Sept. 14, 2001. We worked diligently for two =
weekends
and even came in on an unscheduled day in August to prepare for the
exercise. By the end of August all we needed was a phone call, which we =
were
to expect, and we could hop into a fully prepared convoy with our bags =
and
equipment packed." [Source: Common Dreams,
 <http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0614-02.htm>
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0614-02.htm]

95.  June 17, 2002 - Reuters reports that Butler's case has been =
resolved
without the necessity of a court martial. (I guess so. There's enough
material here to prove him right. -- MCR) [Reuters, June 17, 2002]

96.  July 2, 2002 - Motions from Zacarias Moussaoui are unsealed in =
federal
court, indicating that Moussaoui wants to testify before both a grand =
jury
and Congress about the Sept. 11 attacks. Moussaoui claims to have
information showing that the U.S. government wanted the attacks to =
happen.
[Source: The Washington Post, July 3, 2002]

97.  July 3, 2002 - The first-ever shipment of Russian oil, 200,000 =
metric
tons, arrives in Houston. [Source: The Moscow Times, July 6, 2002].

98.  July 6, 2002 - Afghan Vice President Hajji Abdul Qadir is =
assassinated
by Afghan warlords. The New York Times reports that Qadir may have been
assassinated by opium warlords upset by Qadir's efforts to reduce the
rampant opium farming and processing that has taken place since the U.S.
occupation. Qadir had been overseeing a Western-backed eradication =
program,
according to the Times. However, the opium warlords of the region are =
same
ones sponsored, protected, and in some cases released from prison by the =
CIA
and who have been protected by President Bush's special envoy, Zalmay
Khalilzad. It is reported that the raw opium is being refined near U.S.
bases at Kandahar. [Sources: The New York Times, July 8, 2002; Far =
Eastern
Economic Review, April 18, 2002]

99.  July 26, 2002 - White House security prevented the legal =
watch-group
Judicial Watch from serving Vice President Cheney with a lawsuit filed =
on
behalf of Halliburton shareholders. Before becoming vice president =
Cheney
was CEO of Halliburton, which has filed for bankruptcy. [Source: =
Cybercast
News Service, cnsnews.com]

100.  Aug. 2, 2002 - The FBI asked members of the House and Senate
intelligence committees to take lie-detector tests as investigators try =
to
determine who leaked information to CNN about communications in Arabic =
that
made vague references to an impending attack on the United States. The
communications were intercepted by the National Security Agency on Sept. =
10
but weren't translated until Sept. 12. [Source: Associated Press story
published in the Boston Globe, Aug. 2, 2002,
 <http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/08.03A.fbi.lie.det.p.htm>
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/08.03A.fbi.lie.det.p.htm]

101.  Aug. 5, 2002 - The Associated Press reported Russia's major role =
over
the last five years in the trafficking of Afghan heroin into Europe.
[Source: Santa Fe New Mexican, Aug. 5, 2002,  =
<http://www.sfnewmexican.com>
www.sfnewmexican.com]

102.  Aug. 16, 2002 - A Knight Ridder story discloses that members of
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's staff have created a special =
planning
unit for an invasion of Iraq. The unit is composed primarily of =
civilians
and was spearheaded by conservative members of Rumsfeld's staff, such as
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. The story was headlined, =
"White
House Methodically Preparing for Iraq Campaign." [Source: Knight Ridder
Newspapers,  <http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/08.17B.wh.prep.irq.htm>
www.truthout.org/docs02/08.17B.wh.prep.irq.p.htm]

103.  Aug. 28, 2002 - The Globe and Mail of Canada reports Afghanistan =
will
become the world's top producer of opium this year, surpassing Southeast
Asia. [Source: the Globe and Mail, Aug. 28, 2002]

Now, let's go back to the Oct. 31 story by Le Figaro -- the one that has
Osama bin Laden meeting with a CIA officer in Dubai in July 2001.

The story says, "Throughout his stay in the hospital, Osama Bin Laden
received visits from many family members [There goes the story that he's =
a
black sheep! --MCR] and Saudi Arabian Emirate personalities of status.
During this time the local representative of the CIA was seen by many =
people
taking the elevator and going to bin Laden's room.

"Several days later the CIA officer bragged to his friends about having
visited the Saudi millionaire. From authoritative sources, this CIA =
agent
visited CIA headquarters on July 15, the day after bin Laden's departure =
for
Quetta.

"According to various Arab diplomatic sources and French intelligence
itself, precise information was communicated to the CIA concerning =
terrorist
attacks aimed at American interests in the world, including its own
territory.

"Extremely bothered, they [American intelligence officers in a meeting =
with
French intelligence officers] requested from their French peers exact
details about the Algerian activists [connected to bin Laden through =
Dubai
banking institutions], without explaining the exact nature of their =
inquiry.
When asked the question, What do you fear in the coming days?' the =
Americans
responded with incomprehensible silence.

"On further investigation, the FBI discovered certain plans that had =
been
put together between the CIA and its 'Islamic friends' over the years. =
The
meeting in Dubai is, so it would seem, consistent with 'a certain =
American
policy.'"

Even though Le Figaro reported that it had confirmed with hospital staff
that bin Laden had been there as reported, stories printed on Nov. 1
contained quotes from hospital staff that these reports were untrue. On =
Nov.
1, as reported by the Ananova press agency, the CIA flatly denied that =
any
meeting between any CIA personnel and Osama bin Laden at any time.


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Europe: "You had
to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, =
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confessed] to the
Qaeda September [attack] to the two towers in New York [claiming to be] =
the author of
the attack of the 11, while all the [intelligence services] of America =
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all United States
corporations.  This conjunction of an immense military establishment and =
a large arms
industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- =
economic, political,
even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office =
of the Federal
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sought or unsought,
by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous =
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power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this =
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our liberties or democratic processes.=94 President Dwight D. Eisenhower =
in a televised
speech 1961

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bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an =
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possibilities and
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conspiracy so monstrous he
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its [corrupt feudal] government." -- Thomas Paine. =93Each of you, for =
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style=3D'font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Astute observers of history are aware that for =
every
notable event<br>
there will usually be at least one, often several wild conspiracy<br>
theories which spring up around it. &quot;The CIA killed Hendrix&quot;
&quot;The Pope<br>
had John Lennon murdered&quot;, &quot;Hitler was half Werewolf&quot;,
&quot;Space aliens<br>
replaced Nixon with a clone&quot;, etc, etc. The bigger the event, the =
more<br>
ridiculous and more numerous are the fanciful rantings which =
circulate<br>
in relation to it.<br>
<br>
So its hardly surprising that the events of Sept 11 2001 have =
spawned<br>
their fair share of these ludicrous fairy tales. And as always, =
there<br>
is -- sadly -- a small but gullible percentage of the population =
eager<br>
to lap up these tall tales, regardless of facts or rational =
analysis.<br>
One of the wilder stories circulating about Sept 11, and one that =
has<br>
attracted something of a cult following amongst conspiracy buffs is<br>
that it was carried out by 19 fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded<br>
by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, with no apparent motivation<br>
other than that they &quot;hate our freedoms.&quot;<br>
<br>
Never a group of people to be bothered by facts, the perpetrators of<br>
this cartoon fantasy have constructed an elaborately woven web of<br>
delusions and unsubstantiated hearsay in order to promote this =
garbage<br>
across the internet and the media to the extent that a number of<br>
otherwise rational people have actually fallen under its spell.<br>
<br>
Normally I don't even bother debunking this kind of junk, but the<br>
effect that this paranoid myth is beginning to have requires a =
little<br>
rational analysis, in order to consign it to the same rubbish bin as<br>
all such silly conspiracy theories. These crackpots even contend =
that<br>
the extremist Bush regime was caught unawares by the attacks, had no<br>
hand in organizing them, and actually would have stopped them if it<br>
had been able.<br>
<br>
Blindly ignoring the stand down of the US air-force, the insider<br>
trading on airline stocks -- linked to the CIA, the complicit =
behavior<br>
of Bush on the morning of the attacks, the controlled demolition of<br>
the WTC, the firing of a missile into the Pentagon and a host of =
other<br>
documented proofs that the Bush regime was behind the attacks, the<br>
conspiracy theorists stick doggedly to a silly story about 19 Arab<br>
hijackers somehow managing to commandeer 4 planes simultaneously and<br>
fly them around US airspace for nearly 2 hours, crashing them into<br>
important buildings, without the US intelligence services having any<br>
idea that it was coming, and without the Air Force knowing what to =
do.<br>
The huge difficulties with such a stupid story force them to invent<br>
even more preposterous stories to distract from its core silliness,<br>
and thus the tale has escalated into a mythic fantasy of truly<br>
gargantuan proportions.<br>
<br>
It's difficult to apply rational analysis to such unmitigated<br>
stupidity, but that is the task which I take on in this article.<br>
However, it should be noted that one of the curious characteristics =
of<br>
conspiracy theorists is that they effortlessly change their so =
called<br>
evidence in response to each aspect which is debunked. As soon as =
one<br>
delusion is unmasked, they simply invent another to replace it, and<br>
deny that the first ever existed. Eventually, when they have turned<br>
full circle through this endlessly changing fantasy fog , they then =
re-<br>
invent the original delusion and deny that you ever debunked it, =
thus<br>
beginning the circle once more.<br>
<br>
This technique is known as &quot;the fruit loop&quot; and saves the =
conspiracy<br>
theorist from ever having to see any of their ideas through to their<br>
(ill)logical conclusions. According to the practitioners of the =
fruit<br>
loop, 19 Arabs took over the 4 planes by subduing the passengers and<br>
crew through the use of guns,knives,box cutters and gas, and then =
used<br>
electronic guidance systems which they had smuggled on board to fly<br>
the planes to their targets.<br>
<br>
The suspension of disbelief required for this outrageous concoction =
is<br>
only for the hard core conspiracy theorist. For a start, they<br>
conveniently skip over the awkward fact that there weren't any Arabs<br>
on the planes. If there were, one must speculate that they somehow =
got<br>
on board without being filmed by any of the security cameras and<br>
without being registered on the passenger lists. But the curly<br>
question of how they are supposed to have got on board is all too<br>
mundane for the exciting world of the conspiracy theorist. With =
vague<br>
mumblings that they must have been using false ID ( but never<br>
specifying which IDs they are alleged to have used, or how these =
were<br>
traced to their real identities), they quickly bypass this problem, =
to<br>
relate exciting and sinister tales about how some of the fictitious<br>
fiends were actually searched before boarding because they looked<br>
suspicious.<br>
<br>
However, as inevitably happens with any web of lies, this simply<br>
paints them into an even more difficult corner. How are they =
supposed<br>
to have got on board with all that stuff if they were searched? And =
if<br>
they used gas in a confined space, they would have been affected<br>
themselves unless they also had masks in their luggage. &quot;Excuse =
me<br>
sir, why do you have a boxcutter, a gun, a container of gas, a gas<br>
mask and an electronic guidance unit in your luggage?&quot; &quot;A =
present for<br>
your grandmother? Very well sir, on you get.&quot; &quot;Very =
strange&quot;,
thinks<br>
the security officer. &quot;That's the fourth Arabic man without an =
Arabic<br>
name who just got on board with a knife, gun or boxcutter and gas<br>
mask. And why does that security camera keep flicking off every time<br>
one these characters shows up? Must be one of those days I =
guess...&quot;<br>
<br>
Asking any of these basic questions to a conspiracy theorist is =
likely<br>
to cause a sudden leap to the claim that we know that they were on<br>
board because they left a credit card trail for the tickets they had<br>
purchased and cars they had rented. So if they used credit cards =
that<br>
identified them, how does that reconcile with the claim that they =
used<br>
false IDs to get on to the plane? But by this time, the fruit loop =
is<br>
in full swing, as the conspiracy theorist<br>
<br>
tries to stay one jump ahead of this annoying and awkward rational<br>
analysis.They will allege that the hijackers' passports were found =
at<br>
the crash scenes. &quot;So there!&quot; they exalt triumphantly, their
fanatical<br>
faces lighting up with that deranged look of one who has just a<br>
revelation of questionable sanity. Hmm? So they got on board with<br>
false IDs but took their real passports with them?<br>
<br>
However, by this time the fruit loop has been completely<br>
circumnavigated,and the conspiracy theorist exclaims impatiently, =
&quot;Who<br>
said anything about false IDs? We know what seats they were sitting<br>
in! Their presence is well documented!&quot; And so the whole loop =
starts<br>
again. &quot;Well, why aren't they on the passenger lists?&quot; =
&quot;You
numbskull!<br>
They assumed the identities of other passengers!&quot; And so on...<br>
<br>
Finally, out of sheer fascination with this circular method of<br>
creative delusion, the rational sceptic will allow them to get away<br>
with this loop, in order to move on to the next question, and see =
what<br>
further delights await us in the unraveling of this marvelously =
stupid<br>
story. &quot;Uh, how come their passports survived fiery crashes =
that<br>
completely incinerated the planes and all the passengers? &quot;<br>
<br>
The answer of course is that its just one of those strange co-<br>
incidences, those little quirks of fate that do happen from time to<br>
time. You know, like the same person winning the lottery four weeks =
in<br>
a row. The odds are astronomical, but these things do happen...<br>
<br>
This is another favourite deductive method of the conspiracy =
theorist.<br>
The &quot;improbability drive&quot;, in which they decide upon a =
conclusion<br>
without any evidence whatsoever to support it, and then continually<br>
speculate a series of wildly improbable events and unbelievable co-<br>
incidences to support it, shrugging off the implausibility of each<br>
event with the vague assertion that sometimes the impossible happens<br>
(just about all the time in their world).<br>
<br>
There is a principle called &quot;Occam's razor&quot; which suggests =
that in
the<br>
absence of evidence to the contrary, the simplest explanation is =
most<br>
likely to be correct. Conspiracy theorists hate Occam's razor. =
Having<br>
for the sake of amusement, allowed them to get away with with the<br>
silly story of the 19 invisible Arabs, we move on to the question of<br>
how they are supposed to have taken over the planes. Hijacking a =
plane<br>
is not an easy thing to do. Hijacking it without the pilot being =
able<br>
to alert ground control is near impossible. The pilot has only to<br>
punch in a four digit code to alert ground control to a hijacking.<br>
<br>
Unconcerned with the awkward question of plausibility, the =
conspiracy<br>
buffs maintain that on that Sept 11, the invisible hijackers took =
over<br>
the plane by the rather crude method of threatening people with<br>
boxcutters and knives, and spraying gas (after they had attached =
their<br>
masks, obviously), but somehow took control of the plane without the<br>
crew first getting a chance to punch in the hijacking code. Not just<br>
on one plane, but on all four.<br>
<br>
At this point in the tale, the conspiracy theorist is again forced =
to<br>
call upon the services of the improbability drive. So now that our<br>
incredibly lucky hijackers have taken control of the planes, all =
four<br>
pilots fly them with breath taking skill and certainty to their =
fiery<br>
end, all four pilots unflinching in their steely resolve for a swift<br>
meeting with Allah. Apart from their psychotic hatred of &quot;our<br>
freedoms&quot;, it was their fanatical devotion to Islam which enabled =
them<br>
to summon up the iron will to do this. Which is strange, because<br>
according to another piece of hearsay peddled by the conspiracy =
buffs,<br>
these guys actually went out drinking and womanizing the night =
before<br>
their great martyrdom, even leaving their Korans in the bar -really<br>
impeccable Islamic behavior -- and then got up at 5am the next =
morning<br>
to pull off the greatest covert operation in history.<br>
<br>
This also requires us to believe that they were even clear headed<br>
enough to learn how to fly the huge planes by reading flight manuals<br>
in Arabic in the car on the way to the airport. We know this because<br>
they supposedly left the flight manuals there for us to find. It =
gets<br>
better. Their practical training had allegedly been limited to =
Cessnas<br>
and flight simulators, but this was no barrier to the unflinching<br>
certainty with which they took over the planes and skillfully guided<br>
them to their doom. If they are supposed to have done their flight<br>
training with these tools, which would be available just about<br>
anywhere in the world, its not clear why they would have decided to<br>
risk blowing their cover to US intelligence services by doing the<br>
training in Florida, rather than somewhere in the Middle East, but<br>
such reasoning is foreign to the foggy world of the conspiracy<br>
theorist, too trapped in the constant rotation of the mental fruit<br>
loop to make their unsubstantiated fabrications seem even semi-<br>
believable.<br>
<br>
Having triumphantly established a circular delusion in support of =
the<br>
mythical Arabs, the conspiracy theorist now confronts the difficult<br>
question of why there's nothing left of the planes.<br>
<br>
Anybody who has seen the endlessly replayed footage of the second<br>
plane going into the WTC will realize that the plane was packed with<br>
explosives. Planes do not and cannot blow up into nothing in that<br>
manner when they crash. Did the mythical Arabs also haul a huge heap<br>
of explosives on board, and mange to deploy them in such a manner =
that<br>
they went off in the exact instant of the crash, completely<br>
vapourizing the plane?<br>
<br>
This is a little difficult even for the conspiracy theorist, who at<br>
this point decides that its easier to invent new laws of physics in<br>
order to keep the delusion rolling along. There weren't any<br>
explosives. It wasn't an inside job. The plane blew up into nothing<br>
from its exploding fuel load! Remarkable! Sluggishly combustible jet<br>
fuel which is basically kerosine,and which burns at a maximum<br>
temperature of around 800 C has suddenly taken on the qualities of a<br>
ferociously explosive demolition agent, vapourizing 65 tons of<br>
aircraft into a puff of smoke. Never mind that a plane of that size<br>
contains around 15 tons of steel and titanium, of which even the<br>
melting points are about double that of the maximum combustion<br>
temperature of kerosine -- let alone the boiling point -- which is<br>
what would be required to vapourize a plane. And then there's about =
50<br>
tons of aluminium to be accounted for. In excess of 15lbs of metal =
for<br>
each gallon of kerosine.<br>
<br>
For the conspiracy theorist, such inconvenient facts are vaguely<br>
dismissed as &quot;mumbo jumbo&quot;. This convenient little phrase is =
their<br>
answer to just about anything factual or logical. Like a conjurer<br>
pulling a rabbit out of a hat, they suddenly become fanatically<br>
insistent about the devastating explosive qualities of kerosine,<br>
something hitherto completely unknown to science, but just =
discovered<br>
by them, this very minute.<br>
<br>
Blissfully ignoring the fact that never before or since in aviation<br>
history has a plane vapourized into nothing from an exploding fuel<br>
load, the conspiracy theorist relies upon Hollywood images, where =
the<br>
effects are are always larger than life, and certainly larger than =
the<br>
intellects of these cretins. &quot;Its a well known fact that planes =
blow<br>
up into nothing on impact.&quot; they state with pompous certainty. =
&quot;Watch<br>
any Bruce Willis movie.&quot; &quot;Care to provide any documented =
examples? If<br>
it's a well known fact, then presumably this well known fact springs<br>
from some kind of documentation -- other than Bruce Willis =
movies?&quot;<br>
<br>
At this point the mad but cunning eyes of the conspiracy theorist =
will<br>
narrow as they sense the corner that they have backed themselves =
into,<br>
and plan their escape by means of another stunning backflip. &quot;Ah, =
but<br>
planes have never crashed into buildings before, so there's no way =
of<br>
telling.&quot; they counter with a sly grin.<br>
<br>
Well, actually planes have crashed into buildings before and since,<br>
and not vapourized into nothing. &quot;But not big planes, with that =
much<br>
fuel &quot;, they shriek in hysterical denial. Or that much metal to<br>
vapourize. &quot;Yes but not hijacked planes!&quot;<br>
<br>
&quot;Are you suggesting that whether the crash is deliberate or =
accidental<br>
affects the combustion qualities of the fuel?&quot; &quot;Now you're =
just being<br>
silly&quot;. Although collisions with buildings are rare, planes =
frequently<br>
crash into mountains, streets, other aircraft, nosedive into the<br>
ground,or have bombs planted aboard them, and don't vapourize into<br>
nothing. What's so special about a tower that's mostly glass?<br>
<br>
But by now, the conspiracy theorist has once again sailed happily<br>
around the fruit loop. &quot;Its a well documented fact that planes =
explode<br>
into nothing on impact.&quot; Effortlessly weaving back and forth =
between<br>
the position that its a &quot;well known fact&quot; and that &quot;its =
never
happened<br>
before, so we have nothing to compare it to&quot;, the conspiracy =
theorist<br>
has now convinced themselves ( if not too many other people) that =
the<br>
WTC plane was not loaded with explosives, and that the instant<br>
vapourization of the plane in a massive fireball was the same as any<br>
other plane crash you might care to mention. Round and round the<br>
fruit. loop...<br>
<br>
But the hurdles which confront the conspiracy theorist are many, and<br>
they are now forced to implement even more creative uses for the =
newly<br>
discovered shockingly destructive qualities of kerosine. They have =
to<br>
explain how the Arabs also engineered the elegant veritcal collapse =
of<br>
both the WTC towers, and for this awkward fact the easiest counter =
is<br>
to simply deny that it was a controlled demolition, and claim that =
the<br>
buildings collapsed from fire caused by the burning kerosine. For<br>
this, its necessary to sweep aside the second law of thermodynamics<br>
and propose kerosine which is not only impossibly destructive, but<br>
also recycles itself for a second burning in violation of the law of<br>
degradation of energy.<br>
<br>
You see, it not only consumed itself in a sudden catastrophic<br>
fireball, vapourizing a 65 ton plane into nothing, but then came =
back<br>
for a second go, burning at 2000C for another hour at the impact<br>
point, melting the skyscraper's steel like butter. And while it was<br>
doing all this it also poured down the elevator shafts, starting =
fires<br>
all through the building.<br>
<br>
When I was at school there was a little thing called the entropy law<br>
which suggests that a given portion of fuel can only burn once,<br>
something which is readily observable in the real world, even for<br>
those who didn't make it to junior high school science. But this is =
no<br>
problem for the conspiracy theorist. Gleefully, they claim that a =
few<br>
thousand gallons of kerosine is enough to: completely vapourize a 65<br>
ton aircraft: have enough left over to burn ferociously enough for<br>
over an hour at the impact point to melt steel ( melting point about<br>
double the maximum combustion temperature of the fuel ): still have<br>
enough left over to pour down the elevator shafts and start =
similarly<br>
destructive fires all through the building.<br>
<br>
This kerosine really is remarkable stuff! How chilling to realize =
that<br>
those kerosine heaters we had in the house when I was a kid were<br>
deadly bombs, just waiting to go off. One false move and the entire<br>
street might have been vapourized. And never again will I take<br>
kerosine lamps out camping. One moment you're there innocently =
holding<br>
the lamp -- the next -- kapow! Vapourized into nothing along with =
with<br>
the rest of the camp site, and still leaving enough of the deadly<br>
stuff to start a massive forest fire.<br>
<br>
These whackos are actually claiming that the raging inferno =
allegedly<br>
created by the miraculously recycling, and impossibly hot burning<br>
kerosine melted or at least softened the steel supports of the<br>
skyscraper. Oblivious to the fact that the smoke coming from the WTC<br>
was black, which indicates an oxygen starved fire -therefore, not<br>
particularly hot, they trumpet an alleged temperature in the =
building<br>
of 2000 C, without a shred of evidence to support this curious<br>
suspension of the laws of physics. Not content with this ludicrous<br>
garbage, they then contend that as the steel frames softened, they<br>
came straight down instead of buckling and twisting and falling<br>
sideways.<br>
<br>
Since they're already re-engineered the combustion qualities of jet<br>
fuel, violated the second law of thermodynamics, and re-defined the<br>
structural properties of steel, why let a little thing like the laws<br>
of gravity get in the way?<br>
<br>
The tower fell in a time almost identical to that of a free falling<br>
object, dropped from that height, meaning that its physically<br>
impossible for it to have collapsed by the method of the top floors<br>
smashing through the lower floors. But according to the conspiracy<br>
theorists, the laws of gravity were temporarily suspended on the<br>
morning of Sept 11.<br>
<br>
It appears that the evil psychic power of those dreadful Arabs knew =
no<br>
bounds. Even after they were dead, they were able, by the power of<br>
their evil spirits, to force down the tower at a speed physically<br>
impossible under the laws of gravity, had it been meeting any<br>
resistance from fireproofed steel structures originally designed to<br>
resist many tons of hurricane force wind as well as the impact of a<br>
Boeing passenger jet straying off course.<br>
<br>
Clearly, these conspiracy nuts never did their science homework at<br>
school, but did become extremely adept at inventing tall tales for<br>
why. &quot;Muslim terrorists stole my notes, sir&quot; &quot;No miss, =
the
kerosine<br>
heater blew up and vapourized everything in the street, except for =
my<br>
passport.&quot; &quot;You see sir, the schoolbus was hijacked by Arabs =
who<br>
destroyed my homework because they hate our freedoms.&quot;<br>
<br>
Or perhaps they misunderstood the term &quot;creative science&quot; =
and<br>
mistakenly thought that coming up with such rubbish was in fact, =
their<br>
science homework. The ferocious heat generated by this ghastly<br>
kerosine was, according to the conspiracy theorists, the reason why =
so<br>
many of the WTC victims can't be identified. DNA is destroyed by =
heat.<br>
(Although 2000 C isn't really required, 100C will generally do the<br>
job.)<br>
<br>
This is quite remarkable, because according to the conspiracy<br>
theorist, the nature of DNA suddenly changes if you go to a =
different<br>
city. That's right! If you are killed by an Arab terrorist in NY, =
your<br>
DNA will be destroyed by such temperatures. But if you are killed by<br>
an Arab terrorist in Washington DC, your DNA will be so robust that =
it<br>
can survive temperatures which completely vapourize a 65 ton<br>
aircraft.<br>
<br>
You see, these loonies have somehow concocted the idea that the<br>
missile which hit the pentagon was not a missile at all, but one of<br>
the hijacked planes. And to prove this unlikely premise, they point =
to<br>
a propaganda statement from the Bush regime, which rather stupidly<br>
claims that all but one of the people aboard the plane were =
identified<br>
from the site by DNA testing, even though nothing remains of the<br>
plane. The plane was vapourized by the fuel tank explosion maintain<br>
these space loonies, but the people inside it were all but one<br>
identified by DNA testing.<br>
<br>
So there we have it. The qualities of DNA are different, depending<br>
upon which city you're in, or perhaps depending upon which fairy =
story<br>
you're trying to sell at any particular time. This concoction about<br>
one of the hijacked planes hitting the Pentagon really is a howler.<br>
For those not familiar with the layout of the Pentagon, it consists =
of<br>
5 rings of building, each with a space inbetween. Each ring of<br>
building is about 30 to 35 ft deep, with a similar amount of open<br>
space between it and the next ring. The object which penetrated the<br>
Pentagon went in at about a 45 degree angle, punching a neat =
circular<br>
hole of about a 12 ft diameter through three rings ( six walls).A<br>
little later<br>
<br>
a section of wall about 65 ft wide collapsed in the outer ring. =
Since<br>
the plane which the conspiracy theorists claim to be responsible for<br>
the impact had a wing span of 125 ft and a length of 155 ft, and =
there<br>
was no wreckage of the plane, either inside or outside the building,<br>
and the lawns outside were still smooth and green enough to play =
golf<br>
on, this crazy delusion is clearly physically impossible.<br>
<br>
But hey, we've already disregarded the combustion qualities of jet<br>
fuel, the normal properties of common building materials, the<br>
properties of DNA, the laws of gravity and the second law of<br>
thermodynamics, so what the hell -- why not throw in a little =
spatial<br>
impossibility as well? I would have thought that the observation =
that<br>
a solid object cannot pass through another solid object without<br>
leaving a hole at least as big as itself is reasonably sound =
science.<br>
But to the conspiracy theorist, this is &quot;mumbo jumbo&quot;. It =
conflicts<br>
with the delusion that they're hooked on, so it &quot;must be =
wrong&quot;<br>
although trying to get them to explain exactly how it could be wrong<br>
is a futile endeavour.<br>
<br>
Conspiracy theorists fly into a curious panic whenever the Pentagon<br>
missile is mentioned.They nervously maintain that the plane was<br>
vapourized by it's exploding fuel load and point to the WTC crash as<br>
evidence of this behavior. (That's a wonderful fruit loop.)<br>
<br>
Like an insect which has just been sprayed, running back and forth =
in<br>
its last mad death throes, they first argue that the reason the hole<br>
is so small is that the plane never entered the wall, having blown =
up<br>
outside, and then suddenly backflip to explain the 250 ft deep =
missile<br>
hole by saying that the plane disappeared all the way into the<br>
building, and then blew up inside the building (even though the<br>
building shows no sign of such damage). As for what happened to the<br>
wings -- here's where they get really creative. The wings snapped =
off<br>
and folded into the fuselage which then carried them into the<br>
building, which then closed up behind the plane like a piece of =
meat.<br>
<br>
When it suits them, they'll also claim that the plane slid in on its<br>
belly, (ignoring the undamaged lawn) while at the same time citing<br>
alleged witnesses to the plane diving steeply into the building from<br>
an &quot;irrecoverable angle.&quot;<br>
<br>
How they reconcile these two scenarios as being compatible is truly =
a<br>
study in stupidity. Once they get desperate enough, you can be sure<br>
that the UFO conspiracy stuff will make an appearance.<br>
<br>
The Arabs are in league with the Martians. Space aliens snatched the<br>
remains of the Pentagon plane and fixed most of the hole in the =
wall,<br>
just to confuse people. They gave the Arabs invisibility pills to =
help<br>
get them onto the planes. Little green men were seen talking to Bin<br>
Laden a few weeks prior to the attacks.<br>
<br>
As the nation gears up to impeach the traitor Bush, and stop his<br>
perpetual oil war, it's not helpful to have these idiots distracting<br>
from the process by spreading silly conspiracy theories about =
mythical<br>
Arabs, stories which do nothing but play into the hands of the<br>
extremist Bush regime.<br>
<br>
At a less serious time, we might tolerate such crackpots with amused<br>
detachment, but they need to understand that the treachery that was<br>
perpetrated on Sept 11, and the subsequent war crimes committed in<br>
&quot;retaliation&quot; are far too serious for us to allow such =
frivolous self<br>
indulgence to go unchallenged.<br>
<br>
Those who are truly addicted to conspiracy delusions should find a<br>
more appropriate outlet for their paranoia. Its time to stop loony<br>
conspiracy theories about Sept 11.<br>
<br>
Copyright =A9 2003 Gerard Holmgren</span></font></p>

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color=3Dblack><span
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.bcrevolution.ca/conspiracy_theories=
.htm</span></font></a></span></font></p>

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style=3D'font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font size=3D4 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>Conspiracy Theories&quot; &amp; =
FACTS!</span></font></p>

<p><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>The greatest threat to liberty is a
government obsessed with alleged &quot;public safety&quot; =
concerns.</span></font></p>

<p><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>&quot;They that can give up liberty =
to
obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor =
safety.&quot;
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of =
Pennsylvania..</span></font></p>

<p style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3D3 =
color=3Dblack
face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</spa=
n></font></p>

<p style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=3D3 =
color=3Dblack
face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;
font-weight:bold'>Conspiracy: 1. A combination of men for an evil =
purpose; an
agreement, </span></font></b></p>

<p style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=3D3 =
color=3Dblack
face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;
font-weight:bold'>between two or more persons, to commit a crime in =
concert, as
treason; </span></font></b></p>

<p style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=3D3 =
color=3Dblack
face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;
font-weight:bold'>a plot.</span></font></b></p>

<p style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3D3 =
color=3Dblack
face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</spa=
n></font></p>

<p style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3D3 =
color=3Dblack
face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>&#8220;<i><=
span
style=3D'font-style:italic'>Today, America would be outraged if UN =
troops entered
Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is
especially true if they were told that there was an outside threat from =
beyond,
whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is =
then
that all people of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. =
The one
thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario,
individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of =
their
well-being granted to them by the world government</span></i>.&#8221; =
<strong><b><font
face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-family:Arial'>- Henry Kissinger =
</span></font></b></strong>(Bilderburg
Conference 1991 Evians, France) </span></font></p>

<p style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3D3 =
color=3Dblack
face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</spa=
n></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'background:#FF9966'><b><i><font size=3D3 =
face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;font-style:i=
talic'>&quot;Some
of the biggest men in the United States in the field of commerce and
manufacture are afraid of something. They know that there is a power =
somewhere
so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so
pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they =
speak in
condemnation of it...&quot; - Woodrow Wilson</span></font></i></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>&nbsp; </span></font></p>

<p><strong><b><font size=3D4 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>The Secret =
Government</span></font></b></strong><font
color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'> </span></font></p>

<p class=3Dmediumtext1 style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font =
size=3D3
color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:windowtext'><a
href=3D"http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3D-8536707153900925247&am=
p;hl=3Den"><font
color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>Google Video =
</span></font></a>-
Tuesday April 10, 2007</span></font></p>

<p class=3Dmediumtext1 style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font =
size=3D3
color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3D3 =
color=3Dblack
face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>Bill
Moyers, the respected TV journalist, analyzes the threats to =
</span></font></p>

<p style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3D3 =
color=3Dblack
face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>constitutio=
nal
government posed by an illegitimate network of </span></font></p>

<p style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3D3 =
color=3Dblack
face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>&quot;super=
patriots&quot;,
spies, profiteers, mercenaries and ex-generals. </span></font></p>

<p style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3D3 =
color=3Dblack
face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>His
documentary gives a fascinating overview of what has actually =
</span></font></p>

<p style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3D3 =
color=3Dblack
face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>happened
in the last 50 years regarding the CIA and the Cold War =
</span></font></p>

<p style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3D3 =
color=3Dblack
face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>(including
Iran, Guatamala, Cuba, Vietnam and Chile). He features =
</span></font></p>

<p style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3D3 =
color=3Dblack
face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>such
people as Ralph McGeehee and Phil Retinger (both former =
</span></font></p>

<p style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3D3 =
color=3Dblack
face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>CIA
agents), Rear Admiral Gene La Rocque (Ret. U.S.N.), </span></font></p>

<p style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3D3 =
color=3Dblack
face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>Theodore
Bissell (active in the CIA at the time), Sen. Frank </span></font></p>

<p style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3D3 =
color=3Dblack
face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>Church
and many others.</span></font></p>

<p style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>

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<p style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3D3 =
color=3Dblack
face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</spa=
n></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><b><font size=3D3 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Debunking Conspiracy Theorists =
Paranoid
Fantasies About Sept 11<br>
Distract From the Real Issues</span></font></b><font face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-family:Arial'><br>
&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Astute observers of history are aware that for every =
notable
event<br>
there will usually be at least one, often several wild conspiracy<br>
theories which spring up around it. &quot;The CIA killed Hendrix&quot;
&quot;The Pope<br>
had John Lennon murdered&quot;, &quot;Hitler was half Werewolf&quot;,
&quot;Space aliens<br>
replaced Nixon with a clone&quot;, etc, etc. The bigger the event, the =
more<br>
ridiculous and more numerous are the fanciful rantings which =
circulate<br>
in relation to it.<br>
<br>
So its hardly surprising that the events of Sept 11 2001 have =
spawned<br>
their fair share of these ludicrous fairy tales. And as always, =
there<br>
is -- sadly -- a small but gullible percentage of the population =
eager<br>
to lap up these tall tales, regardless of facts or rational =
analysis.<br>
One of the wilder stories circulating about Sept 11, and one that =
has<br>
attracted something of a cult following amongst conspiracy buffs is<br>
that it was carried out by 19 fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded<br>
by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, with no apparent motivation<br>
other than that they &quot;hate our freedoms.&quot;<br>
<br>
Never a group of people to be bothered by facts, the perpetrators of<br>
this cartoon fantasy have constructed an elaborately woven web of<br>
delusions and unsubstantiated hearsay in order to promote this =
garbage<br>
across the internet and the media to the extent that a number of<br>
otherwise rational people have actually fallen under its spell.<br>
<br>
Normally I don't even bother debunking this kind of junk, but the<br>
effect that this paranoid myth is beginning to have requires a =
little<br>
rational analysis, in order to consign it to the same rubbish bin as<br>
all such silly conspiracy theories. These crackpots even contend =
that<br>
the extremist Bush regime was caught unawares by the attacks, had no<br>
hand in organizing them, and actually would have stopped them if it<br>
had been able.<br>
<br>
Blindly ignoring the stand down of the US air-force, the insider<br>
trading on airline stocks -- linked to the CIA, the complicit =
behavior<br>
of Bush on the morning of the attacks, the controlled demolition of<br>
the WTC, the firing of a missile into the Pentagon and a host of =
other<br>
documented proofs that the Bush regime was behind the attacks, the<br>
conspiracy theorists stick doggedly to a silly story about 19 Arab<br>
hijackers somehow managing to commandeer 4 planes simultaneously and<br>
fly them around US airspace for nearly 2 hours, crashing them into<br>
important buildings, without the US intelligence services having any<br>
idea that it was coming, and without the Air Force knowing what to =
do.<br>
The huge difficulties with such a stupid story force them to invent<br>
even more preposterous stories to distract from its core silliness,<br>
and thus the tale has escalated into a mythic fantasy of truly<br>
gargantuan proportions.<br>
<br>
It's difficult to apply rational analysis to such unmitigated<br>
stupidity, but that is the task which I take on in this article.<br>
However, it should be noted that one of the curious characteristics =
of<br>
conspiracy theorists is that they effortlessly change their so =
called<br>
evidence in response to each aspect which is debunked. As soon as =
one<br>
delusion is unmasked, they simply invent another to replace it, and<br>
deny that the first ever existed. Eventually, when they have turned<br>
full circle through this endlessly changing fantasy fog , they then =
re-<br>
invent the original delusion and deny that you ever debunked it, =
thus<br>
beginning the circle once more.<br>
<br>
This technique is known as &quot;the fruit loop&quot; and saves the =
conspiracy<br>
theorist from ever having to see any of their ideas through to their<br>
(ill)logical conclusions. According to the practitioners of the =
fruit<br>
loop, 19 Arabs took over the 4 planes by subduing the passengers and<br>
crew through the use of guns,knives,box cutters and gas, and then =
used<br>
electronic guidance systems which they had smuggled on board to fly<br>
the planes to their targets.<br>
<br>
The suspension of disbelief required for this outrageous concoction =
is<br>
only for the hard core conspiracy theorist. For a start, they<br>
conveniently skip over the awkward fact that there weren't any Arabs<br>
on the planes. If there were, one must speculate that they somehow =
got<br>
on board without being filmed by any of the security cameras and<br>
without being registered on the passenger lists. But the curly<br>
question of how they are supposed to have got on board is all too<br>
mundane for the exciting world of the conspiracy theorist. With =
vague<br>
mumblings that they must have been using false ID ( but never<br>
specifying which IDs they are alleged to have used, or how these =
were<br>
traced to their real identities), they quickly bypass this problem, =
to<br>
relate exciting and sinister tales about how some of the fictitious<br>
fiends were actually searched before boarding because they looked<br>
suspicious.<br>
<br>
However, as inevitably happens with any web of lies, this simply<br>
paints them into an even more difficult corner. How are they =
supposed<br>
to have got on board with all that stuff if they were searched? And =
if<br>
they used gas in a confined space, they would have been affected<br>
themselves unless they also had masks in their luggage. &quot;Excuse =
me<br>
sir, why do you have a boxcutter, a gun, a container of gas, a gas<br>
mask and an electronic guidance unit in your luggage?&quot; &quot;A =
present for<br>
your grandmother? Very well sir, on you get.&quot; &quot;Very =
strange&quot;,
thinks<br>
the security officer. &quot;That's the fourth Arabic man without an =
Arabic<br>
name who just got on board with a knife, gun or boxcutter and gas<br>
mask. And why does that security camera keep flicking off every time<br>
one these characters shows up? Must be one of those days I =
guess...&quot;<br>
<br>
Asking any of these basic questions to a conspiracy theorist is =
likely<br>
to cause a sudden leap to the claim that we know that they were on<br>
board because they left a credit card trail for the tickets they had<br>
purchased and cars they had rented. So if they used credit cards =
that<br>
identified them, how does that reconcile with the claim that they =
used<br>
false IDs to get on to the plane? But by this time, the fruit loop =
is<br>
in full swing, as the conspiracy theorist<br>
<br>
tries to stay one jump ahead of this annoying and awkward rational<br>
analysis.They will allege that the hijackers' passports were found =
at<br>
the crash scenes. &quot;So there!&quot; they exalt triumphantly, their
fanatical<br>
faces lighting up with that deranged look of one who has just a<br>
revelation of questionable sanity. Hmm? So they got on board with<br>
false IDs but took their real passports with them?<br>
<br>
However, by this time the fruit loop has been completely<br>
circumnavigated,and the conspiracy theorist exclaims impatiently, =
&quot;Who<br>
said anything about false IDs? We know what seats they were sitting<br>
in! Their presence is well documented!&quot; And so the whole loop =
starts<br>
again. &quot;Well, why aren't they on the passenger lists?&quot; =
&quot;You
numbskull!<br>
They assumed the identities of other passengers!&quot; And so on...<br>
<br>
Finally, out of sheer fascination with this circular method of<br>
creative delusion, the rational sceptic will allow them to get away<br>
with this loop, in order to move on to the next question, and see =
what<br>
further delights await us in the unraveling of this marvelously =
stupid<br>
story. &quot;Uh, how come their passports survived fiery crashes =
that<br>
completely incinerated the planes and all the passengers? &quot;<br>
<br>
The answer of course is that its just one of those strange co-<br>
incidences, those little quirks of fate that do happen from time to<br>
time. You know, like the same person winning the lottery four weeks =
in<br>
a row. The odds are astronomical, but these things do happen...<br>
<br>
This is another favourite deductive method of the conspiracy =
theorist.<br>
The &quot;improbability drive&quot;, in which they decide upon a =
conclusion<br>
without any evidence whatsoever to support it, and then continually<br>
speculate a series of wildly improbable events and unbelievable co-<br>
incidences to support it, shrugging off the implausibility of each<br>
event with the vague assertion that sometimes the impossible happens<br>
(just about all the time in their world).<br>
<br>
There is a principle called &quot;Occam's razor&quot; which suggests =
that in
the<br>
absence of evidence to the contrary, the simplest explanation is =
most<br>
likely to be correct. Conspiracy theorists hate Occam's razor. =
Having<br>
for the sake of amusement, allowed them to get away with with the<br>
silly story of the 19 invisible Arabs, we move on to the question of<br>
how they are supposed to have taken over the planes. Hijacking a =
plane<br>
is not an easy thing to do. Hijacking it without the pilot being =
able<br>
to alert ground control is near impossible. The pilot has only to<br>
punch in a four digit code to alert ground control to a hijacking.<br>
<br>
Unconcerned with the awkward question of plausibility, the =
conspiracy<br>
buffs maintain that on that Sept 11, the invisible hijackers took =
over<br>
the plane by the rather crude method of threatening people with<br>
boxcutters and knives, and spraying gas (after they had attached =
their<br>
masks, obviously), but somehow took control of the plane without the<br>
crew first getting a chance to punch in the hijacking code. Not just<br>
on one plane, but on all four.<br>
<br>
At this point in the tale, the conspiracy theorist is again forced =
to<br>
call upon the services of the improbability drive. So now that our<br>
incredibly lucky hijackers have taken control of the planes, all =
four<br>
pilots fly them with breath taking skill and certainty to their =
fiery<br>
end, all four pilots unflinching in their steely resolve for a swift<br>
meeting with Allah. Apart from their psychotic hatred of &quot;our<br>
freedoms&quot;, it was their fanatical devotion to Islam which enabled =
them<br>
to summon up the iron will to do this. Which is strange, because<br>
according to another piece of hearsay peddled by the conspiracy =
buffs,<br>
these guys actually went out drinking and womanizing the night =
before<br>
their great martyrdom, even leaving their Korans in the bar -really<br>
impeccable Islamic behavior -- and then got up at 5am the next =
morning<br>
to pull off the greatest covert operation in history.<br>
<br>
This also requires us to believe that they were even clear headed<br>
enough to learn how to fly the huge planes by reading flight manuals<br>
in Arabic in the car on the way to the airport. We know this because<br>
they supposedly left the flight manuals there for us to find. It =
gets<br>
better. Their practical training had allegedly been limited to =
Cessnas<br>
and flight simulators, but this was no barrier to the unflinching<br>
certainty with which they took over the planes and skillfully guided<br>
them to their doom. If they are supposed to have done their flight<br>
training with these tools, which would be available just about<br>
anywhere in the world, its not clear why they would have decided to<br>
risk blowing their cover to US intelligence services by doing the<br>
training in Florida, rather than somewhere in the Middle East, but<br>
such reasoning is foreign to the foggy world of the conspiracy<br>
theorist, too trapped in the constant rotation of the mental fruit<br>
loop to make their unsubstantiated fabrications seem even semi-<br>
believable.<br>
<br>
Having triumphantly established a circular delusion in support of =
the<br>
mythical Arabs, the conspiracy theorist now confronts the difficult<br>
question of why there's nothing left of the planes.<br>
<br>
Anybody who has seen the endlessly replayed footage of the second<br>
plane going into the WTC will realize that the plane was packed with<br>
explosives. Planes do not and cannot blow up into nothing in that<br>
manner when they crash. Did the mythical Arabs also haul a huge heap<br>
of explosives on board, and mange to deploy them in such a manner =
that<br>
they went off in the exact instant of the crash, completely<br>
vapourizing the plane?<br>
<br>
This is a little difficult even for the conspiracy theorist, who at<br>
this point decides that its easier to invent new laws of physics in<br>
order to keep the delusion rolling along. There weren't any<br>
explosives. It wasn't an inside job. The plane blew up into nothing<br>
from its exploding fuel load! Remarkable! Sluggishly combustible jet<br>
fuel which is basically kerosine,and which burns at a maximum<br>
temperature of around 800 C has suddenly taken on the qualities of a<br>
ferociously explosive demolition agent, vapourizing 65 tons of<br>
aircraft into a puff of smoke. Never mind that a plane of that size<br>
contains around 15 tons of steel and titanium, of which even the<br>
melting points are about double that of the maximum combustion<br>
temperature of kerosine -- let alone the boiling point -- which is<br>
what would be required to vapourize a plane. And then there's about =
50<br>
tons of aluminium to be accounted for. In excess of 15lbs of metal =
for<br>
each gallon of kerosine.<br>
<br>
For the conspiracy theorist, such inconvenient facts are vaguely<br>
dismissed as &quot;mumbo jumbo&quot;. This convenient little phrase is =
their<br>
answer to just about anything factual or logical. Like a conjurer<br>
pulling a rabbit out of a hat, they suddenly become fanatically<br>
insistent about the devastating explosive qualities of kerosine,<br>
something hitherto completely unknown to science, but just =
discovered<br>
by them, this very minute.<br>
<br>
Blissfully ignoring the fact that never before or since in aviation<br>
history has a plane vapourized into nothing from an exploding fuel<br>
load, the conspiracy theorist relies upon Hollywood images, where =
the<br>
effects are are always larger than life, and certainly larger than =
the<br>
intellects of these cretins. &quot;Its a well known fact that planes =
blow<br>
up into nothing on impact.&quot; they state with pompous certainty. =
&quot;Watch<br>
any Bruce Willis movie.&quot; &quot;Care to provide any documented =
examples? If<br>
it's a well known fact, then presumably this well known fact springs<br>
from some kind of documentation -- other than Bruce Willis =
movies?&quot;<br>
<br>
At this point the mad but cunning eyes of the conspiracy theorist =
will<br>
narrow as they sense the corner that they have backed themselves =
into,<br>
and plan their escape by means of another stunning backflip. &quot;Ah, =
but<br>
planes have never crashed into buildings before, so there's no way =
of<br>
telling.&quot; they counter with a sly grin.<br>
<br>
Well, actually planes have crashed into buildings before and since,<br>
and not vapourized into nothing. &quot;But not big planes, with that =
much<br>
fuel &quot;, they shriek in hysterical denial. Or that much metal to<br>
vapourize. &quot;Yes but not hijacked planes!&quot;<br>
<br>
&quot;Are you suggesting that whether the crash is deliberate or =
accidental<br>
affects the combustion qualities of the fuel?&quot; &quot;Now you're =
just being<br>
silly&quot;. Although collisions with buildings are rare, planes =
frequently<br>
crash into mountains, streets, other aircraft, nosedive into the<br>
ground,or have bombs planted aboard them, and don't vapourize into<br>
nothing. What's so special about a tower that's mostly glass?<br>
<br>
But by now, the conspiracy theorist has once again sailed happily<br>
around the fruit loop. &quot;Its a well documented fact that planes =
explode<br>
into nothing on impact.&quot; Effortlessly weaving back and forth =
between<br>
the position that its a &quot;well known fact&quot; and that &quot;its =
never
happened<br>
before, so we have nothing to compare it to&quot;, the conspiracy =
theorist<br>
has now convinced themselves ( if not too many other people) that =
the<br>
WTC plane was not loaded with explosives, and that the instant<br>
vapourization of the plane in a massive fireball was the same as any<br>
other plane crash you might care to mention. Round and round the<br>
fruit. loop...<br>
<br>
But the hurdles which confront the conspiracy theorist are many, and<br>
they are now forced to implement even more creative uses for the =
newly<br>
discovered shockingly destructive qualities of kerosine. They have =
to<br>
explain how the Arabs also engineered the elegant veritcal collapse =
of<br>
both the WTC towers, and for this awkward fact the easiest counter =
is<br>
to simply deny that it was a controlled demolition, and claim that =
the<br>
buildings collapsed from fire caused by the burning kerosine. For<br>
this, its necessary to sweep aside the second law of thermodynamics<br>
and propose kerosine which is not only impossibly destructive, but<br>
also recycles itself for a second burning in violation of the law of<br>
degradation of energy.<br>
<br>
You see, it not only consumed itself in a sudden catastrophic<br>
fireball, vapourizing a 65 ton plane into nothing, but then came =
back<br>
for a second go, burning at 2000C for another hour at the impact<br>
point, melting the skyscraper's steel like butter. And while it was<br>
doing all this it also poured down the elevator shafts, starting =
fires<br>
all through the building.<br>
<br>
When I was at school there was a little thing called the entropy law<br>
which suggests that a given portion of fuel can only burn once,<br>
something which is readily observable in the real world, even for<br>
those who didn't make it to junior high school science. But this is =
no<br>
problem for the conspiracy theorist. Gleefully, they claim that a =
few<br>
thousand gallons of kerosine is enough to: completely vapourize a 65<br>
ton aircraft: have enough left over to burn ferociously enough for<br>
over an hour at the impact point to melt steel ( melting point about<br>
double the maximum combustion temperature of the fuel ): still have<br>
enough left over to pour down the elevator shafts and start =
similarly<br>
destructive fires all through the building.<br>
<br>
This kerosine really is remarkable stuff! How chilling to realize =
that<br>
those kerosine heaters we had in the house when I was a kid were<br>
deadly bombs, just waiting to go off. One false move and the entire<br>
street might have been vapourized. And never again will I take<br>
kerosine lamps out camping. One moment you're there innocently =
holding<br>
the lamp -- the next -- kapow! Vapourized into nothing along with =
with<br>
the rest of the camp site, and still leaving enough of the deadly<br>
stuff to start a massive forest fire.<br>
<br>
These whackos are actually claiming that the raging inferno =
allegedly<br>
created by the miraculously recycling, and impossibly hot burning<br>
kerosine melted or at least softened the steel supports of the<br>
skyscraper. Oblivious to the fact that the smoke coming from the WTC<br>
was black, which indicates an oxygen starved fire -therefore, not<br>
particularly hot, they trumpet an alleged temperature in the =
building<br>
of 2000 C, without a shred of evidence to support this curious<br>
suspension of the laws of physics. Not content with this ludicrous<br>
garbage, they then contend that as the steel frames softened, they<br>
came straight down instead of buckling and twisting and falling<br>
sideways.<br>
<br>
Since they're already re-engineered the combustion qualities of jet<br>
fuel, violated the second law of thermodynamics, and re-defined the<br>
structural properties of steel, why let a little thing like the laws<br>
of gravity get in the way?<br>
<br>
The tower fell in a time almost identical to that of a free falling<br>
object, dropped from that height, meaning that its physically<br>
impossible for it to have collapsed by the method of the top floors<br>
smashing through the lower floors. But according to the conspiracy<br>
theorists, the laws of gravity were temporarily suspended on the<br>
morning of Sept 11.<br>
<br>
It appears that the evil psychic power of those dreadful Arabs knew =
no<br>
bounds. Even after they were dead, they were able, by the power of<br>
their evil spirits, to force down the tower at a speed physically<br>
impossible under the laws of gravity, had it been meeting any<br>
resistance from fireproofed steel structures originally designed to<br>
resist many tons of hurricane force wind as well as the impact of a<br>
Boeing passenger jet straying off course.<br>
<br>
Clearly, these conspiracy nuts never did their science homework at<br>
school, but did become extremely adept at inventing tall tales for<br>
why. &quot;Muslim terrorists stole my notes, sir&quot; &quot;No miss, =
the
kerosine<br>
heater blew up and vapourized everything in the street, except for =
my<br>
passport.&quot; &quot;You see sir, the schoolbus was hijacked by Arabs =
who<br>
destroyed my homework because they hate our freedoms.&quot;<br>
<br>
Or perhaps they misunderstood the term &quot;creative science&quot; =
and<br>
mistakenly thought that coming up with such rubbish was in fact, =
their<br>
science homework. The ferocious heat generated by this ghastly<br>
kerosine was, according to the conspiracy theorists, the reason why =
so<br>
many of the WTC victims can't be identified. DNA is destroyed by =
heat.<br>
(Although 2000 C isn't really required, 100C will generally do the<br>
job.)<br>
<br>
This is quite remarkable, because according to the conspiracy<br>
theorist, the nature of DNA suddenly changes if you go to a =
different<br>
city. That's right! If you are killed by an Arab terrorist in NY, =
your<br>
DNA will be destroyed by such temperatures. But if you are killed by<br>
an Arab terrorist in Washington DC, your DNA will be so robust that =
it<br>
can survive temperatures which completely vapourize a 65 ton<br>
aircraft.<br>
<br>
You see, these loonies have somehow concocted the idea that the<br>
missile which hit the pentagon was not a missile at all, but one of<br>
the hijacked planes. And to prove this unlikely premise, they point =
to<br>
a propaganda statement from the Bush regime, which rather stupidly<br>
claims that all but one of the people aboard the plane were =
identified<br>
from the site by DNA testing, even though nothing remains of the<br>
plane. The plane was vapourized by the fuel tank explosion maintain<br>
these space loonies, but the people inside it were all but one<br>
identified by DNA testing.<br>
<br>
So there we have it. The qualities of DNA are different, depending<br>
upon which city you're in, or perhaps depending upon which fairy =
story<br>
you're trying to sell at any particular time. This concoction about<br>
one of the hijacked planes hitting the Pentagon really is a howler.<br>
For those not familiar with the layout of the Pentagon, it consists =
of<br>
5 rings of building, each with a space inbetween. Each ring of<br>
building is about 30 to 35 ft deep, with a similar amount of open<br>
space between it and the next ring. The object which penetrated the<br>
Pentagon went in at about a 45 degree angle, punching a neat =
circular<br>
hole of about a 12 ft diameter through three rings ( six walls).A<br>
little later<br>
<br>
a section of wall about 65 ft wide collapsed in the outer ring. =
Since<br>
the plane which the conspiracy theorists claim to be responsible for<br>
the impact had a wing span of 125 ft and a length of 155 ft, and =
there<br>
was no wreckage of the plane, either inside or outside the building,<br>
and the lawns outside were still smooth and green enough to play =
golf<br>
on, this crazy delusion is clearly physically impossible.<br>
<br>
But hey, we've already disregarded the combustion qualities of jet<br>
fuel, the normal properties of common building materials, the<br>
properties of DNA, the laws of gravity and the second law of<br>
thermodynamics, so what the hell -- why not throw in a little =
spatial<br>
impossibility as well? I would have thought that the observation =
that<br>
a solid object cannot pass through another solid object without<br>
leaving a hole at least as big as itself is reasonably sound =
science.<br>
But to the conspiracy theorist, this is &quot;mumbo jumbo&quot;. It =
conflicts<br>
with the delusion that they're hooked on, so it &quot;must be =
wrong&quot;<br>
although trying to get them to explain exactly how it could be wrong<br>
is a futile endeavour.<br>
<br>
Conspiracy theorists fly into a curious panic whenever the Pentagon<br>
missile is mentioned.They nervously maintain that the plane was<br>
vapourized by it's exploding fuel load and point to the WTC crash as<br>
evidence of this behavior. (That's a wonderful fruit loop.)<br>
<br>
Like an insect which has just been sprayed, running back and forth =
in<br>
its last mad death throes, they first argue that the reason the hole<br>
is so small is that the plane never entered the wall, having blown =
up<br>
outside, and then suddenly backflip to explain the 250 ft deep =
missile<br>
hole by saying that the plane disappeared all the way into the<br>
building, and then blew up inside the building (even though the<br>
building shows no sign of such damage). As for what happened to the<br>
wings -- here's where they get really creative. The wings snapped =
off<br>
and folded into the fuselage which then carried them into the<br>
building, which then closed up behind the plane like a piece of =
meat.<br>
<br>
When it suits them, they'll also claim that the plane slid in on its<br>
belly, (ignoring the undamaged lawn) while at the same time citing<br>
alleged witnesses to the plane diving steeply into the building from<br>
an &quot;irrecoverable angle.&quot;<br>
<br>
How they reconcile these two scenarios as being compatible is truly =
a<br>
study in stupidity. Once they get desperate enough, you can be sure<br>
that the UFO conspiracy stuff will make an appearance.<br>
<br>
The Arabs are in league with the Martians. Space aliens snatched the<br>
remains of the Pentagon plane and fixed most of the hole in the =
wall,<br>
just to confuse people. They gave the Arabs invisibility pills to =
help<br>
get them onto the planes. Little green men were seen talking to Bin<br>
Laden a few weeks prior to the attacks.<br>
<br>
As the nation gears up to impeach the traitor Bush, and stop his<br>
perpetual oil war, it's not helpful to have these idiots distracting<br>
from the process by spreading silly conspiracy theories about =
mythical<br>
Arabs, stories which do nothing but play into the hands of the<br>
extremist Bush regime.<br>
<br>
At a less serious time, we might tolerate such crackpots with amused<br>
detachment, but they need to understand that the treachery that was<br>
perpetrated on Sept 11, and the subsequent war crimes committed in<br>
&quot;retaliation&quot; are far too serious for us to allow such =
frivolous self<br>
indulgence to go unchallenged.<br>
<br>
Those who are truly addicted to conspiracy delusions should find a<br>
more appropriate outlet for their paranoia. Its time to stop loony<br>
conspiracy theories about Sept 11.<br>
<br>
Copyright =A9 2003 Gerard Holmgren<br>
&nbsp;</span></font></p>

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control&quot;
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ont
    color=3Dblack face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>London
    Times</span></font></i></em></a> reported that several 9/11 =
hijackers
    listed in the 9/11 Commission Report are alive. &quot;Five of the =
alleged
    hijackers have emerged, alive, innocent and astonished to see their =
names
    and photographs appearing on satellite television. The hijackers =
were using
    stolen identities.&quot; See also <a
    =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#hijackersalive"><font=

    color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>BBC =
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  <p align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><font size=3D2 =
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  alt=3D"horizontal rule"></span></font></p>
  <p class=3DMsoNormal><b><font size=3D4 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span
  style=3D'font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:bold'>America&#8217;s top =
military
  leaders drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of =
terrorism in
  US cities to trick the public into supporting a war against Cuba in =
the early
  1960s. Approved in writing by the Pentagon Joint Chiefs, Operation =
Northwoods
  even proposed blowing up a US ship and hijacking planes as a false =
pretext
  for war.</span></font></b><b><font size=3D2><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;
  font-weight:bold'> [<a =
href=3D"http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3D92662&amp;page=3D1"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>ABC News, =
5/1/01</span></font></a>,
  <a href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/010501operationnorthwoods"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>Pentagon =
Documents</span></font></a>]</span></font></b><font
  face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
  <p align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><font size=3D2 =
color=3Dblack
  face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'><!--mstheme=
separator--><img
  border=3D0 width=3D600 height=3D10 =
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  alt=3D"horizontal rule"></span></font></p>
  <p style=3D'text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><font =
size=3D3
  color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
  =
color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>1996&#8211;2001:</span></font></b><fon=
t
  color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>
  Federal authorities are aware for years before 9/11 that suspected =
terrorists
  with ties to Osama bin Laden are receiving flight training at schools =
in the
  US and abroad. One convicted terrorist confesses that his planned role =
in a
  terror attack was to crash a plane into CIA headquarters. [<a
  =
href=3D"http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=3Darticle&amp;n=
ode=3D&amp;contentId=3DA10840-2001Sep22"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>Washington Post, =
9/23/01</span></font></a>,
  <a =
href=3D"http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/30/national/main510607.sht=
ml"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>CBS, =
5/30/02</span></font></a>, <a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#training"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>] =
<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>1996&#8211;2001: </span></b>On =
multiple
  occasions spies give detailed reports on bin Laden's location. Each =
time, the
  CIA director or top White House officials prevent bin Laden's =
elimination. [<a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/041205latimes"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>Los Angeles Times, =
12/5/04</span></font></a>, <a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/011230nytimes"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>New York Times, 12/30/01</span></font></a>, =
<a
  =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#binladenstrikeaborted=
"><font
  color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>2000&#8211;2001: </span></b>15 of =
the 19
  hijackers fail to fill in visa documents properly in Saudi Arabia. =
Only six
  are interviewed. All 15 should have been denied entry to the US. [<a
  =
href=3D"http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=3Darticle&amp;n=
ode=3D&amp;contentId=3DA62033-2002Oct21&amp;notFound=3Dtrue"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>Washington Post, =
10/22/02</span></font></a>,
  <a href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/021023abc"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>ABC, 10/23/02</span></font></a>] Two top =
Republican
  senators say if State Department personnel had merely followed the =
law, 9/11
  would not have happened. [<a =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/021218ap"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>AP, =
12/18/02</span></font></a>, <a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#visas"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>2000&#8211;2001: </span></b>The =
military
  conducts exercises simulating hijacked airliners used as weapons to =
crash
  into targets causing mass casualties. One target is the World Trade =
Center
  (WTC), another the Pentagon. Yet after 9/11, over and over the White =
House
  and security officials say they&#8217;re shocked that terrorists =
hijacked
  airliners and crashed them into landmark buildings. [<a
  =
href=3D"http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-04-18-norad_x.htm"><=
font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>USA Today, =
4/19/04</span></font></a>,
  <a href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/001103mdwpentagonattack"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>Military District of =
Washington,
  11/3/00</span></font></a>, <a =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/011003nytimes"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>New York Times, =
10/3/01</span></font></a>,
  <a =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#pentagondrill"><font
  color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Jan 2001:</span></b>&nbsp;After =
the Nov
  2000 elections, US intelligence agencies are told to &#8220;back =
off&#8221;
  investigating the bin Ladens and Saudi royals. There have always been
  constraints on investigating Saudi Arabians.&nbsp;[<a
  href=3D"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/events/newsnight/1645527.stm"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>BBC, =
11/6/01</span></font></a>, <a
  =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#backoffsaudis"><font
  color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Spring 2001: </span></b>A series =
of
  military and governmental policy documents is released that seek to
  legitimize the use of US military force in the pursuit of oil and gas. =
One
  advocates presidential subterfuge and hiding the reasons for warfare
  &#8220;as a necessity for mobilizing public support.&#8221; [<a
  =
href=3D"http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/25/1040511092926.html"><fo=
nt
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>Sydney Morning Herald, =
12/26/02</span></font></a>,
  <a =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#subterfuge"><font
  color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>May 2001: </span></b>For the third =
time, US
  security chiefs reject Sudan&#8217;s offer of thick files on bin Laden =
and
  al-Qaeda. A senior CIA source calls it &#8220;the worst single =
intelligence
  failure in the business.&#8221; [<a
  =
href=3D"http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,560675,00.h=
tml"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>Guardian, =
9/30/01</span></font></a>,
  <a =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#sudanfiles"><font
  color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>June-Aug 2001:</span></b>&nbsp; =
German
  intelligence warns the CIA that Middle Eastern terrorists are training =
for
  hijackings and targeting American interests. Russian President =
Vladimir Putin
  alerts the US of suicide pilots training for attacks on US targets. In =
late
  July, a Taliban emissary warns the US that bin Laden is planning a =
huge
  attack on American soil. In August, Israel warns of an imminent Al =
Qaeda
  attack. [<a =
href=3D"http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,53065,00.html"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>Fox News, =
5/17/02</span></font></a>,
  <a href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/020907independent"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>Independent, 9/7/02</span></font></a>, <a
  =
href=3D"http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/18/intelligence.heari=
ngs/"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>CNN, =
9/12/02</span></font></a>, <a
  =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#foreknowledge"><font
  color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>July 4-14, =
2001:</span></b>&nbsp;Bin Laden
  reportedly receives kidney treatment from Canadian-trained Dr. =
Callaway at
  the American Hospital in Dubai. Dr. Callaway declines to comment. =
During his
  stay, bin Laden is allegedly visited by one or two CIA agents. [<a
  =
href=3D"http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,584444,00.html=
"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>Guardian, =
11/1/01</span></font></a>,
  <a =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/011031smhbinladenkidneyshospitalized">=
<font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>Sydney Morning Herald, =
10/31/01</span></font></a>,
  <a href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/011101londontimes"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>London Times 11/1/01</span></font></a>, <a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/011101upi"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>UPI, 11/1/01</span></font></a>, <a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#kidney"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>July 26, =
2001:</span></b>&nbsp;Attorney
  General Ashcroft stops flying commercial airlines due to a threat =
assessment.
  [<a =
href=3D"http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/main303601.sht=
ml"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>CBS, =
7/26/01</span></font></a>] In
  May 2002, Ashcroft walks out of his office rather than answer =
questions about
  it. [<a =
href=3D"http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,52982,00.html"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>Fox News/AP, =
5/16/02</span></font></a>,
  <a =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#ashcroftstops"><font
  color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Aug 6, 2001:</span></b> President =
Bush
  receives an intelligence briefing warning that bin Laden might be =
planning to
  hijack commercial airliners. Titled &#8220;Bin Ladin Determined To =
Strike in
  US,&#8221; the briefing specifically mentions the WTC. Yet Bush later =
claims
  it &#8220;said nothing about an attack on America.&#8221; [<a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/040412postbinladenattackmemo"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>Washington Post, =
4/12/04</span></font></a>,
  <a =
href=3D"http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB116/pdb8-6-2001.pdf"><f=
ont
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>Briefing, =
8/6/01</span></font></a>,
  <a href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#briefing"><font
  color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Aug 27, 2001: </span></b>An FBI =
supervisor
  says he&#8217;s trying to keep a hijacker from &#8220;flying a plane =
into the
  WTC.&#8221; [<a
  =
href=3D"http://foi.missouri.edu/terrorintelligence/intelligcomm/oct172002=
.html"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>Senate Report (Hill =
#2), 10/17/02</span></font></a>]
  Headquarters chastises him for notifying the CIA. [<a
  =
href=3D"http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,249997,00.html"><f=
ont
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>Time, =
5/21/02</span></font></a>, <a
  =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#moussaouiwtc"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>] =
<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Sep 10, 2001: </span></b>A number =
of top
  Pentagon brass suddenly cancel travel plans for the next morning, =
apparently
  because of security concerns. Why isn't this news spread widely? [<a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/010913newsweek"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>Newsweek, 9/13/01</span></font></a>, <a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/010924newsweek"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>Newsweek, 9/24/01</span></font></a>, <a
  =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#pentagoncancels"><fon=
t
  color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>9/11/2001: </span></b>Data =
recovery experts
  extract data from 32 damaged WTC computer drives. The data reveals a =
surge in
  financial transactions shortly before the attacks. Illegal transfers =
of over
  $100 million may have been made through WTC computer systems =
immediately before
  and during the 9/11 disaster. [<a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/011218reuters"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>Reuters, 12/18/01</span></font></a>, <a
  =
href=3D"http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/12/20/wtc.harddrives.i=
dg/"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>CNN, =
12/20/01</span></font></a>, <a
  =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#911transactions"><fon=
t
  color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>9/11/2001: </span></b>Described as =
a
  bizarre coincidence, a US intelligence agency was scheduled for an =
exercise
  on 9/11 at 9:00 AM in which an aircraft would crash into one of its =
buildings
  near Washington, DC. [<a
  =
href=3D"http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-08-22-sept-11-plane-dril=
l-_x.htm"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>USA Today/AP, =
8/22/02</span></font></a>,
  <a href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#nro"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>] <br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>9/11/2001:</span></b> Hours after =
the
  attacks, a &quot;shadow government&quot; is formed. Key congressional =
leaders
  say they didn&#8217;t know this government-in-waiting had been =
established. [<a
  =
href=3D"http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/03/01/attack/main502530.shtml=
"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>CBS, =
3/2/02</span></font></a>, <a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/020302post"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>Washington Post, 3/2/02</span></font></a>, =
<a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#shadowgovt"><font
  color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <strong><b><font face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-family:Arial'>9/11/2001:</span></font></b></strong>
  Six air traffic controllers who dealt with two of the hijacked =
airliners make
  a tape recording describing the events within hours of the attacks. =
The tape
  is never turned over to the FBI. It is later illegally destroyed by a
  supervisor without anyone making a transcript or even listening to it. =
[<a
  href=3D"http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A6632-2004May6"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>Washington Post, =
5/6/04</span></font></a>,
  <a =
href=3D"http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/06/national/06CND-TAPE.html"><font=

  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>New York Times, =
5/6/04</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Sep 13-19, 2001: </span></b>Bin =
Laden's
  family is taken under FBI supervision to a secret assembly point. They =
leave
  the country by private plane when airports reopen days after the =
attacks. [<a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/010930nytimes"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>New York Times, 9/30/01</span></font></a>, =
<a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/010920globe"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>Boston Globe, 9/20/01</span></font></a>, <a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#binladenkin"><font
  color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Sep 15-16, 2001: =
</span></b>Several of the
  9/11 hijackers, including lead hijacker Mohamed Atta, may have had =
training
  at secure US military installations. [<a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/010915newsweek"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>Newsweek, 9/15/01</span></font></a>, <a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/010916post"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>Washington Post, 9/16/01</span></font></a>, =
<a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/010915nytimes"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>New York Times, 9/15/01</span></font></a>, =
<a
  =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#hijackersmilitary"><f=
ont
  color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Sept 20, 2001:</span></b> Several =
9/11
  hijackers later mentioned in the <a
  href=3D"http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch7.htm"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>9/11 Commission =
Report</span></font></a>
  turn up alive. &quot;Five of the alleged hijackers have emerged, =
alive,
  innocent and astonished to see their names and photographs appearing =
on
  satellite television...The hijackers were using stolen =
identities.&quot;
  [quote in <a =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/010920londontimes.hijackers"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>London Times, =
9/20/01</span></font></a>,
  see also <a =
href=3D"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>BBC, =
9/23/01</span></font></a>, <a
  =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#hijackersalive"><font=

  color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Dec 2001-Feb 2002:</span></b> The =
US
  engineers the rise to power of two former Unocal Oil employees: Hamid =
Karzai,
  the interim president of Afghanistan, and Zalmay Khalizad, the US
  envoy.&nbsp;The big American bases created in the Afghan war are =
identical to
  the route of the projected oil pipeline. [<a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/020318chicagotribune"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>Chicago Tribune, 3/18/02</span></font></a>, =
<a
  =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#unocalappointees"><fo=
nt
  color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>May 17, 2002: </span></b>Dan =
Rather says
  that he and other journalists haven't been properly investigating =
since 9/11.
  He graphically describes the pressures to conform that built up after =
the
  attacks. [<a =
href=3D"http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,717097,00.html"><font=

  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>Guardian, =
5/17/02</span></font></a>,
  <a href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/massmedia#rather"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>May 23, 2002:</span></b> President =
Bush
  says he is opposed to establishing an independent commission to probe =
9/11. [<a
  =
href=3D"http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/15/attack/main509096.shtml=
"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>CBS, =
5/23/02</span></font></a>]
  Vice President Cheney earlier opposed any public hearings on 9/11. [<a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/020204newsweek"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>Newsweek, 2/4/02</span></font></a>, <a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#bushopposes"><font
  color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>May 30, 2002:</span></b> FBI Agent =
Wright
  formally accuses the FBI of deliberately curtailing investigations =
that might
  have prevented 9/11. He is threatened with retribution if he talks to
  Congress about this. [<a
  href=3D"http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,54070,00.html"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>Fox News, 5/30/02</span></font></a>, <a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#wright3"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>] <br>
  <br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>July 22, 2004:</span></b> The =
<i><span
  style=3D'font-style:italic'>9/11 Commission Report</span></i> is =
published. It
  fails to mention that a year before the attacks a secret Pentagon =
project had
  identified four 9/11 hijackers, including leader Mohamed Atta. The =
Commission
  spokesperson initially states members were not informed of this, but =
later
  acknowledges they were. [<a
  =
href=3D"http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/11/politics/11intel.html?ex=3D1281=
412800&amp;en=3D3c4c0f2346a58391&amp;ei=3D5090&amp;partner=3Drssuserland&=
amp;emc=3Drss"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>New York Times, =
8/11/05</span></font></a>,
  <a href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/abledanger911"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>]<br>
  <br>
  <strong><b><font face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-family:Arial'>2004 - =
2005:</span></font></b></strong>
  A growing number of top government officials and public leaders =
express
  disbelief in the official story of 9/11. 100 prominent leaders and 40 =
9/11
  family members sign a statement calling for an unbiased inquiry into =
evidence
  suggesting high-level government officials may have deliberately =
allowed the
  attacks to occur. [<a =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/050908insidejob911"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>Various =
Publications</span></font></a>]
  <br>
  <br>
  <strong><b><font face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-family:Arial'>Aug 9, =
2006:</span></font></b></strong>
  A <a
  =
href=3D"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307263770/sr=3D1-1/qid=3D115620=
7288/ref=3Dpd_bbs_1/104-3462640-4229555?ie=3DUTF8&amp;s=3Dbooks"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>book</span></font></a> =
by 9/11
  Commission chairmen Kean and Hamilton outlines repeated deceptions by =
the
  Pentagon and FAA, including the timelines of Flights 77 and 93. CNN =
News:
  &quot;The fact that the government would...perpetuate the lie suggests =
that
  we need a full investigation of what is going on.&quot; [<a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/060809cnn.911commissioners"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>CNN, 8/9/06 =
</span></font></a>, <a
  href=3D"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14191255/"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  style=3D'color:windowtext'>MSNBC/AP, 8/4/06</span></font></a>, <a
  =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/060811newsarticles#commission"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>more</span></font></a>] =
</span></font></p>
  <p align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><font size=3D2 =
color=3Dblack
  face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'><!--mstheme=
separator--><img
  border=3D0 width=3D600 height=3D10 =
src=3D"cid:image002....@01C83DBD.BBAB5420"
  alt=3D"horizontal rule"></span></font></p>
  <p align=3Dcenter style=3D'text-align:center'><b><font size=3D3 =
color=3Dblack
  face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;
  font-weight:bold'>For a 10-page summary of the 9/11 timeline, <a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up10pg"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
  =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg</span></f=
ont></a></span></font></b><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'><br>
  <strong><b><font face=3D"Times New Roman">For a powerful video on all =
this: <a
  href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11"><font
  color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>www.WantToKnow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11<=
/span></font></a></font></b></strong><br>
  <b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>For other reliable resources on =
the 9/11
  timeline and cover-up: <a =
href=3D"http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information"><font
  color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:windowtext'>9/11 information =
center</span></font></a></span></b></span></font></p>
  <p><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;
  =
font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></font><!--mstheme--></p=
>
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<p style=3D'margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3D3 =
color=3Dblack
face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'><!--mstheme=
-->&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p style=3D'background:#D4D4D4'><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack =
face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>A TIMELINE
SURROUNDING SEPTEMBER 11TH - IF THE CIA AND THE GOVERNMENT WEREN'T =
INVOLVED IN
THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS WHAT WERE THEY DOING? </span></font></p>

<p style=3D'background:#D4D4D4'><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack =
face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>WHAT ROLE =
DID <b><span
style=3D'font-weight:bold'>CANADA'S CSIS</span></b> OR MILITARY HAVE, =
GIVEN THEIR
INTIMATE TIES TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE?<br>
&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p style=3D'background:#333333'><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack =
face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>by Michael =
C.
Ruppert<br>
<br>
[Expanded and Revised Sept. 4, 2002 - Evidence of Bush =
Administration<br>
Foreknowledge and complicity is now overwhelming. Since our last =
revision<br>
July 11, 2002, 16 New Items!]<br>
<br>
<br>
Nov. 2, 2001, 12:00 PST -- On Oct. 31 the French daily Le Figaro dropped =
a<br>
bombshell. While in a Dubai hospital receiving treatment for a =
chronic<br>
kidney infection last July, Osama bin Laden met with a top CIA official =
--<br>
presumably the chief of station. The meeting, held in bin Laden's =
private<br>
suite, took place at the American hospital in Dubai at a time when he =
was a<br>
wanted fugitive for the bombings of two U.S. embassies and last =
year's<br>
attack on the USS Cole. Bin Laden was eligible for execution according =
to a<br>
2000 intelligence finding issued by President Bill Clinton before =
leaving<br>
office in January. Yet on July 14, 2001 he was allowed to leave Dubai on =
a<br>
private jet, and there were no Navy fighters waiting to force him =
down.<br>
<br>
In 1985 Oliver North -- the only member of the Reagan-Bush years who =
doesn't<br>
appear to have a hand in the current war -- sent the Navy and =
commandos<br>
after terrorists on the cruise ship Achille Lauro. In his 1991 =
autobiography<br>
&quot;Under Fire,&quot; while describing terrorist Abu Abbas North =
wrote,
&quot;I used to<br>
wonder: how many dead Americans will it take before we do =
something?&quot; One<br>
could look at the number of Americans Osama bin Laden is alleged to =
have<br>
killed before Sept. 11 and ask the same question.<br>
<br>
It gets worse, much worse. A more complete timeline listing crucial =
events<br>
both before and after the Sept. 11 suicide attacks, which have been =
blamed<br>
on bin Laden, establishes CIA foreknowledge of them and strongly =
suggests<br>
that there was criminal complicity on the part of the U.S. government =
in<br>
their execution. It also makes clear that the events that have taken =
place<br>
since Sept. 11 are based upon an agenda that has little to do with =
the<br>
attacks.<br>
<br>
[June 19, 2002] -- As the revelations of Bush Administration =
foreknowledge<br>
have progressed from silence, to trickle, to cascade, the question has =
now<br>
changed from forcing the evidence into the open into one of forcing both =
the<br>
media and the people to avoid denying this information in the hopes =
that<br>
their desire for a sense of &quot;normalcy&quot; can be fulfilled. As =
many of
us have<br>
known for years, normalcy went out the window forever when the first =
plane<br>
hit the tower. And what has been revealed will not be resolved with =
an<br>
expensive fact-finding commission, a few firing, or even an =
impeachment<br>
proceeding. What is needed in America -- and in the global economic<br>
system -- is an overhaul, not a tune up.<br>
<br>
1. 1991-1997 - Major U.S. oil companies including ExxonMobil, =
Texaco,<br>
Unocal, BP Amoco, Shell and Enron directly invest billions in cash =
bribing<br>
heads of state in Kazakhstan to secure equity rights in the huge oil<br>
reserves in these regions. The oil companies further commit to future =
direct<br>
investments in Kazakhstan of $35 billion. Not being willing to pay<br>
exorbitant prices to Russia to use Russian pipelines, the major oil<br>
companies have no way to recoup their investments. [Source: &quot;The =
Price of<br>
Oil&quot; by Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, July 9, 2001 - The Asia =
Times,
&quot;The<br>
Roving Eye Part I Jan. 26, 2002.]<br>
<br>
2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; January 1995 - Philippine police investigating a =
possible
attack on<br>
the Pope uncover plans for Operation Bojinka, connected to World =
Trade<br>
Center (WTC) bomber Ramsi Youssef. Parts of the plan call for =
crashing<br>
hijacked airliners into civilian targets. Details of the plan are =
disclosed<br>
in Youssef's 1997 trial for the 1993 WTC bombing. [Source: Agence<br>
France-Presse, Dec. 7, 2001]<br>
<br>
3.&nbsp; Dec. 4, 1997 - Representatives of the Taliban are invited =
guests to
the<br>
Texas headquarters of Unocal to negotiate their support for the =
pipeline.<br>
Subsequent reports will indicate that the negotiations failed, =
allegedly<br>
because the Taliban wanted too much money. [Source: The BBC, Dec. 4, =
1997]<br>
<br>
4. Feb. 12, 1998 - Unocal Vice President John J. Maresca -- later to =
become<br>
a special ambassador to Afghanistan -- testifies before the House that =
until<br>
a single, unified, friendly government is in place in Afghanistan, =
the<br>
trans-Afghani pipeline needed to monetize the oil will not be built.<br>
[Source: Testimony before the House International Relations =
Committee:<br>
<a =
href=3D"http://www.house.gov/international_relations/105th/ap/wsap212982.=
htm"><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.house.gov/international_relations/1=
05th/ap/wsap212982.htm</span></font></a>]<br>
<br>
5.&nbsp; August 1998 - After the U.S. cruise missile attacks on Al Qaeda
targets<br>
in Afghanistan in retaliation for the African embassy bombings, =
Unocal<br>
officially withdraws from participation in the CentGas trans-Afghani =
gas<br>
pipeline project. [Various sources, Unocal]<br>
<br>
6.&nbsp; 1998 - The CIA ignores warnings from Case Officer Robert Baer =
that
Saudi<br>
Arabia was harboring an Al Qaeda cell led by two known terrorists. A =
more<br>
detailed list of known terrorists is offered to Saudi intelligence in =
August<br>
2001 and refused. [Source: Financial Times Jan. 21, 2001; &quot;See No
Evil&quot; by<br>
Robert Baer (release date February 2002)]<br>
<br>
7.&nbsp; April 1999 - Enron with a $3 billion investment to build an =
electrical<br>
generating plant at Dabhol, India loses access to plentiful LNG =
supplies<br>
from Qatar to fuel the plant. Its only remaining option to make the<br>
investment profitable is a trans-Afghani gas pipeline to be built by =
Unocal<br>
from Turkmenistan that would terminate near the Indian border at the =
city of<br>
Multan. [Source: The Albion Monitor, Feb. 28, 2002]<br>
<br>
8.&nbsp; July 4, 1999 - President Clinton signs Executive Order 13129, =
which<br>
freezes Taliban assets in the U.S. and prohibits trade between the =
Afghan<br>
fundamentalist regime and U.S. entities. [Source: Federal Register, Vol. =
64,<br>
No. 129, July 7, 1999]<br>
<br>
9.&nbsp; 1998 and 2000 - Former President George H.W. Bush travels to =
Saudi<br>
Arabia on behalf of the privately owned Carlyle Group, the 11th =
largest<br>
defense contractor in the U.S. While there he meets privately with the =
Saudi<br>
royal family and the bin Laden family. [Source: Wall Street Journal, =
Sept.<br>
27, 2001. See also FTW, Vol. IV, No. 7 - &quot;The Best Enemies Money =
Can
Buy&quot;<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/carlyle.html"><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/carl=
yle.html</span></font></a>]<br>
<br>
10.&nbsp; March 2000 - An FBI agent, reportedly angry over a glitch in
Carnivore<br>
that has somehow mixed innocent non-targeted emails with those belonging =
to<br>
Al Qaeda, destroys all of the FBI's Denver-based intercepts of bin =
Laden's<br>
colleagues in a terrorist investigation. [Source: The Washington Post, =
May<br>
29, 2002]<br>
<br>
11.&nbsp; 2000 (est.) - The FBI refuses to disclose the date of an =
internal
memo<br>
stating that a Middle Eastern nation had been trying to purchase a =
flight<br>
simulator. [Source: Los Angeles Times, May 30, 2002]<br>
<br>
12.&nbsp; August 2000 -- Suspected Al Qaeda operatives wiretapped by =
Italian<br>
police made apparent references to plans for major attacks involving<br>
airports, airplanes and the United States according to transcripts =
obtained<br>
by the Los Angeles Times. The Times suggests that the information might =
not<br>
have been passed to U.S. authorities (hard to believe), but it did =
report<br>
that Italian authorities would not comment on the report. The Times =
also<br>
noted that &quot;Italian and U.S. anti-terrorism experts cooperate
closely.&quot;<br>
[Source: The Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2002]<br>
<br>
13.&nbsp; Oct. 24-26, 2000 - Pentagon officials carry out a
&quot;detailed&quot; emergency<br>
drill based upon the crashing of a hijacked airliner into the =
Pentagon.<br>
[Source: The Mirror, May 24, 2002]<br>
<br>
14.&nbsp; January 2001 - The Bush Administration orders the FBI and
intelligence<br>
agencies to &quot;back off&quot; investigations involving the bin Laden =
family,<br>
including two of Osama bin Laden's relatives (Abdullah and Omar) who =
were<br>
living in Falls Church, Va. -- right next to CIA headquarters. This =
followed<br>
previous orders dating back to 1996 that frustrated efforts to =
investigate<br>
the bin Laden family. [Source: BBC Newsnight, Correspondent Gregg =
Palast,<br>
Nov. 7, 2001]<br>
<br>
15.&nbsp; Jan. 30, 2001 - Sept. 11 hijacker Ziad Jarrah was questioned =
in the<br>
United Arab Emirates (UAE). A number of UAE, Middle Eastern, European, =
and<br>
U.S. sources were cited in this CNN report, which said the CIA =
requested<br>
Jarrah be interrogated because he had been in Afghanistan and was =
suspected<br>
to have ties to terrorists. An unnamed CIA spokesman said the other =
sources'<br>
claims that the agency knew anything about Jarrah before Sept. 11 =
were<br>
&quot;flatly untrue.&quot; Jarrah's Jan. 30 detainment at the airport in =
Dubai,
UAE<br>
came six months after he took flying lessons in the U.S. Jarrah was =
released<br>
because &quot;U.S. officials were satisfied,&quot; said the report. =
[Source:
CNN, Aug.<br>
1, 2002 <a =
href=3D"http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/01/cia.hijacker/index.html"><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/01/cia.hijacker/=
index.html</span></font></a>]<br>
<br>
16.&nbsp; Feb. 13, 2001 - UPI terrorism correspondent Richard Sale -- =
while<br>
covering a trial of bin Laden's Al Qaeda followers -- reports that =
the<br>
National Security Agency has broken bin Laden's encrypted =
communications.<br>
Even if this indicates that bin Laden changed systems in February, it =
does<br>
not mesh with the fact that the government insists that the attacks had =
been<br>
planned for years.<br>
<br>
17.&nbsp; May 2001 - Secretary of State Colin Powell gives $43 million =
in aid
to<br>
the Taliban regime, purportedly to assist hungry farmers who are =
starving<br>
since the destruction of their opium crop in January on orders of =
the<br>
Taliban regime. [Source: Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2001]<br>
<br>
18.&nbsp; May 2001 - Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, a =
career
covert<br>
operative and former Navy Seal, travels to India on a publicized tour, =
while<br>
CIA Director George Tenet makes a quiet visit to Pakistan to meet =
with<br>
Pakistani leader Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Armitage has long and deep =
Pakistani<br>
intelligence connections. It would be reasonable to assume that while =
in<br>
Islamabad, Tenet, in what was described as &quot;an unusually long
meeting,&quot; also<br>
met with his Pakistani counterpart, Lt. Gen. Mahmud Ahmad, head of the =
ISI.<br>
[Source: The Indian SAPRA news agency, May 22, 2001]<br>
<br>
19.&nbsp; June 2001 - German intelligence, the BND, warns the CIA and =
Israel
that<br>
Middle Eastern terrorists are &quot;planning to hijack commercial =
aircraft to
use<br>
as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli =
culture.&quot;<br>
[Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Sept. 14, 2001; See<br>
<a =
href=3D"http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/f_a_zeitung_story.html"=
><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/f_a_=
zeitung_story.html</span></font></a>]<br>
<br>
20.&nbsp; June 8, 2001 - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) =
publishes a<br>
story headlined, &quot;Central Asia: Charges Link Russian Military to =
Drug<br>
Trade.&quot; According to the article, figures for 1999 published in a =
report
by<br>
the United Nations Drug Control Program (UNDCP) revealed that 80 percent =
of<br>
the heroin consumed in Western Europe originated in Afghanistan and<br>
Pakistan. The UNDCP report also revealed half of the drugs in that =
80<br>
percent traveled through Central Asia. A study by the Carnegie Endowment =
for<br>
International Peace published in March 2000 said Russian soldiers<br>
headquartered in Tajikistan were suspected of helping drug traffickers =
by<br>
providing them with transportation facilities. This was confirmed by =
a<br>
Russian intelligence officer who told the Moscow News weekly, &quot;You =
can
come<br>
to an arrangement [with custom officials] so that the search of =
military<br>
transport planes remains purely formal. The same goes for train =
convoys<br>
carrying military cargo [to Russia from Tajikistan].&quot; [Source:<br>
<a =
href=3D"http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2001/06/08062001111711.asp"><fo=
nt
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>www.rferl.org/nca/features/2001/06/08062001111=
711.asp</span></font></a>]<br>
<br>
21.&nbsp; July 2001 - FBI agents in Arizona write a memorandum warning =
about<br>
suspicious activities involving a group of Middle Eastern men taking =
flight<br>
training lessons in Phoenix. The memorandum specifically mentions Osama =
bin<br>
Laden and warns of connections to terrorist activities. [Source: The =
New<br>
York Times, May 14, 2002]<br>
<br>
22.&nbsp; summer 2001 - The National Security Council convenes a Dabhol =
working<br>
group as revealed in a series of government e-mails obtained by the<br>
Washington Post and the New York Daily News. [Source: The Albion =
Monitor,<br>
Feb. 28, 2002]<br>
<br>
23.&nbsp; summer 2001 - According to a Sept. 26 story in Britain's The
Guardian,<br>
correspondent David Leigh reported that &quot;U.S. department of =
defense<br>
official, Dr. Jeffrey Starr, visited Tajikistan in January. The =
Guardian's<br>
Felicity Lawrence established that U.S. Rangers were also training =
special<br>
troops in Kyrgyzstan. There were unconfirmed reports that Tajik and =
Uzbek<br>
special troops were training in Alaska and Montana.&quot;<br>
<br>
24.&nbsp; summer 2001 (est.) - Pakistani ISI Chief Gen. Ahmad (see =
above)
orders<br>
an aide to wire transfer $100,000 to Mohammed Atta who was, according to =
the<br>
FBI, the lead terrorist in the suicide hijackings. Ahmad recently =
resigned<br>
after the transfer was disclosed in India and confirmed by the FBI. =
The<br>
individual who makes the wire transfer at Ahmad's direction is Ahmad =
Umar<br>
Sheik, the lead suspect in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street =
Journal<br>
reporter Daniel Pearl. [Source: The Times of India, Oct.11, 2001.]<br>
<br>
25.&nbsp; summer 2001 - The online newswire online.ie reports on Sept. =
14 that
an<br>
Iranian man phones U.S. law enforcement to warn of an imminent attack on =
the<br>
WTC in the week of Sept. 9. German police confirm the calls but state =
that<br>
the U.S. Secret Service would not reveal any further information. =
[Source:<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.online.ie/news/viewer.adp?article=3D1512332"><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.online.ie/news/viewer.adp?article=3D=
1512332</span></font></a>.<br>
<a =
href=3D"http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/online_ie_story.html"><=
font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/onli=
ne_ie_story.html</span></font></a>
]<br>
<br>
26.&nbsp; summer 2001 - Jordanian intelligence, the GID, makes a =
communications<br>
intercept deemed so important that King Abdullah's men relay it to<br>
Washington, probably through the CIA station in Amman. To make doubly =
sure<br>
the message got through it was passed through an Arab intermediary to =
a<br>
German intelligence agent. The message: A major attack was planned =
inside<br>
the U.S., and aircraft would be used. The code name of the operation =
was<br>
&quot;The Big Wedding.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;When it became clear that the
information was<br>
embarrassing to Bush Administration officials and congressmen who at =
first<br>
denied that there had been any such warnings before Sept. 11, senior<br>
Jordanian officials backed away from their earlier confirmations.&quot; =
This
case<br>
was authenticated by ABC reporter John K. Cooley. [Source: =
International<br>
Herald Tribune (IHT), May 21, 2002]<br>
<br>
27.&nbsp; summer 2001 (est.) - The National Security Agency intercepts
telephone<br>
conversations between bin Laden aide Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and =
Mohammed<br>
Atta and does not share the information with any other agencies. =
[Source:<br>
Jonathan Landay, Knight Ridder Newspapers, June 6, 2002]<br>
<br>
28.&nbsp; June 26, 2001 - The magazine indiareacts.com states that =
&quot;India
and<br>
Iran will 'facilitate' U.S. and Russian plans for 'limited military =
action'<br>
against the Taliban.&quot; The story indicates that the fighting will be =
done
by<br>
U.S. and Russian troops with the help of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. =
[Source:<br>
indiareacts.com, June 26, 2001]<br>
<br>
29.&nbsp; summer 2001 - Russian intelligence notifies the CIA that 25 =
terrorist<br>
pilots have been specifically training for missions involving =
hijacked<br>
airliners. This is reported in the Russian press and news stories =
are<br>
translated for FTW by a retired CIA officer. (Note: The story currently =
on<br>
the Izvestia web site has been edited to delete a key paragraph.) =
[Source:<br>
Izvestia, Sept. 12, 2001,<br>
<a =
href=3D"http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/izvestia_story_pic.html=
"><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/izve=
stia_story_pic.html</span></font></a>]<br>
<br>
<br>
30.&nbsp; July 4-14, 2001 - Osama bin Laden receives treatment for =
kidney
disease<br>
at the American hospital in Dubai and meets with a CIA official, who =
returns<br>
to CIA headquarters on July 15. </span></font><font color=3Dblack =
face=3DArial><span
lang=3DES-TRAD style=3D'font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>[Source: Le =
Figaro,
Oct. 31, 2001]<br>
</span></font><font color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-family:Arial;
color:windowtext'><a =
href=3D"http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/Le"><font
color=3Dblack><span lang=3DES-TRAD =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/Le</=
span></font></a></span></font><font
color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span lang=3DES-TRAD =
style=3D'font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>
Figaro_osama_dubai.html<br>
<br>
31.&nbsp; </span></font><font color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-family:
Arial;color:windowtext'>July 15, 2001 - Members of the G8, meeting in =
Genoa,
Italy, discuss the<br>
Taliban, pipelines, and the handing over of Osama bin Laden. According =
to<br>
Pakistani representative Ambassador Naiz Naik, the U.S. delegation, led =
by<br>
former Clinton Ambassador to Pakistan Tom Simmons warned of a =
&quot;military<br>
option&quot; if the Taliban did not change position. [Source: =
Jean-Charles<br>
Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, &quot;Bin Laden: La Verite =
Interdite,&quot;
pp76-7.<br>
Thanks to Prof. Peter Dale Scott]<br>
<br>
32.&nbsp; July 2001 - Immediately after the G8 Summit three American =
officials
--<br>
Tom Simmons (former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan), Karl Inderfurth =
(former<br>
assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs) and Lee =
Coldren<br>
(former State Department expert on South Asia) -- meet with Pakistani =
and<br>
Russian intelligence officers in Berlin and tell them that the U.S. =
is<br>
planning military strikes against Afghanistan in October. A French =
book<br>
released in November, &quot;Bin Laden - La Verite Interdite,&quot; =
discloses
that<br>
Taliban representatives often sat in on the meetings. British papers =
confirm<br>
that the Pakistani ISI relayed the threats to the Taliban. [Source: =
The<br>
Guardian, Sept. 22, 2001; the BBC, Sept. 18, 2001; The Inter Press =
Service,<br>
Nov. 16, 2001; Alexander's Gas and Oil Connections, Feb. 21, 2002]<br>
<br>
33.&nbsp; July 2001 - The G8 summit at Genoa, Italy is surrounded by<br>
anti-aircraft guns, and local airspace is closed off after Italian =
and<br>
Egyptian officials (including President Hosni Mubarak) warn American<br>
intelligence that airliners stuffed with explosives might be used to =
attack<br>
President Bush. U.S. officials state that the warnings were<br>
&quot;unsubstantiated.&quot; (But I wonder if they would have taken away =
the<br>
anti-aircraft artillery?) [Source: Los Angeles Times, Sept. 27, =
2001]<br>
<br>
34.&nbsp; July 26, 2001 - CBS News reports that John Ashcroft has =
stopped
flying<br>
commercial airlines due a threat assessment. Ashcroft told the press =
that he<br>
didn't know anything about what had caused it.<br>
<br>
35.&nbsp; Aug. 2, 2001 - U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Christine Rocca (a =
former<br>
CIA officer), meets in Islamabad with a Taliban ambassador and demands =
the<br>
extradition of bin Laden. This was the last known meeting on the =
subject.<br>
[Source: Brisard and Dasquie, p 79. Thanks to Prof. Peter Dale =
Scott]<br>
<br>
36.&nbsp; August 2001 - The FBI arrests an Islamic militant linked to =
bin Laden<br>
in Boston. French intelligence sources confirm that the man is a key =
member<br>
of bin Laden's network and the FBI learns that he has been taking =
flying<br>
lessons. At the time of his arrest the man is in possession of =
technical<br>
information on Boeing aircraft and flight manuals. [Source: Reuters, =
Sept.<br>
13, 2001]<br>
<br>
37.&nbsp; Aug. 11 or 12, 2001 , U.S. Navy Lt. Delmart &quot;Mike&quot;
Vreeland, jailed in<br>
Toronto on U.S. fraud charges and claiming to be an officer with U.S. =
naval<br>
intelligence, writes details of the pending WTC attacks and seals them =
in an<br>
envelope, which he gives to Canadian authorities. [Source: The Toronto =
Star,<br>
Oct. 23, 2001; Toronto Superior Court Records]<br>
<br>
38.&nbsp; August 2001 - As reported in the IHT both a French magazine =
(name not<br>
given) and a Moroccan newspaper simultaneously report that a Moroccan =
agent<br>
named Hassan Dabou had penetrated Al Qaeda to the point of getting close =
to<br>
bin Laden, who was &quot;very disappointed&quot; that the 1993 bombing =
had not
toppled<br>
the WTC. Dabou was called to the U.S. after reporting this, which =
curtailed<br>
his ability to stay in touch with the organization and gather =
additional<br>
intelligence that might have prevented the attacks. Though not proved =
beyond<br>
a doubt, these stories have been met with a wall of silence. [The IHT, =
May<br>
21, 2002]<br>
<br>
39.&nbsp; August 2001 - Russian President Vladimir Putin orders =
Russian<br>
intelligence to warn the U.S. government &quot;in the strongest possible
terms&quot;<br>
of imminent attacks on airports and government buildings. [Source: =
MSNBC<br>
interview with Putin, Sept. 15, 2001]<br>
<br>
40.&nbsp; August 2001 - President Bush receives classified intelligence
briefings<br>
at his Crawford, Texas ranch indicating that Osama bin Laden might =
be<br>
planning to hijack commercial airliners. [CBS News; CNN, May 15, =
2002]<br>
<br>
41.&nbsp; late-August 2001 - Prince Turki, the pro-U.S. head of =
Saudi<br>
intelligence (also known to be close to bin Laden), is replaced by his =
more<br>
neutral half-brother, Prince Nawwaf who is an ally of Crown Prince =
Abdullah.<br>
[Source: Saudi Arabian Information Resource, Aug. 31, 2001;<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.saudinf.com/"><font color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.saudinf.com/</span></font></a>
- Thanks to Prof. Peter Dale Scott]<br>
<br>
42.&nbsp; August/September 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops =
nearly<br>
900 points in the three weeks prior to the attack. A major stock =
market<br>
crash is imminent.<br>
<br>
43.&nbsp; August/September 2001 - According to a detailed 13-page memo =
written
by<br>
Minneapolis FBI legal officer Colleen Rowley, FBI headquarters =
ignores<br>
urgent, direct warnings from French intelligence services about =
pending<br>
attacks. In addition, a single Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) in =
Washington<br>
expends extra effort to thwart the field office's investigation of =
Zacarias<br>
Moussaoui, in one case rewriting Rowley's affidavit for a search warrant =
to<br>
search Moussaoui's laptop. Rowley's memo uses terms like =
&quot;deliberately<br>
sabotage,&quot; &quot;block,&quot; &quot;integrity,&quot; =
&quot;omitted,&quot;
&quot;downplayed,&quot; &quot;glossed over,&quot;<br>
&quot;mis-characterize,&quot; &quot;improper political reasons,
&quot;deliberately thwarting,&quot;<br>
&quot;deliberately further undercut,&quot; &quot;suppressed,&quot; and
&quot;not completely honest.&quot;<br>
These are not terms describing negligent acts but rather, deliberate =
acts.<br>
FBI field agents desperately attempt to get action, but to no avail. =
One<br>
agent speculates that bin Laden might be planning to crash airliners =
into<br>
the WTC, while Rowley ironically noted that the SSA who had committed =
these<br>
deliberate actions had actually been promoted after Sept. 11. =
[Source:<br>
Associated Press, May 21, 2002]<br>
<br>
44.&nbsp; Sept. 3-10, 2001 - MSNBC reports on Sept. 16 that a caller to =
a
Cayman<br>
Islands radio talk show gave several warnings of an imminent attack on =
the<br>
U.S. by bin Laden in the week prior to 9-11.<br>
<br>
45.&nbsp; early-September 2001 - An FBI internal document, based upon =
field
notes<br>
from Minnesota field agents discloses that the agents had been =
investigating<br>
and had questioned the &quot;20th hijacker,&quot; Zacarias Moussaoui. =
The field
notes<br>
speculate that Moussaoui, who had been taking flight lessons, might =
crash an<br>
airliner into the WTC. Interestingly, the field agents' requests to =
obtain a<br>
search warrant for his personal computer were denied. French =
intelligence<br>
confirms to the FBI that Moussaoui has ties to terrorist groups and may =
have<br>
traveled to Afghanistan. The agents also had no knowledge of the =
Phoenix<br>
memo (See Item #18). One news story states that agents were in &quot;a
frenzy,&quot;<br>
absolutely convinced that he was &quot;going to do something with a
plane.&quot;<br>
[Source: Newsweek, May 20, 2002 issue, story by Michael Isikoff].<br>
<br>
46.&nbsp; Sept. 1-10 2001 - In an exercise, called Operation &quot;Swift
Sword&quot; and<br>
planned for four years, 23,000 British troops are steaming toward =
Oman.<br>
Although the 9-11 attacks caused a hiccup in the deployment, the =
massive<br>
operation was implemented as planned. At the same time two U.S. =
carrier<br>
battle groups arrive on station in the Gulf of Arabia just off the =
Pakistani<br>
coast. Also at the same time, some 17,000 U.S. troops join more than =
23,000<br>
NATO troops in Egypt for Operation &quot;Bright Star.&quot; All of these =
forces
are in<br>
place before the first plane hits the WTC. [Sources: The Guardian; CNN; =
Fox;<br>
The Observer; International Law Professor Francis Boyle, the University =
of<br>
Illinois.]<br>
<br>
47.&nbsp; Sept. 4-5, 2001 - A freshman at Brooklyn's New Utrecht High =
School
who<br>
had recently emigrated from Pakistan reportedly predicts the destruction =
of<br>
the World Trade Center a week prior to the 9-11 attacks, according to =
the<br>
JournalNews newspaper in White Plains, N.Y. Citing &quot;three police =
sources
and<br>
a city official familiar with the investigation&quot; as well as =
confirmation<br>
from the FBI that the bureau had received this information, the =
paper<br>
reported that in the midst of a heated class discussion the student =
pointed<br>
to the World Trade Center from a third story window and said, &quot;Do =
you see<br>
those two buildings? They won't be standing there next week.&quot; New =
York
City<br>
Board of Education spokeswoman Catie Marshall confirmed for the =
JournalNews<br>
&quot;that school officials reported the matter to police within minutes =
of the<br>
Sept. 11 attack&quot; and students told the paper that &quot;FBI agents =
and
NYPD<br>
detectives descended on the school on Sept. 13 to interrogate the =
student<br>
[who made the prediction] and others in his class,&quot; which was =
&quot;an
English<br>
class for Arab-American students.&quot; [Source: The JournalNews, Oct. =
11,
2001,<br>
<a =
href=3D"http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/101101/11warumors.html"><f=
ont
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/101101/=
11warumors.html</span></font></a>]<br>
<br>
48.&nbsp; Sept. 5, 2001 - &quot;Five hundred websites -- many of them =
with an
Arab or<br>
Muslim connection -- crash when an anti-terrorism taskforce raids =
InfoCom<br>
Corp. in Texas,&quot; reported Britain's the Guardian on Sept. 10, 2001. =
A<br>
taskforce of approximately 80 federal agents and officials from the =
FBI,<br>
Secret Service, INS, Customs, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, IRS, =
and<br>
Commerce Department occupied InfoCom's office building in the Dallas =
suburb<br>
of Richardson, Texas for four days, &quot;copying every hard disc they =
could<br>
find.&quot; InfoCom hosts many websites for Middle Eastern clients and =
is
located<br>
across the street from the Holy Land Foundation, a charitable =
organization<br>
which has been alleged to have connections with terrorist groups. =
InfoCom's<br>
vice president of marketing, Ghassan Elashi, is also the chairman of =
the<br>
Holy Land Foundation. [Source: The Guardian, Sept. 10, 2001,<br>
<a
href=3D"http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,54959=
0,00.html"><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist=
/story/0,7792,549590,00.html</span></font></a>]<br>
<br>
49.&nbsp; Sept. 7, 2001 - Florida Governor Jeb Bush signs a two-year =
emergency<br>
executive order (01-261) making new provisions for the Florida =
National<br>
Guard to assist law enforcement and emergency-management personnel in =
the<br>
event of large civil disturbances, disaster or acts of terrorism. =
[Source:<br>
State of Florida website listing of Governor's executive orders]<br>
<br>
50.&nbsp; Sept. 6-7, 2001 - Put options (a speculation that the stock =
will go<br>
down) totaling 4,744 are purchased on United Air Lines stock, as opposed =
to<br>
only 396 call options (speculation that the stock will go up). This is =
a<br>
dramatic and abnormal increase in sales of put options. Many of the =
United<br>
puts are purchased through Deutschebank/A.B. Brown, a firm managed =
until<br>
1998 by the current executive director of the CIA, A.B. =
&quot;Buzzy&quot;
Krongard.<br>
[Source: The Herzliyya International Policy Institute for =
Counterterrorism<br>
(ICT), <a href=3D"http://www.ict.org.il/"><font color=3Dblack><span
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.ict.org.il/</span></font></a>, =
Sept. 21,
2001 (Note:The ICT article on<br>
possible terrorist insider trading appeared eight days *after* the =
9/11<br>
attacks.); The New York Times; The Wall Street Journal; The San =
Francisco<br>
Chronicle, Sept. 29, 2001]<br>
<br>
51.&nbsp; Sept. 10, 2001 - Put options totaling 4,516 are purchased on =
American<br>
Airlines as compared to 748 call options. [Source: Herzliyya Institute =
-<br>
above]<br>
<br>
52.&nbsp; Sept. 6-11, 2001 - No other airlines show any similar trading
patterns<br>
to those experienced by United and American. The put option purchases =
on<br>
both airlines were 600 percent above normal. This at a time when =
Reuters<br>
(Sept. 10) issues a business report stating, &quot;Airline stocks may be =
poised<br>
to take off.&quot;<br>
<br>
53.&nbsp; Sept. 6-10, 2001 - Highly abnormal levels of put options are
purchased<br>
in Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, AXA Re(insurance) which owns 25 =
percent of<br>
American Airlines, and Munich Re. All of these companies are =
directly<br>
impacted by the Sept. 11 attacks. [Source: ICT, above;<br>
FTW, Oct. 18, 2001,<br>
<a =
href=3D"http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/oct152001.html"><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/oct1=
52001.html</span></font></a>]<br>
<br>
54.&nbsp; 2001-2002 - It has been documented that the CIA, the Israeli =
Mossad,<br>
and many other intelligence agencies monitor stock trading in real =
time<br>
using highly advanced programs reported to be descended from Promis<br>
software. This is to alert national intelligence services of just such =
kinds<br>
of attacks. Promis was reported as recently as June 2001 to be in Osama =
bin<br>
Laden's possession and, as a result of recent stories by Fox, both the =
FBI<br>
and the Justice Department have confirmed its use for U.S. =
intelligence<br>
gathering through at least summer 2002. This would confirm that CIA =
had<br>
additional advance warning of imminent attacks. [Sources: The =
Washington<br>
Times, June 15, 2001; Fox, Oct. 16, 2001;<br>
FTW, Oct. 26, 2001, -<br>
<a =
href=3D"http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/11_19_01_magic_carpet.h=
tml"><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/11_1=
9_01_magic_carpet.html</span></font></a><br>
FTW, Vol. IV, No. 6, Sept. 18, 2001 -<br>
<a =
href=3D"http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/sept1801.html"><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/sept=
1801.html</span></font></a>;<br>
FTW, Vol. III, No. 7, Sept. 30, 2000 -<br>
<a =
href=3D"http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/pandora/052401_promis.html"=
><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/pandora/=
052401_promis.html</span></font></a>]<br>
<br>
55.&nbsp; Sept. 9, 2001 - President George W. Bush is presented with =
detailed
war<br>
plans to overthrow Al Qaeda, according to U.S. and foreign sources =
speaking<br>
to NBC News. [Source: MSNBC, May 16, 2002. Thanks to Prof. Peter Dale =
Scott]<br>
<br>
56.&nbsp; Sept. 10, 2001 - This item has been removed solely at the =
request of<br>
the party previously named in this entry. Recent court proceedings - =
which<br>
occurred after the news story we had cited - have indicated that there =
was<br>
no connection between the story listed here, the person named therein =
and<br>
the attacks of 9-11-01. At the request of the previously named party, =
FTW<br>
has replaced the $1,000 reward with a $1,000 donation to The =
Childrens<br>
Defense Fund on behalf of the named party and the issue is now =
amicably<br>
resolved without any hard feelings between that party and FTW.<br>
<br>
57.&nbsp; Sept. 10, 2001 - According to Newsweek, a group of top =
Pentagon<br>
officials suddenly cancelled travel plans for the next morning, =
apparently<br>
because of security concerns. [Source: Newsweek, Sept. 24, 2001]<br>
<br>
58.&nbsp; Sept. 10, 2001 - The Houston Chronicle reports the FBI was =
notified
of<br>
a fifth grader from a Dallas suburb who told his teacher, =
&quot;Tomorrow, World<br>
War III will begin. It will begin in the United States, and the =
United<br>
States will lose.&quot; The Chronicle was unclear on specifically when =
Garland,<br>
Texas school district officials told the FBI about the incident, but it =
was<br>
some time between Sept. 13, 2001 and the story's publication date of =
Sept.<br>
19, 2001. [Source: Houston Chronicle, Sept. 19, 2001<br>
<a =
href=3D"http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1055222"><font=

color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropol=
itan/1055222</span></font></a>]<br>
<br>
59.&nbsp; Sept. 10, 2001 - San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown receives a =
call
from<br>
what he described as &quot;his security people at the airport&quot; =
eight hours
before<br>
the terrorist attacks &quot;advising him that Americans should be =
cautious
about<br>
their air travel,&quot; as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. =
Brown was<br>
scheduled to fly to New York from San Francisco International Airport. =
He<br>
told the Chronicle the call &quot;didn't come in any alarming fashion, =
which is<br>
why I'm hesitant to make any alarming statement.&quot; [Source: San =
Francisco<br>
Chronicle, Sept. 12, 2001,<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.sfgate.com/today/0912_chron_mnreport.shtml"><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.sfgate.com/today/0912_chron_mnrepor=
t.shtml</span></font></a>]<br>
<br>
60.&nbsp; Sept. 11, 2001 - The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the
federal<br>
agency that runs many of the nation's spy satellites, schedules an =
exercise<br>
involving a plane crashing into one of the agency's buildings. &quot;On =
the<br>
morning of Sept. 11, 2001,&quot; according to a website advertising a =
homeland<br>
security conference in Chicago run by the National Law Enforcement =
and<br>
Security Institute, CIA official John Fulton and his team &quot;were =
running a<br>
pre-planned simulation to explore the emergency response issues that =
would<br>
be created if a plane were to strike a building. Little did they know =
that<br>
the scenario would come true in a dramatic way.&quot; Fulton is the head =
of the<br>
NRO's strategic gaming division. [Source: National Law Enforcement =
and<br>
Security Institute, <a href=3D"http://www.nlsi.net"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.nlsi.net</span></font></a>,<br>
<a
href=3D"http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=3Dstory&amp;u=3D/ap/2002082=
1/ap_wo_en_ge/us_se"><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=3Dstory&=
amp;u=3D/ap/20020821/ap_wo_en_ge/us_se</span></font></a><br>
pt_11_plane_exercise_1]<br>
<br>
61.&nbsp; Sept. 11, 2001 - After the attacks on the World Trade Center =
and<br>
Pentagon occur, National Public Radio's congressional correspondent =
David<br>
Welna reports, &quot;I spoke with congressman Ike Skelton, a Democrat =
from<br>
Missouri and a member of the Armed Services Committee, who said that =
just<br>
recently the director of the CIA warned that there could be an attack -- =
an<br>
imminent attack - on the United States of this nature. So this is =
not<br>
entirely unexpected.&quot; [Source: <a
href=3D"http://www.thememoryhole.org/updates.htm"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.thememoryhole.org/updates.htm</span=
></font></a>]<br>
<br>
62.&nbsp; Sept. 11, 2001 - United Air Lines flight 23, scheduled to fly =
from
New<br>
York City to Los Angeles was delayed after four Muslim passengers =
began<br>
demanding that the plane take off immediately. This happened =
apparently<br>
after the first plane had hit the WTC. The passengers were thrown off =
the<br>
flight. [Source: The Globe and Mail, June 13, 2002]<br>
<br>
63.&nbsp; Sept. 11, 2001 - Gen. Mahmud of the ISI (see #16), friend of =
Mohammed<br>
Atta, is visiting Washington on behalf of the Taliban. He is meeting =
with<br>
the Chairmen of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Rep. =
Porter<br>
Goss, R-Fla., and Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., [Source: MSNBC, Oct. 7, 2001; =
The<br>
New York Times, Feb. 17, 2002]<br>
<br>
64.&nbsp; Sept. 11, 2001 - Employees of Odigo, Inc. in Israel, one of =
the
world's<br>
largest instant messaging companies with offices in New York, receive =
threat<br>
warnings of an imminent attack on the WTC less than two hours before =
the<br>
first plane hits. Law enforcement authorities have gone silent about =
any<br>
investigation of this. The Odigo research and development offices in =
Israel<br>
are located in the city of Herzliyya, a ritzy suburb of Tel Aviv that is =
the<br>
same location as the Institute for Counter Terrorism, which eight days =
later<br>
reports details of insider trading on 9-11. [Source: CNN's Daniel =
Sieberg,<br>
Sept. 28, 2001; MSNBC Newsbytes, Brian McWilliams, Sept. 27, 2001; =
Ha'aretz,<br>
Sept. 26, 2001]<br>
<br>
65.&nbsp; Sept. 11, 2001 - For 50 minutes, from 8:15 AM until 9:05 AM, =
with it<br>
widely known within the FAA and the military that four planes have =
been<br>
simultaneously hijacked and taken off course, no one notifies the =
President<br>
of the United States. It is not until 9:30 that any Air Force planes =
are<br>
scrambled to intercept, but by then it is too late. This means that =
the<br>
National Command Authority waited for 75 minutes before scrambling =
aircraft,<br>
even though it was known that four simultaneous hijackings had =
occurred.<br>
[Source: CNN; ABC; MSNBC; Los Angeles Times; The New York Times;<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.tenc.net"><font color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>www.tenc.net</span></font></a>]<br>
<br>
66.&nbsp; Sept. 11-12, 2001 - Nearly a month before the first reported
outbreak,<br>
White House officials start taking the powerful antibiotic Cipro to =
treat<br>
anthrax. By the end of the year it will be known that the Ames strain =
of<br>
anthrax used in the attacks against Sens. Leahy and Daschle was produced =
by<br>
CIA programs coordinated through Fort Detrick, the Batelle Memorial<br>
Institute and the Dugway Proving Ground. [Source: NBC; CNN;<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.tetrahedron.org"><font color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>www.tetrahedron.org</span></font></a>,
<a href=3D"http://www.judicialwatch.org"><font color=3Dblack><span
style=3D'color:windowtext'>www.judicialwatch.org</span></font></a>]<br>
<br>
67.&nbsp; Sept. 13, 2001 - China is admitted to the World Trade =
Organization<br>
quickly, after years of unsuccessful attempts. [Source: The New York =
Times,<br>
Sept. 30, 2001]<br>
<br>
68.&nbsp; Sept. 14, 2001 - Canadian jailers open the sealed envelope =
from Mike<br>
Vreeland in Toronto and see that is describes attacks against the WTC =
and<br>
Pentagon. The U.S. Navy subsequently states that Vreeland was discharged =
as<br>
a seaman in 1986 for unsatisfactory performance and has never worked =
in<br>
intelligence. [Source: The Toronto Star, Oct. 23, 2001; Toronto =
Superior<br>
Court records]<br>
<br>
69.&nbsp; Sept. 15, 2001 - The New York Times reports that Mayo Shattuck =
III
has<br>
resigned, effective immediately, as head of the Alex Brown (A.B.) unit =
of<br>
Deutschebank.<br>
<br>
70.&nbsp; Sept. 29, 2001 - The San Francisco Chronicle reports that $2.5
million<br>
in put options on American and United airlines are unclaimed. This is =
likely<br>
the result of the suspension in trading on the New York Stock Exchange =
after<br>
the attacks, which gave the Securities and Exchange Commission time to =
be<br>
waiting when the owners showed up to redeem their put options.<br>
<br>
71.&nbsp; Oct. 10, 2001 - The Pakistani newspaper The Frontier Post =
reports
that<br>
U.S. Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain has paid a call on the Pakistani =
oil<br>
minister. A previously abandoned Unocal gas pipeline project from<br>
Turkmenistan, across Afghanistan, to Pakistan is now back on the table =
&quot;in<br>
view of recent geopolitical developments.&quot;<br>
<br>
72.&nbsp; Oct. 11, 2001 - The Ashcroft Justice Department takes over =
all<br>
terrorist prosecutions from the U.S. Attorneys office in New York, which =
has<br>
had a highly successful track record in prosecuting terrorist cases<br>
connected to Osama bin Laden. [Source: The New York Times, Oct. 11, =
2001]<br>
<br>
73.&nbsp; mid-October 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average, after =
having<br>
suffered a precipitous drop has recovered most of its pre-attack =
losses.<br>
Although still weak and vulnerable to negative earnings reports, a crash =
has<br>
been averted by a massive infusion of government spending on defense<br>
programs, subsidies for &quot;affected&quot; industries and planned tax =
cuts
for<br>
corporations.<br>
<br>
74.&nbsp; Oct. 29, 2001 - The Bush Administration drafts &quot;an =
executive
order that<br>
would usher in a new era of secrecy for presidential records and allow =
an<br>
incumbent president to withhold a former president's papers even if =
the<br>
former president wanted to make them public,&quot; wrote the Washington =
Post.
The<br>
order also required members of the public to prove &quot;at least a<br>
=D4demonstrated, specific need'&quot; for a president's papers to be =
released.<br>
Critics contend this would overturn the 1978 Presidential Records Act, =
which<br>
releases documents after 12 years. The White House maintained that a =
Supreme<br>
Court decision in 1977 allows presidents various privileges for =
their<br>
records. [Source: Washington Post, Nov. 1, 2001,<br>
<a =
href=3D"http://washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20731-2001Oct31?language=3D=
printer"><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20731-20=
01Oct31?language=3Dprinter</span></font></a>]<br>
<br>
75.&nbsp; Nov. 21, 2001 - The British paper The Independent runs a =
story<br>
headlined, &quot;Opium Farmers Rejoice at the Defeat of the =
Taliban.&quot; The
story<br>
reports that massive opium planting is underway all over the =
country.<br>
<br>
76.&nbsp; Nov. 25, 2001 - The Observer runs a story headlined =
&quot;Victorious<br>
Warlords Set To Open the Opium Floodgates.&quot; It states that farmers =
are
being<br>
encouraged by warlords allied with the victorious Americans are =
&quot;being<br>
encouraged to plant as much opium as possible.&quot;<br>
<br>
77.&nbsp; Dec. 4, 2001 - Convicted drug lord and opium kingpin Ayub =
Afridi is<br>
recruited by the U.S. government to help establish control in =
Afghanistan by<br>
unifying various Pashtun warlords. The former opium smuggler who was one =
of<br>
the CIA's leading assets in the war against the Russians is released =
from<br>
prison in order to do this. [Source: The Asia Times Online, Dec. 4, =
2001]<br>
<br>
78.&nbsp; Dec. 25, 2001 - Newly appointed Afghani Prime Minister Hamid =
Karzai
is<br>
revealed as being a former paid consultant for Unocal. [Source: Le =
Monde]<br>
<br>
79.&nbsp; Jan. 3, 2002 - President Bush appoints Zalmy Khalilzad as a =
special<br>
envoy to Afghanistan. Khalilzad, a former employee of Unocal, also =
wrote<br>
op-eds in the Washington Post in 1997 supporting the Taliban regime.<br>
[Source: Pravda, Jan. 9, 2002]<br>
<br>
80.&nbsp; Jan. 4, 2002 - Florida drug trafficking explodes after 9-11. =
In a
surge<br>
of trafficking reminiscent of the 1980s the diversion of resources away =
from<br>
drug enforcement has opened the floodgates for a new surge of cocaine =
and<br>
heroin from South America. [The Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 4, =
2002]<br>
<br>
81.&nbsp; Jan. 10, 2002 - In a call from a speaker phone in open court,
attorneys<br>
for Mike Vreeland call the Pentagon's switchboard operator, who =
confirms<br>
that Vreeland is indeed a naval lieutenant on active duty. She provides =
an<br>
office number and a direct dial phone extension to his office in the<br>
Pentagon. [Source: Attorney Rocco Galati; Toronto Superior Court =
records]<br>
<br>
82.&nbsp; Jan. 10, 2002 - Attorney General John Ashcroft recuses himself =
from
the<br>
Enron investigation because Enron had been a major campaign donor in =
his<br>
2000 Senate race. He fails to recuse himself from involvement in two =
sitting<br>
federal grand juries investigating bribery and corruption charges =
against<br>
ExxonMobil and BP Amoco, which have massive oil interests in Central =
Asia.<br>
Both were major Ashcroft donors in 2000. [Source: CNN, Jan. 10, 2002; =
FTW,<br>
&quot;The Elephant in the Living Room, Part I,&quot; April 4, 2002,<br>
<a =
href=3D"http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/04_04_02_elephant.html"=
><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/04_0=
4_02_elephant.html</span></font></a>]<br>
<br>
83.&nbsp; Jan. 23, 2002 - Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is
kidnapped<br>
in Pakistan. Pearl is reported dead on Feb. 21. Lead suspect Ahmad =
Umar<br>
Sheik, former colleague of Gen. Ahmad, is arrested on Feb. 12 and named =
as<br>
the lead suspect in the kidnapping and murder. Legal sources close to =
the<br>
Pakistani government tell FTW that Pearl was investigating the ISI. =
[Source:<br>
CNN.com]<br>
<br>
84.&nbsp; Feb. 9, 2002 - Pakistani leader Gen. Musharraf and Afghan =
leader
Hamid<br>
Karzai announce their agreement to &quot;cooperate in all spheres of
activity,&quot;<br>
including the proposed Central Asian pipeline. Pakistan will give =
$10<br>
million to Afghanistan to help pay Afghan government workers. [Source: =
The<br>
Irish Times, Feb. 9, 2002]<br>
<br>
85.&nbsp; Feb. 18, 2002 - The Financial Times reports that the estimated =
opium<br>
harvest in Afghanistan in the late-spring 2002 will reach a world =
record<br>
4,500 metric tons.<br>
<br>
86.&nbsp; mid-April, 2002 - World Bank chief James Wolfensohn, at the =
opening
of<br>
the World Bank's offices in Kabul, states he has held talks about =
financing<br>
the Trans-Afghanistan gas pipeline. He confirms $100 million in new =
grants<br>
for the interim Afghani government. Wolfensohn also states that a number =
of<br>
companies have already expressed interest in the project. [Source:<br>
Alexander's Gas and oil Connections, citing an Agence France-Presse =
story]<br>
<br>
87. May 13, 2002 - The BBC reports that Afghanistan is about to close a =
deal<br>
for construction of the $2 billion gas pipeline to run from Turkmenistan =
to<br>
Pakistan and India. The story states, &quot;work on the project will =
start
after<br>
an agreement is expected to be struck&quot; at a summit scheduled for =
the end
of<br>
the month. Unocal will build the pipeline. [Source: BBC, May 13, =
2002]<br>
<br>
88.&nbsp; May 2002 - A number of sources report progress on both oil and =
gas<br>
pipelines. Regional sources state that Unocal will re-emerge as a =
pipeline<br>
contender after withdrawing from the CentGas pipeline project in =
1998.<br>
Unocal denies plans to revive the gas pipeline but curiously neglects =
to<br>
mention whether or not it has any interest in the oil pipeline, which =
local<br>
sources say is moving ahead. [Source: The Dawn Group of Newspapers, May =
7,<br>
May 17, May 22, 2002]<br>
<br>
89. May 30, 2002 - Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai,<br>
Turkmenistan's President Niyazov, and Pakistani President Musharraf meet =
in<br>
Islamabad to sign a memorandum of understanding on the trans-Afghanistan =
gas<br>
pipeline project. The three leaders will meet for more talks on the =
project<br>
in October. The Turkmen-Afghan-Pakistani gas pipeline accord has =
been<br>
published and can be viewed at the following website:<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/nts22622.htm"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/nts22622.htm=
</span></font></a>.
[Source: NewsBase, June 5,<br>
2002]<br>
<br>
90.&nbsp; May 16, 2002 - White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer =
states<br>
unequivocally that while President Bush had been warned of possible<br>
hijackings, &quot;The president did not -- not -- receive information =
about the<br>
use of airplanes as missiles by suicide bombers.&quot; [Source: CBS =
News, May
15,<br>
2002]<br>
<br>
91. May 19, 2002 - Former FBI Agent Tyrone Powers, now a professor at =
Anne<br>
Arundel Community College states on radio station KISS 98.7 that he =
has<br>
credible evidence suggesting that the Bush Administration did in fact =
allow<br>
the Sept. 11 attacks to further a hidden agenda. [Source:<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.indymedia.org"><font color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.indymedia.org</span></font></a>
- May 20, 2002]<br>
<br>
92. May 31, 2002 - FBI Agent Robert Wright delivers a tearful press<br>
conference at the National Press Club describing his lawsuit against the =
FBI<br>
for deliberately curtailing investigations that might have prevented =
the<br>
9-11 attacks. He uses words like &quot;prevented,&quot; =
&quot;thwarted,&quot;
&quot;obstructed,&quot;<br>
&quot;threatened,&quot; &quot;intimidated,&quot; and =
&quot;retaliation&quot; to
describe the actions of<br>
his superiors in blocking his attempts to shut off money flows to Al =
Qaeda<br>
and other terrorist groups. These are not words of negligence. They =
are<br>
words describing deliberate and malicious actions. [Source: C-SPAN =
website]<br>
<br>
93. June 4, 2002 - Air Force Lt. Col. Steve Butler, who had called =
President<br>
Bush a joke and accused him of allowing the Sept. 11 attacks to happen, =
is<br>
suspended from his post at the Defense Language School in Monterey, =
Calif.<br>
and could face a court martial. [Source: Associated Press, June 4, =
2002]<br>
<br>
94.&nbsp; June 14, 2002 - Common Dreams website publishes an account =
from a<br>
former member of the 1/118th Infantry Battalion of the South =
Carolina<br>
National Guard: &quot;My unit reported for drill in July 2001 and we =
were<br>
suddenly and unexpectedly informed that all activities planned for the =
next<br>
two months would be suspended in order to prepare&nbsp; for a =
mobilization<br>
exercise to be held on Sept. 14, 2001. We worked diligently for two =
weekends<br>
and even came in on an unscheduled day in August to prepare for the<br>
exercise. By the end of August all we needed was a phone call, which we =
were<br>
to expect, and we could hop into a fully prepared convoy with our bags =
and<br>
equipment packed.&quot; [Source: Common Dreams,<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0614-02.htm"><font =
color=3Dblack><span
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0614-02.ht=
m</span></font></a>]<br>
<br>
95.&nbsp; June 17, 2002 - Reuters reports that Butler's case has been =
resolved<br>
without the necessity of a court martial. (I guess so. There's =
enough<br>
material here to prove him right. -- MCR) [Reuters, June 17, 2002]<br>
<br>
96.&nbsp; July 2, 2002 - Motions from Zacarias Moussaoui are unsealed in
federal<br>
court, indicating that Moussaoui wants to testify before both a grand =
jury<br>
and Congress about the Sept. 11 attacks. Moussaoui claims to have<br>
information showing that the U.S. government wanted the attacks to =
happen.<br>
[Source: The Washington Post, July 3, 2002]<br>
<br>
97.&nbsp; July 3, 2002 - The first-ever shipment of Russian oil, 200,000 =
metric<br>
tons, arrives in Houston. [Source: The Moscow Times, July 6, 2002].<br>
<br>
98.&nbsp; July 6, 2002 - Afghan Vice President Hajji Abdul Qadir is
assassinated<br>
by Afghan warlords. The New York Times reports that Qadir may have =
been<br>
assassinated by opium warlords upset by Qadir's efforts to reduce =
the<br>
rampant opium farming and processing that has taken place since the =
U.S.<br>
occupation. Qadir had been overseeing a Western-backed eradication =
program,<br>
according to the Times. However, the opium warlords of the region are =
same<br>
ones sponsored, protected, and in some cases released from prison by the =
CIA<br>
and who have been protected by President Bush's special envoy, =
Zalmay<br>
Khalilzad. It is reported that the raw opium is being refined near =
U.S.<br>
bases at Kandahar. [Sources: The New York Times, July 8, 2002; Far =
Eastern<br>
Economic Review, April 18, 2002]<br>
<br>
99.&nbsp; July 26, 2002 - White House security prevented the legal =
watch-group<br>
Judicial Watch from serving Vice President Cheney with a lawsuit filed =
on<br>
behalf of Halliburton shareholders. Before becoming vice president =
Cheney<br>
was CEO of Halliburton, which has filed for bankruptcy. [Source: =
Cybercast<br>
News Service, cnsnews.com]<br>
<br>
100.&nbsp; Aug. 2, 2002 - The FBI asked members of the House and =
Senate<br>
intelligence committees to take lie-detector tests as investigators try =
to<br>
determine who leaked information to CNN about communications in Arabic =
that<br>
made vague references to an impending attack on the United States. =
The<br>
communications were intercepted by the National Security Agency on Sept. =
10<br>
but weren't translated until Sept. 12. [Source: Associated Press =
story<br>
published in the Boston Globe, Aug. 2, 2002,<br>
<a =
href=3D"http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/08.03A.fbi.lie.det.p.htm"><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/08.03A.fbi.lie=
.det.p.htm</span></font></a>]<br>
<br>
101.&nbsp; Aug. 5, 2002 - The Associated Press reported Russia's major =
role
over<br>
the last five years in the trafficking of Afghan heroin into Europe.<br>
[Source: Santa Fe New Mexican, Aug. 5, 2002, <a
href=3D"http://www.sfnewmexican.com"><font color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>www.sfnewmexican.com</span></font></a>]<br>
<br>
102.&nbsp; Aug. 16, 2002 - A Knight Ridder story discloses that members =
of<br>
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's staff have created a special =
planning<br>
unit for an invasion of Iraq. The unit is composed primarily of =
civilians<br>
and was spearheaded by conservative members of Rumsfeld's staff, such =
as<br>
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. The story was headlined,
&quot;White<br>
House Methodically Preparing for Iraq Campaign.&quot; [Source: Knight =
Ridder<br>
Newspapers, <a =
href=3D"http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/08.17B.wh.prep.irq.htm"><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:windowtext'>www.truthout.org/docs02/08.17B.wh.prep.irq.p.h=
tm</span></font></a>]<br>
<br>
103.&nbsp; Aug. 28, 2002 - The Globe and Mail of Canada reports =
Afghanistan
will<br>
become the world's top producer of opium this year, surpassing =
Southeast<br>
Asia. [Source: the Globe and Mail, Aug. 28, 2002]<br>
<br>
Now, let's go back to the Oct. 31 story by Le Figaro -- the one that =
has<br>
Osama bin Laden meeting with a CIA officer in Dubai in July 2001.<br>
<br>
The story says, &quot;Throughout his stay in the hospital, Osama Bin =
Laden<br>
received visits from many family members [There goes the story that he's =
a<br>
black sheep! --MCR] and Saudi Arabian Emirate personalities of =
status.<br>
During this time the local representative of the CIA was seen by many =
people<br>
taking the elevator and going to bin Laden's room.<br>
<br>
&quot;Several days later the CIA officer bragged to his friends about =
having<br>
visited the Saudi millionaire. From authoritative sources, this CIA =
agent<br>
visited CIA headquarters on July 15, the day after bin Laden's departure =
for<br>
Quetta.<br>
<br>
&quot;According to various Arab diplomatic sources and French =
intelligence<br>
itself, precise information was communicated to the CIA concerning =
terrorist<br>
attacks aimed at American interests in the world, including its own<br>
territory.<br>
<br>
&quot;Extremely bothered, they [American intelligence officers in a =
meeting
with<br>
French intelligence officers] requested from their French peers =
exact<br>
details about the Algerian activists [connected to bin Laden through =
Dubai<br>
banking institutions], without explaining the exact nature of their =
inquiry.<br>
When asked the question, What do you fear in the coming days?' the =
Americans<br>
responded with incomprehensible silence.<br>
<br>
&quot;On further investigation, the FBI discovered certain plans that =
had been<br>
put together between the CIA and its 'Islamic friends' over the years. =
The<br>
meeting in Dubai is, so it would seem, consistent with 'a certain =
American<br>
policy.'&quot;<br>
<br>
Even though Le Figaro reported that it had confirmed with hospital =
staff<br>
that bin Laden had been there as reported, stories printed on Nov. 1<br>
contained quotes from hospital staff that these reports were untrue. On =
Nov.<br>
1, as reported by the Ananova press agency, the CIA flatly denied that =
any<br>
meeting between any CIA personnel and Osama bin Laden at any =
time.</span></font></p>

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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span lang=3DEN-CA =
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<p class=3DMsoNormal><b><i><font size=3D2 color=3Dblue =
face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue;font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>&#8220;If tyranny and oppression come to this land, =
it will
be under the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.&#8221; President James =
Madison</span></font></i></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblue face=3D"Times New =
Roman"><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><b><i><font size=3D2 color=3Dblue =
face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue;font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>Vincenzo Vinciguerra stated, in sworn testimony on =
Operation
Gladio in Europe: &quot;You had to attack civilians, the people, women,
children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political =
game.
The reason was quite simple: to force ... the public to turn to the =
state to
ask for greater security.&quot;</span></font></i></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblue face=3D"Times New =
Roman"><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><font
size=3D2 color=3Dblue face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>Former Italian President Francesco Cossiga: &quot;[Bin Laden
supposedly confessed] to the Qaeda September [attack] to the two towers =
in New
York [claiming to be] the author of the attack of the 11, while <b><span
style=3D'font-weight:bold'>all the [intelligence services] of America =
and Europe
... now know well that the disastrous attack has been planned and =
realized from
the CIA American and the Mossad with the aid of the Zionist world in =
order to
put under accusation the Arabic Countries and in order to induce the =
western
powers to take part ... in Iraq [and] =
Afghanistan.</span></b>&quot;</span></font></p>

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style=3D'text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><font
size=3D3 color=3Dblue face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;
color:blue'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><font
size=3D2 color=3Dblue face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>&#8220;We annually spend on military =
security more
than the net income of all United States corporations. &nbsp;This =
conjunction
of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in =
the
American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even =
spiritual
-- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal
government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet =
we must
not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and
livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. =
&nbsp;In
the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of
unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military =
industrial
complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists =
and
will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger =
our
liberties or democratic processes.&#8221; President Dwight D. Eisenhower =
in a
televised speech 1961</span></font></b></p>

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style=3D'text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><font
size=3D2 color=3Dblue face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>&nbsp;</span></font></b></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><font
size=3D2 color=3Dblue face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>John Swinton New York journalist at a =
banquet
(1880&#8217;s)</span></font></b><font size=3D2 color=3Dblue =
face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>: &quot;What =
folly is
this, toasting an independent press? There is no such thing, at this =
date of
the World's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it =
and I
know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest =
opinions, and
if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I =
am paid
weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected =
with.
Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of =
you who
would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the =
streets
looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in =
one issue
of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The =
business
of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, =
to
vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon [Biblical ref.], and to sell his =
country
and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what =
folly is
this toasting an independent press? <b><span =
style=3D'font-weight:bold'>We are
the tools and vassals of &#8220;rich men&#8221; [Biblical ref.] behind =
the
scenes</span></b>. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and =
we
dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property =
of
other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.&quot;</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><font
size=3D3 color=3Dblue face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;
color:blue'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><font
size=3D2 color=3Dblue face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>&#8220;The individual is handicapped by coming face to face =
with a
conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists&#8221;. -- J. Edgar =
Hoover,
FBI Director 1924-1972, quoted in The Elks Magazine (August 1956). =
&quot;It is
the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its [corrupt feudal]
government.&quot; -- Thomas Paine. &#8220;Each of you, for himself, by =
himself
and on his own responsibility, must speak&#8221;. -- Mark Twain.&nbsp; =
&#8220;The
money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against =
it in
times of adversity.&nbsp; It is more despotic than a monarchy, more =
insolent
than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy.&nbsp; It denounces as =
public
enemies all who question its methods or throw light upon its =
crimes.&nbsp; I
have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers =
in the
rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.&#8221; -- =
President
Abraham Lincoln. &#8220;In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth =
is a
revolutionary act.&#8221; -- George Orwell. </span></font></p>

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size=3D2 color=3Dblue face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>&quot;It is perfectly possible for a man to =
be out
of prison, and yet not free - to be under no physical constraint and yet =
to be
a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the
representatives of the national state, or of some private interest =
within the
nation, wants him to think, feel and act. &quot;The nature of =
psychological
compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the
impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of
mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of =
his
prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not =
free
is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly =
objective.&quot;
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color:blue;font-weight:bold'>&quot;The greatest obstacle to discovery is =
not
ignorance ~ it is the illusion of knowledge.&quot; ~ Daniel Boorstin =
.[this is
the illusion that the mainstream news media projects to the =
sheeple]</span></font></b></p>

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reaching
plan,&quot; said leading American Zionist Louis Marshall, counsel for =
bankers
Kuhn Loeb in 1917. &quot;It is merely a convenient peg on which to hang =
a
powerful weapon.&quot; The far-reaching plan is Illuminati world =
dictatorship.
The Illuminati is the highest echelon of Freemasonry, an occult secret =
society
dedicated to Lucifer. The world's central bankers have intermarried with =
the
richest dynastic families of Europe and America to bring about world =
hegemony.
They instigated wars and depressions to degrade and destroy humanity. =
The
American people have been financing their wars since =
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