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September 11 Exposes

Draft Report Highlights Key 9/11 Omissions
26-Aug-04
September 11 Exposes

"Why does The 9/11 Commission Report ignore reports that the alleged 9/11 plotters received funds from the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI? Why does the report fail to ask why the U.S. chain of command - Bush, Rumsfeld, Myers, Winfield - did nothing when it counted on Sept. 11? Why does the report entirely omit mention of advance warnings of imminent attacks received from foreign intelligence agencies? Why does the report ignore the FBI whistleblowers who decried high-level obstruction of field investigations into potential terrorists? Why does the report fail to demand accountability for officials who publicized false and/or contradictory accounts of U.S. air defense response? Why don't the report or its authors demand accountability from high officials like Rumsfeld and Rice for their repeated statements that 'no one could have imagined planes used as weapons,' a demonstrable falsehood? Why doesn't the report even mention the mysterious collapse of a third skyscraper, 7 WTC?"

Help Create the 9/11 Omissions Dossier
26-Aug-04
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"This online 9/11 Omissions Dossier is a work in progress. It aims to unite research with activism. In the days to come, we will be adding links to the best articles or corroborating items for each of the bodies of evidence listed below. Researchers can add their suggestions by using the comments feature, at the bottom. We intend to - gather the best evidence developed by the September 11th research community - lay bare the fraudulence of the Kean Commission and its '9/11 Commission Report,' and provide questions that anyone can pose to the Kean Commissioners on their national tour. - provide a blueprint for a criminal investigation that does not exclude bodies of evidence as unthinkable, simply because they point to a circle of complicity within the U.S. and allied governments or among U.S. elites. We call on citizens and journalists to confront members of the Kean Commission at their public appearances with questions about the report's most dramatic and easily understood failures."

Senator Mark Dayton (D-MN) Says NORAD Lied About 9/11
01-Aug-04
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"Mark Dayton has become the first U.S. senator to challenge the establishment consensus that 'The 9/11 Commission Report' settles the open questions of Sept. 11, 2001. In hearings last Friday, Sen. Dayton (D-MN) raised an obvious point: if the timeline of air defense response as promoted in the Kean Commission's best-selling book is correct, then the timeline presented repeatedly by NORAD during the last two years was completely wrong. Yet now no one at NORAD is willing to comment on their own timeline! When the official story of 9/11 can be changed repeatedly without anyone ever being held accountable, we have no right to ever again expect honest government. Please read the following story and do your part to support Sen. Dayton for highlighting the contradiction, and to encourage the media to follow up."

Bush and Condi LIED About the Crucial 8-6-01 PDB
25-Jul-04
September 11 Exposes

On 8-6-01, Bush received a crucial memo titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack in U.S." Both Bush and Rice told the 9/11 Commission it was "historical." But it "contained passages referring to F.B.I. reports of 'suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.' It noted that a caller to the US Embassy in the United Arab Emirates that May had warned that 'a group of bin Laden supporters was in the U.S.,' planning attacks with explosives. The commission's final report revealed that two C.I.A. analysts involved in preparing the brief had wanted to make clear to Mr. Bush that, far from being only a historical threat, the threat that Al Qaeda would strike on American soil was 'both current and serious.'" Bush and Condi LIED to the Commission - Impeach Bush Now!

9/11 Report Details How the Busheviks Seized 9/11 to Launch the Iraq War
23-Jul-04
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"Providing a rich account of high-level deliberations after the attacks, the report states that advocates of this view wasted no time in pressing their case. Even at 2:40 p.m. on Sept. 11... Donald Rumsfeld told Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Richard B. Myers that his instinct was to hit Hussein at the same time as bin Laden... Four days later, when Bush convened a seminal meeting of his senior advisers at Camp David to decide retaliatory steps, the Defense Department submitted a paper that depicted Iraq, the Taliban and al Qaeda as priority targets in the first stage of action, the commission states. Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith argued in three memos for Rumsfeld in subsequent days why Iraq should be hit [citing] alleged ties between al Qaeda and Iraq that the commission report debunks, such as a theory that Ramzi Yousef, an al Qaeda-affiliated bomber convicted of masterminding the 1993 attack on the WTC, was an Iraqi agent" - Laurie Mylroie's infamous crackpot theory.

The 9/11 Report: Bad News For Bush
23-Jul-04
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David Corn writes, "The final report of the 9/11 commission confirms many of the panel's preliminary findings that have--or should have--embarrassed the Bush administration... No working relationship between Hussein and al Qaeda, no Prague meeting, no strong reaction from Bush to the pre-9/11 warnings of a pending al Qaeda attack, no more than routine attention devoted to the al Qaeda threat by the Bush team in the months before September 11. GOPers can wag their fingers at Bill Clinton, who also did not do enough (obviously). But there is no denying this report is bad news for Bush and his crew. If Bush wants this election to be a referendum on how he has handled the threat posed by al Qaeda, this report--available now in local bookstores and online at the 9/11 commission's site--ought to be read by those 49 swing voters in Ohio who will be deciding the election for the rest of us."

Did Cheney Order the Shootdown of Flight 93 Without Asking Bush?
07-Jul-04
September 11 Exposes

"The question of Cheney's behavior that day is one of many new issues raised in the remarkably detailed, chilling account laid out in dramatic presentations by the 9-11 Commission. Newsweek has learned that some on the commission staff were, in fact, highly skeptical of the vice president's account and made their views clearer in an earlier draft of their staff report. According to one knowledgeable source, some staffers 'flat out didn't believe the call [to Bush] ever took place.' When the early draft conveying that skepticism was circulated to the administration, it provoked an angry reaction. In a letter from White House lawyers last Tuesday and a series of phone calls, the White House vigorously lobbied the commission to change the language in its report... The report 'was watered down,' groused one staffer."

Help Raise 9/11 Unanswered Questions At Fahrenheit 9/11 Theaters
16-Jun-04
September 11 Exposes

"Join people across North America and Europe in leafleting Michael Moore's historic new documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, in your area using the now infamous 'Dude, there's more to the story' flyers below. " Flyers highlight some key unanswered 911 questions, such as why Bush kept reading a children's story after the 2nd plane hit the WTC, why no interceptor jets were scrambled in time, and why the insider stock trades on UAL and AA remained unsolved.

Tenet's Perjury And Resignation: Door Now Open To Question, 'What Did Bush Know And When Did He Know It?'
14-Jun-04
September 11 Exposes

On 4/14/04, George Tenet committed perjury when he stated repeatedly he had not met with President Bush in August 2001. In fact, they met 3 times - including a 6 hour meeting at Bush's ranch on 8/24/01. That was 1 day after the CIA sounded a government-wide alarm for "four bin Laden related individuals' including Almidhar and Alhazmi" - the hijackers of Flight 77 that slammed into the Pentagon less than 3 weeks later. Mark Levey writes, "It is simply implausible that Tenet and Bush did not discuss the 9/11 hijackers when they met in Crawford on August 17 and then, again, on August 24, both dates coinciding with important developments in the Al-Qaeda operation. A special prosecutor needs to be appointed to investigate CIA Director Tenet's apparent perjury on April 14. The former CIA Director and the President need to reveal publicly, and under oath, what was discussed at their numerous meetings in the weeks before 9/11, and why there has been an effort to conceal this."

Top Ten Things You Never Knew About Mohamed Atta
14-Jun-04
September 11 Exposes

Daniel Hopsicker writes, "As we head into a hot summer of Presidential campaigning focused on the war in Iraq, both political parties are assiduously avoiding the 'elephant in the living room.' The truth which no one dares speak of is that as we approach the third anniversary of the Sept 11 attack there has still been no official investigation into the murders of 3000 people that day...at least no investigation to which the American people have been privy. Results from the FBIâ??s ballyhooed 4000-man investigation have never been revealed. And the Congressional Intelligence Committee investigation met in secret; its report contained the famous 28 page 'gap' ... The 9/11 Commission will answer only the question of what should have been done differently. Thereâ??s nothing in the panel's mandate about letting the American people in on the answer to the only question worth asking: what happened? "

Govt Finally Admits Saudis Flew Out of US on 9/13/01, When No Flights Were Allowed
10-Jun-04
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St. Petersburg Times reports on a big victory for Internet researchers of 9/11: "Two days after the Sept. 11 attacks, with most of the nation's air traffic still grounded, a small jet landed at Tampa International Airport, picked up three young Saudi men and left. The men, one of them thought to be a member of the Saudi royal family, were accompanied by a former FBI agent and a former Tampa police officer on the flight to Lexington, Ky. The Saudis then took another flight out of the country. The two ex-officers returned to TIA a few hours later on the same plane. For nearly three years, White House, aviation and law enforcement officials have insisted the flight never took place and have denied published reports and widespread Internet speculation about its purpose. But now, at the request of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, TIA officials have confirmed that the flight did take place and have supplied details." But these details are shrouded in mystery - stay tuned!

Growing 9/11 Truth Movement Launches Joint Website, Calls For New Investigation Of Unexplained Facts
08-Jun-04
September 11 Exposes

"A new umbrella organization called 911Truth.org today announced the launch of a website to serve as a clearinghouse for the highest quality work of the emerging 911 truth movement. The site highlights the efforts of leading investigators, authors, videographers, and activists calling for a truly independent investigation of still unexplained facts. According to David Kubiak, executive director of the organization, 'The discoveries of independent 9/11 researchers, recent whistleblower testimony, and the demands of victim families have now reached the point where a coordinated approach is necessary. 911Truth.org will introduce the most important news on all these fronts as well as empower activism. Given just the currently known facts, we feel that exposing the full truth of 9/11 before the next election is an urgent and truly patriotic necessity.'"

Report: Taliban Was Willing to Give Up Osama to U.S.
05-Jun-04
September 11 Exposes

Reuters reports, "U.S. and Taliban officials met secretly almost a year before the 9/11 attacks to discuss terms for the Afghans to hand over bin Laden, according to a German TV report. U.S. and Taliban officials met secretly in Frankfurt almost a year before the September 11 attacks to discuss terms for the Afghans to hand over Osama bin Laden, according to a German television documentary. But no agreement was reached and no further negotiations took place before the suicide hijackings in 2001, which bin Laden subsequently hailed in a videotape as the work of his al Qaeda network." ZDF television says "Kabir Mohabbat, an Afghan-American businessman [quoted] the Taliban foreign minister, Mullah Wakil Ahmed Mutawakil, as saying: 'You can have him whenever the Americans are ready. Name us a country and we will extradite him.'"

Sleeping with the Enemy
27-May-04
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Tom Flocco reports, "Homeland Security whistleblower Mary Schneider told Congress, Bush, Ashcroft, Mueller, and Ridge that Florida immigration officials accepted sham marriage bribes linked to a congressional office, al Qaeda operatives, and 9/11 terrorism."

Riggs Bank Fined $25 Million for Saudi Transactions; Uncle Jonathan Bush is a Riggs Exec
17-May-04
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AP: "Federal regulators fined Riggs Bank a record $25 million on Thursday for allegedly violating anti-money laundering laws in its handling of tens of millions in cash transactions in Saudi-controlled accounts under investigation for possible links to terrorism financing. The civil fine against the midsize Washington bank with a near-exclusive franchise on business with the capital's diplomatic community is the largest ever imposed on a financial institution for such violations, experts said. It had been expected."

WashPost Covers Saudi-Riggs-Jonathan Bush Nexus
17-May-04
September 11 Exposes

"A political Web site written by a Democratic operative drew attention yesterday to the fact that President Bush's uncle, Jonathan J. Bush, is a top executive at Riggs Bank, which this week agreed to pay a record $25 million in civil fines for violations of law intended to thwart money laundering. Jonathan Bush, who is a major fundraiser for his nephew, was appointed in 2000 to run Riggs Investment Management Co. His association with Riggs began when he headed J. Bush & Co. [which was acquired by Riggs in 1997]... A Riggs spokesman could not be reached last evening. But [an anonymous] source familiar with the multiple federal investigations of the bank's Saudi accounts and other embassy accounts say Jonathan Bush's investment advice unit has 'no relationship whatsoever' with any of the Riggs's Saudi accounts." Hey, who is this "source"? Why should we take his or her word for it? After all, Prince Bandar is so tight with the Bush family -- they call him "Bandar Bush."

Bush's Uncle is Executive at Bank Fined for Lax Oversight of Saudi Money
17-May-04
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David Sirota writes: "According to the 4/18/04 Washington Post, Saudi Prince Bandar's wife, Princess Haifa al-Faisal, 'may have used a Riggs account to donate money to a charity that then gave some of it to the Sept. 11 terrorists'... federal regulators 'called Riggs actions a 'willful, systemic' violation of anti-money-laundering law.' Riggs officials have 'acknowledged years of deficiencies in reporting to law enforcement hundreds of millions of dollars in suspicious financial transactions by foreign customers, particularly those connected with the embassies of Saudi Arabia'... Jonathan Bush is the President and CEO of Riggs Investment Management - a major arm of Riggs Bank. He is also the uncle of President George W. Bush. The President 'credits the investors sent his way by this banker uncle as a key to his 'success' in the Texas oil industry in the early '80s'. " Democrats.com has been following this story for months (Enter "Riggs" in our search engine).

Terror Flight School Owner Flew Saudis on Illegal Flights
06-May-04
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Daniel Hopsicker writes, "A federal complaint filed April 5 in Ft. Myers, FL. accusing flight school owners Wally Hilliard and Rudi Dekkers of flying numerous 'unauthorized and unsupervised flights' during April and May of 1999 makes no mention of the clients on the illegal flights, who, according to several aviation sources, were Saudi nationals. The unauthorized flights took place on three separate Lear jets owned by Wally Hilliard of Naples, FL...who bankrolled the flight school attended by both Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi. Also named in the complaint is 'Magic Dutch Boy' Rudi Dekkers, whose criminal activities once put him at the center of 'a web of intrigue,' from which he has not since emerged. The federal complaint reveals that the flights took place during April and May of 1999, raising questions of whether the two men had still-undisclosed ties with Saudi nationals before terrorists began arriving at their two hastily-purchased flight schools."

The Secret Video of BushCheney's Testimony to the 911 Commission
30-Apr-04
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ReDefeatBush.com obtained a secret video of BushCheney's Testimony to the 911 Commission, which confirms Guillaume Dasquie and Jean-Charles Brisard's "The Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden." The story is so shameful that even Nixon was depressed. Congratulations to Democrats.com co-founder David Lytel and the brilliant team behind the ReDefeat Bush Theater.

Bremer Faulted Bush on Indifference to Terrorism Before 9/11
30-Apr-04
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L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq said in a speech six months before the Sept. 11 attacks that the Bush administration was "paying no attention" to terrorism. "What they will do is stagger along until there's a major incident and then suddenly say, 'Oh my God, shouldn't we be organized to deal with this,'" Bremer said at a McCormick Tribune Foundation conference on terrorism on Feb. 26, 2001.

Was Flight 93 Shot Down?
26-Apr-04
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From the rightwing World Net Daily: "(At 9:22) the Federal Aviation Administration learned United Airlines Flight 93 had also been hijacked. Approximately 9:35 a.m., the hijacked plane began a left turn to the south near Cleveland, Ohio. By 9:39 a.m., it completed the turn and was aimed at Washington, D.C. There would be no excuse for not stopping what had become a terrorist missile aimed at the seat of federal government. Plenty of supersonic, armed F-15s and F-16s were now in the air and within minutes of Flight 93, which would remain in the air for another 29 minutes. Was it shot down?"

Condi Said No One Expected It -- But in 1974, Samuel Byck Planned To Use a Plane as a Missile Aimed at the White House
24-Apr-04
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"Just before 7:15 a.m. on February 22, 1974, the 44-year-old Philadelphian cut a sudden, vicious swath through Baltimore-Washington International Airport, pulling a .38-caliber revolver, shooting an airport security guard in the back, and, before stunned onlookers, leaping over the security check and boarding a DC-9 Delta Airlines Flight 523 to Atlanta. [Samuel] Byck then killed a pilot and wounded another after being informed they couldn't depart without removing the wheel blocks; in desperation, he grabbed a nearby passenger and shouted at her to 'fly the plane'... As authorities moved in, he put the revolver to his head and pulled the trigger. Under his body was found a briefcase gasoline bomb... In 1974, he hatched a plan he dubbed 'Operation Pandora's Box'... 'I will try to get the plane aloft and fly it toward the target area, which will be Washington, D.C. I will shoot the pilot and then in the last few minutes try to steer the plane into the target, which is the White House.'"

The Heroic Labors of 9-11 Researchers
22-Apr-04
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9-11 researcher Paul Thompson "has pored over 5,000 articles and reports so far and spends most of each day on the project, reading hundreds of incoming e-mails and trolling the Web. Among the juiciest items to date: The ongoing saga of Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI, and its dealings with its veritable appendages, the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Entries in Thompson's chronology include a press report of bin Laden's visit to a Pakistan medical clinic the day before 9-11 and records of a large money transfer from the ISI chief to Mohammad Atta, one of the hijackers later identified by U.S. officials. The extensive list of foreign intelligence services that warned U.S. officials to get ready for an attack: Afghanistan, Argentina, Britain, Cayman Islands, Egypt, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, and Russia. Thompson notes, 'Yet the two countries in the best position to know about the 9-11 plot-Saudi Arabia and Pakistan-apparently didn't give any warning at all.'"

NORAD Admits Pre-911 Preparations for Hijackings Used as Missiles - But Bush and Condi Keep on Lying and Denying
19-Apr-04
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"In the two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, NORAD conducted exercises simulating what the White House says was unimaginable: hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into targets and cause mass casualties. In a third scenario, the [specific] target was the Pentagon - but that drill was not run after Defense officials said it was unrealistic... 'These exercises tested track detection and identification; scramble and interception; hijack procedures; internal and external agency coordination and operational security and communications security procedures.' A White House spokesman said Sunday that the Bush administration was not aware of the NORAD exercises... On April 8, the [911 Commission] heard from Condoleezza Rice that the White House didn't anticipate hijacked planes being used as weapons... Bush said at a news conference Tuesday, 'Nobody in our government, and I don't think the prior government, could envision flying airplanes into buildings on such a massive scale.'"

Pre-9/11 Files Show Warnings Were More Dire and Persistent
17-Apr-04
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George Bush and his minions keep saying that if they'd known that al Qaeda was planning to fly airplanes into buildings, they would have tried to prevent it. The evidence accumulated by the 9/11 Commission shows that if Bush didn't know, it's because he was ignoring the urgent and persistent warnings from the intelligence and security agencies. "The threat reports were more clear, urgent and persistent than was previously known. Some focused on Al Qaeda's plans to use commercial aircraft as weapons. Others stated that Osama bin Laden was intent on striking on United States soil. Many were passed to the Federal Aviation Administration. While some of the intelligence went back years, other warnings -- including one that Al Qaeda seemed interested in hijacking a plane inside this country -- had been delivered to the president on Aug. 6, 2001, just a month before the attacks." The hearings have provided ample evidence that Bush's incompetence reaches the level of criminal negligence.

Secret E-mail Revealed: Why Did Joint Chiefs Reject Hijacking Plan in April 2001?
17-Apr-04
September 11 Exposes

"Chairman Kean and Vice-Chairman Hamilton: Yesterday the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) made public the attached internal email from staff assigned to the NORAD. It details the U.S. military's refusal to heed concerns that terrorists might try to strike domestic targets with hijacked airliners. In April 2001, NORAD officials wanted to develop a strategy and simulation to respond to a scenario wherein terrorists commandeer a commercial aircraft and fly it into the Pentagon. As the email reveals, aides to the Joint Chiefs of Staff refused to authorize this type of exercise because these senior military officials deemed such an attack as 'too unrealistic.' We urge the Commission to investigate this matter and ask the Joint Chiefs of Staff why it prohibited NORAD from preparing for what we now know was a very likely, and very deadly terrorist strike."

Theologian Charges White House Complicity in 9/11 Attack
11-Apr-04
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Santa Barbara Independent: "A book on Bush-911 complicity, The New Pearl Harbor, was released two weeks ago but with all the flap about Clarke and Rice, many missed it. In his latest book, David Griffin, a respected academic and theologian, all but accuses the Bush administration of taking a dive on September 11 and giving Al Qaeda terrorists an unobstructed shot at the World Trade Center. According to Griffin, a case can be made that the Bush administration arranged the attack, or allowed it to happen. {Excerpt} 'It is very difficult for Americans to face the possibility that their own government may have caused or deliberately allowed such a heinous event. Secondly, one can understand that insofar as the media is owned by companies like General Electric, which is one of the largest makers of weapons, stations like NBC that are owned by GE would not wish to publicize these connections.'"

CIA Briefing of Bush Released: Bush Warned of Al-Qaida Planning Attacks, He Stayed on Vacation
11-Apr-04
September 11 Exposes

"Bush was told more than a month before the Sept. 11 attacks that al-Qaida had reached America's shores, had a support system in place for its operatives and that the FBI had detected suspicious activity that might involve a hijacking plot... The document also said the CIA and FBI were investigating a call to the U.S. embassy in the United Arab Emirates in May 2001 'saying that a group of (Osama) bin Laden supporters was in the U.S. planning attacks with explosives'... Bob Kerrey... said the memo's details should have given Bush enough warning to push for more intelligence information about possible domestic hijackings. 'The whole argument the government used that we were focusing overseas, that we thought the attack was coming from outside the United States -- this memo said an attack could come in the United States. And we didn't scramble our agencies to that,' he said. Richard Ben-Veniste... said the memo calls into question [Condi Rice's claim that it was] a 'historical' document."

Full Text of Bush's Briefing by the CIA
11-Apr-04
September 11 Exposes

"Al-Qa'ida members -- including some who are US citizens --have resided in or traveled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure that could aid attacks... FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York." There were at least eight measures Bush could have taken in response to this warning of possible hijackings: (1) Canvassed flight schools for suspicious students present and past; (2) Conducted a nation-wide manhunt for the two known terrorists who were already in the country; (3) Double-checked passenger lists against terrorist suspects; (4) Upgraded airport passenger screening; (5) Hardened cockpit doors; (6) Put air marshals on more flights; (7) Gave pilots stun guns; (8) Patrolled the skies (esp. NYC's) with fighter jets. Instead Bush chose to remain on vacation.

Saudi Embassy Financed Suspected Terrorists with Embassy Accounts at Riggs Bank, Where Bush Uncle is a Director!
08-Apr-04
September 11 Exposes

Michael Isikoff reports: "A federal investigation into the bank accounts of the Saudi Embassy in Washington has identified more than $27 million in 'suspicious' transactions--including hundreds of thousands of dollars paid to Muslim charities, and to clerics and Saudi students who are being scrutinized for possible links to terrorist activity... The probe also has uncovered large wire transfers overseas by the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan. The transactions recently prompted the Saudi Embassy's longtime bank, the Riggs Bank of Washington, D.C., to drop the Saudis as a client after embassy officials were 'unable to provide an explanation that was satisfying,' says a source familiar with the discussions." Last July, Democrats.com reported on the suspected money trail from the Riggs accounts of Princess Al-Faisal (Bandar's wife) to two of the hijackers. Bush's uncle Jonathan is a Riggs director (enter "riggs" in our search engine).

Why Didn't Rummy Scramble Jets on 911?
08-Apr-04
September 11 Exposes

Jim Rarey writes, "Defense Secretary Rumsfeld needs to be recalled to clear up the confusion about the scrambling of jets. Most researchers, including this one, had assumed the longstanding procedure for scrambling jets whenever air traffic control reported a suspected or actual hijacking or lost contact with a plane was still in place on 9/11... the longstanding procedure was not in place on 9/11! It had been superseded by an instruction from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff issued on June 1, 2001 [that inserted several bureaucratic levels including the] personal approval of the Secretary of Defense (Donald Rumsfeld) for authority to scramble the jets. Rumsfeld says he was at his desk in the Pentagon and had no knowledge of any hijackings until the Pentagon was hit. (Did he have his phone off the hook?)"

In April 2001, FBI Was Warned of Al Qaeda Suicide Mission Involving Planes
06-Apr-04
September 11 Exposes

"When he watched the planes hit the Twin Towers on 9-11, former FBI translator Behrooz Sarshar says he 'immediately' remembered a tip about an al-Qaida plot the bureau got from an informant more than four months before the terror group attacked America... [An] FBI informant told two FBI agents from the Washington field office in April 2001 that his sources in Afghanistan had heard of an al-Qaida plot to attack America in a suicide mission involving planes. Sarshar, fluent in Farsi, acted as an interpreter at the meeting... Both FBI agents took notes, and the case agent who worked with Sarshar filed a report with his squad supervisor, Thomas Frields. It's not clear if the information was teletyped to headquarters, however... America, as well as Europe, were mentioned as targets by the informant. And he suggested that al-Qaida agents, already in place inside America, were being trained as pilots."

From 1/20/01 to 9/11/01, Busheviks Said 'Al Qaeda' Exactly ONCE
05-Apr-04
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Progress Report: "While the Bush administration maintains it was focused extensively on terrorism, our analysis of 557 public statements reveals only one mention of al Qaeda by the administration over the 8-month period. Notably, this single mention of al Qaeda was found in a signed notice from President Bush continuing an executive order - issued by President Clinton - prohibiting transactions with the Taliban. Osama bin Laden was mentioned only 19 times during the same period, 17 of which occurred in the context of press briefings or questions from journalists. The record clearly shows that terrorism and the threat from al Qaeda were not on the list of priorities for the Bush administration in early 2001. At a time when al Qaeda was finalizing its plans to attack America, the Bush administration was focused on Iraq and national missile defense rather than the threat from extremist terrorist groups."

BushRice's 911 Alibi is Pathetic
04-Apr-04
September 11 Exposes

In order to deflect blame away from the Bush administration for its monumental 911 failures, the NY Times has cobbled together a pathetic alibi. Exhibit A is a meeting on 7-5-01 of the FBI, FAA, INS, and Customs to focus on a possible terrorist attack on the US. This meeting is offered as proof that Condi was focused on preventing an attack - but SHE DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO ATTEND! Meanwhile, Bush got 40 different warnings from George Tenet about an Al Qaeda attack, but he still went to Crawford for the longest vacation in Presidential history! No wonder Bush refuses to testify without his White House "minder" - Dick Cheney.

The Amazing 911 Timeline Gets Even More Amazing
02-Apr-04
September 11 Exposes

Researcher Paul Thompson has done an amazing job of collecting every credible detail about 911. Thompson's timeline starts in 1979 and continues through October 2003. Thanks to Derek Mitchell of CooperativeResearch.org, this massive database is beautifully presented and fully searchable. This amazing effort deserves a Pulitzer Prize!

BushCroft Gags 911 Whistleblower
25-Mar-04
September 11 Exposes

"FBI translator, Sibel Edmonds, was offered a substantial raise and a full time job in order to not go public that she had been asked by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to retranslate and adjust the translations of [terrorist] subject intercepts that had been received before September 11, 2001 by the FBI and CIA. Edmonds, a ten year U.S. citizen who has passed a polygraph examination, speaks fluent Farsi and Turkish and had been working part time with the FBI for six months-- commencing in December, 2001. In a 50 reporter frenzy in front of some 12 news cameras, Edmonds said 'Attorney General John Ashcroft told me 'he was invoking State Secret Privilege and National Security' when I told the FBI I wanted to go public with what I had translated from the pre 9-11 intercepts.' 'I appeared once on CBS 60 Minutes but I have been silenced by Mr. Ashcroft, the FBI follows me, and I was threatened with jail in 2002 if I went public,' Edmonds told tomflocco.com."

How 911 Could Have Been Prevented - And Why Bush Should be Impeached
24-Mar-04
September 11 Exposes

Richard Clarke: "Contrast December '99 with June and July and August 2001. In December '99 we get similar kinds of evidence that al-Qaida was planning a similar kind of attack. President Clinton asks the national security advisor to hold daily meetings with attorney-general, the CIA, FBI. They go back to their departments from the White House and shake the departments out to the field offices to find out everything they can find. It becomes the number one priority of those agencies. When the heads of the FBI and CIA have to go to the White House every day, things happen and by the way, we prevented the attack. Contrast that with June, July, August 2001 when the president is being briefed virtually every day in his morning intelligence briefing that something is about to happen, and he never chairs a meeting and he never asks Condi rice to chair a meeting about what we're doing about stopping the attacks. She didn't hold one meeting during all those three months."

The Original 9/11 Expose: SMOKING GUN: The 9/11 Evidence that May Hang G. W. Bush: You Saw It Here First!
24-Mar-04
September 11 Exposes

This explosive analysis of 9/11 first ran at Democrats.com in May, 2002. "From April, 2001 right up to 9/11, urgent warnings of impending large-scale attacks by terrorists went unheeded. The German intelligence agency warned in June that Middle Eastern terrorists were 'planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American culture.' On June 13, Egypt warned that a plane stuffed with explosives could be used as a weapon. Vladimir Putin was so certain of the information he received in the summer of 2001 that he personally instructed Russian intelligence to tell Bush 'in the strongest possible terms' of an impending attack involving airports and government. In August, 2001, the Israel's Mossad warned that as many as 200 al Qaeda members were infiltrating the US and planning 'a major assault on the US' against 'a large-scale target' in a setting where Americans would be 'very vulnerable.'" So writes Cheryl Seal.

Clarke Says Clinton Made Terrorism His Highest Priority - and Bush Didn't
24-Mar-04
September 11 Exposes

Richard Clarke told the 911 Commission: "'My impression was that fighting terrorism, in general, and fighting Al Qaeda in particular, were an extraordinarily high priority in the Clinton administration - certainly no higher priority,' Mr. Clarke testified. 'There were priorities probably of equal importance, such as the Middle East peace process, but I certainly don't know of one that was any higher.' But in the first eight months of the Bush administration, Mr. Clarke testified, terrorism was regarded as 'an important issue, but not an urgent issue.' His recollections have already come under sharp attack from the Bush administration, whose top-level officials have asserted that the battle against terrorism has always been at the top of their agenda. Since President Bush is basing much of his re-election strategy on his leadership after the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Clarke's assertions could hardly be more crucial politically." So sayeth the NY Times.

Even the Wall Street Journal Is Exposing Bush's 911 Lies
24-Mar-04
September 11 Exposes

How many lies has Bush told about 911? The Wall Street Journal identifies several. Lie #1) "One of the first acts I did was to put our military on alert." (12/4/01) Truth: Gen. Richard Myers gave the order. Lie #2: "I saw [the first] airplane hit the tower." (12/4/01) Truth: the TV wasn't plugged in. Lie #3: "Immediately following the first attack, I implemented our government's emergency-response plans." (9/11/01) Truth: the FBI activated "Conplan," not Bush. Interestingly, Cheney lied to Bush about an alleged threat against Air Force One - to keep him "out of the loop" on all key decisions.

On 60 Minutes, Richard Clarke Says Bush 'Has Done a Terrible Job on the War Against Terrorism'
21-Mar-04
September 11 Exposes

"In the aftermath of Sept. 11, Bush ordered his then top anti-terrorism adviser to look for a link between Iraq and the attacks, despite being told there didn't seem to be one. The charge comes from the advisor, Richard Clarke, in an interview airing Sunday at 7 p.m. ET/PT on 60 Minutes. The administration maintains that it cannot find any evidence that the conversation about an Iraq-9/11 tie-in ever took place. Clarke also tells CBS News' Lesley Stahl that White House officials were tepid in their response when he urged them months before Sept. 11 to meet to discuss what he saw as a severe threat from al Qaeda. 'Frankly,' he said, 'I find it outrageous that the president is running for re-election on the grounds that he's done such great things about terrorism. He ignored it. He ignored terrorism for months, when maybe we could have done something to stop 9/11. Maybe. We'll never know.' Clarke went on to say, 'I think he's done a terrible job on the war against terrorism.'"

Top Clinton Aides Will Tell 9-11 Commission That Bush Ignored Al Qaeda Warnings
21-Mar-04
September 11 Exposes

NY Times reports, "Senior Clinton administration officials called to testify next week before the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks say they are prepared to detail how they repeatedly warned their Bush administration counterparts in late 2000 that Al Qaeda posed the worst security threat facing the nation - and how the new administration was slow to act. They said the warnings were delivered in urgent post-election intelligence briefings in December 2000 and January 2001 for Condoleezza Rice, who became Mr. Bush's national security adviser; Stephen Hadley, now Ms. Rice's deputy; and Philip D. Zelikow, a member of the Bush transition team, among others. One official scheduled to testify, Richard A. Clarke, who was President Bill Clinton's counterterrorism coordinator, said in an interview that the warning about the Qaeda threat could not have been made more bluntly to the incoming Bush officials in intelligence briefings that he led."

Insider Says Bush & Co. 'Turned a Blind Eye' To Pre-9/11 Threats, Then Wanted to Bomb Iraq on 9/12
20-Mar-04
September 11 Exposes

Richard Clarke - White House counterterrorism coordinator on 9/11 - is criticizing Bush for promoting his efforts against terrorism. "'Frankly, I find it outrageous that the president is running for re-election on the grounds that he's done such great things about terrorism,' Clarke told CBS. 'He ignored it. He ignored terrorism for months [before 9/11], when maybe we could have done something.'" In a meeting the day after the 9/11 attacks, Clarke says "they were certain that al-Qaida was to blame and there was no hint of Iraqi involvement. [But] Rumsfeld was saying we needed to bomb Iraq [and] complained that 'there aren't any good targets in Afghanistan and there are lots of good targets in Iraq.'" Clarke "believes the administration sought to link Iraq with the attacks because of long-standing interest in overthrowing Saddam Hussein." Clarke makes his assertions in a new book, "Against All Enemies" and will appear Sunday night on CBS "60 Minutes".

C.I.A. was Given Data on Hijacker Long Before 9/11
24-Feb-04
September 11 Exposes

NY Times: "American investigators were given the first name and telephone number of one of the Sept. 11 hijackers two and a half years before the attacks on New York and Washington, but the United States appears to have failed to pursue the lead aggressively, American and German officials say. The information -- the earliest known signal that the United States received about any of the hijackers -- has now become an important element of an independent commission's investigation into the events of Sept. 11, 2001, officials said Monday. It is considered particularly significant because it may have represented a missed opportunity for American officials to penetrate the Qaeda terror cell in Germany that was at the heart of the plot. And it came roughly 16 months before the hijacker showed up at flight schools in the United States."

Did US Intelligence Receive WTC Warnings Before 9-11?
31-Jan-04
September 11 Exposes

From the Center for Cooperative Research: "A fascinating video relating to an important unheeded warning of the 9/11 attacks was shown on WPTV, an NBC TV station in Florida on October 7, 2002. Randy Glass, a private US citizen working as an undercover agent... learned about a threat to the World Trade Center and tried to warn various officials in government before 9/11... Florida State Senator Ron Klein and US Senator Bob Graham admit being given a warning by Randy Glass... What was the warning, who else knew about it, and why wasn't it acted upon?"

Whistleblower Coming in Cold from the F.B.I.
27-Jan-04
September 11 Exposes

Gail Sheehy writes: "During her six months of work for the Bureau, Ms. Edmonds said she grew increasingly horrified by the lack of internal security she saw inside the very agency tasked with protecting our national security... Undaunted, Ms. Edmonds took her concerns to upper management. Soon afterward she was fired. The only cause given was 'for the convenience of the government.' The F.B.I. has not refuted any of Ms. Edmonds' allegations, yet they have accounted for none of them. On the morning Ms. Edmonds was terminated, she said, she was escorted from the building by an agent she remembered saying: 'We will be watching you and listening to you. If you dare to consult an attorney who is not approved by the F.B.I., or if you take this issue outside the F.B.I. to the Senate, the next time I see you, it will be in jail.' Two other agents were present."

9-11 Mastermind Got a Visa Despite a Terrorism Indictment
27-Jan-04
September 11 Exposes

"Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, plot, obtained a visa to come to the United States just weeks before the attacks despite being under a federal terrorism indictment, a report by the federal commission investigating the attacks revealed Monday. And as many as eight of the hijackers entered the country with doctored passports that contained 'clues to their association with Al Qaeda' that should have been caught by immigration authorities, commission investigators said. The newly disclosed findings challenge previous claims by top CIA and FBI officials that the hijackers' records and paperwork were so clean that they could not have aroused suspicion."

Video Shows WTC 7 Was Demolished
13-Jan-04
September 11 Exposes

"A video of the collapse of Building 7 of the World Trade Center shows the perfect controlled demolition of WTC 7. WTC 7 was 2 blocks away from WTC 1/2, and was only superficially hit by debris when 1 and 2 collapsed as you can readily see from the starting point of the video. At 5:22 p.m., over six hours after WTC 1 and 2 'collapsed', WTC 7 came down in a free fall. The Official Story in the press is that diesel fuel reservoirs for backup power generators at Guiliani's Emergency Command Center in the building exploded and brought the resulting fire brought the building down, even though there has never been a case on record of fire-induced collapse of large fire-protected steel buildings, and that there were only very small fires in progress when the building 'collapsed.' Not to mention that, as any one with the slightest technical background knows, diesel at normal pressure is non-explosive and barely flammable."

NYC Fire Department Demolished WTC Building 7 on 9/11
11-Jan-04
September 11 Exposes

On 9/11, Building 7 of the World Trade Center collapsed. Tenants in WTC 7 included Solomon Brothers and Mayor Rudy Giuliani's emergency control bunker. WTC 7 was not struck by a plane; the popular theory is that fuel stored for emergency generators caught fire (http://jameswagner.com/mt_archives/003431.html). But in an interview with PBS, WTC developer Larry Silvertein says the building was intentionally demolished ("pulled") by the NYC Fire Department. "I remember getting a call from the, uh, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'You know, we've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is, is pull it. And they made that decision to pull and then we watched the building collapse.'"

Who Let Saudis Flee the US Just After 9-11?
21-Dec-03
September 11 Exposes

Craig Unger writers, "Just days after 9/11, wealthy Saudi Arabians, including members of the bin Laden family, were whisked out of the U.S. on private jets. No one will admit to clearing the flights, and the passengers weren't questioned. Did the Bush family's long relationship with the Saudis make it happen?"

Failure to Prevent 9/11 Rests Squarely on the Bush Administration
18-Dec-03
September 11 Exposes

William Rivers Pitt writes in an intro to the CBS News article, '9/11 Chair: Attack Was Preventable': "It has been two years and three months since America absorbed the horrific attacks of September 11. A fight has been waged since then to determine the facts behind that terrible day: How did it happen? Why was it not stopped? The Bush administration has fought the official investigations into these attacks every step of the way, going so far as to nominate master secret-keeper Henry Kissinger to chair the investigation. They failed in this nomination, and wound up with former New Jersey Governor and fellow Republican Thomas Kean. Today, Kean has fired an incredible broadside across the bow of the White House, stating bluntly that the attacks of September 11 could have and should have been stopped, and that blame for this failure rests squarely on the shoulders of the Bush administration."

BOMBSHELL! 9-11 Chair Says Attacks Were Preventable
17-Dec-03
September 11 Exposes

CBS News: "For the first time, the chairman of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is saying publicly that 9/11 could have and should have been prevented... 'This is a very, very important part of history and we've got to tell it right,' said Thomas Kean. 'As you read the report, you're going to have a pretty clear idea what wasn't done and what should have been done,' he said. 'This was not something that had to happen.'... 'There are people that, if I was doing the job, would certainly not be in the position they were in at that time because they failed. They simply failed,' Kean said... Asked whether we should at least know if people sitting in the decision-making spots on that critical day are still in those positions, Kean said, 'Yes, the answer is yes. And we will.' Kean promises major revelations in public testimony beginning next month from top officials in the FBI, CIA, Defense Department, NSA and, maybe, ...Bush and former President Clinton."

Was Dead Saudi Major Related To 9-11 Terrorists?
29-Nov-03
September 11 Exposes

Tom Flocco reports, "A Saudi military flight instructor who died mysteriously on May 8 had the same name as two 9/11 terrorists who lived at the same U.S. naval air base. Two other test pilots also dying with Saudi Air Force Major Ambarak S. Alghamdi were employed by Raytheon Corporation, which possesses technology capable of disrupting flight controls and taking down aircraft with a secret pulse-ray technology. This, as reports revealed that resident Bush's brother, Governor Jeb Bush, was on board the C-130 military aircraft that flew out of Sarasota airport the day after the attacks, carrying FBI agents who had collected criminal evidence--all the flight instruction evaluations, after-action reports, personality profiles, and financial records of all Arab terrorist flight students at Huffman Aviation School in Venice, Florida."

NORAD Admits Fighter Jets Could Have Protected the Pentagon from Flight 77
08-Nov-03
September 11 Exposes

"At a hearing earlier this year, [9-11 Commission member Richard] Ben-Veniste dug into the length of time it took the FAA to notify NORAD about American Airlines Flight 77 between the time it deviated from its flight path to the time it crashed into the Pentagon. The FAA knew that Los Angeles-bound Flight 77 left its course at 8:55 a.m., Ben-Veniste said, but NORAD did not get official notice of a hijacking until 9:24 a.m. A witness at the hearing, retired Maj. Gen. Larry K. Arnold, who was in charge of NORAD on the day of the attacks, said it was 'physically possible' that fighter jets could have beaten the civilian airliner to the Pentagon had they been activated earlier."

Did Israel's Mossad 'Shadow' 9-11 Hijackers in the US?
02-Nov-03
September 11 Exposes

Australia's Sunday Herald: "There was ruin and terror in Manhattan, but, over the Hudson River in New Jersey, a handful of men were dancing. As the WTC burned and crumpled, the five men celebrated and filmed the worst atrocity ever committed on American soil as it played out before their eyes... They were Israelis - and at least two of them were Israeli intelligence agents, working for Mossad, the equivalent of the CIA. Their discovery and arrest that morning is a matter of indisputable fact. To those who have investigated just what the Israelis were up to, the case raises one dreadful possibility: that Israeli intelligence had been shadowing the al Qaeda hijackers as they moved from the Middle East through Europe and into America where they trained as pilots and prepared to suicide-bomb the symbolic heart of the US. And the motive? To bind America in blood and mutual suffering to the Israeli cause." Is this a baseless conspiracy theory? The 9-11 Commission must find the truth.

The Crimes of 9/11 (Part 4): 4 New Questions for a Grand Jury
26-Oct-03
September 11 Exposes

Based on continuing research into 9/11, Mark Levey adds 4 more questions for a grand jury: "Were the Flight 77 Hijackers Actually Under Saudi Intelligence 'Control'? Did the FBI Destroy the Record of Al-Qaeda Wiretaps Obtained in March 2000? Did Federal Officers Provide Material Support to Terrorists Without Legal Authorization? Did the White House and Top Intelligence Officials Lie to Congress?" Read the in-depth factual basis for these questions.

FBI Believes Moussaoui Played 'No Part in 9/11' But BushCroft Continues to Seek Death Penalty
21-Oct-03
September 11 Exposes

"From the start, the government's case against Moussaoui was utterly circumstantial, and the connection between the hijackers and him was mainly inferred from their similar profiles. In fact, sources tell Time, the FBI has long believed that Moussaoui played no part in the 9/11 scheme and was only a minor player in al-Qaeda. Still, the Justice Department's December 2001 indictment laid out in chilling detail the 19 hijackers' activities in the months leading up to Sept. 11, alongside Moussaoui's doings over a similar time frame. Their tracks were roughly parallel, but direct contact between Moussaoui and the 19 was never alleged. The government charged him with being guilty, like them, of conspiring to commit terrorist acts, to destroy aircraft and to murder federal workers, and related offenses, 'with the result that thousands of people died on Sept. 11, 2001.'" Meanwhile several named hijackers are alive and well in the Middle East. Impeach Bush Now!

Some of the 9/11 Hijack 'Suspects' are Alive! FBI's Mueller Says Identity of Hijackers in Doubt!
16-Oct-03
September 11 Exposes

BBC News: "Another of the men named by the FBI as a hijacker in the suicide attacks on Washington and New York has turned up alive and well. The identities of four of the 19 suspects accused of having carried out the attacks are now in doubt. Saudi Arabian pilot Waleed Al Shehri was one of five men that the FBI said had deliberately crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the World Trade Centre on 11 September... Now he is protesting his innocence from Casablanca, Morocco... Abdulaziz Al Omari, another of the Flight 11 hijack suspects, has also been quoted in Arab news reports... Another man with exactly the same name surfaced on the pages of the English-language Arab News. The second Abdulaziz Al Omari is a pilot for Saudi Arabian Airlines, the report says. Meanwhile, Asharq Al Awsat newspaper, a London-based Arabic daily, says it has interviewed Saeed Alghamdi... And there are suggestions that another suspect, Khalid Al Midhar, may also be alive."

Bush's Saudi Connections and Why This is a Crucial Issue in 2004
18-Sep-03
September 11 Exposes

"The links between the House of Bush and the House of Saud are deep, overlapping and notoriously opaque: the Saudi investment in the Carlyle Group, the private equity firm whose rainmakers include George Bush Senior; the Saudi bankrolling of Poppy's presidential library; the lucrative contracts the Saudis doled out to Halliburton when Dick Cheney was at the company's helm. The main law firm retained by the Saudis to defend them against the 9-11 families is Baker Botts -- as in James Baker, the Bush family consigliere... The Bushies have profited mightily from a relationship with a foreign government that can be indirectly, perhaps even directly, implicated in the September 11 attacks and other terrorist incidents... The administration's coddling of the Saudis presents the Democrats with an opening the size of Texas, and they need to seize it." Also, there is that Princess Al-Faisal funded two of the hijackers with an account at Riggs Bank, where uncle Jonathan Bush is a director.

BushRove Diversion Tactic: Making Ground Zero Lies an Issue about the EPA's Credibility, Not White House Criminality
17-Sep-03
September 11 Exposes

Marie Cocco writes: "There are lies, damned lies and strategic switching of the subject. This last is the strong suit of the current administration, whose maxim is turning out to be: When caught, create a diversion. The Environmental Protection Agency now argues that the valiant effort its employees made to protect public health after the terrorist attack on New York City somehow is being besmirched. 'The actions taken by EPA personnel were nothing less than heroic,' acting EPA Administrator Marianne Horinko wrote in a letter to Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.)... There is, in fact, only one problem with Horinko's righteousness. No one ever accused EPA experts of doing anything but their best... The problem isn't with the professionals. It's with the politicians who meddle with them. The inspector general's recent critical report fingers the White House, not the EPA, for doctoring key press releases in the days after the 9/11 attack."

20 Questions: Why Don't We Have Answers To These 9/11 Questions?
12-Sep-03
September 11 Exposes

William Bunch writes, "No event in recent history has been written about, talked about, or watched and rewatched as much as the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 - two years ago today... [This] was a seminal event for an information-soaked media age of Internet access and 24- hour news. So, why after 730 days do we know so little about what really happened that day? No one knows where the alleged mastermind of the attack is, and none of his accomplices has been convicted of any crime. We're not even sure if the 19 people identified by the U.S. government as the suicide hijackers are really the right guys. Who put deadly anthrax in the mail? Where were the jet fighters that were supposed to protect America's skies that morning? And what was the role of our supposed allies Saudi Arabia and Pakistan? There are dozens of unanswered questions about the 2001 attacks, but we've narrowed them down to 20 - or 9 plus 11." Why hasn't Bush answered ANY of them? Impeach Bush Now!

What You Think You Know about Sept. 11 - But Don't
11-Sep-03
September 11 Exposes

David Plotz writes, "The Saudi government paid off al-Qaida in exchange for immunity from terror attacks. Saudi princes knew in advance about the Sept. 11 attacks. Most of the Saudi officials who assisted al-Qaida all died mysteriously soon thereafter. The revelations in Gerald Posner's new book Why America Slept are an astonishing reminder of just how much we still don't know about Sept. 11 and its planning. But there is also plenty that we think we know but don't. I'm not talking about shoddy conspiracy theories (that Jews were warned not to show up for work at the World Trade Center, for example) believed by the ignorant and the paranoid, but widespread misconceptions held by everyday Americans. Here are six of the most common." Read on!

September 11th Film Forum Kicks Off 'Reframing 9/11' Citizens Inquiry
11-Sep-03
September 11 Exposes

"Two years after the World Trade Center attacks, a documentary film exhibition and panel featuring former Rep. Cynthia McKinney is to seriously challenge the official story and response to 9/11. The post-film panel will also examine alternative but credible narratives for what happened that day and why. The urgent timeliness of this conversation is only accentuated by the US media's current censorship of longtime UK Environment Minister MP Michael Meacher's explosive 'US complicity' charges Saturday in The Guardian The 'REFRAMING 9/11' public inquiry will begin Thursday, September 11th at 6 pm at Riverside Church with the screening of 'Aftermath,' a film which poses eleven unanswered questions about 9-11. This showing is part of a coordinated 'Aftermath' screening that is taking place simultaneously in over a dozen cities across North America, including Toronto, Vancouver, San Francisco and Eugene, OR."

Hijacked 9-11 Planes Flew Through Some of the Most Heavily Militarized Parts of the Nation
09-Sep-03
September 11 Exposes

The Memory Hole writes: "In this picture, which is worth even more than a thousand words, MediaLab has merged a map of the 9/11 planes' flightpaths with a map of military bases in those areas. The flights went through some of the most heavily militarized parts of the country, yet nothing could be done to stop them?" Check out this extraordinary graphic.

Powell: Saudi and bin Laden Family Flights after 9-11 were 'Well-Known' and 'Coordinated Within the Government'
08-Sep-03
September 11 Exposes

On NBC's 'Meet the Press', host Tim Russert asked Colin Powell why 140 Saudis (including members of the bin Laden family) were hastily picked up and flown out of the U.S. before even being interviewed by the FBI: "SEC'Y POWELL: Well, I don't know that that's accurate. I don't know the details of what happened. But my understanding is that there was no sneaking out of the country; that the flights were well-known, and it was coordinated within the government. But I don't have the details about what the FBI's role in it might or might not have been."

After Two Years of Doing Nothing, Bush Administration Begins Monitoring Health Impact of 9/11
05-Sep-03
September 11 Exposes

Newsday reports: "On Sept. 4, NYC and Bush CDC officials launched the World Trade Center Health Registry to monitor the long-term health effects from the hazardous materials from the collapse of the twin towers. City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden says, 'Hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life were in the vicinity of the twin towers when they collapsed, and were exposed to a combination of smoke, dust and debris.' Henry Falk, director of the Centers for Disease Control's National Center for Environmental Health, said the federally-funded registry will record and measure the health impact of 9/11 'in the broadest possible terms. The registry is a tool for giving us health data that could guide how we respond to this kind of disaster for generations to come,' he added. Falk said people should enroll even if they feel they're healthy by calling either 311 or 1-866-NYC-WTCR, or going on the registry Web site: www.wtcregistry.org."

Kent State Professor: 'Compelling Evidence for 9-11 Complicity'
05-Sep-03
September 11 Exposes

Prof. Walter Davis writes, "In this article, I outline twenty-two items of evidence and questions, each one sufficient reason to demand an investigation into why September 11th was not prevented. Together, these items suggest that the most plausible explanation of events is that the Bush Administration was complicit in the terrorist attacks. This should be a national and international scandal. What is being discovered will shock many people, which is one of the reasons for deliberate corporate media coverup. But a significant number of people within the U.S. see (or will see) the consistencies in the events surrounding 9/11 as described below, and what they know about U.S. foreign policy. Nevertheless, the degree to which this Administration is pursuing a course of world domination at any cost is unprecedented. One of the best ways of putting a halt to this destructive course is to expose the Bush Administration and insist on their accountability to the American people."

Saudi-Gate: FBI Let 140 Saudis Flee After 9-11
04-Sep-03
September 11 Exposes

Byron York of the right-wing National Review writes, "While FBI agents looked into bin Laden family members... immediately after September 11, it appears that the agents' first chance to interview them... came on the day they left the U.S. Each family member was given the all-clear on the basis of a single, day-of-departure interview - conducted, in [the FBI's] words, 'at the airport, as they were about to leave.'... But some law-enforcement experts found the abbreviated investigation [bushit]. 'That's highly unusual, and they could not have done a thorough and complete interview,' said John L. Martin. 'It was obvious at the time that the Bureau did not have the kind of intelligence to know who was behind [the September 11 attacks], how they were financed, and what the U.S. connections might have been.'" Who let the Saudis escape without a thorough investigation? GEORGE W BUSH. Impeach Bush Now!

Right After 9-11, Bush Let 140 Saudis Flee US - Including Bin Ladens
03-Sep-03
September 11 Exposes

"In the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks while U.S. airspace was closed, a jet sanctioned by the Bush administration flew about the country picking up some 140 high-ranking Saudi Arabians - including relatives of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden - and spirited them out of the country, according to a senior official... In an interview with Vanity Fair, former White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke described the exodus thought to have been organized by Saudi ambassador to the United States Prince Bandar bin Sultan. He said the plane is believed to have landed in 10 cities, including Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Houston and Boston. 'We were in the midst of the worst terrorist act in history and here we were seeing an evacuation of the bin Ladens. ... I wanted to go the highest levels in Washington,' Tom Kinton, director of aviation at Boston's Logan airport, told the magazine." Impeach Bush Now!

Did Saudi Leaders Murder Al Qaeda Funders to Conceal 9-11 Foreknowledge?
02-Sep-03
September 11 Exposes

"In 'Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11,' author Gerald Posner also says three Saudi royal princes who had contacts with the terror network died unexpectedly within a week last year, and a Pakistani military officer was killed seven months later. While he concedes that the deaths could be 'coincidences,' Posner says, they occurred after the CIA had passed along to Saudi and Pakistani officials information it had obtained from Abu Zubaydah, a key associate of Osama Bin Laden. 'My gut tells me that if Zubaydah's information was accurate, our error was telling the Saudis what we had,' he said in an interview. 'People did not want them to talk, and took them out. Can I prove it? No.' Two of the subjects, Saudi Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz and Pakistani Air Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir, 'knew that an attack was scheduled for American soil' on Sept. 11, 2001, but did not know where, when or any other details about which to warn U.S. officials, Posner writes."

Blockbuster Expose: Al Qaeda Leader Details Saudi and Pakistani Funding
02-Sep-03
September 11 Exposes

According to a new book by Gerald Posner, captured Al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah "said the Saudi connection ran through Prince Turki al-Faisal bin Abdul Aziz, the kingdom's longtime intelligence chief. Zubaydah said bin Laden 'personally' told him of a 1991 meeting at which Turki agreed to let bin Laden leave Saudi Arabia and to provide him with secret funds as long as al-Qaeda refrained from promoting jihad in the kingdom. The Pakistani contact, high-ranking air force officer Mushaf Ali Mir, entered the equation, Zubaydah said, at a 1996 meeting in Pakistan also attended by Zubaydah. Bin Laden struck a deal with Mir, then in the military but tied closely to Islamists in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (isi), to get protection, arms and supplies for al-Qaeda... Zubaydah told the interrogators that the Saudis regularly sent the funds through three royal-prince intermediaries he named... [but] those three Saudi princes all perished within days of one another."

NYC Officials Call for Federal Inquiry into EPA's 9-11 Cover-Up
24-Aug-03
September 11 Exposes

"City officials and residents of lower Manhattan Saturday called for a congressional investigation into the White House's role in the EPA's alleged air quality cover-up after Sept. 11, and demanded a proper cleanup of the area. Words like 'outrage' and 'disgrace' pierced the air like the toxic chemicals they were meant to describe, as Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Councilman David Yasskey (D-NY) and others gathered to discuss an EPA report, issued late Friday, that contained the allegations. The report, published by the agency's Inspector General, concludes the White House influenced the EPA to downplay concerns about air contaminants in the days immediately following the World Trade Center disaster. Nadler, a long-time environmental watchdog, revealed a laundry list of demands for the federal government, including the promise of an EPA-funded second round of cleanups that meet superfund regulations and cost what he called a loosely estimated 'tens of millions of dollars.'"

The EPA Lied When It Said NYC Air Was Safe after 9/11 -- W's Orders
23-Aug-03
September 11 Exposes

AP reports: "At the White House's direction, the Environmental Protection Agency gave New Yorkers misleading assurances that there was no health risk from the debris-laden air after the World Trade Center collapse... The White House 'convinced EPA to add reassuring statements and delete cautionary ones' by having the National Security Council control EPA communications in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, according to a report issued late Thursday by EPA Inspector General Nikki L. Tinsley. 'When EPA made a Sept. 18 announcement that the air was 'safe' to breathe, the agency did not have sufficient data and analyses to make the statement,' the report says, adding that the EPA had yet to adequately monitor air quality for contaminants such as PCBs, soot and dioxin... [I]t wasn't until June 2002 that the EPA determined that air quality had returned to pre-Sept. 11 levels."

Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed: The Mystery Man Behind 9-11?
21-Aug-03
September 11 Exposes

UnansweredQuestions.org writes, "Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed, Director of Pakistan's secret service, the ISI, is quite possibly the most taboo suspect of all 9/11 suspects. It was reported in early October 2001 that Mahmood ordered Saeed Sheikh to send $100,000 to hijacker Mohamed Atta. Since then hardly a word has been said about this stunning report, and in fact this once very powerful man appears to have completely disappeared from view.... If Mahmood had a role in 9/11, this would not only strongly suggest that the rest of the Pakistani government had foreknowledge, but it would also raise curious questions about who else knew, in the US, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere. Mahmood seems to be involved in a number of important but obscure meetings before, during and after 9/11." Why has the media ignored this important story?

Another HUGE 9-11 Expose: CIA Knew about Ziad Jarrah's Ties to Al Qaeda
21-Aug-03
September 11 Exposes

Expatica.com reports, "In its second revelation in as many weeks, the German magazine Stern reports in its latest issue that the Central Intelligence Agency CIA had two of the September 11 terror pilots on its files well ahead of the terror attacks. In its edition to appear on Thursday, Stern said that in addition to Marwan Alshehhi, the CIA also must have known that Lebanese national Ziad Jarrah was connected to el-Qaeda but that the US let him enter the country anyway for pilot training. The report comes after Stern last week said that in March 1999 the CIA had been tipped off by German security services about Alshehhi, who piloted the Boeing plane which struck the south tower of the World Trade Center. In its latest issue, Stern cited what it called a confidential FBI document showing that in January 2000 the CIA first became aware of Jarrah." The US media has blacked out BOTH reports to protect Bush. Call/write the media and demand the truth about 9-11!

Trading on Terror: Linking Financial Markets and War
18-Aug-03
September 11 Exposes

Heather Wokusch writes: "The Pentagon's online 'terror' futures market may have gone down in flames, but questions surrounding 9/11 insider trading and market rigging before the Iraq invasion still linger... It's known that just weeks before the attacks, speculative trading surged on companies to be hardest hit, such as those located in the World Trade Center... interestingly, many such put options were sold through a firm previously managed by top CIA director, A.B. 'Buzzy' Krongard... [In addition,] some analysts charge the Bush administration has actually been too active in the markets, effectively manipulating levels to build up public support before its invasion of Iraq... a secretive US governmental committee orchestrated massive selling in the euro, crude and gold right before the invasion, effectively lowering prices and bumping up the dollar. The covert committee simultaneously purchased targeted Dow Jones equities... thereby creating a rally big enough to calm investors."

HUGE 9-11 Expose: CIA Was Watching Marwan Alshehhi
14-Aug-03
September 11 Exposes

Expatica.com reports, "The CIA had one of the September 11, 2001 terror pilots under surveillance as early as March 1999 after a tip from German security services, according to joint investigative reports in Germany. The weekly magazine Stern and the first German public television channel ARD, in reports to be published and aired on Thursday, focus on Marwan Alshehhi, who piloted the Boeing plane which crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Centre... In March 1999, the BfV [German security] passed the information about Marwan on to the CIA, which then also began keeping surveillance on him... The CIA had detailed information about Marwan Alshehhi, and the fact that he was from the United Arab Emirates and studying in Germany. The CIA had his cellphone number and knew that he was in contact with Haydar [Sammar], whom the Americans had suspected of being al-Qaeda's contact man in Germany." Stay tuned for details...

On 9-11, Organize a Local Screening of 'Aftermath'
08-Aug-03
September 11 Exposes

On the 2nd anniversary of 9-11, "Mainstream media will undoubtedly use the opportunity to look back, with uncritical enthusiasm, at the event that 'changed our lives forever'. In fact, the Showtime Network recently announced that it would premiere it's revisionist docu-drama DC 9/11 a few days before the anniversary of the event. So, to counter the onslaught, GNN is seeking to create an international screening event for AfterMath to be held by our Guerrilla syndicate (you!) in cities across North America. The videos can be shown in theatres, libraries, school classrooms or living rooms. It doesn't matter what size the venue. What is important is that the film is used as a discussion tool that can generate healthy debate about how the event has been characterized by the mainstream media and exploited by [Bush]... GNN will provide the two GNN DVDs, Ammo for the Info-Warrior and AfterMath at a reduced rate, as well as some large movie-sized posters from the SF screening."

Why Did Bush Abolish Information Sharing?
04-Aug-03
September 11 Exposes

Margie Burns writes: "On February 13, 2001, George W. Bush issued... the National Security Presidential Directive (NSPD), partly reorganized the National Security Council... In light of subsequent events, a single sentence is perhaps the most dramatic statement in the NSPD: 'The existing system of Interagency Working Groups is abolished.' Thus ended, with one stroke of the pen, the chief existing structural mechanism for coordinating information among federal agencies including the intelligence agencies, transportation, and immigration... There is an irony, however, in hearing the consensus expressed by those who issued the 9-11 report on national security, that a large problem was lack of information sharing or coordination among key agencies. How could the White House ever have thought that abolishing the inter-agency work groups was a good idea if security was the objective? Why was so much responsibility placed on the shoulders of one person, Condoleezza Rice?"

Realizing We'd Invaded the Wrong Country, Bush Did the Honorable Thing: He Came Out against Gay Marriages
02-Aug-03
September 11 Exposes

Greg Palast writes: "Bush was in one hell of bind when it turned that that Saudi Arabia funded Al Qaeda, not Iraq... Turns out that unlike the 18 minutes missing from the Nixon tape, the 28 pages missing from Congress' publicly released report on the September 11 attack has been found. And it turns out to be a summary of Saudi Arabia's financing of terrorist fronts including the 'charities' supporting Al Qaeda." One charity was WAMY. Why has the Bush Administration covered up for WAMY and the Saudi's other blood-soaked 'charity' operations? "For the answer, let me take you back to Midland, Texas, 1986. A young old man, George W. Bush, seems to have trouble finding oil. But he strikes it rich when his flailing drilling partnership is bought out by Harken Oil. Despite the addition of the business acumen of Bush Jr., Harken faces collapse; but is pulled from the brink by a cash infusion from a Saudi, Sheik Bakhsh."

28-Pages Show Bush Invaded the Wrong Country
02-Aug-03
September 11 Exposes

An official who read the report told The New Republic that support described in the report involves connections between the hijacking plot and the very top levels of the Saudi royal family. "There's a lot more in the 28 pages than money. Everyone's chasing the charities, they should be chasing direct links to high levels of the Saudi government. We're not talking about rogue elements. We're talking about a coordinated network that reaches right from the hijackers to multiple places in the Saudi government." According to TNR, "If the people in the administration trying to link Iraq to Al Qaeda had one-one-thousandth of the stuff that the 28 pages has linking a foreign government to Al Qaeda, they would have been in good shape" - and "if the 28 pages were to be made public...the entire relationship with Saudi Arabia would change overnight."

Sources: Classified Section of 9/11 Report Details Info about al-Bayoumi and Bassnan
02-Aug-03
September 11 Exposes

"One U.S. official who has read the classified section said it describes 'very direct, very specific links' between Saudi officials, two of the San Diego-based hijackers and other potential co-conspirators 'that cannot be passed off as rogue, isolated or coincidental' ... Those officials refused to discuss the classified sections of the report but confirmed that they detailed additional allegations about Omar al-Bayoumi and Osama Bassnan, two Saudi men, and their suspicious activities in the United States. Al Bayoumi was an employee of the Saudi civil aviation authority who FBI agents said received 'seemingly unlimited funding' from Saudi Arabia. Bassnan and his family received significant charitable support from Princess Haifa al-Faisal, wife of the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., Prince Bandar bin Sultan... The classified section cites federal authorities as saying they believed both men, each of whom has been linked to Al Qaeda operatives, could have been Saudi intelligence agents."

Jonathan Bush is CEO of Two Riggs Bank Subsidiaries
02-Aug-03
September 11 Exposes

From the Riggs Bank website: "Washington, D.C., May 31, 2000 - Riggs Bank N.A. today announced that the Board of Directors of RIMCO, a wholly owned investment management subsidiary, has elected Jonathan J. Bush President & Chief Executive Officer... Mr. Bush will continue as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of J. Bush & Co., an investment management company he founded in 1970, which Riggs acquired in 1997." Princess Al-Faisal's allegedly paid Al-Bouyami and Bassnan from a Riggs account. An enterprising reporter should seek to answer the following questions. Did Princess Al-Faisal have an account with either RIMCO or J. Bush & Co.? Did Jonathan Bush personally manage her account? Did she draw funds from a RIMCO or J. Bush & Co. account that went to al-Bouyami and Bassnan? Or did she draw these funds from a Riggs account that was linked to an account with RIMCO or J. Bush & Co?

Newsweek in Nov. 2002 Reported that Princess Al-Faisal's Account was with Riggs -- Jonathan Bush's Bank
01-Aug-03
September 11 Exposes

Michael Isikoff reported on 11/22/02: "Sources familiar with the evidence say the payments--amounting to about $3,500 a month--came from an account at Washington's Riggs Bank in the name of Princess Haifa Al-Faisal, the wife of Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan... After Al Bayoumi left the country in July 2001--two months before the September 11 terror attacks--payments for roughly the same amount began flowing every month to Osama Bassnan, a close associate of Al Bayoumi's who also befriended the hijackers." A visit to the Riggs website (www.riggsbank.com) shows that "Jonathan Bush, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of J. Bush & Co., Inc., founded the company in 1970... He is the son of the late Senator Prescott Bush and the brother of former President George Bush." Also, "J. Bush & Company manages assets for high net-worth individuals, corporate benefit plans and foundations" (Click on "Investments", then "Investment Advisors").

Riggs Bank Cited for Violating Money Laundering Laws
01-Aug-03
September 11 Exposes

Kathleen Day reported for the WashPost on 7/16/03: "Federal bank regulators cited Riggs Bank for violating money-laundering laws, the bank said yesterday. The bank consented to an order from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency requiring Riggs to beef up its procedures for reporting potentially suspicious transactions under the Bank Secrecy Act. The law requires banks to report cash transactions of $10,000 or more. Riggs officials and regulators did not specify if the consent order was tied to any particular customer, or how many transactions Riggs failed to report over what time period. Sources said that in a separate but related investigation, the FBI continues a months-long probe into whether charitable contributions made by a Saudi princess with checks drawn on her Riggs account indirectly [?] benefited two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers."

Two of the Hijackers Received Funds from Princess Al-Faisal -- Drawn from Bank Where Bush's Uncle is an Exec!
31-Jul-03
September 11 Exposes

Allan Duncan writes: "Turns out that some of the money al-Bayoumi received was from Princess Haifa Al-Faisal, wife of the Saudi Ambassador Bander Bin Sultan... The money then ended up in the hands of Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi for monthly living expenses while they rented rooms in the home of the FBI informant. The checks from Princess Haifa were drawn on Riggs Bank in Washington D.C. One of the chief officers of Riggs Bank is Jonathan Bush, an uncle of President George W. Bush... So it appears to me, that the redaction of the Saudi information from the 9-11 Report had more to do with covering the President's own ass from the embarrassing fact that his own uncle was part of the Saudi money trail that enabled two of the hijackers to crash a plane into the Pentagon, and very little to do with jeopardizing our national security at all." Was Princess Al-Faisal's account with J. Bush & Co., the Riggs subsidiary 'for high net-worth individuals' -- that is headed by Jonathan Bush?

The Bizarre Connections of Marvin and Jonathan Bush to the Saudis and 9/11
31-Jul-03
September 11 Exposes

Margie Burns writes: "George W. Bush's brother was on the board of directors of a company providing electronic security for the World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport and United Airlines... The company was backed by an investment firm, the Kuwait-American Corp., also linked for years to the Bush family... Marvin P. Bush, the president's youngest brother, was a director at Stratesec from 1993 to fiscal year 2000... The suite in which Marvin Bush was annually re-elected [to the board], according to public records, is located in the Watergate in space leased to the Saudi government. The company now holds shareholder meetings in space leased by the Kuwaiti government there. The White House has not responded to various requests for comment. Speaking of the Watergate, Riggs National Bank, where Saudi Princess Al-Faisal had her 'Saudi money trail' bank account, has as one of its executives Jonathan Bush, an uncle of the president."

Were the 9/11 Put Options the Inspiration for Poindexter's Terrorism Futures Program?
31-Jul-03
September 11 Exposes

Michael Ruppert writes: "Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U.S. media, there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the case of at least one of these trades -- which has left a $2.5 million prize unclaimed -- the firm used to place the 'put options' on United Airlines stock was, until 1998, managed by the man who is now in the number three Executive Director position at the Central Intelligence Agency. Until 1997 A.B. 'Buzzy' Krongard had been Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown. A.B. Brown was acquired by Banker's Trust in 1997. Krongard then became, as part of the merger, Vice Chairman of Banker's Trust-AB Brown, one of 20 major U.S. banks named by Senator Carl Levin this year as being connected to money laundering. Krongard's last position at Banker's Trust (BT) was to oversee 'private client relations.'"

911 Hijackers Were Funded by Saudi AVIATION Agency
30-Jul-03
September 11 Exposes

Omar al-Bayoumi has emerged as a key 911 link between the hijackers and the Saudi government. "Mr. Bayoumi, who told associates that he was a student, was also receiving a salary from the Saudi civil AVIATION authority, and those payments were initially modest, apparently less than $500 a month. But some time after Mr. Bayoumi began to aid Mr. Midhar and Mr. Alhazmi, the payments increased to as much as $3,000 to $3,500 a month." Bayoumi "received payments from the Saudi civil AVIATION authority approved by a Saudi official ... Hamid al-Rashid... whose [son's] photo was found in a raid of a Qaeda safe house in Karachi, Pakistan, and who has admitted being in Afghanistan in 2000 and 2001." Follow the money - Bayoumi delivered Saudi GOVERNMENT money to 2 of the 911 hijackers, approved by a possible Al Qaeda sympathizer in the AVIATION authority. This hardly seems a coincidence - did the Saudi AVIATION agency plan 911??? We want Hamid al-Rashid's testimony immediately!!!

BUSH KNEW! In August 2001, Bush Was Warned of Al Qaeda Attack IN THE US
25-Jul-03
September 11 Exposes

PentaPost reports, "Among the only clues cited in the report about Bush's knowledge of al Qaeda's intentions against the United States is an Aug. 6, 2001, President's Daily Briefing (PDB) - described in the report only as a 'closely-held intelligence report' - that included information 'acquired in May 2001 that indicated a group of [Osama] Bin Laden supporters was planning attacks IN THE UNITED STATES with explosives.'... In a May 16, 2002, briefing for reporters, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said the PDB was a historical look at bin Laden's methods dating to 1997. She characterized the briefing as an 'analytic report' that summed up bin Laden's methods of operation. 'It was not a warning,' she said. 'There was no specific time or place mentioned.'... Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) said he doubted Bush was complacent about warnings he received. 'The intelligence community was providing him information. He wasn't AWOL.'" Bush WAS AWOL - just like 1972-73! Impeach Bush Now!

William Rivers Pitt Interviews CIA Veteran Ray McGovern
29-Jun-03
September 11 Exposes

"George Bush had no option but to keep George Tenet on as Director, because George Tenet had warned Bush repeatedly, for months and months before September 11, that something very bad was about to happen. PITT: There was the August 6 2001 briefing? McG: On August 6, the title of the briefing was, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the US,' and that briefing had the word 'Hijacking' in it. That's all I know about it, but that's quite enough. In September, Bush had to make a decision. Is it feasible to let go of Tenet, whose agency flubbed the dub on this one? And the answer was no, because Tenet knows too much about what Bush knew, and Bush didn't know what to do about it... Bush was well-briefed. Before he went off to Texas to chop wood for a month..., he was told all these things. He didn't even have the presence of mind to convene his National Security Council, and say, 'OK guys, we have all these reports, what are we going to do about it?' He just went off to chop wood."

Germany's PBS Broadcasts 9-11 Investigation - When Will the US Media Investigate?
19-Jun-03
September 11 Exposes

"A German TV documentary: 'Aktenzeichen 11.9. ungeloest' (File 9/11 unsolved) will be broadcast on Friday, June 20th, 2003, 23.00 h MEST in the WDR (Westdeutsche Rundfunk). It features James Bamford, author of Body of Secrets, unansweredquestions.org founders Kyle F. Hence, Catherine Austin Fitts, Tom Flocco and 9/11 researchers Allan Duncan and Nico Haupt. This will be the first television broadcast globally on a major television network that directly explores the outstanding questions and issues surrounding the attacks of September 11th and challenges the status quo line on 9/11. (Barrie Zwicker's Great Deception series on VisionTV, a relatively small cable network in Canada was the first television event to directly challenge the official story). WDR is German equivalent of our PBS. With a positive response and demand there may be an international version of the film released in the coming months and the filmmakers are set to publish a companion book as well."

9-11 Investigator Concludes: 'Hell, Yes, They Knew'
19-Jun-03
September 11 Exposes

Black Max writes, "To my eyes, it looks like a string of lies, evasions, and scurrilous accusations from an administration who, at the very least, dodged and ignored its duty to protect the citizens of this country. It's way past time for an impartial investigation into just what this administration did and didn't know before the events of 9-11. Depending on the kind of information that comes out about this administration's demonstrated incompetence and willful ignorance, then at the minimum, highly placed administration heads should roll, and Bush should think long and hard about his ability to continue running this country. He should also think twice about running for re-election. If information comes out about this administration knowingly allowing the attack to take place, or even worse, members of this administration being in any way complicit in the attacks...well, George W. won't be the first president to be impeached. But he might be the first to be convicted of treason."

New Scandal Spotlights Terror Flight School's Hidden Ties
02-Jun-03
September 11 Exposes

Daniel Hopsicker writes: "A controversy over the sudden closing of a flight school in Orlando in early March reveals a hidden connection between the bankruptcy in Orlando and the secretive organization which ran Huffman Aviation in Venice, the unacknowledged home base of Mohamed Atta and his Hamburg cadre during almost their entire time in the U.S. The investigation into the disappearance of millions of dollars which students had been forced to pre-pay in tuition has led to 70-year old Wallace J. Hilliard of Naples, FL, the shadowy financier whose purchase of Huffman in partnership with Dutch national Rudi Dekkers, currently awaiting trial on felony fraud, set in motion a chain of events culminating in two former students piloting Boeing 767's into the World Trade Center Towers."

9-11 Commission Hearings Reveal Extent of Air Defense Failures - Who Will Be Held Accountable???
30-May-03
September 11 Exposes

CooperativeResearch.org's Paul Thompson writes, "I was so upset at the media's lack of coverage about the Independent Commission recent hearings on air defense, that I wrote my own essay on the topic. Like my other essays for the 9/11 Timeline, this one is long, but I think to truly understand the enormity of the US military's failure on 9/11, one needs to understand the detail. The essay starts out by looking at many of the warnings that should have led to strengthened defenses, and then analyzes the failure of fighters to catch up to each hijacked plane."

The Secret Saudi Flight on 9-13 Could be the Key to the Bush-Saudi-Al Qaeda Connection
27-May-03
September 11 Exposes

Saudi Defense Minister Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz is being sued by families of the 9-11 victims for personally approving millions of dollars of Saudi government funding for terrorist front groups. Amazingly, bin Abdul Aziz arranged for his son to be flown from Florida to Kentucky on 9-13 - a flight the Bush administration denies ever happened, on the second day when ALL civilian flights in the US were prohibited. To make matters worse, bin Abdul Aziz and his Saudi co-defendants hired James Baker's law firm to defend him against the TRILLION dollar 9-11 lawsuit. Could this trial expose the deep Saudi connections to Al Qaeda, and the Bush connections to both? Is a Special Prosecutor needed? Is it even possible to investigate the Bush-Saudi-Al Qaeda ties? Stay tuned...

Was Bush Complicit with the 9-11 Attacks?
19-May-03
September 11 Exposes

Here is another outstanding 9-11 timeline that examines all of Bush's words and (lack of) actions. This timeline includes the key published photos from that date.

Mike Ruppert's FTW Runs Full-Page Ad in WashPost Blasting Bush on 9/11 Foreknowledge, Assault on Civil Liberties
18-May-03
September 11 Exposes

"From The Wilderness [on Friday] ran a full-page ad in the front section of The Washington Post intended to educate the American people, support heroic leaders and promote a number of independent media outlets which have made important contributions since 9/11. The ad was the direct result of a donation from a subscriber who had recently viewed FTW Publisher Mike Ruppert's video 'The Truth and Lies of 9-11'. The ad that ran today was actually a second version, the text of which had to be changed after the first version apparently caused some nervousness in Washington."

GOP Senator Orrin Hatch's Negligence Facilitated 9/11 Terrorism
16-May-03
September 11 Exposes

AP reports: "Nearly six years before the Sept. 11 attacks, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman was told by his senior staff that the FBI and other government agencies had missed warning signs about the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and were ill-prepared to prevent future domestic terrorist attacks, memos show. Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, whose committee oversees federal law enforcement, approved holding investigative hearings about the information, but they never took place... 'The sharing of intelligence is lacking among federal law enforcement agencies,' the 1995 memo stated, citing intelligence failures eerily similar to those exposed after the 2001 attacks... Kris Kolesnik, who worked on the committee for Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said Hatch preferred not to air FBI problems in public. 'His solution to problems within the FBI is to send more money, create more bureaucracy and give them more authority to trample our civil liberties.'"

On 9/11/01, Where Was George? Read this Incredible Timeline
11-May-03
September 11 Exposes

Allan Wood and Paul Thompson write, "Bush's actions on 9/11 have been the subject of lively debate, mostly on the internet. Details reported that day and in the week after the attacks - both the media reports and accounts given by Bush himself - have changed radically over the past 18 months. Culling hundreds of reports from newspapers, magazines, and the internet has only made finding the 'truth' of what happened and when it happened more confusing. In the changed political climate after 9/11, few have dared raise challenging questions about Bush's actions. A journalist who said Bush was 'flying around the country like a scared child, seeking refuge in his mother's bed after having a nightmare' and another who said Bush 'skedaddled' were fired. We should have a concise record of where Bush was throughout the day the US was attacked, but we do not. What follows is an attempt to give the most complete account of Bush's actions - from Florida to Louisiana to Nebraska to Washington. "

9/11: The Evangelical Christian Connection
08-Apr-03
September 11 Exposes

Daniel Hopsicker writes, "The money man behind two Florida flight schools which trained an as-yet undisclosed number of terrorist pilots has ties with the Evangelical Christian Right, including having loaned televangelist Jerry Falwell a reputed $1 million to bailout his failing religious enterprises a decade ago, and serving as Director of an avowedly Christian aeronautics company planning to manufacture a new business jet in Israel, the MadCowMorningNews has learned. Rudi Dekkers - financier Wallace J. Hilliard, 70, has so far managed to avoid being caught in the glare of publicity surrounding former business partner Dekkers, currently facing a charge of felony fraud as well as an ongoing multi-agency federal investigation." Reverend Moon also helped bail out Falwell with millions funneled through Dan Reber and Jimmy Thomas' Christian Heritage Foundation (See 'The Hunting of the President').

Ask the 'Unanswered Questions' at the 9-11 Commission Hearings
27-Mar-03
September 11 Exposes

Internet researchers have done an amazing job sifting through the publicly-available information about the 9-11 attacks. They have distilled all of the many "unanswered questions" down to these areas: 1) the whistleblowers; 2) insider trading; 3) links to terrorists; 4) do warnings imply foreknowledge; 5) air defenses; 6) the delayed 9-11 investigation; 7) legal action by victims' families; 8) rewarding failure and incompetence; 9) anthrax; and 10) sleeping at the wheel. The 9/11 Citizens Watch/Oversight project will hold a press conference inside the Custom Hall (1 Bowling Green) on the 3rd floor at 12 noon. If you want to attend, plan on arriving early to get through tight security.

Mohamed Atta Plotted with 7 German Pilots
19-Mar-03
September 11 Exposes

Daniel Hopsicker writes, "A year-long MadCowMorningNews investigation has uncovered evidence that at least seven of Mohamed Atta's closest associates in Florida during the year leading up to the 9/11 attack were not Arab, but German. The names of the seven, all pilots, have not surfaced in any press accounts of Atta's stay in the U.S., nor has their existence been mentioned or alluded to in official statements. Traveling with Atta, or meeting him around the state, Atta's German friends appeared to share a relationship with him of long-standing, according to eyewitnesses, dating back to his days in Hamburg. The meetings, in places like Key West and Miami, were apparently very serious business; when they returned, said someone who was there, Atta and his German associates 'always came back glum.'... Atta's German friends are all children of the German elite."

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed - the Mystery Deepens
04-Mar-03
September 11 Exposes

Paul Thompson may know more about 9-11 than anyone in the world. And he thinks the story of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed just doesn't add up, and he explains why in great detail. "Was Mohammed killed, captured earlier, or still free? Was he protected by the ISI and only recently turned in by them as part of some deal? It is impossible to say, because everything is hidden behind the veil of 'national security' and the Bush Administration has shown that it cannot be trusted, and needless to say, neither can the Pakistani government. But the notion that Mohammed was captured on March 1, in part by ISI agents, and then turned over to the US where he might expose the ISI's role in terror acts from Operation Bojinka to 9/11 and more, is the most implausible possibility of them all."

Many Questions Surround 9/11 Hijackers
03-Mar-03
September 11 Exposes

Nico Haupt writes, "The connections between all hijackers, the FBI informants and the CIA (Norman, Fort Lee, Vienna etc...) seem to be triple-proved. 15 hijackers had their visas approved from the CIA connected consolate in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia. 8 hijackers trained at CIA connected flight schools Almost all 19 hijackers are linked to a visit of a military flight school... Why did Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, TX allow three Muslim students to train at their base: Saeed Al-Ghamdi, Ahmed Al-Ghamdi and an unrelated suspect, Fayez Ahmed? More bizarre, Fayez Ahmed had the same address in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as Ahmed Al-Ghamdi. What happened to Hadi Omar Jr, an antiques peddler in Fort Smith/Florida, who was detained after using the same Internet log-on as Mohammed Atta? Or Anand Shah from India, who made flight reservations for himself and Atta? More bizarre, the story on Atta's last day changed, when it came out, that the Bukharis from an early FBI-suspect list were still alive."

The Crimes of 9/11 - Part 3
02-Mar-03
September 11 Exposes

Mark Levey writes, "The recently-concluded Congressional Joint 9/11 Inquiry confirmed that ranking Bush... officials negligently mishandled counterterrorism operations, misconduct which makes them liable to criminal prosecution and huge civil damages. Within days of the crime, the White House was hard at work obstructing an independent commission of inquiry, and drafting legislation which would indemnify federal agents for offenses that contributed to the loss of 3,000 innocent lives on September 11, 2001. A draft of the so-called 'Patriot II Act' ... shows Bush is now trying to legalize previously unlawful official acts, in particular, a domestic surveillance operation of al-Qaeda hijackers conducted without warrants, and other crimes of negligent homicide and obstruction of justice that flowed from that misguided operation. Taken together, the intelligence crimes of 9/11 and the legal cover-up that followed are an enormous and growing scandal just waiting to explode."

In 2001, Why Did Bush Block All Investigations into Saudi-Osama Ties?
28-Feb-03
September 11 Exposes

Greg Palast writes, "According to a top-level CIA operative... after Bush took office, he said, 'there was a major policy shift' at the National Security Agency. Investigators were ordered to 'back off' from any inquiries into Saudi Arabian financing of terror networks, especially if they touched on Saudi royals and their retainers. That put the bin Ladens, a family worth a reported $12 billion and a virtual arm of the Saudi royal household, off-limits for investigation. Osama was the exception; he remained a wanted man, but agents could not look too closely at how he filled his piggy bank. The key rule of any investigation, 'follow the money,' was now violated, and investigations - at least before 9/11 - began to die... What made Bush take particular care to protect the Saudis, even to the point of stymying his own intelligence agencies? The answers kept coming back: 'Carlyle' and 'Arbusto.' While some people have guardian angels, Bush seems to have guardian sheiks."

Sept. 11's Smoking Gun: The Many Faces of Saeed Sheikh
27-Feb-03
September 11 Exposes

In this recently updated version of "The many faces of Saeed Sheikh", independent researcher Paul Thompson provides additional evidence of the strong ties existing between certain elements in the U.S. government, the Pakistani intelligence agency, and the fundamentalist militants who perpetrated the attacks of 9/11. The essay raises serious questions about state complicity and foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks - questions that both U.S. authorities and the mainstream media seem uninterested in answering.

Perle Says Bush Regime was Criminally Negligent in Permitting 9-11 Attack to Occur
24-Feb-03
September 11 Exposes

This was an astonishing exchange on Meet the Press: "RICHARD PERLE: The lesson of September 11 was that you shouldn't have been voting on September 12 because we should have acted against al-Qaeda before that. We saw the camps. We heard the communications. We knew that they were planning additional acts of terror as they had undertaken previous acts of terror. And we waited. We failed to take action in a timely manner... REP. KUCINICH: Are you saying that to be critical of President Bush? Is that what you're saying? MR. PERLE: I'm critical of the failure to recognize the threat that Osama bin Laden posed before- everything we did after September 11 could have been done before September 11." Perle's argument is conclusive proof that the Bush administration - in which he plays a key role - was CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT in failing to take action to prevent the 9-11 attack. It's time for the families of the 9-11 victims to consider a negligence lawsuit against George W. Bush.

Mohamed Atta and Flight School Owner Rudi Dekkers 'Were Friends'
18-Feb-03
September 11 Exposes

MadCowMorningNews reports, "Mohamed Atta was twice seen with flight school owner Rudi Dekkers in Venice, FL. during the final month before he crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, directly contradicting Dekker's account of his relationship with the terrorist ringleader. Atta took numerous cab rides in August 2001 to and from Huffman Aviation as well as other locations in Venice, according to Venice Yellow Cab employees interviewed by the FBI three days after the attack. In an exclusive interview with the MadCowMorningNews one Yellow Cab driver stated that on two of these occasions Atta was accompanied by Rudi Dekkers. 'They knew each other well - really well - they were friends,' said long-time Venice resident and Yellow Cab driver Bob Simpson. 'They were going to a nightclub in Sarasota, talking and very sociable with each other. He and Atta were friends, you could tell.'"

Was Ramzi bin al-Shibh the Mastermind of the 9-11 Attack?
10-Feb-03
September 11 Exposes

Until now, Mohamed Atta has been seen as the mastermind of the 9-11 attack. Atta piloted AA Flight 11 into the WTC at 8:46 a.m. - the first plane to crash. But the NY Times now says Ramzi bin al-Shibh, a 29-year-old Yemini, was the mastermind of the attack. al-Shibh tried to get into the US to go to flight school, but some competent State Dept. officials denied him visas. Instead he fled Germany, and was captured on 9-11-02 in Pakistan. He is "now in American custody at an undisclosed location" - one that no doubt makes the Hanoi Hilton look like the Waldorf-Astoria.

They Tried To Warn Us: Foreign Intelligence Warnings Before 9-11
03-Feb-03
September 11 Exposes

Paul Thompson writes, "The Congressional Joint Inquiry into 9-11 is now finished, but the findings that have been released fail to mention any warnings from foreign governments. The US mainstream media also has paid little attention to warnings from foreign governments. Yet there were so many warnings - from both our friends and enemies alike - often specifically suggesting the targets or method of attack. In at least one case, the warnings actually mentioned hijackers by name. This type of communication between intelligence agencies normally occurs in secret, so one can only wonder what additional warnings or details were provided to us that have never been made public. No US publication has ever put all the various foreign government warnings in one place; even Internet skeptics of Bush have paid scant attention to this issue. Here, for the first time, is such a list of warnings."

Media Refuses to Investigate 9-11 Commission Chair Tom Kean's Ties to Terrorism
02-Feb-03
September 11 Exposes

Matthew Callan writes, "Two of Kean's Hess-Delta business partners - Mohammed Hussein al Amoudi and Khalid bin Mahfouz - have been under investigation as far back as 1999 for suspected ties to Al Qaeda... Both men are accused by name in a $1 trillion lawsuit, filed on behalf of families of the victims of September 11, as alleged financiers of Al Qaeda.... An audit of bin Mahfouz's National Commerce Bank discovered that $2 billion dollars had gone missing, and US and Saudi officials feared it was funneled to Al Qaeda via numerous charity fronts. One of the 'charities' to which bin Mahfouz may have 'contributed' heavily, the Advice and Reformation Committee, was founded by Osama bin Laden himself and financed the 1998 African embassy bombings. US officials also suspect bin Mahfouz to be financially linked to the USS Cole attack, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and numerous failed terrorist actions...Bin Mahfouz also happens to be Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law."

Security, Secrecy and a Bush Brother named Marvin
12-Jan-03
September 11 Exposes

Margie Burns writes, "A company that provided security at the World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport and United Airlines between 1995 and 2001 was backed by a private Kuwaiti-American investment firm whose records were not open to full public disclosure, with ties to the Bush family. Marvin P. Bush, a younger brother of George W. Bush, was a principal in the company from 1993 to 2000... But White House responses to 9/11 have not publicly disclosed the company's part in providing security to any of the named facilities... The company had an ongoing contract to handle security at the World Trade Center 'up to the day the buildings fell down.' Yet instead of being investigated, the company and companies involved with it have benefited from legislation pushed by the Bush White House... Stratesec, its backer KuwAm, and their corporate officers stand to benefit from limitations on liability and national-security protections from investigation provided in bills since 9/11."

Join the '9/11 Truth Alliance'
09-Jan-03
September 11 Exposes

9/11 Truth Alliance writes, "While we proceed with the foundation - preliminary hearings in a handful of cities- we also intend to place a wide variety of resources and techniques at your disposal, that you may organize your own hearings in your own local cities, towns, districts in concert with all others, along a common front. We invite your participation at any and all levels -from the grassroots researcher, organizer, to those who are now developing a common, internet database by which all our findings may be collated into a single, organized resource for all to add to and use. For a citizens' investigation to be credible, we must raise our criteria for evidence and findings to the very highest level, (citation of sources, clear logic, lucid language, honorable commissioners, etc.). At the same time, our emphasis on grassroots participation welcomes a wide variety of contributions... from expert testimony to inspired theatre, from casual get-togethers to full scale conferences."

'9/11 Cover-Up' Demands Investigation
08-Jan-03
September 11 Exposes

"The purpose of the 9/11 Cover-Up is to show that the actions of the U.S. Government before, during, and after 9/11/01, should be investigated by a nonpartisan independent commission. Such a commission should investigate three subjects pertaining to the 9/11 attacks: 1. Insider trading and oil pipelines 2. Failure of air defenses on 9/11 3. The cover-up of government foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks. The 9/11 Cover-Up Web site contains sections corresponding to these three possible subjects of investigation." Check it out!

Help Form a Truth Commission to Fully and Honestly Investigate 9/11!
06-Jan-03
September 11 Exposes

Don't trust George W. and his "official" investigation of 9/11?? We'll investigate 9/11 ourselves! ACTIVISTS ARE NEEDED!! To help build a truly independent grassroots 'shadow' Truth Commission to keep the official Commission in check and ensure that the 9/11 victims' families of September 11 get their wish of a genuine investigation into the major unanswered questions of 9/11. Please consider helping! Activists are needed in many different committees, from organizing to media to outreach, etc. WE CAN MAKE HISTORY WITH THIS. YOU are invited to join a listserv that is being used to facilitate communication amongst people who are working for the formation of a truly independent 9/11 investigation Commission to shadow the official government Commission. To join just send a message to 911alive-subscribe@lists.riseup.net . Ten committees have been formed to make this project a reality, and they all need help!

Top Ten Conspiracy Theories of 2002
06-Jan-03
September 11 Exposes

Mike Ward writes for Pop Matters: "For about thirty minutes after his chief of staff told him that America was under attack, George W. Bush continued to sit in an elementary school classroom listening to a second-grader tell a story about a pet goat. He did a marvelous job of looking completely unsurprised. Meanwhile, four hijacked jumbo jets were able to fly off-course across several states without encountering any opposition from the most powerful and responsive air force in the world... Following are the ten most alarming theories about September 11, the 'war on terror,' and the future of the world. Feel free to accept them as gospel, study them as symptoms of a traumatized culture, or scoff at them as anti-American propaganda: I'm only the messenger. Personally, though, at this point the only person I hold above suspicion in the matter of September 11 is that poor kid with the goat."

Senator Bob Graham (D-FL) Drops a Bombshell: Foreign GOVERNMENTS Helped 9-11 Terrorists
26-Dec-02
September 11 Exposes

On PBS NewsHour (12-11-02), Senator Bob Graham (D-FL), the Democratic chairman of the joint Senate and House Intelligence Committees investigating 9-11 said, "I was surprised at the evidence that there were foreign GOVERNMENTS involved in facilitating the activities of at least some of the terrorists in the United States." Graham very pointedly did NOT mention Iraq, and used the plural. So who really attacked the U.S. on 9-11? If one of the best-informed and most credible government sources has made this statement, why has the media not picked up on this? Graham added: 'It will become public at some point when it's turned over to the archives, but that's 20 or 30 years from now. And, we need to have this information now because it's relevant to the threat that the people of the United States are facing today." We demand the truth about 9-11!

GOP Senators Blame Colin Powell for 9-11
23-Dec-02
September 11 Exposes

AP reports, "Sens. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Pat Roberts (R-KS) said in a report that 'the answer to the question - could 9/11 have been prevented - is yes, if State Department personnel [under Secretary of State Colin Powell] had merely followed the law and not granted non-immigrant visas to 15 of the 19 hijackers in Saudi Arabia.' If U.S. laws had been followed, 'most of the hijackers would not have been able to obtain visas and 9/11 would not have happened,' they said. They said the hijackers should have been denied visas as single young men with no visible means of support... The criticism by Kyl and Roberts was among the most blunt in tying the issuance of the visas to the failure to stop the attacks... State Department officials have said previously they had no reason to believe the men were terrorists and that their visa policies have been improved since the attacks. Roberts and Kyl are members of the Senate Intelligence Committee."

FBI Whistleblowers Blame FBI's International Terrorism Unit for 9-11 Failure
23-Dec-02
September 11 Exposes

ABC News reports, "Two veteran FBI investigators say they were ordered to stop investigations into a suspected terror cell linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network and the Sept. 11 attacks. In a dramatic interview with ABCNEWS, FBI special agents and partners Robert Wright and John Vincent say they were called off criminal investigations of suspected terrorists tied to the deadly bombings of two US embassies in Africa. US officials say al Qaeda was responsible for the embassy attacks and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the US. 'September the 11th is a direct result of the incompetence of the FBI's International Terrorism Unit. No doubt about that. Absolutely no doubt about that,' Wright said. 'You can't know the things I know and not go public.'" When will former FBI director Louis Freeh and his top bureaucrats be held accountable for their pre-911 failures? Are Republicans protecting them because they ignored terrorism to focus on investigating and destroying Bill Clinton?

Terror Flight School Owner Implicated in 'Protected' Drug Trafficking Ring -- Mohamed Atta Snorted Coke and Got Refills at the CIA Venice Flight School
24-Nov-02
September 11 Exposes

"Mounting evidence in the investigation into the terror flight schools in Venice FL is raising questions of whether an officially-sanctioned drug trafficking operation there discouraged the FBI from taking action against the terrorists that might have averted the World Trade Center disaster. The dark specter of the drug trade is throwing an increasingly long shadow across the terrorist conspiracy--Mohamed Atta and his close associates used cocaine...when their supplies ran low they would procure more from a flight school at the Venice Airport...A more important question is whether--were it not for the drug trafficking--the World Trade Center attack could have been prevented [by arresting known terrorist Mohamed Atta. The evidence currently being thwarted by the Bush Administration] indicates the CIA was not only aware of the thousands of Arab student pilots who began pouring into the U.S. to attend flight training beginning in 1999, but was in truth RUNNING the operation."

All of the Crucial 9-11 Unanswered Questions - All on One Brilliant Page
21-Nov-02
September 11 Exposes

Researcher Paul Thompson has done an astonishing job of compiling the most important 9-11 revelations. Here's one typical gem: "At the time of the 9/11 attacks, and at least until the second crash into the WTC, Pakistani ISI Director General Ahmed is meeting in Washington, DC, with the chairmen of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Senator Bob Graham and Representative Porter Goss (who is also a former CIA clandestine operations agent). Both later head the joint House-Senate investigation into the 9/11 attacks, and claim there is no 9/11 "smoking gun." Also present are Senator John Kyl and the Pakistani ambassador to the US, Maleeha Lodhi. All of the people named in this meeting also met in Pakistan a few weeks earlier. As previously mentioned, General Ahmed ordered $100,000 sent to hijacker Mohamed Atta in 2000. The New York Times says the terrorist threat from bin Laden is being discussed in the meeting when the 9/11 attacks begin." Read every word - and demand the truth!

Mohamed Atta's Islamic Terrorists Used Cocaine - from Flight School
14-Nov-02
September 11 Exposes

Mad Cow Morning News writes, "Mounting evidence in the investigation into the terror flight schools in Venice FL is raising questions of whether an officially-sanctioned drug trafficking operation there discouraged the FBI from taking action against the terrorists that might have averted the World Trade Center disaster. The dark specter of the drug trade is throwing an increasingly long shadow across the terrorist conspiracy's activities in Venice, where Mohamed Atta and his close associates, many of whom were German, frequently used cocaine. According to a credible eyewitness, when their supplies ran low they would procure more from a flight school at the Venice Airport. In an exclusive 3-hour videotaped interview at a secret location, 21-year old Amanda Keller, Mohamed Atta's former live-in girlfriend, revealed that supposed 'Islamic fundamentalist' Mohamed Atta and his closest associates in Venice were habitual cocaine users."

Connecting the 9-11 Terrorist Dots - Literally
14-Nov-02
September 11 Exposes

Valdis Krebs writes, "We were all shocked by the tragic events of September 11, 2001. In the non-stop stream of news and analysis one phrase was continuously repeated -- 'terrorist network.' Everyone talked about these networks, but no one produced a visual. Being an organizational consultant, I set out to map this network of terrorist cells that had so affected all of our lives. Using public information, from major newspapers on the WWW, my aim was to uncover network structures and patterns that would reveal how terrorists organize their covert activities. In the network map above, the gray lines indicate which hijackers are reported to have interacted with whom. A thicker line indicates a stronger tie between two nodes." This is an awesome tool for 9-11 researchers!

How U.S. Counterterrorism Failed on 9/11, and Why the Bush Administration Can't Fix It (Part 2)
12-Nov-02
September 11 Exposes

Mark Levey writes, "The decisions made by the U.S. command authority, irrefutably, were defective if the purpose of American counter-terrorism operations before 9/11 was to protect America from catastrophic attack. If one believes the Administration and its apologists, an incredibly long chain of errors by intelligence middle managers and subordinates in the field resulted in a so-called intelligence failure. As Senator Richard Shelby suggested, 'a failure of great dimension' but lacking any specific motive behind it? What is missing are the details about the defining decisions made at or near the top of the chain of command that allowed the 9/11 hijackers to enter the country in 1999 and 2000 and then proceed apparently unimpeded for many months in completing their mission... The preponderance of the evidence [points to] 3,000 counts of negligent homicide by U.S. officials. It is up to the American people to make up their own minds about assigning guilt and consequences."

How U.S. Counterterrorism Failed on 9/11, and Why the Bush Administration Can't Fix It (Part 1)
12-Nov-02
September 11 Exposes

Mark Levey writes that the 9/11 hijackings were "neither unforeseeable nor unforeseen, which is the overwhelming message of the Congressional Joint Intelligence Committee Staff Statement released on Wednesday, September 18, 2002. Shocking testimony heard two days later by the panel showed that investigators in the FBI office in New York, then the Bureau's antiterrorism center, received orders from Washington on August 29, 2001 to abort a criminal probe of the hijackers after NY agents learned that one of the terrorist suspects - whose identity and intentions had been known to the CIA for 18 months - had reentered the US on July 4. Contrary to repeated Bush Administration claims since September 11, 2001, US intelligence had specific, credible and corroborated forewarning that terrorists planned to use airliners to attack New York and Washington, DC area targets. The 9/11 mode of terrorist attack had, in fact, been known of and planned for by American intelligence years in advance."

Owner Of 9/11 Flight School Had Jet Seized For Heroin Trafficking - But Jeb Bush And Katherine Harris STILL Gave Him Celebrity Endorsements
03-Nov-02
September 11 Exposes

"A Learjet belonging to the true owner of the Venice flight school that trained both terrorist pilots who flew into the World Trade Center was seized with more than 30 pounds of heroin onboard by Federal Agents in July of 2000 at the Orlando Executive Airport. Authorities at the time called it the biggest seizure of heroin ever found in central Florida. The seized plane belonged to [the secret owner of Huffman Aviation, Wallace Hilliard. At the same time these planes were flying heroin, Hilliard's charter service was also being used at virtually no cost by Jeb Bush. Even stranger, both Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris were providing celebrity endorsements to Hilliard's operation well after the company's Lear jet] had been busted by DEA agents armed with machine guns... One would think a sitting Governor seems well-advised to steer well clear of anything to do with heroin trafficking. Yet Governor Jeb Bush honored Hilliard's operation... with a personal visit, even posing for photos."

Gore Vidal Claims the 'Bush Junta' was Complicit in 9/11
27-Oct-02
September 11 Exposes

The Guardian writes, "America's most controversial writer Gore Vidal has launched the most scathing attack to date on George W Bush's Presidency, calling for an investigation into the events of 9/11 to discover whether the Bush administration deliberately chose not to act on warnings of Al-Qaeda's plans...Vidal's highly controversial 7000 word polemic titled 'The Enemy Within' - published in the print edition of The Observer today - argues that what he calls a 'Bush junta' used the terrorist attacks as a pretext to enact a pre-existing agenda to invade Afghanistan and crack down on civil liberties at home...Vidal argues that the real motive for the Afghanistan war was to control the gateway to Eurasia and Central Asia's energy riches."

Is Jeb Bush Involved in The 9/11 Cover-Up? Why Did He Fly with the Evidence the Day after the Attacks?
19-Oct-02
September 11 Exposes

Dan Hopsicker writes: "The airfield where Mohamed Atta and his terrorist cadre learned to fly has a long history of being used as a training base for paramilitary operations by federal authorities. [The Venice airport] has been utilized in covert U.S. operations since the earliest days of the Cold War...The federal activity continues to this day...What they're hiding down in Venice, Florida, is that Mohamed Atta came to be there at the behest of the people responsible for these operations. [According to local law enforcement, who loaded the flight school records on a C130 the day after 9/11, it flew out with Jeb Bush aboard.] The accumulating evidence in Venice of official and so far unacknowledged complicity in the presence in the US of Mohamed Atta and his terrorist cadre is a far more important issue than the proposed focus for the now halted independent 9/11 investigation."

Bush on 911: 'Anyway, It Was An Interesting Day'
08-Oct-02
September 11 Exposes

The old adage "A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words" clearly depicts one of GWB's "interesting days," 911.

Clinton Anti-Terror Experts Blame Louis Freeh for 9-11 Failure
05-Oct-02
September 11 Exposes

CBS reports that Dan Benjamin and Steven Simon "were at the center of America's counter-terrorism team during the Clinton Administration. In their new book, 'The Age of Sacred Terror,' Benjamin and Simon offer a first-ever look at the inner workings of the Clinton war on terrorism: where it succeeded, and why it ultimately failed. They blame not simply the FBI, but particularly former director Louis Freeh... 'I think (Freeh) did scorn the president. He held the president in contempt,' says Simon... 'The FBI was investigating the president for most of the president's term in office. And as a result, the ability to exert pressure on the FBI was very, very limited.'" When will Freeh be held accountable for his role in 9-11?

Frontline Tells John O'Neill's Story - and Indicts Louis Freeh; See It Online
03-Oct-02
September 11 Exposes

PBS' Frontline told John O'Neill's story with passion and insight. O'Neill was a smart and completely dedicated man, who threatened top FBI bureaucrats like Director Louis Freeh and his deputy Tom Pickard. O'Neill was the first to suspect bin Laden's responsibility for the Khobar bombing in Saudi Arabia, the African embassy bombings, and the USS Cole bombing in Yemen. But every step of the way, Louis Freeh tried to thwart O'Neill's investigations. While O'Neill was trying to get bin Laden, Freeh was working with the Republicans to get President Clinton. You can see the program online at the below location.

Alhazmi and Almihdhar: What's the REAL Story?
01-Oct-02
September 11 Exposes

In recent days, Congress has revealed massive intelligence failures related to the tracking of 9/11 hijackers Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar. But we're still not getting the whole story. The story of Alhazmi and Almihdhar consists of so many strange and contradictory components that when strung together, demonstrate repeated cases of gross government incompetence. Why did the government not prevent them from entering the country despite several opportunities? Why do neighbors claim the two men had frequent, brief limousine rides in the middle of the night? How can evidence of the two being at two different places at once be explained? Why have visits by head hijacker Mohamed Atta been denied by all but their neighbors? Why have many major newspapers suggested that Khalid Almihdhar may still be alive? The case of Alhazmi and Almihdhar has been a tremendous embarrassment to the Bush Administration - and it could prove even more embarrassing if the media starts asking real questions.

FBI Missed Mohamed Atta's Arrival by 3 Months
19-Sep-02
September 11 Exposes

MadCowMorningNews reports, "In the middle of March of the year 2000 Amanda Keller rented an apartment at the Sandpiper Apartments across the street from the Venice Airport. Two weeks later terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta moved in with her, beginning a bumpy relationship which came to a stormy end six weeks later with Amanda dumping his two suitcases and one gym bag from her second floor balcony down onto the building's asphalt parking lot, where Atta stood waiting for a cab to take him away. This squalid little domestic spat would be of no more importance than a bad episode of 'Cops' except [that] this brief romance or assignation between 'terrorist ringleader' Atta and 'out-call lingerie model' Keller took place a full three months before the FBI says Atta first arrived in the U.S... Is this just another example of sloppy investigative technique by the much-maligned FBI? Or is there, instead, some hidden can of worms here that federal officials don't want opened?"

PBS Frontline Will Tell John O'Neill's Story on October 3
19-Sep-02
September 11 Exposes

On October 3, PBS' Frontline will broadcast "The Man Who Knew," which chronicles John O'Neill's "increasing frustration with Washington's lax attitude toward the threat posed by bin Laden, including the possibility that Al Qaeda sleeper cells were already operating within the United States. 'What John O'Neill was trying to do was get a momentum going in the FBI to look seriously for those cells--to look for the connections which frankly most FBI offices were not doing,' [Terrorism czar Richard] Clarke says. 'It was not one of the priorities in most FBI field offices.' By the summer of 2001, O'Neill had been so marginalized by FBI officials that key clues of the looming September 11 plot apparently were never passed on to him. His 25-year career with the FBI would come to an end following bureau investigations." Which FBI bureaucrats took John O'Neill off the case? We want names - and rolling heads!

On the Morning of 9-11, NORAD Was 'Fully Staffed' for 'Vigilant Guardian' Exercise
11-Sep-02
September 11 Exposes

Aviation Week reports, "At 8:40 a.m. EDT, Tech. Sgt. Jeremy W. Powell of North American Aerospace Defense Command's (Norad) Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) in Rome, N.Y., took the first call from Boston Center. He notified NEADS commander Col. Robert K. Marr, Jr., of a possible hijacked airliner, American Airlines Flight 11. 'Part of the exercise?' the colonel wondered. No; this is a real-world event, he was told. Several days into a semiannual exercise known as Vigilant Guardian, NEADS was fully staffed, its key officers and enlisted supervisors already manning the operations center 'battle cab.'" Fighter jets that were already in the air could have protected the Pentagon - and possibly the WTC. We know three F-16's were over North Carolina, only 10 minutes from DC. Were they deployed to protect Washington? Were there other jets available?

QUESTIONABLE POST: German, Russian and French Governments Warned Bush of Exact Time, Date, Place of 911 Attacks
11-Sep-02
September 11 Exposes

"On Monday 6, August, 2001, at 17:50, [German] Ambassador Ischinger personally notified the President of the United States that information developed…indicated that an attack by a radical Arab group partially based in Germany was to occur on 10-11 September, 2001.... In mid-August 2001, President of the Russian Federation Putin ordered that the American authorities be warned of pending attacks on government buildings inside the United States. This warning was conveyed to the US Ambassador in Moscow and via the Russian Ambassadors office directly to the US President. On August 20, the Government of France, through the American Embassy in Paris and their Embassy in Washington, issued a more specific warning. This warning specified the exact date, time and places of the attacks."

Secret Service Is Responsible for Failure to Prevent Flight 77's Crash into the Pentagon
10-Sep-02
September 11 Exposes

Aviation Week reports that the F-16's closest to Washington DC and the Pentagon - the 121st Fighter Squadron at Andrews AFB, 10 miles from DC - were under the command of the Secret Service, not NORAD. When the hijackings began, "Three F-16s were flying an air-to-ground training mission on a range in North Carolina, 180 naut. mi. away." Since F-16's can fly up to 1800 MPH, they were only 6 minutes from DC. The Secret Service must have known about the hijackings shortly afer flight controllers informed the FAA - so why were those 3 F-16's not immediately sent to protect Washington? We demand a Blue Ribbon Commission!

9-11 Lawsuit Exposes Bush's Ties to Khalid bin Mahfouz, Saudi finance and Terrorism in America
10-Sep-02
September 11 Exposes

Tom Flocco writes, "Nine hundred families of September 11 victims recently filed a trillion-dollar lawsuit against members of the royal Saudi family, businessmen worth a combined $5 billion, and banks and charities. The lawsuit accuses them of financing Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban government. And one of the defendants - Saudi Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz -- will likely draw increasing attention in coming months due to his past business relationships with President George W. Bush - the sweetheart deals he made during the elder Bush's presidency."

FBI Informant Shared His Home with 9-11 Hijackers Almihdhar and Alhazmi
09-Sep-02
September 11 Exposes

Newsweek's Michael Isikoff reports, "FBI director Bob Mueller insisted there was nothing the bureau could have done to penetrate the 9-11 plot... [But] NEWSWEEK has learned that one of the bureau's informants had a close relationship with two of the hijackers: he was their roommate... [who] regularly prayed with them and even helped one open a bank account. He was also, sources tell NEWSWEEK, a 'tested' undercover 'asset' who had been working closely with the FBI office in San Diego on terrorism cases related to Hamas. A senior law-enforcement official told NEWSWEEK the informant never provided the bureau with the names of his two houseguests from Saudi Arabia... The belated discovery has unsettled some members of the joint House and Senate intelligence committees investigating the 9-11 attacks... Support for... a special blue-ribbon investigative panel... is increasing. Only then, some members say, will the public learn whether more 9-11 secrets are buried in the government's files."

US Intelligence Agencies Have Shared Information Since 1999
08-Sep-02
September 11 Exposes

In 1999, Fredrick Thomas Martin wrote "Top Secret Intranet - How U.S. Intelligence Built INTELINK - The World's Largest, Most Secure Network." "The U.S. intelligence community has built one awesome intranet. 'Intelink' integrates and disseminates virtually every piece of information that goes into intelligence gathering, reporting, and analysis at the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, FBI, and eight other top secret agencies to their 'customers' -- from the White House to the Warfighter." So why do the bureaucrats insist the FBI and CIA were unable to share information? We demand a Blue Ribbon Investigation!

9-11 Blockbuster - Taliban Foreign Minister Warned Team Bush About Al Qaeda Attack on US in July
07-Sep-02
September 11 Exposes

"An aide to the former Taleban foreign minister, Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil was sent to warn American diplomats and the UN that Osama bin Laden was due to launch a huge attack on American soil," says a 9/7/02 BBC report. The warnings to the American consulate in Pakistan and the UN in July - when CIA director George Tenet and NSA terror czar Richard Clarke were franctic about an imminent attack - went unheeded. "The aide said he had urged the Americans to launch a military campaign against al-Qaeda but was told that this was politically impossible." What was Team Bush's excuse? "When people keep saying the sky's going to fall in, and it doesn't, a kind of 'warning fatigue' sets in." After only 7 months on the job, Bushcroft were simply too "fatigued" to deal with dozens of warnings about a terrorist attack and the steps needed to defend America? Impeach Bush Now!

Timeline to Understanding 911 and the Anthrax Attacks
05-Sep-02
September 11 Exposes

Paul Thompson writes: "This week's outline is a network of extremely detailed and well-organized timelines beginning with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and running to the present. The timelines depict the chronologies of several different concurrent themes related to the terrorist attacks of 9-11 and the subsequent 'war on terrorism' including the development of Central Asian oil, the anthrax attacks, preludes to war in Afghanistan, warnings of an imminent terrorist attack, and more. There is also a timeline that provides a very detailed account of the events of September 11 as well as separate timelines for each of the hijacked flights." It's an amazing compendium of 911 little known facts, such as: "How often were jet fighters scrambled over US air space between 9/11 2000 and June 2001, the year BEFORE 9/11 2001?" 67 times…That's right, 67 times, the US scrambled fighter jets over US air space to address perceived threats.

Mohamed Atta's American Girlfriend is Missing
04-Sep-02
September 11 Exposes

Daniel Hopsicker reports, "At least four months before the FBI says he first arrived in this country, terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta was living with (and physically abusing) an American girlfriend at an apartment they shared across from the Venice Airport. According to numerous eyewitnesses, including their next door neighbor and the apartment manager, Atta lived with a girl named Amanda Keller during March and early April of 2000, four months before the FBI says he first entered the U.S... While Amanda Keller's present whereabouts are a mystery, what is clear is that the FBI has been inordinately eager to suppress [her] story … so eager that agents from the Bureau have engaged in a regular and systematic pattern of intimidation of eyewitnesses to the affair... Last Sunday's AP headline about the approaching 1-year anniversary of the 9/11 attack read: 'A year later, the 19 hijackers are still a tangle of mystery and contradiction.' Maybe now we're learning why."

The Amazing 9-11 Timeline from UnansweredQuestions.org
03-Sep-02
September 11 Exposes

If you want to know the truth about 9-11, start here. Paul Thompson has compiled an amazing 9-11 timeline, drawing from every conceivable source. The timeline has 5 sections: 1979-2000... Jan. 2001-9/11... Day of 9/11.. 9/11-Dec. 2001... Jan. 2002-present. And it goes into depth on many key issues: Central Asian oil, Enron and the Afghanistan pipelines... Information that should have shown what kind of attack al-Qaeda would make... US preparing for a war with Afghanistan before 9/11, tightening control of Central Asia since... Incompetence, bad luck, and/or obstruction of justice... Suggestions of advanced knowledge that an attack would take place on 9/11... Cover-up, lies, contradictions and obscure facts... Israeli "art student" spy ring, Israeli foreknowledge evidence... Anthrax attacks and microbiologist deaths... Pakistani ISI and/or opium drug connections... Bin Laden family, Saudi Arabia corruption and support of terrorists, connections to Bush. Check it out!

Pentagon Claims It Had Only 4 Armed Fighter Jets in the Northeast on 9-11, But At Least 12 Jets Were Scrambled
02-Sep-02
September 11 Exposes

The Pentagon spends nearly $400 BILLION each year to defend the US, and our Air Force is the most powerful in the world. But on 9-11-01, the Pentagon says it "had only four armed fighter jets available in ... the Northeast Air Defense Sector, stretching from Minnesota to Maine to Virginia," which includes the highest-value targets in the US - New York City and Washington DC. But this claim is contradicted by the number of fighter jets that were scrambled on 9-11 - usually in pairs - from Cape Cod MA, Langley VA, Washington DC, Toledo OH, Detroit MI, and Burlington VT. That's at least 12 fighters, not 4. Is Air Force Col. Robert Marr Jr. lying about the Pentagon's fighter jet capability on 9-11? We demand a Blue Ribbon investigation of 9-11!

Michael Ruppert Will Answer the Unanswered Questions about 9-11
01-Sep-02
September 11 Exposes

In the media frenzy leading to 9-11, Americans will learn everything - except why the Bush administration failed to stop 9-11 despite a zillion warnings. Those interested in the "unanswered questions" about 9-11 can hear Michael Ruppert give his 2 1/2 hour analysis in New York City (9-7), Wayne NJ (9-8), New Haven CT (9-24), Middletown CT (9-26), San Francisco CA (10-4), Sebastopol CA (10-6). Topics include the coming global oil crisis as a motivator for 9-11; pipeline development history before and after 9-11; U.S. foreknowledge of the attacks; Bush's awareness of airliners as weapons; CIA's knowledge of a $100,000 wire transfer to Mohammed Atta; the role of the Afghan drug trade; insider trading before the attacks; the assault on Constitutional freedoms and Homeland Security; the inevitable Mid East war that might lead to Islamic genocide; Israel; Saudi Arabia; the roles of Russia and China in the ultimate end game for control of the world's dwindling energy resources AND MUCH MORE

Pentagon Disinformation Office Invents New Cover Story for Bush's Shootdown of Flight 93
31-Aug-02
September 11 Exposes

A year after 9-11-01, the Pentagon has concocted a new story to hide the truth - that Bush ordered the shootdown of Flight 93, and the Pentagon carried out Bush's order, thus killing the Heroes. The Pentagon's "scoop" to ABC News says, "two F-16's that happened to be on a training mission near Detroit... were sent to intercept the United flight." But the Pentagon says the planes "don't have any weapons on board they can use," so their choices were to fly alongside Flight 93's cockpit and convince the pilots to land - or to ram Flight 93. The Pentagon says "the F-16 pilots never had to make that suicidal decision, since Flight 93 crashed before the fighter jets were able to close in on it." Sorry guys, but that still doesn't explain the hole in Flight 93 that scattered debris 8 miles from the crash on a windless day (www.flight93crash.com) - or why the plane crashed, since the Heroes never entered the cockpit. We demand the government's evidence - including the flight data recorder!

Why Did the Justice Dept. Block Coleen Rowley's Request for a Warrant to Investigate Moussaoui?
29-Aug-02
September 11 Exposes

Skip Fox writes, "Judge Leonie Brinkeman in the Moussaoui trial is incredulous that the FBI claims it did not find and catalogue Moussaoui's e-mail account after obtaining a FISA warrant post-9/11 (http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGATSI5EF5D.html). The logical explanation is that the FBI did find and secure this evidence after 9/11 but the evidence was such that when the public sees it, the public will know that the FBI could probably have prevented 9/11 had they obtained a FISA warrant some three weeks prior to 9/11 when Rowley (field agent) requested it. And THAT, of course, will put investigators and reporters back on the trail, asking why SO MANY (400-700) less FISA warrants were granted during the first 7 months of Ashcroft's tenure than for a comparable period under Reno. It was more than a single Supervisory Special Agent that derailed this many requests. The data suggest that a directive was issued by the DoJ to impede the processing of FISA requests."

Did F-16's from Andrews AFB Shoot Down Flight 93?
27-Aug-02
September 11 Exposes

Until recently, speculation about the home base of the fighter jets that probably shot down Flight 93 has centered on the 180th Fighter Wing based in Toledo Ohio. Now there is evidence suggesting F-16's from the 113th Fighter Squadron based at Andrews AFB near Washington DC. On July 31, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz thanked members of the 113th. "Minutes after [Flight 77] struck the Pentagon on Sept. 11, the squadron had planes in the air looking for a second jetliner [Flight 93] that ultimately crashed in Pennsylvania." The 113th was in the air at 9:35 a.m., and had plenty of time to reach Flight 93 and shoot it down at 10:06 a.m. Of course, this raises one of the most important Unanswered Questions - why didn't NORAD scramble the F-16's from Andrews quickly enough to protect the Pentagon - one of the most heavily defended locations in the world?

One Day After Democrats.com Revelation, CIA Admits Airline Crash Drill
22-Aug-02
September 11 Exposes

On 8-20-02, Democrats.com revealed that the CIA held a drill on 9-11-01 simulating an attack on a CIA building by an airplane. On 8-21-02, the CIA admitted the exercise was planned at the National Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly VA, four miles from Washington Dulles airport. The NRO operates our massively expensive spy satellite network. The article does NOT mention that the Pentagon conducted a similar drill in October 2000 (http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=7382), a story that has NEVER appeared in the corporate media. Interestingly, "After the Sept. 11 attacks, most of the 3,000 people who work at agency headquarters were sent home" - in the middle of a terrorist attack, when one would think it MOST important to have full intelligence collection from around the world. Which raises the question: was the CIA asleep at the wheel on 9-11, like the Pentagon - which failed to deploy our unmatched air defense systems to defend the World Trade Center and the Pentagon itself?

On 9-11, the CIA Conducted a Drill for an Airplane Hitting a Building
20-Aug-02
September 11 Exposes

One of Bush's biggest lies about 9-11 is that "no one" in the US government ever expected a hijacker to crash a plane into a building. We previously revealed the Pentagon's own preparations for such an attack; now we discover that the CIA was doing something similar. Scroll down to John Fulton's photo: "On the morning of September 11th 2001, Fulton and his team at the CIA were running a pre-planned simulation to explore the emergency response issues that would be created if a plane were to strike a building." Fulton is no low-level flunkie; he now serves as "Chief of the Strategic War Gaming Division of the National Reconnaissance Office, and as a member of U.S. Joint Forces Command's Project Alpha." We demand a Blue-Ribbon Investigation of 9-11!

Flight 93 Bombshell: Sonic Boom Proves Fighter Jet Was Nearby
19-Aug-02
September 11 Exposes

Until now, there were 2 pieces of evidence that a fighter jet was near Flight 93 in Pennsylvania on 9-11. First, an FAA employee in Nashua NH told the Nashua Telegraph that "an F-16 fighter closely pursued" Flight 93. Second, a military aide told Dick Cheney "There is a fighter in the area. Should we engage?" Cheney said yes - 3 times. Now researcher Robb Magley reports that a seismograph only 60 miles from where Flight 93 crashed recorded a sonic boom at 9:22 a.m., no doubt from a military jet. But which base sent the plane? Magley argues it came from the 180th Fighter Wing in Toledo OH, which was definitely scrambled on 9-11 - the Pentagon says they took off at 10:17, but an eyewitness saw them at 9 am. This only deepens the mystery of the December death of the 180th's 44-year-old commander of operations Pete Raffa.

UK Independent Investigates 'The Mystery of Flight 93'
19-Aug-02
September 11 Exposes

On 6-21-02, Democrats.com reported that Flight 93 was probably shot down by a US fighter jet immediately after Bush and Cheney gave the order to do so - 3 times, according to Bob Woodward in the Washington Post. Now the UK Independent's John Carlin is asking the same question. Carlin does not believe the official story out of the Pentagon, especially the 1-ton engine part found 2000 yards from the crash, and the paper debris that was scattered over 8 miles on a nearly windless day. (This debris was seen falling shortly after the plane passed over Indian Lake, BEFORE the plane crashed - evidence of a missile or a bomb.) The Independent also does not believe the "mystery jet" seen by eyewitnesses was a civilian jet. Carlin's article is good, but misses some key evidence, including the Bush-Cheney orders and the recovered - but undisclosed - flight DATA recorder, which would explain the cause of the crash. When will the US media stop creating myths and start investigating the truth?

Salon Challenges 'Carpet of Bombs' Ultimatum Theory for 9-11 Attack
16-Aug-02
September 11 Exposes

Salon's Damien Cave interviewed the American diplomats who allegedly threatened the Taliban in the summer of 2001 with a "carpet of bombs" if they did not deliver Osama Bin Laden - and let Unocal build its pipeline. The Americans say they didn't really make the threat, but Pakistani diplomat Nafis Naik still insists they did. Cave suggests Naik is lying - but did Naik (mistakenly?) convey threats that provoked 9-11? Cave doesn't ask. And what about Bush's ambassador to Pakistan, Christina Rocca, who won't return Cave's calls. Did Rocca give the Taliban a real ultimatum - or send mixed signals that started a war, like the Gulf War's April Glaspie? And what was Pakistani intelligence (ISI) chief Lt. Gen. Mehmood Ahmed doing with his close friend Ahmad Omar Sheikh, who wired $100,000 to 9-11 mastermind Mohamed Atta? And what was Gen. Ahmed doing in Washington on 9-11? Hey Damien, your research has just begun. Find the truth about pre-9-11 diplomacy - and we'll get you a Pulitzer!

In April 2001, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Met Secretly with the Taliban
12-Aug-02
September 11 Exposes

What role did Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) play in the events leading up to Osama Bin Laden's attack on the US on 9-11? That's one more unanswered question that needs to be asked about 9-11. According to Rohrabacher's Democratic challenger, Gerrie Schipske, Rohrabacher "conducted secret and illegal negotiations with the Taliban in April 2001 while on a trip paid for by Islamic and Egyptian support organizations... Rohrabacher traveled to Qatar and conducted secret, unauthorized negotiations with Osama Bin Laden's protege -- Taliban Foreign Minister Walid Ahmad Mutawakel in April 2001." "Why was Rohrabacher secretly negotiating with the Taliban?" asks Schipske. "If he had no authority to make a deal with the Taliban, then his negotiations were not only illegal but dangerous to our country." We demand a criminal investigation!

Bush Should Take a Lie-Detector Test on Sandy Berger's Warnings about Al Qaeda
08-Aug-02
September 11 Exposes

Truthout's William Rivers Pitt writes, "Since we're all about tossing lie detector tests around to establish culpability for security failures, it stands to reason that someone should trundle a polygraph machine up to the front door of the White House and demand access. Condoleeza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and George W. Bush himself should be strapped into it and asked, pointedly, about Sunday's explosive Time Magazine story ('Could 9/11 Have Been Prevented') detailing the complete and utter failure of the Bush administration to address the pressing terrorism threat as outlined by ... outgoing Clinton Administration National Security Advisor Sandy Berger [who] made damned sure that the new Bush administration would have all the information it needed about terrorism before he left... The White House has denied ever being briefed by outgoing Clinton administration officials about terrorism, or their plans to attack it... Someone is lying." And his name is B-U-S-H.

LA Weekly Blockbuster: Why are Bushcroft Gagging FBI Agent Robert Wright's 911 Expose'?
07-Aug-02
September 11 Exposes

Jim Crogan writes, "When FBI Counsel Colleen Rowley dropped her bombshell... detailing how bureau higher-ups thwarted attempts to investigate accused 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui, before the September 11 attacks, she set off a firestorm... Now there's another whistle blower telling a similar pre-9/11 tale. And so far, the FBI has gone to great lengths to silence him. The [LA] Weekly has learned that Chicago-based special agent Robert Wright has accused the agency of shutting down his 1998 criminal probe into alleged terrorist-training camps in Chicago and Kansas City... to recruit and train Palestinian-American youths, who would then slip into Israel. Recruits at these camps reportedly received weapons training and instruction in bomb-making techniques in the early 1990s. The bomb-making curriculum included the sort of explosives later used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. And ... two trainees came from the Oklahoma City area." We demand a Blue Ribbon Commission on 911!

Bush's Top Security Advisers Met Just Twice on Terrorism Before Sept. 11 Attacks
06-Aug-02
September 11 Exposes

AP's Ted Bridis reports, "Bush's national security leadership met formally nearly 100 times in the months prior to the Sept. 11 attacks yet terrorism was the topic during only two of those sessions, officials say. The White House acknowledged the dearth of top-level meetings devoted to the subject of terrorism by the 'principals committee' of the National Security Council, [led by Condi Rice with Rumsfeld, Tenet, Powell, and Richard Myers]... 'What were the principals doing to bring this to the attention of the pResident?' asked P.J. Crowley, council spokesman for the Clinton administration... 'They just didn't seem to get it.' Clinton officials said their council principals met every two to three weeks to discuss terrorist threats after mid-1998... Bush himself said in February 2001 that the nation hadn't done enough to prepare for possible terrorist attacks, and he pledged: 'I will put a high priority on detecting and responding to terrorism on our soil.'" Another Bush lie!

TIME Magazine's 9-11 Blockbuster - Team Bush Ignored Team Clinton's Plan to Attack Al Qaeda Until 9-4-01
05-Aug-02
September 11 Exposes

TIME Magazine is the first US publication to investigate whether 9-11 could have been prevented. According to Time, the Clinton administration's counter-terrorism czar on the National Security Council, Richard Clarke, presented Condi Rice with a plan to attack Al Qaeda during special transition briefings in the first week of January 2001. Condi IGNORED this plan - and urgent warnings from her predecessor, Sandy Berger - until late April 2001. And despite continued warnings from Clarke and CIA director George Tenet (both held over from the Clinton team), Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell and Ashcroft did not review the plan until 9-4-01. Why not? Because terrorism was NOT a priority for Team Bush, which was focused on creating an Oil-ogopoly (Cheney), Military dictatorship (Rumsfeld), and a Christian Theocratic Police State (Ashcroft). Al Gore would have attacked Al Qaeda, not California consumers. Impeach Bush Now!

Flight 93 Book Provides More Evidence that BushCheney Shot Down The Heroes
01-Aug-02
September 11 Exposes

As the first anniversary of 9-11 approaches, all the Unanswered Questions remain unanswered - because BushCheney refuse to tell Americans the truth. One open question is whether BushCheney's order to shoot down Flight 93 - repeated three times - was carried out by the fighter jet that was "in the area" (see http://democrats.com/bushphoto). The truth is on the flight DATA recorder, but BushCheney refuse to release it. But NY Times reporter Jere Longman has written a new book called "Among the Heroes," in which he reconstructs the flight VOICE recorder based on interviews with family members who listened to the tape in April. After documenting the struggle, Longman writes: "A final rushing sound could be heard, and about three minutes after 10, the tape went silent." If a fighter jet shot off an engine and opened a hole in the fuselage, that would explain the "final rushing sound" - as well as the debris scattered over 8 miles on a calm day. We demand a Blue Ribbon Commission for 9-11!

'The War on Freedom' Is an Outstanding 9-11 Expose
30-Jul-02
September 11 Exposes

The recent controversy over "who knew what when on September 11" coincides with the release of a detailed 400-page study, "The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked," by a British political scientist at the Institute for Policy Research & Development (IPRD), documenting that the White House and U.S. intelligence must have known a great deal more than they admit. His startling new book is the first comprehensive presentation of existing and original research on the 9-11 bombing plot. The War on Freedom exposes in remarkable detail the extent to which U.S. government, military and intelligence policy facilitated the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. Normal security procedures were blocked because of the strategic and economic agendas of American decision-makers. Call your Senators (202-224-3121) and tell them to agree to the Roemer Amendment for a Blue Ribbon Investigation of 9-11!

F-16's Scramble to Chase UFO Near Washington - Where Were The F-16's on 9-11?
30-Jul-02
September 11 Exposes

There was lots of news coverage for an alleged UFO sighting near Washington. We'll leave it to others to debate whether it was a real UFO - but we STILL want to know why F-16's were scrambled so slowly over Washington on 9-11, when there was plenty of time to stop Flight 77 from flying slowly from Ohio hitting the Pentagon. Moreover, the UFO-chasers were sent from Andrews Air Force Base - only 10 miles from DC - while the 9-11 F-16's were sent from Langley AFB, 130 miles from DC.

NPR Dances Around Unocal-Bush-911 Connection
25-Jul-02
September 11 Exposes

Ten months after 9-11, National Public Radio's Morning Edition ran its first story about the Unocal pipeline across Afghanistan that may have caused 9-11. Buried in this 5 minute story is one key sentence: "After September 11, numerous books and articles, especially in Europe, suggested that the US went to war in Afghanistan, at least partly to protect its energy interests." The report ignores the fact that the Bush administration REVERSED Clinton's get-Osama policy by immediately resuming negotiations with the Taliban for the pipeline. And it makes no mention of Brisard and Dasquie's "Forbidden Truth," which details Bush's ultimatum to the Taliban to approve the pipeline - which may have led to the 9-11 attack. Tell NPR to report on the explosive revelations about 9-11 by Brisard and Dasquie. E-mail morning@npr.org.

CIA Director Warned Congress of Imminent Attacks, Says Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO)
16-Jul-02
September 11 Exposes

"It's certainly one of the most disturbing and important indications that the government knew the attacks of September 11, 2001, were coming. On that morning, National Public Radio (NPR) was presenting live coverage of the attacks on its show Morning Edition. Host Bob Edwards went to a reporter in the field—David Welna, NPR's Congressional correspondent—who was in the Capitol building as it was being evacuated. Here is the crucial portion of Welna's report: '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.'" Listen to Correspondent Welna's statement! We demand a blue-ribbon investigation into why 3,000 of our fellow citizens were sacrificed with governmental foreknowledge!

911 Airlines' VP Who 'Worked Closely' With Andy Card Applies for $1.8 Billion Government Loan
13-Jul-02
September 11 Exposes

Time.com unearthed another interesting coincidence involving one of the 911 airlines, United, and the Bush administration. Senior VP Shelley Longmuir, who serves as top executive for United Airlines' governmental, regulatory and international affairs "worked closely with then Transportation Secretary Andy Card, currently the White House chief of staff, and in 1992 helped coordinate federal disaster-relief efforts after Hurricane Andrew... As the fortunes of U.S. airlines become more dependent on government regulations and largesse, Longmuir's experience in Washington is raising her profile...Longmuir will need all her skills to deliver on the $1.8 billion loan application United has submitted to the government's airline stabilization board."

Mohamed Atta & the Venice Flying Circus - Buy the Video
27-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

Three of the four terrorist pilots learned to fly in tiny Venice, Florida, a sleepy retirement community with the second oldest population of any city in the entire United States... They attended flight schools owned by two Dutch nationals, one of whom has Mob ties... Did 19 Arab terrorists from desert Kingdoms roam around in Florida as if they'd been listening to Tom Petty albums all their lives all by themselves? Or were they being trained here in a still-secret covert intelligence operation that somehow went horribly wrong? "Mohamed Atta & the Venice Flying Circus" is the latest video from Mad Cow Productions, which details Daniel Hopsicker's search for the answers to these questions... and more. (1 hour color)

Now Available: Transcript of UnansweredQuestions.org Press Conference about 911
26-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

UnansweredQuestions.org's Kyle Hence said, "This is the penultimate of grassroots efforts... Essentially we envision a network of researchers coming together and just concerned citizens raising these questions.... What unites them all is this deep underlying skepticism by those who posed them about the official story offered us of what happened on September 11th and the hunger to know the whole truth. They cover issues from highly unusual trading spikes and put options prior to September 11th to airline security failures to the failure of air defenses in defending the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. Some wonder whatever happened to the anthrax investigation. Did we receive detailed warnings from overseas as reported in the mainstream press? If so, who received them and what was done? Our site's been live to receive questions for I think about 24 hours or less and already we have hundreds coming in. I'll just read a few. People can pose questions and then vote on the questions."

What Went Wrong on 9/11? For Starters, The CIA ORDERED The US Embassy In Saudi Arabia To Issue Visas To Terrorists
24-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

"The Sept. 11 attacks were the result of the 'colossal incompetence' of the U.S. Government. [The citizens group unansweredquestions.org] wants an independent probe to explore Sept. 11. [A lawyer representing families of the 9/11 victims, who is a former DOT Inspector General] noted that aviation disasters in the past have involved criminal investigations. That is not the case in the 9/11 situation... One of the more disturbing revelations from the June 10 session came [from a] former chief of the Visa Section at the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia. He claimed that many times he would reject visa applications for people that he was suspicious of, and whose credentials didn't check out -- only to have the CIA officer over him tell him he had to issue the visas. "Hundreds of people got visas because I was overruled. I protested this -- I was told to 'shut up.'"

Our Pearl Harbor: The Latest NSA Revelations Suggest the 9-11 Plot Could Have Been Foiled
21-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

John Prados writes, "Recent news that the National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted two messages the day before the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks -- messages that indicated imminent action -- obliges us to reconsider whether the airliner hijackings that led to 3,000 lost lives and $20 billion in property damage could have been foiled... The latest move by the administration seems to be a crackdown on intelligence investigation leaks due to the NSA revelations. But the American people are entitled to a full accounting. It is necessary to know whether 9-11 adds up to an intelligence failure greater than Pearl Harbor, as some have said, or not. This is all the more urgent given that knowledge of the NSA intercepts now permits us to construct a different story line, according to which the horrible attacks could not only have been predicted, but likely prevented as well."

Democrats.com Exclusive: In the Infamous 911 Fundraising Photo, Did Bush Order the Shootdown of the Flight 93 Heroes?
21-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

"The Republican Party's decision to sell the photo of George W. Bush taken on Air Force One on September 11 for $150 generated a firestorm of outrage and controversy. But until now, no one has asked what George Bush was actually discussing on the phone aboard Air Force One. And here is the likely scenario: Bush was approving the shooting down of hijacked airliners, which led Dick Cheney to order the shooting down of Flight 93 - with all of the Heroes on board. How can we arrive at this conclusion? In part, we rely upon the White House's own version of 911, as told to the Washington Post. While the White House admits that Bush gave the shootdown order, the Pentagon denies it actually shot down Flight 93. However, a careful analysis of all available evidence points to a shootdown as the most likely cause of the crash of Flight 93 - thus making George W. Bush personally and directly responsible for the deaths of 37 passengers and 7 crew members on Flight 93." So writes Bob Fertik.

Where Was America's Air Defense on 911?
20-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

The Center for Cooperative Research has compiled a comprehensive analysis of the failure of our Air Defense on the morning of Sept. 11. Near the end of the outline is a litany of the excuses - most of which have been proven to be bogus - proffered for the failure to dispatch fighter planes in a timely manner. Also of particular interest is the part in Section B about Bush - this account indicates Bush knew about the attacks in NYC even BEFORE he ever left his hotel to go to the elementary school... In short, Bush has been lying about his whereabouts (i.e., where he was when he first knew the awful truth). The consistent pattern of misinformation and lies leads inescapably to the question - what is Bush's government hiding?

Flight 93 Crash Neighbors Believe Plane Was Shot Down
20-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

"I know of two people - I will not mention names - that heard a missile," [Shanksville Mayor Ernie] Stuhl said. "They both live very close, within a couple of hundred yards. . .This one fellow's served in Vietnam and he says he's heard them, and he heard one that day." ... Laura Temyer, who lives several miles north of the crash site in Hooversville, was hanging some clothes outside that morning when she heard an airplane pass overhead. That struck her as unusual since she'd just heard on TV that all flights were grounded. "I heard like a boom and the engine sounded funny. I heard two more booms - and then I did not hear anything... I think the plane was shot down," insists Temyer, who said she has twice told her story to the FBI. What's more, she insists that people she knows in state law enforcement have told her the same thing, that the plane was shot down and that decompression sucked objects from the aircraft, explaining why there was a wide debris field." -Philadelphia Daily News

On 9/10, the National Security Agency Intercepted 'Tomorrow is Zero Day' Message
19-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

Here is one MORE warning message that the National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted. This message said, "tomorrow is zero day" and "the match begins tomorrow." Of course, the Official Story is that this message was not translated until 9-12-01. Sorry, but we are SICK AND TIRED of bureaucratic lies. The entire government was on red alert about an expected attack by Al Qaeda IN THE US. It's time for Congress to start demanding NAMES and SWORN TESTIMONY of the individuals who "missed" all of the warnings. WHO LET AMERICA BE ATTACKED???

Families of 14 Victims of 911 Sue the Bush Administration for $7 Billion
15-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

Stanley Hilton is a lawyer who worked for Senator Bob Dole (R-KS) in 1980, and then exposed Dole's corruption in his 1995 biography, "Senator for Sale". Hilton "filed a $7 billion lawsuit in U.S. District Court on June 3 against President [sic] Bush and other government officials for 'allowing' the terrorist attacks to occur. Among Hilton's allegations: Bush conspired to create the Sept. 11 attacks for his own political gain and has been using Osama bin Laden as a scapegoat. 'I hope it will expose the fact that there are numbers of people in the government, including Bush and his top assistants, who wanted this to happen,' Hilton said. His class-action suit named 10 defendants, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta. Hilton said he represents the families of 14 victims and that 400 plaintiffs are involved nationwide." So reports the SF Examiner.

Enron-911 Bombshell: Cheney Blocked FBI Investigation of Saudi-Al Qaeda Connection to Protect ENRON
13-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

According to investigator John Loftus, Dick Cheney in January 2001 blocked any US investigations "whatsoever of Saudi-Taliban-Afghan oil connections. Former FBI counter-terrorism chief John O'Neill resigned from the FBI in disgust, stating that he was ordered not to investigate Saudi-Al Qaeda connections because of the Enron pipeline deal... Loftus asserts that the Enron block, which remained in force from January 2001 until August 2001 when the pipeline deal collapsed, is the reason that none of FBI agent Rowley's requests for investigations were ever approved... It is time for Congress to face the truth: In order to give Enron one last desperate chance to complete the Taliban pipeline and save itself from bankruptcy, senior levels of US intelligence were ordered to keep their eyes shut and their subordinates ignorant... If Congress ever combines its Enron investigation with 9/11, Cheney's whole house of cards will collapse." Impeach Bush and Cheney now!

Smoking Gun Feedback: Seismologists Weigh in about Missing Waves, Readers Ponder Pentagon Crash
11-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

The Smoking Gun series has now been republished or linked to a growing list of online publications around the world, from Russia to New Zealand. The reader response has been overwhelming! The awful fear that Bush and Co. may have had something to do with 9/11 has been an unspoken thought, it turns out, in the back of a shocking number of people's minds. The mail has been running about one (invariably unsigned) "you commie traitor" note for every 20 letters of positive feedback and affirmation. As the author of the series has said, "If people are presented with the truth, they usually recognize it - it's just that they aren't being allowed to see it." Here is a sampling of reader letters - the first of several batches. This one includes an interesting interchange with professional seismologists on the "missing seismic waves" from the Pentagon crash.

Like FBI Agents Coleen Rowley and John O'Neill, Robert Wright's Terrorism Investigations Were 'Intentionally and Repeatedly Thwarted'
07-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

Wright "worked in the Chicago office on counter-terrorism cases that focused on money-laundering efforts by terrorist cells operating within the US. His work developed into an operation that was named 'Bulgar Betrayal,' which seemed on the verge of becoming officially designated as a major case because of its far reach and national security implications. Before he was finished, a Saudi businessman named Yasin Kadi became implicated in the terrorism funding... One month after the 9/11 attacks, Kadi was named by the Federal government as a financial supporter of Osama bin Laden. Yet Kadi's name was known to Wright well before 9/11, when the Bulgar Betrayal investigations were taking place. Did his work take root within the FBI?... 'FBI management,' said Wright on Thursday, 'intentionally and repeatedly thwarted my attempts to launch a more comprehensive investigation to identify and to neutralize terrorists.'" We demand Judiciary Committee hearings on Wright's explosive allegations!

Before 911, the NSA Monitored Calls between the Chief Hijacker and 911 Mastermind - And Then Sat on The Info?!
07-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

According to Knight-Ridder, the National Security Agency "monitored telephone conversations before Sept. 11 between [Khalid Shaikh Mohammed,] the suspected commander of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks and [Mohamed Atta,] the alleged chief hijacker, but did not share the information with," the CIA or FBI. "When the NSA monitored their conversations, Mohammed was overseas and Atta was in the US. Mohammed was included on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist List when it was published in October because he had been indicted on charges of being involved in a failed 1995 plot to bomb 11 U.S. airliners flying over the Pacific Ocean on a single day. The U.S. Justice Department has offered a $25 million reward for him." The NSA has a $5 BILLION budget and 30,000 employees, and it wasn't PAYING ATTENTION to calls from TOP Al Qaeda terrorists TO THE US? This is the THIRD published 911 screwup by the NSA We think the NSA told Bush, and is now lying - we demand a Blue Ribbon Commission!

According to Legend, CIA Director Tenet Fingered Bin Laden over Breakfast on 911
06-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

"CIA Director George Tenet was having breakfast at a hotel on Sept. 11 with former senator David Boren when an aide rushed over to whisper the news to him. 'This has bin Laden all over it,' Tenet is reported to have said. 'I wonder if it has anything to do with this guy taking pilot training?' he was also overheard to say. [Overheard by whom? This sounds like utter bunk!] This is a reference to Zacarias Moussaoui, who had been detained in August after attracting suspicion at a flight school in Minnesota. The Wall Street Journal reported on May 20 that the FBI did not tell the White House about Moussaoui's arrest until after Sept. 11. It did tell the Federal Aviation Administration. But that agency decided against warning the airlines to increase security, the Journal reported." And why didn't they warn the airlines instead of putting lives at risk?

'It's Time to Penetrate America and Israel and Hit Them Where it Hurts Most'
05-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

So said Osama Bin Laden, in June 2001, according to a CNN article dated June 23, 2001. CNN went on to report that U.S. troops in the Mideast were spending yet a second day on high alert status in response to credible threats of an impending attack by Osama Bin Laden's terrorist group. The author further stated that "the threat is believed to be against U.S. citizens and interests around the world, rather than specifically against the U.S. military or potential targets in the Persian Gulf region." Anonymous U.S. officials also told CNN back in June 2001, that U.S. intelligence had information from two separate sources that an attack by Bin Laden followers was planned. The officials said there was a timeframe for the attack but that they would not disclose it. Apparently all that "non-specific terrorist chatter" that Bush and company keep referring to pre- 911... was more like a deafening roar!

On June 29, 2001, the US Ambassador to Pakistan Told the Taliban the US Would Attack Afghanistan if Al Qaeda Attacked the US
05-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

According to Sapra India, "William B. Milam, the outgoing US Ambassador in Islamabad, contacted the Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan, Abus Salaam Zaeef , on June 29 [2001] and reportedly warned him that in case of a new terrorist attack against American interests by groups associated with bin Laden, Washington would hold the Taliban directly responsible, hinting thereby that any retaliatory strike by the US could be directed against the Taliban's headquarters. Reports from Islamabad suggest that a similar warning was conveyed by US officials to Mr.Abdul Sattar, the Pakistani Foreign Minister, during the latter's visit to Washington last month. He was reported to have been confronted by US officials with fresh evidence relating to the continued clandestine assistance of Pakistan to the Taliban in violation of the UN sanctions."

The State Department Knew as Early as June 22nd, 2001 that an Attack by Bin Laden Followers was Imminent!
05-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

On June 21, 2001, Bakr Atyani, a correspondent of the Middle East Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), interviewed Osama bin Laden and his aides Abu Hafas al-Masri and Ayman al-Zawahiri inside Afghanistan. Bin Laden was silent, but nodded approvingly when his aides warned that "the coming weeks will hold important surprises that will target American and Israeli interests in the world." The State Department issued a "worldwide caution" on June 22nd and specifically mentioned Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda organization as the source of the threats. According to an article written by Amir Shah, an AP correspondent in Afghanistan (published in the New Jersey Record on June 25th, 2001), Taliban government officials responded to "U.S. reports of a terrorist plot" by Bin Laden followers on June 24th, 2001. Responding to "US concerns", Taliban officials stated that Bin Laden was under their strict control and could not use Afghan territory as a base for attacks.

Carpet of Gold Bombshell - Salon Goes Where the Mainstream Media Fears to Tread
05-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

Jean-Charles Brisard reports, "A 1998 memo written by al Qaeda military chief Mohammed Atef reveals that Osama bin Laden's group had detailed knowledge of negotiations that were taking place between Afghanistan's ruling Taliban and American government and business leaders over plans for a U.S. oil and gas pipeline across that Central Asian country. The e-mail memo was found in 1998 on a computer seized by the FBI during its investigation into the 1998 African embassy bombings, which were sponsored by al Qaeda. Atef's memo was discovered by FBI counter-terrorism expert John O'Neill, who left the bureau in 2001, complaining that U.S. oil interests were hindering his investigation into al Qaeda. O'Neill, who became security chief at the World Trade Center, died in the Sept. 11 attack."

Democrats.com Launches 'BuckStopsThere.com' To Expose ALL Top Officials Who Let 911 Happen
05-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

September 11 was the worst terrorist attack in American history, resulting in the deaths of nearly 3,000 people. The first duty of our President is to defend and protect America. But in the weeks leading up to September 11, George W. Bush and his top officials failed to take numerous precautions that could have stopped 911. And on 911 itself, Bush failed to respond in real time to the unfolding events. FBI Director Robert Mueller has received most of the blame, but Mueller was new to his job and in no way bears the most responsibility. Democrats.com has created an organizational chart showing the responsibility of ALL key officials, from George W. Bush on down. As Americans, we have the right - and the duty - to hold each of these individuals responsible for their failures. Harry Truman said, "The Buck Stops Here." But Bush will do anything to avoid responsibility - that's why our new site is called "BuckStopsThere.com" - spread the word!

What Did Bob Graham and Porter Goss Know on 911?
04-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

The NY Times reports, "Early on Sept. 11, Senator Bob Graham and Representative Porter J. Goss were having a quiet breakfast meeting in the Capitol with the chief of Pakistani intelligence, Lt. Gen. Mehmood Ahmed. Mr. Graham and Mr. Goss, the chairmen of the two Congressional intelligence committees, were quizzing their guest about Osama bin Laden and other issues when an aide to Mr. Goss rushed in with a note. A plane had just hit the World Trade Center." At the time, Ahmed was aware that 911 mastermind Mohamed Atta had received a $100,000 wire transfer from Ahmad Omar Sheikh, who is personally close to Gen. Ahmed. Did Ahmed "share" this information with Graham and Goss, or with other top CIA and Bush administration officials with whom he met during his visit to DC? Who investigates the investigators?

One Week Before 911, Mubarak Gave a Warning to the CIA, But the CIA Denies Receiving It
04-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

After repeated disclosures, FBI Director Robert Mueller was forced to admit the FBI received numerous warnings. Now it's the CIA's turn, but they remain in firm denial. The NY Times reports, "Egyptian intelligence warned American officials about a week before Sept. 11 that Osama bin Laden's network was in the advance stages of executing a significant operation against an American target, President Hosni Mubarak said... Using a secret agent they had recruited who was in close contact with the bin Laden organization, Mr. Mubarak said, his intelligence chiefs tried unsuccessfully to halt the operation... The senior US intelligence official [George Tenet?], however, said the CIA had not received any warnings from Egypt about a possible attack in the days before Sept. 11."

Smoking Gun 5: The Events, Planes and Players of September 11 - Putting It All Together
03-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

Americans have been suffering from a sort of amnesia, borne of grief and stress - a state the Bush administration took full advantage of. Alas, until now, we have been unable to see Bush's sleight of hand through the blur of tears. Now we are shaking off the fog and it's time to take a good hard look at the facts. Here is the clearest, most concise summary of 9/11 yet! Be prepared: This may be particularly upsetting material for those who lost loved ones on 9/11.

BushDaddy's CIA Let 2 Al Qaeda 911 Terrorists Live Openly in the US - We Want ANSWERS from Tenet!
03-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

"A few days after the [Jan. 2000] Kuala Lumpur meeting [of Al Qaeda], NEWSWEEK has learned, the CIA tracked one of the terrorists, Nawaf Alhazmi, as he flew from the meeting to Los Angeles. Agents discovered that another of the men, Khalid Almihdhar, had already obtained a multiple-entry visa that allowed him to enter and leave the US as he pleased... Astonishingly, the CIA did nothing with this information... Instead, during the year and nine months after the CIA identified them as terrorists, Alhazmi and Almihdhar lived openly in the US, using their real names, obtaining driver's licenses, opening bank accounts and enrolling in flight schools—until the morning of 911, when they walked aboard American Airlines Flight 77 and crashed it into the Pentagon... When Almihdhar's visa expired, the State Department, not knowing any better, simply issued him a new one in June 2001—even though by then the CIA had linked him to one of the suspected bombers of the USS Cole in October 2000."

FBI Refused Invitation to Train With Al Qaeda in Afghanistan before 911 - Why, Wasn't It Engraved?
02-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

"The FBI had a chance to infiltrate an al Qaeda training camp in the months before the September 11 attacks–and possibly learn about the coming strike–but the proposal was rejected by top officials, U.S. News has learned. A special agent in an FBI field office was told by a confidential informant that he had been invited to a commando training course at a camp operated by Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda organization in Afghanistan... The agent relayed the informant's remarks to supervisors in the field office, who passed the information to FBI headquarters in Washington, where it was referred to the Osama bin Laden unit in the bureau's Counterterrorism Division" - and squashed! As the story goes on and on, the King George keeps destroying our Constitution and our liberties when the information they had was more than sufficient if analyzed correctly. This is the New FBI: the Federal Bureau of Incompetence! Remember, it happened on Bush's watch!

Meria Heller Interviews 'War on Freedom' author Nafeez Ahmed about 911 Secrets
02-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

"Meria interviews Nafeez Mossaddeq Ahmed (British born, political analyst and human rights activist), author of 'War on Freedom', in my opinion the most comprehensive, factual, resourced book available on 9/11 This interview is a MUST hear...Our gov't tells us they never dreamed of such an attack, which is a LIE. Project Bojinka has been around for years describing the EXACT scenario of 9/11, why haven't we been informed of that? There were multiple warnings from multiple legitimate sources years, months and weeks before 9/11, yet no protections were put into place, why? The interim President of Afghanistan is a former UNOCAL executive, his term recently extended to 18 months AS the pipeline IS being built in Afghanistan; The former Pakistani minister was in negotiations over the pipeline; so was the USA before the offer of 'carpet of gold or carpet of bombs' was laid out pre-9/11; Project Bojinka describing hijacking of planes and crashing them into American symbols such as the WTC."

Top Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor Says that EVERYONE in the Bush Administration Had Enough Information to Prevent the Sept 11 Attacks
01-Jun-02
September 11 Exposes

The AP reports "The Bush administration's top anti-terrorism prosecutor said the United States had ample evidence that a devastating terrorist attack on U.S. soil was likely long before Sept. 11. Assistant A.G. Michael Chertoff cited nearly a decade's worth of hints that foreign terrorists were targeting Americans, though he did not say there was specific information that could have prevented the attacks. 'As of Sept. 10th, each of us knew everything we needed to know to tell us there was a possibility of what happened on Sept. 11th,' Chertoff said Friday... On Wednesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller said there may have been missed clues before the attacks and suggested that investigators might have uncovered the plot if they had been more diligent about pursuing leads."

Flight 93 Debris Was Found EIGHT MILES From the Crash Site
31-May-02
September 11 Exposes

"'Eight miles away in New Baltimore, Melanie Hankinson said she found singed papers and other light debris from the crash... Authorities initially insisted crash debris could not have traveled over a mountain ridge more than eight miles from the crash. [Now the] NTSB says it is not only plausible, but probable,' said [FBI Agent] Crowley... Looking at all the details so far - nothing really adds up neatly for me, except that Flight 93 had a midair crisis that caused debris to fall before it crashed. I remain skeptical of all the theories... except one. We are not being told what happened - and the Government knows exactly what happened." So writes the anonymous creator of Flight93Crash.com. We demand a Blue Ribbon Commission!

Actor James Woods Filed a Complaint with the FAA Regarding Four 9-11 Hijackers in August of 2001
31-May-02
September 11 Exposes

In a televised interview with actor James Woods on the "O'Reilly Factor" in February of 2002, Woods said he flew on a Boston to Los Angeles flight with four of the September 11th hijackers on August 1st, 2001. Not only was Woods convinced that the four men were terrorists because of their strange behavior during the flight, but he also stated that the flight crew filed a report with the FAA as a result of his complaint. Woods also said that it is preposterous for the White House to routinely suggest that most of the terrorists were unaware of their true mission on September 11th until that day -- and that they were part of some isolated hard-to-catch terrorist cells.

US Ignored Explicit Warnings from France About Moussaoui on 9/5/01
30-May-02
September 11 Exposes

James Ridgeway writes, "French officials were long known to have been frustrated with Washington's neglect. Shortly after the attack, Le Monde reported on a meeting between French and U.S. intelligence: 'French and American officials did in fact hold important meetings in Paris from the 5th to the 6th of September, that is, a few days prior to the attacks... During these talks, the DST directed the American visitors' attention to a Moroccan-born Frenchman who had been detained in the US since August 17 and who was considered to be a key high-level Islamic fundamentalist. But the American delegation, preoccupied above all with questions of administrative procedure, paid no attention to this 'first alarm,' basically concluding that they were going to take no one's advice, and that an attack on American soil was inconceivable. It took September 11 for the FBI to show any real interest in this man'" Which US officials ignored these warnings? We want names - and explanations!

On 6/9/01, FBI Special Agent Robert Wright Warned Americans Would Die Because of FBI Incompetence
30-May-02
September 11 Exposes

"In a memorandum written 91 days before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, an FBI agent warned that Americans would die as a result of the bureau's failure to adequately pursue investigations of terrorists living in the country. FBI Special Agent Robert Wright, Jr... led a four-year investigation into terrorist money laundering in the US. Wright began crying as he concluded his remarks at a Washington press conference... Wright's June 9, 2001 'Mission Statement' memo warned that, 'Knowing what I know, I can confidently say that until the investigative responsibilities for terrorism are transferred from the FBI, I will not feel safe. 'The FBI has proven for the past decade it cannot identify and prevent acts of terrorism against the United States and its citizens at home and abroad,' he continued. 'Even worse, there is virtually no effort on the part of the FBI's International Terrorism Unit to neutralize known and suspected international terrorists living in the United States.'".

Did Con Man Get FBI Tip to Sell Stock on 9/10?
30-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Newsday reports, "In a criminal case with a specter of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, prosecutors disclosed yesterday that classified information had been found during a search of possessions of a former FBI agent allegedly part of an insider trading conspiracy. The tantalizing revelation was made by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth Breen in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn... [Alleged financial shakedown mastermind Amr] Elgindy, 34, was being held without bail. During a hearing in San Diego last week, Breen said that Elgindy's attempt to liquidate the trust accounts of his children on Sept. 10 might 'perhaps' mean he had 'pre-knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks, and, rather than report it, he was attempting to profit from that information.'" Stay tuned for more...

In 1998, an FBI Pilot Warned His Supervisor About Arab Students in Flight Schools - Who Ignored It???
30-May-02
September 11 Exposes

The NY Post reports, "The FBI yesterday acknowledged two more pre-9/11 memos that hinted at terror attacks - one about a Middle Eastern country seeking a flight simulator, and another about Middle Easterners in Oklahoma flight classes... Officials said an FBI pilot warned in May 1998 about Middle Eastern men taking pilot classes in Oklahoma. In the memo, titled 'Weapons of Mass Destruction,' the FBI pilot 'advised that he has observed large numbers of Middle Eastern males receiving flight training at Oklahoma airports in recent months' and 'states this is a recent phenomenon and may be related to planned terrorist activity.' The agent speculated that 'light planes would be an ideal means of spreading chemical or biological agents.' But the memo, labeled 'routine,' never got past the agent's supervisor." And WHO was that supervisor? We want names - and straight answers to the surviving victims and families of 911, in the form of public Congressional testimony!

In August 2001, Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah Told Bush our 'Relationship Is at a Crossroads'
30-May-02
September 11 Exposes

As more and more information leaks out regarding the bungled pre-September 11th warnings by this current administration, it is worth noting that there was a letter sent to pResident Bush in late August of 2001 from Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah which stated: "A time comes when peoples and nations part. We are at a crossroads. And it's time for the United States and Saudi Arabia to look for their separate interests." It has been widely reported that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens. Was this a warning? Did negotiations go sour between the Bush administration and Saudi Arabia regarding some clandestine dealing just prior to September 11th? Thousands of Americans deserve to know the truth! We demand a Blue Ribbon Commission!

FAA Ignored Crucial Warnings from Actor James Woods and Others - We Demand Congressional Hearings!
29-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Seymour Hersh reports, "Several weeks before the attacks, the actor James Woods was in the first-class section of a cross-country flight to Los Angeles. Four of his fellow-passengers were well-dressed men who appeared to be Middle Eastern and were obviously travelling together." He told the flight attendant, "I think this plane is going to be hijacked," and informed the First Officer, who told the captain and locked the cabin door. A report of the incident was probably filed with the FAA, but the fate of that report is STILL unknown. Now the FBI says the 911 terrorists cased as many as TWELVE flights. How many reports were filed with the FAA? What did the FAA do with those reports? If the FAA had taken effective action, it could have helped the FBI ARREST the 911 terrorists - we DEMAND Congressional hearings on the FAA's role in 911!

CIA Missed Several More 911 Clues from Europe
29-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Wiretaps in Italy and Spain captured two more conversations pointing to the 911 attack. On 8-12-00, Italian authorities captured a conversation between Al Qaeda's top terrorist in Italy, Abdelkader Mahmoud Es Sayed - the man responsible for the 1997 massacre of 58 tourists in Luxor, Egypt - and a visiting Yemeni, Abdulsalam Ali Ali Abdulrahman. Abdulrahman brought news of a "strike that will never be forgotten... In the future, listen to the news and remember these words: 'Above the head' ... remember well, remember well.... The danger in the airports.... There are clouds in the sky there in international territory, in that country, the fire has been lit and is awaiting only the wind." In August 2001, an unidentified suspect in London told the head of the Madrid cell in a taped phone call last August that he "was taking courses and had entered the field of aviation."

Why is the FBI Taking the Fall for Bush, Who Told Them to 'Back Off' on the Bin Ladens and Saudis?
29-May-02
September 11 Exposes

On 11-6-01, Greg Palast interviewed intelligence officials who said Bush ordered all agencies to "back off" the Saudis and the bin Ladens. But currently, our National Security Newspapers, eager to spin this as FBI bureaucracy, still haven't figured out it came from the top. In "Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth," Brisard and Dasquie were told the same story. It's outrageous that the only journalists investigating Bush's complicity in 911 are from overseas!

The Enron-911 Connection: Is that the Ultimate Secret of Cheney's Energy Task Force?
27-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Larry Chin writes in Online Journal, "For years, Enron (along with Unocal, BP Amoco, Exxon, Mobil, Pennzoil, Atlantic Richfield, Chevron, Texaco, and other oil companies) has been involved in a multi-billion dollar frenzy to extract the reserves of the three former Soviet republics, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan... Enron signed a contract in 1996, giving it rights to explore 11 gas fields in Uzbekistan, a project costing $1.3 billion. The goal was to sell gas to the Russian markets, and link to Unocal's southern export pipeline crossing Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan... Enron recently conducted feasibility studies for a $2.5 billion trans-Caspian gas pipeline to be built jointly with General Electric and Bechtel. Enron's goal was to link this pipeline to another line through Afghanistan." Is the Enron-911 connection the deep dark secret of Cheney's Energy Task Force? Does anyone dare to ask?

On September 11, the Carlyle Group Met in Washington
27-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Here's one for conspiracy fans: "Like everyone else in the United States, the group stood transfixed as the events of September 11 unfolded. Present were former secretary of defense Frank Carlucci, former secretary of state James Baker III, and representatives of the bin Laden family. This was not some underground presidential bunker or Central Intelligence Agency interrogation room. It was the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., the plush setting for the annual investor conference of one of the most powerful, well-connected, and secretive companies in the world: the Carlyle Group. And since September 11, this little-known company has become unexpectedly important." Was Poppy Bush there too? After all, he spent the night of 910 in the White House...

Two MORE Warnings That Mean the CIA and FBI Expected Al Qaeda Attacks by Air
27-May-02
September 11 Exposes

In the New Yorker, famed investigative reporter Seymour Hersh found two additional warnings that Al Qaeda would use airplanes for terrorist attacks. "In the late nineteen-nineties, the C.I.A. obtained reliable information indicating that an Al Qaeda network based in northern Germany had penetrated airport security in Amsterdam and was planning to attack American passenger planes by planting bombs in the cargo." German police, the CIA, and the FAA foiled the attack by arresting numerous suspects. "In late December of 1999, a group of Al Qaeda terrorists armed with knives hijacked an Indian airliner and diverted it to Kandahar, Afghanistan. The hijackers maintained control of the passengers and crew by cutting the throat of a young passenger and letting the victim bleed to death, a tactic that the September 11th terrorists are believed to have used on flight attendants." Bush's claim that his August 6 briefing relied on a Lone Warning is a lie - we demand a Blue Ribbon Commission!

Did the FBI Search Boston's Copley Plaza Hotel on September 10?
26-May-02
September 11 Exposes

FBI critic Whitley Streiber writes in Unknown Country, "On September 13... a friend who had been staying at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston on the nights of September 10 and 11 told me that the FBI had cleared the hotel on the morning of Monday, September 10, at about four AM, and had searched it. After the disaster, of course, they returned to Copley Plaza in search of bomb making materials. The FBI's presence at the hotel on Monday was never reported, and apparently known only to guests at the hotel. Nevertheless, it means that the FBI almost certainly had, and was acting on, some sort of knowledge connected to the September 11 attack on September 10. At the very least, the FBI agents who were at the Copley Plaza on Monday morning need to be found and called to testify before the joint panel of Congress that is being convened to investigate these matters." Streiber also asks why unusually heavy volume on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange the week before 911 has not been investigated.

Senators Demand Answers from David Frasca, the Head of the FBI's 'Radical Fundamentalist Unit'
26-May-02
September 11 Exposes

FBI senior agent David Frasca heads the FBI's Radical Fundamentalist Unit, and received the information sent by the Minneapolis and Phoenix offices of the FBI. Four Senators wrote a stinging letter to FBI director Robert Mueller demanding answers. "Please explain his role and the role of the R.F.U. in evaluating the requests from the Minneapolis field office in the Moussaoui case. What connection, if any, he or others drew between the two ongoing investigations; and whether he or others brought such a connection to the attention of higher level F.B.I. officials." Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) said, "If F.B.I. headquarters is still handling terrorism information like it handled the Moussaoui case, we're in grave danger. This was worse than dropping the ball. This was bureaucrats at headquarters actively interfering with an investigation that had a terrorist in hand." Did Frasca read the Williams memo and miss the connection? Was he told to obstruct the investigation? Stay tuned...

'The War on Freedom' Uses Extensive Research to Ask: 'Did Bush Know'?
26-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is a British political analyst and human rights activist. He heads the Institute for Policy Research & Development and is a Researcher at the Islamic Human Rights Commission. He has just published a book entitled "The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001", based on extensive research into published sources, many of which are new to us. He writes, "The documentation collated here demonstrates beyond doubt that innocent American civilians paid with their lives because high-level elements of the Bush administration engineered blocks on U.S. intelligence agencies in order to fulfil and protect another agenda. Unless a full-blown independent inquiry into this process is mounted soon, there is little doubt that more innocent Americans will pay with their lives again." Chapter 4 of his book, "Warning Signs of 9-11 and Intelligence Failures," is available for free. You can also hear Mr. Mosadeqq on the Meria Heller Show, see www.meria.net!

FBI Headquarters Falsified the Moussaoui Field Report To Block Requests for Warrants
25-May-02
September 11 Exposes

"An FBI whistle-blower alleges that FBI headquarters rewrote Minneapolis agents' pre-Sept. 11 request for surveillance and search warrants for terrorism defendant Zacarias Moussaoui and removed important information before rejecting them, government officials said Friday. Agent Coleen Rowley wrote that the Minneapolis agents became so frustrated that they began to joke that FBI headquarters was becoming an 'unwitting accomplice' to Osama bin Laden's efforts to attack the United States, the officials said. As new details emerged about the letter Rowley wrote to FBI Director Robert Mueller and senators, members of Congress sought to extend her whistle-blower protections and encouraged more agents to come forward." Why would FBI Headquarters minimize field reports to deny further inquiry…unless they had been ORDERED to do so? Where is the accountability to protect Americans? Where is the OUTRAGE? Impanel a Blue Ribbon Commission NOW!

Bush Ignored Warning from Osama to His Mom
24-May-02
September 11 Exposes

On 10-2-01, Reuters reported that "Bin Laden contacted his adoptive mother, Al Kalifa bin Laden, on Sept. 9, telling her: 'In two days you're going to hear big news, and you're not going to hear from me for a while,' NBC's Web site reported, citing undisclosed sources." Those sources were undoubtedly the National Security Agency, which intercepts all electronic communications around the world. Who saw this warning on September 9? Did it get to W, Dick, Condi, Rummy, Mueller, and the rest of Team Bush? We demand a Blue Ribbon Commission!

Fortune Magazine Summarizes the Phoenix Memo
24-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Fortune's Richard Behar writes, "I had a chance to read the memo - apparently the first journalist to have done so... What I learned... is chilling. The memo raises questions about what federal law enforcement officers knew and what they did or didn't do to protect the U.S. from terror attacks in the months before 911. After reviewing the memo, one cannot help but conclude that the FBI dropped the ball - perhaps ignoring the alert altogether... Williams warns in his July 10 memo of a possible 'effort by Usama bin Laden to send students to the U.S. to attend civil aviation universities and colleges.' He also refers to a 'fatwa by Al-Muhjiroun, spiritual leader Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed Fostok.'... The Williams memo included the names of several Middle Eastern students, one identified as a 'Saudi national,' who were apparently students at Embry-Riddle at the time... The memo should be released immediately, names blacked-out if necessary, so we can all learn what Agent Williams knew."

FBI Informant Warned the FBI about Hani Hanjour Three Years Ago
24-May-02
September 11 Exposes

"A paid FBI informant told ABCNEWS that three years before Sept 11, he began providing the FBI with information about a young Saudi who later flew a hijacked passenger plane into the Pentagon. Aukai Collins, the informant, said he worked for the FBI for four years in Phoenix, monitoring the Arab and Islamic communities there. Hani Hanjour was the hijacker Collins claimed to have told the FBI about while Hanjour was in flight training in Phoenix... The FBI issued an 'emphatic denial' that Collins had told the agency anything about Hanjour, though FBI sources acknowledged that Collins had worked for them... Collins said the FBI knew Hanjour lived in Phoenix, knew his exact address, his phone number and even what car he drove... he provided the FBI with basic facts and let the FBI take it from there. 'When I said there's this short, skinny Arab guy who's part of this crowd, drives such-and-such a car, I assumed that they would... start tracing him and see who his contacts were,' he said."

Minneapolis FBI Office Tried Desperately to Prevent 911 - But DC Bureaucrats Stopped Them Cold
24-May-02
September 11 Exposes

"An FBI agent has accused Washington headquarters of mounting a 'roadblock' to the pre-Sept. 11 investigation of terrorism defendant Zacarias Moussaoui. The rare letter immediately prompted an internal investigation. Agent Coleen Rowley, a lawyer in the Minnesota office that arrested Moussaoui last August, divulged in her letter that local agents became so frustrated with FBI headquarters that they sought to break their chain of command and notify the CIA. The local agents were reprimanded for trying, she alleged... FBI HQ personnel chastised the Minneapolis agents for making the direct notification without their approval,'' she wrote in the 13-page letter, excerpts of which were obtained by Associated Press… Rowley sent her letter Tuesday to FBI Director Robert Mueller and members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, divulging internal discord within the FBI that is rarely aired in public. Mueller referred the matter for investigation by the Justice Department inspector general."

Brits Warned US of Al Qaeda Hijackings Starting in 1999 - Right up to August 2001
24-May-02
September 11 Exposes

The Sunday Herald reports, "In August 1999, British and American airlines went on red alert after intelligence warnings that bin Laden supporters were planning a Lockerbie-style bomb attack in the West. At the time, US forces [under President Clinton] were reported to be preparing to snatch bin Laden from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and put him on trial for his involvement in two US embassy explosions in Africa which killed 250 people." This warning "was based on 1998 intelligence data drawn from a single British source." British intelligence continued to warn the US about Al Qaeda hijackings - "the British warning of al-Qaeda plans to hijack US airliners was contained in a crucial briefing sent to Bush on August 6... After the September 11 attacks, it emerged the UK was the nerve centre for al-Qaeda operations in the west."

Bush Ignored MORE 911 Warnings from Jordan and Morocco About the 'Big Wedding'
23-May-02
September 11 Exposes

John K. Cooley writes, "Jordan and probably Morocco advised U.S. and allied intelligence that Al Qaeda terrorists controlled by Osama bin Laden planned major airborne terrorist operations in the continental United States... The text stated clearly that a major attack was planned inside the continental United States. It said aircraft would be used. But neither hijacking, nor, apparently, precise timing nor targets were named. The code name of the operation was mentioned: in Arabic, Al Ourush al Kabir, 'The Big Wedding.'" In addition, French and Moroccan publications reported that "a Moroccan secret agent named Hassan Dabou succeeded in infiltrating Al Qaeda. Several weeks before Sept. 11, the story ran, he informed his chiefs in King Mohammed VI's royal intelligence service that Osama bin Laden's men were preparing 'large-scale operations in New York in the summer or autumn of 2001.'" Dabou came to the US to inform the Bush administration, and was given asylum and a new identity.

The Smoking Cannon - Phoenix FBI Agent Linked Pilot Trainees To Osama bin Laden
23-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Weeks before Sept. 11, an FBI agent connected several students at Arizona aviation schools to a militant Muslim group whose founder talked of attacking airports and received a letter from Osama Bin Laden encouraging the downing of commercial airliners, government officials say. Agent Ken Williams' July 2001 memo raised concerns about the students' affiliation with Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammed's group because the sheik had been involved with a fatwa - an Islamic call to action - that suggested airports as one of several legitimate attack targets in the United States, officials told The Associated Press. In addition, Williams had identified another Muslim figure in Arizona who wasn't training at aviation schools but was linked through phone communications to one of bin Laden's top lieutenants, Abu Zubaydah, the officials said Wednesday, speaking only on condition of anonymity.

NY Post Reports FAA Withheld 911 Warning
23-May-02
September 11 Exposes

"The Federal Aviation Administration admitted yesterday it had decided not to order a security alert at the nation's airports despite being warned a week before Sept. 11 that the man now accused as the '20th hijacker' was in custody. FAA spokesman Scott Brenner confirmed that the FBI tipped off his agency on Sept. 4 that Zacarias Moussaoui, who was arrested Aug. 17 after a Minnesota flight school reported he was behaving suspiciously, was being investigated as a likely terrorist who had a special interest in flying Boeing 747 jetliners. But Brenner said there was no reason to think he was part of a larger conspiracy, and the FAA decided not to issue a security alert to the airports." Who was in charge at the FAA? Let's put him/her under oath and get the whole story, not just the leaks.

French Intelligence Told the FBI in August that Al-Qaeda Trained Moussaoui -- but the Bush-Ashcroft Axis of Incompetence Did Nothing
23-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Salon swings the big timber! Damien Cave writes of the two French authors, who say "that the FBI bungled more than the Phoenix memo. In 'Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth," [Brisard and Dasquie] alleged that the Clinton and Bush administrations went easy on al-Qaida before Sept. 11 to maintain good relations with Saudi Arabia and to continue to bargain with the Taliban over a Central Asian oil pipeline. They also assert that then negotiations broke off after the U.S. threatened to attack the Taliban unless it agreed to U.S. demands, perhaps precipitating the 9/11 attacks. [The U.S. edition will come] out in July, with an explosive new chapter... In it, Brisard asserts that French intelligence officials warned their U.S. counterparts in considerable detail about al-Qaida's ties to Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged 20th hijacker, but the U.S. failed to act on the information." Impeach Bush NOW!!!

Did FBI Terrorism Expert John O'Neill QUIT Over Bush's Refusal to Heed the Phoenix Memo?
23-May-02
September 11 Exposes

MediaWhoresOnline writes, "At the end of August, in disgust, [FBI terrorism expert John] O'Neill left the FBI to take what he somewhat ruefully regarded as his 'retirement' job - as head of security at the World Trade Center. There, on September 11, [he] died at the hands of his arch-enemy bin Laden's fiendish followers. Connect the dots? Well, duh! O'Neill got the Phoenix message. No one would listen... The Bushies had backed off bin Laden. So O'Neill changed jobs - and went on to die a martyr's death. While all the people who ignored him, on up the chain to the Oval Office, live on - ghoulishly making political hay out of his sacrifice and their own incompetence - and... their own perfidy. But here's the really amazing thing - having unearthed this blockbuster, NY Times reporters David Johnston and Don Van Natta, Jr. simply bury it in their story. They report, incredibly, that O'Neill simply 'retired' back in August - ignoring the well-known background, leaving the dots unconnected!"

John O'Neill, the FBI's Expert on Bin Laden, Received the Phoenix Memo - Did Bush Ignore Him???
22-May-02
September 11 Exposes

"The (Phoenix) memorandum… expressed concern that Mr. bin Laden and other groups could be using the flight schools to prepare for terror attacks. It urged F.B.I. officials to check the visas of foreigners at American aviation academies. But no action was taken before Sept. 11. The memorandum was sent to counterterrorism offices in two cities — one copy went to John O'Neill, then the top counterterrorism agent in the F.B.I.'s New York office. Mr. O'Neill retired from the F.B.I... He had just begun a job as security chief of the World Trade Center when he was killed in the attacks." But the Times refuses to tell O'Neill's story about WHY O'Neill resigned - see the related link to MediaWhoresOnline.com...

Did Bush Ignore Five Warnings from Mossad?
22-May-02
September 11 Exposes

According to an undocumented article by Gordon Thomas, "Mossad chiefs insist the Israeli spy agency was tracking Osama Bin-Laden's terrorists in America before September 11 and that that the information was passed on to the CIA on Five separate occasions before the attacks on the WTC and Pentagon. As late as August 24... a Mossad warning, confirmed by German intelligence, BND, said that 'terrorists plan to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture.' The warning alert was passed to the CIA," and also sent indirectly through Britain's MI6 and Russian intelligence. "Mossad's fury at the failure of the US intelligence community to act has been compounded by the revelation that the Bush administration had ordered the FBI Only a Week Before the September attacks to curtail investigations on two of Osama Bin-Laden's close relatives living in the US state of Virginia at the time." More reason for an independent commission!

FBI Bureaucrats Put Phoenix Memo Into the 'Circular File' - Let's Do the Same With Their Careers!
21-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Washington Post's Dan Eggen reports, "A Phoenix FBI agent's request for a canvass of U.S. flight schools for al Qaeda terrorists was formally rejected within several weeks of his July 10 memo, after mid-level officials at FBI headquarters determined they did not have the manpower to carry out the task, sources familiar with the memo said yesterday. The request was forwarded to counterterrorism chiefs at FBI headquarters and the New York field office, but one of the terrorism units in Washington decided by early August that the document's suggestions were largely unworkable in the midst of more immediate cases, sources said. 'Even to this day, no one seems to know who knew what and where critical information went at FBI headquarters,' Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said after meeting with Mueller and Williams yesterday. 'They still don't have answers to . . . why things fell apart before September 11.'" It's time for some heads to roll at the FBI!

Meria Heller Interviews Lt. Mike Vreeland, Who Warned About 911
21-May-02
September 11 Exposes

"Mike is the whistleblower who was with the Office of Naval Intelligence for over 16 years who produced the note with the targets in the U.S. and the ominous words 'let one happen, stop the rest' on it to the Canadian gov't on Aug 11th or 12th. Mike gave warnings yet no one paid attention to him. He is currently hiding out for fear of his life in Canada. The Navy has now stated he was NEVER in the service, when he has more than enough proof of his lifetime career. When the gov't is done with you, you are DONE. This interview proves that, and is quite shocking. Mike believes that they know another event will happen so why not say where? Wow. This is heavy duty stuff. Will it be 3 Mile Island? East Coast? Our water supply? Again Mike is talking and no one is listening. He said he began his warnings as far back as December 6, 2000 to the CIA, FBI, DOD, JAG and many more agencies. They chose to ignore them. Why? Money and Oil. Power. The Bush family IS 'organized crime' according to Mike."

US Planned Attack on Taliban Months Before 911
20-May-02
September 11 Exposes

On 9-18-01, BBC reported: "Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October... US representatives told him that unless Bin Laden was handed over swiftly America would take military action to kill or capture both Bin Laden and the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar. The wider objective, according to Mr Naik, would be to topple the Taliban regime and install a transitional government of moderate Afghans in its place - possibly under the leadership of the former Afghan King Zahir Shah. Mr Naik was told that Washington would launch its operation from bases in Tajikistan, where American advisers were already in place... Uzbekistan would also participate [and] 17,000 Russian troops were on standby. Mr Naik was told that if the military action went ahead it would take place before the snows started falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October at the latest."

SMOKING GUN: The Evidence that May Hang G. W. Bush - Part I : A Preliminary Hearing in the Court of Common Sense
20-May-02
September 11 Exposes

At the VERY LEAST, Bush allowed 9/11 to happen. But the evidence indicates his guilt involves more than just a huge sin of omission – this now seems certain. So it is ulcer-forming to watch him, Cheney, Condoleezza Rice and their PR army try to sell America yet another Big Lie - that they had no idea such a thing as 9/11 could happen... they could never have imagined it in their wildest dreams... they had no specific warnings... there was nothing unusual about the summer 2001 warnings, etc. etc. ad nauseum. In a three-part series, we present material that clearly shows that the above litany is blatantly, arrogantly false. In part one, we hold a preliminary "hearing" in the "Court of Common Sense"...

In July 2001, the FAA Suddenly REVOKED a Rule Allowing Pilots to be Armed
20-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Shortly after the Bay of Pigs crisis in 1961, the Kennedy administration adopted a rule that permitted commercial airline pilots to be armed. The rule was passed to protect flights from possible hijacking by Cubans. Although no airlines ever availed themselves of this right, it seems very strange that the rule was rescinded in July 2001 - right at the HEIGHT of the most serious terrorist warnings to be issued by intelligence sources in decades, which focused on HIJACKINGS. It seems, instead, that this should have been the time for the Bush administration to insist that pilots be armed - either with guns or tasers! Just like the timing of everything that happened in the second half of 2001, we sniff something a lot more foul than politics...

The FBI Warned the FAA of Hijackings One Week Before 911, But the FAA Did NOT Warn the Airlines
20-May-02
September 11 Exposes

The Wall Street Journal reports, "A week before the Sept. 11 attack, [the FBI] told the Federal Aviation Administration that student-pilot Zacarias Moussaoui had been arrested and was under investigation as a potential terrorist with a particular interest in flying Boeing 747s. But the [FAA] decided against warning U.S. airlines to increase security... A senior law-enforcement official said, 'The logic at the time was that he intended to hijack a plane.' ... On Sept. 4, the FAA's liaison to the FBI, Jack Salata, was told FBI officials had detained Mr. Moussaoui on immigration charges... Mr. Salata, who worked out of FBI headquarters at the time, notified his superiors at the FAA's Office of Civil Aviation Security... [The FAA said] they didn't have enough information to warrant issuing an advisory to airlines." But on June 22, the FAA DID warn the airlines about an earlier hijacking threat. Who ran the FAA Security office, and why did (s)he ignore the warnings?

Condi Lied - Pentagon Prepared for Civilian Airliner Crash in 2000
20-May-02
September 11 Exposes

"Washington, D.C., Nov. 3, 2000 - The fire and smoke from the downed passenger aircraft billows from the Pentagon courtyard. Defense Protective Services Police seal the crash sight. Army medics, nurses and doctors scramble to organize aid... Don Abbott, of Command Emergency Response Training, walks over to the Pentagon and extinguishes the flames. The Pentagon was a model and the 'plane crash' was a simulated one. The Pentagon Mass Casualty Exercise, as the crash was called, was just one of several scenarios that emergency response teams were exposed to Oct. 24-26... 'We go over scenarios that are germane to the Pentagon,' Jake Burrell of the Pentagon Emergency Management Team said. 'You play the way you practice. We want people to go back to their organizations and look at their S.O.P. and see how they responded to any of the incidents.' Burrell has coordinated these exercises for four years and he remarked that his team gets better each year." Condi lied - an attack WAS contemplated!

If Bush Didn't Know the Attacks Were Coming, Why Did Jeb Declare A State Of Emergency on September 7th?
19-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Bart Cop Asks, "Why did Jeb call up the Florida National Guard on Sept 7, 2001 if his brother had no idea what was coming? Why did Jeb get a warning, but New York was left high and dry? [Here is an excerpt from Jeb's Executive Order]: Based on the potential massive damage to life and property that may result from an act of terrorism at a Florida port, the necessity to protect life and property from such acts of terrorism, and inhibiting the smuggling of illegal drugs into the State of Florida, the use of the Florida National Guard to support FDLE in accomplishing port security training and inspections is 'extraordinary support to law enforcement' as used in... Florida Statutes. I have hereunto set my hand and have caused the Great Seal of the State of Florida to be affixed at Tallahassee, the Capitol, this 7th day of September 2001.' If [Bush] told his brother Jeb an attack was coming, why couldn't he tell us?"

Woodward Says Condi and Ari LIED to America about the 8/01 Briefing by the CIA - Bush Should Fire Them!
18-May-02
September 11 Exposes

It's not every day that Bob Woodward calls the National Security Advisor and the White House Spokesman liars. So read Woodward's article "Aug. Memo Focused On Attacks in U.S." carefully: "In earlier comments this week, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and other administration officials stressed that intelligence officials were focused primarily on threats to U.S. interests overseas. But sources made clear yesterday that the briefing presented to Bush focused on attacks within the United States... Ari Fleischer told reporters yesterday said the headline on the document was, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike the United States.' But sources who have read the memo said the headline ended with the phrase 'in U.S.'" We demand that Bush fire Rice and Fleischer for lying to the American people about 911!

When Deceased FBI Deputy Director John O'Neill's Story Is Told, Bush Will Be Impeached
18-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Daily Brew writes, "It is simply impossible to examine the FBI's role... prior to 9/11 without examining the work of John O'Neill [who] quit the agency just two weeks prior to the 911 attacks to serve as Director of Security at the WTC, where he died in the attacks... French intelligence analysts Brisard and Dasquie claim to have met O'Neill several times last summer, and reported in their book, 'bin Laden: Hidden Truth' that O'Neill had complained bitterly that the US State Department - and behind it the oil lobby who make up Bush's entourage - blocked his attempts to prove bin Laden's guilt. They quote O'Neill as stating 'The main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism were US oil corporate interests, and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it.' They also charge that shortly after assuming office the Bush administration slowed down FBI investigations of Al Qaeda and terrorism in Afghanistan in order to do a deal with the Taliban for an oil pipeline across Afghanistan."

Feinstein Urged Cheney to Act Against Terrorism on 9/10 - But She Was Told to 'Wait Six Months'
17-May-02
September 11 Exposes

There really is no limit to the despicable things the Bushies will say. Ari attacked Senators Hillary Clinton and Dianne Feinstein, demanding to know "What did the Democrats in Congress know? And why weren't they talking to each other?" Of course, the Democrats only knew what Bush WANTED them to know, since Bush runs the CIA and the FBI. DiFi hit Ari right between the eyes with her response: "I was so concerned that I contacted Vice President Cheney's office that same month to urge that he restructure our counter-terrorism and homeland defense programs to ensure better accountability and prevent important intelligence information from slipping through the cracks. Despite repeated efforts by myself and staff, the White House did not address my request. I followed this up last September 2001 before the attacks and was told by 'Scooter' Libby that it might be another six months before he would be able to review the material. I told him I did not believe we had six months to wait."

Mike Ruppert of CopvCia.com to Appear on Geraldo
17-May-02
September 11 Exposes

From The Wilderness editor Mike Ruppert will appear live with Geraldo Rivera on the Fox News Network on Saturday, May 18 between 9-10 PM, EDT (6-7 PM Pacific time). The subject will be the overlooked issues of 9-11 and whether there was more credible evidence that the Bush Administration had about airliners being used as suicide bombers. This will be the first time Ruppert's explosive investigations are covered in the mainstream media. Get ready for a wild ride!

Did Nearly 3,000 Americans Die for an Oil Pipeline?
17-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Even before Bush took office in 2001, he was apparently scheming with Unocal to force through a deal with the Taliban to put an oil pipeline through Afghanistan. Thus, in AUGUST 2001, instead of taking steps to avert terrorist attacks, Bush was holding secret meetings with the Taliban over the pipeline, threatening to bury them "beneath a carpet of bombs" if they didn't play ball. Two weeks before Sept. 11, FBI deputy director John O'Neill - the nation's top Osama Bin Laden expert - quit in disgust because he felt Bush was placing corporate interests ahead of national security. This heroic man took a job as head of security at the WTC, where he died on 9/11. Did O'Neill KNOW the WTC was targeted and thus tried in his own way to protect the bulding and those in it because the "President of the United States" REFUSED to?

Bush Had Game Plan to Remove Al Qaeda Two Days Before 911, But Didn't Review It… Was He Too Busy Vacationing?
17-May-02
September 11 Exposes

NBC reports, "Bush was expected to sign detailed plans for a worldwide war against al-Qaida two days before Sept. 11 but did not have the chance before the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington… The document, a National Security Presidential Directive, amounted to a 'game plan to remove al-Qaida from the face of the Earth'… outlined essentially the same war plan that the White House, the CIA and the Pentagon put into action after the Sept. 11 attacks. The administration most likely was able to respond so quickly to the attacks because it simply had to pull the plans 'off the shelf'… Officials did not believe that Bush had had the opportunity to closely review the document in the two days between its submission and the Sept. 11 attacks… Such a directive would normally be approved with the presidents [sic] knowledge by his Principals Committee," which in Bush's White House includes Rice, John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Paul O’Neill and George Tenet, among others.

Did Bush Lift Alert in August to Help His Friends in the Airline Industry?
17-May-02
September 11 Exposes

A look at annual patterns of air traffic shows that three of the heaviest months for air travel (and most lucrative months for the airline industry) are July, August, with September moderately heavy. We all know that the first few weeks of Sept. are especially heavy air traffic times, because of college students and Labor Day. It sure looks like Bush's first concern both BEFORE and AFTER 9/11 was the well-being of the bank accounts of the Airline industry, not the well-being of the American people. We bet Bush made sure there was no travel restrictions after the first week of August to make sure the industry was free to collect its annual August-through-early-September windfall. The fact that he made sure the airlines were also first in line for government handouts AFTER 9/11 is all but obscene.

Despite 'The Most Urgent Terrorist Warnings in Decades,' Bush Let Counterterrorism Agencies 'Stand Down'!
17-May-02
September 11 Exposes

At a top-level meeting on July 5 2001, 'Something really spectacular is going to happen here, and it's going to happen soon,' the government's top counterterrorism official, Richard Clarke, told the assembled group, according to two of those present. The group included the Federal Aviation Administration, along with the Coast Guard, FBI, Secret Service and Immigration and Naturalization Service. Clarke directed every counterterrorist office to cancel vacations, defer nonvital travel, put off scheduled exercises and place domestic rapid-response teams on much shorter alert. For six weeks last summer, at home and overseas, the U.S. government was at its highest possible state of readiness - and anxiety - against imminent terrorist attack. That intensity - defensive in nature - did not last. By the time Bush received his briefing at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Aug. 6, the government had begun to stand down from the alert." AND WHY DID BUSH LET THEM STAND DOWN??? WE DEMAND ANSWERS!

Ari's Biggest Lie: Bush WAS Warned About Suicide Hijackers!
16-May-02
September 11 Exposes

On May 15, Ari Fleischer declared: "The president [sic] did not - not - receive information about the use of airplanes as missiles by suicide bombers." But Michael Ruppert points out, "As reported in the German daily Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung (FAZ) on Sept. 14, the BND warned both the CIA and Israel in June that Middle Eastern terrorists were 'planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture.' The story specifically referred to an electronic eavesdropping system known as Echelon, wherein a number of countries tap cell phone and electronic communications in partner countries and then pool the information... [And] according to a story in Izvestia on Sept. 12, Russian intelligence warned the U.S. last summer that as many as 25 suicide pilots were training for suicide missions involving the crashing of airliners into important targets." Folks, der SS Bushanic has just hit the iceberg of truth, and it's about to sink...

Ari Caught in 911 Lie: It Depends on the Meaning of 'Warning'
16-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Ron Fournier of the AP writes, "Bush was told a month before Sept. 11 that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack American airplanes, the White House said Thursday as lawmakers questioned whether the government ignored repeated warning signs... Peppered with questions about the presidential heads-up, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer sought to play down the development... The revelation instantly created a politically charged atmosphere in which every White House statement about pre-Sept. 11 threats was subjected to new scrutiny. Fleischer, for example, was asked by reporters hours after the attacks whether 'there had been any warnings that the president [sic] knew of.' He replied, 'No warnings.' Fleischer stood by the comment Thursday, saying there indeed was no warning of suicide hijackings against American landmarks." Hey Ari - does Bush's answer depend on the meaning of "warning"?

Bush Administration DID Expect a Terrorist Attack by Air
16-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Jim Pittman writes in BuzzFlash, "You've heard that Bush was informed in the summer of 2001 that it was possible that al Qaeda was going to hijack an airplane. Already you can hear the media whores saying 'but there was no way to imagine they would be suicide bombers.' What follows is the proof of what His Nibs knew in July of 2001." Pittman cites numerous news reports about preparations for the July 2001 G8 Summit in Genoa Italy, which focused on surface-to-air missiles to shoot down SUICIDE attackers on Bush and the other G8 leaders. If GENOA was scanning the skies for terrorists, what about NEW YORK and WASHINGTON DC?

Questions the Media Should Be Asking About Bush's Pre-911 Warnings
16-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Howard Kurtz criticizes Bush in the wussiest of tones ("Unfairly, perhaps, it smells like the administration wasn't being entirely candid in the aftermath"), but now is not the time for the press to use kid gloves on the White House. Given the explosive revelations that the CIA warned Bush about the possibility of bin Laden hijacking planes, Bush (and NOT his obnoxious, arrogant, yammering mouthpiece Ari Fleischer) ought to be called before the media to account for himself and his administration. Here are some suggested questions the press corps OUGHT to ask, but since they're a bunch of Bush-coddlers, they probably won't: 1) Exactly WHAT did the CIA tell you? 2) What agencies did you inform (or not inform) about the warning (was the FAA notified??) 3) Why didn't you order increased security at airports? 4) Why didn't you put federal air marshals on random flights? These are just a few pressing questions that, for the sake of the American people, should be asked.

Still Secret FBI and CIA Memos Contain VERY Explosive Information - Release the Memos Now!
16-May-02
September 11 Exposes

The FBI and the CIA have been VERY careful in leaking the EXPLOSIVE memos containing crucial 911 warnings. They are desperate to create the impression that the warnings were too vague to have stopped the 911 attack. But this lie is about to fall apart. First the CIA: "Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) said yesterday that he has been told of a CIA document that reached Bush in August, warning him of a more specific al Qaeda attack involving an airliner." Next the FBI: "The FBI agent [in Phoenix] had made a 'strong connection' between a group of Middle Eastern aviation students he was investigating and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. The link was included in the five-page memorandum sent to FBI headquarters two months before the attacks. The agent was so concerned that he mentioned bin Laden in the first sentence of the memo, which suggested that terrorists from al Qaeda or other groups might be using flight schools to prepare for a hijacking or bombing plot." Release the memos now!

Bush Was Warned About Bin Laden Hijacking in August!!
15-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Eight months after 911, the White House has finally admitted that Bush was warned by the CIA at his pseudo-ranch in August 2001 that bin Laden was planning to hijack planes. As if this gives them an excuse, Ari Fleischer whined that Bush was told bin Laden planned to "engage in hijacking in the traditional pre-9/11 sense... not for the use of an airplane as a missile." Oh, so had Bush known bin Laden would fly planes into buildings, he would have done something, but since he expected just your everyday, normal type of hijacking, he sat on his hands and did... practically NOTHING?! Impeach Bush Now!!!

UNOCAL Gets Its Pipeline
15-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Yes, folks, our faith in corporate Bushmerica was not in vain. They didn't waste a minute. The reason this whole war was planned long before 911 has now come to pass before the bomb craters have even cooled. According to Afghanistan's Minister for Mines and Industries, UNOCAL has been named "lead company" in the construction of the long-coveted gas pipeline! Strangely, Unocal says it is "not involved in any projects (including pipelines) in Afghanistan" - so who's lying now?

Pre-911 Insider Stock Trading Remains Unexplained
13-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Snopes.com is THE site to visit for Internet rumors and hoaxes. And Snopes is still waiting for an explanation of the insider stock trading that immediately preceeded 911. "Bloomberg data show that on 6 September, the Thursday before that black Tuesday, put-option volume in UAL stock was nearly 100 times higher than normal - 2,000 versus 27 on the previous day. On 6 and 7 September, the Chicago Board Options Exchange handled 4,744 put options for United Airlines' stock, translating into 474,000 shares, compared with just 396 call options, or 39,600 shares. On a day that the put-to-call ratio should have been roughly 1:1 (no negative news stories about United had broken), it was instead 12:1. On 10 September, another uneventful news day, American Airlines' option volume was 4,516 puts and 748 calls, a ratio of 6:1 on yet another day when by rights these options should have been trading even. No other airline stocks were affected - only United and American were shorted in this fashion."

CIA Ignored Malaysian Warnings About 9-11 Hijackers
13-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Newsweek's Michael Isikoff reports, "Congressional investigators believe there are more embarrassing documents to come. Another sensitive issue: the CIA's failure to aggressively follow up on information provided by Malaysian authorities in January 2000 about a meeting in Kuala Lumpur of Al Qaeda operatives—including two men who turned out to be among the 9-11 hijackers. Malaysian officials passed along photos to the United States, but they never heard back and stopped monitoring the suspects, one Malaysian official told NEWSWEEK. CIA officials said the significance of the meeting didn’t become clear until much later. But by the time the CIA alerted the FBI, it was too late." Why did the CIA IGNORE the Malaysian warnings? We demand a Blue Ribbon Commission!

Before 9-11, the FBI Read Moussaoui's E-Mail that 'He Wanted to Learn to Fly a 747 from London's Heathrow to New York's JFK'
13-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Here's another explosive 9-11 revelation: the FBI read Zacarias Moussaoui's e-mail before 9-11 and "found he wanted to learn to fly a 747 from London's Heathrow to New York's JFK. The agents held 'brainstorming' sessions to try to figure out what targets might be en route. The agents were 'in a frenzy,' 'absolutely convinced he was planning to do something with a plane,' said a senior official. One agent wrote that 'one possibility' was that Moussaoui might be planning to crash into the Twin Towers." According to Newsweek's Michael Isikoff, FBI Director Robert Mueller "referred to this memo by a Minneapolis FBI agent in testimony before Congress last week, but no newspaper reported this. Why did the FBI ignore this warning? Why did the FBI ignore similar warnings from its agents in Phoenix? And were there warnings from FBI agents in Florida, where most of the hijackers were learning to fly? We demand a Blue Ribbon Commission!

The FAA Investigated a 9/11 Highjacker in January 2001 -- But Did Nothing
11-May-02
September 11 Exposes

John Solomon of the AP reports, "Long before the terrorism of Sept. 11, an Arizona flight school warned federal aviation officials [three times!] that Hani Hanjour lacked the flying skills and command of English required for the commercial pilot's license he already held, officials say... Hanjour is believed to have piloted the plane that crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11. [FAA] inspector John Anthony checked to ensure that Hanjour's 1999 license was legitimate... [but] didn't tell the FBI or take action to rescind Hanjour's license." So how DID Hanjour get a commercial license in the first place?? Why DIDN'T Anthony tell the FBI or revoke Hanjour's license?? And did Hanjour really have the skills to execute a 270 degree turn over Washington DC and score a bullseye on the Pentagon?? These are important questions that require serious answers.

Did FBI Director Robert Mueller LIE to Congress About the Crucial 911 Warning from Phoenix?
10-May-02
September 11 Exposes

On May 3, John Solomon of the AP revealed that a vigilant FBI agent in Phoenix was suspicious of local Arab flight students and wrote a detailed memo urging a nationwide investigation of flight schools. Solomon added, "The FBI sent the intelligence to its terrorism experts in Washington and New York for analysis and had begun discussing conducting a nationwide canvass of flight schools when the Sept. 11 tragedies occurred, officials told The Associated Press." But on May 8, FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress "he doubted that the memorandum was reviewed at a senior level by agency directors. He said he did not believe that the memorandum had been sent to the joint C.I.A.-F.B.I. counterterrorism center." If Solomon's sources are reliable, then Mueller LIED TO CONGRESS. Once again, we demand a Blue Ribbon Commission!

On August 16, An FBI Agent in Minneapolis Told his Superiors that Moussaoui 'Could Fly Something into the World Trade Center'
09-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Here is ANOTHER shocking new fact about the extent of the 911 warnings that were sent to Bush's top anti-terrorism officials from US and foreign government agents. As the NY Post reports, "It was previously known that instructors at a Minnesota flight school warned local FBI agents that Moussaoui - later described as the '20th hijacker' - might try to fly a plane loaded with fuel into a building." But FBI Director Robert Mueller told Senators on May 9 "for the first time that an FBI investigator took that horrifying threat further - and actually considered the scenario that occurred Sept. 11." "In one of the notes, the agent in Minneapolis mentioned the possibility of Moussaoui being the type of person who could fly something into the World Trade Center," Mueller said. Who at the FBI and the CIA reviewed this memo? Did they simply IGNORE this warning?????

CIA Deputy Director Admits 'We Knew al Qaeda was Planning a Major Attack'
09-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Online Journal's Larry Chin reports that Jim Pavitt, CIA Deputy Director for Operations, recently admitted CIA foreknowledge of 911. "We had very, very good intelligence of the general structure and strategies of the al Qaeda terrorist organization. We knew and we warned that al Qaeda was planning a major strike." But Pavitt insists "We never found the tactical intelligence, never uncovered the specifics that could have stopped those tragic strikes." Is this the truth - or a CIA disinformation campaign? There is only one way to find out - the CIA (and all other agencies, including the FBI, the NSA, and the White House) must declassify ALL relevant documents, and a Blue Ribbon Commission must be appointed to demand the truth from those who are paid over $300 billion each year for "intelligence" and "defense"!

CBS' 60 Minutes II Asks: Could 911 Have Been Stopped?
09-May-02
September 11 Exposes

60 Minutes reports, "One of the unanswered questions of [911] is whether there was anything U.S. intelligence could have done to stop the attacks… The FBI hauled in a French citizen, Zacarias Moussaoui… We now know that, back in August, Moussaoui's possessions contained evidence that would expose key elements of the [911] conspiracy. The FBI didn't search Moussaoui's things because it says it didn't have enough evidence for a search warrant. Critical evidence was in the hands of French intelligence… 60 Minutes talked with several sources in French intelligence and they all agree on three points. First, back as early as 1995 French agents traced Moussaoui to Afghanistan on what they believe was a trip to an Al Qaeda camp. Second, in 1999, the French put Moussaoui on a watch list of potential terror suspects. Third, in 2000, French intelligence followed Moussaoui to Pakistan. They believe he went to see a man named Abu Jaffa - a top lieutenant to Osama bin Laden." Investigate 911 NOW!

If the CIA and Bush Administration Weren't Involved in 9/11 What WERE They Doing?
08-May-02
September 11 Exposes

Investigator/journalist and former LAPD officer Michael Ruppert is sure that the CIA, a secret cartel of major corporations and the Bush administration colluded in the events leading to 9/11. Ruppert has spent several months trying to reconstruct the significant events leading up to the suicide attacks. Here he presents 34 separate but connected and well-documented "steps" that lead to the horrendous disaster of 9/11. After reading them, you will find yourself wondering why ANYONE would question Cynthia McKinney's call for a REAL investigation of what may prove to be the most heinous inside job ever pulled off on American soil.

Bush's FBI was WARNED TWO MONTHS before September 11th
03-May-02
September 11 Exposes

The secret investigation of 9-11 is producing nearly secret revelations about what the Bush Administration knew prior to 9-11. Today, the FBI leaked portions of a memo written in July 2001 - two months before 9-11 - by an FBI agent in Arizona, where "agents were suspicious about why several nonresident Arab men were seeking training at a commercial aeronautical school in Prescott, Ariz." The memo urged FBI offices around the country to ask flight schools about similar suspicious activity. The memo went to the highest levels of the FBI's counter-terrorism efforts, but NO ACTION WAS TAKEN UNTIL AFTER 9-11. Why not??? This is just one more reason why we need a Blue Ribbon Commission to investigate 9-11!

Democrats.com Exclusive: Jean-Charles Brisard Reveals New Insights on Events Leading up to 911
30-Apr-02
September 11 Exposes

In an exclusive interview with Democrats.com, French intelligence analyst Jean-Charles Brisard reviews how his book, Bin Laden: The Hidden Truth, co-authored with Guillaume Dasquie, has fared since it was published in France six months ago. Brisard alleges that the raids of Arab and Muslim so-called charities in Northern Virginia last month (still largely unreported in the U.S. news media) have put American law enforcement officials in direct conflict with the most powerful protector of Saudi Arabian interests in the world -- the Texas oil men who run the Bush White House.

9-11 Conspiracy Theories: From Worthwhile to X-File
27-Apr-02
September 11 Exposes

Alex's Restaurant creator Peter Sinclair has collected various "conspiracy" theories about 9-11, and attempted to distinguish the "Worthwhile" theories from the "X-File" theories. Use this handy resource to learn about some of the major questions the Republicans refuse to investigate, and come to your own conclusions. Click on each category heading to display the items.

Gore Vidal Says US Is Governed by an 'Oil Junta' and the War in Afghanistan 'Is About Oil'
27-Apr-02
September 11 Exposes

In a long Salon interview, Gore Vidal says, "We are now governed by a junta of oil-Pentagon men. They're mostly from the oil business, both Bushes, Cheney, Rumsfeld and so on. They are in charge, and this is the last great coup which will benefit them personally, and it will also benefit, I'm sure they're sufficiently patriotic to believe, the US, to have this vast supply of oil, out of central Asia, through various pipelines. We can't use Iran, because we've demonized them too much. That would be simpler. Turkey has been dicey. But the Pakistan-Afghanistan route was okay, and then the Taliban got too crazy for us and too unstable... The junta, the oil junta in charge of us, regards all the world as its enemy. And its largest enemy are the American people, and they know it. A majority of the American people voted against Bush. We not only have a minority - in my mind an illegitimate - president, but one who does not represent the people at large and does not like the people at large."

The Most Thorough Examination of Pentagon Crash Finds Large Plane, but Not Flight 77
26-Apr-02
September 11 Exposes

An Internet debate is raging whether the plane that crashed into the Pentagon was Flight 77, a Boeing 757. This is the most thorough examination of the available data that we have seen, and it concludes "(1) The hole in the Pentagon wall appears to have been made by an aircraft, however, the hole is too small to have been made by a Boeing 757. (2) The damage to the Pentagon is about as extensive as one would expect from the crash of a large aircraft, although one that was somewhat smaller than a Boeing 757. (3) The public has absolutely no evidence that Boeing 757 debris has been recovered from the site. (4) The photos of "the explosion" of flight 77 are a complete and utter fabrication. (5) Why these photos were fabricated, who fabricated them, and why the media ran the story, remain a mystery. (6) Although, the middle level military are being honest about what happened on 9-11, factions within the media are deliberately lying. The reasons for this are not clear." Judge for yourself.

Nightline Finally Discovers the Unocal Pipeline in Afghanistan!
25-Apr-02
September 11 Exposes

Democrats.com first mentioned Unocal's desire to build a $2 billion pipeline across Afghanistan on 10-12-01. Six months later, Nightline is finally mentioning it - along with the post-911 US military takeover of Central Asia's vast oil fields. On Thursday and Friday, Nightline will broadcast a 2-part whitewash, as their preview makes clear. "Is this why we went to war over there? No. But the U.S. certainly seems positioned to take advantage of the new realities." Oh, so it was just a lucky coincidence! Why didn't WE think of that? Will Nightline dare to interview Brisard and Dasquie, authors of "Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth" who revealed that the Bush administration promised the Taliban a "carpet of gold" if they let Unocal build its pipeline - or a "carpet of bombs" if they did not? E-mail nightline@abcnews.com

December 7, 2001 was Another 'Day of Infamy' - Bush Let Bin Laden Escape into Pakistan!
25-Apr-02
September 11 Exposes

According to the LA Times, in November 2001 Osama Bin Laden was holed up in the caves of Tora Bora, and anti-Taliban forces were eager to capture him, but Bush chose to drop expensive "daisy cutters" built by his defense contractor buddies, instead of spending a few dollars for anti-Taliban guns and food. Did Bush REALLY want to get Bin Laden? One top commander's aide said "I don't think the U.S. wants to capture Osama. We know where he is, we tell him, and they do nothing." "Around Dec. 7, the soldiers overheard Bin Laden on the radio. He was still in Tora Bora, but 'they were getting ready to move,' said Haji Zahir, another senior Afghan commander. The next morning, tribal scouts said they saw Bin Laden picking his way over the hills on horseback. The Saudi exile was flanked by four Al Qaeda guards, commander Haji Khalan Mir said." Bush let Bin Laden walk into Pakistan! Was this utter negligence, or does Bush want Bin Laden to live - to justify a permanent "war against terror"???

Mohamed Atta Kept a Terrorist E-Mail List
25-Apr-02
September 11 Exposes

"Mohamed Atta sent polemical emails, including one containing a gruesome photo of a dead Palestinian child, to a regular email list of some 40 individuals, all of whom became the focus of intense scrutiny from the FBI after the list's existence became known last September, the MadCowMorningNews has learned. Alarmingly, the email addresses of several of the names on Atta's 'terrorist e-list' appear to have been, or still are, employees of US defense contractors... The discovery of Atta's emails came about when a local avionics salesman at Eastern Avionics sold a headset to Marwan Al-Shehhi, authorities said, after which his email address was added to a list kept by the terrorist duo, apparently sharing a single email account...The discovery of Atta's emails deals another blow to the FBI's increasingly-flimsy chronology of the terrorists sojourn in the US... The evidence... strongly indicates that Atta and Al-Shehhi were in Punta Gorda as early as April of 2000."

Mike Ruppert Argues the Bush Administration Could Have Prevented 9-11
23-Apr-02
September 11 Exposes

Former LAPD officer Mike Ruppert has studied the dark side of US foreign policy for decades. He writes: "A dispassionate examination of existing reliable, open-source evidence on advance warnings of the Sept. 11 attacks provides strong and sustainable grounds to conclude the Bush Administration was in possession of sufficient advance intelligence to have prevented the attacks, had it wished to do so. With a known intelligence budget of approximately $30 billion, it must be assumed there are classified files that only add to the weight of the available data presented here." He focuses on four areas where the U.S. had advance info: "Documented warnings received by the United States Government (USG) from foreign intelligence services; Obvious and large scale insider stock trading in the days before the attacks; Known intelligence successes achieved by the USG in its penetrations of Al Qaeda; and, the case of Delmart 'Mike' Vreeland, a U.S. Naval intelligence officer jailed in Canada."

Is Mike Vreeland Crazy Too?
19-Apr-02
September 11 Exposes

9-11 conspiracy buffs are familiar with the story of Lt. Delmart "Mike" Vreeland, a naval intelligence officer who "predicted" the 9-11 attacks in August 2001 from a prison cell in Canada. Vreeland has been attacked as crazy by some, defended as possessing unique knowledge by others. Vreeland and his principal supporter, former LAPD officer Mike Ruppert, were interviewed for 3 hours by Jeff Rense.

What WAS Mohamed Atta Doing in Venice Florida?
19-Apr-02
September 11 Exposes

"Contradicting the FBI's chronology of the terrorists final days, an investigation by the MadCowMorningNews has learned exclusively that on three separate occasions during the final six weeks before September 11 Mohamed Atta was in Venice on Florida's Gulf Coast, a place the FBI's chronology says he left fully nine months before, visiting subjects unknown for reasons unknown... The glaring omission of the fact that Atta had... a continuing presence in the retirement community of Venice raises disturbing questions when viewed against the backdrop of continuing suspicion about the nature of the operations being carried out there at two Dutch-owned flight schools, which together trained three of the four terrorist pilots. Discovering that the terrorist conspiracy was based in Venice, or had still-unexplained links there, would seem to be a useful lead to the enfeebled FBI, which has been unable to track down any living participants in a conspiracy which claimed 3000 lives."

Here's the First English Translation of an Interview with Thierry Meyssan, Author of 'The Frightening Fraud'
17-Apr-02
September 11 Exposes

"French author Thierry Meyssan's bestseller on 9-11 'The Frightening Fraud' has caused quite a stir in Europe and numerous reports on the book and its theses have appeared even in the Chinese media. Why did Thierry Meyssan write this book in the first place? How did he go about his investigation? How convincing is his case? What does he think of the reaction of the mainstream media? With these questions our reporter interviewed the polemical leftist author." So begins the interview by Sina.com, the most popular Chinese language information website, translated into English by Jean Delvigne.

September 11 Investigations: Judge for Yourself
16-Apr-02
September 11 Exposes

The 911 attack was the worst act of terrorism in US history. Numerous Senators - led by Joe Lieberman (D-CT), John McCain (R-AZ), and Bob Torricelli (D-CT) - have called for an investigation of the events leading up to 911. Their goal is not to point fingers, but rather to take all steps necessary to prevent another 911. This seems reasonable, doesn't it? But George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and the Republican leadership in Congress adamantly refuse to conduct an investigation. These leaves Americans wondering: why won't the Bush administration investigate 911? Do they have something to hide? A growing number of independent researchers have attempted to investigate 911. This page contains links to the most comprehensive efforts. Judge them for yourself.

Michael Moore Asks 5 Important Questions About September 11
13-Apr-02
September 11 Exposes

Michael Moore's #1 bestseller "Stupid White Men" was written before September 11. Now Moore is asking some of the unasked questions about 9-11. 1. "Why was it in the days after September 11, when no plane could fly anywhere in the country, the Bush administration allowed one plane to fly" - the plane evacuating the Bin Laden family. 2. "What are the financial connections between the bin Ladens and the Bushs?" 3. "What was Bush's involvement in the 1997 Texas meeting between the Taliban and oil executives?" 4. "Why was it the Bush administration gave $43 million of our tax money to the Taliban last May? In what form did they give the money?" 5. "Is Bin Laden back in Saudi Arabia?"

What Did They Know and When Did They Know It?
13-Apr-02
September 11 Exposes

Carolyn Kay of MakeThemAccountable.com has created an outstanding Web page that dares to ask the questions that Bush, the Republican Congress, and the Media refuse to ask: What Did They Know and When Did They Know It? Kay's page links to dozens of MAINSTREAM media sources, not conspiracy theories. Given that 9-11 was the worst terrorist attack on American soil, aren't we entitled to ANSWERS to these questions? That's why Democrats.com has been calling for a Blue-Ribbon Investigation of 9-11.

Is Ted Olson Lying About Barbara's Calls from Flight 77?
09-Apr-02
September 11 Exposes

Right-wing commentator Barbara Olson's two calls to right-wing Solicitor General Ted Olson during the hijacking of Flight 77 instantly became legendary. Barbara's last words, "What do I tell the pilot to do?" were cited as the epitome of her courage and leadership. But as time goes by, Ted keeps changing his story. On 9-11, he told CNN and the NY Times that she called him from her cellphone. On 9-12, he told the London Telegraph, "She called and said she was locked in the toilet." On 9-14, the Telegraph wrote: "She had locked herself in the lavatory and had to call 10 times before she could persuade the operators to accept the call charges." But on 3-5-02, Ted told the Telegraph: "She had had trouble getting through, because she wasn't using her cellphone, she was using the phone in the passengers' seats. I guess she didn't have her purse, because she was calling collect..." Why is Ted changing his story? Is he lying about his own wife's death? Where are the phone records for 9-11?

FBI Missed Key Story About 9-11 Hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi
08-Apr-02
September 11 Exposes

The Mad Cow Morning News is doing an outstanding job covering the 9-11 flight school angle, and scooped the media again. "Less than six weeks before the Sept. 11th attack Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi engaged in a fist-pounding shouting match... at The Pelican Alley restaurant in Venice Florida. Long after the FBI's official chronology asserts that Atta's Hamburg cadre had left Venice, their initial port of entry into American pilot training, the core of the terrorist group was still moving in and out of town, asserts 'Mohamed Atta & the Venice Flying Circus,' a new documentary investigating the Florida flight schools training terrorist pilots. An eight-minute segment is airing this week at www.theconspiracychannel.com." As Daniel Hopsicker points out, "The FBI never finished its investigation into the Sept 11 disaster. Their work was halted by Pres. [sic] Bush, in an effort, he said, to free more manpower for the anthrax investigation." We demand a serious investigation of 9-11!

Thierry Meyssan's 'The Frightening Fraud' is a French Bestseller
02-Apr-02
September 11 Exposes

"The French are lapping up a Sept. 11 conspiracy theory that argues the plane that smashed into the Pentagon never existed and that the world has been duped by a murky U.S. government plot. Thierry Meyssan's book 'The Frightening Fraud' is flying off shelves according to booksellers and has topped bestseller lists. Meyssan, president of Reseau Voltaire, a respected left-wing think tank, reckons the American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon in Washington killing 189 on September 11 did not exist and that the whole thing was staged by the government. 'I believe the American government is lying... No plane crashed into the Pentagon,' he told France 2 television. Meyssan did not provide an alternative theory for what may have damaged the Pentagon." So reports Reuters. For the eyewitness accounts of a plane hitting the Pentagon, visit http://criticalthrash.com/terror/identification.html

Bush's Homeland Security Pipeline
30-Mar-02
September 11 Exposes

"George W. Bush has been keeping quite a few things secret in the name of homeland security. After all, we need to stop terrorists from harming Americans on American soil, don't we? Of course, I like to feel secure. And, if I felt Bush were drafting energy legislation to help oil companies exploit Afghanistan, then I'd have to say he allowed 9/11 to happen. 9/11 essentially cleared the way for Halliburton, Unocal, Enron, and other oil and gas entities to make the Afghanistan pipeline possible. And, 9/11 enabled Bush to send U.S. troops to Afghanistan to clear away militant Taliban forces that are hostile to this pipeline project." So writes Harry Neville.

Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) Demands Accountability from Bush for 9-11 Failures
30-Mar-02
September 11 Exposes

Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) has always been an outspoken fighter for truth and justice. Now she is bravely going where no other politicians dare to go - denouncing the Stolen Election of 2000 and asking hard questions about 9-11. "Now is the time for our elected officials to be held accountable. Now is the time for the media to be held accountable. Why aren't the hard questions being asked? We know there were numerous warnings of the events to come on September 11. Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, delivered one such warning. Those engaged in unusual stock trades immediately before September 11 knew enough to make millions of dollars from United and American airlines, certain insurance and brokerage firms' stocks. What did this Administration know, and when did it know it about the events of September 11? Who else knew and why did they not warn the innocent people of New York who were needlessly murdered?" Read this powerful statement!

With a Jet Fighter Near, Cheney Ordered Flight 93 Shot Down 3 Times Without Hesitation
27-Mar-02
September 11 Exposes

According to the Washington Post, when Bush's plane took off at 9:55 am on 9-11, Cheney recommended military pilots be authorized to shoot down a civil airliner. "I said, 'You bet,'" Bush recalled. "We had a little discussion, but not much." "With Bush's approval, Rumsfeld passed the order down the chain of command. In the White House bunker, a military aide approached the vice president. 'There is a plane [Flight 93] 80 miles out,' he said. 'There is a fighter in the area. Should we engage?' 'Yes,' Cheney replied without hesitation... The military aide repeated the question, this time with even more urgency. The plane was now 60 miles out. 'Should we engage?' Cheney was asked. 'Yes,' he replied again. As the plane came closer, the aide repeated the question. Does the order still stand? 'Of course it does,' Cheney snapped. [He] said later that it had seemed 'painful, but nonetheless clear-cut. And I didn't agonize over it.'" The Pentagon says it didn't shoot, but who believes them?

NY Times Tries to Undercut Flight 93 Shootdown Theory, But It's The Only Theory Supported by the Evidence
27-Mar-02
September 11 Exposes

Karl Rove is using the NY Times to hide the truth about September 11, just as the Times lied for Bush about the Stolen Election. Rove gave the Times the official transcript of the cockpit voice recorder, along with Rove's official story. The Times is desperately trying to buttress the passenger-takeover theory, by claiming without evidence that "hijackers waggled the wings of the plane up and down in an effort to keep the passengers from moving forward" - which could also be explained by the plane's engine being shot off by a military jet. The Times also dismisses passenger Edward Felt's call to 911 reporting smoke and an explosion - also consistent with a shot-off engine. There is no doubt heroic passengers tried to storm the cockpit, but even the Times admits the tape offers no evidence they succeeded, or that the hijackers crashed the plane. Hijackers saying "They're coming" could mean US jets, as well as passengers. The evidence now points to a military shootdown, not a crash.

Flight 93 Evidence Mostly Points to Shootdown by Military Jet
27-Mar-02
September 11 Exposes

At 9:58 a.m. on 9-11, Dick Cheney ordered the military to shoot down Flight 93 three times, with "a fighter in the area." At 10:06, Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, PA. Before the crash, ground witnesses heard explosions followed by quiet, and saw the plane flip. Debris - including human remains and a one-ton engine part - was found as far as 8 miles from the crash site on a breezeless day. Witnesses also saw an unmarked white jet flying low nearby. Did a military jet - either an F-16 or a specially-equipped government plane - shoot off an engine under orders from Dick Cheney? The Pentagon denies it, and the cockpit tape offers few clues. The truth will not be known until the government releases the complete results of its investigation, including the two flight recorders, radar readings, the debris field map, and passenger phone call records. We demand a Blue Ribbon investigation!

Was Bush Watching the 'Psychic Network' on the Morning of September 11th?
25-Mar-02
September 11 Exposes

According to WH transcripts, on 12/04/01and again on 01/05/02, Bush made the following peculiar claims at two separate Town Hall Q&A sessions. When asked "how he learned of the terrorist attacks," Bush responded: "I was in Florida. And my chief of staff, Andy Card, Actually I was in a classroom talking about a reading program that works. I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower, the TV was obviously on. And I used to fly, myself, and I said, well, there's one terrible pilot. I said it must have been a horrible accident. But I was whisked off there, I didn't have much time to think about it. And I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my chief of staff, who is sitting over here, walked in and said, A second plane has hit the tower, America is under attack." One question: How did he watch the film of the first plane when it was still in Jules Gedeon's camera? What "TV was obviously on"?

Florida Flight School Owner's Story Changes Again, Raising New Questions About the Truth Regarding 9-11
15-Mar-02
September 11 Exposes

In the wake of the 3-11 INS scandal, Huffman Aviation owner Rudi Dekkers' story changed once again, according to the Mad Cow Morning News. "At first, Atta and Marwan each paid $10,000. That figure was later quietly revised to $20,000 apiece. Finally, this week, the Atta-Dekkers 'contract' grew once again, to almost $30,000 for each. Nobody has mentioned it so we will: This totally negates the stated purpose for the terrorist presence in Venice, which as you'll remember was to save a buck on flight training. According to aviation training experts we spoke to for half of what Rudi Dekker's was charging you can become a flight trainer yourself." Dekkers also says the terrorist starting training after 8-29-00, although flight records show Atta's training began on 7-6-00. The Bush administration and Congress continue to refuse to investigate 9-11, so it is up to Internet journalists like Mad Cow's Daniel Hopsicker to find out the truth through painstaking research.

Was Mohamed Atta Connected to Saudi Royal Family and Western Intelligence?
11-Mar-02
September 11 Exposes

According to several sources, including a flight instructor at Huffman Aviation in Venice Florida, 9/11 suicide pilot Mohamed Atta was connected to the Saudi Royal family. In fact, Marwan Al-Shehhi, who accompanied Atta to flight school and everywhere else, was a bodyguard provided by the Saudis. There is also growing suspicion in Germany that Atta maintained ties with Western intelligence agencies while in Technical School. One former German intelligence official says Atta participated in an elite program sponsored by the German equivalent of the Agency for International Development, an arm of the government which often harbors intelligence operatives in the U.S. So why isn't any of this being investigated? Because the FBI agents working on the case in Venice were pulled off on Bush's orders. His excuse? He needed more agents to investigate the anthrax scare - a scare that killed four, while Atta and his cohorts killed thousands. We demand a Blue Ribbon Commission to investigate 9-11!

Did a Boeing Really Hit the Pentagon on 9-11?
07-Mar-02
September 11 Exposes

On 3-7-02, the AP released three photos supposedly showing AA Flight 77 hitting the Pentagon. But these 3 photos raised more questions than they answered. First, the photos show the wrong date (9-12). Second, the Pentagon disavowed the photos, according to the AP. ("The photographs were not officially released by the Pentagon, but officials said the images were authentic and had been provided to law enforcement officials investigating the attack.") Finally, no identifiable plane was visible in the 3 photos. This led Internet researchers to assemble ALL available evidence to try to determine what exactly hit the Pentagon. (Since Flight 77's transponder was turned off, a final identification is quite difficult.) Was the Pentagon hit by a Boeing 757 - or possibly an F-16 or a Cessna? Conspiracy theorists, this one's for you!

A Tongue-in-Cheek Roadmap to 911 Conspiracy Theories
26-Feb-02
September 11 Exposes

Ian Mulgrew of Canada's Vancouver Sun is having fun with some of the 911 conspiracy theories. This tongue-in-cheek summary makes no effort to distinguish theories that are credible from those that are not, and leaves the unsophisticated reader chuckling about the foolish theories that conspiracy nuts are willing to believe. But behind all humor there is truth, and here at Democrats.com we intend to get to the bottom of 911. Stay tuned...

Mohamed Atta's Florida Flight School Is Linked to CIA
26-Feb-02
September 11 Exposes

911 pilots Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi learned to fly at Huffman Aviation in Venice, Florida. This small flight school is owned by a Dutchman named Rudi Dekker. Investigator Daniel Hopsicker has been researching Dekker's shady ties, and has now discovered a connection to the CIA - Dekker provides (through a small subsidiary called Brittnia Aviation) maintenance for Caribe Air, a notorious CIA "proprietary." Caribe Air is now owned by Banc Caribe, an offshore bank based in Dominica tied to money laundering - and possibly Enron's secret partnerships. Dekker's company has a "green light" from the DEA, which told the Venice Police to leave them alone. Interestingly, Dekker's company is also tied to both Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Stay tuned...

Washington Post's '10 Days In September' - Is It Journalism Or Propaganda?
25-Feb-02
September 11 Exposes

"As questions accumulate about what really happened on September 11, The one extensive investigative report by a major media outlet is the Washington Post's '10 Days in September' series, written by Bob Woodward and Dan Balz and published in eight parts between January 27 and February 3. The question of whether this series was slanted or even propaganda has been raised. It can be argued that there are sufficient unanswered and unasked questions, along with incidents only partially reported, to question the objectivity and motives of the reporters, Woodward and Balz. The big questions - such as why the planes were not intercepted; why Bush and his advisors, in particular Karl Rove, told stories about the events that were contradictory and untrue; and why Bush sat and listened to the story about a goat while all hell was breaking loose - are not addressed." So writes Robert Reynolds.

Whispers In The Land: Washington Knows That Bush Has Gone Too Far
22-Feb-02
September 11 Exposes

"All of Washington knows that Cheney's Energy Task Force wasn't just about handing the California State surplus over to Enron... what Cheney was doing was plotting with the largely Texas energy concerns to capture... and control the Caspian Sea oil and gas reserves so that they could exercise economic dominance over China and India... They whisper because of the dark questions that remain unadressed concerning Sept. 11th: the refusal to grant a FISA warrant against Zacarias Moussaoui, even though he had been tagged by French Intelligence as a terrorist, was paying cash for turn-and-bank lessons in jumbo jets... the hijacked jets wandering around the eastern half of the country for the better part of two hours without Air Force interception... the concerted efforts of Bush to be physically absent from Washington in the weeks preceding the attacks, the same weeks that followed his threat of war against the Taliban." So writes Kent Southard in BushWatch.

NY Times ADMITS Scrubbing 9-09 Warning
21-Feb-02
September 11 Exposes

On Feb 14, Democrats.com revealed that the NY Times "scrubbed" from its Web site a crucial warning about Osama Bin Laden that it published on 9-9-01 - just 2 days before Bin Laden's attack on the U.S. In response to our expose, the NY Times has admitted that it scrubbed the article (which was actually posted on 9-8-01) because the article was never published in the PRINT newspaper. This led us to ask: why was John Burns' prescient warning deemed NOT "fit to print"? Read our exchange and draw your own conclusion. We stick to ours! We believe it demonstrates the gross negligence of the CIA, NSA, Justice Department, and the White House in the events leading to 9-11. These agencies had MANY warnings, but the people at the top IGNORED them, at a cost of over 3,000 lives and billions of dollars. All of these screwups remain in their jobs! We demand a Blue Ribbon Commission on 9-11 and a thorough housecleaning - not a Congressional Coverup!

NSA 'Ignored' MULTIPLE Calls from Al Qaeda to the US Before 9-11 - We Demand an Investigation!
19-Feb-02
September 11 Exposes

The ABC subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company released its "official" version of 9-11, reporting that "shortly before Sept. 11, NSA [National Security Agency] intercepts detected multiple phone calls from Abu Zubaida, bin Laden's chief of operations, to the United States." So what happened? "The intercepts were never passed on," says Mickey Mouse. Now let's get this straight - Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda had been at the very TOP of the US terrorism list since at least 1998. The NSA, which eavesdrops on EVERY phone call and e-mail in the world, detected MULTIPLE calls from Al Qaeda to the US. Yet we're supposed to believe that the NSA's software did NOT set computer screens flashing throughout the government when those calls were "detected"??? That may be Tinkerbell's version, but we don't believe in fairies any more. We DEMAND a Blue Ribbon Commission to tell the truth about 9-11 - including the unscrubbed tapes and transcripts of ALL of the Al Qaeda calls.

Democrats.com Exclusive: To Protect Top Bureaucrats, NY Times SCRUBS Its OWN Osama Bin Laden Warning That It Published on 9-9-01
14-Feb-02
September 11 Exposes

On 9-9-01 - just two days before Osama Bin Laden's attack on the US - the NY Times published a lengthy and chilling article about Osama Bin Laden by reporter John Burns. Some time after 9-11, the Times SCRUBBED this article, replacing it with a completely different article that Burns wrote on 9-12. Both articles discuss a 2-hour videotape by Bin Laden that intelligence agencies first saw in June 2001, but ignored until September. Why was the 9-9 article scrubbed? Read it yourself - we've UNSCRUBBED it. We believe it demonstrates the GROSS NEGLIGENCE of the CIA, NSA, Justice Department, and the White House in the events leading to 9-11. These agencies had MANY warnings, but the people at the top IGNORED them, at a cost of over 3,000 lives and billions of dollars. ALL OF THESE SCREWUPS REMAIN IN THEIR JOBS!!! We demand a Blue Ribbon Commission on 9-11 and a thorough housecleaning - not a Congressional Coverup!

'The Carpet of Gold' Story Won't Fade Away
14-Feb-02
September 11 Exposes

"According to these reports, George W. Bush's administration (before his wartime transformation to one of the most popular presidents in American history) was negotiating a deal with the Taliban regime for an oil pipeline in Afghanistan and was even going so far as to threaten the Taliban with war…These explosive charges are contained in a book entitled Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth written by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, former French intelligence analysts. …Brisard said in a recent interview that "at one moment during the negotiations, the U.S. representatives told the Taliban, 'either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs'…If all of this is true, Mr. Bush's request on January 29th to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle that Senate investigators limit their investigation into the causes of the September 11th terrorist attacks would take on a much more ominous tone." So writes Thomas Spencer for the History News Network.

Canada's VisionTV Breaks Television's Silence on 9/11
11-Feb-02
September 11 Exposes

"On Monday, January 21st, VisionTV became the first North American television network to address the inconsistencies in the official version of the events of September 11th. In a daring 8 minute commentary on Vision’s Mediafile program, host Barry Zwicker asked many crucial questions that have been absent from the mainstream media's coverage since 9/11," starting with the NSA's proposed "Operation Northwoods" in 1962. On January 22, "Zwicker's commentary focused on the question of whether or not the Air Force was ordered to stand down and to ignore official procedures during the highjackings." On February 4, "Zwicker focused on three books that detail Bin Laden's on-going links to the CIA and ISI." View Zwicker's broadcasts or read the transcripts, courtesy of Indymedia.

Michael Vreeland Gave 9-11 Warning to Canadian Intelligence Agent Marc Bastien, Who Was Then Murdered
08-Feb-02
September 11 Exposes

Michael "Vreeland claims he traveled to Moscow in the Fall of 2000 to obtain military documents regarding Russian counter-measures to US anti-missile defence. His purpose was to see they got into the hands of CSIS [Canada's CIA], and to fool Ottawa into believing it was a Canadian discovery, so Canada and other allies might be inclined to drop their objections to 'Star Wars.' His contact was a 'systems analyst,' Marc Bastien, said to be a CSIS agent working out of the [Canadian] embassy [in Russia]. Vreeland [returned] to Toronto, where he was arrested on December 6 on an immigration warrant. Only days after Vreeland's arrest by Toronto police, Bastien was found [murdered] in Moscow... Among the Russian documents Vreeland says he retrieved was one describing impending terrorist attacks in the United States, naming Osama bin Laden as an agent and the World Trade Center and the Pentagon as likely targets." So reports Canada's Frank magazine.

CIA Director George Tenet Sees No Failure on 9-11 - Proving He Is Utterly (and Willfully) Blind
07-Feb-02
September 11 Exposes

"Since the Sept. 11 attacks, some critics of the CIA have asked, in effect, what the US is getting for the billions of dollars it spends on intelligence-gathering, especially since the cold war is just a memory... But the senators greeted him with deference, despite blunt questions from Senator Richard C. Shelby of Alabama and Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, both Republicans. 'Why were we utterly unaware of the planning and execution of the Sept. 11 attacks?' Mr. Shelby asked. 'In other words, what went wrong?' ... [CIA director George Tenet] objected to the very word 'failure' in connection with the intelligence-gathering ahead of the devastating surprise attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. 'Failure means no focus, no attention, no discipline,' Mr. Tenet said, waving his finger for emphasis." Wrong!!! Failure means four planes were hijacked and over 3,000 people were killed. We demand a thorough investigation, like the one after Pearl Harbor.

Michael Vreeland's Story Is Verified in Court
06-Feb-02
September 11 Exposes

US officials claim Michael Vreeland is a nut who was discharged from the Navy in 1986. But according to From the Wilderness, "In a January 10, 2002 tactic worthy of Perry Mason, with the greatest possible risk to his client if it failed, attorney Slansky got the judge to agree to let him call the Pentagon from open court. Using a speaker phone, in front of at least six witnesses, Slansky first dialed directory information and got a number for the Pentagon switchboard. Then, calling that number he asked the Department of Defense operator to locate the office of Lt. Delmart Vreeland. Within moments the operator had confirmed Vreeland's posting, his rank as a Lieutenant O-3, his room number and given Slansky his direct-dial number. All of this is a part of the court record." So what did Vreeland know in advance about 9-11, and how did he know it?

Is Michael Vreeland a Naval Intelligence Officer who Knew About 9-11 - or a Nut?
06-Feb-02
September 11 Exposes

Michael Vreeland is in a Toronto prison, charged with credit fraud in the US, and facing extradition. According to the Toronto Star, "The 35-year-old American claims to be a lieutenant in a U.S. Navy intelligence unit - a spy who says he knew in advance about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In his affidavit, he says he tried to warn Canadian intelligence about possible terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon, along with targets in Ottawa and Toronto, but was written off as a petty criminal. So he wrote the warning on a piece of paper, sealed it in an envelope, and handed it to jail guards a month before the attacks. They opened the letter Sept. 14 and immediately forwarded the information to Ottawa. His lawyers, Rocco Galati and Paul Slansky, are fighting extradition, telling the court he could face treason charges and the death penalty in the U.S."

Bush Demands SECRET Congressional Investigation of 9-11 to Scrub History!
31-Jan-02
September 11 Exposes

As Democrats.com has consistently documented, the Bush organized crime family routinely "scrubs" public records to conceal its criminal actions. But now Bush wants to scrub any records of the events that led up to 9-11, the worst attack on America since Pearl Harbor. Bush's strategy is more subtle than usual: instead of feeding the shredders, he wants to seal the investigation behind the cloak of secrecy of the Senate and House Intelligence committees. "Bush made the request of Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) during a breakfast meeting with congressional leaders [on Tuesday]." But Daschle isn't buying it: "I think the American people are entitled to know what happened and why at some point, just as they were desirous of knowing what happened after the Pearl Harbor attack. We did that right during the early stages of World War II. So we haven't made any conclusions yet." Call Daschle's office at 202-224-2321 and urge a FULL AND OPEN investigation of 9-11!

David Lytel Co-hosts RadioLeft.com Interview of Journalist Wayne Madsen
30-Jan-02
September 11 Exposes

Did George Bush help cause 9-11? That's the explosive question for journalist Wayne Madsen, whose work is included in the French book, Bin Laden - La Verite Interdite, which claims the Bush administration helped provoke the September 11 attacks by giving the Taliban an ultimatum to hand over Osama Bin Laden. The program is hosted by Geoff Staples of RadioLeft.com and David Lytel of Democrats.com. Broadcast live Wednesday, January 30th at 5:00PM EST

Warning! Bush Wants to Scrub the Truth About 9-11
29-Jan-02
September 11 Exposes

According to CNN, "Bush personally asked Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle Tuesday to limit the congressional investigation into the events of September 11, congressional and White House sources told CNN. The request was made at a private meeting with congressional leaders Tuesday morning. Sources said Bush initiated the conversation... Daschle said, he has not agreed to limit the investigation... 'Clearly, I think the American people are entitled to know what happened and why,' he said... Privately Democrats questioned why the White House feared a broader investigation to determine possible culpability. 'We will take a look at the allocation of resources. Ten thousand federal agents -- where were they? How many assets were used, and what signals were missed?' a Democratic senator told CNN."

Explosive Report: Did the CIA Bring the 9-11 Terrorists to the US through a 'Jeddah Connection'?
28-Jan-02
September 11 Exposes

Canadian Broadcasting Corp's "Dispatches" show recently interviewed Michael Springman, a former US consular official in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Springman was outraged in 1987 when he discovered CIA officials were arranging US visas for middle eastern men to be sent to the US to be trained for terrorist operations in Afghanistan. Springman kept a file until he was fired, but this file was then mysteriously "shredded." Springman filed whistleblower complaints with every possible US agency, but no action was taken (except for his firing and file scrubbing). Springman says the "Jeddah Connection" continued operating until 9-11, citing reports that some of the 15 Saudis who participated in the 9-11 attacks got visas in Jeddah. Springman says, "For all we know, it could have been an effort to get the US directly involved in some fashion. I mean, it's only a few thousand dead and what's this against the greater gain for the United States in the Middle East?" We demand an investigation of 9-11!

Then, Emile Zola Wrote His 'J'Accuse'; Now, Tina Staik Asks, 'Is it a coincidence...?'
24-Jan-02
September 11 Exposes

"If ever there was a time to examine what is happening in our country and world--step back and look at the big picture, think, ask, question, reflect, even consider a conspiracy theory or two--this is it. Our lives and world may depend on using our critical thinking skills, and inviting leaders and citizens throughout the world to do the same. Our well being, regardless of position or status or race or religion, depends on sound decision making, and this must be based on our understanding of the cycles of world dominance, violence, and greed that have brought us to the present moment." Check out this fascinating three-part article at the Baltimore Chronicle that explores the dark connections between the Bushes, the Carlyle Group, the Taliban, the bin Ladens, Enron and the Energy Industry, the Intelligence Community, and the Far Right. This piece is chock full of amazing links!

Blaming Clinton for 9-11 Is Backfiring Big-Time
24-Jan-02
September 11 Exposes

Right-wingers led by the loathsome Andrew Sullivan have done triple somersaults to blame 9-11 on Bill Clinton. But as more and more details of the respective anti-terrorism policies of Clinton and Bush come out, "compared to Bush, Clinton was practically Wyatt Earp." In fact, the latest Post article suggests a whole new line of inquiry: Did Bush, at a key moment, dismantle the Clinton administration's increasingly effective anti-Al Qaeda apparatus...? And on a related note: Would a less meddling Gore administration have been able to prevent tragedy?" The answer to both questions is YES, according to Aaron Marr Page in the American Prospect.

More on John O'Neill, former FBI Counter-Terrorism Chief, One of the Primary Sources for the Allegation that Oil Company Interests Successfully Blocked Anti-Terror Investigations
14-Jan-02
September 11 Exposes

One of the principal source's for the explosive new book by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie (Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth) was former FBI counter-terrorism chief John O'Neill, who died in the WTC attack. Lawrence Wright's profile of O'Neill in the 1/14 issue of New Yorker sheds some further light on O'Neill's campaign to mobilize the resources to identify Al Qaeda's agents in the U.S. prior to September 11th. The Wright profile shows how O'Neill was blocked from re-entering Yemen, where he was to investigate the bombing of the USS Cole, not by a foreign government but by the U.S. ambassador.

California Activists Meet with Senate Staffers To Urge Congressional Inquiry on 9-11
12-Jan-02
September 11 Exposes

California activists, led by Carol Brouillet of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, met with staffers for Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer to discuss the many unanswered questions about 9-11. Many of these questions are outlined on this web site, along with a synopsis of the meeting. If you think Bu$h and the media are not telling the complete truth about 9-11, consider organizing meetings like this in your own state or community.

Bush Negotiated with the Taliban: Interview with Guillaume Dasquié
11-Jan-02
September 11 Exposes

One month before the New York terrorist attacks, the White House was on speaking terms with Kabul. In this interview, Guillaume Dasquie, co-author, with Jean-Charles Brisard, of "Bin Laden, the Forbidden Truth", reveals how the billionaire terrorist is nothing but a product of the dangerous liaisons maintained by Saudi Arabia, the United States and the UN with extremist movements, which led to the 9-11 terrorist attacks. These affirmations are based on several years of investigation. Dasquie decodes here the political and financial networks where bankers, oil companies, diplomats and terrorists cross each others' paths.

Review of the Explosive New Book that Alleges the September 11th Attacks Came After the U.S. Threatened the Taliban with War
11-Jan-02
September 11 Exposes

Since an American translation and publication of "Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth" by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie is still weeks away, here is an outstanding review of their explosive new book. Both authors are intelligence analysts with long experience. Dasquie is editor-in-chief of IntelligenceOnline.com and Brisard formerly headed up the economic analysis and strategy division of the French conglomerate Vivendi. He has also written about Al-Qaeda for the French intelligence agencies. In their book, they allege that the attacks of September 11th were provoked by specific threats by representatives of the U.S. government against the Taliban in a series of secret meetings to achieve the Taliban's approval for an oil pipeline, to be built by a consortium of American oil companies. The reviewer is Lara Marlowe, formerly of Time Magazine, now covering Afganistan for the Irish Times.

Afghanistan, The Taliban, And The Bush Oil Team
10-Jan-02
September 11 Exposes

The Bush Oil Team, which can now rely on the support of the interim Prime Minister of Afghanistan, may think that war and oil profits mix. But there is simply too much evidence that the War in Afghanistan was primarily about building UNOCAL's pipeline, not about fighting terrorism. The Democrats, who control the Senate and its investigation agenda, should investigate the secretive deals between Big Oil, Bush, and the Taliban.

Diplomatic Sources Confirm that U.S. Threatened Taliban with Military Strikes Before September 11th
09-Jan-02
September 11 Exposes

Former Pakistani Foreign Minister Niaz Naik confirmed last September that he witnessed officials of the U.S. government threatening Afganistan with military strikes just before the terrorist attack against the U.S. The British newspaper The Guardian quotes Naik reporting on a conversation with U.S. representative Tom Simons, former ambassador to Pakistan. Naik asked why an attack would be any more likely to be successful in killing Bin Laden than it had been in August 1998, when Americans killed 20 Afghanis but missed Bin Laden: "He said this time they were very sure. They had all the intelligence and would not miss him this time. It would be aerial action, maybe helicopter gunships, and not only overt, but from very close proximity to Afghanistan." Naik reports that this message was passed by the Pakistanis to the Taliban.

Who Killed John O'Neill?
09-Jan-02
September 11 Exposes

"If you believe the media, John P. O'Neill was simply another innocent victim killed in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. But you don't need much imagination to suspect something deeper was at work. Clearly, O'Neill was a man Osama bin Laden wanted dead. O'Neill had been a Deputy Director of the FBI, and Osama bin Laden's main pursuer in the US government. O'Neill had investigated the bombings of the World Trade Center in 1993, a US base in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar-Es-Salaam in 1998, and the USS Cole last year. But once the first plane hit the North Tower, Osama bin Laden wouldn't be the only man to profit from O'Neill's death. At the moment of impact, O'Neill became the man who knew too much." So writes The Daily Brew.

Authors of 'Bin Laden: The Hidden Truth' Allege That September 11th was NOT a Sneak Attack but the Taliban's Response to Specific Threats Made by the U.S. to Bomb Afghanistan
09-Jan-02
September 11 Exposes

An interview with Guillaume Dasquie, co-author of "Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth" reveals that the Bush Administration, in a series of meetings with the Taliban, made specific threats to bomb Afghanistan if it did not approve an oil pipeline across Central Asia to the Indian Ocean. Dasquie details how rapidly the Bush Administration set aside the Clinton Administration's policy of sanctions against the Taliban and permitted U.S. oil companies to set government policy. The Taliban were welcome to bring "stability" to Afganistan and receive international recognition, if only they would mask their extremism by returning the former king, forming a coalition government with the Northern Alliance, and extraditing bin Laden to Saudi Arabia. The 911 attacks followed the breakdown of these secret negotiations in August 2001, which they write was not a sneak attack but a pre-emptive strike by Al Qaeda and the Taliban against an adversary that threatened to destroy them. [Complete interview is in French.]

2 Months Late, CNN Discovers 'Carpet of Gold' Book
08-Jan-02
September 11 Exposes

On 11/16/01, Democrats.com reported on the bombshell book by French investigative reporters Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie. The book said that prior to 911, Bush offered the Taliban a "carpet of gold" if they would hand over Bin Laden and let Unocal build an oil pipeline from the Caspian region to Pakistan. At the same time, Bush blocked an investigation into Al Qaeda, prompting FBI deputy director John O'Neill to quit, saying "the main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism were U.S. oil corporate interests and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it." Two months later, Paula Zahn and CNN have finally noticed the story. Let's see if Richard Butler does an expose or a scrub. Tell CNN to tell the truth about the "Carpet of Gold" - e-mail community@cnn.com

Blame-and-Bash-Clinton Media Misses A Few 'Inconvenient' Facts
08-Jan-02
September 11 Exposes

"Blame-and-Bash-Clinton mentality is standard fare in today's consolidated corporate right-wing media. However, there are a few facts the partisans conveniently fail to mention. First, and most important, the worst terrorist attacks in our nation's history occurred during George W. Bush's occupation of the White House--after he had been in office for the better part of a year. Despite repeated warnings from Israel's Mossad and intelligence agencies from Egypt and Jordan weeks before the attacks, as well as urgent warnings early last spring from the Hart-Rudman commission, our current leader did absolutely nothing to prevent them." So writes Kim Sayers.

25 Things We've Learned Since 9/11
07-Jan-02
September 11 Exposes

As we look back on the first year in the new millenium , it might help us to sort out what happened in the past four months -- and thus how to respond -- by compiling a summary list of What We Know.

USA Means 'Under Saudi Arabia'
25-Dec-01
September 11 Exposes

P-resident Bush and his family have made the United States and Saudi Arabia more snuggly than two peas in a pod. The Bu$h Reich has adopted a "hear no evil, see no evil, say no evil" approach to the Saudi Arabian Riyadh regime while Bu$h, et. al, pursues oil interests for his family and friends. According to activist/attorney Mike Hersh, "The Saudis bought both George W. Bush and his father. Ties between the Bush and bin Laden families, the Carlyle Group, and Saudi Arabia let the Riyadh regime beat America like a rented camel." Accordingly, "National security agents told [British investigative journalist Gregory] Palast that Bush ordered them to 'back off' their investigations into the bin Ladens, WAMY, and the terrorists living nearby."

Advance Knowledge of 9/11 Attacks? Follow The 100-Million Dollar Money Trail...
17-Dec-01
September 11 Exposes

German computer investigators are "working round the clock to unlock the truth behind an unexplained surge in financial transactions made just before two hijacked planes crashed into New York's World Trade Center on September 11. Were criminals responsible for the sharp rise in credit card transactions that moved through some computer systems at the WTC shortly before the planes hit the twin towers? Or was it coincidence that unusually large sums of money, perhaps more than $100 million, were rushed through the computers as the disaster unfolded?" According to Richard Wagner, a data retrieval expert at German-based firm Convar, "'There is a suspicion that some people had advance knowledge of the approximate time of the plane crashes in order to move out amounts exceeding $100 million. They thought that the records of their transactions could not be traced after the main frames were destroyed.'"

GOP's 'Get Clinton' Effort Distracted the FBI from Investigating Terrorists
11-Dec-01
September 11 Exposes

The Democracy Chronicle has learned that the failures to prevent the tragedy of September 11 can be traced, in part, to the FBI not adequately following up intelligence provided by the CIA, its own agents, and others. The story of this failure begins shortly after the Feb 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. During this critical period - when crucial terrorist-related intelligence was being passed to the FBI by the CIA and others - the FBI was forced to turn its attention to other maters. Congressional Republicans began their eight-year obsession to investigate Bill Clinton. Initially, at least 50 of the FBI's most seasoned agents were diverted to work full-time on the investigations. At the peak of the Independent Prosecutor investigations, Kenneth Starr had the full-time use of over 125 FBI and IRS agents. The fervor to investigate Clinton may well have provided the threshold of distraction sufficient to divert the FBI from making terrorism its top priority.

What Did They Know and When Did They Know It?
29-Nov-01
September 11 Exposes

At 'Make Them Accountable', Carolyn Kay has compiled an awesome collection of excerpts from articles -- with links to the originals. The articles address several questions that include the following. Why were certain people warned not to fly on or about September 11, and not the rest of us? Did the U.S. know that the attacks were going to happen? What specific warnings were given to the CIA and the FBI regarding imminent terrorist activity? Why did the Bush administration lie about Bush's curious behavior on September 11? What have been the Bush administration's prior dealings with The Taliban and with Bin Laden? How can anyone possibly suggest that our government had a role in a tragedy that cost thousands of American lives? Who benefits from this war (e.g. insider trading profits)? What are the Bush family's business connections in the Middle East (e.g. Saudi Royals, Carlyle Group, BCCI, James Bath, Khalid bin Mahfouz, even members of the bin Laden family)?

Bush v. Credibility: Did the Air Force Shoot Down Flight 93 in Pennsylvania?
18-Nov-01
September 11 Exposes

"As the initial shock of Sept. 11 wears off, the crash [of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania] is beginning to emerge as the greatest mystery from the worst terrorist attack in American history." Many locals who are not inclined to conspiracy theories believe it was shot down by an Air Force jet at 10:06 am. There is plenty of evidence: the scrambling of 3 F-16's at 9:30, with only 5 minutes needed to intercept; Bush's authorization of a shootdown sometime before 9:58 am; at 9:58, a 911 call from the airplane bathroom reporting an explosion and smoke, followed by the sudden end of airplane calls; and the scattering of debris, including an engine that would have been struck by a heat-seeking missile. In marked contrast with the crash of Flight 587 on November 19, the Bush administration refuses to reveal the full details of the flight recorders. Until they do, the shootdown theories will persist - especially at www.flight93crash.com

Intelligence Intercepts Show Saudi Royals Supported The Heinous Bin Laden
16-Nov-01
September 11 Exposes

"The Fahd regime was a major financial backer of the Reagan Administration's [$32 million for Iran-Contra] and of its successful proxy war in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union…Working through [Iran-Contra player] Prince Bandar, they have contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to charities and educational programs here...At the end of last year, Halliburton, the Texas-based oil-supply business formerly headed by Vice-President Dick Cheney, was operating a number of subsidiaries in Saudi Arabia...When the Saudis were confronted by press reports that some of the substantial funds…may actually have gone to Al Qaeda and other terrorist networks, they denied any knowledge of such transfers. The intercepts, however, have led many in the intelligence community to conclude otherwise. The Bush Administration has chosen not to confront the Saudi leadership over its financial support of terror organizations and its refusal to help in the investigation." See next item.

FBI And US Spy Agents Say Bush Spiked Bin Laden Probes Before 11 September
07-Nov-01
September 11 Exposes

"FBI and military intelligence officials in Washington say they were prevented for political reasons from carrying out full investigations into members of the Bin Laden family in the US before the terrorist attacks of September 11... They had earlier sought to investigate two of Osama bin Laden's relatives in Washington and a Muslim organisation, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY)... But the FBI files were closed in 1996 apparently before any conclusions could be reached on either the Bin Laden brothers or the organisation itself. [Intelligence sources say] 'there were always constraints on investigating the Saudis' [which] became worse after the Bush administration took over this year. The intelligence agencies had been told to 'back off' from investigations involving other members of the Bin Laden family, the Saudi royals, and possible Saudi links to the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Pakistan."

Bush v. Credibility: Before 911, What Did the US Know, and When Did They Know It?
03-Nov-01
September 11 Exposes

The terrorist attack on 911 came as a bolt out of the blue to the American people. But the US government was up to its eyeballs in war planning. The government received warnings from various foreign leaders and intelligence services, and a CIA official is reported to have met with Bin Laden himself in July. Around that time, US officials sent a warning to the Taliban that we would attack them, and early in September British and US forces were deployed in the Persian Gulf. What did the US know, and when did they know it? Here is a useful list of events leading up to 911.

Former Pakistani Intelligence Chief Funded Mohammed Atta While Working Closely with the US
03-Nov-01
September 11 Exposes

Former Pakistani Intelligence chief Mahmoud Ahmed just happened to be in the US meeting with his CIA counterparts during the week before Sept. 11. Immediately after the attack, Ahmed had urgent meetings with Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, where plans were put in place for the war against the Taliban. But then it turned out that Ahmad had arranged for $100,000 to be wired to WTC hijacker Mohammed Atta, and the US demanded that Gen. Musharraf fire Ahmed. What was really going on? Did Ahmed know about Atta's hijacking plans, and did he tell the CIA?

Bush v. America: The CIA Met With Bin Laden at American Hospital in Dubai in July!
02-Nov-01
September 11 Exposes

According to Le Figaro, the top conservative daily in France, Bin Laden spent 12 days at the American Hospital of Dubai receiving treatment for kidney failure, starting on July 4. A CIA officer met with him there, and reported back to his US superiors shortly after July 15. What did the CIA know, and when did it know it? We demand an investigation! (Translated by a Democrats.com member.)

Bush v. Credibility: Was Flight 93 Shot Down Over Pennsylvania By F-16's?
31-Oct-01
September 11 Exposes

According to Buzzflash, "Recent news sources have reconfirmed the possibility that the hijackers of Flight 93 intended to ram the plane into the Three Mile Island nuclear facility, a mere 15 minutes from the crash site, and that instead of plummeting into the ground on its own, Flight 93 was actually shot out of the air by U.S. fighter jets... In a recent San Francisco Chronicle column, journalist Harley Sorensen postulated that the reason the public has seen so little of Vice President Cheney since September 11 is that he may have issued the order that prompted fighter jets to shoot down Flight 93. Sorensen argues that 'friendly fire' could be why the government is keeping the flight recorders out of public scrutiny or why the names of fighter pilots, seen in the area of Flight 93 before it crashed, have not been released."

More Evidence Of A 'Colossal Intelligence Failure'
19-Oct-01
September 11 Exposes

"The one thing everybody agrees on is that a CIA cable transmitted Aug. 27 over a classified government computer network warned that two 'Bin Laden related individuals' had entered the United States and that two other suspected terrorists should be barred from entering. The CIA had already notified the White House and other senior policymakers in early August that the exiled Saudi militant Osama bin Laden was determined to launch a terrorist attack within the United States. But CIA and FBI officials now disagree over the significance of the later notice and, specifically, whether an apparent miscommunication affected the FBI's response. The FBI failed to find two men who later emerged as suspected skyjackers Sept. 11. Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, the two men identified on the CIA cable as already being on U.S. soil, helped seize an American Airlines jet after takeoff and crash it into the Pentagon, killing 189 people."

Mysterious Stock Traders Bet on September 11 Attacks on United, American, and World Trade Center Tenants
14-Oct-01
September 11 Exposes

Stock market "speculators have failed to collect $2.5m in profits made from the fall in the share price of United Airlines after the 11 September World Trade Centre attacks. The fact that the money is unclaimed more than a month later has re-awakened investigators' interest in a story dismissed as coincidence. It may be that investors who were able to predict the share price crash so skillfully are reluctant to be seen profiting from tragedy. But investigators now wonder whether there is a more sinister explanation... To the embarrassment of investigators, it has also emerged that the firm used to buy many of the 'put' options – where a trader, in effect, bets on a share price fall – on United Airlines stock was headed until 1998 by 'Buzzy' Krongard, now executive director of the CIA. Until 1997, Mr Krongard was chairman of Alex Brown Inc, America's oldest investment banking firm." So reports the Independent of London.

Bush v. Al Qaeda: Bush Waited Ten Months To Freeze Bin Laden's Assets
14-Oct-01
September 11 Exposes

"Months before the Sept. 11 attacks, the United Nations and the European Union directed their members to freeze the assets of five lieutenants of Osama bin Laden, including his brother-in-law and financial handler. The U.S. government didn't do it until Friday. Members of Congress want to know why Treasury officials charged with disrupting the finances of terrorists didn't follow the lead of some of the closest U.S. allies back in January." So reports the Associated Press.

What WAS Bush Doing When Planes Hit the World Trade Center?
12-Oct-01
September 11 Exposes

"Before entering the classroom [at 9 a.m.], Bush had been notified that a plane had crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Shortly after entering the classroom, at 9:05, Andrew Card whispered in the president's ear that a second plane had crashed into the WTC's South Tower, confirming that the United States was under attack by terrorists. Bush asked no questions of Card. Instead, he continued listening to the second graders until they were finished with their presentation... The White House is taking great pains to create an image of George W. Bush as competent and in charge at a time when America is under attack. But the evidence is clear that Bush completely and utterly failed to do what is required of a president in a national crisis." So writes Paul Lukasiak in the Online Journal.

FBI Believes Only 6 of 19 Hijackers Knew Their Mission Was Suicide
09-Oct-01
September 11 Exposes

"About a dozen of the 19 hijackers involved in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon may not have known they were part of a suicide mission, [Rupert Murdoch's New York] Post has learned. After nearly a month of tracking the hijackers around the world, the FBI has uncovered hard evidence that only about six of the terrorists - all with pilot training - left behind hard clues suggesting knowledge of their imminent death... [The FBI also believes] Mohamed Atta, a hijacking ringleader, was not really interested in obtaining a crop-duster once he realized how difficult they were to get, and that it was nearly impossible to use it to poison large numbers of people."

Bin Laden's Camps Were Built With CIA Funds
09-Oct-01
September 11 Exposes

"Among the targets of yesterday's military strikes into Afghanistan were fortified training camps operated by accused terrorist Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said. U.S. and British air and naval forces had 'targeted command facilities for those forces that we know support terrorist elements in Afghanistan, and critical terrorist sites,' Rumsfeld said at the Pentagon. He gave no details. Although many of those mountain redoubts were built with CIA funds in the late 1980s when the agency helped mujaheddin fighters drive the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan, they have functioned over the past decade as important indoctrination centers and training facilities for thousands of bin Laden recruits." So write Walter Pincus and Vernon Loeb in the Washington Post.

The SEC Is Investigating Suspicious Stock and Bond Trades Before September 11
05-Oct-01
September 11 Exposes

"In the two weeks preceding the September 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington, there was a sudden and unaccountable rush of speculative trades on the US stock and bond markets that indicate some wealthy and well-connected investors had advance knowledge of the impending catastrophe... The Wall Street Journal reported on October 2 that the ongoing investigation by the SEC into suspicious stock trades had been joined by a Secret Service probe into an unusually high volume of five-year US Treasury note purchases prior to the attacks. The Treasury note transactions included a single $5 billion trade." Did the terrorists tip off their major donors? Stay tuned...

Terrorists All Had Visas
05-Oct-01
September 11 Exposes

According to the Washington Post, "The 19 suspected hijackers in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks all had obtained tourist or business visas from American consulates." Visa applications are screened against the Consular Lookout and Support System ("CLASS"), which has 5.5 million people "with minor visa problems to alleged terrorists." But most of the September 11 terrorists had no criminal records, so their visas were approved. How can America identify and keep out terrorists like these? Our government seems pretty clueless.

WTC Rubble Filled with Secrets, Guns, and Gold
05-Oct-01
September 11 Exposes

"Six World Trade Center housed several law enforcement agencies including U.S. Customs and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Somewhere in the rubble are safes containing guns, heroine, cocaine and ecstasy...Investigators for the Internal Revenue Service also had offices in Six World Trade Center and may have lost countless tax returns and more confidential documents. Seven World Trade Center was also the New York office of the Central Intelligence Agency." Moreover, "the Securities and Exchange Commission's offices were also destroyed in Seven World Trade Center, as were their files…for several hundred cases, including investigations into [IPO's] insured by major brokerage firms like Credit Suisse First Boston." Allegedly a CIA-linked bank, CSFB's New York offices in 5 WTC were also destroyed. Most eye-popping is the "half a billion dollars in gold and silver bars from a vault buried under the twin towers."

CIA Trained Pakistanis to Get Bin Laden in 1999, but the Effort Failed Amidst Pakistan's Military Coup
03-Oct-01
September 11 Exposes

Bob Woodward reports, "In 1999, the CIA secretly trained and equipped approximately 60 commandos from the Pakistani intelligence agency to enter Afghanistan for the purpose of capturing or killing Osama bin Laden, according to people familiar with the operation. The operation was arranged by then-Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his chief of intelligence with the Clinton administration, which in turn promised to lift sanctions on Pakistan and provide an economic aid package. The plan was aborted later that year when Sharif was ousted in a military coup... The clandestine operation was part of a more robust effort by the United States to get bin Laden than has been previously reported, including consideration of broader military action, such as massive bombing raids and Special Forces assaults."

Was the September 11 Attack Bin Laden's Response to US Threats?
02-Oct-01
September 11 Exposes

"Osama bin Laden and the Taliban received threats of possible American military strikes against them two months before the terrorist assaults on New York and Washington, which were allegedly masterminded by the Saudi-born fundamentalist, a Guardian investigation has established. The threats of war unless the Taliban surrendered Osama bin Laden were passed to the regime in Afghanistan by the Pakistani government, senior diplomatic sources revealed yesterday. The Taliban refused to comply but the serious nature of what they were told raises the possibility that Bin Laden, far from launching the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon out of the blue 10 days ago, was launching a pre-emptive strike in response to what he saw as US threats."

Why Did Jeb Warn of Terrorism in Florida on September 7?
24-Sep-01
September 11 Exposes

On September 7 - 4 days before Florida-based terrorists attacked the US - Jeb Bush issued an unusual executive order. "Based on the potential massive damage to life and property that may result from an act of terrorism at a Florida port, the necessity to protect life and property from such acts of terrorism, and inhibiting the smuggling of illegal drugs into the State of Florida, the use of the Florida National Guard to support FDLE in accomplishing port security training and inspections is 'extraordinary support to law enforcement' as used in Section 250.06(4), Florida Statutes." Did Jeb know something the rest of us didn't know then - and still don't know now?

Mossad Warned CIA in August, But Probably Was Ignored
18-Sep-01
September 11 Exposes

Israeli intelligence (Mossad) officials traveled to Washington last month to warn the CIA and the FBI that a cell of up to 200 terrorists was planning a major operation, according to the Sunday Telegraph. Israeli officials specifically warned their counterparts in Washington that "large-scale terrorist attacks on highly visible targets on the American mainland were imminent." They offered no specific information about targets, but they did link the plot to Afghanistan-based terrorist Osama bin Laden, and they told the Americans there were "strong grounds" for suspecting Iraqi involvement. A US administration official told the paper that it was "quite credible" that the CIA did not heed the Mossad warning: "It has a history of being over-cautious about Israeli information." But the official noted that "if this is true, then the refusal to take it seriously will mean heads will roll."

On Day 1, Cheney & Co. Kept Bush Away from the White House
16-Sep-01
September 11 Exposes

When the terrorists struck on September 11, Bush was reading to schoolchildren in Florida. Back in the White House, Dick Cheney "was swept into the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, along with his wife [Lynn] and [National Security Advisor Condoleeza] Rice and other senior staff members," apparently Karen Hughes and Mary Matalin, judging by the photo on p. 19. These folks didn't want Bush in the White House, and sent him to a bunker in Nebraska instead. Once again, Americans are left asking - in a crisis, who's really running the country?

Pentagon Plane Hijackers Eluded the FBI
16-Sep-01
September 11 Exposes

Khalid al-Mihdhar was seen at a meeting of suspected terrorists in Malaysia in January 2000, and came under close CIA scrutiny after the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole that November. In August 2001, the CIA told the INS to keep al-Mihdhar and his associate, Nawaf al-Hamzi, out of the country. The INS discovered both men were already in the US at that point, and alerted the FBI. Somehow, the FBI never found them. Why not?

FBI Ignored Not One, But Two Leads that Might Have Prevented Disaster
14-Sep-01
September 11 Exposes

A French news source reported on 9/14 that a French-Algerian man arrested in Boston who has been linked to the Sept. 11 attack had been reported last month to the FBI. The French secret service informed the American FBI last month that the man fit a kamikaze personality profile, that he was one of Osama Bin Laden's top soldiers, and that he had been taking flying lessons in Boston. In another case, the German federal prosecutor said that an Iranian in detention in Hanover had actually called the White House and warned of attacks that would "change the world order." The White House hung up on him. It is outrageous to us that the most important case the FBI was focusing on at the time of these potential leads was the McDonald's monopoly game cheating scheme.

CIA Was Warned of Commercial Aircraft Hijacking Attack At Least 3 Months Ago
14-Sep-01
September 11 Exposes

On CNN's "Late Edition" former DCI James Woolsey and others blamed the Clinton CIA policies. But the CIA was warned three months ago about the kind of attack that occurred. "U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies received warning signals at least three months ago that Middle Eastern terrorists were planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture, according to a story in Germany's daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). The FAZ, quoting unnamed German intelligence sources, said that the Echelon spy network was being used to collect information about the terrorist threats, and that U.K. intelligence services apparently also had advance warning. The FAZ, one of Germany's most respected dailies, said that even as far back as six months ago western and near-east press services were receiving information that such attacks were being planned." What did the CIA do with this information? We demand an investigation!

Who Warned Willie Brown on Monday?
14-Sep-01
September 11 Exposes

"For [San Francisco] Mayor Willie Brown, the first signs that something was amiss came late Monday when he got a call from what he described as his airport security - - a full eight hours before yesterday's string of terrorist attacks -- advising him that Americans should be cautious about their air travel. The mayor, who was booked to fly to New York [Tuesday] morning from San Francisco International Airport, said the call 'didn't come in any alarming fashion, which is why I'm hesitant to make an alarming statement.' In fact, at the time, he didn't pay it much mind," and planned to travel anyway. "Exactly where the call came from is a bit of a mystery... Mike McCarron, assistant deputy director at SFO, said the Federal Aviation Administration 'routinely' issues security notices about possible threats. He said two or three such notices have been received in the past couple of months, but none in recent days." So who warned Willie Brown?

U.S. Intelligence Is Not the Problem; White House Intelligence Is
14-Sep-01
September 11 Exposes

" It is quite apparent that our intelligence community was well aware that something was in the works," writes James Higdon of onlinejournal.com. "One must ask if this has something to do with the nine-foot fence that has been constructed around the White House. Does Mr. Bush feel that it is only necessary to protect himself, and not the American people?Further, Mr. Bush played to the worst part of the American character. He raised our jingoistic tendencies by promising, essentially, that we would have revenge. He did not promise us justice. Mr. Bush's actions yesterday only served to increase the panic in America, not to reduce it. He did nothing to quell the growing sense of racism that can be found on every radio call-in show across the dial."

Hijack Plot May Have Started 5 Years Ago
14-Sep-01
September 11 Exposes

According to the Boston Globe, "The planning of the suicide hijackings of American commercial airliners by Islamic extremists began at least five years ago, and that the men who commandeered two Boston flights began casing Logan Airport at least six months ago... at least five of the 10 men who hijacked the planes that departed from Boston and plowed them into the World Trade Center exploited the good reputation of the United States' staunchest Arab ally, Saudi Arabia, to gain entry to the country and access to aeronautics training in Florida ... some of the four known terrorist cells carefully set down roots in communities, which resembles past terror attacks connected to bin Laden and his group. One of the hallmarks of past bin Laden plots, according to US officials and court documents, is to place people in a community with orders to establish a local network and lay the groundwork for an attack that is never completely spelled out to them."

CIA Has Waged Covert War on Bin Laden Since 1998, and Now Will Expand It Throughout the Middle East
14-Sep-01
September 11 Exposes

According to the Washington Post, "The CIA has been authorized since 1998 to use covert means to disrupt and preempt terrorist operations planned abroad by Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden under a directive signed by President Bill Clinton and reaffirmed by President Bush this year... The highly classified directives adhered to a legal ban on the assassination of foreign leaders but authorized lethal force for self-defense, which was used by the CIA in several cases when armed terrorists were stopped moments before they initiated attacks, sources said. Since 1998, CIA counterterrorist officers, working with 'liaison' partners from foreign intelligence organizations, have succeeded in preempting al Qaeda attacks in Jordan, Egypt, Kenya and the Balkans." Besides attacking Afghanistan, "the Pentagon is also considering an array of special forces operations aimed at suspected terrorist redoubts in Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan, Pakistan and Algeria." Iraq is also in the Pentagon's cross-hairs.

Bush Rejected Terrorism Commission Report
14-Sep-01
September 11 Exposes

Salon's Jake Tapper reports, "White House officials failed to embrace any of the recommendations to prevent acts of domestic terrorism delivered earlier this year. Bush administration officials told former Sens. Gary Hart, D-Colo., and Warren Rudman, R-N.H., that they preferred instead to put aside the recommendations issued in the January report by the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century. Instead, the White House announced in May that it would have Vice President Dick Cheney study the potential problem of domestic terrorism -- which the bipartisan group had already spent two and a half years studying -- while assigning responsibility for dealing with the issue to [FEMA], headed by former Bush campaign manager Joe Allbaugh. The Hart-Rudman Commission had specifically recommended that the issue of terrorism was such a threat it needed far more than FEMA's attention."

FBI Arrested Bin Laden Lieutenant in Boston Last Month, But Apparently Failed to Investigate
13-Sep-01
September 11 Exposes

French radio station Europe 1 reports, "The FBI arrested an Islamic militant in Boston last month and received French intelligence reports linking him to Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden but apparently did not act on them... U.S. police arrested a man with dual French and Algerian nationality who had several passports, technical information on Boeing aircraft and flight manuals. The man had been taking flying lessons... The man, who is in jail but has refused to cooperate with investigators, was a 'soldier without borders' who had made several trips to potential hotspots around the world in recent months. 'He has the profile of someone who could prepare or lead terrorist operations. This information was transmitted by French security services to the FBI but apparently got lost in the enormous American police machinery,' it added. 'The inquiry that might have been able to avoid everything was not started. There was no special alert transmitted to airport authorities in the U.S.'"

CIA Faces Tough Questions
12-Sep-01
September 11 Exposes

We spend at least $30 billion each year on our intelligence agencies precisely to prevent terrorist attacks. So how could a fairly large group of terrorists have planned and executed this ghastly but sophisticated plan without ANY detection by the CIA? Conservatives are demanding more money, but why should we throw good money after bad? This was a massively bloody and costly intelligence failure, and those responsible must be held accountable for how they have spent OUR money.

 


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