Reasons to Doubt the Official Story about the 9/11 Attacks (Revised 2/25/07) by Andrew Mills
The more you study the facts and the circumstantial evidence surrounding the 9/11 attacks, the more you doubt the official explanation of the attacks given in the 9/11 Commission Report. Most all the necessary information is, or has been, available through the major media. It's just a matter of pulling it all together and organizing the data. When you do that, you are left with major doubts about the official story and you begin to suspect that some of our officials may have been involved, at least in the sense that they had fore-knowledge of the attacks and just let them happen.
You are not alone. In a national poll conducted by the Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University in August 2006, 36 percent of respondents said it is "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that federal officials either participated in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon or took no action to stop them "because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East."
Let's look at some of the evidence.
The Administration Ignored the Threats
Despite the Administration's rhetoric that they had "no warnings" leading up to 9/11, it has become abundantly clear that key Administration officials were made aware of a vast array of al Qaeda threats and warnings that existed in years prior, and more importantly, in the weeks leading up to September 11, 2001. Here not only the Administration, but also the 9/11 Commission, failed to connect the dots.
1. Results of an investigation by a commission headed by Gary Hart and Warren Rudman appeared in its third and final report on 2/15/2001. "The commission believes that the security of the American homeland from the threats of the new century should be the primary national security mission of the U.S. government." But instead, the new Bush administration chose to focus on out-dated conventional defense concerns-missile defense and a review of the military's force structure.
2. A Senior Executive Intelligence Brief (SEIB) entitled, "Bin Laden Planning High-Profile Attacks." was sent to top White House officials on June 30, 2001. It stated that bin Laden operatives expected near-term attacks to have dramatic consequences of catastrophic proportions. The brief said that despite evidence of delays possibly caused by heightened US security, al Qaeda's planning for the attacks was continuing. (SEIBs usually are released one day after President Daily Briefings are given to President Bush and contain similar content, so it is probable Bush was given this warning.)
3. George Tenet called an urgent special meeting with Condoleezza Rice on July 10, 2001 to discuss the al Qaeda threat.
4. Officials in the Administration were concerned about the threat of a possible assassination of President Bush at the G-8 Summit by al Qaeda in July of 2001. One of the scenarios of concern was the use of aircraft to dive bomb the summit building.
5. FBI headquarters totally ignored urgent warnings by FBI field offices regarding Middle Eastern men attending flight schools in different parts of the country. On July 10, 2001, Phoenix FBI agent Kenneth Williams sent a memo stating this concern to FBI headquarters. In August 2001, Colleen Rowley, an FBI Minneapolis field agent, wrote emails to headquarters warning of Middle Eastern men taking flying lessons. One such email mentioned that a civilian flight instructor had warned her that a Boeing 747 loaded with fuel could be used as a weapon. There was no response from FBI headquarters.
FBI Agent Harry Samit made 70 unsuccessful attempts to get a FISA Warrant to examine Moussaoui's belongings-papers, computer, etc. The excuse given was the 'Reno Wall,' even though this did not apply in the case of an alien.
6. On August 6, 2001 President Bush and Condoleezza Rice completely ignored the CIA's daily presidential briefing, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S," a report indicating al Qaeda could hijack airplanes to attack the U.S. The next day Bush said, "I'm working on a lot of issues, national security matters," and on the next day he told the press, "I've got a lot of national security concerns that we're working on-Iraq, Macedonia, very worrisome right now."
7. Also in August 2001, Acting FBI Director Thomas Pickard, after being briefed on a top-secret, comprehensive review of counterterrorism programs in the FBI, met with Attorney General John Ashcroft. He asked Ashcroft for $58 million from the Justice Department to hire hundreds of new field agents, translators and analysts to improve the Bureau's capacity to detect foreign terror threats. On September 10, 2001, Pickard received an official letter from Ashcroft turning him down flat.
8. On September 4, 2001, the FBI notified the State Department about the need to revoke the visa of one of the hijackers, Khalid al Mihdhar, which included instructions to detain al Mihdhar for questioning, as he was considered armed and dangerous and had participated in terrorist activities, including the bombing of the USS Cole. The State Department then used its visa revocation authority under section 221(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to revoke his visa under section 212 (A)(3)(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act for his participation in terrorist activities. But the next day, September 5th, the State Department put out a directive regarding al Mihdhar--to let him go. The excuse was that al Mihdhar was a potential witness in an FBI investigation, and thus he [though an armed and dangerous terrorist] should not be detained.
9. The New York Times on February 10, 2005 reported that in "the months before the Sept. 11 attacks, federal aviation officials reviewed dozens of intelligence reports that warned about Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, some of which specifically discussed airline hijackings and suicide operations." The article explained that the Federal Aviation Administration "received 52 intelligence reports" that mentioned Osama bin Laden or al Qaeda prior to September 11, 2001, and that the FAA warned airports that if "the intent of the hijacker is not to exchange hostages for prisoners, but to commit suicide in a spectacular explosion, a domestic hijacking would probably be preferable."
Andrew Mills is a groundwater hydrologist employed in an engineering consulting company. He and his wife have six children and 18 grandchildren. He was active in the civil rights movement in the 1950's and 1960's, and spent 9 years in India as a missionary specializing in water supply. Funded by the Egyptian government and USAID, in the early 1980's he investigated and reported on the water resources of the Sinai peninsula. He formed the New Jersey Peace Mission in the 1980s which arranged for groups to lobby in D.C. to stop funding the Contras in Nicaragua.
How do we get rid of these bastards, Republicans and Democrats, neocons and neolibs alike .... all who follow the plutocratic global elite and in so doing, contribute, allow, look the other way with respect to attacks on their own people and genocide around the world. What is the appropriate penalty for such folks. We hung Saddam for much less.
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richard (0 articles, 5 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 976 comments)
on Friday, February 23, 2007 at 2:44:06 PM
Yea they knew, just shows you how good their intel is
Having looked at this question from many angles, I've concluded several things. I could be wrong my hypothesis is that;
the PNAC et.al. orchestrated the plot,
they handpicked the scapegoats and paid them off in advance and as they set up their arab stooges (those guys that were/are in various mitiary/U.S. intel branches, and who later turned up alive )
including ol' Osama and family ( the ones allowed to leave after the rest of the airports were shut down )
the word got out, and came back to them.
So, in brief; they had all these guys secretly planning to do this and the rest of the international intelligence community found out about this plot and informed the administration of it;
THAT is why they were being told, and why they ignored it.
Just goes to show you how (in) secure their secret plans are, and how good the rest of the spies are.
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Point friends and family to the 911Truth.org website and move from awareness to action against the real terrorists who perpetuate violence and fear of violence to manipulate us all.
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Tim Riley (7 articles, 5 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 134 comments)
on Friday, February 23, 2007 at 4:14:15 PM
While the tiny list you cite is worthy; it is not
" one of the most comprehensive list of reasons "
I have your mentioned 9/11 Truth posted as well as hundreds of other sites,
equalling 753 links by story title,
and even I don't dare call my page one of the MOST comprehensive.
I can tell you posted YOUR reference without checking mine first. That list you cite, incidentally is listed as #447
http://erroneousbusczh.homestead.com/9-11Plot.html
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Rev. Michael Valentine Goldsun (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 16 diaries, 37 comments)
on Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 1:04:55 PM
this is gonna be like the JFK assasination, we'll never know for sure who really did it. osama bin laden worked for the CIA!..that's common knowledge, back in the 80's we helped him fight the russians in afghanistan. he's been with them ever since!...bin laden's bro. bailed "w" out of a failed business, the bush's and the bin laden family's relations go back 40 yrs....bush's grandfather was a convicted WAR PROFITEER ! C'MON PEOPLE, PUT IT TOGETHER!
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mike wygant (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 287 comments)
on Friday, February 23, 2007 at 5:51:47 PM
Reasons to Doubt the Official Story about the 9/11 Attacks
you do not address the very obvious question of the three towers being brought down by controlled demolitions, probably to avoid your be classified as a conspiracy freak.
There is one aspect of this however which has never been addressed and that is the disposal of the rubble before it could be subjected to forensic analysis. It has been assumed that all of it has been recycled in China - maybe yes, maybe no, but now, with Bush threatening the Chinese oil supply, it might be possible to find out if some of it might still be lying aroung in some chinese scrap heap. Furthermore, explosions destroy nothing. they only redistribute things. The rubble which was shipped to China must have been almost exclusively ferrous scrap - easily extractable. The rest must be lying - most probably as a nugget of exclusively tower rubble in some land fill near NYC and as such could be subjected to forensic analysis. Thermate would have covered this concrete rubble with traces of barium. Unless vibrators were used to remove all of the reinforcements from the concrete, some reinforcement iron must still be available embedded in concrete blocks.
One needs congressional investigative power to locate and analyze the rubble, but until and unless clear cut forensics are applied to the remains of those towers, their fate will forever remain a subject for idle speculation.
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hoscot (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 34 comments)
on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 1:42:13 AM
Also view the videos of firemen among the rubble, with the steel columns behind them neatly cut by thermate to make the building 'walk' as in conventional demolition.
Added as supplements to the outrages of 9-11 are the subsequent release to Israel of 'the dancing Israelis' celebrating the event - released by Chertoff - himself an Israeli and then promoted to head of Homeland Security.
Following this, and in much the same vein, Wolfowitz, when deputy Defense Secretary and nominally subordinate to Rumsfelt, and allegedly as head of Mossad in America, intended to 'detonate a nuclear payload' on Houston to provoke an attack on Iran, and was prevented only by an ex-member of the German secret service revealing the fact. So did he go to jail? - No, as a gesture of supreme contempt for the rest of us, he was promoted to be president of the World Bank, where he is still to be seen in all his glory.
www.gnn.tv/threads/1075/GERMAN_GUY_S_VERY_LAST_POST
For chutzpah and sheer effrontery, the villains implicated in 9-11 and trying now to run off with the entire planet take some beating.
So let's beat them!
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amazin (34 articles, 0 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 400 comments)
on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 4:01:57 AM
Very good, evidential article--no emotional truth here. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, this administration has been warned repeatedly, an investigation is in order.
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francine (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 378 comments)
on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 10:54:51 AM
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Thanks Mr. Mills for a well-written piece, once again laying out the obvious but terrifying truthful facts like 'a patient etherized upon a table'. But it is way past time for us good citizens to throw off the awful yoke of oppression - the 9/11 horror show and the Mideast sequel are symptoms of the awful malignancy gnawing at our world. It is difficult to name the perpetrators - but you can be certain the top echelon are 'aristocratic royals', the banking and government elite, wealthy beyond description and blood thirsty. They overplayed their hand with 9/11, thinking that their age old sleight-of-hand tricks and deceptions would work for them yet again ... but no, Mr. Rothschild ... you want war? You got war.
But they will not go easily ... they own everything as far as the eye can see. They have the weapons, the 'money', the bunkers, the governments ... we have the truth ... people are people, we are one ... the Satanic tyrants must go.
Two words: military, money. Our good citizens in the military worldwide must 'wake up' and join the movement - the tyrants cannot continue without them. Just as importantly, we good citizens must opt out of the money system in any way we can - we are the cash cow for the tyrants - we must stop the flow of their wealth. But, they will not go easily.
Adios for now,
JacksonHolly
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JacksonHolly (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 14 comments)
on Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 10:20:24 AM
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