A common objection to the argument that 9/11 was an inside job is that the conspiracy would be too big to keep quiet. In other words, the argument is that it is impossible that so many people could have kept quiet for so long. SOMEONE would have talked or made a mistake, so that the conspiracy would have been discovered.
Is that true? Maybe.
But anyone who's seen a Tom Clancy movie knows that a handful of bad guys can pull off big conspiracies, especially when they've got a high-level military or government person on board (Clancy writes fiction, but has alot of high-level friends in the military, and knows his stuff).
Moreover, to anyone who knows how covert military operations work, it is obvious that segmentation on a "need-to-know basis", along with deference to command hierarchy, means that a couple of top dogs can call the shots and most people helping won't even know the big picture.
I Can't Hear You
It has now been shown that a handful of people were responsible for willfully ignoring the evidence that Iraq lacked weapons of mass destruction. See, for, example this article. Indeed, Iraq was not the first time the U.S. has ignored or faked intelligence in order to justify war.
So how many people would it have taken to ignore the intelligence that hijackers were going to attack? How hard would it have been for a handful of top-level administration officials to stick their fingers in their ears, say "nah nah nah" (like kids do when they don't want to hear what you're saying), and let it happen?
But not in the U.S., right? Well, recently declassified documents show that in the 1960's, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. See this ABC news report, the official documents, and watch this interview with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings (click link entitled "Joint Chiefs Guilty-Northwoods").
But that was a plan that – while it would have involved a large conspiracy - was never carried out, right? True.
But as shown by this BBC special (which contains interviews with some of the key players), it is probable that America knew of the Japanese plan to attack Pearl Harbor -- down to the exact date of the attack -- and allowed it to happen to justify America's entry into World War II. The case for foreknowledge is even more definitively made by this short essay by a highly-praised historian summarizing some of the key points (the historian, a World War II veteran, actually agreed with this strategy for getting America into the war, and so does not have any axe to grind). According to top WWII scholars, the Pearl Harbor conspiracy involved hundreds of military personnel. And -- most stunning -- the FDR administration took numerous affirmative steps to ensure that the Japanese attack would be successful
These are just a few of many examples of what are called "false flag operations", where governments attack their own people or allies – then blame it on their enemy – in order to justify a war against that enemy. There are many more examples from recent history.
In all of these cases, more than a handful of people were involved in planning, funding and carrying out the attacks. And yet no one spilled the beans or – if someone did – they were not believed.
George WashingtonGeorge Washington is a pen name. I am using the pen name, with the approval of the publisher, because I have received death threats due to my 9/11 research and writing. I am using a pen name to protect myself and my family.
9/11 WAS A FALSE FLAG OPERATION BUT ONLY 7 IS RIDICULOUS
Although I believe 9/11 was a false flag operation by the Bush/Cheney administration to implement the neocons proposal for a new American Empire, you hurt the credibility of the 9/11 Truth Movement by claiming that it would only take seven people to bring down WTC 1, 2, and 7. I am sure any of the companies that carry out controlled demolitions would tell you that it takes more than seven people to plant the explosives necessary to bring down even one building and, at the World Trade Center, we have three.
Very good article George, but I wonder about the planes. Did they use planes on the Pentagon and flight 93? It does not look like flight 77 hit the Pentagon, nor that flight 93 was really found. Where are the people on the planes? Notably it would be bigger than 7 people if counting passengers. I think Olson's wife is still alive some where with a new identity and plastic surgery make over somewhere, but that does not explain the rest of the people. And I also believe all that money that was under the WTC was shuttled out with Guiliani's supervision on the ground. Why would the North tower not collapse first when it was hit first? The South tower collapsed after being hit second, while the North Tower stood an additon 30 minutes before it caved. I think Guiliani wanted to make sure the exits stayed open, and they needed to have the S. Tower come down first. When it was discovered exits were still clear they moved in to steal the gold and money. It took them 8 hours to finish and that's when building 7 was pulled to destroy control room operations, and to implode the exits. Clean get away. So we are talking more people there. In fact it had to be an organization, and they are keen to secrets such as the Illuminati Mafia Skull and Bones Oaklahoma Timothy McVeigh Crew. We have the CIA who I know had a role in this. So it is big and I sincerely think big crimes and a lot of people involved would certainly keep their mouths shut. Besides even if they came forward, they would be looked upon as a conspiracy wacko too. So I contend this job was probably a duel plan, with Saudi Standin terrorist to help sweeten the story. I know Bush did it.
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Dom Jermano (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 40 diaries, 934 comments)
on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 at 4:14:16 AM
