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WAS THE ENTIRE “WAR ON TERROR” A RUSE?
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Veterans Today
It is 2010 and we know less about 9/11 each day. One “fact” after another comes into question until there are now none remaining. Same thing with the invasion of Iraq. No weapons of mass destruction existed, no “mobile bio-labs,” no nuclear program, no ties to Al Qaida, nothing. It was all invented, we have proven that much in 7 years of looking and not one piece of paper, not one shred of evidence. It turned out that the “yellow-cake uranium” was actually Hostess Twinkies.
We have been in Afghanistan even longer. We have never found those magical “training camps” we were looking for. We never found Usama bin Laden. In fact, we have found nothing at all. What should we have found? If 9/11 was planned in Afghanistan this is what should have been there:
■Mock-ups of each of the Israeli run American airports including equipment to manufacture keys, employee uniforms, and full information on security protocols, airport personnel and schedules
■Mock-ups of the aircraft, showing seat positions and staging rehersals for controlling passengers and crew and taking over the flight deck
■Access codes and sophisticated hacking equipment that could order a “stand down” of NORAD to allow planes to proceeed despite procedures in place that required they be stopped by Americas’s air defenses
■Information on the personal schedules of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, making sure they were in meetings that would preclude them from being notified of an impending national security threat, activities like kindergarten visits or “breakfast with staff.”
■Secret data on aircaft performance that would enable non-pilots to encourage cumbersome aircraft to perform maneuvers beyond their structural capability
Picture a day in one of the classrooms at the Al Qaida Center for Insurgency and Terroristic Studies at Tora Bora:
HOUR 1:
“Mohammed, you have to walk up to the guy and be more confident, try it again:” “Hey ‘bro,’ remember me from down at the Synagogue last week, the guy with the big bag of bagels and lox? Can you carry these box cutters onto the plane for me and place them in the back of these seats?” “Then you give him the map of the plane showing him where to hide the weapons. These Mossad trained security people are dense, you know how incompetent the Mossad is.”
“Don’t worry, nobody will know you are a terrorist, no matter how many watch lists you are on or that your visa had expired and you should be in an immigration detention facility awaiting processing. If anyone asks you if you are from the Middle East, tell them you are Mexican. Mexicans never blow up planes.”
HOUR 2:
“These are your uniforms, security keys and airport identification cards with security strips all currently cleared thru the computer systems. We had one of our girls enter you as employees while she was at the Airport Security Command Center. We told the Israelis that we had a new service, free of charge, “keyboard dusting, cleaning and testing.” What a pack of suckers they were.” The last half of the hour will be spent walking thru our airport layout so you know where the security doors are and don’t have to ask directions.”
HOUR 3:
“Fooling NORAD into grounding all American fighter aircraft would normally be something impossible but we have “friends” who will be helping us with this one. We are going to break for lunch. Osama told me that the next person to pull a Budweiser and ham sandwich out of his lunch box is going to lose more than just a hand.”
HOUR 4:
“Aircraft capability is going to be a problem. Not only can none of us fly planes but the planes themselves won’t be able to maneuver. The biggest problem will be to get the plane crashing into the Pentagon to fold up into something very small. We have an expert on origami coming from Japan that will help us with that. We have been told that special auto-pilots will have to be installed that can make airliners perform advanced aerobatics required to fly inches above the ground without disturbing the lawns or be seen by any of the dozens of video cameras around Washington. Get out your manuals on these systems and we will go into how to activate them.”
(prayer break)
HOUR 5:
“We had a kindergarten invite President Bush to Florida to read to children. Knowing that he is dyslexic and getting through a children’s book will tax his capabilities, we can expect him to be no problem. We aren’t going to worry about Rumsfeld, General Myers or Vice President Cheney. I can’t get into that right now, but they aren’t going to be a problem. Also, news coverage has been arranged and a film team in a white van is waiting to get really good shots of WTC. “Friends” were kind enough to help us on that one too.”
“Those of you who won’t be on the planes, the planning teams, will be flown to Saudi Arabia. You won’t believe who will order the flight and block the FBI from questioning you. Suffice it to say this order will come from the top. Cars will be picking you up at your apartments. You will know them by their license plates. They will all say, ‘US Government’ on them”
(care and feeding of camels)
HOUR 6:
“Expect a worldwide manhunt for everyone involved and severe military repercussions. None of us will be in any danger, of course. Some of you have been supplied with “dopplegangers” recruited from mental institutions. Most of you will be able to return to your day jobs. As a joke, we are going to dismantle this entire facility and send it via Fed Ex to Israel. Most of the equipment was made there anyway and we don’t need it anymore. The Americans are really going to be pissed when they come in here and only find a pile of camel dung.”
WHY AFGHANISTAN FOR PLANNING THE MOST ADVANCED TECHNOLOGICAL WARFARE ATTACK IN HISTORY?
Nobody has been able to come up with a reason so far.
BARN DOOR LEFT OPEN, BUT THEY NEVER HAD HORSES IN THE FIRST PLACE
With 140,000 Americans along with British and Afghani forces running around Afghanistan killing everything that moves in retaliation for 9/11, a few questions come to mind. Without a shred of evidence that any aspect of 9/11 was ever planned in Afghanistan, why is any of this going on?
When we shoot at farmers they are “Taliban” and we build an army out of druglords, they are “loyal freedom loving Afghanis.” Anyone see a touch of irony in this?
Why is the only result of the US occupation of Afghanistan a 500% increase in opium production?
Has anyone really asked, “What the hell is it we are doing in Afghanistan anyway?”
“IT HURTS SO MUCH, WHY STOP NOW?”
Without delving into conspiracy or “false flag”operations, our response to “terrorism” that has existed since the beginning of time has been the self mutilation of a demented soul. We have gouged out our own eyes, disfigured our culture and mortgaged ourselves for generations.
How do we even discuss what we do when nobody can agree on what the subject is? Are we changing a regime in Afghanistan? We already replaced the religious extremists with druglords and gangsters. Wasn’t that enough?
If nobody killed bin Laden, his bad kidneys or simple loneliness would have finished him off by now. We talk “terrorist training camps” but nobody has ever seen one nor even caught a single “foreign terrorist.” We don’t even know who they are? Who would be dumb enough to go to Afghanistan to hide, hide under American predator drones, surrounded by spies and stuck in the middle of one of the most primitve and dangerous warzones in history.
Aren’t real terrorists like our “heroes” in the Pentagon? Shouldn’t we look for them on golf courses or in hotel bars?
WAITING TO POST THE PHOTOGRAPHS
After 9 years of war in Afghanistan, fought only to find the tens of thousands of terrorists in training camps all over Afghanistan being trained in sophisticated facilities to plan attacks designed to bring the western world to its knees, could we please have at least one photograph of a terrorist training center that looks like more than a place where two guys and a herd of goats spent the night sleeping on the ground?
I am thinking there must be a giant underground facility somewhere with miles of corridors, a monorail, minions in jump suits and the millions of dollars of high tech equipment that Islamic charities supposedly have been buying around the world and sending off to Afghanistan.
How are we missing it?
From the efforts we are making, we should have found the equivalent of NASA Flight Control in Houston hidden somewhere in southern Afghanistan. With all our drones, spy planes, satellites, paid spies and “special op’s” people, we couldn’t even come back from bin Laden’s headquarters in Tora Bora with a mobile phone.
Are we going to kill half of Afghanistan searching for the “Al Qaida Terrorst University” after 9 years of coming up empty? Is Fox News running running the Pentagon? It would almost seem so. What if someone were simply making it all up just to justify a phony war?
Would we do that? Have we been caught doing that before? Are we still doing it? So far all we have gotten is poor Saddam Hussein, an old man hiding in a hole, former American ally like bin Laden, like Noriega, someone we got tired of and needed to get rid of.
Why do the promises and threats always end up with an empty net?
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Radio transmitters that are carried aboard aircraft and that are supposed to activate only in the event of the aircraft crashing went off in the New York area several minutes before the two planes hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. In events that, according to the official account of 9/11, should have been impossible, emergency locator transmitters (ELTs), which are intended to help locate crashed aircraft by broadcasting a distinctive signal, were activated over two minutes before American Airlines Flight 11 hit the north WTC tower and over four minutes before United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower. And yet no ELTs went off at the times these planes hit the towers, when we might have expected them to have been activated.
EMERGENCY TRANSMITTER WENT OFF OVER TWO MINUTES BEFORE FLIGHT 11 CRASHED
American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m. and 40 seconds. [1] But two and a half minutes earlier, David Bottiglia, an air traffic controller at the FAA’s New York Center, had received an important message from one of the planes in the airspace he was monitoring. At 8:44 a.m., the pilot of U.S. Airways Flight 583 told Bottiglia: “I just picked up an ELT on 121.5. It was brief, but it went off.” (121.5 megahertz is an emergency frequency that ELTs are designed to transmit their distress signals on.) A minute later–about 90 second before Flight 11 hit the WTC–another plane in the New York Center’s airspace reported the same thing. The pilot of Delta Airlines Flight 2433 told Bottiglia: “We picked up that ELT, too. But it’s very faint.” [2] According to author Lynn Spencer, “several” facilities picked up the ELT signal around this time. [3]
Peter McCloskey, a traffic management coordinator at the New York Center, later recalled that the ELT had gone off “in the vicinity of Lower Manhattan.” [4] And, around the time Flight 11 hit the WTC, a participant in an FAA teleconference stated, “We got a report of an ELT in the area that [the radar track for Flight 11] was in.” (Before it disappeared from radar screens, the track for Flight 11 had indicated the plane was about 20 miles from New York’s JFK International Airport.) [5]
However, while an ELT went off minutes before Flight 11 hit the WTC, it appears that no ELT went off at the time of the crash itself.
EMERGENCY TRANSMITTER WENT OFF OVER FOUR MINUTES BEFORE FLIGHT 175 CRASHED
United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center at 9:03 a.m. and 11 seconds. [6] But, as with the first crash, an ELT was activated in the New York area several minutes before this plane hit the tower.
At just before 8:59 a.m., over four minutes before the Flight 175 crash, the pilot of Flight 583, who had reported the ELT signal before the North Tower was struck, told David Bottiglia at the New York Center that he had noticed another ELT going off. The pilot said, “I hate to keep burdening you with this stuff, but now we’re picking up another ELT on 21.5.” [7]
As with the previous crash, although an ELT went off minutes before Flight 175 hit the South Tower, it seems that no ELT went off at the time of the crash itself.
ELT SHOULD ONLY GO OFF IN EVENT OF A CRASH
An emergency locator transmitter is a battery-operated radio transmitter carried by aircraft, which can emit a distinctive signal on the emergency frequencies of 121.5 and 243.0 megahertz. When “armed,” an ELT is designed to automatically activate in the event of a crash and then continually emit the emergency signal, thereby helping rescuers to locate the crashed aircraft. [8] ELTs are required to be installed in almost all U.S.-registered civil aircraft. [9]
Paul Thumser, an operations supervisor at the FAA’s New York Center on 9/11, has over 20 years’ experience as an air traffic controller and is also an experienced airline pilot. He provided the 9/11 Commission with detailed information about ELTs. Thumser said the ELT in a Boeing 767–the type of plane that hit both of the WTC towers–cannot be activated by a pilot. Therefore, with a 767, “impact would be the only way to trigger one.” Furthermore, the sensitivity setting of the ELT in a 767 “is not low,” and so it should be impossible for one to be set off by the plane making a hard turn or a hard landing. Thumser therefore judged that “it would have to be a serious impact to set the ELT off.” [10] Terry Biggio, the operations manager at the FAA’s Boston Center, similarly told the 9/11 Commission: “An ELT is not a signal sent by pilot operators. It is clearly indicative of a crash.” [11]
This means that an ELT should not have been activated over two minutes before Flight 11 hit the North Tower, nor should one have been activated over four minutes before Flight 175 hit the South Tower. If such transmitters on Flights 11 and 175 had been set off, this should have happened when these planes struck the WTC, and yet that did not happen. It was perhaps for this reason that Mike McCormick, the air traffic control manager at the FAA’s New York Center, told the 9/11 Commission that his “best hypothesis” was that the ELT signal transmitted “moments before the impact of AA 11″ was “unrelated to the event” of the crash. [12]
McCormick also told the 9/11 Commission that ELT signals sometimes “happened accidentally,” and that “the vast majority are false alarms.” [13] However, this could not have been the case with the signals before the WTC crashes. None of the air traffic controllers who were involved with monitoring Flights 11 and 175 have reported any planes’ ELTs going off by accident around that time. And for one plane in the New York area to have its ELT set off accidentally just before Flight 11 hit the WTC, and then the ELT on another plane in that area going off accidentally just before Flight 175 hit the WTC, would have been too big a coincidence to be plausible.
INEXPLICABLE EVIDENCE
The strange evidence of emergency locator transmitter signals being broadcast in the New York area before the World Trade Center towers were hit raises serious questions about the official account of the 9/11 attacks. According to that account, if ELTs had been activated, this should have been at the times the planes hit the towers, not several minutes beforehand. [14] The evidence appears inexplicable, and so proper investigation is imperative to make sense of it. But while a number of air traffic controllers mentioned the ELT signals in their interviews with the 9/11 Commission, the 9/11 Commission Report offered no explanation for this anomalous evidence.
Many questions remain unanswered. For example, were the sources of the ELT signals ever determined? If so, did the signals indeed come from the planes that hit the WTC, or were they from somewhere else? And were the transmitters themselves ever found? After all, according to the FAA, “In most installations the [ELT] is attached to the aircraft structure as far aft as practicable in the fuselage; or in the tail surface, in such a manner that damage to the beacon will be minimized in the event of a crash impact.” [15] So the transmitters should have survived the crashes, if they were in the planes that hit the Twin Towers. If the ELTs were found, then, were they indeed in the rubble of the World Trade Center? Or were they somewhere else?
Paul Thumser told the 9/11 Commission that “credible” ELT signals (i.e. those not determined to be false alarms) had to be reported to the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center (AFRCC), which, at the time of the 9/11 attacks, was located at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. [16] So did the AFRCC locate the sources of the ELT signals or determine anything else about them? The only relevant information provided by the 9/11 Commission appears in one of its memorandums, which stated, “We visited the RCC and they receive all ELTs; so many, in fact, that they are a nuisance, and they have special procedures and software to manage that.” [17]
We clearly need to know a lot more, since a proper investigation of these emergency signals could help determine what exactly happened on September 11, and point investigators toward those really responsible for perpetrating the terrorist attacks.
NOTES
[1] 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004, p. 7.
[2] “Transcript of United Airlines Flight 175.” New York Times, October 16, 2001; “Memorandum for the Record: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) New York Air Route Center Interview With David Bottiglia.” 9/11 Commission, October 1, 2003; “Sensitive Security Information: Chronology of September 11, 2001.” Federal Aviation Administration, n.d.
[3] Lynn Spencer, Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11. New York: Free Press, 2008, p. 50.
[4] “Memorandum for the Record: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) New York Air Route Center Interview With Peter McCloskey.” 9/11 Commission, October 1, 2003.
[5] FAA Audio File, Herndon Command Center, Position 14. Federal Aviation Administration, September 11, 2001.
[6] 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report, p. 8.
[7] FAA Audio File, New York Center, Position R42, 8:51 a.m.-9:10 a.m. Federal Aviation Administration, September 11, 2001; “Memorandum for the Record: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) New York Air Route Center Interview With David Bottiglia”; “The Hunt for American Air Eleven After WTC 1 is Hit.” 9/11 Commission, n.d.
[8] Christopher G. Morris (Editor), Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1992, p. 739; U.S. Army Field Manual FM 3-04.300: Airfield and Flight Operations Procedures. Washington, DC: Headquarters, Department of the Army, 2008, p. E-6.
[9] “Regulatory Brief: Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs).” Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, January 22, 2009.
[10] “Memorandum for the Record: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) New York Air Route Center Interview With Paul Thumser.” 9/11 Commission, October 1, 2003.
[11] “Memorandum for the Record: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Interview With Terry Biggio, Facility Deputy Manager, Boston Center.” 9/11 Commission, September 22, 2003.
[12] “Memorandum for the Record: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) New York Air Route Center (ZNY) Follow-up Interview With Mike McCormick.” 9/11 Commission, December 15, 2003.
[13] “Memorandum for the Record: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) New York Air Route Center Interview With Mike McCormick, Air Traffic Manager.” 9/11 Commission, October 1, 2003.
[14] Note that while ELTs are activated in a majority of aircraft crashes, they are not perfect, and have sometimes failed to go off when planes have crashed. See “Regulatory Brief: Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs).”
[15] “Emergency Locator Transmitters.” Federal Aviation Administration, April 2, 1990.
[16] “Memorandum for the Record: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) New York Air Route Center Interview With Paul Thumser”; “Air Force Rescue Coordination Center.” U.S. Air Force, November 12, 2008.
[17] “Memorandum for the Record: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) New York Air Route Center Interview With Paul Thumser.”
September 1, 2010
Author: Jon Gold
I begin, I would like to say that theorizing about what happened on 9/11, when you’re not being given answers to your questions about that day by the people who SHOULD be able to do so, is PERFECTLY normal. As is suspecting that the reason these answers aren’t being given is “sinister” in nature. As Ray McGovern said, “for people to dismiss these questioners as “conspiratorial advocates”, or “conspiratorial theorists”… that’s completely out of line because the… The questions remain because the President who should be able to answer them, WILL NOT.” When you think about everything the previous Administration did in 8 years, the idea that they might not be giving us the answers we seek because of something “sinister” is not crazy. In fact, it’s the most logical conclusion one can come to at this point. After years of obfuscation, spin, lies, and cover-ups regarding the 9/11 attacks, it is unavoidable to think that criminal complicity is the reason why.
That being said, we have not proven it beyond the shadow of doubt. We do not have documentation that shows they planned it. We do not have a signed confession from someone. We have pieces of the puzzle, and to most of us that have been doing this a long time, those pieces point to more than just Osama Bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and 19 hijackers. If we could somehow download all of our knowledge to every person on the planet, this fight would be over tomorrow. However, we can’t do that. I wish we could. I wish the media would DO THEIR JOB. But, they’re not. Therefore, we have to be smart with how we approach people. This is America, and in America, you are innocent until proven guilty.
As I have often said, we don’t need to come up with a narrative (theory) because our facts speak for themselves. I am going to do my very best to prove my point. A lot of these facts are from mainstream news outlets. Yes, they do report the news, but they DO NOT put the pieces together, they DO NOT ask the tough questions over and over again until they get an answer, they DO NOT give these facts the attention they should, reminiscent of the attention that Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, The Swift Boat Veterans and the “Ground Zero Mosque” got, and they DO NOT portray us in any other light except as “Conspiracy Theorists.”
Fact #1
The core of the Bush Administration was predominantly made up of members of an organization called “The Project For A New American Century.” This group produced a document entitled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” that said the “process of transformation” they wanted our military to undertake would take an excessively long time, unless there was a “catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor.” That document was written in September 2000. This document even cited that “advanced forms of biological warfare that can “target” specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.” A lot of the same people were part of a group that wrote a report entitled, “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” that advocated an aggressive Israeli policy in the Middle East.
Fact #2
The Bush Administration came into office wanting to go to war with Iraq. This is so heavily documented that Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas asked the President about it. He denied it of course, and used 9/11 as the justification for what he and his administration have done.
Former Secretary of Treasury Paul O’Neill said that Saddam was “topic A” ten days after the inauguration at the very first National Security Council meeting, and eight months before 9/11. According to O’Neill, “it was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying ‘Go find me a way to do this.’”
In a 2007 interview with former Counterterrorism “tsar” Richard Clarke, he states that between March 2001 and May 2001, members of the Bush Administration discussed creating a “casus belli” for war with Iraq.
According to Merriam-Webster, a “casus belli” is “an event or action that justifies or allegedly justifies a war or conflict.”
Fact #3
Dick Cheney was the CEO for a company called Halliburton. During his tenure there, he gave a speech at the Institute of Petroleum that said, “while many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two thirds of the world’s oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies, even though companies are anxious for greater access there, progress continues to be slow.”
On 10/11/2005, it was reported that the shares that Dick Cheney claimed he no longer had with Halliburton, rose 3281% in one year.
Fact #4
In early 2001, Dick Cheney was put in charge of The National Energy Policy Development Group, or “Energy Task Force” for short.
He prepared for this during the transition between the Clinton and Bush administrations.
The task force met with what appears to be every oil executive in existence, even though they denied it before Congress.
It was eventually discovered that one of the topics of discussion during these task force meetings was Iraq’s oil fields. Five months before 9/11.
The Vice President’s office fought long and hard to make sure the informationfrom those meetings never saw the light of day. They even took the fight to the Supreme Court. Many were suspicious of the hunting trip that Antonin Scalia, and Dick Cheney went on prior to the Supreme Court hearing the case. Scalia was proud of the fact that he didn’t recuse himself from the hearings. Ultimately, they sent the fight to an appeals court, and it was decided that Cheney’s Task Force documents may remain secret.
Fact #5
In the months leading up to 9/11, there was an unprecedented amount of warnings that “Al-Qaeda” was about to conduct an attack. So many that CIA Director George Tenet was said to be running around with his “hair on fire,” and so many that a lot were not taken seriously “because of “warning fatigue” arising from too many terror warnings.”
One of those warnings came in the form of a Presidential Daily Briefing entitled, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” that was initially hidden by the White House.
Another came on July 10th, 2001 that spoke of an “imminent threat,” that was completely omitted from the 9/11 Report, and then lied about after it became public knowledge. Condi even had the audacity to ask “does anybody really believe that somebody would have walked into my office and said, oh, by the way, there’s a chance of a major attack against the United States and I would have said, well, I’m really not interested in that information?”
Cheney said that his “Democratic friends in Congress… need to be very cautious not to seek political advantage by making incendiary suggestions, as were made by some today, that the White House had advance information that would have prevented the tragic attacks of 9/11.”
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