Dear friends,
When four
planes tragically crashed on September 11, 2001, the course of
history was inalterably changed. Yet questions about what actually
happened on that fateful day are asked with increasing frequency, even by
some top government officials and other respected public leaders. Read
the statements below (links to sources provided) from a former chief economist
of President George W. Bush, an assistant secretary of the Treasury under
President Reagan, a U.S. Senator, a Congresswoman, a renowned
theologian, the head of advanced space programs for the Department of Defense
under Reagan, a British cabinet minister under Prime Minister Tony Blair,
and more.
Each of
these prominent leaders now claims that there are serious problems with the
official government story of 9/11. Some of these highly respected individuals
even believe that 9/11 may have been an inside job. It can be very uncomfortable
to even consider the possibility that certain individuals within government
were involved either in allowing the attacks to happen, or in some way facilitating
them in order to forward their hidden
agendas. Yet the facts increasingly point in that direction.
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media has sadly failed to give significant coverage to the serious questions
being raised by these public figures. We invite you to have the courage to
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Former language interpreter
for Presidents Bush and Clinton
Morgan Reynolds, Former Chief Economist under
President Bush
June 13, 2005, Washington Times/ UPI
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050613-102755-6408r.htm or click here
A former
Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing serious doubts
about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11. Former chief economist
for the Department of Labor during President George W. Bush's first term Morgan
Reynolds comments that the official story about the collapse of the WTC is
"bogus" and that it is more likely that a controlled
demolition destroyed the Twin
Towers and adjacent Building
No. 7.
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/12-Jun-2005.html
- More on Reynolds
"If
demolition destroyed three steel skyscrapers at the World Trade Center on
9/11, then the case for an 'inside job' and a government attack on America
would be compelling," said Morgan Reynolds, Ph.D, a former member of
the Bush team. Reynolds, now a professor emeritus at Texas A&M University,
also believes it's "next to impossible" that 19 Arab terrorists
alone outfoxed the mighty U.S. military, adding the scientific conclusions
about the WTC collapse may hold the key to the entire mysterious plot behind
9/11. Reynolds...claims explosives
and structural experts have been intimidated in their analyses of the
collapses of 9/11. In a detailed analysis just released supporting the controlled
demolition theory, Reynolds presents a compelling
case.
For an excellent video of Dr. Reynolds discussing 9/11, click here.
Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Sect. of Treasury under Pres. Reagan
http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/roberts.html - Website of Stanford's
Hoover Institute describes Roberts
The Honorable
Paul Craig Roberts is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. During 1981–82,
he served as assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy. He was
awarded the Treasury Department's Meritorious Service Award for "his
outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy."
A former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal and columnist for
Business Week...the Forbes Media Guide ranked him as one of its top seven
journalists. He has testified before committees of Congress on 30 occasions.
http://www.lasvegastribune.com/20050729/headline3.html
- Las Vegas Tribune's July 29, 2005 article on Roberts
Roberts said
he hasn't changed his political ideology or jumped from the Republican-conservative
ship but "just can't respect a party leadership who doesn't respect the
truth." "I guess the real story about 9/11 is about what the people
are actually saying. I've gotten hundreds of emails in response to my columns
and many of them talk about not getting the truth from the government or the
media about what really happened at the World Trade Center. I know many
qualified engineers and scientists have said the WTC collapsed from explosives.
In fact, if you look at the manner in which it fell, you have to give their
conclusions credibility."
Robert M. Bowman, Head of Advanced Space Programs for DOD
http://www.illinoistimes.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A4282 -
Illinois Times on Bowman
In 1977, Dr.
Robert M. Bowman, head of advanced space programs for the Department of Defense
[DOD], authored a report describing a new missile-defense shield system called
the "Star Wars Defense." Lt. Col. Robert Bowman [was] a combat pilot who
flew 101 missions in the Vietnam War.
http://www.rmbowman.com/ssn/Secrecy.htm
- Article on Dr. Bowman's website discussing 9/11
Many people
are convinced that George W. Bush knew what was going to happen and purposely
allowed it to happen so he and his neo-conservative buddies could have the
"new Pearl Harbor" they needed to justify their wars against Afghanistan and
Iraq. Others go further. They are absolutely sure Cheney and company actually
planned and carried out the attack. What is so disturbing is that their
arguments are quite convincing. If an enormous cloud of suspicion is not to
be permanently over the head of our government, the Bush Administration must
"come clean," releasing information thus far withheld from the American people.
Why did John
Ashcroft and top Pentagon
officials cancel plans to fly commercial airlines the morning of 9/11?
If they knew what was about to happen, why wasn't it stopped? Who made all
the millions of dollars selling
short United and American Airlines [stock] just before 9/11? Why weren't
the hijacked airliners intercepted by jet fighters and shot down before they
could fly into the WTC and Pentagon? What did the air
traffic controllers say, and to whom? Why did the FBI impound the tapes
of those conversations? Why has the public never been told what was on them?
Why weren't the congressional investigators told? If it was just a matter
of incompetence or somebody not doing their job, why
hasn't anyone been fired or reprimanded?
For a five-minute video of Dr. Bowman discussing 9/11, click here.
Michael Meacher, UK Minister of Environment (1997 - 2003)
September 6, 2003, The Guardian (one of
the UK's leading newspapers)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1036571,00.html
A blueprint
for the creation of a global Pax Americana was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now
vice-president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's
deputy), Jeb Bush (George Bush's younger brother) and Lewis Libby (Cheney's
chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defences, was
written in September 2000 by the neoconservative think tank, Project
for the New American Century (PNAC). The information provided by European
intelligence services prior to 9/11 was so extensive that it is no longer
possible for either the CIA or FBI to assert a defence of incompetence. Fifteen
of the 9/11 hijackers obtained their visas in Saudi Arabia. Michael Springman,
the former head of the American visa bureau in Jeddah, has stated that since
1987 the CIA had been illicitly issuing
visas to unqualified applicants from the Middle East and bringing them
to the US for training in terrorism for the Afghan war in collaboration with
Bin Laden (BBC,
November 6 2001). It seems this operation continued after the Afghan war
for other purposes. It is also reported that five of the hijackers
received training at secure US military installations in the 1990s (Newsweek,
September 15 2001) The conclusion of all this analysis must surely
be that the "global war on terrorism" has the hallmarks of a political
myth propagated to pave the way for a wholly different agenda - the US
goal of world hegemony, built around securing by force command over the oil
supplies required to drive the whole project.
For an excellent 16-minute video of Michael Meacher and German Minister of Defense and Andreas Von Bülow describing serious problem with the official 9/11 story, click here.
U.S. Senator Mark Dayton
July 31, 2004, The Star-Tribune
(Minneapolis - St. Paul)
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1576/4904237.html
http://www.911citizenswatch.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=369
Sen. Mark Dayton,
D-Minn., charged...that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) have covered up "catastrophic
failures" that left the nation vulnerable during the Sept. 11 hijackings.
"For almost three years now, NORAD officials and FAA officials have been
able to hide their critical
failures that left this country defenseless during two of the worst hours
in our history," Dayton declared during a Senate Governmental Affairs
Committee hearing. Dayton said NORAD officials "lied to the American
people, they lied to Congress and they lied to your 9/11 commission to create
a false impression of competence, communication and protection of the American
people."
U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
July 23, 2005, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
(Atlanta's leading newspaper)
http://www.ajc.com/hp/content/auto/epaper/editions/saturday/news_241efd8d9666d13800b4.html
http://www.WantToKnow.info/050723ajc.mckinney - Copy on WantToKnow.info if above link fails
Rep. Cynthia
McKinney led a Capitol Hill hearing Friday [July 22, 2005] on whether the
Bush administration was involved in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
"What we are doing is asking the unanswered
questions of the 9/11 families," McKinney...said during the proceedings.
The eight-hour hearing, timed to mark the first anniversary of the release
of the Sept. 11 commission's report on the attacks, drew dozens of contrarians
and conspiracy theorists who suggest President Bush purposely ignored
warnings or may even have had a hand in the attack — claims participants
said the commission ignored. "Congresswoman McKinney is viewed as a contrarian,"
panelist Melvin Goodman, a former CIA official, said. "And I hope someday
her views will be considered conventional wisdom."
Note:
Though the mainstream press largely failed to report on this important hearing,
C-SPAN did air all eight hours of testimony given on August
31st and Sept.
2nd (because of Hurricane Katrina, part two was aired on C-SPAN 2), both
at 8 PM. For the transcript and an excellent C-SPAN video of McKinney asking the hard questions in Congress, click here.
Professor David Ray Griffin, Renowned
Theologian in LA Times
August 28, 2005, Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-crgriffin35aug28,1,3835884.story
http://www.WantToKnow.info/050828latimes911conspiracy - Copy on WantToKnow.info if above link fails
A professor
emeritus at the Claremont School of Theology, 66-year-old
David Ray Griffin...compiled a summary of material arguing against the
accepted story that 19 hijackers sent by Osama bin Laden took the aviation
system and the U.S. military by surprise that awful day in his 2004 book "The
New Pearl Harbor." He recently followed up with the book "The
9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions," a critique of
the Kean commission document. "For the first year and a half I just
accepted the conventional view. When a colleague suggested to me about
a year after 9/11 that he was convinced our own government or forces within
our own government had arranged it, I didn't accept that. Then several months
later another colleague sent me [a link to] a
website that had a
timeline. Once I started reading that and saw all those stories drawn
from mainstream sources that contradicted the official account, I decided
I needed to look into it more carefully, and the more I looked, the worse
it got. The fact that Building
7 [a 47-story skyscraper in the WTC complex] collapsed when it had not
been hit by an airplane, and collapsed in seven or eight seconds, that's a
smoking gun. The fact that standard operating procedures were not followed
that morning, and we've gotten three different stories now by the U.S. military
as to why they did
not intercept the planes, that's a smoking gun. There was a Zogby
poll in New York. The question asked was, do you believe the government
had advance knowledge of the attacks and consciously let them happen? Forty-nine
percent in New York City said yes.
Note:
On May 7, 2005, Dr. Griffin, who has authored or edited over
two dozen scholarly books, was featured on C-SPAN
2 giving an excellent lecture on the 9/11 cover-up at the University of
Wisconsin. To view this revealing lecture free online, click
here. The prestigious National Press Club also hosted him for an excellent
talk on July 22, 2005. To read a transcript of this speech, click
here. For more on Dr. Giffin, click
here.
Catherine Austin Fitts, Ass. Sect. of Housing For President Bush
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Austin_Fitts - Wikipedia
article describing Fitts
Catherine Austin
Fitts has been a Wall Street executive, a government official, and President
of her own investment bank. She is currently the director of Solari.
Fitts served as Managing Director and Member of the Board of Directors of
the Wall Street investment bank, Dillon, Read & Co., Inc. and also as
Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner at HUD in the
first Bush Administration.
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041101130426916
Article jointly written by Catherine Austin Fitts and Congresswoman McKinney
on excellent 9/11 website
From the first,
the Bush Administration resisted
investigation and disclosure. Families of September 11 victims were forced
to lobby the administration and Congress for a full and independent inquiry.
They fought for 14 months, blocked
every step of the way by the White House. The families demanded a full
investigation, posing nearly 400 questions to the Kean Commission. The commissioners
said they welcomed these queries. But their final report ignored most of the
unanswered questions. Still posted
on the website of the September 11 Family Steering Committee, these questions
are a stark reminder of the Kean Commission's failures. Until the unanswered
questions about 9/11 are laid to rest, by a truly independent investigation
that does not declare legitimate avenues of inquiry off-limits, they will
continue to haunt our country.
Respected Leaders and Families 9/11 Truth Statement
October 26, 2004, 911truth.org
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041026093059633
An alliance
of 100 prominent Americans and 40 family members of those killed on 9/11 announced
the release of the 911 Truth Statement, a call for immediate inquiry into
evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately
allowed the September 11th attacks to occur. The Statement's list of signatories
includes notables spanning the political spectrum, from Presidential candidates
Ralph Nader, Michael Badnarik, and David Cobb to Catherine Austin Fitts, a
member of the first Bush administration, as well as Washington veterans like
Pentagon whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
Other signers range from peace activists like Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans
and Global Exchange's Kevin Danaher to former US Ambassador and Chief of Mission
to Iraq, Edward L. Peck; from environmentalists like Randy Hayes and John
Robbins to business leaders such as Paul Hawken and Karl Schwarz, CEO of Patmos
Nanotechnologies; from populist journalist Ronnie Dugger to renowned investigative
reporter Kelly Patricia O'Meara. The Statement also includes 43 noted authors,
including New York Times #1 bestseller John Gray, as well as 18 eminent professors,
historians, and theologians. Other notables include five-term Georgia
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, singers Michelle Shocked and Michael Franti,
and actors Ed Asner and Mimi Kennedy.
Note: Don't miss the two webpages listing over 50 senior military, intelligence, and government officials and 100 respected professors who seriously question the 9/11 official story. A number even claim that 9/11 was an inside job and give evidence to back their claims. Links to verify their statements are provided. For senior government officials, click here. For respected professors, click here. For the excellent, information-packed 9/11 Information Center, click here.
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