THE PENTAGON ATTACK PAPERS
Updated January 2011
by
Barbara Honegger
Earlier edition Appendix to
THE TERROR CONSPIRACY
by Jim Marrs
Barbara Honegger, M.S. is Senior Military Affairs Journalist with the
The
San Francisco Chronicle commemorated the 100th anniversary of
the Great California 1906
Earthquake
with
front-page articles featuring a single iconic image -- a charred clock frozen in
time at 5:12 a.m. -- the exact moment “The Big One” hit.1
Over a century after that devastating event, this stopped clock still serves as
the ultimate evidence and the historic icon that “captures it all.”
Another series of
clocks and watches frozen in time at the exact moment of the first violent event
at the Pentagon on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 also “capture it all” and serve
as the ultimate evidence shattering the official theory of what happened there
that terrible morning – and narrows the range of who
was really responsible for the
horrific acts.
Converging Lines
of Evidence of a 9:30-to-9:32 a.m. Inside Violent Event at the Pentagon on Sept.
11, 2001 well before the Official Story says anything approached and hit the
building
The Pentagon was first attacked shortly after 9:30 a.m. – almost
8 minutes before the official ‘impact’ time of 9:37:46, when the Official
Conspiracy Theory (OCT) says a plane hit the building from the outside. Both DoD and
mainstream media initially reported the time of the alleged Flight 77 impact
similarly, as “about 9:30”, but government censors quickly began moving the
alleged outside strike time later and later.1B
Some
early reports of the alleged impact time quoting official sources were
as late as 10:00.
The time given by Pentagon officials for the claimed outside impact on
the building finally “settled” at 9:37:47, or almost 9:38.
Multiple
standard-issue battery- and electric-operated wall clocks
in the heliport just
outside the west wall and in the inside areas of the Pentagon attacked on 9/11 were stopped
between 9:30 and 9:32. as a result of the first violent event The Navy, itself
part of ‘the Pentagon’, posted a photo of a Pentagon wall clock stopped at
9:31:40 on one of its official websites; and the Pentagon wall clock chosen for
the national 9/11 exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution was stopped at 9:31:30.2
These are just some of the west-section Pentagon clocks that were stopped
shortly after 9:30 on Sept. 11, 2001.
In addition, April
Gallop’s wrist watch was stopped “just after 9:30.”
April Gallop, an
Army employee with a Top Secret clearance specializing in the declassification
of documents was at her desk in the Army area in the west section of the
Pentagon on 9/11, the part of the building most heavily destroyed and with the
most casualties, when what she said sounded and felt “like a bomb” went off,
soon followed by a second explosion. According to the Pentagon’s own building
performance report researched and completed in the wake of the attacks, Gallop’s
desk was approx. 30 feet from the alleged inside trajectory of the alleged
impactor plane.
“Being in the Army with the training I
had, I know what a bomb sounds and acts like, especially the aftermath, and it
sounded and acted like a bomb,” Gallop told the author in an under-oath
videotaped interview.2A “There was no plane or plane
parts inside the building, and no smell of jet fuel.” In those two hours
of under-oath videotaped testimony, Gallop states that the explosion went off at
the
precise instant that
she hit the ‘power on’ button on her computer in the Army area, to which she had
just returned that morning after some
months of pregnancy and childbirth leave, and that the first explosion stopped her wrist watch “just after 9:30
a.m.” 2B She
has kept the stopped wrist watch in a safe deposit box as evidence
of
the exact moment of the initial Pentagon
explosion. (Significantly, one
of the witnesses to an inside-the-building explosion going off at the Murrah
Federal Building in Oklahoma City separate from the well known outside Ryder
truck bomb, Jane Graham, went on record to host Bonnie Faulkner in a Pacifica
KPFA radio interview that the moment
she also pressed the on button on her computer at her desk inside the building,
an internal explosion went off.2C The parallel inside-bomb-with-outside-attack-cover-story modus operandi
of the Murrah Building and Pentagon attacks point to the same inside
perpetrators as being responsible for the planning and execution of both.)
The huge explosion
and massive damage experienced by Gallop at/by her desk inside the west section
only about 30 feet from the alleged ‘entrance’ hole of the claimed impactor,
combined with the fact that the Pentagon's thick west outer wall had just been
fortified to withstand damage from
an external bomb and/or external impactor,
make it almost certain that the explosion and internal damage experienced by
Gallop and other witnesses came -- at least first -- from inside, not outside,
the building.
Some 9/11
researchers, notably Jim Hoffman, have studied the evidence surrounding the
Pentagon attack and, though acknowledging evidence for an explosion not
explained by a plane impact or resultant jet
fuel combustion, nevertheless claim a Boeing 757 or similarly sized
aircraft probably hit the building, based predominantly on witnesses
who say they saw a large plane
approach and impact the west wedge. For
such witnesses to believe the incoming plane hit the building, however, the
large smoke cloud could not have already been billowing
up and above the Pentagon; had it
been, they would have known it was due to some other, prior cause.
Thus, if the early 9:30-9:32 inside explosions were the cause of the
fireball and smoke cloud, any plane that
witnesses saw approaching and believed hit the building had to have approached
near-simultaneously with the cause of the cloud, or just after 9:30 -- no where close to the 9:37:46 official story
alleged impact time.
Other 9/11 researchers, notably the
Citizens Investigation Team (CIT), assume
as fact the author’s original finding of
inside-the-building explosion(s) and
that it/they caused the billowing black smoke cloud which they further assume
the plane their 13 witnesses saw approach to the north of the CITGO gas station
passed through that cloud and over the building – the ‘fly-over’ theory.
In addition to the fact that not
one of the 104 known witnesses to the Pentagon attack say they saw a plane
fly just over the roof of the building through the smoke cloud -- including none
of their own 13 witnesses to the north-of-the-station path, many of whom
explicitly say on videotape on their own website that they
did see a plane hit – CIT assumes
that the time of the alleged overflight of the plane their witnesses saw was the
official story ‘impact’ time of
9:37:46, or almost 9:38, whereas the
actual time of the first violent event at the Pentagon
was almost six minutes earlier, at c.
9:31:30.
It is important here
to note that internal explosion(s) between 9:30 and 9:32 a.m. on the
first and/or second floors of the west wedge of the Pentagon are not
inconsistent with
there possibly having also been a near-simultaneous and/or
later impact by some kind of airborne object much smaller than a 757/Flight
77 -- a piloted plane, unmanned drone, or missile -- into the same or a nearby
section of the building. Indeed, if
a heat-seeking missile hit the
building following the explosion(s),
the heat from the earlier explosion(s) would have
become the
target for
the missile. (See below for reports that A-3 Sky Warrior planes were
retrofitted shortly before 9/11 enabling them to be remotely controlled, and
fitted with missiles.) For
instance, if a missile came in along the
south-of-Citgo official story “light pole” path and hit the heat target that
already existed on the west side of the Pentagon where explosives had already
gone off just as the plane CIT’s
witnesses saw came in along the north-of-Citgo
path and overflew the building through the smoke, it would explain why some CIT
witnesses believed the plane they saw caused the impact noise actually caused by
the faster-than-plane, near-simultaneously-hitting missile.
As further evidence
of internal explosions at the Pentagon on 9/11, survivor witnesses from inside
the west section reported that the blast caused
its newly-hardened windows to first expand outwards, and then inwards, consistent with an internal-explosion-caused pressure wave.7 And some of the outermost
columns closest to where the official story says the right wing of a 757 crashed
into the building appear to be blown up and out from the inside, not inward, in
photos.
Multiple witnesses
also said they smelled cordite after the initial explosion at the Pentagon, an
explosive which has a distinct and very different smell from that of burning jet
fuel, which would have been the
smell if Flight 77 had hit and entered the building.
And, as already noted,
Gallop said there was no smell of jet fuel inside the most-damaged section of
the West wedge, where she worked in the Army area, shortly
after the first violent event that
stopped her watch there just after 9:30.
Pentagon eyewitness Don Perkal stated to
MSNBC, “Even before stepping outside, I could smell the cordite.
I knew explosives had been set off somewhere.”
Witness Gilah Goldsmith reported, “We saw a huge
black cloud of smoke.
It smelled like cordite, or gun smoke.”
And witness Samuel Danner, an AmTrak electrical engineer, was at the site
and said he smelled cordite.8
Cordite N -- which consists of the main
explosive compounds nitroguanidine, nitrocellulose, and nitroglycerin -- is
cool-burning and produces little smoke and no flash but, like other explosives,
produces a strong detonation shock wave.
Several witnesses also reported seeing a bright silvery flash, which is inconsistent with
either jet fuel combustion from a
plane impact, which produces a bright yellow not a white or silvery fireball, or with cordite explosions which are not
accompanied by a flash.
Even Secretary of
Defense Rumsfeld told Sam Donaldson in an ABC News interview shortly
after 9/11 that his first thought, being in the building when the initial attack happened, was that a bomb had
gone off. Donaldson asked, “What did you think it was?” Rumsfeld
replied, “A bomb?”
The author also
interviewed the taxi driver whose cab is the only car visible still parked on
I-395 above the Pentagon lawn looking down at the west face after the other cars
have left the freeway (this is not
Lloyd England, the cab driver interviewed by CIT).
This taxi can be seen in overhead photos taken on the morning of 9/11 and
viewable on the Internet. The driver
said his was the last car allowed onto that section of I-395 before police put
up a barricade and that he decided not to immediately leave the scene like the
others “because I realized this was history and I wanted to see for myself.”
He stated that he saw no evidence of a
plane having hit the building nor any visible plane pieces on the lawn at the
time he arrived, which was after the first violent event had occurred at the
building, as black smoke was already streaming up and to the right from
inside-the-building fires.
The taxi cab driver drew a diagram of what he saw that morning while
overlooking the Pentagon’s west face from I-395, which the author has retained.
The author has
interviewed an Army auditor from
This Army financial
management/audit area was part of or contiguous to the Army personnel office,
and this general Army administrative area was one of the two west wedge
functions most heavily damaged and with the greatest number of fatalities in the
Pentagon attack -- the other being the Naval Command Center, more of which
below. The day before 9/11, on September 10, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld had
publicly announced and acknowledged that the Pentagon was “missing” – that it
allegedly could not account for
and needed to “find” -- $2.3 Trillion
dollars (other reports have put the
amount at $2.6 Trillion). Were some of the auditors who
could “follow the money” -- and
the computers whose data mining could help them do it -- intentionally targeted
by the inside-the-building explosions at the Pentagon on September 11th
? In his books, Professor Griffin states that this
possibility, first suggested based on publicly known circumstantial evidence by
the author, deserves serious investigation.
It is worth noting that the Pentagon’s top financial officer leading up
to and at the time of the attacks,
Dov Zakheim, who also acknowledged the “missing” Trillions, had a company
specializing in aircraft remote-control technology. As some analyses claim
a part found in the Pentagon wreckage is the front-hub assembly of the front
compressor of a JT8D turbojet engine used in the A-3 Sky Warrior jet fighter,5 and as Air Force A-3 Sky
Warriors -- normally piloted planes -- were reportedly secretly retrofitted into
remote-controlled drones and fitted with missiles in a highly-compartmented
operation at an airport near
Ft. Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport in Colorado in
the months before 9/11,6
the question further arises as to whether Pentagon auditors trying to “follow
the money” and their computerized databases were
intentionally targeted by inside-the-building explosives on 9/11,
with a plane impact as the
preplanned cover story.
Once it is realized
that the real story at the Pentagon – as at the WTC in New York City – is inside
explosives, the possibility that specific offices, functions or even individuals
were targeted to be ‘taken out’ becomes very real, whereas the cover story that
a Boeing 757 hit the building immediately leads to the assumption -- probably
desired by the real perpetrators -- that any specific deaths and destruction
were random.
The Ft. Monmouth
Army auditor and his two colleagues were also eyewitnesses to multiple teams of
bomb-sniffing dogs and their K-9 handlers in camouflage uniform at the Pentagon
metro station just outside the
building at approximately 7:30 am on Sept. 11. He said that canine
bomb squads had not been at the Pentagon metro stop before 9/11, or since, but
only that day. Since K-9 dog squads don’t search for airliners, but bombs, some kind of an explosives attack was apparently anticipated. Ms.
Gallop said she also saw the bomb-sniffing K-9 teams that morning, from the top
of the Pentagon Metro stop looking
down. (A possible explanation for the dogs could be advance security for President Bush’s anticipated
arrival at the Pentagon heliport, then
scheduled for later that afternoon at approximately 12:30 p.m.)
As mentioned above,
in addition to the Army administrative area, the second most-destroyed area of the Pentagon on 9/11 was the Naval
Command Center (NCC). The Official Conspiracy Theory contained in
the 9/11 Commission Report and
repeated by the mainstream media holds that 44 Naval Command Center personnel
were physically present in that space on the morning of 9/11, and that 43 of the
44 died. The author, however, was told a very different story by the
top military officer in charge of the Navy Anti-Terrorism Division in the NCC on
the morning of 9/11, Coast Guard Reserve Rear Adm. Jeffrey Hathaway.6A
After the attack on the
U.S.S. Cole in Aden Harbor in Yemen,
Hathaway was put in charge of Navy anti-terrorism force protection and was
temporarily assigned to the NCC
before the attacks. Upon the author telling Hathaway that the reported
sole survivor of the
The author also
interviewed a Navy public affairs officer assigned
to the
The author has
interviewed the then Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special
Operations on 9/11, Robert Andrews, the top civilian official then in charge of
special operations under Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and a former Green Beret
whose office was on the second floor of
the south section of the Pentagon, adjacent to the west section. Perhaps
significantly, the pre-9/11 Al Qaeda-tracking and data-mining operation
‘Able Danger’ was under the Special
Operations Command (SOCOM).
While drawing the
path that he took that morning on a sketch of the Pentagon for the author, Mr. Andrews revealed the following: Immediately after
the second World Trade Center attack of 9:03,
Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld left his office on the Potomac side of
the Pentagon and went (merely)
across the hall on the same floor to his Executive Support Center (ESC), which
is set up for teleconferencing. There, he joined the now-famous teleconference
of top government officials run by White House NSC counterterrorism ‘czar’
Richard Clarke out of the White House Situation Room area media room.
Clarke, in his book Against All Enemies, confirms that Rumsfeld was among
the first officials on this teleconference shortly after the second WTC tower
was hit. Clarke’s account and
Andrews’ confirmation of it are thus completely at odds with the Official Theory
and the 9/11 Commission report, which claim that no one could “find” Secretary
Rumsfeld until approximately 10:30 a.m. when he walked into the National
Military Command Center
(NMCC) in the Pentagon. The fact that Rumsfeld,
the military’s top civilian
official, was on Clarke’s
teleconference along with the top official of the Federal Aviation
Administration, FAA Director Jane Garvey, also unmasks the total lie of the
official story that Air Force
interceptors weren’t scrambled in time “because the military and the FAA
couldn’t talk each other” that morning.
The top-most officials of the
Pentagon and the FAA were talking
to one another constantly and
being recorded on Clarke’s teleconference from as early as 9:15 a.m.
This videotaped Clarke teleconference is thus “The Butterfield Tape” of 9/11 which, not surprisingly, has never
been released to the public. [During the 1970s Watergate scandal,
secretly-made tapes of President Nixon’s Oval Office conversations revealed by
Alexander Butterfield were the “smoking guns” which forced Nixon
to resign or face certain impeachment by the House and trial in the
Senate.]
According to
Andrews, immediately after he learned the second WTC tower was hit just after
9:03 a.m. from watching television in his office, he and his aide left and ran
as fast as they could down to “the Secretary of Defense’s West section
Counterterrorism Center (CTC)” arriving
at approximately 9:10 a.m. While they were in the CTC, a
violent event caused the ceiling
tiles to fall from the ceiling and smoke to pour into the room. Andrews immediately looked at
his watch, which read approximately 9:35 a.m. but which was set fast to ensure
timely arrival at meetings, so the
actual time was closer to 9:32. He and his aide then immediately evacuated
the CTC with the goal of joining Rumsfeld in the Secretary of Defense’s Executive Support Center (ESC)
across the hall from
Rumsfeld’s main office. He said that Rumsfeld was already on Clarke’s White
House teleconference when they arrived. En route
to Rumsfeld’s ESC, Andrews
said that when he and his aide entered the
corridor on the inside ring of the West section, the A Ring, “We had to walk over dead bodies” to get to the inner courtyard. This is
two rings further in towards
the center than the purported Official Theory ‘exit’ hole in the inside wall of the center C Ring allegedly made by the alleged
Official Theory Flight 77 penetration of the building.
Once in the inner
courtyard, Andrews and his aide ran as fast as they could to Rumsfeld’s
Further High-Level
Official Testimony to the 9:30-9:32 First Violent Event Time
In addition to the
already legion evidence that Flight 77, a large Boeing 757-200 passenger plane,
did not hit the Pentagon -- i.e. the too- small hole in the west side of the
Pentagon being not nearly large enough for
the width of the plane’s fuselage let alone wingspan; no visible damage to the
lawn where Flight 77 allegedly skidded before hitting the building
at the
ground floor; plane part wreckage at
the site not from a 757 but from a much smaller aircraft; Pentagon requests to TV media on the
morning of 9/11 not to take up-close images of the building damage, etc. --
there is also official evidence for the
“too-early-for-the-Official-Story” circa
9:32 time of the first violent event.
The FAA [Federal
Aviation Administration] Timeline document “Executive Summary—Chronology of a
Multiple Hijacking Crisis––September 11, 2001” includes the following entry: “0932: ATC
[Air Traffic Control] AEA
reports aircraft crashes into west side of Pentagon.” 3
The earlier-than-official-time of 9:32 is the critical fact
here, and not the stated cause, which was taken from the official
narrative and not from any direct ATC eyewitness reports.
On August 27, 2002,
then White House Counsel and subsequently Attorney General Alberto Gonzales gave
an audio-taped Secretary of the Navy Guest Lecture at the
In the Air Force’s
own account of the events of 9/11,
Air War Over America, the North American Aerospace Defense Command
(NORAD) general who finally ordered interceptor jets scrambled on 9/11, although
too late, General Larry Arnold,
revealed that he ordered one of his fighter jets to fly down low over the
Pentagon shortly after the attack there that morning, and that the pilot
reported back that there was no evidence that a plane had hit the building. This fighter—not Flight 77—is almost certainly the plane seen on the
Dulles Airport Air Traffic Controller’s screen making a steep, high-speed 270-
to 330-degree descent before disappearing from the radar. When a plane
flies low enough to go undetected, usually at or below 500 feet, it is said to be flying “under the radar.” The Pilotsfor911Truth website and their
Pandora’s Black Box video documentary have determined from official data
released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) that the true
altitude/height of the plane represented by the blip seen on the Dulles ATC
screen was 476 feet -- way to high to have hit the Pentagon at
all, let alone its ground floor, but, significantly, just the right
height range to been seen by controllers to have just gone off radar so it could be said to have
crashed into the building. Military pilots—like the one sent by Gen. Arnold on 9/11 to report on the
Pentagon’s damage—are trained to fly just under approx. 500 feet above
ground in order to evade radar detection. In fact, when the Air Traffic
Controller responsible for the plane and her colleagues watched the extremely
difficult 330-degree maneuver (originally reported as a
270-degree maneuver,
since updated) on her screen, they were certain that the plane whose blip they were watching perform this extremely
difficult ‘Top Gun’ feat was in fact a military aircraft, and said so at
the time.
And it almost certainly was.
Thus, the likely
reason the Pentagon has refused to lower its official “Flight 77 impact” time of
9:37:46 -- usually ‘rounded down’ to 9:37 in mainstream media reports -- to the
actual 9:30- to 9:32-range time of the first
explosions there -- is that they decided to pretend the blip represented by Gen.
Arnold’s surveillance fighter jet was
“Flight 77,” despite the fact that
the 9:37:46 approach path is for a plane
that flies north of the Citgo station, not the south-of-the-station path where
the Official Theory says the light poles were struck by the plane.
Also, the Official Story claims that the alleged 9:37:46 impact was the
only Pentagon attack that
morning, yet by the time Arnold’s surveillance jet arrived on the scene, at
least the first internal violent event had already happened as the pilot
reported damage to the building, so DoD cannot acknowledge the actual earlier
9:30-9:32 time without revealing
an inside attack on the building prior to the Official
Theory’s alleged outside impact.
Even the famous
Naudet brothers’ video of the first attack of 9/11,
on World Trade Center 1 in
it might be a terrorist attack. No one talked Force Protection [protecting
the Pentagon and other military assets] before the Pentagon was struck, that he
recalled [followed by a censored block labeled ‘9/11 Classified Information’].”
Significantly,
all of this also
happened
just after 9:30 a.m. (from
The Complete 9/11 Timeline at
www.HistoryCommons):
*
After an inexplicable delay during which
they knew that both WTC towers had
been attacked, the Secret Service suddenly acted as if the 9/11 attacks were
serious and “real”, rushing President Bush out of the library at the Florida
school where they had allowed him to continue to read to children
as much as 10 minutes after being
told by Andy Card that the second
NYC tower had been hit.
*
Firefighters were suddenly ordered out of WTC 1 in
*
The New York Stock Exchange was ordered closed.
*
The takeover of Flight 93 reportedly
began, with the stabbing of a flight attendant and one of the alleged hijackers announcing that there was a bomb on board, picked up by air traffic controllers.
But perhaps the most
convincing evidence for the Sept. 11 attacks being an inside job is that the
actual attacks were mirrored by Air Force hijack-scenario
counterterrorism ‘exercises’ being conducted by NORAD’s (an Air Force agency’s) North East Sector (NEADS)
on the morning of
9/11 itself. The author’s
original research and analysis first revealed the NEADS hijack-scenario
exercises that ‘went live’ on 9/11 as the modus operandi for the planning,
execution and cover-up of the attacks, credited
as ‘The Holy Grail’ of 9/11 research by author Michael Ruppert in his early 9/11 expose book Crossing the Rubicon.
Critically, the
author has recently interviewed White House NSC counter-terrorism ‘czar’ Richard
Clarke, who confirmed that NORAD was
conducting hijack-scenario exercises in the N.E. Sector – where
all
three NYC, Pentagon and Pennsylvania attacks took place –
on the morning of 9/11 to an audience of 75, published on an official DoD
web site.4B
The key excerpt from that article:
“Regarding 9/11 itself, Clarke noted that part of the little known history of
that day was confusion by NORAD’s North East Sector, which was about to conduct
an exercise on a partial hijack scenario as the actual hijackings began, as to
whether the unfolding events were ‘real world’ or part of the exercise – a
confusion whose cause bears an eerie similarity to the ‘arm reaching out of the
computer’ danger Cyber War [Clarke’s latest book] warns about. “Yes,
this happened on 9/11, and it happened with TWA Flight 800, when the Navy
was doing a sea search exercise in the very area where the plane went down.
And though the
White House clears every major exercise, on Sept. 11th just last year, the
Coast Guard ran an exercise on
the
Also,
critically, the operational head of NORAD NEADS on 9/11, Air Force Col. Bob
Marr, an expert on “Red Team” verisimilitude -- making military exercises and
wargames as realistic or “real world” as possible -- has also now publicly
acknowledged that his Air Force agency was conducting a
plane-hijack-scenario
counterterrorism exercise on
the morning of 9/11.4C
It
is impossible that the highest
levels of the Bush-Cheney White House “couldn’t imagine” using planes as weapons
when its own military was practicing how to defend against exactly such a
hijack-scenario attack on the morning of
9/11 itself. In particular, Clarke stressed that the White House
advance approves all major military exercises, of which those planned for and
conducted on 9/11 more than qualified, and the White House official most likely
to have given that pre-approval, National Security Council Director Condolezza
Rice, is the very person who publicly
insisted that the administration “couldn’t imagine” that very scenario.
Rice was and is also a close colleague of and co-authored a book with the 9/11 Commission’s Executive Director Phillip Zelikow, whose Report pushed the Official Lie of 9/11 and didn’t mention the
hijack-scenario NORAD “exercises” being conducted that very morning.
On February 4, 2004,
the author interviewed Air Force General Ralph
Eberhart, Commander of NORAD on 9/11, about NORAD’s
hijack-scenario exercise on the
morning of 9/11. To the author’s knowledge, the top NORAD official
has granted no other interview since the events of September 11. Before being asked questions, Gen. Eberhart was
given copies of all mainstream press articles published as of that date on the
subject of the confusion on 9/11 of his Northeast Sector (NEADS) personnel
running NORAD’s “Vigilant Guardian/Vigilant Warrior” emergency response
exercises that morning. As of the date of the interview, therefore, the
then head of NORAD was made aware of the initial confusion by his own NEADS
“game” players on 9/11 between incoming exercise reports and incoming reports of
actual hijacks.
The author first
asked Gen. Eberhart if there was any connection between NORAD’s “Vigilant
Guardian/Vigilant Warrior” exercise being run on 9/11 and the
plane-crashing-into-tower emergency response exercise simultaneously being held
at National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) headquarters outside Washington, D.C.12/first
cite He replied, “No.” This response was surprising, as
a large percentage of NRO personnel are
reportedly from his own agency, the Air Force. He was asked for
reconfirmation, to which he again said, “No.” Laying the ground for
the next question, the author
mentioned that NEADS’ “exercise” director on the morning of 9/11, Lt. Col. Dawne
Deskins, has said that she was confused as to whether initial reports of the
hijacked planes on the morning of 9/11 were “real world” or “part of the game.”
This, the author noted, showed that the NORAD exercises that morning had
to have been on a hijack scenario at least similar to the actual attacks,
as otherwise there wouldn’t have been any grounds for confusion. After
considering this for a moment,
Gen. Eberhart refused to answer any further questions
and abruptly ended the interview.
As we have seen above, subsequent to
the initial publication of this white paper in the first printing of
The Terror Conspiracy,
NORAD officials confirmed that their ‘exercise’
on the morning of 9/11 did,
indeed, include a
hijack scenario (Touching History,
pp. 3-6 and 24-27).
Explosive
Revelations Regarding the WTC Attacks
Millions in the U.S.
and around the world now know World Trade Center Towers 1 and 2 as well as WTC
Building 7, not hit by any plane, fell
due to controlled demolitions using pre-planted super-military-grade thermite
explosives pre-planted inside the buildings, to which ‘Al Qaeda’ could never
have obtained access – especially to WTC 7, which housed multiple U.S.
Government agencies including the CIA, FBI, Secret Service, SEC and even NYC
Mayor Giuliani’s own Emergency Operations Center from which emergency
counterterrorism responses were to have been run -- thanks to the impeccable and
courageous efforts of Prof. David Ray Griffin and Architects & Engineers for
9/11 Truth (www.ae911truth.org),
among others. Over 1,300 licensed architects and engineers have signed
Architects & Engineers’ petition calling for a new, truly independent investigation
of the events leading up to and on 9/11.
Among the most
explosive revelations of what really happened at the World Trade Center on
Sept. 11 is WTC 7 owner and WTC 1 and 2 lease-holder Larry Silverstein’s
admission, in an interview on PBS Television that the NYC “fire department
commander,” after a discussion in a
phone call with Silverstein late on the afternoon of 9/11, made the decision “to
pull [the building, a professional term for triggering the controlled demolition
of a structure with preplaced explosives] and we watched the building collapse.”
This claim takes on sinister dimensions when combined
with the below inside information received from American Helicopter
Society Executive Director M.E. Rhett Flater, who knows many of the principals
involved:
“The NYC Police
[Dept.] had two
Amazingly, the pilot
of one of the NYC Police Dept. helicopters who sent two of his crew members down to the WTC 1 roof to rescue
survivors after the basement bombing of the building in 1993, Det. Greg
Semendinger, was the official NYPD photographer in one of its four helicopters
circling around the Towers on 9/11, and expressed ‘surprise’
that there was no one on the roof to
rescue9B, though it was
well known – even infamous – throughout the Police Department that the NYC
Fire Department had ordered the roof doors double-locked. Further,
Semendinger’s helicopter that morning was equipped with the same winch and
foldable rescue seat he had used to rescue almost two dozen from the WTC roof
eight years earlier. Of the 2,770 photos Semendinger took from the NYPD
helicopter on 9/11, which were provided to the National Institute of Standards
and Technololgy (NIST) as background for their report that refused to
even consider the controlled demolition hypothesis for what caused the
Towers to fall and which NIST then provided to the 9/11 Commission, and which
subsequently were given to ABC News as a result of its FOIA demand, only 24 have
been released to the public (see above link). The remaining 2,746 photos
almost certainly contain literal ‘smoking guns’ and need to be forced into the public domain by a new,
truly independent investigation
of Sept. 11th.
Putting two and two
together, the NYC Fire Dept. commander(s) who
ordered the WTC 1 and 2 rooftop doors double-locked -- closing off
the only hope of escape for victims
caught above the point of the plane impacts and fires, many of whom were forced
to jump to their deaths – also
refused to allow NY Police Department helicopters equipped and
ready to rescue anyone able to get to
the roofs – or any of the other dozens of civilian, military and paramilitary
helicopters that rushed to Manhattan ready to rescue them – to do so; and,
after talking with WTC 7 owner Silverstein, ordered that that
building be destroyed by classic remote-controlled demolition. And what’s
‘good’ for the goose (WTC 7) is ‘good’ for the gander (WTC 1 and 2): i.e., it is
almost certain that Silverstein and the NYC Fire Department Commander also made
the decision to bring down WTC 1 and 2
by controlled demolition earlier in the day. This is a high evil
forcing a “devil’s alternative” on the WTC victims caught above the plane
impacts and fires that would make Hitler’s SS shake
with rage.
To add fuel to the
fire, Fox News reporter and former Gannett News journalist Jeffrey Shapiro has
claimed that NYC Police Department officials told him late on the afternoon of
9/11 that Silverstein also was on the phone with his insurance company trying to talk them into approving the
controlled demolition destruction of WTC 7, the one WTC structure he owned
outright, using language similar to that Silverstein told PBS he and the Fire
Department Commander had used as the pretext for ‘pulling’ the building (http://www.prisonplanet.com/bombshell-silverstein-wanted-to-demolish-building-7-on-911.html
).
Further, WTC janitor
William “Willy” Rodriguez, the last non-emergency-responder to leave the WTC
alive on 9/11, has testified that he was in the first basement level of
the WTC when an immense explosion went off below him in the even-deeper
subbasement level(s) of the building a few seconds
before the plane hit the tower high above.10
Just as Robert Andrews revealed that the West-side sub-level of the
Pentagon was damaged at approximately 9:32 a.m. on 9/11, and as we know that the
cause of the first 9:32 a.m. Pentagon attack was not an impact event but inside
explosives, there thus are eye- and
ear witness reports of bombs going off in
both the Pentagon and the WTC underground level(s)
before either were
hit by anything from the
outside.
As no “outside”
terrorist, al Qaeda or otherwise, could have had access to either the Pentagon
or the sustained advance access needed to pre-place explosives inside the WTC,
only domestic insiders could have pre-placed the explosives in both
the Pentagon and the WTC. Further, because the WTC1 deep-basement
explosions(s) experienced by Willy Rodriguez happened before the tower
was hit by a plane; as any incoming plane not controlled by the same agents that
triggered the sub-basement detonation(s) could have veered off from the building
at the last second thereby ruining the plane-impact-as-cover-story for the later
building collapse; and as the sub-basement explosions were necessary for the
actual later collapse of the buildings by controlled demolition, the same
domestic U.S. insiders had to
have controlled both the internal sub-basement detonations and the incoming
plane(s). Thus, even if al Qaeda hijackers were on the incoming
planes, they were not in control of the final approach and impact of the
planes, which had to have been 100 percent guaranteed and thus 100
percent controlled by domestic U.S. insiders to ensure that, once the WTC1
sub-basement explosions went off, the plane could not veer off and miss the
building ruining the plane-impact-and-fires cover story for its collapse.
This fact is crucial, as it can take
jurisdiction for the mass murders at the WTC out of the
hands from the FBI, which oversees crimes committed
in the air, as a compelling legal
argument can be made that the real crime of
controlling the planes’ impacts into the towers was committed by ground
controllers in a terrestrial building or vehicle.
In fact, it has been reported that just-former FBI top ‘Al Qaeda’ hunter
John O’Neill, who began his new job as head of security for the WTC on 9/11, told his assistant in
his last phone call from the towers that
the planes were being controlled “from the ground.” If so, this places the
jurisdiction of the crime of the WTC mass
murders squarely with the State of
Because the real
modus operandi of both the Pentagon and WTC attacks are the same -- inside
explosions with plane-impacts-and-fire cover
stories -- it is logical to deduce that the same insider terrorists
were responsible for pre-placing
and detonating the explosives inside both
the WTC and the Pentagon. That is, a single group of domestic
conspirators—not al Qaeda or any other outside terrorists—almost
certainly planned and executed both the WTC and Pentagon attacks, which significantly narrows the
range for the identities of the real perpetrators.
In addition to
the already well known and officially acknowledged evidence of Bush
Administration foreknowledge of the broad outlines
of the September 11 attacks – i.e.
advance warnings from intelligence agencies of as many as 11 foreign countries
and the content of the now-famous
August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Brief (whose 10-page attachment still has not
been made public), etc. -- there is strong evidence that Bush-Cheney
administration insiders had near perfect --
if not complete --
advance knowledge of the planned
attacks and both mirrored them by controlling the actual attacks under cover of
the 9/11 hijack-scneario ‘exercises’
and chose the date for the actual attacks, which was therefore also the date for the exercises.
(Note: The
fact that Bush Admin. insiders had advance knowledge of the details of a planned
“outside” attack, as detailed below, is not inconsistent with these insiders
having facilitated and even orchestrated the
actual attacks to both ensure they
happened ‘successfully’ and to blame them on the planners. That is, the real plot behind the Sept. 11 attacks is similar to that of the
Nazi Reichstag Fire, through which Hitler rapidly consolidated power, which was
its purpose. Like the Nazi-facilitated Reichstag fire, the above and below evidence makes
it highly likely that the true story of
Sept. 11 is that there was a real though highly-unlikely-to-succeed “outside”
plot about which U.S. and allied intelligence gained detailed advance knowledge
and the Administration then secretly protected and enabled the plot to ensure
not only that it succeeded, but succeeded spectacularly as the
psychological operation needed to justify the entire subsequent Bush-Cheney
global-military and domestic-surveillance agenda.
Below is just some of the compelling evidence that the Bush-Cheney
Administration had detailed advance knowledge of the attack plans:
1)
Shortly after September 11, Newsweek reported that before 9/11,
the Bush Administration initiated a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
Court surveillance/tap of “up to 20” suspected al Qaeda-linked terrorists then
in the U.S., but that then FISA Court Chief Justice Royce Lamberth subsequently
ordered the then-already-ongoing surveillance stopped. This can only mean one
thing -- that the Bush Justice Dept./FBI/NSA initiated the tap before
asking the
As “up to 20” is a
clever way of saying “19” without making the link to 9/11 explicit, the Bush
Administration Justice Dept/FBI/NSA almost certainly initiated surveillance of
all 19, or close to all 19, of the soon-to-be alleged 9/11 hijackers
before 9/11, and probably did so based at least in part on the findings of
Special Operations Command’s “Able Danger” data mining intelligence operation
which Bush and Rumsfeld ordered shut down just after taking office in
late Jan. 2001. Though Judge Lamberth ordered the surveillance ended once the
administration filed the formal warrant application, there is evidence that the
Bush administration ignored his order to cease the tap and continued its
surveillance of the alleged 9/11 hijackers up to and including the day of 9/11:
Zacarias
Moussaoui—the only person indicted by the Bush Administration for anything even
related to 9/11—has stated in court filings that both he “and my (al Qaeda)
brothers” then in the U.S. were surveilled by the
Bush administration before 9/11 and that the Bush Administration knew he
could prove it. How could this be the case?
If Moussaoui was one of the “up to 20” al Qaeda-linked terrorist
suspects the U.S. surveilled before 9/11
without an advance FISA warrant, as reported by Newsweek, then
Moussaoui was also one of the “up to 20” whose warrantless surveillance Judge Lamberth ordered stopped. Moussaoui, after all, was originally named as the “20th hijacker” of the 9/11 plot. Amazingly, the FISA
Act requires that, if the
Given the above, the
fact that the FISA Court was required to inform most or all 19 of the “up to 20”
alleged 9/11 hijackers before 9/11 that they were being surveilled by the Bush
Administration—and the reason for such surveillance -- throws new light on the
claims by the Pentagon’s then-secret data mining task force“Able Danger” to have
tracked lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta and at least four of the other
19 hijackers beginning in January
2000, when Atta actually did enter the country according to Daniel Hopsicker’s
taped interview with Atta’s live-in
girlfriend Amanda Keller reported in his book Welcome to Terrorland.
The FBI falsely claimed, and still falsely claims, that Atta
did not enter the
2)
The FBI’s top bin Laden/al Qaeda hunter until shortly before 9/11, John O’Neill,
“happened” to be at the same hotel in the same town near
Perhaps just as
significantly, European media reported that bin Laden was in an American
hospital in Dubai incapacitated for surgery during precisely this same mid-July
2001 period of the Spanish ”Final 9/11 Planning Meeting.” Reportedly, bin
Laden was visited in the hospital by the CIA’s then UAE station chief. The
question naturally arises whether bin Laden was telephoned by Atta, Binalshibh
and perhaps even also KSM, or visa versa, while the latter were at the
“Final 9/11 Planning Meeting”
in the hotel that O’Neill had pre-bugged.
If so, then O’Neill, the FBI, and the highest levels of the Bush Admin. –
including O’Neill’s then boss Attorney General Ashcroft, who suddenly stopped
flying commercial aircraft about this time -- knew not only every detail of the
9/11 plot as of that date, but almost certainly recorded all the key
conspirators plotting their “final plans” including possibly bin Laden himself,
on tape—clearly another “Butterfield” tape to be demanded by subpoena in
a new 9/11 investigation. In fact, former FBI translator and 9/11 whistleblower
Sibel Edmonds has revealed, based on documents she saw as part of her official
duties, that bin Laden himself was working for the U.S. up to
and on the day of 9/11 itself.
This almost certainly is the reason the FBI has never listed bin Laden as wanted
for 9/11 on its “Most Wanted Terrorists” web page, and why the FBI’s chief
investigative spokesman Rex Tomb has said the reason bin Laden is not officially
wanted for 9/11 is because there is no real evidence linking him to
the attacks.
That is, there may
be, and probably is, evidence linking bin Laden,Binalshibh, KSM and Al Qaeda to
a 9/11-like
plot and planning, but
not to the
actual attacks, as they were
physically carried out by insiders under cover of U.S. Air Force
counterterrorism “exercises” that mirrored the “final plans” discussed at the
July 2001Tarragona meeting. As
noted above, on 9/11 itself
the U.S. military was conducting NORAD emergency response exercises on
scenarios involving plane hijacks, and the NRO was conducting an emergency
response exercise on the scenario of a plane crashing into one of the towers of
is headquarters just outside Washington, D.C.11 where many NRO
personnel are from the Air Force and CIA. It is next to impossible for
this to have been the case unless the exercises were intentionally scripted
to mirror what had been learned
from the above-mentioned detailed advance intelligence. That is,
the “cover-story” purpose of the military exercises held on 9/11 was to practice
how to defend against the very attacks that John O’Neill’s Tarragona meeting
surveillance, the Pentagon’s “Able Danger” data-mining operation and the FBI’s
pre-attack FISA-warrant-less surveillance of the “up to 20” (19) suspected al Qaeda terrorists had already revealed.
You don’t practice defending against
something in multi-million-dollar hijack-scenario exercises
on the morning of 9/11 that you
“can’t imagine.”
A few paragraphs
above it was stated that, because of O’Neill’s surveillance of the Al Qaeda
mastermind’s and lead hijacker’s “Final Planning Meeting” in Tarragona, Spain,
he and the Bush-Cheney FBI knew nearly
every significant operational detail of the plot.
The one “burning” exception to this, however, is
the date of the 9/11 attacks.
Perhaps the most compelling proof of active Bush administration
complicity in 9/11is that lead hijacker Mohamed Atta took the information to
this critical mid-July “Final 9/11 Planning Meeting” that “the date [for the
attacks] has been set” -- i.e. set by someone else other
than Atta) -- and that he, Atta, didn’t yet know it, but
would “know it” in five to six weeks, by late August
2001.13 Atta was clearly
waiting to learn the
date of what the Bush Administration and 9/11 Commission allege was “his own”
attack. This last key piece of the puzzle fell into place during the first phase of Zacarias Moussaoui’s
sentencing trial, in the 58-page
transcript of “9/11 mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s interrogation
“testimony” read into the trial record by the Bush Department of Justice
prosecution. In this transcript, KSM says that he and bin Laden “allowed
Atta to choose” both the final targets
and
the attack
date.”14 However, from what Atta said to
Binalshibh and probably also to KSM and possibly even
also to bin Laden by
phone at the “Final Planning Meeting” in
If the “9/11
conspirators” didn’t set the date to turn their plot
into a reality, then who
did?
The key and central
fact of the entire 9/11 plot is that the attack date Atta was “waiting for”
was the date of the Bush Administration’s planned counterterrorism
exercises, which, in a vicious circle, were scripted to mirror Atta’s and
Binalshibh’s attack plan gleaned via advance intelligence obtained from
O’Neill’s surveillance of the “Final
9/11 Planning Meeting” near Tarragona, from the Pentagon’s “Able Danger”
tracking of Atta and other of the 19 hijack-plotters,
and the FBI’s warrantless
surveillance of Atta and other of the about-to-be alleged hijackers. And because Atta was “waiting to hear” the
attack date, which was the
hijack-scenario U.S. military exercise date, Atta was
the sole plotter to whom the Bush Administration finally chose
to tell the actual attack date –
Sept.11th -- as soon as it was
selected, and he bought his one-way ticket as soon as he learned it, in late
August 2001, just as he had predicted at the “Final Planning Meeting.”
The No. 1 inside
conspirator, therefore, is whoever gave the Pentagon’s own hijack-scenario
counterterrorism exercise details and
their date -- Sept. 11 -- to
Mohamed Atta or to a middleman who, in
turn, gave the date to Atta.
Lt. Gen. Mahmoud
Ahmed, then head of
Another abiding
“mystery” of September 11 is why Gen. Eberhart, the commander of NORAD
on 9/11, claimed to the 9/11 Commission that on the morning of 9/11 NORAD was conducting, among others,
a preplanned “Soviet-era”
emergency response exercise15 in which U.S. fighter jets were
to defend against “Russian” nuclear bombers played by
U.S. military “Red Team” planes.
Why “Soviet era” when the
If a high-level
cabal inside the U.S. military and intelligence community intended to make the
9/11 hijack-scenario “exercise(s)” based on
Atta’s “Final Planning Meeting” plot become real that morning, they
had to have a plan for ensuring the
planes actually made it to their targets.
Taking control of the original flight(s) and substituting military planes
made
to look like them would be the “safest” way to achieve this.
In this light, it is
significant that mainstream press stories contain intriguing reports pointing to
the possibility that there were two American Airlines “Flight 11s,”
leaving from two different gates at Boston Logan airport within a few minutes of one another on 9/11, as well as emerging evidence of other of the Official-Theory-hijacked 9/11 flight numbers being
“twinned,”17 or duplicated. The question thus naturally
arises, were these “twin” planes
U.S. military
or CIA planes “playing” hijacked-airliner “attackers,” similar to the 1961
“Sky Shield” scenario except substituting commandeered airliners for Soviet
bombers? And could the planned 9/11 NORAD exercises have included a
“trigger” event to clear the skies over the mainland U.S. so that a
realistic test of U.S. air defenses
could be conducted without interference from the thousands of civilian aircraft
normally in the air?
Key quotes from
New York Times articles before, during and immediately after the 1961 NORAD
“Sky Shield” exercise are eerily
similar to stories appearing on 9/11 [text in parentheses and italics
added]:
“It is not so much
the fear of collisions with military aircraft that has caused civilian planes to
be ordered out of the skies, as it is the knowledge that inadequate
[civilian FAA] electronic flight controls will be available during the exercise
to guide them. [
The 1961 wargame was
directed by then NORAD commander Air Force Gen. Laurence Sherman Kuter from his combat operations center
at NORAD’s
The Pentagon’s “Able
Danger” data miners claim that “Department of
Defense lawyers” -- almost certainly from the National Security Agency, then
headed by Gen. Hayden, an officer in the Air Force, the same service that
planned the 9/11 war games -- blocked planned meetings with the FBI
at which they wanted to tell the FBI
that they had “tracked” Atta and other of the 9/11 hijackers prior to 9/11 and
ask the FBI to initiate additional surveillance on them. The fact that the
FBI did initiate exactly such a surveillance of the “up to 20 Al Qaeda
linked terrorist suspects” before
9/11 (see above) is strong evidence that, despite its claims to the
contrary, the Pentagon’s “Able Danger” team, or someone who knew what they had found, did communicate what they had learned from tracking
Atta and the others to the FBI before 9/11, and that the FBI then initiated
FISA-warrant-less surveillances of Atta and others subsequently ordered stopped
by then Chief FISA Court Judge Lamberth -- all prior to 9/11. The
fact that initially-suspected “20th 9/11 hijacker” Moussaoui officially filed
claims that he “and my brothers” were surveilled before 9/11 is further
evidence that the FBI
continued to watch all or most of the 9/11 hijackers right up until the attacks,
despite Lamberth’s order to cease and desist. In the days leading up to
9/11, FBI Headquarters supervisors David Frasca and his deputy Michael Maltbie
refused 70 urgent requests by
Moussaoui’s FBI interrogator
for either a
In addition to
all the evidence that plane-impacts-and-fire was the carefully planned cover
story for the cause of collapse of WTC 1, 2
and 7, as well as the west façade of the Pentagon, both of
which were initially hit by inside-the-buildings explosives, not planes,
the other overwhelming line of evidence for 9/11 being an “Inside Job” is the
anthrax attacks. A summary of the
anthrax links to 9/11 itself – not
just to the known mid-October 2001 letters – follows. For full details on these links, see
The Scarlet A: The Anthrax Links
to 9/11 by the author.
Any evidence linking
9/11 to the anthrax letters -- dated September 11 but sent in mid-October and
only to Democratic leaders in
Congress, no Republicans -- is direct evidence of an inside job because that
particular type of anthrax is known to have been of the highly controlled “Ames
strain” developed by the U.S. Army at Ft. Detrick, Maryland, and at the
University of Iowa in Ames, Iowa. It was also
high-spore-count, super
military-grade
weaponized anthrax refined according to a trade secret reportedly personally
held by William Patrick, former Ft. Detrick bio-weapons expert and mentor of
Steven Hatfill, the only “person of interest” stalked by the FBI as a suspect in
the still “unsolved” anthrax case, and the close friend and colleague of Bush
Administration bio-counterterrorism expert Jerry Hauer,
a signer of the pre-9/11 Project for
New American Century (PNAC) manifesto noting the “opportunities” that would be
created by “a new Pearl Harbor”
attack.
On September 11,
2001 this same Jerry Hauer reportedly personally delivered the anti-anthrax
medication Cipro to Vice President Cheney’s staff at the White House.
Why? The conservative legal watchdog group Judicial Watch has filed a
suit against Vice President Cheney and other Bush Admin. officials demanding to
know why Cipro was delivered to the executive mansion -- and only to the
executive mansion -- on the day of the attacks.
So far the response has been deafening silence.
On September 10th, the day before 9/11, FEMA and other
emergency response personnel arrived in
Notably, in their
book on bio-terrorism, Germs, Judith Miller and William Broad claim,
apparently from inside sources, that Ramzi Yousef’s plans for the first World
Trade Center attack in 1993
included explosively pushing large quantities of cyanide out into New York City.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the official story “mastermind” of 9/11, is Yousef’s
uncle. Finally, former New York City mayor Rudolf Giuliani testified to
the 9/11 Commission that even
before WTC7, the location of his emergency operations center, collapsed on 9/11,
he moved those operations to the command and control center set up for the
“Tripod II” bio-terrorism exercise on Pier 92 and that it worked even better
than the original. Giuliani told the 9/11 Commission, “The reason Pier 92
was selected as a command center was because on the next day, on September 12,
Pier 92 was going to have a drill.
It had hundreds of people there -- from FEMA, from the Federal Government, from
[the] State [Dept.], from the [
Conclusion
A cabal of covert
elements within the
And who in the
First and foremost
are the signatories of the pre-9/11 Project for
a New American Century (PNAC) manifesto calling for “a new
Pearl Harbor” to catalyze its radical right-wing global domination and domestic
surveillance-and-control agenda: 1) Vice President Dick Cheney; 2) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; 3) then Deputy Secretary
of Defense Paul Wolfowitz; 4) Richard Perle, then head of
Secretary Rumsfeld’s Defense Policy Board; 5) Jerry Hauer, one of the
U.S. government’s top bio-terrorism experts who reportedly took anti-anthrax
Cipro to the White House on 9/11.15A
Hauer had been director of NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s Office of
Emergency Management (OEM), whose personnel were moved to a New York pier on
9/11 just before its WTC7 offices were destroyed by pre-placed controlled
demolition charges. A central player in scripting the bio-chem terrorism
attack scenario for the Sept. 10/11/12 TRIPOD II exercise in NYC, Hauer is also
an expert in the response to
building collapses (New York Times, July 27, 1999). It was Hauer who
insisted, despite the 1993 terrorist attack on WTC1,
that Giuliani still locate his
Office of Emergency Management, from which a
response to another terrorist attack would be expected to be orchestrated,
in WTC7 next door15B, and
also Hauer who zealously pushed the ‘bin Laden did it and planes-and-fires
brought down the Towers’ official story on CBS News
on 9/11 in the immediate aftermath of the attacks before anyone
without insider knowledge could have possibly determined the actual cause of the
collapses, taking pains to state that explosives were not involved, when they
were. The OEM opened on the 23rd floor of WTC7 in June 1999,
where Hauer, its director, had his office. Hauer was also managing director of
Kroll Associates before and on 9/11, the company that provided ‘security’ for
the World Trade Center, including all three buildings brought down by controlled
demolition that morning, and thus had complete access to pre-place the explosive
charges he adamantly insisted on national TV on 9/11 were not involved.
Hauer became a National Security adviser to the National Institutes of Health on
Sept. 10, the very day TRIPOD II personnel arrived in New York City , from which
new NIH post he managed the Bush Administration’s ‘response’ to the imminent
anthrax attacks and the initial cover up of the insider anthrax killers.
6) Gary Bauer, the right- wing ‘family values’ zealot who ‘happened’ to
be one of the ‘witnesses’ to
immediately claim publicly to have seen ‘Flight 77 hit the Pentagon’, proven by
the evidence to be a physical impossibility; and 7) then National Security
Council Middle East adviser Zalmay Khalizad close to NSC Director
Condolezza Rice, soon to be the first US Ambassador to Afghanistan after 9/11
and then U.S. Ambassador to Iraq – the very
two countries whose invasions
were rationalized as retaliation for the 9/11 attacks. During the Cold
War, Khalizad was reportedly a liaison to then
CIA “bag man” Osama bin Laden in the CIA-Pakistani ISI-Saudi covert
war against the Soviets in Afghanistan,
the crucible from which al Qaeda later emerged.
‘Al Qaeda’, in fact, was originally the CIA’s and ISI’s list of anti-Soviet foreign fighters in
Other key suspects
are New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani;
Air Force General William
Hayden, later Director of the CIA and then head of the National Security
Agency (NSA), which tapped the calls of lead
hijacker Mohamed Atta and 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the day
before 9/11, and surely on many other occasions before 9/11 as well—all
almost certainly without FISA warrants as required
by law. These pre-9/11 warrant-less NSA taps put the lie to President
Bush’s claim that he initiated the program of warrant-less
NSA taps of al Qaeda suspects
because of—and thus only after—9/11. Yet another key suspect is Army Lieutenant General William
“Jerry” Boykin, the radical
Christian fundamentalist Special Operations commando recently proposed to head
the Army’s Special Operations Command. Another is the Pentagon’s POP2 office, which reportedly
plans and scripts “false flag” operations—attacks planned and orchestrated by
the
Scrutiny should also
be leveled at the scriptwriters for the NORAD hijack-scenario
and NRO plane-into-tower emergency response exercises planned for and held
on 9/11, especially members of
their lead “White Teams,” which set the content and then oversee
both “Red Team attackers” and
“Blue Team defenders” on the actual day of an exercise, in this case on 9/11 itself. And
every one of the as-yet-to-be-identified
“top Pentagon officials” who on Sept. 10, 2001, the day before 9/11, according
to Newsweek, suddenly
cancelled their already-booked flights for September 11.19
Also National Military Command Center (NMCC) commander Brig. Gen.
Montague Winfield, who on that same day, September 10, asked his deputy,
Navy Capt. Charles
Leidig to take over for him
the next morning between 8:30
and 10:30 -- precisely the time
window of the “exercises” whose details
and date had been given to Mohammed
Atta. Further investigation should be directed at the (government) “agency”,
variously reported as the sole client of Deutsche Bank, that the 9/11 Commission
revealed, without identifying by name, took out the vast majority of the put
options on American Airlines, United Airlines, Boeing and Morgan Stanley Dean
Witter in the few days before 9/11. Also, Michael Chertoff, U.S.
Attorney for the District of New Jersey during the first 1993 attack on the
World Trade Center who, as a private attorney, represented Egyptian-born US
resident Magdy Elamir, under investigation for illegally diverting
millions of dollars and whose brother, Mohammed Elamir, funded arms
smugglers linked to al Qaeda.20 Significantly,
Mohamed Atta’s name in his country of birth, Egypt, was also Mohamed
Elamir. In other words, the very man President Bush put in charge
of the entire 9/11 “investigation” as then Assistant Attorney General for the
Criminal Division soon to be appointed Director of the new Department of
Homeland Security -- the top official charged with defending the U.S.
mainland from an attack by al Qaeda -- may
have himself been directly involved with Al Qaeda and even with Mohamed
Atta himself. In fact, Chertoff may well have been the top
Bush-Cheney insider whom we know
(see above) was the source for Atta’s
finally being told the date of “his own” attack. Also, FBI
headquarters supervisor on 9/11 David Frasca and his deputy Michael
Maltbie, who ignored 70 pleas by Zacarias Moussaoui’s FBI
interrogator to let him investigate
the contents of Moussaoui’s computer before 9/11. Attention should
especially be directed to Phillip Zelikow, a Bush-Cheney White House NSC
staff member along with Zalmay Khalizad
to then NSC Adviser Condoleezza Rice before and on 9/11. Zelikow
both orchestrated the 9/11
Commission Report cover up of the administration’s inside job
and, at Rice’s personal request,
rewrote the Bush Administration’s official national strategic plan draft to
better match the global domination agenda of the pre-9/11 PNAC manifesto brought to life by the Sept.
11 attacks. Zelikow specializes in political mythologies, clearly the most
important qualification for being the orchestrator of the Official Myth of Sept.
11 -- The 9/11 Commission Report. Only someone in the
innermost circle of the real
criminal conspirators would be trusted with this critical mission of covering up their mass crime. These are
just some of the names knit into the Scroll of the
September 11 Truth Revolution.
Notes:
1A)
The
clock stopped at the moment the Great Earthquake hit
1B)
List of widely varying initial reports of alleged Flight 77 impact times:
http://stevenwarran.blogspot.com/2007/02/when-did-pentagon-get-attacked-exactly.html.
2)
This photo of a Pentagon wall clock frozen at 9:31:40 am by the first
violent event at the Pentagon was posted on an official Navy web site at:
http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=2480Pentagonclock_BBC.
Note that whoever took this official Navy photo placed the clock in front of a
poster of the controversial Marine Corps part-helicopter/part-fixed-wing plane
the Osprey, perhaps thereby suggesting what may have struck the building (after
the inside explosions went off), if anything did. Though the Osprey
officially existed only in prototype at the time, a prototype Osprey would be
unique in that its military IFF transponder would have given off
a ‘friendly’ signal and it could have
approached the Pentagon helipad in its helicopter mode and changed over into fixed-wing plane mode at
the last second, taking defenses
off guard. The “official” Pentagon clock
in the national 9/11 exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution, the
electric Skillcraft wall clock that hung on the wall of the Pentagon Heliport
fire station, is stopped at 9:31:30 -- only 10 seconds difference:
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/september11/collection/search.asp?search=1&keywords=Wall+clock&location=
.
2A)
Videotaped under-oath testimony of April Gallop to the author, Irvine,
California, March 2007, approx. two hours. This testimony formed the basis
for a lawsuit filed by Ms. Gallop.
2B)
April
Gallop’s watch, which was stopped just after 9:30 by the explosion that happened
at the precise moment she hit the ‘power on’ button on her computer on
the morning of 9/11, is evidence that the actual time of the initial explosive
violent at the Pentagon was closer to 9:30 than 9:32.
As the information about Gallop’s wrist
watch was obtained after the first
version of this white paper was published, the author has retained 9:32
as a shorthand for the
time window 9:30 to 9:32 within
which, from the subsequent additional evidence, the initial explosion at the
Pentagon occurred.
2C)
Audio of Jane Graham interview, KPFA Radio,
3)
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) timeline document “Executive Summary
Chronology of a Multiple Hijacking Crisis, September 11, 2001.”
4)
Danish
Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller interview with Denmark Radio P3, September 12,
2001, 6:15 am
4A)
Naudet
Brothers video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2457244225269763926&hl=en# at 42:27.
There
is even some evidence of internal explosions
prior to 9:30 a.m.:
Pentagon Police officer Roosevelt Roberts Jr. was watching the NYC
attacks on TV when he got a call from his sergeant telling him that the Pentagon
had gone to ThreatCon Delta; then, just as he hung up the phone, he experienced
a violent explosion “at 9:12 or 9:11” as if “it was almost timed for precision,”
after which dust fell from the ceiling of the loading dock where he was working
and he heard people screaming.
4B)
Richard Clarke interview article at
http://www.nps.edu/About/News/Counterterrorism-Czar-Richard-Clarke-Calls-for-New-National-Cyber-Defense-Policy-to-Prevent-a-Cyber-9/11-.html
4C)
Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded
in the Skies Over
5)
The 9/11 Conspiracy,
6)
Report
by two civilian defense contractor employees at
“Secret Global Hawk Refit for Sky Warrior,”
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/05/318250.shtml.
6A)
Rear Admiral Hathaway bio information
(http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=complete_911_timeline_3229#complete_911_timeline_3229).
7)
9/11
-- Coup Against
8)
Perkal
and Goldsmith:
http://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/witnesses/explosive.html. Danner: American Free
Press, July 7, 2006, reporting based on audio report by Republic Broadcasting Network, summary at
http://www.total911.info/2006/07/pentagon-eyewitness-ids-global-hawk.html.
9)
Author
interview with former Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Special Operations and Low
Intensity Conflict, Monterey, California; summary posted on Naval Postgraduate
School web site
www.nps.navy.mil, subsequently changed to
www.nps.edu. Article no longer posted; hard copy available from the
author.
9A)
Personal communication to the author by Rhett Flater, Executive Director of the
American Helicopter Society.
9B)
“Chilling
Aerial Photos of 9/11 Attack Released: Police Aerial Photos Show World Trade
Center Collapse”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9796098.
10)
Videotaped testimony of William (“Willy”) Rodriguez, former
11)
“Agency (NRO) Planned Exercise on September 11 Built Around
a Plane Crashing into a
Building,” Associated Press, August 22, 2002;
by Jonathan Lumpkin; “They Scrambled Jets, but It was a Race
They Couldn’t Win,” Syracuse Post-Standard, January 20, 2002, by Hart
Seely; “Rome Staff’s Efforts on 9/11 Earn Praise, Commission Says Military
Did the Best It Could with the
Information It Had,” Syracuse Post-Standard, June 18, 2004, by Hart
Seely; Complete 9/11 Military Exercises Timeline, Cooperative Research, at
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&before-9/11=militaryExercises;
Crossing the Rubicon,
by Michael Ruppert, Chapter 19: “Wargames and High Tech: Paralyzing the System to Pull Off the Attacks”
and Chapter 20: “Q&A: Many
Asked, Some Answered––and a Golden Moment,” New Society Publishers, 2004.
In the Acknowledgements to
Rubicon, p. xi, Ruppert credits the author with what he refers to as
“the Holy Grail of 9/11
research” (p. 336): Thanks to Barbara Honegger, who kept hammering on the
wargames until we all paid notice… you showed me the most important lead I needed to put it all together.”
12)
“Detainee’s Suit Gains Support from Jet’s Log,” New York Times, March 30,
2005, p. A1. Key excerpt, text in parentheses added: “Mr. Arar (a “rendered” detainee) says he followed the (Gulfstream jet) plane’s
movements on a map displayed on a video screen (inside the plane), watching it
as he traveled to Dulles Airport outside Washington, to a
Maine Airport he believed was in
Portland (Maine), to Rome, and finally to Amman, Jordan, where he was blindfolded and driven to Syria.”
Though the FAA claims its records
show a plane on that date making the other stops but landing in
13)
Ironically, at the final hearing of the Kean Commission, where its report was
released to the press and public, commissioner John Lehman responded to the question, What if anything
remained unknown, by noting that the Commission still wasn’t clear as to “how
Atta chose the date for the attacks.”
14)
Summary interrogation of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, claimed “mastermind” of the
September 11 attack plot, read into the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing trial
record by the prosecution on March 27, 2006; the
full text is part of the court proceedings transcript for that date available
through Exemplaris.com.
15)
The 9/11 Commission Report, note 116, p. 458, at
http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf.
Key excerpt: “On 9/11,
NORAD was scheduled to conduct a
military exercise, Vigilant Guardian, which postulated a bomber attack from the
former Soviet Union.”
15A)
http://www.judicialwatch.org/1967.shtml
15B)
http://truthmovecom.blogspot.com/2008/07/jerome-hauer-911-suspect-awaiting.html
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