”War Games” were taking place on the morning of 9/11 that caused confusion with our otherwise vigilant air defense. We can either accept that our sophisticated and well-trained military was sleeping at the wheel, or we can believe it was given commands that deterred the standard operating procedures for intercepting hijacked aircraft.
That Flight 77, if it really was Flight 77, was permitted to enter air space over Washington, DC without meeting any interference from the most heavily defended buildings on the planet over an hour after the first plane struck New York.
Pentagon officials, FBI agents, government officials and various celebrities were warned not to fly on commercial airlines that week.
Two steel skyscrapers collapsed after less than two hours in a smoldering but oxygen-deprived fire in free-fall speed of ten seconds for the first time in history. A third building, WTC7, collapsed at 5:30 that afternoon in under six seconds without the accelerant of spilled jet fuel or having been hit by an aircraft. One section of WTC7 had been designed as a bunker for Mayor Giuliani, with reinforced windows and walls, and a separate air and water supply for emergencies. What are the odds?
Muhammad Atta, alleged mastermind and pilot of Flight 11 (the plane that hit the North Tower), received $100,000 from the head of the Pakistani ISI just days before 9/11. Why the payoff if he was about to commit suicide? Why would Atta pack luggage with incriminating information and leave it in the airport in Boston? Why would Atta even need luggage? How did Atta’s passport miraculously survive the crash and inferno of the North Tower and float unscathed, later to be found on the street below by the FBI?
Speaking of luggage, there was no luggage or any evidence of human remains found in the crash of Flight 93 or Flight 77. Debris from Flight 93 that "crashed" in Pennsylvania was found strewn up to eight miles away from the site, and not a single identifiable piece of a Boeing 757 was found in the rubble of the Pentagon. The engines on a 757 are nine feet in diameter and made of steel. Are we supposed to believe that they disintegrated in a fire? Where are the wings? Where is the tail?
LORETTA DILLON is a blogger, author and playwright. She began her writing career publishing a neighborhood newspaper and handwritten and illustrated books as a child in a Cleveland suburb. Because her strongest literary influences were MAD magazine …
Taking to heart the classic idea that those who benefit from a crime ought to be investigated, here the eminent theologian David Ray Griffin sifts through the evidence about the attacks of 9/11--stories ...
I'm not criticizing your work here. So, please don't take this the wrong way.
I've seen every single one of the bulleted points in your article elsewhere (not the same precise wording, of course) in lectures at the Root & Branch English Lecture Series. And the attack on the World Trade Center is not something I've covered very closely or paid a great deal of attention to.
It strikes me that the author of the this book has finally raised the questions that need to be raised about the attack on the World Trade Center in an intelligent way, without wild coinspiracy theories that throw credibility upon the raising of the questions. But how long will it be before the public starts to ask these questions in an intelligent way?
The more people who are aware of the discrepancies between the "official" story and the facts, the better. This investigation is long overdue. The trail is getting cold.
Maybe you knew about all this before, but I can assure you that millions did not, and we need to get the word out.
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Greg in Germany
Mar 05, 2006 at 1:06 pm
You know, there's also a whole body of work implicating FDR in the original Pearl Harbor. These opinions should be cataloged in the Alternative History section along with the admitted fantasists. The fever-brained conspiricy theorists will always be among us.
So, don't you know that the whole business is really being manipulated by UFO's?
"Crossing the Rubicon" by Michael Ruppert
"The New Pearl Harbor" by David R Griffin
"911 Commission, Omissions and Distortions" by David R Griffin
Recommended films:
"Why We Fight"
"In Plane Site"
"Loose Change 2"
I've dedicated my homepage (select URL) to displaying Loose Change 2 and have had over 3000 visitors in the past two weeks.
Take a look for yourself. And keep in mind how many times you've been lied to by the current rulers.
Today's headlines had an investigation opening up regarding NFL star Tillman's death by friendly fire. They told us he died heroically. NOw it seems there is a problem with the official story.
They told us that Iraqis pulled down the statue of Sadamn Hussein when it was done by American CIA Iraqis as a photo op infront of the hotel housing all the journalists.
They told us that private Jessica was abused by the Iraqis and heroically fought here way out. Turned out that she was saved by Iraqi doctors who treated her like a human being.
Weapons of Mass Destruction?
The battalions of trained Iraqi soldiers ready to take over.
The link between Sadamn Hussein and Osama Ben Forgotten?
The Bush administration is a made for TV movie (is about money and power - not gay marriage) and you may not like the ending. Get active!
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LunaC
Mar 06, 2006 at 3:08 am
Required Reading --> PNAC 101 - Rise of the Neocons - a concise history of the PNAC and the White House/Pentagon complicity in staging the 911 events.
Look, if the government, not Bin Laden blew up the Pentagon, why would he have taken credit for it? Ultimately the guys goal is to inflict as much hurt, terror and chaos on our country, directly or indirectly. It would be a far bigger blow to find out our own people did it than a crazy stranger, and I'm certain he would be screaming from every rooftop if he didn't do it.
Here is the problem with your arguments, you want the Bush administration to be bumbling fools and diabolical villians at the same time. You're telling they had the skills to fake the largest American terrorist disaster--complete with planes and missles--but couldn't even plant WMDs in Iraq? They could fool millions of people who saw it happen with their own eyes? Half the pentagon? FBI? But couldn't pull a decent cover up thousands of miles away in the middle of a desert?
And for the record, Pat Tillman died heroically, friendly fire or not. I'm not sure how your accusing a gov't of lieing as they just opened another investigation.
Look, I realize the gov't lies to us, believe me I do. The logic, however, implicating them in Sept 11 is insane. It's not there, it doesn't make sense and its crap.
10 -
LunaC
Mar 07, 2006 at 8:27 am
According to a retired Navy Lt Commander and 28-year veteran of the Defense Department (DoD), the US tried to plant WMDs but failed when the operation was taken out by “friendly fire”.
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LunaC
Mar 07, 2006 at 8:35 am
As for bin Laden, the Bush administration concluded, without supporting evidence, that he and al-Qaeda were prime suspects even though he never claimed responsibility for the 911 attacks.
Furthermore, the CIA has maintained close ties to Pakistan to this day and General Mahmoud Ahmed, the head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), wired $100,000 to Mohammed Atta before the 9/11 attacks. In fact, Ahmed was actually in Washington on 9/11, and had a series of pre-9/11 top-level meetings in the White House, the Pentagon, the national security council, and with George Tenet, then head of the CIA, and Marc Grossman, the under-secretary of state for political affairs. When Ahmed was exposed by the Wall Street Journal as having sent the money to the hijackers, he was forced to "retire" by President Pervez Musharraf.
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LunaC
Mar 07, 2006 at 8:46 am
Then there’s Sibel Edmonds, the FBI intelligence translator who tried to
blow the whistle on the cover-up of intelligence that names some of the culprits who orchestrated the 9/11 attacks. She is now under two gag orders that forbid her from testifying in court or mentioning the names of the people or the countries involved but she has been quoted as saying: "My translations of the 9/11 intercepts included [terrorist] money laundering, detailed and date-specific information ... if they were to do real investigations, we would see several significant high-level criminal prosecutions in this country [the US] ... and believe me, they will do everything to cover this up".
The evidence is overwhelming and obvious for those who choose to stop drinking the kool-aid and buying into the “official” story.
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tommyd
Mar 07, 2006 at 9:32 am
The best and wildest conspiracy theories I've read about the attacks of 9/11....listen to this doozy......
19 suicidal Ay-rabs directed by a cave dwelling nomad broke through the 100 billion dollar US security apparatus to sucessfully surprise attack targets using 767 jets which ended up crumbling 2,110-story buildings to dust in the same exact manner. Thorough investigations of the event are halted because the evil mastermind is still alive and plotting to take over the world with Islamo-facsism directed from his cave in a remote Asian mountain range and US military bombardment is the only solution to this problem.
Now that's one of the wackiest and stupidest conspiracy theories I've ever heard in my life!!
Article comments
1 - ryan
great job...not explaing or proving a single one of the bullet points...which, you actually just copied from a book.
2 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
Loretta,
I'm not criticizing your work here. So, please don't take this the wrong way.
I've seen every single one of the bulleted points in your article elsewhere (not the same precise wording, of course) in lectures at the Root & Branch English Lecture Series. And the attack on the World Trade Center is not something I've covered very closely or paid a great deal of attention to.
It strikes me that the author of the this book has finally raised the questions that need to be raised about the attack on the World Trade Center in an intelligent way, without wild coinspiracy theories that throw credibility upon the raising of the questions. But how long will it be before the public starts to ask these questions in an intelligent way?
3 - loretta
The more people who are aware of the discrepancies between the "official" story and the facts, the better. This investigation is long overdue. The trail is getting cold.
Maybe you knew about all this before, but I can assure you that millions did not, and we need to get the word out.
4 - Greg in Germany
You know, there's also a whole body of work implicating FDR in the original Pearl Harbor. These opinions should be cataloged in the Alternative History section along with the admitted fantasists. The fever-brained conspiricy theorists will always be among us.
So, don't you know that the whole business is really being manipulated by UFO's?
5 - Chris
You have got to be kidding me, oliver stone lives!!
6 - loretta
Here's an interesting petition for a new investigation.
7 - Edward Rynearson
I've read:
"Crossing the Rubicon" by Michael Ruppert
"The New Pearl Harbor" by David R Griffin
"911 Commission, Omissions and Distortions" by David R Griffin
Recommended films:
"Why We Fight"
"In Plane Site"
"Loose Change 2"
I've dedicated my homepage (select URL) to displaying Loose Change 2 and have had over 3000 visitors in the past two weeks.
Take a look for yourself. And keep in mind how many times you've been lied to by the current rulers.
Today's headlines had an investigation opening up regarding NFL star Tillman's death by friendly fire. They told us he died heroically. NOw it seems there is a problem with the official story.
They told us that Iraqis pulled down the statue of Sadamn Hussein when it was done by American CIA Iraqis as a photo op infront of the hotel housing all the journalists.
They told us that private Jessica was abused by the Iraqis and heroically fought here way out. Turned out that she was saved by Iraqi doctors who treated her like a human being.
Weapons of Mass Destruction?
The battalions of trained Iraqi soldiers ready to take over.
The link between Sadamn Hussein and Osama Ben Forgotten?
The Bush administration is a made for TV movie (is about money and power - not gay marriage) and you may not like the ending. Get active!
8 - LunaC
Required Reading --> PNAC 101 - Rise of the Neocons - a concise history of the PNAC and the White House/Pentagon complicity in staging the 911 events.
9 - ryan
Look, if the government, not Bin Laden blew up the Pentagon, why would he have taken credit for it? Ultimately the guys goal is to inflict as much hurt, terror and chaos on our country, directly or indirectly. It would be a far bigger blow to find out our own people did it than a crazy stranger, and I'm certain he would be screaming from every rooftop if he didn't do it.
Here is the problem with your arguments, you want the Bush administration to be bumbling fools and diabolical villians at the same time. You're telling they had the skills to fake the largest American terrorist disaster--complete with planes and missles--but couldn't even plant WMDs in Iraq? They could fool millions of people who saw it happen with their own eyes? Half the pentagon? FBI? But couldn't pull a decent cover up thousands of miles away in the middle of a desert?
And for the record, Pat Tillman died heroically, friendly fire or not. I'm not sure how your accusing a gov't of lieing as they just opened another investigation.
Look, I realize the gov't lies to us, believe me I do. The logic, however, implicating them in Sept 11 is insane. It's not there, it doesn't make sense and its crap.
10 - LunaC
According to a retired Navy Lt Commander and 28-year veteran of the Defense Department (DoD), the US tried to plant WMDs but failed when the operation was taken out by “friendly fire”.
11 - LunaC
As for bin Laden, the Bush administration concluded, without supporting evidence, that he and al-Qaeda were prime suspects even though he never claimed responsibility for the 911 attacks.
It should be noted that bin Laden was recruited by the CIA via Pakistan’s ISI to fight Soviet invaders during the Soviet-Afghan war.
12 - LunaC
Furthermore, the CIA has maintained close ties to Pakistan to this day and General Mahmoud Ahmed, the head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), wired $100,000 to Mohammed Atta before the 9/11 attacks. In fact, Ahmed was actually in Washington on 9/11, and had a series of pre-9/11 top-level meetings in the White House, the Pentagon, the national security council, and with George Tenet, then head of the CIA, and Marc Grossman, the under-secretary of state for political affairs. When Ahmed was exposed by the Wall Street Journal as having sent the money to the hijackers, he was forced to "retire" by President Pervez Musharraf.
13 - LunaC
Then there’s Sibel Edmonds, the FBI intelligence translator who tried to
blow the whistle on the cover-up of intelligence that names some of the culprits who orchestrated the 9/11 attacks. She is now under two gag orders that forbid her from testifying in court or mentioning the names of the people or the countries involved but she has been quoted as saying: "My translations of the 9/11 intercepts included [terrorist] money laundering, detailed and date-specific information ... if they were to do real investigations, we would see several significant high-level criminal prosecutions in this country [the US] ... and believe me, they will do everything to cover this up".
The evidence is overwhelming and obvious for those who choose to stop drinking the kool-aid and buying into the “official” story.
14 - tommyd
The best and wildest conspiracy theories I've read about the attacks of 9/11....listen to this doozy......
19 suicidal Ay-rabs directed by a cave dwelling nomad broke through the 100 billion dollar US security apparatus to sucessfully surprise attack targets using 767 jets which ended up crumbling 2,110-story buildings to dust in the same exact manner. Thorough investigations of the event are halted because the evil mastermind is still alive and plotting to take over the world with Islamo-facsism directed from his cave in a remote Asian mountain range and US military bombardment is the only solution to this problem.
Now that's one of the wackiest and stupidest conspiracy theories I've ever heard in my life!!