The Truth About September 11 by Gerard Holmgren, 2003-08-30 Section 1. Airforce Stand-down
1.1 It has become popular mythology in the media that fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the hijacked planes. This is completely untrue as the following research shows.
Guilty For 9-11: Bush, Rumsfeld, Myers, by Illarion Bykov and Jared Israel, 14 Nov 2001
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-1.htm1.2 Mr. Cheney's Cover Story — Section 2 of Guilty For 9-11, 20 Nov 2001
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-2.htm1.3 9-ll: Nothing Urgent, by George Szamuely, Research & documentation by Illarion Bykov and Jared Israel, Jan 2002
http://emperor.vwh.net/indict/urgent.htm1.4 Planes "did scramble " on 9/11,they just " arrived late "
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/indict/faq.htm1.5 Scrambled Messages, by George Szamuely, 12 Dec 2001
http://www.nypress.com/14/50/taki/bunker.cfm1.6 Russian Air Force chief says official 9/11 story impossible
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/airf.htmScrambling of fighter jets to intercept stray aircraft is a routine proceedure. Here's an example of how routine it is:
1.7 Jet Sent to probe Fla. Gov. Plane, Netscape news, May 15 2003.
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?floc=NW_2-T&oldflok=FF-APO-1110&idq=/ff/story/0001/20030515/001648315.htm&sc=1110&floc=NW_2-TThe proceedures were already in place before Sept 11 2001. It happened 67 times in the 10 months between September 2000 and June 2001.
1.8 Use of military jets jumps since 9/11, Associated Press, Aug 13 2002.
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/completetimeline/2002/ap081302.html1.9 Scrambling to prevent another 9/11, CBS News, Aug 14 2002
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/08/14/attack/main518632.shtml1.10 Preventing another 9/11, Military.com
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/1,13319,FL_jet_081502,00.html1.11 Jets on high Alert, ABC News, Aug 13 2002
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/homefront020813.htmlSo on Sept. 11, 2001 why were no fighter jets scrambled, and why has a cover up story been concocted?
In the unlikely event that the airforce failed through incompetence (not once but four times!) where is the major inquiry? I have seen bigger inquiries into car crashes at race tracks.
Section 2. Complicit Behavior of G. W. Bush
It has become common mythology in the media that George W. Bush was at Booker Elementary School when he learned of the first WTC crash. This is a lie. Why is Bush lying about where he was, and what he knew?
2.1 Guilty for 9-11 Section 3: Bush in the open, by Illarion Bykov and Jared Israel.
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-3.htmThis is not the only lie Bush has told about his movements that morning. See how many times he has changed his story.
2.2 Sept 11 attacks- evidence of US collusion, by Steve Grey
http://austin.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=2342&group=webcast
(Read the section called "A tangle of lies".)2.3 Bush gets tangled in his lies Part 1. A strange press conference.
By Jared israel and francisco Gil-White, Sept 25 2002.
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/calif1.htm2.4 Bush Gets Tangled in his 9-11 Lies, Part 2: White House Cover-up Creates More Problems than it Solves
by Jared Israel and Francisco Gil-White [7 October 2002]
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/calif2.htm2.5 The President as Incompetent Liar: Bush's Claim that he Saw TV Footage of 1st Plane Hitting WTC
Comments by Jared Israel [Posted 12 September 2002]
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/liar.htmClinton was impeached for lying about an affair. Bush is lying about where he was, what he was doing and what he knew, during the crucial period between 8.45 and 9 AM on Sept 11.
Why did the President — after being told "America is under attack" continue to listen to schoolchildren reading for another 25 minutes ? Why was he cheering, smiling and joking even as it was known that at least one more hijacked plane was on the loose ? View the TV footage which proves treason at the top level.
2.6 http://www.emperors-clothes.com/indict/vid.htm
Section 3. The Ficticious Hijackers
If 19 Arabs hijacked the planes, why are there no Arabic names on any of the passenger lists? If they used non-Arabic aliases, which of the " innocents " on the lists are alleged to be the hijackers?
3.1 http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/AA11.victims.html
Passenger and crew list for AA 11 (first WTC crash)3.2 http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/AA77.victims.html
AA 77 (Pentagon crash)3.3 http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/ua175.victims.html
UAL 175 (2nd WTC crash)3.4 http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/ua93.victims.html
UAL 93 (Pensylvannia crash)3.5 STILL No Arabs On Flight 77, by Thomas R. Olmsted, MD
http://www.rense.com/general38/77.htmIf they are alleged to have been using non- Arabic aliases (19 obviously Arabic men got on board using non-Arabic ID, with 100% success rate?), why did the FBI claim that they were traced through the use of credit cards to buy tickets in their own names?
3.6 If nine of the alleged hijackers were searched before boarding, as claimed in this article
http://www.policetalk.com/9_hijackers.html
why is there no airport security footage of them? How did they (allegedly) get on board with knives, guns, AND electronic guidance systems, while being searched, but avoiding security cameras and not being on the passenger lists? What aliases were they alleged to be using when they were searched,and if they were not using aliases, why are they not on the passenger lists?What of reports that some of the alleged hijackers are still alive, and had nothing to do with the attacks?
3.7 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm
3.8 http://www.rense.com/general20/alives.htm
3.9 http://www.muslimedia.com/archives/world01/afgwar-die.htm
3.10http://www.americanfreepress.net/10_12_01/STILL_ALIVE__FBI_Mixed_Up_on_T/still_alive__fbi_mixed_up_on_t.html
3.11 http://www.corpust.com/CorpusTArchiveFBI70f19Alive.cfm
3.12 http://www.welfarestate.com/911/
3.13 http://truedemocracy.net/td4/24s-c-6men.html
3.14 http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/news01/092001_news_trail.shtml
3.15 http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/23/widen23.xml
3.16 http://www.worldmessenger.20m.com/alive.html
3.17 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0109190363sep19.story?coll=chi-news-hedAccording to an article at www.dallasnews.com (link expired) the FBI now claims that the hijackers used gas to subdue the passengers and crew. If they used gas they would have been affected themselves — unless they had masks. So the story gets better all the time. They somehow got on board with masks, gas, guns,knives and electronic guidance systems, in spite of being searched, didn't show up on the airport security cameras, and were not on the passenger lists. They left flight manuals in Arabic in rented cars outside the airport (last minute brushing up on the way, about how to fly the things?) and then crashed the planes in breath-taking displays of skilled piloting. Just to make sure we knew who they were, their passports were conveniently found in spite of fiery crashes which incinerated the planes and occupants. So they got on board with false IDs but used their real passports?
If the mythical Arab hijackers really were on the planes and airport security systems failed due to incompetence (not once but 19 times!), where is the major inquiry? I have seen bigger inquiries into racehorse doping scandals.
Section 4. Miscellaneous Items
Why the official story concerning the hijacking of AA11 (first WTC crash) cannot possibly be true.
9/11 Redux: (The Observeršs Cut) American Airlines Flight 11, Reexamined, by David L. Graham
4.1 http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/redux.htmlWas an urban rescue team sent to New York the night before the attacks?
4.2 http://www.halturnershow.com/FEMA.htm
4.3 http://www.tpromo.com/gk/jun02/062602.htm4.4 Former top German Cabinet Minister rejects official story of 9 11 attacks.
Interview with Andreas von Buelow. Tagesspiegel, Jan 13 2002.
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/VonBuelow.htmlNational Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice and former Whitehouse spokesman Ari Fleischer lied in saying that nobody had ever conceived of planes being used in this manner; see their statements in this article:
Bush Was Warned of Hijackings Before 9/11; Lawmakers Want Public Inquiry, ABC News, May 16 2002
4.5 http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/warningmemo020516.html
The 1994 extract from Time magazine, quoted in article 2.1 demonstrates that the potential problem had been recognized for decades. And there are other examples of this possibility having been widely recognized prior to sept 11.4.6 "Omens of terror" by David Wise, Oct. 7 2001
http://www.hermes-press.com/omens.htmIn article 4.5 Rice also lied in saying that any threat had been overwhelmingly perceived as being overseas. The statement she made is in this press briefing:
Press Briefing by National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice, The James S. Brady Briefing Room, May 16 2002, 4.10PM EDT
4.7 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/05/20020516-13.htmlBut this is the truth about the memo to which she refers:
4.8 August memo focused on attacks in the U.S. by Bob Wooward and Dan Eggen, Washington Post staff writers, May 18 2002, page A01.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A35744-2002May17¬Found=trueWhat did happen to Flight 93?, by Richrad Wallace, The Daily Mirror, Sept. 13, 2002
4.9 http://www.unansweredquestions.net/timeline/2002/mirror091302.html4.10 http://www.thepowerhour.com/postings-three/flight-93-shot-down.htm
4.11 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12192317&method=full&siteid=50143
Are cell phone calls from planes, of the type allegedly made by passengers on Sept 11 possible ?
4.12 http://feralnews.com/issues/911/dewdney/project_achilles_report_1_030123.html
4.13 http://feralnews.com/issues/911/dewdney/project_achilles_report_2_030225.html
4.14 http://www.shirky.com/writings/permanet.html
4.15 September 11 US Govt accused, The Portugal News, front page, 2002-08-03
http://the-news.net/cgi-bin/story.pl?title=September%2011%20-%20US%20Government%20accused&edition=663Attorney General, John Ashcroft was warned in July 2001 not to fly commercial airlines anymore.
Ashcroft flying high, CBS News, July 26 2001.
4.16 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/main303601.shtmlSan Francisco Mayor Willie Brown received a travel warning on Sept 10.
Willie Brown got low-key early warning about air travel. San francisco Chronicle Sept 12 2001
4.17 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/12/MN229389.DTL
Section 5. Where is the Evidence Against Bin Laden?
Why is it that the US government doesn't feel confident enough of its case against Bin laden to lay any formal charges, but keeps "finding" convenient video "confession" tapes? Probably because new video technology makes it impossible to distinguish between a real video confession and a fake.
When seeing and hearing isn't believing, by William M. Arkin, Washington Post, Feb 1 1999
5.1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin020199.htmLast word in High Tech trickery, by David Higgins, Sydney Morning Herald, May 16 2002
5.2 http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/16/1021415016681.htmlFor more detailed evidence of a preplanned agenda to fabricate evidence against Bin Laden,
Sept 11 attacks — evidence of US collusion, by Steve Grey.
5.2a http://austin.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=2342&group=webcast
(Read the section called "Evidence please!")It has become a common myth that Bin Laden has admitted to the attacks. This simply isn't true.
Bin laden denies terror attacks and points finger at jews, Annanova news.
5.3 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_410936.html?menu=news.latestheadlinesBin laden denies attacks as Taliban talks holy war, ABC news online, Sept 17 2001.
5.4 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2001/09/item20010917010639_1.htmBin Laden denies being behind attacks, JS Online Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Sept 16 2001
5.5 http://www.jsonline.com/news/nat/sep01/binladen-denial.aspOsama Bin Laden claims terrorist attacks in USA were committed by some American terrorist group, Pravda, Sept 12 2001
5.6 http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/2001/09/12/14910.htmlBin laden Denies US attack says paper, Middle East News
5.7 http://www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-37/reg/bin_laden_denies.htmBin laden says he wasn't behind attacks, CNN, Sept. 17 2001
5.8 http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/16/inv.binladen.denial/index.htmlBin Laden denies role in attacks, newsday.com, Sept. 17 2001
5.9 http://www.newsday.com/ny-wobin172369727sep17,0,7370581.storyTaliban says Bin Laden denied role in attacks. Yahoo news, Sept 13 2001.
5.10 http://www.welfarestate.com/binladen/denies-reuters-taliban.htm
Section 6. Insider Trading Reveals High-level Foreknowledge
In the first few hours after the attacks it was reported that investigators were already looking into huge volumes of insider trading on airline stocks in the weeks leading up to the attacks. Why has this story since completely disappeared? Do authorities seriously expect us to believe that two years later, they still do not know who was responsible? Should not alarm bells have been ringing BEFORE the attacks with these record volumes of trading? If the executive director of the CIA had previously managed the firm which handled much of the trade, are we seriously expected to believe that he doesn't know who was responsible?
Suppresed Details of Criminal Insider Trading Lead Directly Into The CIA's Highest Ranks — CIA Executive Director `Buzzy' Krongard Managed Firm That Handled `Put' Options on UAL, by Michael C. Ruppert, 9 Oct 2001
6.1 http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/10_09_01_krongard.htmlMystery of terror `insider dealers', by Chris Blackhurst, 14 Oct 2001
6.2 http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=99402Profits of Death — Insider Trading and 9-11, by Tom Flocco — Edited by Michael C. Ruppert, 6 Dec 2001
6.3 http://globalresearch.ca/articles/FLO112B.htmlWhere is the major inquiry? I have seen bigger inquiries into local government contract scandals.
Section 7. The Pentagon Frame-up and the WTC Plane Switch
It is alleged that that American Airlines 77 (a hijacked Boeing 757) crashed into the Pentagon. A Boeing 757 has a wingspan of 125 ft and a length of 155 ft. So how did it make a hole less than 40 ft wide, not high enough to fit the tail, collapsing less than a 50 ft depth of the outer ring of the building — and not leave any wreckage outside?
This photo of the damage to the Pentagon wall
7.1 http://www.serendipity.li/wot/june2aa/june2aa.htm proves that whatever crashed into the pentagon was NOT AA 77, which demonstrates the Pentagon attack to have been a self-inflicted frame-up.For a quick overview of the impossibility of the official story
7.2 http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/pentagone/erreurs_en.htmFor a full physical analysis of the crash scene:
Physical and mathematical analysis of Pentagon crash, by Gerard Holmgren, Oct 2002
7.3 http://www.serendipity.li/wot/holmgren/index.htmlEyewitness evidence does not confirm a large passenger jet hitting the Pentagon.
Did AA 77 hit the Pentagon? Eyewitness accounts examined, by Gerard Holmgren, June 2002
7.4 http://hamilton.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=1786What planes hit the WTC towers? Were they the planes we've been told they were? (AA 11 and UAL 175)
7.5 http://thewebfairy.com/9117.6 The amazing Pentalawn.
http://www.cryptogon.com/docs/Introducing%20the%20amazing%20Penta-Lawn%202000!%20(9-11).htm
Section 8. The Attack on Afghanistan
If the attack on Afghanistan was a retaliation for Sept. 11, why had it already been planned months before?BBC News report by George Arney.
8.1 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1550000/1550366.stmU.S. Planned for attack on Al -Qaida. White house given strategy two days before Sept 11. NBC news, May 16 2002
8.2 http://propagandamatrix.com/US_planned_for_attack_on_al-Qaida.htm (also here)US planned to hit bin Laden ahead of September 11, by David Rennie in Washington
8.3 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/05/walq05.xmlUS Tells of covert Afghan plans before 9/11, By Bob Drogin, LA Times, May 18 2002
8.4 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-051802strike.storyWhy were we originally told that the attack on Afghanistan was not planned prior to Sept. 11, and was purely a retaliation to a "surprise" attack, and the story then changed after proof of the preplanned attack came to light?
Section 9. U.S. and Bin Laden Cooperate Behind the Scenes
The new story is that they allegedly feared Bin Laden so much that they wanted to get him first. So why didn't they arrest him when they had the chance in July 2001?
The CIA met Bin Laden while undergoing treatment at an American Hospital last July in Dubai, by Alexandra Richard, translated courtesy of Tiphaine Dickson, Le Figaro, 11 Oct 2001
9.1 http://globalresearch.ca/articles/RIC111B.html
9.2 http://guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,584444,00.html
9.3 http://emperors-clothes.com/misc/lefigaro.htmBin Laden met with the C