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April 30, 2009
66 Reasons To Question Official 9/11 Story
Diary Entry by Allen L Roland
The official 9/11 story is chock full of holes in which individuals were
not held responsible for their actions, the truth was continually
short-circuited and much information was based on secondhand C.I.A. and
Pentagon "torture" reports. Over 80% of Americans reject the official
9/11 story: Allen L Roland
The official 9/11 story is chock full of holes in which individuals were
not held responsible for their actions, the truth was continually
short-circuited and much information was based on secondhand C.I.A. and
Pentagon ³torture² reports. Over 80% of Americans reject the official
9/11 story: Allen L Roland
Every six months I return to the 9/11 scene, not to fan the flames but,
instead, to review the growing number of unanswered questions ~
particularly in light of the recent public awareness of the deceptions,
lies and abuses of power by the Cheney/Bush Administration which most
likely started with 9/11.
According to a New York Times/CBS News poll, only 16% of Americans think
the government is telling the truth about 9/11 and the intelligence
prior to the attacks.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/October2006/141006poll.htm
A Zogby poll also reveals that over 70 million voting age Americans
distrust the official 9/11 story and support a new investigation of
possible U.S. Government role in the attacks.
http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/zogby-poll-finds-over-70-million-voti
ng-age-americans-support-new-911-investigation
With that in mind, and instead of listing the top 20 reasons to question
the official 9/11 story ~ why not list 70 reasons in honor of FBI Agent
Harry Samit, who before 9/11 sent 70 communications to supervisors
warning them of Moussauoi's plan to hijack a commercial jet and crash it
~ all to no avail ~ and who said to his superiors, "...If you're not
going to advance this the FISA route, or if you don't believe we have
enough for a FISA, I shudder to think ~ and that's all I got out .. for
then [Supervisory Special Agent Mike Maltbie] cut me off and said, 'You
will not question the unit chief [David Frasca] and you will not
question me. We've been through a lot. We know what's going on. You will
not question us.'"
That was # 24 and here are the rest ~
1. The president of the United States, when informed that a second
plane had struck the World Trade Center, continued to read about a pet
goat. ( My explanation) Bush knew something big was coming down and he
was obviously awaiting instructions from Dick Cheney who was in full
command that day ~ see # 5. Why do you think that Bush and Cheney agreed
only to be interviewed together by the 9/11 commission ~ and NOT under
oath.
2. This same president was moved from his high rise hotel in Genoa Italy
two months previously for security reasons, because of a known al Qaeda
plot for hijacking and "crashing an airliner into the Genoa summit of
industrialized nations." The assumption in July 2001 was that there
existed a plot that "terrorists would try to crash a plane to kill Bush
and other leaders" (LA Times, 9-27-01).
3. The Secret Service did not secure the president, even though his
location was publicly disclosed in the press for days before the school
photo op on 9/11. This was a break in standard operating procedures that
left the president vulnerable in the middle of a purported "attack" on
America.
4. NORAD has told three different and conflicting stories explaining why
no jet fighters intercepted any of the four hijacked airliners.
5. Vice President Richard Cheney was placed in charge of anti-terrorism
training and military preparedness exercises by Bush on May 8, 2001.
This gave him command authority during the 9/11 attacks because as many
as nine war game exercises involving military and intelligence agencies
were occurring simultaneously.
6. The military's "Air Piracy" regulations were rewritten on June 1st
2001 to require the "Secretary of Defense" to give "approval" for
military escort aircraft in the event of a hijacking. Donald Rumsfeld
gave no "approval" that day.
7. More than an hour and fifteen minutes after the first hijacking was
reported by FAA, the US military headquarters at the Pentagon was struck
without any defensive action taken to stop the attack. The impact was on
the west side, for some reason the only side that had been "hardened"
with blast-proof windows and specially reinforced walls. None of the
highest ranking military leadership were located on that side.
8. (TRANSCRIPT) Air Force General Richard Myers: "When it became clear
what the threat was, we did scramble fighter aircraft, AWACS, radar
aircraft and tanker aircraft to begin to establish orbits in case other
aircraft showed up in the FAA system that were hijacked..."
Senator Carl Levin: "Was that order that you just described given before
or after the Pentagon was struck? Do you know?"
Air Force General Richard Myers: "That order, to the best of my
knowledge, was after the Pentagon was struck."
Reality intrudes. It became "clear what the threat was," the moment the
first hijacked airliner struck the North Tower at 8:45am. This
congressional testimony is inexcusable and grounds for investigation
into criminal negligence, dereliction of duty, and treason.
9. "President Bush personally asked Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle
Tuesday to limit the congressional investigation into the events of
September 11..." ..."Tuesday's discussion followed a rare call to
Daschle from Vice President Dick Cheney last Friday to make the same
request."
10. The Project For a New American Century, which wrote of the need for
a "catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor," had
members throughout the top of the government on 9/11 including Cheney,
Rumsfeld, Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, Bolton, Armitage, Abrams, Wurmser, as
well as Bush's brother, the governor of Florida, Jeb.
11. Four days before 9/11, Jeb Bush activated the Florida National
Guard, "Based on the potential massive damage to life and property that
may result from an act of terrorism at a Florida port." (Executive Order
01-261).
12. On 9/11 Jeb Bush declared a "State of Emergency" in Florida (E.O.
01-262). "I hereby delegate to the Department of Law Enforcement the
operational authority to coordinate and direct the law enforcement
resources and other resources of any and all state, regional and local
governmental agencies..." And by 2am on 9/12/01, Jeb Bush was reported
to have confiscated the police records in Venice, FL related to the
Huffman Aviation flight school. Two rental trucks full of these records
drove onto a C-130 military aircraft at Sarasota Airport and flew out
with Jeb Bush aboard.
13. Huffman Aviation flight school, where Mohamed Atta and other alleged
hijackers trained, had a Lear jet seized by the DEA with "43 pounds of
heroin" on board. No one was ever prosecuted in connection with the
"biggest drug seizure in central Florida history."
14. The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States
("9/11 Commission") was a blatant and obvious cover-up under the control
of Bush administration member and "Executive Director" Phillip Zelikow.
This cover-up can be proven easily with one example: the time of Dick
Cheney's arrival at the Presidential Emergency Operations Center ("PEOC
bunker"). Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta testified under oath
that Cheney was present at 9:20am and issuing "orders" related to the
plane that struck the Pentagon. Mineta's testimony was completely
omitted from their final report, and a fraudulent time of 9:58am for
Cheney's arrival was given instead (book pg 40 / .pdf file pg 57).
15. The 9/11 Commission was originally only given $3 million to
investigate the greatest terrorist attacks on US soil in our history.
The Bush administration then withheld requested documents forcing the
Commissioners to issue subpoenas to FAA and the Department of Defense.
16. So many lies were told by Bush administration officials regarding
warnings before the attacks, that it is difficult to count them. Ari
Fleischer's two word response, "No warnings," aboard Air Force One on
9/11, sums up the administration's claim.
17. Contrary to the Bush administration's claim: "Newspapers in Germany,
France, Russia and London reported in the months before September 11th
of a blizzard of warnings delivered to the Bush administration from all
points on the compass. The German intelligence service BND warned
American and Israeli agencies that terrorists were planning to hijack
commercial aircraft and use them as weapons to attack important American
targets. Egypt warned of a similar plane-based plot against Bush during
the G-8 summit in Genoa last June [2001], a warning taken so seriously
that anti-aircraft batteries were placed around Columbus Airport in
Italy. Last August [2001], Russian intelligence services notified the
CIA that 25 terrorist pilots had been trained for suicide missions, and
Putin himself confirmed that this warning was delivered 'in the
strongest possible terms' specifically regarding threats to airports and
government buildings." Newsweek, May 20, 2002
18. In July of 2001, CIA Director George Tenet and CIA counterterrorism
chief J. Cofer Black claim to have made a detailed presentation and
warned National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft of imminent attacks
on US soil by Al Qaeda operatives. This was also omitted from the 9/11
Commission Report.
19. Many more warnings stretching back to the early 1990s were known to
intelligence agencies and to FBI. These warnings expose as a lie
National Security Advisor Rice's response: "I don't think anybody could
have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into
the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon;
that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane
as a missile."
20. March 7, 2001: "The Russian Permanent Mission at the United Nations
secretly submits "an unprecedentedly detailed report" to the UN Security
Council about bin Laden, his whereabouts, details of his al-Qaeda
network, Afghan drug running, and Taliban connections to Pakistan and
the ISI. The report provides "a listing of all bin Laden's bases, his
government contacts and foreign advisers," and enough information to
potentially locate and kill him. It is said to contain an "astonishing
degree of information." The US fails to use the information in any
noticeable manner. Alex Standish, the editor of the highly respected
Jane's Intelligence Review, concludes that the attacks of 9/11 were less
of an American intelligence failure than the result of "a political
decision not to act against bin Laden." [Jane's Intelligence Review,
10/5/2001; Times of India, 10/8/2001]
21. On August 6, 2001 a CIA briefer went to Bush's Crawford ranch to
read the president a briefing called, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in
US" (2 redacted pages out of 11 reported). After the briefing, Bush told
the CIA man, "All right. You've covered your ass, now." Bush then went
fishing.
22. Minneapolis FBI Agent and Legal Advisor Colleen Rowley (21 year
veteran) said that the FBI Headquarters Special Supervisory Agent,
"seemed to have been consistently, almost deliberately thwarting the
Minneapolis FBI agents' efforts ...continued to, almost inexplicably,
throw up roadblocks and undermine Minneapolis' by-now desperate efforts
to obtain a FISA search warrant, long after the French intelligence
service provided its information and probable cause became clear.
....Even after the attacks had begun, the SSA in question was still
attempting to block the search of Moussaoui's computer, characterizing
the World Trade Center attacks as a mere coincidence. ...HQ personnel
never disclosed to the Minneapolis agents that the Phoenix Division had,
only approximately three weeks earlier, warned of Al Qaeda operatives in
flight schools seeking flight training for terrorist purposes!"
23. FBI Special Agent Robert Wright (12 year veteran) said: ""[T]here
existed a concerted effort on the part of agents conducting
counterterrorism intelligence investigations to insulate the subjects of
their investigations from criminal investigation and prosecution."
...."The supervisor ...started yelling at me: 'You will not open criminal
investigations. I forbid any of you. You will not open criminal
investigations against any of these intelligence subjects.'" ..."There
is virtually no effort on the part of the FBI's International Terrorism
Unit to neutralize known and suspected terrorists residing within the
United States."
"A lawyer speaking for (FBI Special Agent) Wright after 9/11 will blame
Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Michael Chertoff
for refusing to take Wright's concerns seriously before 9/11." Chertoff
will later be appointed to become head of the Orwellian-named Department
of Homeland Security.
"Larry Klayman, one of two lawyers now representing [FBI Agent] Wright,
later says he calls the Justice Department a few days after 9/11 and
asks that Wright be allowed to present his issues to Attorney General
John Ashcroft. Klayman claims he receives a reply from Michael Chertoff,
then head of the Criminal division, who refuses to meet with Wright and
says, "We are tired of conspiracy theories."
FBI Agent Wright says at his press conference: "Corruption is knowing
when something is not being done, knowing when the American people are
being left unprotected and when you make a decision not to do something
to protect the American people... And you effectively allow 9/11 to
occur. That is the ultimate form of government corruption-dereliction of
duty. That's subject in the military to prosecution, to court
martial.... Frankly, if not treason."
24. FBI Agent Harry Samit, who before 9/11 sent 70 communications to
supervisors warning them of Moussauoi's plan to hijack a commercial jet
and crash it -- to no avail -- has said, "...(I)f you're not going to
advance this the FISA route, or if you don't believe we have enough for
a FISA, I shudder to think-and that's all I got out. And [Supervisory
Special Agent Mike Maltbie] cut me off and said, 'You will not question
the unit chief [David Frasca] and you will not question me. We've been
through a lot. We know what's going on. You will not question us.'"
25. On July 10, 2001 FBI Agents in Phoenix AZ issued a memo to FBIHQ
requesting that headquarters investigate flight schools across the U.S.
to look for middle eastern flight students connected to international
terrorist organizations. Nothing was done, and the information was not
shared.
26. "The [FBI Inspector General] report attributes the inaction and
inattention to the lack of resources committed to anti-terrorist
activities in the summer of 2001. For instance, there was only a single
research analyst assigned to the FBI's Bin Laden Unit in 2001, and she
was transferred to another unit in July 2001."
27. "Although the FBI's counterterrorism budget tripled during the
mid-1990s, its counterterrorism spending stayed fairly constant between
fiscal years 1998 and 2001" ..."Then-acting FBI Director Thomas Pickard
said he appealed to Ashcroft for more money for counterterrorism but on
Sept 10, 2001, one day before the attacks on New York and Washington
that killed nearly 3,000 people, Ashcroft rejected the appeal."
28. "At issue is a July 5, 2001, meeting between Ashcroft and acting FBI
Director Tom Pickard."
"'Mr. Ashcroft told you that he did not want to hear about this
anymore,' Democratic commission member Richard Ben-Veniste asked on
April 13. 'Is that correct?'"
"'That is correct,' Pickard replied."
...."(A)nother senior FBI official tells NBC News he vividly recalls
Pickard returning from the meeting that day furious that Ashcroft had
cut short the terrorism briefing. Several sources familiar with the
investigation say Garcia confirmed to the commission that Ashcroft did
indeed dismiss Pickard's warnings about al-Qaida."
29. FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds has become the most gagged
whistleblower in the country's history. In a letter to 9/11 Commissioner
Thomas Kean, she said, ""If Counterintelligence receives information
that contains money laundering, illegal arms sale, and illegal drug
activities, directly linked to terrorist activities; and if that
information involves certain nations, certain semi-legit organizations,
and ties to certain lucrative or political relations in this country,
then, that information is not shared with Counterterrorism, regardless
of the possible severe consequences. In certain cases, frustrated FBI
agents cited 'direct pressure by the State Department,' and in other
cases 'sensitive diplomatic relations' is cited. ...Your hearings did
not include questions regarding these unspoken and unwritten policies
and practices. Despite your full awareness and understanding of certain
criminal conduct that connects to certain terrorist related activities,
committed by certain US officials and high-level government employees,
you have not proposed criminal investigations into this conduct,
although under the laws of this country you are required to do so."
Another FBI translator, who had been "shielding" the targets of FBI
investigations, told Sibel Edmonds: ""Why are you doing this, Sibel? Why
don't you just drop it? You know there could be serious consequences.
Why put your family in Turkey in danger over this?" Sibel Edmonds'
sister was reportedly sought by Turkish police shortly after this
incident.
30. The FBI's top Al Qaeda investigator, John O'Neill, "resigned in July
of 2001 in protest over the obstruction of terrorist investigations."
31. Two of the alleged hijackers lived openly in San Diego with an FBI
informant for over a year: "The FBI inspector general's report reveals
for the first time that the CIA not only failed to inform the FBI about
[Al] Mihdhar, but that CIA officials intervened to suppress a memorandum
drafted by an FBI agent detailed to the CIA-run Counter-Terrorism Center
(CTC), who wanted to notify the FBI about the suspected terrorist with a
US visa."
"One FBI official familiar with the case will later complain, "[The CIA]
purposely hid [Almihdhar] from the FBI, purposely refused to tell the
bureau. ...And that's why September 11 happened. ...They have blood on
their hands." [Bamford, 2004, pp. 224, A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq,
and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies]
32. The 9/11 Commission, at the orchestration of Bush administration
member and "Executive Director" Phillip Zelikow, wrote: "To date, the US
government has not been able to determine the origin of the money used
for the 9/11 attacks. ...Ultimately the question of the origin of the
funds is of little practical significance."
33. The Times of India reported that Indian Intelligence had traced the
wire transfers of over $100,000 from British born terrorist and reported
MI6 and ISI asset Omar Saeed Sheikh in the UAE to Mohamed Atta in
Florida, on the orders of the head of Pakistani intelligence Lt. General
Mahmoud Ahmad. This was reportedly confirmed by the FBI. The Pakistani
ISI chief Ahmad resigned immediately, but he has never been sought by US
authorities for funding and participating in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
34. ISI chief Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad was in Washington DC the week
prior to 9/11, meeting with CIA Director George Tenet and other high
ranking US officials including Tenet's replacement at CIA Porter Goss.
35. During the ISI chief's stay in Washington, Osama bin Laden was
reportedly admitted to the Pakistani military hospital in Rawalpindi on
September 10, 2001 by CBS News.
36. Osama bin Laden was also reportedly admitted to a US MILITARY
HOSPITAL in Dubai, UAE, in July of 2001 for kidney dialysis treatment.
There bin Laden is said to have met with the CIA station chief, Larry
Mitchell.
37. Senator Bob Graham, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said:
"I was surprised at the evidence that there were foreign governments
[Plural!] involved in facilitating the activities of at least some of
the terrorists in the United States." ..."I think there is very
compelling evidence that at least some of the terrorists were assisted
not just in financing -- although that was part of it -- by a sovereign
foreign government and that we have been derelict in our duty to track
that down, make the further case, or find the evidence that would
indicate that that is not true."
38. Senator Bob Graham also said: "High officials in [the Saudi Arabian]
government, who I assume were not just rogue officials acting on their
own, made substantial contributions to the support and wellbeing of two
of these terrorists and facilitated their ability to plan, practice and
then execute the tragedy of September 11." These investigations remain
blocked, classified, covered-up and unresolved to this day by the Bush
administration's clear Obstruction of Justice.
39. Senator and 9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland resigned, saying: "This is
the most serious independent investigation since the Warren Commission.
And after watching History Channel shows on the Warren Commission last
night, the Warren Commission blew it. I'm not going to be part of that.
I'm not going to be part of looking at information only partially. I'm
not going to be part of just coming to quick conclusions. I'm not going
to be part of political pressure to do this or not do that. I'm not
going to be part of that. This is serious."
40. At least 7 of the alleged "hijackers" were reported to be still
alive. Neither the FBI nor the 9/11 Commission corrected the identities,
and the government has treated the issue of who exactly attacked America
on September 11th as relatively unimportant. The flight manifests
released by the airlines did not contain any of the names of the
hijackers (who supposedly bought tickets just like everybody else), and
there are discrepancies in the number of persons reported to be onboard
the airliners. This also has not been explained by officials, at all.
41. The Dulles Airport security camera video released as evidence of
hijackers has no time or date stamp, nor any other coded information,
which suggests that it may not be authentic.
42. The aircraft "black boxes" from the World Trade Center site were
admittedly recovered by NYC Fireman Nicholas DeMassi. The FBI, NTSB and
the 9/11 Commission all deny they were ever recovered at all.
43. Congress shoveled $15 Billion of taxpayer money to the airlines
immediately after 9/11 as one of the first responses to the attacks.
44. The autopsy report from the Pentagon crash site contains no mention
of any of the hijackers.
45. Up to 200 Israeli agents were arrested and detained in relation to
September 11th. This includes five Mossad agents who were celebrating
the World Trade Center job with "cries of joy and mockery." The Justice
Department (sic) released all of the Israelis, and the entire matter was
made "classified."
46. "According to several Weehawken neighbors of the [Israeli MOSSAD
front operation] Urban Moving Systems warehouse, the FBI, upon searching
the warehouse, discovered fertilizer, other chemicals for making
explosives, pipes, caps, and traces of anthrax. After anthrax was
discovered, investigators wearing hazardous material suits went through
the warehouse."
47. "On the night of the Sept. 11 attacks, the White House Medical
Office dispensed [the anthrax drug] Cipro to staff accompanying Vice
President Dick Cheney as he was secreted off to the safety of Camp
David..." The public was not warned about anthrax or alerted about Cipro
for another six weeks, when anthrax-laden letters were sent through the
mail to top Democratic congressmen and to others.
48. "Palestinians" were accused of committing the 9/11 attacks by
Israeli MOSSAD operatives. One of the arrested MOSSAD agents told the
police, "We are Israelis, we are not your problem. Your problems are our
problem. Palestinians are the problem." A phone call to the "Jersey City
Police Department ...claimed 'Palestinians' in Arab clothes were seen
celebrating the attacks." Was this MOSSAD referring to their own covert
agents? At 9:43am on 9/11, "Abu Dhabi television reports it received a
call from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, claiming
responsibility for crashing two planes into the WTC. However leading
officials later deny the claim."
49. Israeli instant messaging firm Odigo received warnings of the World
Trade Center attacks 2 hours before they occurred.
50. Zim American / Israeli Shipping broke its lease in the World Trade
Center and evacuated one week before the attacks. The company is 49%
owned by the Israeli government.
51. Although the Israeli government sent MOSSAD officers to "warn" the
U.S. about imminent terror attacks in August 2001: "'They had no
specific information about what was being planned but linked the plot to
Osama bin Laden and told the Americans that there were strong grounds
for suspecting Iraqi involvement,' said a senior Israeli security
official." Mixing Osama bin Laden together with his enemy Saddam Hussein
has been a ridiculous propaganda exercise, and exposed as such.
52. Fire has never, before or after 9/11, caused a steel-framed building
to completely collapse. Three gigantic steel-framed skyscrapers were
alleged to have collapsed from the effects of fire, including the 47
story building 7 which was not hit by a plane. The Twin Towers and
building 7 displayed numerous characteristics of controlled demolition
including free fall speed, collapsing into footprints, pulverization of
all the concrete, and the sounds and appearances of explosive charges,
as reported by many eyewitnesses. Needless to say, this has not been
investigated officially, because officials refuse to admit the
possibility existed at all.
53. "Fire Engineering [Magazine] has good reason to believe that the
"official investigation" blessed by FEMA and run by the American Society
of Civil Engineers is a half-baked farce that may already have been
commandeered by political forces whose primary interests, to put it
mildly, lie far afield of full disclosure. Except for the marginal
benefit obtained from a three-day, visual walk-through of evidence sites
conducted by ASCE investigation committee members- described by one
close source as a "tourist trip"-no one's checking the evidence for
anything."
54. "'The decision to rapidly recycle the steel columns, beams and
trusses from the WTC in the days immediately after 9/11 means definitive
answers may never be known.'[NY Times] The next week, Fire Engineering
magazine said: 'We are literally treating the steel removed from the
site like garbage, not like crucial fire scene evidence ...The
destruction and removal of evidence must stop immediately.'" (Griffin)
55. Ben Fountain, who worked in the South Tower, told People Magazine,
"Over the past few weeks we'd been evacuated a number of times, which is
unusual. I think they had an inkling something was going on."
56. On Thursday, September 6, 2001 bomb-sniffing dogs were removed and
the security threat level at the World Trade Center was downgraded.
57. Scott Forbes who worked in the South Tower described a "power down"
on the weekend before 9/11, which was corroborated by WTC janitor
William Rodriquez in his RICO lawsuit. The power down knocked out
communications, computer systems, and security cameras. Numerous workmen
were reported, and the sounds of heavy construction, and a pervasive
grey dust was found on the 97th floor by Forbes.
58. William Rodriguez also reported bombs in the basement levels and on
various floors. After describing a series of explosions, Rodriguez heard
that floor 65 had completely collapsed (nowhere near the plane impact
zone). Rodriguez also claims to have heard construction on floor 34
affter the plane impacts, a floor that wasn't in use.
59. President Bush's brother Marvin Bush had been a director for
Securacom (now Stratasec) that was in charge of security for the WTC,
United Airlines and Dulles Airport (where Flight 77 originated). An
Israeli security firm, ICTS International had security responsibilities
at Boston Logan airport and other airports involved in the September
11th attacks.
60. On September 10, 2001 Willie Brown, the mayor of San Francisco,
received a warning not to fly. He credited who he called "my security
people at the airport." No FAA warnings had been issued however "in
recent days."
61. "On Sept. 10, NEWSWEEK has learned, a group of top Pentagon
officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning,
apparently because of security concerns."
62. "The author Salman Rushdie believes that US authorities knew of an
imminent terrorist strike when they banned him from taking internal
flights in Canada and the US only a week before the attacks. On
September 3 the Federal Aviation Authority made an emergency ruling to
prevent Mr Rushdie from flying unless airlines complied with strict and
costly security measures."
63. "The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it provided 15
warnings to airlines regarding possible terrorist attacks -- including
al Qaeda hijackings -- in the months leading up to September 11. ...The
FAA mentioned Osama bin Laden or al Qaeda in alerts the agency sent to
domestic airlines." At this same time, July 2001, the FAA inexplicably
terminated a firearms certification program for commercial airline
pilots, which had made it legal for pilots to be armed since 1961.
64. A military data mining operation called Able Danger created a
presentation chart in 2000 that allegedly included four future 9/11
hijackers. Their recommendation to send the data to the FBI was thwarted
by military lawyers and by higher ranking officers. Yellow stickers were
placed over the photographs of Mohamed Atta and the others. Although
this information was brought directly to several of the 9-11
Commissioners, including Phillip Zelikow, it was never mentioned in
their final report.
65. Purported "lead hijacker" Mohamed Atta was already known to US
intelligence when he was living in Germany. "He is 'reportedly observed
buying large quantities of chemicals in Frankfurt, apparently for the
production of explosives [and/or] for biological warfare.' ...'The US
agents reported to have trailed Atta are said to have failed to inform
the German authorities about their investigation,' even as the Germans
are investigating many of his associates."
66. ""Take action -- click here to contact your local newspaper or
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