9/11: The War on Truth
By Zachary Kidder
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It was an average September day in
Plymouth, Wisconsin. The brisk winds chased me down the street as I pedaled my
bicycle from my home, yoked with the mission to deliver the most deafening news
story ever printed in the 21st century. The Sheboygan Press cover story
read in extra-large, extra-bold print: “America Attacked!” With each paper situated
in my carrier pack, I sped down my route and tossed them onto porches, many of
which had restless residents eagerly waiting to receive their copy. Their faces
were clouded with confusion but one thing was certain, they were bound to find
the answers.
Eleven years have passed since this
defining moment in my life, and the lives of millions of other people, yet this
mission still rings clear to me. I must find the answers. I must know the
truth. In an age of uncertainty, postmodernism and ambiguity, this is not only
a matter of extreme difficulty but also a task that appears to be hastily
dismantled by the gatekeepers of our age: the government, media and worst of
all, those determined to uphold the duty to end terrorism at all costs.
The problem with the attacks on 9/11 is
that they are a series of events many are very certain went one way while an
increasing amount of other citizens argue it was the other way around. How
could such alternate theories on how it happened exist when the news, our
leaders and so many in the intelligence community gave their explanatory
reasons for this nightmarish day in history, that others would stand and
contradict it? Before I go any further into the evidence-based theory which led
me to publish this article, I must define what prompted me to take what at
first could only be opinion and ideas thrown at the fan.
Personally I like to go to go to my
friends and family for advice before anyone else. In doing so, I prepared a
Facebook Question poll and asked people to vote on which of the three options
best represented their view on whether or not the attacks of 9/11 were an inside job.
I have seen other statistics before on
where the people stood and this one was not much different from those. What
strikes me is just how many people align their views with the official account
(that which is the government and media’s stance on what happened) but even
more shocking is the intensity at which people voted yes or maybe, which when added
together nearly ties with those that said no.
Before I go any further, I would like to make it clear just how much pressure there has been in deciding whether or not I would want to go public with my viewpoints on this subject. It almost seems as though there is a psychological tension present when one leaves mainstream thought to a road less travelled and then, as a consequence, they are chastised for this repositioning. It is a tough place to be but I will say that it is not so much that I want to stir up the mud as much as it is how I have come across things that do not add up with the official account of 9/11 and want the truth to be heard for the sake of the victims. There may be a great deal of suppression of this theory by those who would categorize one as being unpatriotic or un-American for believing that the attacks are in any way tied to our government or others from within our country.
Another interesting question I have been
asked when venturing into this risky territory is what the bigger picture is,
if it is true that 9/11 was an inside job? What would we gain? Many have
speculated the multiple wars in the Middle East as a reason. Others say it is
for oil. There are so many questions that will distract one from leaving the
facts and figures he knows and speculate in an area that is full of question
marks and I will not let this article derail into a conspiracy theory hay ride
through uncharted wilderness, but I will ask questions. Not that such questions
should not be put into scientific analysis, and any logical thinking individual
would want to put two and two together, but what must be looked at first and
foremost are the facts that we have readily available to us. These are carefully
documented materials from scientists, architects, FBI agents and many others
whose discoveries are begging to be broadcasted.
Yes, there have been many books
published on 9/11 truth[1]
and there are many more coming forward almost every day. As the years have gone
by, many are becoming more daring with their public inquiries. I write this
article to personalize my alignment with the truth theory of 9/11 and because I
strongly believe social media and word of mouth is one of the strongest media
outlets to date, it is then imperative that many who question the events and
sense a failure by our government to carry out the constitution, to stand up
and get involved on a local level.
In the following discourse, I will attempt to look into just a few of the many plaguing, unanswered questions surrounding 9/11 and how the 9/11 Commission Report did what it did to omit and distort what we now know as the official story.
On September 11, 2001, a most
unfortunate series of attacks on American soil occurred leaving many in despair
and utterly confused. Millions flocked to the live television coverage of the
events to figure out what had happened and to their horror, found that thousands
of people were trapped in a burning tower that had just been hit by an
airplane, and then another, and then…a series of unexplainable events and
deaths.
Time has passed since this terrible day but despite the explanations
by the government through the 9/11 Commissioner’s Report released in 2004,[2] which
claims but does not prove these events were orchestrated by Bin Laden, we are
left with no real official explanation other than that provided by the
scientific and intelligence community, along with the many independent
journalists that have brought to light this terrible tragedy. According to David A. Wallace:
“The attacks left a powerful imprint on the psychology of the American public, which remains deeply divided over government actions taken prior to and after the attacks. A May 2006 Zogby poll concluded that over half of the 1,200 Americans sampled believe President Bush ‘‘exploited’’ the 9/11 attacks (44%) or were not sure (11%). Over half also believe the government and the 9/11 Commission ‘‘concealed or refused to investigate critical evidence that contradicts their official explanation of the September 11th attacks’’ (42%) or were unsure about a cover-up (10%). The demographic breakdown of these figures well reflect polarizations in US society based on political party affiliation, ethnicity, race, economic status, geographic location, and age (Zogby International, May 24, 2006). These lingering doubts have, in part, fed into the ‘‘Truth Movement’’, which directly challenges the official version proffered by the 9/11 Commission, claiming instead that it was an inside job engineered by elements within the US government.” [3]
The Truth Movement, which strives to be an open door for true
scientific explanation of the events of 9/11, is anything but a gang of
conspiracy theorists. It is a driving force in thoroughly answering the tough
questions about how 9/11 happened.
Indeed we were told a great deal of information on what happened
during 9/11. In fact, the event becomes so complex that it would take volumes
of literature to really amply get to the bottom of everything, which is in no
way the mission of this article. I will go into detail about just a few hot
button issues that will take one into the heart of the problem of the 9/11
accounts. One of the first national headlines that really brought attention to
the mysterious perpetrators of the event was the sudden announcement of the 19
hijackers. The problem with this FBI news bulletin is that six of the nineteen
hijackers are still alive.
“Waleed
al-Shehri—said to have been on American Airlines Flight 11, which hit the North
Tower of the World Trade Center—was interviewed after 9/11 by a London-based
newspaper. He also, the Associated Press reported, spoke on September 22 to the
US embassy in Morocco, explaining that the lives in Casablanca, working as a
pilot for Royal Air Maroc.” [4] [5]
Along with this Ahmed al-Nami, Saeed al-Ghamdi, allegedly on Flight
93, told Telegraph reporter David
Harris how shocked they were to hear that they were apparently dead in the
crash. One was working as an administrative supervisor with Saudi Arabian
Airlines at the time and the other had
been in Tunis learning to fly an Airbus according to the BBC.[6]
Three others reported to the Saudi embassy in Washington, Mohand al-Shehri,
Slaem al-Hazmi, and Abdulaziz al-Omari—all who were alive and well in Saudi
Arabia.[7]
“[al-Hazmi] had just returned to work at a petrochemical complex in the
industrial eastern city of Yanbou after a holiday in Saudi Arabia when the
hijackers struck.”[8]
If there are holes in the official story of 9/11 that have been broadcasted to
the world for eleven years, then those with a mind for scholarly information
and facts have a right to find whatever it is they need to find to fill in
those holes. In this case, the lack of solidarity in reporting who it was
accused of hijacking those planes is extremely disconcerting and therefore
unreliable. For our FBI to shove the blame into what could very well be
innocent men, six of whom are still alive, is completely idiotic.
The biggest question that 9/11 truth-seekers will ask, in regards to
9/11, and stands as the most used tagline for explaining away, in short, what
happened on 9/11: 19 men, armed with box cutters, hijacked four planes and took
them into the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon and Shanksville, PA and wreaked
havoc on all inhabiting these areas as well as taking down two 110-story World
Trade Centers all the way to the ground—and
World Trade Center Building 7? Many who breeze through the known
information about 9/11 seem caught off guard when World Trade Center Building 7
is brought up. It was hardly ever broadcasted but it was the third building to
collapse and the only one of the three not hit by a jetliner. The Two World
Trade Centers collapses are explained as having occurred due to the heat upon
the steel beams caused by both plane crashes fires in both buildings. In this
case it can be said that they came down due to fire, regardless of the small
fires that were in the enormous buildings. World Trade Center Building 7 is
said to have fallen due to small office fires that were created from the nearby
falling debris, which struck the building from the twin towers’ collapse.
Nevertheless, all three of these buildings not only collapsed into a perfect
thumbprint of each building but also were entirely pulverized into a fine
powder. The following points from Dr. David Ray Griffin’s book highlight the impossibilities
of the building collapses fitting the official explanation and draws the
evidence of their collapse to be most certainly identical with that of
explosive demolition:
“The collapses
of the Twin Towers and WTC-7 had ten characteristics that are standard features
of “controlled demolition” collapses, which are produced by explosives placed
throughout a building and start to go off in a particular order. Namely:
1.
Each Collapse occurred at
Virtually free-fall speed.
2.
Each building collapsed straight
down, for the most part into its own footprint.[9]
3.
Virtually all the concrete was
turned into very fine dust.
4.
In the case of the Twin Towers,
the dust was blown out horizontally for 200 feet or more.[10]
5.
The collapses were total, leaving
no steel columns sticking up hundreds of feet into the air.
6.
Videos of the collapses reveal
“demolition waves,” meaning “confluent rows of small explosions.[11]
7.
Most of the steel beams and
columns came down in sections that were no more than 30 feet long.[12]
8.
According to many witnesses,
explosions occurred within the buildings.[13]
9.
Each collapse was associated with
detectable seismic vibrations (suggestive of underground explosions).
10. Each collapse produced molten steel (which would be produced by
explosives), resulting in “hot spots” that remained for months.[14]
Although
authors of The 9/11 commission Report reportedly aspired to make it “the
fullest possible account of the vents surrounding 9/11,” it does not explicitly
acknowledge, let alone solve, any of these problems.”[15]
With so thorough an analysis on the characteristics of the
destruction of both twin towers and WTC-7 matching up identically with that of
a controlled demolition, it is impossible in any honest sense, to pass this up
as unimportant information or conspiracy theory nonsense.
Certainly much more could be expounded on, concerning the three World
Trade Center collapses, such as how a multi-billion dollar insurance policy was
taken out for them just weeks prior to 9/11 or Building 7’s owner, Larry
Silverstien’s, admission to having “pulled it”, a demolition term for bringing
down a building. These facts make it certain that there are more questions that
need to be asked when one considers the ill effects of the media and government’s
explanations of 9/11.
Soon after 9/11 took place, not only were nineteen unverifiable men
accused of hijacking planes but it was also evident how our own national
defense and intelligence networks were the subject of great criticism for
having seemingly allowed these
attacks to occur by either not responding soon enough to the immediate attacks
or from having not picked up on advanced warnings of the attacks (or both).
While it is observed and emphatically questioned as to why all four planes were
not brought down by our advanced, state-of-the art defense system it is also
questioned as to why certain people in the intelligence community knew what was
going to happen, thus making these officials prime suspects when the facts of
9/11 are considered.
It is important to note that Attorney David Schippers made it clear,
just days after 9/11, that FBI agents gave him highly specific information
about future attacks for lower Manhattan. “He even tried to warn Attorney
General Ashcroft about the attacks, but that Ashcroft would not return his
calls.”[16]
Griffin goes on in his book to further describe how these impending and
possibility created attacks, or false flag operations, were something the FBI
was very well familiar with.
““One of them
reportedly said that some of the FBI field agents—who were some of the “most
experienced guys”—“predicted, almost precisely, what happened on September 11th.”
This agent also reportedly said that it was widely known “all over the Bureau,
how these [warnings] were ignored by Washington.””[17]
When destructive events of this magnitude occur, it is only natural
for people to turn to something like the government or the media to make sense
of the tragedy. Oftentimes people even rely entirely on the government to take
care of these problems so that they will not have to deal with them. The
problem with this thinking and the results of an incomplete investigation on
9/11 in Washington, not to mention the vast amount of holes in the official
story, is that it invites manipulative control and an injected, false narrative
to be the one with the last word—an archaic and unreliable sort of forensics
science more appropriate for the middle ages than the 21st century.
As a result of 9/11, America has embarked on a campaign known as The
War on Terror which has taken us to war in Afghanistan, Iraq and now what looks
like Iran. Liberties have been taken away with the Patriot Act and it is now legal,
due to the new NDAA law, to detain American citizens indefinitely and without
trial if suspected of terrorism. Since no one has actually paid the price for
9/11 as of yet, it seems we are in an imperative position to fulfill our
original obligation, which was stated by George W. Bush on September 11, 2001:
that we find whoever is responsible and see to it that justice is served.
The tragic events of 9/11 cannot be swept under the rug, lest we be
entirely satisfied with the genocidal killing of innocent lives and
unsatisfactory, unscientific explanations of the events from government
officials who met behind closed doors to “decipher” the meaning behind the
largest crime scene in American history. This day must be questioned and the
truth must come out. And the questions amass: Why is it that almost anyone
asking these questions is immediately labeled a “conspiracy theorist,” for
inquiring about the events? If our government, news media and the average person
really felt comfortable with the official stance on 9/11, why is it they feel
so compelled to react harshly from those who do not? Why is it that in many
countries around the world, a large amount of people side with the truth theory
of 9/11? Why is it that over a thousand emergency response team and clean up
employees have lost their lives due to rare cancers from radioactive fall out
in the trade center dust? Why was there radioactivity in the World Trade Center
dust at all if the buildings fell due to fire? Why are billions of iron
microspheres and nano-thermite found in the dust of ground zero if there is no
way the three tower’s collapse was due to controlled demolition? Why did the
Pentagon lose over 2 trillion dollars just weeks before 9/11 occurred and where
did these funds go? Why was there no plane wreckage found at the Pentagon site?
How was it people aboard Flight 93, which crashed in Shanksville, PA, were able
to use their cell phones when they were at an altitude where cellular
communication is cut off? Why did President Bush remain and not get whisked off
by Secret Service in the Florida elementary classroom an hour past when America
was placed under a state of emergency? Why did President Bush insist on being
questioned on oath by the media behind closed doors?
Eleven years and counting and yet it still remains a mystery as to
what really happened on 9/11.
[1] The ‘truth’ version being the
alternate 9/11 stance that indicts responsibility on those within our country
and/or government for inciting the attacks)
[2] INSERT 9/11 Report
[3] Wallace ,
D. A., & Stuchell, L. (2011). Understanding the 9/11 commission archive:
control, access, and the politics of manipulation. Springer Science &
Business Media B.V. , doi: 10.1007/s10708-008-9252-7
[4] Griffin, D.
R. (2005). The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions. North
Hampton, MA: Olive Branch Press.
See
Thierry Meyssan, 9/11: The Big Lie
(London, Carnot, 2002), 54
[5] Associated Press, September 22,
2001, cited in Meyssan, 9/11: The Big Lie,
54
[6] BBC News, September 23, 2001
(http://news.independet.co.uk/world/middle_east/1559151.stm).
[7] Meyssan, 9/11: The Big Lie, 54
[8] Harrison, “Revealed: The Men
with Stolen Identities, Telegraph`,
September 22, 2001
(www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jgtml?xml=/news/2001/99/23/widen23.xml).
[9] The point is more true of
Building 7, because of the fact mentioned in the fourth point.
[10] On points 3 and 4, see Jim
Hoffman, “The North Tower’s Dust Cloud:
Analysis of Energy Requirements of the Expansion of the Dust Cloud Following
the Collapse of World Trade Center,” Version 3.1, January 5, 2004
(http://911research.wtc7.net/papers/dustvolume/volume.html),
discussed in NPH, 2nd ed., 177-79.
[11] For Visual evidence of these
first six characteristics, see Eric Hufschmid’s Painful Questions, his video “Painful Deceptions” (available at www.EricHufschmid.Net) and several
presentations on websites, such as Jeff King, “The World Trade Center Collapse:
How Strong is the Evidence for a Controlled Demolition?” Plaguepuppy
(http://st12.startlogic.come/~xenonpup/collapse%20update).
The quoted phrase in point 6 is taken from King’s article.
[12] Therefore they, in the words of
Jim Hoffman, “could be easily loaded onto the equipment that was cleaning up
Ground Zero.” See Jim Hoffman, “Your Eyes
Don’t Lie: Common Sense, Physics, and the World Trade Center Collapses,”
originally an interview on KPFA, January 21, 2004 (available at http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/radio/youreyesdontlie/index.html),
quoted in NPH, 2nd ed., 177. Coincidentally, the company given the
job of cleaning up the rubble at the WTC—Controlled demolition, Inc.—says in
its publicity that its systems “segment steel components into pieces matching
the lifting capacity of the available equipment” (quoted in Eric Hufschmid’s
video, “Painful Deceptions” and in NPH, 2nd ed., 178).
[13] See NPH 179n74
[14] For points 9 and 10, se NPH
19-20
[15] Griffin, D.
R. (2005). The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions. North
Hampton, MA: Olive Branch Press.
[16] Alex Jones show, October 10; World
Net Daily, October 21; “David Schippers Goes Public: The FBI Was Warned,” Indianapolis Star, October 13; and
“Active FBI Special Agent Files Complaint Concerning Obstructed FBI
Anti-Terrorist Investigations,” Judicial
Watch, November 14, 2001. This story was reported in NPH 84.
[17] William Norman Grigg, “Did We Know What Was coming?”, The New American 18/5: March 11, 2002 (www.thenewamerican.com), quoted in NPH
85.
