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9/11 Research Resources - Feb. 2004 Out of hundreds of worthy resources on 9/11, the global crisis and the Truth movement, here is a directory of some of the best.
SITES FOR 9/11 INFO & ANALYSIS - "THE CANON" cooperativeresearch.org/timeline - The Complete 9/11 Timeline by Paul Thompson, definitive archive of mainstream news reports, plus additional 9/11 data outlines at www.cooperativeresearch.org copvcia.com - From the Wilderness newsletter (Mike Ruppert) globalresearch.ca - Center for Research on Globalisation & Global Outlook Magazine (see esp. 9/11 articles by Chossudovsky) communitycurrency.org/MainIndexMX.html - "Unanswered Questions," the original groundbreaking essay by MalcontentX emperors-clothes.com/indict/911page.htm - Emperors' New Clothes 9/11 Indictment Page by Jared Israel flight93crash.com - Flight 93 Crash analysis. Was it shot down? madcowprod.com - Dan Hopsicker on the Florida trail of Atta&Co. xymphora.blogspot.com - much analysis of hijacker stories. Sites analyzing demolition evidence (caveat emptor): wtc7.net 911review.org www.serendipity.li/wtc.htm 911physics.org globalfreepress.com - daily digest of 9/11 and related news, plus Nico Haupt's "9/11 Skeptics Unite - The Encyclopedia"
SITES FOR THE 9/11 TRUTH MOVEMENT www.ny911truth.org - New York City 9/11 Truth meetup www.deceptiondollar.com - includes upcoming SF congress info www.septembereleventh.com - 9/11 Visibility Project, USA www.911truth.org - 9/11 Truth Alliance international. (LINKS!) 9-11questions.meetup.com - 9/11 Meetups around the world www.unansweredquestions.org - the original, w/UQ news service www.911resolution.org - petition campaign for townships www.911citizenswatch.org - monitors Kean Commission www.lfchosting.com/sportsfem/peace/911_FAX.html - allows you to send 9/11 faxes to dozens of politicians & media
MORE STARTER ARTICLES FOR 9/11 SKEPTICS Kristen Breitweiser Statement to Congressional 9/11 inquiry: www.questionsquestions.net/docs0212/1216_sabotage.html Mindy Kleinberg, Statement to the 9/11 Commission: www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing1/witness_kleinberg.htm Slow-walked and stonewalled by John Prados, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist (sabotage of 2002 congressional 9/11 inquiry) www.thebulletin.org/issues/2003/ma03/ma03prados.html Gore Vidal, "The Enemy Within." Long review of The War On Freedom at burningbush.netfirms.com/Vidal.html Nafeez Ahmed, "9/11 'Conspiracies' and the Defactualisation of Analysis" at mediamonitors.net/mosaddeq37.html Alan Cabal, N.Y. Press: "Nine hundred and Eleven Missing Pieces What dont we know, and why dont we know it?" at: nypress.com/16/53/news&columns/feature.cfm Dave McGowan, "America Through the Looking Glass" www.swans.com/library/art8/dmg001.html Chaim Kupferberg, "Truth, Lies & the Legend of 9/11" globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP310A.html
ARTICLES ON GLOBAL CONTEXT U.S. military agenda for the world analyzed in depth at www.rupe-india.org/34/agenda.html "Dick Cheney's Song of America: Drafting a plan for global dominance," David Armstrong, Harpers Oct. 2003 www.its.caltech.edu/~johnsonm/harpers/harpers_0210_criticism.pdf "The Thirty Year Itch" (on longstanding plans to occupy the Middle East) by Robert Dreyfuss, Mother Jones magazine www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/10/ma_273_01.html Great Game for Caspian Oil (Wash. Post from 1998) www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/europe/caspian100498.htm "The Economics of Empire. Notes on the Washington Consensus" by WILLIAM FINNEGAN, Harper's, May 2003 www.mindfully.org/WTO/2003/Economics-Of-EmpireMay03.htm "The War at Home," Frank Morales. Classic history of homeland security and preparations for police state www.911truth.org/morales.html 9/11 VIDEOS - ORDER TODAY, HOLD GROUP SHOWINGS! Michael Ruppert "The Truth and Lies of Sept. 11" available at www.fromthewilderness.com Unanswered Questions and GNN: "AfterMath - Unanswered Questions from 9/11" www.guerrillanews.com/after_math/ Barrie Zwicker, "Great Deception" www.karscot.com/sept11.html "Unanswered Questions" - landmark press conference, June 10, 2002 at Washington Press Club www.unansweredquestions.com Daniel Hopsicker, "Mohamed Atta & The Venice Flying Circus" madcowprod.com (also coming: book "Welcome to Terrorland") Sterling Rainbolt of Global Free Press: "Wat Tyler's Revenge" and various SGTV episodes at www.globalfreepress.com Alex Jones, "9-11 - THE ROAD TO TYRANNY" www.infowars.com
OTHER IMPORTANT VIDEOS Barbara Trent - COVERUP: Behind the Iran Contra Affair (72', 1988). Very relevant to situation today! Two war films by Audrey Brohey & Gerhard Ungermann: PLAN COLOMBIA (58, 2003) & HIDDEN WARS OF DESERT STORM (64, 2000) www.freewillprod.com Scott Ritter, IN SHIFTING SANDS (92', 2002). UN Weapons Inspector shows why Iraq had no WMD after 1998. On how the 2000 election was stolen, see Richard Perez & Joan Sekler, UNPRECEDENTED (58, 2002) www.unprecedented.org
BOOKS For Carol Brouillet's in-depth review of 9/11 research works, including all of the books and videos listed here, see www.communitycurrency.org/overview.html Nafeez Ahmed, THE WAR ON FREEDOM (2002). Best book on Sept. 11 to date, well-analyzed, fully sourced research on the "unanswered questions" and likely answers. Michel Chossudovsky, WAR AND GLOBALISATION: The Truth Behind September 11 (2002). Dasquie & Brisard, THE FORBIDDEN TRUTH (2002). French bestseller on the U.S. negotiations with the Taliban preceding Sept. 11, includes the John O'Neill revelations. Greg Palast, THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY (2002). Includes chapter on how the incoming Bush administration called off the FBI's investigations into the Bin Laden family. Dan Briody, THE IRON TRIANGLE (2003). All about The Carlyle Group, the war fund linking the Bush and Bin Laden families. Eric Hufschmid, PAINFUL QUESTIONS (2001). Wildcard analysis of WTC as demolition. Possible mechanics of inside job. www.erichufschmid.net/PainfulQuestions.html POLICE STATE AMERICA, ed. Tom Burghardt. By Frank Morales, Doug Valentine et al. (2001).
CENTRAL ASIAN OIL DEALS, TALIBAN, QAEDA, CIA Put your trust in authors who published at least once before the avalanche of post-9/11 instant books: Richard Labeviere. DOLLARS FOR TERROR. The United States and Islamism. Algora Publishing, New York, 2000. John K. Cooley. UNHOLY WARS. Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism. 2nd ed. Pluto Press, London, 1999. Ahmed Rashid. TALIBAN. Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. Yale University Press, 2000. Michael Griffin. REAPING THE WHIRLWIND. The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan. Pluto Press, London, 2001. The ideological blueprint for the Central Asian war: Zbigniew Brzezinski, THE GRAND CHESSBOARD. American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. New York, 1997.
CIA-DRUGS, COVERT ECONOMY & PARAPOLITICS Dan Russell. DRUG WAR. Covert Money, Power & Policy. Kalyx.com, Camden, NY, 1999. See also www.drugwar.com Cockburn & St. Clair. WHITEOUT. The CIA, Drugs and the Press. London, 1998. (Great overview owes much to the research classics: Gary Webb's Dark Alliance, Alfred McCoy's Politics of Heroin, Martin Lee's Acid Dreams, and Hopsicker's Barry and the Boys.)
WHAT IS YOUR "HOP" LEVEL?
Of the attempts to categorize 9/11 theories I've seen, some beg questions or unfairly characterize what people think. Most are simply vague in their terms. I tried to do better with the following list of nine subtly graduated options, which I believe fairly describe the differing opinions people actually have (short of those who believe in divine or extraterrestrial intervention). This remains a mental exercise, but I hope it helps sharpen our logic.
1 THE OFFICIAL STORY 19 hijackers planned 9/11 and carried it out using knives and mace to hijack the flights, without requiring any help from outside the bin Laden/Qaeda cell networks. Despite the indirect warnings and predictions from investigators and terror experts, the U.S. government did not acquire or synthesize sufficient intelligence prior to Sept. 11 to prevent the attacks. In fact, it makes sense that the attacks were not prevented, since they took advantage of our free society and weaknesses in the system prior to Sept. 11. In other words, the opposition should stop trying to use 9/11 against Bush or anyone else. 9/11 skeptics merely discredit themselves.
2 INCOMPETENCE THEORY Accepting most of the official story, this option adds the possibility that the failure was due to incompetence or criminal negligence on the part of the White House, FBI, CIA, NSA or other intelligence agencies. While malicious intent or foreknowledge on the part of U.S. government operatives is unthinkable, 9/11 is worth investigating to clear up where the failures lie. This is the implicit line of the Kean Commission, although they have signalled that these failures will be found only at middle and lower levels. It is more or less what Gen. Clark & a few other politicians are pushing, although they presume high-level failures leading back to Bush. It is compatible with a push for better Homeland Security.
3 SAUDI/TALIBAN DOUBLE CROSS, BUSH APATHY As in choice 1, the U.S. was blindsided. But the active involvement of fundamentalist Saudis in high places was much higher than has been revealed so far. The Bushies don't want that to get out, because it will make them look bad. That is why they are obstructing the 9/11 inquiries. Bush & Co. called off terror investigations by the FBI before Sept. 11 as a favor to their Saudi clients. This recklessly facilitated the attacks, but the Bushies would surely have stopped the attacks, had they been smart enough to figure them out in advance. This is more or less what Greg Palast says. Michael Moore in his public statements treads cautiously between options 3 and 4. A related variant focuses more on the Taliban. In early 2001, Bush & Co. looked away from the possibility of an attack and lowered the intensity of Bin Laden investigations so as to facilitate the ongoing pipeline negotiations with the Taliban. This is the line of Dasquie and Brisard's "The Forbidden Truth."
4 WISHING FOR PEARL HARBOR ("Letting It Happen") Bush & Co. intentionally looked the other way, expecting and hoping an attack would happen, so they could get their whole PNAC/Christian Nation/Plunder Program through, including the already planned wars. They knew vaguely what was coming, may have even provoked it, saw to it that it would not be stopped, but did not directly facilitate or incriminate themselves. They may have even been surprised at how horrible the actual attacks were. This position is popular at "Democratic Underground," as a default for those who suspect LIHOP but think the evidence is too thin.
5 FULL LIHOP/LIHOP PLUS LIHOP = Letting It Happen On Purpose As in the official story, hijackers were dispatched by "Qaeda" (the Bin Laden-inspired cell networks) to carry out the 9/11 plan. However, Bush & Co. and/or other elements in the U.S. government, secret services or establishment knew about and facilitated these attacks, intending to create and expolit a new Pearl Harbor. This insider help included obstruction of FBI investigations, the Air Force standdown, and possibly the construction of other excuses for inaction, such as "we were only holding a wargame and it was subverted by evildoers."
5a. In LIHOP PLUS, the insiders took steps to guarantee that the 9/11 plot would succeed (why leave something so important in the hands of amateurs?), infiltrating and helping the hijackers, possibly even replacing them or steering the planes (or drones) by remote control, or doing whatever else was thought necessary.
Scenarios 5a to 9 may or may not include a WTC demolition.
Full disclosure: I think the likeliest hypothesis is of an inside job that exploited a "genuine" terrorist plot. Sometime between the Bojinka Plot of 1996 and 9/11 itself, the Qaeda plan to crashbomb planes into American targets was subverted and then steered to fruition by masterminds within the U.S. power elite. This is the logical way to leave a robust trail of evidence pointing to the patsies. The perfect plot would produce a patsy who sincerely believed he had done it himself and was proud of it - like Marinus van der Lubbe, the man executed for burning the Reichstag.
6 NORTHWOODS 2001 MIHOP = Making It Happen On Purpose There were no hijackers. The whole thing was planned and executed as an inside job by elements within the U.S., including the creation of the false-flag excuses, using patsies or a completely fake lists of perpetrators. The planes were flown by remote control or were replaced by drones. The whole thing might as well have been Made in Hollywood.
7 NWO RULES Same as Northwoods 2001, but the master plotters are not just "elements within the U.S." but the global ruling elite - a hardcore faction of which decided, as a group, to orchestrate an incident allowing them to gain greater control of the world Zeitgeist. 9/11 allows their proxies to seize key resources, reshape the world, drop the democratic facades and transition to open corporate feudalism; depopulation is one of the likely goals. The players steered the propaganda before and after 9/11 to make it work.
8 THIRD STATE / BUSH SUCKERED Various theories, usually pushed by lone crusaders, have mixed and matched to lay the primary blame on Iraq, Israel, Pakistan, China, Russia or German Nazis, sometimes a combination (for Saudi Arabia or Taliban, go to Choice 3).
9 ROGUE FACTION Bush & Co. themselves were blindsided by super right-wing elements within the U.S., who effectively attempted or even succeeded in staging a coup. This is how I interpret the views of LaRouche and others.
10 DON'T KNOW Some have rushed to describe complete scenarios of given events that seem to incorporate all facts but could still be wrong. We lack the power to subpeona records or bring up witnesses who could answer given questions. We have been flooded with misinformation from many sources: agencies of the U.S. and other countries, officials looking to cover themselves or score points, the media, opportunist authors, fake whistleblowers and putative witnesses. The worst impulse is to declare the case closed for one's favorite scenario. We must keep probing and correcting. We need to establish genuine peer review and a common data base, and kill off some of the more persistent errors that still crop up. (Minor example: The Magic Passport allegedly belonged to Satam Suqami, not Mohamed Atta. Tom Kenney's FEMA team, firefighters from Massachussetts, were sent to New York on Tuesday, not "Monday" (Sept. 10) as he misspoke on CBS.) And we must, obviously, keep fighting for genuine independent investigation and disclosure - even as we work on larger political strategies to deal with the reality that the U.S. government will never disclose the full truth of 9/11, until the people force it.
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