New Sept. 11 Report Cites Warnings About Hijackings

One of the FPF's favorite American Writers - and a shining example of the journalism species threatened with extinction - John Kaminski - wrote about 9/11 one of his eloquent clear stories again, of which the first part comes here, with proof delivered again below - (by Reuters this time) - about the whole set- and cover up of 9/11:

Kaminski: "But when we do open our minds to the endless string of lies, the towers that couldn't have fallen due to airplane crashes, the phonecalls that couldn't have been made with existing technology, the so-called Arabs who never showed up on the passenger lists (allegedly devout Muslims who ate pork and went to strip clubs), the building that fell for no reason, the air defenses that failed to respond, the deliberate lies, the stonewalled investigations, the confiscated videos and tapes that would have more clearly revealed what happened, and various other pieces of the puzzle that will never in a million years fit together, we have an inkling that something is really wrong, regardless of whatever allegiances we may profess.

That we have not been told the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

And then we recall bits and pieces of history that still stick in our craws like bad fish. The window opens."

The rest of Kaminski's essential essay you can read below.

New Sept. 11 Report Cites Warnings About Hijackings

Reuters - Feb. 10, 2005 - U.S. aviation officials failed to respond to dozens of warnings of a possible terrorist threat months before Sept. 11, 2001, according to a previously undisclosed report by the panel that probed the attacks.

The report, which was recently declassified and obtained by Reuters on Thursday, said federal aviation officials reviewed 52 intelligence reports between April 1, 2001, and Sept. 10, 2001, that warned about Osama bin Laden or al Qaeda.

Most of the intelligence summaries created by the Federal Aviation Administration's security branch dealt with overseas threats, the document said. It noted there was no evidence the FAA knew of a plot to hijack commercial planes in the United States to use as weapons.

"Nevertheless the FAA had indeed considered the possibility that terrorists would hijack a plane and use it as a weapon," said the August 2004 staff report, which gave more details on what the FAA knew than were included in the Sept 11 commission's overall report released in July.

The staff report, not officially released but censored and given to the National Archives, took the FAA to task for failing to take steps to deter the attacks. The report was first disclosed in The New York Times in Thursday's editions.

It said FAA officials had enough information to hold classified briefings between March 2001 and May 2001 at 19 of the busiest U.S. airports to warn of the danger of an attack, including bin Laden's threats against aviation.

'SUICIDE IN A SPECTACULAR EXPLOSION'

The agency also distributed an unclassified CD-ROM presentation to air carriers and airports citing the possibility terrorists might conduct suicide hijackings, but said "fortunately we have no indication that any group is currently thinking in that direction."

The CD-ROM briefings said a domestic hijacking would be difficult.

"We don't rule it out ... If however, the intent of the hijacker is not to exchange hostages for prisoners, but to commit suicide in a spectacular explosion, a domestic hijacking would probably be preferable," the report cited the CD-ROM as saying.

Still, it concluded that aviation officials did not direct adequate resources or attention to the problem. At the time, it said, the FAA seemed more concerned about airport congestion, delays and safety than about security.

An FAA spokeswoman said the agency had been making improvements in aviation security prior to the attacks.

"Without specific information about means and methods, there was no way we could tailor the countermeasures specifically to deal with the threat that we learned about on Sept. 11," Laura Brown told Reuters.

Before Sept. 11, the airport security system was run by the airlines but overseen by the FAA.

After Sept. 11, the government ordered cockpit doors hardened, took over screening of passengers and bags at airports and coordinated "watch lists" among intelligence agencies of known or suspected terrorists.

The panel's account said prior to the attacks, aviation officials had a false sense of security because there had been no attack on U.S. soil and the threat seemed to be overseas.

"The fact that the civil aviation system seems to have been lulled into a false sense of security is striking not only because of what happened on 9/11 but also in light of the intelligence assessments, including those conducted by the FAA's own security branch, that raised alarms about the growing terrorist threat to civil aviation," the report said. [enditem]

(additional reporting by JoAnne Allen and John Crawley) -

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New Sept. 11 Report Cites Warnings About Hijackings

Reuters

Feb. 10, 2005 - U.S. aviation officials failed to respond to dozens of warnings of a possible terrorist threat months before Sept. 11, 2001, according to a previously undisclosed report by the panel that probed the attacks.

The report, which was recently declassified and obtained by Reuters on Thursday, said federal aviation officials reviewed 52 intelligence reports between April 1, 2001, and Sept. 10, 2001, that warned about Osama bin Laden or al Qaeda.

Most of the intelligence summaries created by the Federal Aviation Administration's security branch dealt with overseas threats, the document said. It noted there was no evidence the FAA knew of a plot to hijack commercial planes in the United States to use as weapons.

"Nevertheless the FAA had indeed considered the possibility that terrorists would hijack a plane and use it as a weapon," said the August 2004 staff report, which gave more details on what the FAA knew than were included in the Sept 11 commission's overall report released in July.

The staff report, not officially released but censored and given to the National Archives, took the FAA to task for failing to take steps to deter the attacks. The report was first disclosed in The New York Times in Thursday's editions.

It said FAA officials had enough information to hold classified briefings between March 2001 and May 2001 at 19 of the busiest U.S. airports to warn of the danger of an attack, including bin Laden's threats against aviation.

'SUICIDE IN A SPECTACULAR EXPLOSION'

The agency also distributed an unclassified CD-ROM presentation to air carriers and airports citing the possibility terrorists might conduct suicide hijackings, but said "fortunately we have no indication that any group is currently thinking in that direction."

The CD-ROM briefings said a domestic hijacking would be difficult.

"We don't rule it out ... If however, the intent of the hijacker is not to exchange hostages for prisoners, but to commit suicide in a spectacular explosion, a domestic hijacking would probably be preferable," the report cited the CD-ROM as saying.

Still, it concluded that aviation officials did not direct adequate resources or attention to the problem. At the time, it said, the FAA seemed more concerned about airport congestion, delays and safety than about security.

An FAA spokeswoman said the agency had been making improvements in aviation security prior to the attacks.

"Without specific information about means and methods, there was no way we could tailor the countermeasures specifically to deal with the threat that we learned about on Sept. 11," Laura Brown told Reuters.

Before Sept. 11, the airport security system was run by the airlines but overseen by the FAA.

After Sept. 11, the government ordered cockpit doors hardened, took over screening of passengers and bags at airports and coordinated "watch lists" among intelligence agencies of known or suspected terrorists.

The panel's account said prior to the attacks, aviation officials had a false sense of security because there had been no attack on U.S. soil and the threat seemed to be overseas.

"The fact that the civil aviation system seems to have been lulled into a false sense of security is striking not only because of what happened on 9/11 but also in light of the intelligence assessments, including those conducted by the FAA's own security branch, that raised alarms about the growing terrorist threat to civil aviation," the report said. [enditem]

(additional reporting by JoAnne Allen and John Crawley) ABC/Reuters - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/48ore

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The Shattered Glass
( ... and the milk it spilled)

What if what we thought was healthy was actually killing us?

by John Kaminski, February 8, 2005, skylax@comcast.net

The only sound in the darkness was the voice of a woman on the phone outlining her plans to awaken a sleeping citizenry with an accurate video version of the crime of the century. But when a man listens to a woman, he often doesn't hear her words, but instead drifts off into the uncharted narrative of his own dreams.

Fifty years ago I stood in the kitchen of my childhood. The giant glass of milk I always consumed before bedtime had accidentally crashed onto the kitchen floor, spewing a white Rorschach blot across the checkered linoleum. I loved milk, I told her. But her voice chided through the line: no adult animal drinks milk; it isn't healthy, because the excess protein putrefies in your digestive tract and catalyzes all manner of debilitating ailments.

So we learn what we thought was essential to our well-being may in reality be a recipe for needless misery, not to mention serious injury. This passing thought, this shattered glass in my memory, got me thinking about what we once learned was good and life-giving can with the right information lead to the realization that we are killing ourselves because we remain ignorant of basic facts.

This evolving image coalesced in my mind as she talked about the need to convince people that 9/11 was really an inside job inflicted on the American people by our own leaders. Hence this thought: what we thought was good and pure can, without accurate information, actually be a poison that we eagerly and happily guzzle down.

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I have long insisted that the heart-wrenching trauma that was 9/11 is the key to understanding both the past and the future of American history. If you choose to accept the official version of these horrible events, you are continuing to ingest a poison that has killed millions of innocent people, and will surely kill millions more.

Once you begin to contemplate the notion that our own leaders callously engineered the whole tragedy simply to advance their own greedy agenda, you open up a very unsettling window into the predatory behavior of the United States, both throughout its bloody, falsely reported history, and obviously also to a terrifying future of what America's power-mad leaders have planned for the rest of the world in the coming months and years.

Yet most Americans, willingly distracted by simpler concerns like children and bank accounts, cannot - or will not - see this, despite an avalanche of evidence that could, if we had an uncorrupted court system, convict thousands of rich and famous men of profoundly serious crimes.

Intellectually stunted by a one-size-fits-all educational system and constantly deceived by clownlike media that deliberately ignore certain negative events like fixed elections and toxic medicines, a majority of the American people simply cannot bring themselves to believe their leaders could be such cold-hearted villains, such sociopathic criminals.

Could President Bush, who throbs the hearts of blue-haired ladies across America and sends squadrons of superficial preachers into convincingly feigned rhapsodies of Rapture fever, have supervised the murder of 3,000 Americans just to get his geopolitical way?

To most Americans who have sworn their allegiance to their churches and their country, the idea is too preposterous to consider. Yet this allegiance, based on false information, is, for so many (including those many Americans who are persuaded to physically fight for their country), a fatal misstep.

But when we do open our minds to the endless string of lies, the towers that couldn't have fallen due to airplane crashes, the phonecalls that couldn't have been made with existing technology, the so-called Arabs who never showed up on the passenger lists (allegedly devout Muslims who ate pork and went to strip clubs), the building that fell for no reason, the air defenses that failed to respond, the deliberate lies, the stonewalled investigations, the confiscated videos and tapes that would have more clearly revealed what happened, and various other pieces of the puzzle that will never in a million years fit together, we have an inkling that something is really wrong, regardless of whatever allegiances we may profess.

That we have not been told the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

And then we recall bits and pieces of history that still stick in our craws like bad fish. The window opens.

Historian William Blum always describes these matters best.

"From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process, the U.S. bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair."

But one need not lurch into history books to taste that sour burp of genuine American history. One need only not rely on newspapers and look elsewhere for unspun info on the American genocides transpiring this very day in Palestine, Iraq, Haiti, Colombia, Serbia, Afghanistan and throughout Africa and Asia to acquire an accurate picture of the way America really works.

It always comes as a shock to me to realize that today's majority of the American population was not alive for Watergate, never mind that tragic spate of assassinations in the Sixties - all of which were engineered by the same demonic faction of the U.S. government that exerts its murderous impulses over all of us today.

So for you young victims of the American public school system, let me recount just a little of the actual history of your country that you may, in your media-induced, consumeristic coma, have missed.

Few Americans know that America's involvement in World War I was triggered by a deliberate deception known as the sinking of the Lusitania, which was a passenger ship torpedoed by a German U-boat that changed public opinion in America from neutral to pro-war. 128 Americans died and America eventually went to war over the incident, after first concealing that the Lusitania was covertly carrying ammunition to Britain, and that fact had been deliberately leaked to German intelligence to assure a suitable public affront to American dignity.

Many historians theorize that this period actually signalled the end of the republic, since the most important legislative act ever passed in American history, the Federal Reserve Act, gave control of the currency to private bankers, who have been igniting wars ever since for the purpose of making huge amounts of money.

This process remains the centerpiece of the American economy, and is the reason you can bask in your self-depleting trivalities while the rest of the world forever mourns the millions murdered by the American war machine.

World War II was triggered by an almost identical process. Americans did not want to participate in another European war, but it's well known now that Franklin Roosevelt goaded the Japanese into attacking Pearl Harbor, creating the necessary outrage and support for millions more to die so the bankers could make money with that best moneymaker of all - all out war.

And Vietnam. Surely you've heard by now. The famous Gulf of Tonkin incident,

The Truth About 9-11 —Steve Moser, Fri Feb 11 14:27