THE TOP 40
REASONS TO DOUBT THE OFFICIAL STORY OF SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001
... An outline in simple talking points ...
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041221155307646
(Version of May 17th, 2006.) This overview is in development. If you use the search function with key words, you will discover that 911Truth.org is home to articles backing virtually every point made below. Much of the basic research is also available at the Complete 9/11 Timeline (hosted by cooperativeresearch.org), the 9/11 Reading Room (911readingroom.org), and the Spitzer petition and complaint (Justicefor911.org).
THE DAY ITSELF - EVIDENCE OF COMPLICITY
1) Chain of Command: It is well documented that the officials topping the chain of command for response to a domestic attack - Bush, Rumsfeld, Myers, Winfield - were effectively AWOL that morning, failing to exercise their duties as decision-makers. Who was actually in charge? Cheney, Clarke, Mineta and the 9/11 Commission have told wildly divergent stories.
2) Air Defense Failures:
a. The US air defense system failed to follow standard procedure for responding to diverted passenger flights.
b. Timelines - The explanations for the failure given by the various agencies involved conflict radically, such that several officials must have lied, but none were held accountable. c. Was there an air defense standdown?
3) Wargames - US authorities rehearsed all elements of the 9/11 scenario in advance - also on the day. Did some of the multiple military wargames planned and held on the morning of September 11th serve as the cover for air defense sabotage, and/or the execution of an "inside job"?
THE DAY - ANOMALIES AND QUESTIONS
4) Pentagon Strike - How was it possible the Pentagon was hit 1 hour and 20 minutes after the attacks began? Why was there no response from Andrews Air Force Base, just 10 miles away and charged with defending the skies above the nation's capital? How did a failed Cessna pilot execute a difficult aerobatic maneuver to strike the Pentagon? Why did the attack strike the just-renovated side, which was largely empty and opposite from the high command?
5) Shanksville - When did Flight 93 crash? Does the Commission wish to hide what happened in the last three minutes? Was it shot down? Do cell phones work at 30,000 feet?
6) How many hijackings were attempted? How many flights were diverted?
7) What caused the collapse of a third skyscraper, WTC 7, which was not hit by a plane?
8) Demolition Hypothesis - Were the Twin Towers (and WTC 7) brought down by explosives? (See "The Case for Demolitions," wtc7.net and the influential article by physicist Steven Jones.)
FOREKNOWLEDGE & EVIDENCE OF ADVANCE PLANNING
9) What did they know? How did they know it?
a. Multiple allied foreign agencies informed the US government of a coming attack in detail.
b. Various individuals tried to warn US; certain prominent Americans received warnings not to fly.
10) Able Danger, Plus - The men identified as the 9/11 ringleaders were under surveillance for years beforehand, on the suspicion they were terrorists, by a variety of US and allied authorities - including CIA, the US military's "Able Danger" program, the German authorities, Israeli intelligence and others. (Two of the alleged ringleaders lived with an FBI asset in San Diego, but this is supposed to be yet another a coincidence.)
11) Obstruction of Investigations - A group of FBI officials in New York systematically suppressed field investigations of potential terrorists that might have uncovered the alleged hijackers - as the Moussaoui case once again showed.
12) Who Is Osama Bin Ladin?
a. Whether by Bush or Clinton: Why is Osama always allowed to escape?
b. Did he visit Dubai and meet a CIA agent in July 2001 (Le Figaro)? Was he in a Pakistani military hospital on September 10, 2001 (CBS)?
THE 9/11 COVER-UP, 2001-2006
13) Much of the evidence establishing who did the crime is dubious and miraculous (bags full of incriminating material that happened to miss the flight; the magic passport; documents found at motels where the alleged perpetrators had stayed days and weeks before). The identities of the alleged hijackers remain unresolved and there is evidence they had "doubles."
14) The most important Osama Bin Ladin video (Nov. 2001), in which he supposedly confesses to masterminding 9/11, appears to be a fake. In any event, the State Department's translation of it is fraudulent.
15) Insider Trading - The 9/11 investigations ignored and suppressed widespread initial reports of profiteering based on foreknowledge of the Sept. 11th events, allegedly conducted by speculators on many markets internationally - with reports even of suspicious monetary transactions conducted through offices at the Twin Towers during the actual attacks.
16) Poisoning New York - The White House deliberately pressured the EPA into lying about the toxic air at Ground Zero. This wittingly contributed to an as-yet unknown number of health cases and fatalities, and demonstrates that the administration does consider American citizens to be expendable.
17) Anthrax - Mailings of weapons-grade anthrax were traced back to US military stocks. What explains the timing of these attacks? Why were the letters sent only to opposition leaders and media figures?
18) Disposing of the Crime Scene - The rapid and illegal scrapping of the WTC ruins at Ground Zero destroyed the structural steel indispensable to any investigation of the collapse mechanics.
19) A record of official lies - "No one could have imagined planes into buildings," "Iraq was connected to 9/11." (The latter is the most "outrageous conspiracy theory" of all, with the greatest impact.)
20) Pakistani Connection - Congressional Connection
a. The Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, creator of the Taliban and close ally to both the CIA and "al-Qaeda," allegedly wired $100,000 to Mohamed Atta just prior to September 11th.
b. This was ignored by the Congressional 9/11 investigation, although the senator and congressman who ran the probe were meeting the ISI chief on Capitol Hill on the morning of September 11th.
21) Saudi Connections - Bush family business ties to the Bin Ladin fortune; Ptech; the "Bin Ladin Airlift."
22) Unanswered Questions - Official investigations completely ignored the majority of the 400-plus questions posed by the September 11th families who lobbied for the 9/11 Commission in the first place.
23) Radio Silence - Cover-up of how Motorola's faulty radios caused firefighter deaths at the WTC, once again showing the expendability, even of the first responders.
24) The Legal Catch-22:
a. Hush Money - Accepting victims' compensation barred September 11th families from pursuing discovery through litigation.
b. Judge Hallerstein - Those who refused compensation to pursue litigation and discovery had their cases consolidated under the same judge (and as a rule dismissed).
25) All the Signs of a Systematic 9/11 Cover-up: Airplane black boxes were found at Ground Zero, but are "disappeared." US officials consistently destroyed and suppressed evidence (like the air traffic controller tapes). Whistleblowers (like Sibel Edmonds and Anthony Shaffer) were intimidated, gagged and sanctioned. Officials who "failed" (like Myers, Eberhard and Frasca) were given promotions.
26) The Final Fraud - The 9/11 Commission, conflicts of interest, staggering omissions and distortions in The 9/11 Commission Report .
27) Spitzer Redux - The New York Attorney General snubbed the pleas to open 9/11 as a criminal case (Justicefor911.org).
28) NIST Omissions - Twin Tower collapse investigation left with almost no forensic evidence, can only model ultimately unprovable hypotheses; fails to even test for the possibility of explosives. Why not clear this up?
GEOPOLITICS AND POSSIBLE MOTIVES
29) "The Great Game" - Afghanistan invasion was ready for Bush's go-ahead on September 9, 2001, following the failure earlier that year of backdoor diplomacy with the Taliban to secure stability in the country and a Central Asian pipeline deal.
30) "The Need for a New Pearl Harbor" - Long-running plans for world domination and invasion of the Middle East; the "Project for a New American Century"; the stated intent to invade Iraq long in advance of September 11, 2001; and the attempt to tie Iraq to the 9/11 attacks.
31) 9/11 provides carte-blanche for an open-ended, global and perpetual "War on Terror," against any enemy, foreign or domestic, that the executive branch chooses to designate.
32) Attacking the Constitution - The USA PATRIOT Act was written, and Homeland Security and the "Shadow Government" were developed long before 9/11.
33) Plundered Trillions? On September 10, 2001, Rumsfeld announced a "war on waste" after an internal audit found that the Pentagon was "missing" 2.3 trillion dollars in unaccounted assets. On September 11th, this was already forgotten.
34) Legal Trillions - 9/11 triggers a predictable shift of spending to war, Homeland Security, surveillance and related industries.
35) Did 9/11 prevent a stock market crash? Did anyone benefit from the destruction of the SEC offices at WTC 7 and the resulting crippling of hundreds of fraud investigations?
36) Is Peak Oil a motive for 9/11 as inside job?
37) The "Little Game" - Why was the WTC privatized just before its destruction?
HISTORY
38) "Al-CIA-da?" - The longstanding CIA relationship to "al-Qaeda" and their joint involvements around the world (Kosovo/Bosnia, Chechnya, Pakistan/Afghan jihad).
39) Historical Precedents for "Synthetic Terror" - Was 9/11 an update of the Pentagon "Project Northwoods" plan for false-flag terror attacks in the United States? In the past many states, including the US government, have sponsored attacks on their own people, fabricated the "cause for war," created (and armed) their own enemies of convenience, and sacrificed their own citizens for "reasons of state."
40) The criminal record of the Bush regime principals: From October Surprise to Iran-Contra to PNAC.
REASON NUMBER 41:
RELATED MOVEMENTS AND PARALLEL ISSUES
A) Ground Zero aftermath movements:
Justice for the air-poisoning cover-up (wtceo.org)
"Radio Silence" (radiosilencefdny.com)
Skyscraper Safety (www.skyscrapersafety.org).
B) Election fraud and black box voting, 2000 to 2004. (nov9truth.org)
C) Lies to justify the invasion of Iraq. (afterdowningstreet.org)
D) Use of depleted uranium and its multi-generational consequences on human health and the environment.
E) Longstanding development of contingency plans for civil disturbance and military rule in the USA (See, "The War at Home")
F) Oklahoma City Truth movement. (okctruth.org)
G) Whether you call it "Globalization" or "The New World Order" - An unsustainable system of permanent growth ultimately requires warfare, fraud, and mass manipulation.
IN ADDITION...
X1) "But an inside job would involve thousands of people! How could they keep a secret?" Counter-arguments, red herrings, speculations and false information.
X2) Selected essays, books and websites that make the case for 9/11 as inside job. (See Resources)
X3) Demanding a real investigation of the September crimes - Not just a patriotic duty, but a matter of survival.
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041221155307646
REASONS TO DOUBT THE OFFICIAL STORY OF SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001
... An outline in simple talking points ...
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041221155307646
(Version of May 17th, 2006.) This overview is in development. If you use the search function with key words, you will discover that 911Truth.org is home to articles backing virtually every point made below. Much of the basic research is also available at the Complete 9/11 Timeline (hosted by cooperativeresearch.org), the 9/11 Reading Room (911readingroom.org), and the Spitzer petition and complaint (Justicefor911.org).
THE DAY ITSELF - EVIDENCE OF COMPLICITY
1) Chain of Command: It is well documented that the officials topping the chain of command for response to a domestic attack - Bush, Rumsfeld, Myers, Winfield - were effectively AWOL that morning, failing to exercise their duties as decision-makers. Who was actually in charge? Cheney, Clarke, Mineta and the 9/11 Commission have told wildly divergent stories.
2) Air Defense Failures:
a. The US air defense system failed to follow standard procedure for responding to diverted passenger flights.
b. Timelines - The explanations for the failure given by the various agencies involved conflict radically, such that several officials must have lied, but none were held accountable. c. Was there an air defense standdown?
3) Wargames - US authorities rehearsed all elements of the 9/11 scenario in advance - also on the day. Did some of the multiple military wargames planned and held on the morning of September 11th serve as the cover for air defense sabotage, and/or the execution of an "inside job"?
THE DAY - ANOMALIES AND QUESTIONS
4) Pentagon Strike - How was it possible the Pentagon was hit 1 hour and 20 minutes after the attacks began? Why was there no response from Andrews Air Force Base, just 10 miles away and charged with defending the skies above the nation's capital? How did a failed Cessna pilot execute a difficult aerobatic maneuver to strike the Pentagon? Why did the attack strike the just-renovated side, which was largely empty and opposite from the high command?
5) Shanksville - When did Flight 93 crash? Does the Commission wish to hide what happened in the last three minutes? Was it shot down? Do cell phones work at 30,000 feet?
6) How many hijackings were attempted? How many flights were diverted?
7) What caused the collapse of a third skyscraper, WTC 7, which was not hit by a plane?
8) Demolition Hypothesis - Were the Twin Towers (and WTC 7) brought down by explosives? (See "The Case for Demolitions," wtc7.net and the influential article by physicist Steven Jones.)
FOREKNOWLEDGE & EVIDENCE OF ADVANCE PLANNING
9) What did they know? How did they know it?
a. Multiple allied foreign agencies informed the US government of a coming attack in detail.
b. Various individuals tried to warn US; certain prominent Americans received warnings not to fly.
10) Able Danger, Plus - The men identified as the 9/11 ringleaders were under surveillance for years beforehand, on the suspicion they were terrorists, by a variety of US and allied authorities - including CIA, the US military's "Able Danger" program, the German authorities, Israeli intelligence and others. (Two of the alleged ringleaders lived with an FBI asset in San Diego, but this is supposed to be yet another a coincidence.)
11) Obstruction of Investigations - A group of FBI officials in New York systematically suppressed field investigations of potential terrorists that might have uncovered the alleged hijackers - as the Moussaoui case once again showed.
12) Who Is Osama Bin Ladin?
a. Whether by Bush or Clinton: Why is Osama always allowed to escape?
b. Did he visit Dubai and meet a CIA agent in July 2001 (Le Figaro)? Was he in a Pakistani military hospital on September 10, 2001 (CBS)?
THE 9/11 COVER-UP, 2001-2006
13) Much of the evidence establishing who did the crime is dubious and miraculous (bags full of incriminating material that happened to miss the flight; the magic passport; documents found at motels where the alleged perpetrators had stayed days and weeks before). The identities of the alleged hijackers remain unresolved and there is evidence they had "doubles."
14) The most important Osama Bin Ladin video (Nov. 2001), in which he supposedly confesses to masterminding 9/11, appears to be a fake. In any event, the State Department's translation of it is fraudulent.
15) Insider Trading - The 9/11 investigations ignored and suppressed widespread initial reports of profiteering based on foreknowledge of the Sept. 11th events, allegedly conducted by speculators on many markets internationally - with reports even of suspicious monetary transactions conducted through offices at the Twin Towers during the actual attacks.
16) Poisoning New York - The White House deliberately pressured the EPA into lying about the toxic air at Ground Zero. This wittingly contributed to an as-yet unknown number of health cases and fatalities, and demonstrates that the administration does consider American citizens to be expendable.
17) Anthrax - Mailings of weapons-grade anthrax were traced back to US military stocks. What explains the timing of these attacks? Why were the letters sent only to opposition leaders and media figures?
18) Disposing of the Crime Scene - The rapid and illegal scrapping of the WTC ruins at Ground Zero destroyed the structural steel indispensable to any investigation of the collapse mechanics.
19) A record of official lies - "No one could have imagined planes into buildings," "Iraq was connected to 9/11." (The latter is the most "outrageous conspiracy theory" of all, with the greatest impact.)
20) Pakistani Connection - Congressional Connection
a. The Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, creator of the Taliban and close ally to both the CIA and "al-Qaeda," allegedly wired $100,000 to Mohamed Atta just prior to September 11th.
b. This was ignored by the Congressional 9/11 investigation, although the senator and congressman who ran the probe were meeting the ISI chief on Capitol Hill on the morning of September 11th.
21) Saudi Connections - Bush family business ties to the Bin Ladin fortune; Ptech; the "Bin Ladin Airlift."
22) Unanswered Questions - Official investigations completely ignored the majority of the 400-plus questions posed by the September 11th families who lobbied for the 9/11 Commission in the first place.
23) Radio Silence - Cover-up of how Motorola's faulty radios caused firefighter deaths at the WTC, once again showing the expendability, even of the first responders.
24) The Legal Catch-22:
a. Hush Money - Accepting victims' compensation barred September 11th families from pursuing discovery through litigation.
b. Judge Hallerstein - Those who refused compensation to pursue litigation and discovery had their cases consolidated under the same judge (and as a rule dismissed).
25) All the Signs of a Systematic 9/11 Cover-up: Airplane black boxes were found at Ground Zero, but are "disappeared." US officials consistently destroyed and suppressed evidence (like the air traffic controller tapes). Whistleblowers (like Sibel Edmonds and Anthony Shaffer) were intimidated, gagged and sanctioned. Officials who "failed" (like Myers, Eberhard and Frasca) were given promotions.
26) The Final Fraud - The 9/11 Commission, conflicts of interest, staggering omissions and distortions in The 9/11 Commission Report .
27) Spitzer Redux - The New York Attorney General snubbed the pleas to open 9/11 as a criminal case (Justicefor911.org).
28) NIST Omissions - Twin Tower collapse investigation left with almost no forensic evidence, can only model ultimately unprovable hypotheses; fails to even test for the possibility of explosives. Why not clear this up?
GEOPOLITICS AND POSSIBLE MOTIVES
29) "The Great Game" - Afghanistan invasion was ready for Bush's go-ahead on September 9, 2001, following the failure earlier that year of backdoor diplomacy with the Taliban to secure stability in the country and a Central Asian pipeline deal.
30) "The Need for a New Pearl Harbor" - Long-running plans for world domination and invasion of the Middle East; the "Project for a New American Century"; the stated intent to invade Iraq long in advance of September 11, 2001; and the attempt to tie Iraq to the 9/11 attacks.
31) 9/11 provides carte-blanche for an open-ended, global and perpetual "War on Terror," against any enemy, foreign or domestic, that the executive branch chooses to designate.
32) Attacking the Constitution - The USA PATRIOT Act was written, and Homeland Security and the "Shadow Government" were developed long before 9/11.
33) Plundered Trillions? On September 10, 2001, Rumsfeld announced a "war on waste" after an internal audit found that the Pentagon was "missing" 2.3 trillion dollars in unaccounted assets. On September 11th, this was already forgotten.
34) Legal Trillions - 9/11 triggers a predictable shift of spending to war, Homeland Security, surveillance and related industries.
35) Did 9/11 prevent a stock market crash? Did anyone benefit from the destruction of the SEC offices at WTC 7 and the resulting crippling of hundreds of fraud investigations?
36) Is Peak Oil a motive for 9/11 as inside job?
37) The "Little Game" - Why was the WTC privatized just before its destruction?
HISTORY
38) "Al-CIA-da?" - The longstanding CIA relationship to "al-Qaeda" and their joint involvements around the world (Kosovo/Bosnia, Chechnya, Pakistan/Afghan jihad).
39) Historical Precedents for "Synthetic Terror" - Was 9/11 an update of the Pentagon "Project Northwoods" plan for false-flag terror attacks in the United States? In the past many states, including the US government, have sponsored attacks on their own people, fabricated the "cause for war," created (and armed) their own enemies of convenience, and sacrificed their own citizens for "reasons of state."
40) The criminal record of the Bush regime principals: From October Surprise to Iran-Contra to PNAC.
REASON NUMBER 41:
RELATED MOVEMENTS AND PARALLEL ISSUES
A) Ground Zero aftermath movements:
Justice for the air-poisoning cover-up (wtceo.org)
"Radio Silence" (radiosilencefdny.com)
Skyscraper Safety (www.skyscrapersafety.org).
B) Election fraud and black box voting, 2000 to 2004. (nov9truth.org)
C) Lies to justify the invasion of Iraq. (afterdowningstreet.org)
D) Use of depleted uranium and its multi-generational consequences on human health and the environment.
E) Longstanding development of contingency plans for civil disturbance and military rule in the USA (See, "The War at Home")
F) Oklahoma City Truth movement. (okctruth.org)
G) Whether you call it "Globalization" or "The New World Order" - An unsustainable system of permanent growth ultimately requires warfare, fraud, and mass manipulation.
IN ADDITION...
X1) "But an inside job would involve thousands of people! How could they keep a secret?" Counter-arguments, red herrings, speculations and false information.
X2) Selected essays, books and websites that make the case for 9/11 as inside job. (See Resources)
X3) Demanding a real investigation of the September crimes - Not just a patriotic duty, but a matter of survival.
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041221155307646
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