J.K. DINEEN
So you wanna know what really happened on 9/11?
Wed Sep 18 18:03:14 2002
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Wednesday, September 18, 2002

Publication date: 09/12/2002

9/11 skeptics abound

BY J.K. DINEEN
Of The Examiner Staff
So you wanna know what really happened on 9/11?

If the Bay Area is a center of political dissent, it is also a place
where alternative conspiracy theories flourish -- especially variations
of a little one involving 9/11, President Bush, Dick Cheney, oil, insider
trading, Enron, opium, the CIA, Saddam Hussein, the Bin Laden
family, anthrax, the Carlyle Group, President Bush's father, insider
trading ... and so on.

In a nation that loves a conspiracy, it's a monster theory that
makes the JFK assassination scenario seem simple.

"I became an activist about 10 years ago after seeing the movie
'JFK,' and doing research on the CIA," said Gina Gallo of the Guerrilla
Management Coalition, who was on her way to a "Bush Did It" rally
Tuesday in downtown Oakland. "In this case, there is no doubt there
was complicity at the highest level of the United States government."

While different theorists focus on different aspects of the attacks,
what they seem to have in common is they would like an independent
investigation into 9/11.

"We're not getting answers from the administration," said East Bay
theorist Tarnel Abbott.

While different groups are obsessed with different aspects of 9/11,
there are some that seem to pop up everywhere. One is the
CIA-Mohammad Atta connection. That theory focuses on the fact that
the head of Pakistani intelligence, who happened to wire head
hijacker Mohammad Atta $100,000, was in Washington on Sept. 11
having breakfast with the head of the House Intelligence Oversight
Committee.

Others point to the fact that the hijacked planes were not
intercepted, and that the extended Bin Laden family, who have strong
connections to former President George Bush, were whisked out of
the country right after the attacks. Another point theorists would like
to see investigated is the proliferation of airline stocks that were
"shorted" right before the attacks. Some say they have evidence
proving that seven of the hijackers actually are still alive and that
another one was actually dead a year before 9/11.

"The biggest thing for me is that the planes were not intercepted,"
said Gallo. "It was as if both the Defense Department and the Air
Force were out to lunch that day."

At the Richmond Public Library, Tarnel Abbott and Kate Connelly,
who run a group called Librarians for Intellectual Freedom, have been
showing independent films looking at the war on terror from a different
perspective.

"Do I think it's a coverup? Well, yeah. I think there too many
unanswered questions," said Connelly.

Claudia Hernandez, who is part of a group called the All People's
Coalition, said investigators need to follow the money.

"The United States government had oil interests in the area.
There's a clear connection between the oil economy, the Bush
administration and the war. The connections are out there. People
need to connect the dots."

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The World Trade Center Demolition
and the So-Called War on Terrorism

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