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The news channels carried the official story night and day. On September 16th, President Bush declared the attack was from Osama Bin Laden and started a “crusade” to “rid the world of evil-doers”.
The Afghanistan Taliban discussed how to hand over Bin Laden, but the United States refused to negotiate and launched, their pre-planned invasion207, Operation Enduring Freedom, on October 7th.
The USA launched the “war on terror,” but after many months, no hard evidence was provided regarding the link between Osama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks. Indeed the FBI after the PENTTBOM investigation, apparently the most expensive FBI investigation in their history, failed to find any link between Osama Bin Laden208 and 9/11.
A week after Colin Powell stated there would be evidence of Osama Bin Laden’s complicity in 9/11, a videotape of him turned up in the media. Apparently found by the military in a raid in Kabul. How this videotape was found, and recognised is unknown. The tape shows a man claiming to be Osama although facial differences, body weight differences and changing from left-handed to right handed, the man seemed to many as being an imposter. Through apparent mistranslation, this new Osama seemed to take responsibility for the 9/11 attack, reversing previous (authenticated) announcements. 209
Somewhere, some voices were being heard that questioned the official narrative. So much so that the President made a forceful speech: “Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty.”
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On a TV documentary on Put Options, the commentator states, “The amount of put option on united airlines stock was 90 times more than on an average day. And other companies were affected too…” The “Put-Options” against airline stocks (and businesses within the WTC) are millions-to-1 against it being by chance according to independent reports. SEC investigated the put-options and reported that since no-one making these bets were connected to Al Qaeda, the strange pattern of put-options was nothing to be concerned about.210211
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The 9/11 Family Steering Group pushed to set up the 9/11 Commission. Most of their questions gave to the Commission were never answered. One of the Jersey Girls stated, “Meeting after meeting, we were stone walled.” Another Donna Marsh stated, “We are not crazy. We have questions. We demand answers.”212 When Bush insider, Philip Zelikow was put in charge of the 9/11 Commission report, the Jersey Girls complained bitterly. They had successfully deposed Henry Kissinger as potential auteur (due to his links with the Bin Laden family and the Carlyle Group213), but failed with Zelikow.
After 411 days the 9/11 Commission started examining the attack with a budget of $3million. Compared with other investigations:
Clinton’s Indiscretion: $40 million
Columbia Disaster: $50 million
Challenger Disaster: $75 million
The 9/11 Commission would state that the funding of terrorists was not an important matter. Clearly the mantra of the Watergate investigation to “follow the money” was not being applied. When information that Zelikow was in constant communication with the white house during the preparation of the report, the Jersey Girls called for the 9/11 Commission to be restarted using the facts and not the official story as a starting point. The 9/11 Commission Report was “set up to fail”214 according to its leading members. While others charge that the official story was pre-written before the Commission started its work and all evidence that conflicted with the official narrative was removed from the report.215
Several years later, Philip Zelikow expressed amazement, perhaps trying to distant himself from his own Frankenstein creation, when he heard corroborating HUMINT information for the official story was extracted from victims subjected to extraordinary rendition and then tortured216. These interrogations were all audio taped by the CIA but then the CIA illegally destroyed the tapes.217
The National Transport Safety Board (NTSB) have records for all air crashes in US jurisdiction on their website. All, except for four air crashes, those that supposedly occurred on 9/11. Air crash data for flight 77 was released several years later but its provenance remains uncertain. There was no reference serial numbers for the black box hardware and the date of creation of the data file from the black box is before the date that the device was found in the wreckage.218 In fact there is an astonishing number of discrepancies with the status of the flights and the aircraft involved on 9/11 which have been picked up by independent investigators219 such as the flights for AA11 and AA77 were not recorded as flying that day while UA175 and UA175 were reported as flying but the aircraft allocated to the flights were apparently still in service for several years after 9/11.
FBI Whistleblower, Sibel Edmonds, gave sworn testimony that Osama Bin Laden was in receipt of CIA funds and health care up until September 11th, 2001.220 She also gave testimony to the 9/11 Commission. It was not included in the final report.
No-one has ever been brought to justice for the illegal wars, rendition, torture and cover-ups, although named CIA agents can no longer step outside of the USA because of various judicial successes in the rest of the world.221
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Katherine took little persuasion to leave her life behind based on the argument that all her colleagues were dead and she would have joined them except for a minute’s head start. She realised that she knew too much and she could be easily erased. She and Beth reluctantly assumed the new identities that Planner provided and the three of them set off on 13th September 2001 across country, by car since all civilian airliners were grounded, to meet WITSEC liaison staff in Wyoming.
Robert explained, “I thought I was the Planner but I wasn’t. I was just another patsy. A patsy that set up the second or third level of distraction… should some of the first cover story layers get blown away.”
Katherine replied bitterly, “What’s the point? Why go the trouble to make you believe you were in charge of flying drones into the twin towers? When that was all fake?”
“I don’t know whether it was fake or not. One of the drones was shot down over Shanksville. Or so I was led to believe. In fact I have a whole crew that believe that; that believe we were flying drones. We would all swear on our mother’s grave that was what we were doing.”
“So did you or didn’t you?” said Katherine exasperated.
“Without air crash investigations on the aircraft parts that were recovered we will never know. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. What I do know is that The Powers That Be will go to any length to protect their most precious secret.”
“And that is?”
“Their control of the media. That is their secret weapon. They can say whatever they want; do whenever they want. They can make us believe in Flying Pink Elephants given the right situation. They’ll want to protect that secret weapon at any costs,” he sighed.
“But they told you about their media control and computer graphic aircraft. Why would they do that?”
“They were looking for holes in their plans, I was the best person to find any problems. I told them what it was: Aircraft Crash investigations. And they sorted that out. While they may have told me their plans… I was expendable. I don’t think I was supposed to survive. More importantly, they had a whole crew of people on the E4-B that believed we were flying drones.”