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SOME DEFINITIVE 9/11 FACTS -- THAT ARE INDISPUTABLE October 02, 2006 9:35 PM

A 9/11 CHECKMATE
BY TvNewsLIES.ORG - April - 2005
Some things are so disturbing that they are almost impossible to believe. That is why, in the 9/11 enigma, less is more.

Until these questions are answered there is no need to establish more doubt. What we have here is solid undisputed evidence that we were never told the truth.

Before you read this article, conduct this test. Try to purchase some stock, or some futures, a mutual fund or some put options, without providing your identity. Go ahead and try it! See if you get anywhere. Find out what happens when you tell the investment firm that you want to make a huge investment anonymously. It can’t be done.

Then ask yourself this question: How could someone have placed anonymous put options on American Airlines and United Airlines just prior to the attacks of 9/11? Then ask yourself why no one has investigated this suspicious deal. Ask yourself why there has been no attempt by the US government to identify the person who anticipated huge profits from a disaster that was yet to occur. Is it because the trail possibly leads to the CIA?

Then wonder about the collapse of Building 7 on the day of the attacks.  Ask yourself why the owner of the building allowed the building to be pulled down (intentionally demolished) hours after the Twin Towers fell.  Pulling down a building takes weeks of planning and preparation so that explosives can be safely positioned and wired.  Not so in this case.  Wonder why.

If you have any doubts at all about the official 9/11 story, then the answers to these questions are all the proof you need that something is very, very wrong!

Independent 9/11 researchers have worked nonstop since the events to examine the events of 9/11 and they have uncovered enough information to seriously challenge the official versions of what happened on that fateful day.  But maybe, just maybe, the very fact that massive amounts of information are available is a problem in itself. There may be far too much evidence for most Americans to face.

The challenges to the official stories may be too devastating to be processed by the average American who has spent a lifetime believing in the system. Many people can deal with the minor violations that are part of the political scene, but cannot possibly fathom a government that might be complicit in an attack on its own people. They are not unlike the parents who eventually come to terms with a child’s shoplifting spree.  The same parents would do anything to deny far more serious accusations. Imagine the response of parents whose son turns out to be a Timothy McVeigh.

Some things are so disturbing that they are almost impossible to believe. That is why, in the 9/11 enigma, less is more. There is a real danger of frightening everyone off by offering too much information.  Therefore, if we think of the problem as a chess game, two strategic moves can lead to checkmate.

There are two pieces of the 9/11 puzzle that on their own expose the lies of the administration.

Two questions must be raised so that even the most diehard Bush supporters realize they have been deceived. These are issues that no one can debate or dismiss. These are not conspiracy theories. They are fact-based questions that can lead to exposing the deceptions in the official reports. The apologists have no way to explain these away or justi  [ send green star]
 
 October 02, 2006 9:50 PM

Two questions must be raised so that even the most diehard Bush supporters realize they have been deceived. These are issues that no one can debate or dismiss. These are not conspiracy theories. They are fact-based questions that can lead to exposing the deceptions in the official reports. The apologists have no way to explain these away or justify them. Basically, they offer clear evidence that the official explanations of 9/11 are meaningless.

TWO MOVES TO CHECKMATE
1. THE COVER UP
Someone had foreknowledge of the attacks.  In the weeks leading up to 9/11 someone made a series of investments that would have paid off in huge profits because of the attacks. This is well documented and undisputed. This person specifically invested in the two airliners used in the attacks, anticipating windfall profits from any drop in the stock prices of these companies. This is solid evidence that at least one person in the United States had detailed information that something bad was going to happen to the specific airlines that were to be used in the attack.

We have been told that the person who made these investments never claimed the profits. We are expected to believe that this explains why his or her identity is unavailable. This is absolutely untrue. This is not an instance in which someone was waiting to pick up a package at an airport locker. This is a case of a financial institution processing an investment transaction for an individual. This CAN NOT BE PERFORMED ANONYMOUSLY! The identity of this person who had foreknowledge of the attack is know and this person’s identity  is being protected by our government and this is a fact! Period, end of story.

WHO MADE THE INVESTMENT? Identify this person and you have someone who very probably had detailed foreknowledge of the events. The fact that the profits were never collected is even more suspicious and incriminating. The fact that the identity of this person remains unknown is even more suspicious. The only possible conclusion is that this person is known to the government and that his or her identity is being protected.

There has been a clear and concerted cover up regarding the person who tried to profit from events he or she knew were coming.  The people who could easily clear this up, but who chose to close any further investigation into the matter are not underlings. They are officials who answer directly to the President of the United States. Check.

2. BUILDING 7

On September 11th, Towers One and Two collapsed after suffering direct hits by airliners. Building 7 was neither hit by an airliner nor damaged severely by flying debris, but at 5:20 p.m. it collapsed in the exact same accordion style of the other two towers. The official explanation by FEMA investigators claimed that WTC 7 fell as a result of burning for 7 hours.

Several weeks after the events of 9/11, Larry Silverstein, the new owner of the WTC was interviewed on TV. At this time he openly acknowledged the decision to pull Building 7. This was a public statement in which the owner of the WTC agreed to the destruction of the building.

This decision was never explained and was never questioned by the Kean Commission. The conflicting report of the FEMA investigators was also never explained. Pulling a building requires weeks, if not months of preparation. Explosives have to be carefully and strategically placed and wired. How was it possible to pull a building without first preparing for its demolition?

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 October 02, 2006 9:57 PM

Pulling a building requires weeks, if not months of preparation. Explosives have to be carefully and strategically placed and wired. How was it possible to pull a building without first preparing for its demolition?

Larry Silverstein invested $386 million in WTC 7.  On 9/11, by his own admission, Larry Silverstein ordered the demolition of his building.  In February of 2002, his company won a settlement of $861 million from Industrial Risk Insurers.  Do the math. No one investigated. This is a confession to the demolition of Building 7. Let me repeat that, THIS IS A CONFESSION! Checkmate.

Until these questions are answered there is no need to establish more doubt. What we have here is solid undisputed evidence that we were never told the truth.  We have solid evidence that the official investigation stopped short of delving into questions that could have supplied answers. We have solid proof that something is very, very wrong.

There is a mountain of unanswered questions concerning the events surrounding the 9/11 attacks. Anyone willing to listen or look at the inconsistencies would have to draw an obvious conclusion:  the official explanation of the events of 9/11 is nothing more than a desperate attempt to distract the American people from investigating the truth.  There can be no denying that there are a number of strange and puzzling occurrences that have never been, and seemingly cannot be explained.

Perhaps the abundance of startling and damning information is too incredible to be accepted easily by the millions of Americans who have bought into the corporate media's version of the events. So many people in this country can not deal with, or accept any real challenge to the official explanation that allows for no foreknowledge or cover up by their government. Even if most Americans were to be presented with clearly corroborated facts or cold evidence, they would probably refuse to even consider the involvement of their elected leaders in a tragedy of such huge proportions.

The official story, however, collapses after an examination of the two questions just raised. Very simply put, case closed. We do not need to pull an OJ here and bury the obvious under more evidence than the jury can handle. Show the Bronco chase and the blood evidence, and rest the prosecution.  Otherwise we risk badly confusing a jury of the uninformed.

It is vital that the evidence based community encourage the American public to question the events for themselves.   Two questions of this magnitude are enough to raise reasonable doubt. Two such questions that have gone uninvestigated and unexplained are enough to arouse curiosity,

We’re in a very dangerous game, here, and all of us are players. Much of what happened on September 11th remains at best unclear, and at worst terribly suspicious.  The reality that the President of the United States spent more than 18 months resisting an official investigation into the most devastating tragedy in our history is in itself an outrage. But the reality that there is no official body still seeking answers to vital questions is an even greater outrage.

And if that remains the case, we all will have been checkmated, en masse.

Editor's NOTE: People might comment on this article by calling it a conspiracy theory. This is their usual way of dismissing the facts. I ask you, where exactly is there “theory” on this page? What elements of this article are in dispute? This is not a theory, this article poses questions that have not been answered and the people who call the results of the independent 9/11 research community “conspiracy theories” have yet to qualify their assertion. You can not simply call something a “theory” just because you have not looked closely enough to see the facts that have been presented. If you call this a theory you are in denial. Very simply put, you can not debate this issue. Many people will dismiss this, as they do all evidence that goes against what they want to believe, yet when asked what their criteria is for discerning  [ send green star]
 
 October 02, 2006 10:12 PM


. If you call this a theory you are in denial. Very simply put, you can not debate this issue. Many people will dismiss this, as they do all evidence that goes against what they want to believe, yet when asked what their criteria is for discerning between theory and fact, they will not have a logical answer. This is not theory and neither are the facts that have been brought to light by the many people involved in the legitimate independent 9/11 research community.

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 October 03, 2006 12:21 PM

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 October 04, 2006 8:14 PM

Hosts: Should this post, in your judgement, be PINNED?

It DOES contain a lot of facts and links.

THERE ARE LOTS OF NEW PEOPLE COMING TO CARE2, AND TO THIS GROUP. THEY MAY WANT TO SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS.

And not just daily talk about daily news; but something THAT GIVES THEM SUBSTANTIAL, BASIC INFORMATION.

Also: I suppose some people are like me, my computer takes SO LONG TO LOAD, that I very seldom watch videos -- altho they are AMONG THE BEST EVIDENCE FOR WHAT THEY SHOW. {I saw videos at my Public Library!}

So, there should always be SOME PRINTED-OUT THINGS FOR PEOPLE TO LOOK AT, I think. Or pictures, anyway, that are not videos. Pictures show a LOT, too. Including our LOGO picture.

BMutiny T

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 October 04, 2006 8:20 PM

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 April 25, 2007 6:50 AM

The Proof

1: No steel building has ever totally collapsed from fire. Not one, in the entire history of skyscrapers, not one.

2: Hundreds of buildings have collapsed to the ground in a manner similar to the 3 collapsed buildings that day. Every one of them was by controlled demolition.

3: Witnesses on 9/11 saw, felt and heard explosions and this was recorded on video, photographs and audio tapes and backed up by recorded testimony.

4: The owner of the building tells us on camera that he authorized the demolition of WTC7.

5: It takes weeks of planning and installation to prepare a building for controlled demolition.

Those are the facts. The inescapable conclusion is that the demolition explosives were placed in the buildings in advance. That requires advance knowledge of the attacks. The destruction of the physical evidence at ground zero, and the cover-up by the 9/11 commission requires the cooperation of the government. That is proof that 9/11 was an inside job.
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 April 26, 2007 8:41 AM

9/11

INSIDE JOB: ALL EVIDENCE, NO THEORIES!

Where is the plane that crashed into the Pentagon?   Where are the wings, the tail, the two 9-foot Rolls Royce steel engines, the fuselage, etc?  How does a 757 with a wingspan of 125 feet fit into a 16 by 20 foot initial impact hole? Why were only five photos of "something" hitting the Pentagon released that certainly didn’t look like a 757? Why did the FBI confiscate all other videos and photos of the Pentagon crash? Why didn’t any of the Pentagon’s five antiaircraft batteries shoot the plane down? One large piece of evidence that was found was covered in blue tarp and hauled away into obscurity! They did find a 3-foot engine, which is coincidentally the same size as the Global Hawk’s engine. Also, many eyewitnesses saw a "plane that appeared to hold 8-12 people" hit the building.
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Category: 9/11 Research Papers : 

Author: Brian (4:06 pm)
9/11 was an Inside Job!
Here’s “bulletproof” evidence…


The impact hole at the Pentagon was 16 by 20 feet – much too small for a Boeing 757 commercial jetliner with a 125-foot wingspan.
The only engine found was a
3-foot engine, similar to a global hawk engine. A Boeing 757 Rolls Royce RB211 steel engine is 9-feet tall!
Why did the FBI
seize all other videos of the crash? (Sheraton hotel, Citgo gas station)
Why didn’t any of the Pentagon’s five antiaircraft batteries shoot the plane down?
Throughout history, there has never been an example of steel-structured buildings collapsing due to fire. On 9/11, there were 3!
During the collapse of the World Trade Center, you can see demolition squibs several floors down from the large debris wave.
How did the towers fall at free-fall speed, straight down, under 10 seconds!
These N.Y. Firefighters (and dozens of others) heard explosions in the building “as if bombs were planted”. Why didn’t CNN or FOX show these witnesses?
View this video clip here:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc2_cutter.html
Larry Silverstein in a PBS interview recalls his order to “Pull” WTC Building 7. “Pull” is a Demolition term to bring a building down. He admitted this!
No plane hit Building 7, yet on 9/11 it collapsed. The official theory blames it on the small fires inside the building.
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 June 13, 2007 12:39 PM

Bush SAW the plane hit the first tower. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpdjFV6nYB4

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anonymous Saw that video, Jeannette June 13, 2007 12:49 PM

Dang, what was the President thinking?

He WASN'T! His description would ONLY be consisitent with the FIRST plane hitting the twin towers. Anyone seeing the SECOND plane hit would have said, "That was no accident!" Yet the second plane's impact was all anyone else ever saw on TV.

Bush LIED!

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 June 13, 2007 1:08 PM

Bush was sitting in his limo in front of the school in Florida, watching the first plane hit the north tower via closed circuit TV.  How did they know that it was going to happen for him to be watching when he was already late appearing in that classroom of children?  Why would they have a camera trained on that tower if they didn't know it was going to be hit?  And then there was the FEMA agent that admitted that they had actually arrived the night before but couldn't take any action until the next day. 

The moral of the story is, if you are a "liar," never put a microphone in your hands.  You will tell off on yourself every time.  Lies always come back to haunt you. 

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 June 14, 2007 11:05 PM

Do you remember fact after fact coming out in the news day by day as investigators promptly probed the biggest crime in US history?  No, because for some strange reason, the government did not think this incredible event required  even a usual investigation. 

That bothered me right from day one.  With every other news story, every day brings new discoveries and revelations about a major criminal event.  But when it came to 9-11 all we heard was that a whole bunch of Middle Eastern men were being detained and we had declared war on Afghanistan, just like that.  (Their defensive positions were taken out that very night, on 9-11-01 by ships already conveniently parked next to Afganistan.) 

The silence spoke volumes during the rest of September and October and November 2001.  The news talked about the event, the victims, and how steadfast we needed to be in waging a war on terror- BUT there was very little in the way of a normal investigation, an ongoing investigation.  It was like everything the government decided and discovered was a foregone conclusion, already made before the event. 

That always bothered me.  Plus, in the earlier, less successful Trade Tower bombing a whole bunch of disabled kids were airlifted off the top of the Trade Tower.  The thing that bothered me in Sept. 2001 was the fact that there was very little in the way of rescue operations at the top of the tower.  There was enough time, and the fire was low enough to, at least at some point initially, rescue some of the people trapped above the fire by helicopter. 

I had a lot of questions right from Day 1.  But the one thing I felt sure of at the time was "Our government couldn't have done this itself."  Now I can think that no longer after the mountain of evidence that I have read about what actually happened on 9-11.  More below
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 June 14, 2007 11:12 PM

The experts have convinced me the most- demolitions experts, experts on fires, and so on.  Jet fuel cannot burn hot enough to burn the steel core of the Trade Towers.  And if you study the videos (which I have seen a lot of) you can see that by the time the towers fell, there was very little fire left, only smoke, which indicates a dead or dying fire. 

And yes, you do see those squibs on the videos, puffing out below the fall of the towers.  And there's the fireman who describes the fall as going "Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom."  Then there is the fact that the towers fell straight down.  In the case of one of the towers, it fell over sideways initially, and then at the moment when it would have toppled sideways to the ground the whole thing came straight down. 

I don't know if I'm making much sense here, but I appreciate all that has been said above and just wanted to add my little 2 cents for what it is worth.  I am sick with bronchitis so can't post more and can't think as well as usual.  Thanks everyone! 
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The "put-options" July 11, 2007 12:14 AM

My dear friend BMT, in her brilliant posts above wrote about the shadowy individual who made the investments on American and United,  betting the stock price would drop. These are called "put-options", and I have read that they were traced to a man named Charles Krongard, who at the time was the Deputy Director of Intellligence at the CIA. No investigation of Mr.Krongard has ever taken place.  [ send green star]
 
So glad to find a place to vent! August 05, 2007 11:38 AM

I've been looking into the evidence of 9-11 since it happened and have found the deeper you dig, the more dirt you can find.  There's so much, it's incredible.  Like did you know that Rumsfield announced Sept. 10, 2001 that the pentagon 'misplaced' over 2.3 TRILLION dollars?  Was this a lucky coincidence? Did anyone acutally hear about this?http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml

And what about the 9 so-called hijackers that were found alive? http://www.welfarestate.com/911/

Also, do you know who the name of the man in charge of security at the twin towers?  Marvin Bush, GW's brother!

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/911security.html

What about the gold that was taken out of the basement just a couple months before?

Just learned today that the BBC broadcasted that WTC building #7  coming down almost 1/2 hour before it did!

http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=6013

And there's so many stories of pre warnings, I don't even know where to begin; you can google search this subject and research it yourself.  You'll be amazed at the stuff you can dig up! 

Yet, the majority of my own friends and family won't even look at the evidence! ...and think I'm crazy!  I think it's like what BMT said (btw, your posts were great!) that they don't want to look for what it would mean if they were convinced, and the fact that our government could do something like this is really upsetting.  I was even accused of WANTING to believe this!  I've found that people standing up for the official report haven't really looked at the facts or the ludicrousy of the offical story for they'd see that it goes against the laws of physics!  Or they are a product of what the mainstream media tells them, and they don't want to question it. 

And speaking of media, I'm disappointed in the few alternative news networks that we do have; they don't seem to want to 'go there' either!  Democracy Now did have the debate between the guys who made 'Loose Change' and the editors of 'Popular Mechanics', but haven't seen them do a follow up with David Ray Griffin's new book "Debunking 9-11 Debunking", maybe I missed it, but don't think so.  The only news organization who's really kept up with this is INN World Report http://www.innworldreport.net/  Hats off to Lenny Bruce!  If you don't have Dish Network Satalite TV, throw out what you've got now so you can tune into FreeSpeechTV and WorldLinkTV!  It's the only television worth watching.

Thanks BTM for mentioning how these facts are wrongly labeled a 'conspiracy theory'!  I'm deeply insulted when I hear this word given to those who just want answers!  If anything, the official report is the conspiracy THEORY because it doesn't hold water!  By labeling these people who have raised questions "Conspiracists" is like labeling them 'kooks', and this was totally intentional! 

Okay, thanks for letting me vent -- I know I'm only 'preaching to the choir', but since my own family and friends won't listen, this is the next best thing...at least I get to share some of my finding.  I think communication and awareness is so very important, but like they say, you can only lead the horse to water, you can't make him drink.  Hopefully someone learned something they didn't already know.

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Bush's actions on 9/11 August 05, 2007 4:18 PM

Actually i think Bush did not know.
We all know how much of an idiot he is
It was soo easy for the Neo-Cons to play him like a puppet.

Bush doesnt do ANYTHING without being TOLD TO.
Cheney, his staff, his assistants and Secret Service tell him where to go what to do and when to do it.Bush was told the second plane hit the second tower and did nothing.

It is likeley he was told before hand that there were war-games that were taking place and that after the first hit he may have thought (or was even told) that this had something to do with the war-games.
Thats one reason why he did othing when the second tower was hit.
He knew Cheney was running the war-games.

For those that didnt know....
Cheney (earlier in 2001) had made HIMSELF the top guy to go to in the war-games !
Knowing that the war-games were classified and that the
Secret Service knew about them
Bush did nothing until he was told to.


 The 9/11 Joint Inquiry chairmen are in "conflict of interest":
Mysterious September 11 Breakfast Meeting on Capitol Hill

The chairmen of the Joint Inquiry have dubious links to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) which is known to have actively supported Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Moreover, according to intelligence sources, including the FBI, Pakistan's ISI played a role in financing the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
n late August 2001, barely a couple of weeks before September 11,  Senator Bob Graham, Representative Porter Goss and Senator Jon Kyl were on a top level mission in Islamabad, which was barely mentioned by the US media.

Meetings were held with President Pervez Musharraf and with Pakistan's military and intelligence brass including the head of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) General Mahmoud Ahmad.  Amply documented, the ISI is known to support a number of Islamic terrorist organizations.
On the morning of September 11, the three lawmakers Bob Graham, Porter Goss and Jon Kyl (who were part of the Congressional delegation to Pakistan) were having breakfast on Capitol Hill with General Ahmad, the alleged "money-man" (to use the FBI expression) behind the 9/11 hijackers. Also present at this meeting were Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S. Maleeha Lodhi and several members of the Senate and House Intelligence committees. This meeting was described by one press report as a "follow-up meeting" to that held in Pakistan in late August.


White House Nominee to Head the CIA has Dubious Links to the Terror Network
Two weeks before 9/11, Porter Goss, the White House nominee for the CIA Director of Intelligence was being "briefed on the growing threat of al Qaeda"  by a Pakistani general who "ran a spy agency notoriously close to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban."

The lost terror drills -11A
- 9 11 training exercises wargames 2001

lost terror drills part 11 B

Global Guardian



On September 9th, 2001, Northern Alliance -Commander General Ahmed Massoud was killed by two suicide journalists with the help of a bomb. Rumours continued during 2001-2002, that this attack had been orchestrated by the Pakistan Secret Service Isi, who knew about pending war plans against the Taliban, and about the Sept 11th attack
Gen Ahmed Massoud
General Mahmood in Washington between
September 4th and 15th, 2001
also see... Lt. General Mahmud Ahmad
Q: Dr. Rice? Ms RICE: Yes? Q: Are you aware of the reports at the time that the ISI chief was in Washington on September 11th, and on September 10th $100,000 was wired from Pakistan to these groups here in this area? And why was he here?

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Anthrax August 05, 2007 4:25 PM

sorry i got off topic a bit i had to vent as well

But the Anthrax Attacks are also a VERY important part of this.The Some of the Anthrax letters were mailed BEFORE 9/11

The reason WHY this is significant is that it is proof that the attacks were related (not a copycat etc...)
It is proven that the Anthrax
came from Military Bases IN the USA !
When that info came out the Anthrax investigation shut down and was dropped like a hot potato

PROJECT ANTHRAX Part 1

Anthrax-911-Gate - 9/11EncyclopediaAnthrax Attacks 9-11 ReviewDead Microbiologists - 9/11Review

Meet Jerome Hauer, 9/11 Suspect Awaiting Indictment




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anonymous  April 03, 2008 6:50 AM

Ted Olson's Report of Phone Calls from Barbara Olson on 9/11: Three Official Denials David Ray Griffin Global Research Thursday, April 3, 2008 Late in the day on 9/11, CNN put out a story that began: “Barbara Olson, a conservative commentator and attorney, alerted her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, that the plane she was on was being hijacked Tuesday morning, Ted Olson told CNN.” According to this story, Olson reported that his wife had “called him twice on a cell phone from American Airlines Flight 77,” saying that “all passengers and flight personnel, including the pilots, were herded to the back of the plane by armed hijackers. The only weapons she mentioned were knives and cardboard cutters.”2 Ted Olson’s report was very important. It provided the only evidence that American 77, which was said to have struck the Pentagon, had still been aloft after it had disappeared from FAA radar around 9:00 AM (there had been reports, after this disappearance, that an airliner had crashed on the Ohio-Kentucky border). Also, Barbara Olson had been a very well-known commentator on CNN. The report that she died in a plane that had been hijacked by Arab Muslims was an important factor in getting the nation’s support for the Bush administration’s “war on terror.” Ted Olson’s report was important in still another way, being the sole source of the widely accepted idea that the hijackers had box cutters.3 However, although Ted Olson’s report of phone calls from his wife has been a central pillar of the official account of 9/11, this report has been completely undermined.

Olson’s Self-Contradictions
Olson began this process of undermining by means of self-contradictions. He first told CNN, as we have seen, that his wife had “called him twice on a cell phone.” But he contradicted this claim on September 14, telling Hannity and Colmes that she had reached him by calling the Department of Justice collect. Therefore, she must have been using the “airplane phone,” he surmised, because “she somehow didn’t have access to her credit cards.”4 However, this version of Olson’s story, besides contradicting his first version, was even self-contradictory, because a credit card is needed to activate a passenger-seat phone.

Later that same day, moreover, Olson told Larry King Live that the second call from his wife suddenly went dead because “the signals from cell phones coming from airplanes don’t work that well.”5 After that return to his first version, he finally settled on the second version, saying that his wife had called collect and hence must have used “the phone in the passengers’ seats” because she did not have her purse.6

By finally settling on this story, Olson avoided a technological pitfall. Given the cell phone system employed in 2001, high-altitude cell phone calls from airliners were impossible, or at least virtually so (Olson’s statement that “the signals from cell phones coming from airplanes don’t work that well” was a considerable understatement). The technology to enable cell phone calls from high-altitude airline flights was not created until 2004.7

However, Olson’s second story, besides being self-contradictory, was contradicted by American Airlines.

American Airlines Contradicts Olson’s Second Version

A 9/11 researcher, knowing that AA Flight 77 was a Boeing 757, noticed that AA’s website indicated that its 757s do not have passenger-seat phones. After he wrote to ask if that had been the case on September 11, 2001, an AA customer service representative replied: “That is correct; we do not have phones on our Boeing 757. The passengers on flight 77 used their own personal cellular phones to make out calls during the terrorist attack.”8

In response to this revelation, defenders of the official story might reply that Ted Olson was evidently right the first time: she had used her cell phone. However, besides the fact that this scenario is rendered unlikely by the cell phone technology employed in 2001, it has also been contradicted by the FBI.

Olson’s Story Contradicted by the FBI

The most serious official contradiction of Ted Olson’s story came in 2006 at the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker. The evidence presented to this trial by the FBI included a report on phone calls from all four 9/11 flights. In its report on American Flight 77, the FBI report attributed only one call to Barbara Olson and it was an “unconnected call,” which (of course) lasted “0 seconds.”9 According to the FBI, therefore, Ted Olson did not receive a single call from his wife using either a cell phone or an onboard phone.

Back on 9/11, the FBI itself had interviewed Olson. A report of that interview indicates that Olson told the FBI agents that his wife had called him twice from Flight 77.10 And yet the FBI’s report on calls from Flight 77, presented in 2006, indicated that no such calls occurred.

This was an amazing development: The FBI is part of the Department of Justice, and yet its report undermined the well-publicized claim of the DOJ’s former solicitor general that he had received two calls from his wife on 9/11.

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[By the way, I can't be credited with the long article at the beginning of this post.

I was citing some other writer and article, that I forgot to give credit to. I can't recall now where it came from.

So, don't thank me for writing that!]

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Yes April 13, 2008 9:49 PM

It's so nice to see a group that shares this feeling. I only wish EVERYONE would open their eyes and see the picture. It's like 3/4 of the world pretend everything is OK, don't question anything, and just keep going.  I'd add something, but I think it's all been covered up above there

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 April 13, 2008 11:41 PM

Joanne:

It's not like 3/4 of the WORLD is shutting their eyes! I think what you mean, is, 3/4 of the UNITED STATES is shutting their eyes! MOST of the WORLD, DOES know!!!!! AND, is SPEAKING OUT ABOUT IT!!! But, of course, as our media is SO CONTROLLED, WE aren't allowed to hear about that!!!

People from ALL OVER THE WORLD, and NEWSPAPERS ALL OVER THE WORLD, have stated 9/11 revelations! People in the rest of the world, outside of the United States, are LESS AFRAID than people here. People in the U.S. who have spoken out about 9/11, have lost their jobs, and, worse, received DEATH THREATS for it!

I also think, that maybe the number here in the U.S. who doubt the official 9/11 coverup and lies, is larger than you think! Again, our media doesn't carry it -- and, we are conditioned to think, if it's not in our daily newspapers, it doesn't exist!!! [That's why the Internet was invented!!!]

As I stated, MANY in the U.S. who HAVE spoken up, have been threatened -- some may even have been killed, how would we know? What's a few more murders, to the criminals {Cheney and Bush!} responsible for 3,000 deaths on 9/11?

But, nevertheless, according to polls, THE MAJORITY OF NEW YORKERS DO NOT BELIEVE THE OFFICIAL LIES.

I think MORE people DIS-BELIEVE, but are AFRAID TO SPEAK UP. That is my opinion. I COMMEND YOU, AND ALL OTHERS ON THIS AND OTHER FORUMS, WHO HAVE THE GUTS TO SPEAK OUT FEARLESSLY AND INFORM OTHERS -- AND GIVE THEM THE COURAGE BY YOUR EXAMPLES, TO SPEAK OUT TOO.

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So true... April 14, 2008 8:38 PM

Boy you are so right on.  I've read the stuff that other countries think of us and our government, and we're just a complete joke in all their eyes, except of course to those of us in denial here in the U.S.  I'll admit I've "opened" the eyes of many people that I know regarding the real TRUTH to all of this. It's so obvious too when you place them right in front of someone with no other distractions. People do see the light, but just not enough want to admit it or do anything about it. I sure the heck don't see why not.  Aren't we the ones that are supposed to have the say so as to what goes on with our government? What happened to Freedom of Speech?  pssshhhh.....  anyway... I won't go on, although I could , but actually there is one thing I will say... what ever happened to the wreckage from the crash into the pentagon? I've watched the footage and there is no airplane there, nor is the destruction large enough to support that fact... hmmmmm.....

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anonymous  April 18, 2008 6:33 PM

The Fire that could melt Steel, but not burn Paper

The Truth Will Set You Free
Friday, April 18, 2008

Anyone who's seen the WTC towers collapsing--and who hasn't?--would be surprised to learn that although reinforced steel beams, capable of withstanding temps of over 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, melted and self-destructed, but paper--Atta's passport--which incinerates at 450 degrees Fahrenheit was able to survive that inferno?

To stretch one's incredulity further, we are supposed to believe that this ONE document, made from paper, out of the thousands that floated out of the towers that day, was the one found by an FBI agent?

Conveniently enough for the FBI, Atta's passport was found sitting on TOP of a pile of rubble. Gosh, was that agent lucky or what?

Just how much BS does the Bush/Cheney cabal expect one to believe?

Evidently, a LOT. Recently, the Center for Public Integrity documented 935 lies from the Bush/Cheney Junta in their first four years alone.

Why in the hell would anyone who still has the ability to use their cognitive skills, believe anything this pack of professional liars says about 9/11?

Including the perpetrators who the Bush/Cheney Junta allege is behind 9/11?

Toss in the fact that former Israeli PM Netanyahu said this about the attacks on 9/11:

"We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq,"

Just who in the hell is benefiting from the WTC attacks and getting America bogged down in Iraq?

If you believe that 19 suicidal Muslims were behind 9/11, then read no further, your mind has been completely surrounded by Bushbots.

If you don't believe the Bush/Cheney Junta's twisted lies about 9/11, then ask yourself the following:

What is the only ME nation that has benefited from the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States?

This nation has seen its supply of weapons and money coming from the U.S. increase phenomenally since, 9/11, especially when that nation was bombing Lebanon to hell and gone in the Summer of 2006.

This nation will see the amount of money given to it by the U.S. increase by at least Nine Billion Dollars per year.

This is the same nation whose PMsaid the day after that the 9/11 attacks would be good for their country.

Within a week of the 9/11 attacks, editorials like this were being seen in papers:

A week later, the Village Voice states, �From national networks to small-town newspapers, the view that America�s terrible taste of terrorism will finally do away with even modest calls for the restraint of Israel�s military attacks on Palestinian towns has become an instant, unshakable axiom.� Now, support for Israel in America is officially absolute, and Palestinians are cast once again as players in a global terrorist conspiracy.�

What nation, on the morning of 9/11, had several of its agents across the river in New Jersey, in Liberty State Park, videotaping the 9/11 attacks and these same people were seen celebrating when one of the towers came down?

This same nation is using GW Bush's War on Terror as a cover to step-up its ethnic cleansing campaign of its indigenous people.

This same nation's lobbies have managed to thoroughly corrupt the US Congress, turning it into an ATM money machine for its country and intimidating the members of our Congress, like the disgraced Utah Senator Craig, into letting this nation use our military to wage wars it doesn't want to fight.

This same nation's security service's motto is: "By way of deception thou shalt do war."

This nation's intelligence service, the MOSSAD, was described thusly in September 10, 2001 article in the Washington Times:

Of the MOSSAD, the Israeli intelligence service, the SAMS officers say: "Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act."

This nation also attacked in a most savage and brutal manner an American ship, operating in international waters, the USS Liberty and has been lying about the reasons behind that attack for 40 years:

What is the name of this barbaric, medieval country that has the conscience of a hyena and the morals of a slimy, poisonous toad?

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THERE IS NO ONE COUNTRY THAT IS THE SOURCE OF ALL EVIL April 19, 2008 4:35 AM

The sentence just above represents accurately ALL Ruling Classes of ALL countries.

Do not, here on Care2, use Xenophobia or Racial Prejudice to suggest that any ONE country has a corner on immorality. That is NOT what Care2 is here for. That is NOT ACCEPTABLE on Care2. There is not any ONE country in the world that is worse than all other countries. Not Mexico, not China, not Israel........

The State of Israel and the United States have many aims and goals in common. {I mean, of course, their RULING CLASSES do. These are NOT the true aims of either the people of Israel, nor of the people of United States.} The governments of both countries work together to accomplish their mutual aims. To the dis-service, of course, of the planet and ALL its people.

Power-wise, however, THE STATE OF ISRAEL IS SMALL POTATOES, COMPARED TO THE UNITED STATES POWER. And, Jews or Zionists or Israelis or Mossad or whatever you want to call them, DO NOT HAVE A SORT OF HYPNOTIC ARCANE POWER TO BEND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO THEIR WILL. If the U.S. government and the Israeli government are working together, IT IS BECAUSE THE RULING CLASS OF THE UNITED STATES WANTS IT THAT WAY.

You canNOT say, that the U.S. govt would be OK, if it weren't for those "EVIL INFLUENCES OF A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT"........

Totally remove Israel from the picture, and THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT WOULD STILL BE JUST AS EVIL; JUST AS MUCH A THREAT TO THE PLANET, to world peace and to the animals, etc. etc. etc.

It is quite probable, that OTHER FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES, including MOSSAD, knew all about 9/11 in advance. And, most certainly, THEY ALL DO NOW. This was stated by the ex-President of Italy in Italy's largest newspaper. A moment's reflection, and you will see that THEY HAD TO HAVE KNOWN AT SOME POINT.

However, this is NOT the same as saying, Israel was RESPONSIBLE for 9/11. They could have KNOWN. Even maybe supplied some of the hi-tech.

However, THE DECISION WAS FROM PNAC. And PNAC is 100% AMERICAN. You can't get OUR govt off the hook, by blaming a SCAPEGOAT.

The fact that Israel may have benefitted in some way, or its govt THINKS it may have benefitted {remember, its people did not benefit}, also does not mean that "Jews were behind 9/11". Nor does a 40-year-old incident mean that "Israel wants to attack the U.S.". Why should they want to attack their closest ally and arms supplier anyway?????

These allegations come from sites that stir up hatred against Jews. They should be warned against, and Care2 members should THINK about what they are reading there. These sites are USING and EXPLOITING 9/11 Truth sites to actually DIVIDE THE 9/11 TRUTH MOVEMENT AND SOW HATRED. Hatred against ALL Jews, such as myself, not just against those who live in the State of Israel.

By the way, it should be unnecessary to state, not ALL Jews support the horrendous crimes of the State of Israel against Palestinians, against its Arab neighbors, and for that matter against its own darker-skinned Jewish population. Israel is an Apartheid state like South Africa was. We can denounce its crimes. But that does NOT make it an evil entity that is eviller than other states that commit similar crimes of violence and discrimination.

And, needless to say, there is NOT one great big world-wide conspiracy of all Jews everywhere, going on for centuries..... total Racist nonsense.

9/11 could ONLY be an Inside Job. ONLY people known to Marvin Bush, who was in charge of security of the WTC complex, could have gotten into the 3 buildings to plant the bombs that brought them down. ONLY the United States Air Force chain-of-command, of which Cheney was the head on 9/11, could have given "stand-down" orders to pilots not to interfere with the attacks.

A bunch of foreigners with explosives stuffed under their coats, couldn't've gotten into the WTC buildings past security, cameras, alarms, bomb-sniffing dogs, armed guards, etc. A foreign national could no more give orders to NORAD, than you or I or my Aunt Pat, could.

THE BUSHCO MIS-ADMINISTRATION, CLEARLY BENEFITTED FROM 9/11 MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE. THAT IS INDISPUTABLE.

THEY NEEDED IT; THEY GOT IT.

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THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE SORT OF HATE-FILLED RHETORIC THAT WE SHOULD WATCH OUT FOR April 19, 2008 4:58 AM

What is the name of this barbaric, medieval country that has the conscience of a hyena and the morals of a slimy, poisonous toad?

THIS IS NOT A FACTUAL STATEMENT OF ANY SORT.

THIS IS HATE PROPAGANDA, PURE AND SIMPLE.

First of all, what is wrong with hyenas and poisonous toads? they are beautiful, interesting, and valid parts of the Natural World.

I think Care2 members would be averse to using such words as "pig" and "dog" to describe evil people.

However, THESE ARE TRADITIONAL HATE WORDS in many cultures.

HATE WORDS SHORT-CIRCUIT COMMON SENSE AND ANY SORT OF RATIONAL DISCOURSE, BY GOING DIRECTLY TO PRIMITIVE EMOTIONS.

The state of Israel is actually quite a modern country.

WAR is barbaric and medieval. DISCRIMINATION AND APARTHEID are barbaric and medieval.

GOVERNMENTS DO NOT HAVE CONSCIENCES. Since WHEN do governments have consciences? Not WHILE they are committing the crimes that almost all governments commit. Maybe AFTERWARDS, when it doesn't make much difference. Like with the U.S. and ITS indigenous population, maybe???

What morals do slimy, poisonous toads have or not have? They are just trying to live out their little toad lives. Their poison is their protection. They don't ASK us to pick them up!

THIS SORT OF RHETORIC IS JUST TO GET A KNEE-JERK REACTION OUT OF YOU BY STRINGING TOGETHER A LOT OF WORDS YOU ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE A NEGATIVE REACTION TOWARDS -- like the PHYSICAL reactions you might have, encountering actual slime or actual poison.

Then these negative words associated with bad things, are ATTACHED TO a country or a people or organizations or whatever.

THAT IS WHY I CALL THIS, BLATANT HATE SPEECH, HATE PROPAGANDA. It may not have been SEEN this way, at first. It may not have been so INTENDED, by the poster. BUT, THAT IS WHAT IT IS.

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anonymous  April 19, 2008 8:21 AM

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anonymous  April 19, 2008 8:21 AM

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anonymous  May 27, 2008 8:48 AM

P9110614.JPG From our roof we could see the damage of 911. It hurt to see it unfolding before your eyes like a real bad nightmare.  I remember just saying to myself softly and in tears. This is not happening, this is not happening.... This is a picture from our roof top. thank you for the invite Felicita  There are more photos on my page. I just put them up.  [report anonymous abuse]
 
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