Killtown's
9/11 coincidences and oddities page!
(and other note worthy tidbits.)
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Bird flu: Much ado about nothing
-Capitol Hill Blue
(01/01/06)
Scariest building in New York, Jitters over demolition of toxic tower near WTC
(01/01/06)
Perceptions of Alleged Hussein-9/11 Link Changing in U.S.
(01/01/06)
Book: CIA Ignored Info Iraq Had No WMD
(01/02/06)
Support for Bush drops among US military: poll
(01/02/06)
CIA operative says Bush, military leaders let bin Laden escape
-Capitol Hill Blue (01/02/06)
9/11:
A Special White House Slide Show, April '01 Prague meeting between Atta and
Iraqi spy
(01/02/06)
Rhode Island Legalizes Medical Marijuana
(01/03/06)
Abramoff Plea Could Have Far-Reaching Implications
(01/03/06)
Cuba paid Oswald to kill Kennedy, new film says (01/04/06)
'In Plane Site' aired on Aussie TV (01/04/06) [watch
here]
White House Told NSA Briefings Broke Law
(01/04/06)
Files Say Agency Initiated Growth of Spying Effort, NSA acted on its own,
without formal directive from Bush
(01/04/06)
Cheney Says Eavesdropping Program Might Have Prevented 9/11
(01/04/06)
9-11 Families Pan NSA Snooping
(01/04/06)
Supreme Court Says U.S. Can Move Padilla
(01/04/06)
Bush, Cheney Fight for Patriot Act Renewal
(01/04/06)
Bush could bypass new torture ban
(01/04/06)
GOP moves to distance itself from disgraced lobbyist
(01/04/06)
Bush to Give Up $6,000 Linked to Abramoff
(01/04/06)
Israeli links to 9/11?
-AlJazeera
(01/05/06)
NSA whistleblower asks to testify
(01/05/06)
Padilla Brought to Face Civilian Charges
(01/05/06)
Homeland
Security opening private mail
(01/06/06)
Poll: Most Say U.S. Needs Warrant to Snoop
(01/06/06)
Union Links Retiree Death to 9/11 Cleanup; 34-Year-Old NY Officer Died of
Respiratory Disease
(01/07/06)
$13K for 911 truth?; NIST demands $13,278 for massive photo/video library of
9/11 NYC events -GNN (01/08/06)
NSA Whistleblower Alleges Illegal Spying
(01/10/06)
Bush to Democrats: Don't Slam Iraq Policy, or risk giving "comfort to our
adversaries"
(01/10/06)
LETTERS: Government complicit in 9/11
(01/10/06)
Bush planned war with Iraq long before 9/11 attacks -Capitol Hill Blue
(01/11/06)
Blair Says West Likely to Sanction Iran
(01/11/06)
Bin Laden Aide Goes Before Military Panel
(01/11/06)
Man Sentenced to Life in Bush Attack
(01/11/06)
EU calls for UN action over Iran
(01/12/06)
NYC dismissed as defendant in 7 collapse
(01/12/06)
Bush could seize absolute control of U.S. government -Capitol Hill Blue
(01/13/06)
Bush
Authorized Domestic Spying Before 9/11 -
truthout.org
(01/13/06)
Bush Rejects Call to Shut Gitmo Prison
(01/13/06)
Gonzales to Testify on Domestic Spying
(01/13/06)
OpEd Letter: Did someone in FBI want 9/11 attacks?
(01/13/06)
Iran Threatens to Block U.N. Inspections
(01/13/06)
DECLINE AND FALL OF 911 - FreeMarketNews
(01/14/06)
9/11 testimony censored,
Witness forbidden to mention attack in quoting defendant calling destroyed files
Symbol's 'lucky break' (01/14/06)
Qaeda No.2 away during attack: Pakistan official
(01/14/06)
EU3 launch move to refer Iran to UN Security Council
(01/16/06)
2004 Ohio Precinct-Level Exit Poll Data Show Virtually Irrefutable Evidence of
Vote Miscount
(01/17/06)
Spy agency's post-9/11 data sidetracked FBI: NY Times
(01/17/06)
9/11 workers die after respiratory illnesses
(01/17/06)
9/11 suit tossed; Can't blame city, Motorola for faulty radios: top court
(01/18/06)
'Jersey Girls' response to new bin Laden Audiotape (01/19/06)
Duke Professor Skeptical of bin Laden Tape (01/19/06)
Feds Seek Google Records in Porn Probe (01/19/06)
Edmonds: American's haven't heard who real 9/11 culprit is -Prison
Planet (01/19/06)
'Bin Laden' Tape Warns of Attacks, Offers Truce
(01/19/06)
Liars
present 'Loose Change 911'; New York rockers will introduce film
(01/19/06)
Bin
Laden threats may boost Bush (01/20/06)
Latest White House report says spy power "confirmed" by 9/11 (01/20/06)
Attack hit 4 al-Qaida leaders, officials say (01/20/06)
Lindh's father seeks clemency for son (scroll down) (01/20/06)
Oklahoma City bombing figure gets early release (01/20/06)
U.S. Rejects Any 'Truce' With Bin Laden (01/20/06)
Iran says moving assets (01/20/06)
Pentagon Analyst Gets 12 Years in Spy Case; gave classified info to
Israeli diplomat and two members of pro-Israel lobbying group (01/20/06)
Oxford Union Debate: Was 9/11 A Myth? -Scoop (01/23/06)
Deported 9-11 detainees returning for depositions in lawsuit (01/23/06)
9/11 responders are now in need of help (01/23/06)
KBR AWARDED U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY CONTINGENCY SUPPORT PROJECT FOR
EMERGENCY SUPPORT SERVICES -Halliburton (01/24/06)
Senators: White House Stalls Katrina Probe (01/24/06)
The new bomb dog answers to a name entwined with 9/11 (01/24/06)
Investigator: U.S. 'Outsourced' Torture (01/24/06)
Pre-Katrina Warnings Not Heeded (01/24/06)
Gonzales Says NSA Criticism Misleading (01/24/06)
U.S. Must Submit Papers to Moussaoui Team (01/25/06)
Feds Agree to Pay ACLU Over No-Fly List (01/25/06)
Bush: Bin Laden Should Be Taken Seriously (01/25/06)
Locals challenge 9/11 in film (01/26/06)
Israel tried to kill bin Laden in 1996: paper (01/26/06)
US has military options against Iran - but also risks backlash (01/26/06)
Letters: Bush failed to act on pre-9/11 warnings (01/26/06)
Scholars Repudiate Official Version of 9/11 (01/27/06)
Military campaigns in the Middle East (01/27/06)
BYU professor's group accuses U.S. officials of lying about 9/11
(01/28/06)
Experts Claim Official 9/11 Story is a Hoax (01/30/02)
"The first questioner, getting into the spirit
of the forum, declared of the administration: "These criminals and gangsters,
thugs as I regard them, I believe engineered 9/11." -
Washington Post (01/30/02)
9/11 'truth' on their minds as Bush speaks tonight (01/31/02)
Bush-Bashing 9/11 Widow Is Hillary Clinton's SOTU Guest (01/31/02)
Cynthia McKinney's Home Vandalized (01/31/02)
Avoiding the hard questions - 9/11 ATTACKS -Miami Herald (02/01/06)
Jeb shredding state records? (02/01/06)
Congressman subpoenaed for 9/11 trial (02/02/06)
Questions remain from 9/11 report, professor says (02/02/06)
A 9/11 Conspirator in King Bush's Court? (02/02/06)
Bush
Wants $120 Billion More For Wars (02/02/06)
Decoding the Secrets
of JFK and 9/11 (02/03/06)
Gallup: More Than Half of Americans Feel Bush Deliberately Misled Country on
Iraq WMD (02/03/06)
Blair 'made secret US Iraq pact' (02/03/06)
Blair, Bush set for war in '03 (02/03/06)
Robertson
again calls for Chavez's assassination: "Not now, but one day" (02/03/06)
Bush signs extension of anti-terrorism law (02/03/06)
Iraq war is costing $100,000 per minute (02/03/06)
Bush 'plotted to lure Saddam into war with fake UN plane' (02/03/06)
Papers: Ford White House Weighed Wiretaps (02/04/06)
'Outraged' Whitman defends 9/11 stand; Ex-EPA boss okay with safe air quality
edict (02/04/06)
U.N. Nuclear Agency Reports Iran to Security Council (02/04/06)
Halliburton Subsidiary Gets Contract to Add Temporary Immigration Detention
Centers (02/04/06)
More Allegations of Libby Lies Revealed (02/04/06)
Pentagon
Announces Sweeping Defense Review (02/04/06)
US counts war cost: $585bn (02/04/06)
Iran is world's top sponsor of terrorism: Rumsfeld (02/04/06)
Powell's former chief of staff on Iraq intel: 'I
participated in a hoax'
-RawStory (02/05/06)
Physics Professor Questions 'Official Story' of 9/11 (02/05/06)
Rove Threatens Republican Senators... Support The President On
Wiretapping Or Else -Huffington Post (02/06/06)
Bush's $2.77T Budget Boosts Defense (02/06/06)
Gonzales defends domestic spying against al Qaeda (02/06/06)
Moussaoui disrupts start of jury selection (02/06/06)
Cleric Linked to 9-11 Plotter Sentenced (02/07/06)
THE 9/11 STORY IS A HOAX? -FreeMarketNews (02/08/06)
Moroccan Man in Terrorist Cell With 9/11 Hijackers Goes Free
(02/08/06)
U.S.: Brooklyn bookseller sought to help terrorists after 9/11
(02/08/06)
ENRON, CHENEY, 9/11, LIVE HIJACKERS, & DEAD MICROBIOLOGISTS -NewsWithViews
(02/09/06)
Cartoon-protest leader welcomed 9-11; Reports tie him to bin Laden,
other terrorist leaders
(02/09/06)
Paper: White House Knew About Levees Early
(02/09/06)
Libby: White House 'Superiors' OK'd Leaks
(02/09/06)
Congress Attempts to Kill the "Third-Party Threat" - LP.org
(02/10/06)
Bush Says Spy Work Helped Stop 2002 Attack
(02/10/06)
U.S. Trade Deficit Hits All-Time High
(02/10/06)
Ex-FEMA Chief Brown Blames DHS
(02/10/06)
US prepares military blitz against Iran's nuclear sites
(02/12/06)
Moussaoui Defense Reveals Details of Pre-9/11 Knowledge, Claims U.S.
Failed to Investigate Him
(02/12/06)
Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter
(02/12/06)
9/11 claims another officer's life
(02/12/06)
Weldon: 'Able Danger' ID'd Atta 13 Times
(02/14/06)
Was Cheney Drunk? -Huffington Post
(02/14/06)
Al Qaeda leaders elusive post-Sept 11
(02/14/06)
Moussaoui Allowed Back In Courtroom
(02/15/06)
Cheney, "A Beer or Two," and a Gun
(02/15/06)
Saddam on Tape: Terrorists Will Attack D.C.
(02/15/06)
VP Accident Tale Filled With Discrepancies
(02/18/06)
The US prepares for a 'Long War' rather than the 'War on Terror'
(02/18/06)
•
February
21, 2006 - Killtown is mentioned in a Village Voice
article.
The Seekers; The birth and life of the
'9-11 Truth movement'
"Essentially, it's all about physics
and common sense. Cut steel, and buildings fall. Crash a plane, and
the Earth gets scarred. Fire a missile; see a hole. What's up must
come down, cause makes effect, and for the truth to set you free, it
must be freed itself.
Its name notwithstanding, the 9-11 Truth movement
tells a story—and is a story—about what happens when the government lies. Again,
it's simple physics: For every action, there's a reaction equal and opposite.
Everyone has a September 11 tale about how we
watched the events in "disbelief." But some people really didn't believe, and in
the immediate aftermath of the attacks their doubts took form on the Internet on
sites like
serendipity.li,
plaguepuppy.net, and
Killtown." -
Village Voice (02/21/06)
•
February 22, 2006 - The Penta-Lawn 2000! is featured in a Free Market
News article.
9/11 HOAX?
"Yet
another angle is being presented on how the September 11, 2001 Pentagon crash of
American Airlines Flight 77 was a hoax. The website known as the "the web fairy"
begins with a sales-pitch: "Introducing the amazing new Penta-Lawn 2000! The
most The most resilient lawn ever! lawn ever! ... It's fire proof! ... It's skid
proof! ... It even repels plane debris!"
It then lists a long string of quotes from American mainstream media from
reportage that day, and notes that nearly all of them describe the crash as "a
landing on the ground, a skidding and an impact" with the Pentagon wall ... or
words to that effect. It then shows a series of before-and-after photos of the
lawn surrounding the Pentagon, especially near the alleged crash-site. "Just
think what this would do to your lawn after an explosion like this," the pitch
continues. "Plane debris, skid marks, fire burns, jet fuel, luggage, body parts,
yuck! You would have to shell out thousands of dollars to clean up this mess!
But wait, this is not your ordinary lawn!"
It then shows a picture of the turf surrounding the Pentagon, taken the same day
of the alleged crash (while they were putting out the fire, before they covered
the whole place with sand) and compares it to similar shots following plane
crashes including the one in Vladivostock. A picture is worth a thousand words
in this case.
for the pictures, descriptions and accounts:
Click Here For The Full Story " -
FreeMarketNews.com
(02/22/06)
(Note that the
Penta-Lawn 2000! is a creation by Killtown and not by
The Web Fairy as the article implies.)
•
March 1, 2006 - Judicial Watch Files Lawsuit Against Defense Department for
Withholding Video of 9/11 Attack on Pentagon
"Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and
prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it filed a
lawsuit on February 22, 2006 against the Department of Defense to
force the release of a video that allegedly shows United Flight 77
striking the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Judicial Watch seeks
the information in part to help put to rest conspiracy theories that
a government drone or missile hit the Pentagon rather than the
hijacked United airplane.
Judicial Watch
originally filed a Freedom of Information Act request on December 15, 2004,
seeking all records pertaining to camera recordings from the Sheraton National
Hotel, the Nexcomm/Citgo gas station, Pentagon security cameras and the Virginia
Department of Transportation. The Department of Defense admitted in a January
26, 2005 letter that it possessed a videotape responsive to Judicial Watch’s
request. However, the Pentagon advised that the video is exempt from release
because it is, “part of an ongoing investigation involving Zacarias Moussaoui.”
Judicial Watch
argues in its lawsuit that “there is no legal basis” for the DOD’s refusal to
release the videotape. First, while the Freedom of Information Act does allow
an exemption for ongoing law enforcement investigations, the Defense Department
does not have law enforcement authority over Moussaoui. That
belongs to the Department of Justice or the FBI. Second, the investigation of
Moussaoui is complete. He
pleaded guilty in April 2005
to conspiring with al-Qaida to fly planes into U.S. buildings.
Jury selection in Moussaoui’s death penalty trial is nearly finished, and
opening arguments are scheduled for March 6.
“There is no
legal or rational basis for the Department of Defense to withhold this video,”
said JW President Tom Fitton. “There may be nothing of importance on this tape,
but our experience has been that whenever the government takes extraordinary
measures to keep the lid on documents, it is worth investigating.”
A
copy of Judicial Watch’s lawsuit against the Defense Department and
the
original FOIA request is available for review on Judicial Watch’s
Internet site, www.judicialwatch.org." -
Judicial Watch
(03/01/06)
(See also: Killtown's:
Flight 77 - fabricated Pentagon security video)
•
March 19, 2006 - 'Scholars for 9/11 Truth' student member and bioengineering
student Michael Zebuhr dies from being shot twice in the head after his group of
four people were mugged by two young individuals the previous night in
Minneapolis even though no one in his group put up any resistance to the
muggers.
Police: Man Shot In Head During Uptown Robbery
"A 25-year-old man is in critical condition at the
Hennepin County Medical Center after a Saturday night shooting in Uptown.
The man was walking with his mother, sister and her friend after they finished
dinner in a restaurant at Hennepin Avenue and Lake Street.
According to police, two men approached the group about 10 p.m. at 31st Street
and Girard Avenue South. The suspects allegedly stole the mother's purse. Then,
even though the victims didn't put up a fight, the suspects allegedly fired two
shots, hitting the man in the head.
Kris Arenson, an inspector from the Minneapolis Police Department said, "Usually
when the purse is given up, or even if the purse isn't given up, we haven't had
any (people) that have been shot."
Police said the suspects immediately fled the scene, jumped into a white car and
headed south on Girard Avenue.
Police gave vague descriptions of the suspects, only saying they are men between
17 years old and 22 years old and were both wearing dark clothing." -
WCCO
(03/20/06)
Man Shot In Uptown Dies
"A man shot in the head in the Uptown area of
Minneapolis on Saturday night died late Sunday night at Hennepin County Medical
Center.
Michael Zebuhr, 25, was a Ph.D. student at Clemson University in South Carolina.
He was enrolled in the bioengineering program. He dreamed of working at NASA
someday.
He was from Buckhannon, W.Va. and was a 2005 graduate of Davis and Elkins
College, a private Presbyterian School in Elkins, W.Va. Officials there said he
received B.S. degrees there in chemistry and math. They said he was a student
leader as well as a member of the school's ski team.
Friends and family said Zebuhr also loved mountain biking, math and science.
Police said Zebuhr was walking to a parked car with family members, when robbers
approached them and demanded his mother's purse. She gave it to the gunmen
without any resistance. One of the men then shot Zebuhr.
Lt. Lee Edwards of the Minneapolis Police Department said, "Within a half hour
of the incident, we had already had six homicide investigators or six officers
with homicide experience already working this thing."
Police are hoping for a break in the case. Several security cameras were pointed
in the direction where the shooting happened and police are now reviewing those
tapes.
Anyone with more information is asked to call Minneapolis Police at
612-692-8477." -
WCCO
(03/21/06)
Uptown Residents Fight Back After Shooting
"Minneapolis Police are reviewing videotape from
security cameras after a shooting in the Uptown neighborhood over the weekend.
Michael Zebuhr, 25, was shot in the head in the 3100 block of Girard Avenue
around 10 p.m. Saturday.
Police said on Saturday night, Zebuhr was walking to a parked car with family
members, when robbers approached them and demanded his mother's purse. She gave
it to the gunmen without any resistance.
One gunman shot Zebuhr twice in the head. Police said the shooting appeared to
be cold-blooded and unprovoked.
Uptown's usual upbeat atmosphere remains on edge with no suspects in the case.
She said that although the shooting is a tragedy, it was very unusual and
similar crimes rarely happen in that area.
Devens and other neighbors said the rising rate in burglaries and robberies in
the area has given them concern.
According to officials, burglary is up 14 percent and robbery is up 43 percent
compared to one year ago." -
WCCO (03/21/06)
Scholars for 9/11 Truth, Who We Are
"Student Members
Michael Zebuhr (SM)
Bioengineering, Clemson University" -
Scholars for 9/11 Truth
•
March
20, 2006 - Senior FBI officials were warned about 70 times of 9/11 plot.
Agent: FBI warned 70 times of
9-11 plot; Operative who arrested Zacarias Moussaoui says he made superiors
aware of hijack plan
"An FBI agent testifying today
at the death penalty trial of Zacarias Moussaoui says he warned senior officials
about 70 times of fears that the confessed al-Qaida plotter planned to hijack an
airliner.
Harry Samit, the agent who arrested Moussaoui, said he accused his superiors of
"criminal negligence" and "careerism" when questioned during a U.S. government
inquiry on Moussaoui's role in the 9-11 plot, according to Agence France-Presse.
The agent's testimony came as the death penalty trial resumed one week after
Judge Leonie Brinkema threatened to throw out the prosecution's case over
witness tampering. Friday, Brinkema agreed to continue if prosecution lawyers
use only uncontaminated witnesses.
The defense insists the government had known much more about the 9-11 plot than
Moussaoui but failed to take action to stop it.
In a memo presented by the defense during testimony, Samit warned that Moussaoui
was an Islamic fundamentalist who believed in martyrdom, was learning how to fly
a 747 jet and had a portable GPS navigation system, AFP reported. He also, the
agent pointed out, was armed with small knives and learning martial arts.
Samit was questioned today about the memo, which he sent to FBI headquarters in
Washington on Aug. 18, 2001, less than a month before the 9-11 attacks.
The agent said that when Moussaoui was arrested, he seemed to be in a hurry to
finish his 747 flight training on a simulator in Minnesota." -
WorldNetDaily (03/20/06)
Actor Charlie Sheen Questions Official 9/11 Story - Prison Planet (03/20/06)
Listen to
interview
Hollywood Actor Charlie Sheen Calls 9/11 'Conspiracy Theory' - Human Events
(03/22/06)
Charlie Sheen Joins Conspiracy Chorus on 9/11 Attacks
- National Ledger (03/22/06)
SHEEN:
WHAT 9/11 HIJACKERS? - NY Post (03/23/06)
Charlie Sheen: 9/11 "Feels Like A Conspiracy Theory" - Huffington Post
(03/23/06)
Charlie Sheen: 'Challenge Me On the Facts' - Prison Planet (03/24/06)
Listen to interview
Charlie Sheen's Statement to the London Guardian - Prison Planet (03/27/06)
Federal judge rules: McVeigh had help; Bolsters claims government had
informant inside conspiracy to attack federal building - WorldNetDaily (03/30/06)
April 9, 2006 - Mr. Tom Ridge will act as an
advisor to Prime Minister Berisha and Albanian Government -
keshilliministrave.al
June 6-12, 2006 - Unquestioned Answers;
Nonconspiracy theorist David Ray Griffin takes aim at the official 9/11 story -
metroactive.com
•
June 23,
2006 - Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta unexpectedly announces he will
resign just one day after Prof. Jim Fetzer from Scholars for 9/11 Truth was on
FOX's Hannity & Colmes show and talked about Mineta's 9/11 Commission testimony
of what Prof. Fetzer suggests is proof of Vice President Cheney issuing a stand
down order.
Transportation Chief Norman Mineta Resigns
"Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, who
helped rebuild confidence in U.S. airports and flying after the Sept. 11
attacks, said Friday he's leaving the Bush administration.
"It is time for me to move on to other challenges," Mineta said in a letter to
President Bush.
White House press secretary Tony Snow announced the July 7 resignation. Asked
why Mineta, 74, decided to leave, Snow said: "Because he wanted to."
"He was not being pushed out," Snow said. "As a matter of fact, the president
and the vice president and others were happy with him. He put in five and half
years that's enough time." -
ABC (06/23/06)
"22 June 2006: Interview: Jim Fetzer will be
the guest discussing 9/11 with Hannity & Colmes 6-7:00 PM/PT (9-10:00 PM/ET) FOX
TV" - Scholars for
9/11 Truth [video:
youtube,
9/11 Blogger]
(See also:
9/11 - Young man enters PEOC and tells
Cheney a plane is approaching D.C. and asks if orders still stand;
May 23, 2003 - Mineta
testifies at the 9/11 Commission hearings)
June 30, 2006 - Tom Ridge, Former Secretary
of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Joins Iridium Satellite Board of
Directors -
iridium.com
C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden
- NY Times (07/03/06)
•
August 2006 - NIST
awards Controlled Demolition, Inc (CDI) as a subcontractor to help determine if
explosives were used to bring down WTC 7.
WTC 7 Technical Approach and Status Summary
"NIST is analyzing scenarios for the event that
initiated the collapse of WTC 7. As a part of this work, NIST is considering
whether hypothetical blast events could have played a role in initiating the
collapse. While NIST has found no evidence of a blast or controlled demolition
event, NIST will estimate the magnitude of hypothetical blast scenarios that
could have led to the structural failure of one or more critical elements as a
result of blast.
Progress to Date
8/06 Awarded contract to ARA (with CDI and SGH as
subcontractors) for analysis of hypothetical blast events and assistance with
structural analysis of initiating events." -
NIST [PDF
- local]
9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes
- Vanity Fair (08/01/06)
•
August 2, 2006 - Some of the 9/11 commission concluded that the Pentagon's
initial story of how it reacted to 9/11 may have been part of a deliberate
effort to mislead the commission and the public and debated referring the matter
to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation.
9/11 Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon;
Allegations Brought to Inspectors General
"Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept.
11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the
2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the
commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that
day, according to sources involved in the debate.
Suspicion of wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-member commission, in a secret
meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated referring the matter to
the Justice Department for criminal investigation, according to several
commission sources. Staff members and some commissioners thought that e-mails
and other evidence provided enough probable cause to believe that military and
aviation officials violated the law by making false statements to Congress and
to the commission, hoping to hide the bungled response to the hijackings, these
sources said.
In the end, the panel agreed to a compromise,
turning over the allegations to the inspectors general for the Defense and
Transportation departments, who can make criminal referrals if they believe they
are warranted, officials said.
"We to this day don't know why NORAD [the North American Aerospace Command] told
us what they told us," said Thomas H. Kean, the former New Jersey Republican
governor who led the commission. "It was just so far from the truth. . . . It's
one of those loose ends that never got tied."
Although the commission's landmark report made it clear that the Defense
Department's early versions of events on the day of the attacks were inaccurate,
the revelation that it considered criminal referrals reveals how skeptically
those reports were viewed by the panel and provides a glimpse of the tension
between it and the Bush administration.
For more than two years after the attacks, officials with NORAD and the FAA
provided inaccurate information about the response to the hijackings in
testimony and media appearances. Authorities suggested that U.S. air defenses
had reacted quickly, that jets had been scrambled in response to the last two
hijackings and that fighters were prepared to shoot down United Airlines Flight
93 if it threatened Washington.
In fact, the commission reported a year later, audiotapes from NORAD's Northeast
headquarters and other evidence showed clearly that the military never had any
of the hijacked airliners in its sights and at one point chased a phantom
aircraft -- American Airlines Flight 11 -- long after it had crashed into the
World Trade Center.
Maj. Gen. Larry Arnold and Col. Alan Scott told the commission that NORAD had
begun tracking United 93 at 9:16 a.m., but the commission determined that the
airliner was not hijacked until 12 minutes later. The military was not aware of
the flight until after it had crashed in Pennsylvania.
These and other discrepancies did not become clear until the commission, forced
to use subpoenas, obtained audiotapes from the FAA and NORAD, officials said.
The agencies' reluctance to release the tapes -- along with e-mails, erroneous
public statements and other evidence -- led some of the panel's staff members
and commissioners to believe that authorities sought to mislead the commission
and the public about what happened on Sept. 11.
"I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described,"
John Farmer, a former New Jersey attorney general who led the staff inquiry into
events on Sept. 11, said in a recent interview. "The tapes told a radically
different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years. . .
. This is not spin. This is not true."
John F. Lehman, a Republican commission member and former Navy secretary, said
in a recent interview that he believed the panel may have been lied to but that
he did not believe the evidence was sufficient to support a criminal referral."
-
Washington Post (08/02/06)
(See also:
July 31, 2004 - Senator Mark
Dayton says NORAD and the FAA lied about failures on 9/11)
•
August 6, 2006 - Killtown's blogpost alleging that Val McClatchey's
infamous red barn smoke plume photo of the alleged crash of Flight 93 is either
a smoke plume from a different explosion originating much closer to her house, or
that the smoke plume was photoshopped on there makes headline news at Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette.
Conspiracy theorists blog that Flight 93 photo
is fake
"Taken the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, seconds after United Airlines Flight 93
plunged into a nearby field, the eerie photo was, and still is, according to the
FBI, the closest thing it's got to an image of the crash itself.
Val McClatchey snapped the single picture with her new digital camera. The wife
and mother had been sitting on the edge of her sofa, clutching her second cup of
coffee and watching the smoking towers of the World Trade Center on TV, when she
heard the sudden surge of a plane engine, followed by a violent, house-shaking
boom. Mrs. McClatchey grabbed the camera and ran onto the front porch of her
house along Indian Lake.
"I didn't even aim. I was just like, 'Oh, my God,' " she said. She dropped the
camera, jolting the battery loose, then tried in vain to call her husband, son
and daughter. She had no idea what she'd captured until the state police put a
call out to people in the area, asking for photos, debris and other evidence.
She took a printout of her photo to the police, she said, and, within an hour,
FBI agents were at her house.
She copyrighted her photo and gave it a title, "End of Serenity." This would
later prove an apt description of what was in store for Mrs. McClatchey, 50. She
would find herself the target of 9/11 conspiracy theorists and involved in a
copyright lawsuit against The Associated Press.
During the next few years, the photo would appear in magazines and newspapers,
from Newsweek to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, with Mrs. McClatchey's permission.
It became part of a fund-raising brochure for the Flight 93 Memorial Fund.
Copies are available upon request, with proceeds going to the charity Heroic
Choices, formerly the Todd Beamer Foundation.
But Mrs. McClatchey's fame has recently taken a sour turn. The real estate agent
has recently become a target of bloggers calling themselves "9-11 researchers,"
who are seeking to prove that the U.S. government was complicit in the attacks
that brought down the Twin Towers, pierced the Pentagon and crashed United
Airlines Flight 93. "The End of Serenity" has turned out to be their smoking
gun.
The smoke plume doesn't line up right, they say. It is too large in the frame.
The smoke is characteristic of an ordnance blast, not a jet fuel fire, further
evidence that the government shot down Flight 93. They analyze wind direction,
debris patterns and camera trajectories, all in the service of the theory that
the crash was faked.
On a simple Google search, Mrs. McClatchey's name now pops up in the same
sentence as "total fraud."
"Val McClatchey has made it unmistakably clear to us that she intends to milk
her 9-11 claim to fame for all it's worth, truth be damned," writes Lisa Guliani,
of WingTV (World Independent News Group), who traveled to Stoystown to interview
Mrs. McClatchey.
"If the smoke plume was photo-shopped on there, then that could mean either that
the photo was simply a fraud by Val, or it was a fraud by her and the FBI and/or
other government agents since she did mention that the FBI did inspect the
memory card from her camera," writes a blogger identified as Killtown.
Mrs. McClatchey was taken aback by the personal criticism by those who, she
said, "hide behind their aliases." -
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (08/06/06)
(See also: Killtown's:
Val McClatchey Photo: More Smoking Guns, or Total Fraud?)
9/11 conspiracy theorists energized -
CNN (08/06/06)
August 9, 2006 - Alvin B. ("Buzzy") Krongard,
Former Investment Banking and CIA Veteran, Joins Iridium Satellite Board of
Directors -
iridium.com
Former Giuliani Aide Found Strangled; Investigators Rule
Out Suicide In Death Of Martin Barreto -
wcbstv
(08/23/06) Court Papers: Man Admits Strangling Giuliani Aide -
wcbstv
(10/06/06)
Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked -
scotsman.com
(08/28/06)
Some look back to 9/11 and see a U.S. conspiracy
- Star Tribune
(09/05/06)
Fury as academics claim 9/11 was 'inside job'
-
Daily Mail UK (09/06/06)
September 7, 2006 - A Grieving Mother Wonders
What Really Happened on 9/11-
independent.com
September 8, 2006 - 9/11 conspiracy theorists
multiply; Many Americans suspect U.S. government involvement or complicity -
msnbc
September 8, 2006 - Senate: Saddam Saw al-Qaida As
Threat; Senate Report Says Saddam Hussein Regarded al-Qaida As a Threat Rather
Than a Possible Ally -
abcnews
September 8, 2006 - Senate: No Prewar
Saddam-al-Qaida Ties; Senate Intelligence Report Says No Evidence of Prewar
Ties Between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida -
abcnews
September 8, 2006 - Do you believe any 9/11 conspiracy theories? -
msnbc
September 11, 2006 - Meet the No Planers;
They believe there weren't any planes on 9/11 -
newstatesman.com
September 11, 2006 - More Canadians blaming U.S.
policies for Sept. 11 attacks -
canada.com
September 11, 2006 - One in 5 Canadians sees 9/11
as US plot - poll -
news.oneindia
September 12, 2006 - Theory that U.S. orchestrated
Sept. 11 attacks 'not absurd': Venezuela -
uruknet.com
September 12, 2006 - Air Force chief: Test weapons
on testy U.S. mobs -
CNN [reprint:
infowars.com]
September 21, 2006 - Pentagon: Able Danger
Couldn't Stop 9/11 -
abcnews
September 22, 2006 - US 'threatened to bomb'
Pakistan -
bbc
•
September 15, 2006 - The U.S. government releases a CITGO gas station
security video that barely shows the Pentagon explosion and does not show a
plane.
CITGO Gas Station Cameras Near Pentagon
Evidently Did Not Capture Attack
"Judicial Watch, the public interest group that
investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released a videotape
from the FBI that was taken from a CITGO gas station near the Pentagon. Many
believed the video would show American Airlines Flight 77 striking the Pentagon
on September 11, 2001. The videotape, which depicts views from the gas station's
six security cameras, shows that the CITGO cameras did not seem to capture the
actual attack. The tape was partially obscured by the FBI to protect the privacy
of individuals captured on video in the CITGO convenience store. The FBI
released the videotape as the result of a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information
Act request and related lawsuit.
Judicial Watch originally filed a Freedom of Information Act request on December
15, 2004 seeking all records pertaining to September 11, 2001 camera recordings
of the Pentagon attack from the Nexcomm/CITGO gas station, Pentagon security
cameras and the Virginia Department of Transportation. Judicial Watch filed a
lawsuit against the FBI on June 22, 2006. (In May 2006, The Department of
Defense released videos depicting the attack in response to another Judicial
Watch lawsuit.)
The FBI has agreed to release to Judicial Watch a videotape obtained from the
Doubletree Hotel near the Pentagon by November 9, 2006.
"With the release of this videotape, we are one step closer to completing the
public record on the September 11 terrorist attacks," said Judicial Watch
President Tom Fitton. "The CITGO tape evidently does not show the Pentagon
attack, which the American people can now see for themselves. This videotape was
the subject of intense public debate. Now that it has been released to the
public, there is no reason for further speculation about what it does or does
not show." -
Judicial Watch (09/15/06)
- Watch video clip
here.
(See also:
December 2, 2006 -
Doubletree Hotel security video is released which shows no plane;
Killtown's: Flight 77 - Security Videos)
RICE OK'D CLAIM OF 'SAFE AIR' AFTER 9/11 -
NY Post (09/24/06)
•
October 1, 2006 - A high quality video with no soundtrack and time stamped
January 8, 2000 emerges showing alleged 9/11 suicide pilots Mohammed Atta
(Flight 11) and Ziad Jarrah (Flight 93) which was obtain by UK's The Sunday
Times through a "previously tested channel".
The laughing 9/11 bombers; Exclusive film of
suicide pilots at Bin Laden’s HQ
"FILM of the ringleader of the September 11
hijackers reading his “martyrdom” will inside Afghanistan at Osama Bin Laden’s
headquarters has emerged five years after the Al-Qaeda outrage.
It is the first time that a videotape has appeared of Mohammed Atta — who flew
an American Airlines plane into the north tower of the World Trade Center — at a
training camp in Afghanistan. It fills in a significant gap in the timing of the
build-up to the attacks on the United States.
Dates on the tape show Atta was filmed on January 18, 2000, together with Ziad
Jarrah, the pilot of United Airlines flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania
after the passengers apparently stormed the flight deck.
The Sunday Times has obtained a copy of the video through a previously tested
channel. The tape has no soundtrack and a US source said lip readers had tried
without success to decipher what was being said.
Despite the deadly tasks the men had been assigned, they appear in high spirits,
laughing and smiling in front of the camera. Only when Atta, with an AK-47
propped on a wall beside him, reads a document marked in Arabic “the will”, does
he become solemn. Both are well groomed, without the haggard appearance of the
identity mugshots issued after September 11.
The high quality, unedited film shows Bin Laden addressing his followers at the
mud-walled complex near Kandahar. One of the main figures in the September 11
plot, Ramzi Binalshibh, is identifiable in the crowd, as is a bodyguard whose
task was to kill Bin Laden with two bullets to the head if he faced capture.
Dating on the tape indicates that the Al-Qaeda leader was filmed on January 8,
2000, 10 days before Atta and Jarrah recorded their wills.
American and German investigators have struggled to find evidence of Atta’s
whereabouts in January 2000 after he disappeared from Hamburg. The hour-long
tape places him in Afghanistan at a decisive moment in the development of the
conspiracy when he was given operational command. Months later both he and
Jarrah enrolled at flying schools in America.
Investigators have also puzzled over the fact that unlike the rest of the
hijackers — most of whom were young Saudi fundamentalists — Atta and Jarrah were
well educated and appeared to fit into western society while studying in
Germany. The video indicates how easily they slipped from a western identity to
a fundamentalist one. It also shows up the subterfuge they maintained in Germany
and America that they did not know each other, all part of evading detection." -
Sunday Times (10/01/06)
Rice: No Memory of CIA Warning of Attack -
ABC (10/02/06)
October 16, 2006 - FBI Raids Home Of Congressman's
Daughter; Rep. Curt Weldon Is Being Investigated For Improperly Using His
Influence -
cbsnews
October 17, 2006 - Convictions of dead Enron chief
Ken Lay thrown out -
abcnews
•
October 18, 2006 - A U.S. appeals court hands WTC leaseholder Larry
Silverstein a mixed verdict in his ongoing insurance payment battle by affirming
a previous jury decisions which forced some insurers to treat the 9/11 attacks
as two separate events, but allowed others to treat it as a single event due to
the wording of their policies which leaves Silverstein with less than $5 billion
to redevelop the complex instead of the $7 billion he wanted.
Developer gets mixed ruling on WTC case; Court
affirms some, but not all, jury decisions viewing 9/11 as 2 'events.'
"A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday handed World
Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein a mixed verdict in his ongoing battle
to collect billions of dollars in claims from the complex's insurers.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit affirmed previous jury decisions
which forced some insurers to treat the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks as two separate
events, but allowed others to treat it as a single event due to the wording of
their policies.
The ruling means that Silverstein could collect
some $1.1 billion in additional damages from insurers including Allianz, Zurich
American Insurance and Travelers Indemnity Co.
But others, including American International Group Inc.'s (Charts) Lexington
unit, Swiss Re, and Lloyd's of London, will pay on the single-event basis.
Wednesday's decision leaves Silverstein with less than $5 billion to redevelop
the complex, which anchored Manhattan's financial district, instead of the $7
billion he wanted.
But both sides declared victory in the court's ruling.
Silverstein, who leased the World Trade Center
just two months before it was destroyed, faulted the insurers for the protracted
battle. State and city officials say the insurers have repeatedly delayed the
rebuilding of the complex.
Stuart Cotton, an attorney who represented AIG's Lexington unit, one of the
winning insurers, said most of those carriers had already paid out the nearly
$2.5 billion they owed to Silverstein.
The other insurers, who already owe $1 billion, now must pay another $1.1
billion, depending on whether Silverstein can prove his damages were that high,
said Cotton, a partner in Mound, Cotton, Wollan & Greengrass in New York City.
Silverstein's insurance battles are not over. Two
firms, Allianz Insurance Company and Gulf Insurance Company still threaten to
withheld payments due to Silverstein's new accord with the land-owning Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey, a Silverstein spokesman said.
Most of the insurers who raised this issue several months ago have backed down."
-
CNN (10/18/06)
October 28, 2006 - 9/11 incident, a make-believe: Iranian official -
iranmania.com
•
November 2, 2006 - Remains of Flight 11 stewardess Karen Martin and
passenger Douglas Stone along with an anonymous passenger have been identified
from remains "accidentally" discovered last month by construction workers.
"Three more 9/11 victims were identified from
remains found at the World Trade Center site. Their remains that were found
years ago, but weren't matched to the victims' DNA until new samples were
provided.
Those identified include brave flight attendant Karen Martin, who was stabbed by
the terrorists after she tried to stop them from hijacking American Airlines
Flight 11; Douglas Stone, a New Hampshire businessman aboard that flight; and
another man whose family didn't want his name made public.
Some 200 pieces of bone and other remains have been found since the accidental
discovery last month by workers doing routine construction work along the
western edge of the 16-acre site.
Forensic experts say the new discoveries of remains at Ground Zero in the past
month could lead to many more identifications because the bones are in such good
condition." -
WCBS-TV (11/02/06)
•
December 2, 2006 - The FBI releases a Doubletree Hotel security
video (forced by a FOI lawsuit by Flight77.info) that shows an explosion coming up from the Pentagon, but it does not show
any plane, or even the Pentagon which is blocked out by an overpass.
Hotel security video shows 9/11 Pentagon blast,
but no plane
"A hotel security camera video released by the U.S. government showed the
explosion that followed the crash of American Airlines Flight 77 into the
Pentagon on September 11, 2001, but the low-quality recording did not capture an
image of the 757 jetliner.
The video, recorded by a security camera at the Doubletree Hotel in Arlington,
was released to public interest group Judicial Watch and others who filed a
lawsuit seeking the tape and other videos from that day.
CNN filed a Freedom of Information request for the video in February 2002, after
the manager of the hotel disclosed its existence to CNN Senior Pentagon
Correspondent Jamie McIntyre and said it had been confiscated by the FBI. CNN's
FOI request was denied because at the time the tape was considered evidence in
the investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui, who has since been convicted.
There was speculation that this video might show the American Airlines 757
jetliner before it crashed, but a close examination by CNN only revealed the
subsequent explosion and no image of the jet. The only known record of the plane
is on images from the Pentagon security camera, first broadcast by CNN in March
of 2002, and officially released in their entirety May of this year." -
CNN (12/02/06)
FBI Releases New Footage of 9/11 Pentagon
Attack
"The FBI released video Monday from a camera atop
a hotel in Arlington, Va. that shows the moment Flight 77 crashed into the
Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
The video does not show the plane in flight.
The video was released in response to a freedom of information lawsuit filed by
Scott Bingham, seeking the video, which the FBI seized from the Double Tree
Hotel in Arlington after the 9/11 attacks.
The video is grainy and the focus is soft, but a rapidly-growing tower of smoke
is visible in the distance on the upper edge of the frame as the plane crashes
into the building.KWTX
Click Here For More Information:
http://www.flight77.info" -
KWTX
(12/04/06)
- See video
here.
Map of Doubletree Hotel.
(See also:
September 15, 2006 - CITGO
gas station security video is released, but does not show a plane;
Killtown's: Flight 77 - Security Videos)
•
December 5, 2006 - Three days after the Doubletree Hotel video is released
that allegedly shows the aftermath of Flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon, the daughter of
reported Flight 77 pilot Charles
Burlingame is killed in a "suspicious" fire in her apartment she only
had lived in for a month. Wendy Burlingame's boyfriend,
an Army veteran and her former fiancé, said they both
tried to extinguish the fire, but when they tried to flee out the door, he
accidentally shut and locked the front door before she got out and couldn't get back in to get her and there has never been a fire related
incident in the history of the apartment complex.
Fire claims life of daughter of airline pilot
killed on 9/11
"Authorities have identified a woman who perished
in a high-rise fire here early Tuesday as the daughter of an airline pilot whose
plane was hijacked on 9/11 and crashed into the Pentagon.
Wendy Burlingame, 32, died of smoke inhalation
when fire swept through her 10th-floor apartment in the 44-story Galaxy Towers
complex, according to a preliminary report by investigators.
Burlingame was the only daughter of Charles F. Burlingame III, who was the pilot
of American Airlines Flight 77 on Sept. 11, 2001, her uncle, Mark Burlingame,
said Tuesday.
Wendy Burlingame's death was being investigated as a suspicious death, according
to Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio.
Her live-in boyfriend, whose name was not released by authorities, was also in
the apartment when the fire started shortly before midnight Monday,
investigators said.
According to investigators, the boyfriend told them that he and Burlingame had
tried to extinguish the fire with water from a sink. When tried to flee, the
boyfriend made it into the hallway, but accidentally shut and locked the front
door before realizing that Burlingame was not right behind him. He wasn't able
to get back in.
As firefighters rushed into the 44-story building to put out the blaze, the
building resident assigned as fire warden for the night found the boyfriend
outside the apartment door, visibly shaken, and led him to safety.
Firefighters found Burlingame's body in a hallway between the kitchen and a
bedroom. Her two dogs, a 4-year-old pit bull and a pit bull puppy, also died.
Preliminary reports indicated Burlingame died from smoke inhalation, and there
was no indication of additional trauma to her body, said DeFazio, who said an
autopsy and toxicology test might reveal more.
Burlingame had moved to Guttenberg from Pittsburgh several months ago, her uncle
said." -
Newsday (12/05/06)
Daughter of 9/11 Flight Pilot Is Found Dead
After a Fire
"The woman, Wendy Burlingame, 32, was discovered
by firefighters in a short hallway between the kitchen and the bedroom of her
10th-floor apartment where the four-alarm fire began, said Edward DeFazio, the
Hudson County prosecutor. Mr. DeFazio said the fire, which law enforcement
officials are calling suspicious, began shortly after midnight in the apartment
Ms. Burlingame shared with her companion and was still under investigation, as
was the cause of Ms. Burlingame’s death. No one else was injured in the fire,
Mr. DeFazio said.
Mr. DeFazio said her companion of three years was among several people being
interviewed in connection with her death. He would not identify the companion,
but tenants in the complex identified him as Kevin Roderick.
Sebastian Rojas, 27, lives downstairs from Mr. Roderick. He said that while he
did not know Mr. Roderick and Ms. Burlingame well, they were “real late-night
people” whose footsteps, and two dogs, he heard constantly above his head.
The two dogs were also found dead in the home, Mr. DeFazio said.
Shortly before the fire erupted, Mr. Rojas said, there were “louder noises than
usual” coming from the apartment upstairs, “like somebody running around up
there, like somebody doing something up there in a rush.”
Then he said he heard a thud — “like somebody dropped something”— and three or
four minutes later the building’s fire alarm sounded. Mr. Rojas said that within
minutes his apartment filled with smoke. He then safely left the building." -
NY Times (12/06/06)
9/11 KIN HORROR; N.J. HI-RISE 'ARSON' KILLS DAUGHTER OF PENTAGON PILOT
"A month ago, Burlingame, 33, picked up stakes,
sold her lucrative online dating service in Pittsburgh and moved to New Jersey
to live with her long-time boyfriend, Kevin Roderick, relatives said.
Roderick, an Army veteran, escaped unscathed when the deadly blaze broke out in
the bedroom at 12:03 a.m.
Hudson County Prosecutor Edward De Fazio said that "drinking might have been
involved" but did not elaborate.
Burlingame's body was found in the hallway between
the kitchen and bedroom. The couple's two dogs also died.
Police questioned and released Roderick. He told them he thought Burlingame "was
behind him" when he fled the smoky apartment." -
NY Post (12/06/06)
Daughter of pilot killed on 9/11 dies in Hudson
apartment fire
"She recently sold her Pittsburgh dating service,
according to friends in that city, and moved to New Jersey in order to reunite
with her former fiancé, whom they identified as Kevin Roderick, a Galaxy Towers
resident for the past six months.
She moved a month ago to the complex in Guttenberg of three connecting highrise
luxury apartment buildings that overlooks the Hudson River and Manhattan sky
line." -
Star-Ledger (12/06/06)
Fire Safety / Detection
"There has never been a fire related incident in the history of the Galaxy.
There are smoke detectors in every apartment and small portable fire
extinguishers are available. Fire alarms, sprinkler systems and periodic fire
drills and alarm testing, all add to your safety." -
Riverfrontrealty.com
-
Map of Galaxy Towers.
Side note:
Debra Burlingame, Wendy's aunt and Charles' sister, has an article of hers
published in the Wall Street Journal the day after Wendy is killed that mentions
Flight 77.
On a Wing and a Prayer; Grievance theater at
Minneapolis International Airport.
BY DEBRA BURLINGAME
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
"The activist Muslim American Society (MAS) issued
a press release within hours of the incident, demanding an apology and
announcing a "pray-in" at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. Standing
just a short distance from the Pentagon, where five years ago black plumes of
smoke from the crash of American Airlines flight 77 could be seen for miles, the
assembled demonstrators complained that African-American Muslims, accustomed to
"driving while black," must now cope with the injustice of "flying while
Muslim." This brazen two-step is racial politics at its worst; none of the imams
are African-American. MAS, which teaches an "Activist Training" program with
lessons on "how to talk to the media," must have been thrilled when one cable
news outfit, suckered by the rhetoric, compared the imams' conduct to that of
civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her bus seat in the face of
institutional racism. One wonders what the parents of the three 11-year-olds who
died on flight 77--all African-American kids on a National Geographic field
trip--would make of this stunning comparison.
Ms. Burlingame, a director of the World Trade
Center Memorial Foundation, is the sister of Charles F. "Chic" Burlingame III,
the pilot of American Airlines flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon on
Sept. 11, 2001." -
Wall Street Journal (12/06/06)
(See also:
December 2, 2006 - The
FBI releases a Doubletree Hotel security video that allegedly shows aftermath of
Flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon)
December 5, 2006 - Say Hello to the Goodbye Weapon
-
wired.com
December 8, 2006 - Removal begins for toxic tower
after 9/11 damage; Deutsche Bank AG building, 41-story office tower -
chron.com
December 10, 2006 -The 9/11 Truth Movement's Dangers;
Nation: Dishonest Government Leads To Cynical Theorists -
CBS
December 24, 2006 - Attorney and journalist
Paul Sanford, who was the first reporter to ask the White House if Karl Rove's
alleged outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame constituted treason, allegedly jumps
to his death from the 9th floor of an Embassy Suites Hotel in Monterey, CA.
Lawyer falls to death at hotel
"In what police describe as a "probable" suicide
leap, a prominent Monterey Bay Area attorney fell at least nine floors to his
death at the Embassy Suites Hotel Monterey Bay in Seaside the morning before
Christmas.
Shortly before 9:30 a.m. Sunday, officers found the body of Aptos attorney Paul
Sanford in the west end of the hotel lobby, where he had landed on a large
ventilation grate.
Almost immediately, he caused a stir after he
joined the White House Press Corps in 2005, making waves as the first reporter
to ask then-White House press secretary Scott McClellan whether the leaking of
CIA agent Valerie Plame's name might be considered an act of treason.
"There has been a lot of speculation concerning the meaning of the underlying
statute and the grand jury investigation concerning Mr. Rove," Sanford asked.
"The question is, have the legal counsel to the White House or White House staff
reviewed the statute in sufficient specificity to determine whether a violation
of that statute would, in effect, constitute treason?"
McClellan was apparently flustered by the question and replied that "those are
matters for those overseeing the investigation to decide."
Mills said he had spoken to Sanford's wife, Paula,
and that she also was in shock. He said Sanford, a father of two, was a devoted
family man.
"This is a horrible thing for his family. He would never have intentionally put
his family through that trauma. Something's not right, it doesn't make sense." -
Monterey County Herald (12/27/06)
December 31, 2006 - Reopen 9/11 investigation,
local group says -
burlingtonfreepress.com
•
To date - The FBI's Most Wanted
List does not mention that Osama bin Laden is wanted for 9/11 because the
FBI has "no hard evidence" connecting him with the attacks.
FBI says, "No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden
to 9/11"
"On June 5, 2006, the Muckraker Report contacted
the FBI Headquarters, (202) 324-3000, to learn why Bin Laden’s Most Wanted
poster did not indicate that Usama was also wanted in connection with 9/11. The
Muckraker Report spoke with Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the
FBI. When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on Bin Laden’s Most Wanted web
page, Tomb said, “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most
Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to
9/11.”
Surprised by the ease in which this FBI spokesman made such an astonishing
statement, I asked, “How this was possible?” Tomb continued, “Bin Laden has not
been formally charged in connection to 9/11.” I asked, “How does that work?”
Tomb continued, “The FBI gathers evidence. Once evidence is gathered, it is
turned over to the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice than decides
whether it has enough evidence to present to a federal grand jury. In the case
of the 1998 United States Embassies being bombed, Bin Laden has been formally
indicted and charged by a grand jury. He has not been formally indicted and
charged in connection with 9/11 because the FBI has no hard evidence connected
Bin Laden to 9/11.” -
Muckraker Report
(06/06/06)
FBI: Bin Laden Not Wanted for 9/11?
"The FBI's "Most Wanted Terrorists" web page does
not state that Bin Laden is wanted for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The FBI page states: "Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7,
1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and
Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. In addition, Bin Laden is
a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world."
When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on the FBI's web page, Rex Tomb of
the FBI's public affairs unit is reported to have said, "The reason why 9/11 is
not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden's Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no
hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11."
"On September 20 2001," according to the Guardian, "the Taliban offered to hand
Osama bin Laden to a neutral Islamic country for trial if the US presented them
with evidence that he was responsible for the attacks on New York and
Washington. The US rejected the offer."
On September 23, 2001 the BBC reported that four of the hijack "suspects" -
Waleed Al Shehri, Abdulaziz Al Omari, Saeed Alghamdi, and possibly Khalid Al
Midhar - were alive, and that FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged "the
identity of several of the suicide hijackers is in doubt."
Bin Laden, in a September 28, 2001 interview with the Pakistani newspaper Ummat,
is reported to have said: "I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the
United States."
FBI Director Robert Mueller, in a speech at the Commonwealth Club on April 19,
2002, said: "In our investigation, we have not uncovered a single piece of paper
- either here in the United States, or in the treasure trove of information that
has turned up in Afghanistan and elsewhere - that mentioned any aspect of the
September 11 plot."
The evidence against Bin Laden, promised by Secretary of State Colin Powell on
September 23, 2001, has yet to be made available to the public.
Bin Laden is the "prime suspect" in the September 11 attacks, said President
Bush on September 17, 2001, and he pledged to capture him "dead or alive." -
Milli Gazette (06/11/06)
Bin Laden, Most Wanted For Embassy Bombings?
"Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is a longtime and
prominent member of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list, which notes his role as
the suspected mastermind of the deadly U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa on
Aug. 7, 1998.
But another more infamous date -- Sept. 11, 2001 -- is nowhere to be found on
the same FBI notice.
The curious omission underscores the Justice
Department's decision, so far, to not seek formal criminal charges against bin
Laden for approving al-Qaeda's most notorious and successful terrorist attack.
The notice says bin Laden is "a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout
the world" but does not provide details.
The absence has also provided fodder for conspiracy theorists who think the U.S.
government or another power was behind the Sept. 11 hijackings. From this point
of view, the lack of a Sept. 11 reference suggests that the connection to al-Qaeda
is uncertain.
Exhaustive government and independent investigations have concluded otherwise,
of course, and bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders have proudly taken
responsibility for the hijackings. FBI officials say the wanted poster merely
reflects the government's long-standing practice of relying on actual criminal
charges in the notices.
"There's no mystery here," said FBI spokesman Rex Tomb. "They could add 9/11 on
there, but they have not because they don't need to at this point. . . . There
is a logic to it."
David N. Kelley, the former U.S. attorney in New York who oversaw terrorism
cases when bin Laden was indicted for the embassy bombings there in 1998, said
he is not at all surprised by the lack of a reference to Sept. 11 on the
official wanted poster. Kelley said the issue is a matter of legal restrictions
and the need to be fair to any defendant.
Bin Laden was placed on the Ten Most Wanted list in June 1999 after being
indicted for murder, conspiracy and other charges in connection with the embassy
bombings, and a $5 million reward was put on his head at that time. The listing
was updated after Sept. 11, 2001, to include a higher reward of $25 million, but
no mention of the attacks was added.
The FBI maintains a separate "Most Wanted Terrorists" list, which includes bin
Laden and 25 others who have been indicted in U.S. federal courts in connection
with terror plots. But this second bin Laden listing also makes no mention of
Sept. 11.
"The indictments currently listed on the posters allow them to be arrested and
brought to justice," the FBI says in a note accompanying the terrorist list on
its Web site. "Future indictments may be handed down as various investigations
proceed in connection to other terrorist incidents, for example, the terrorist
attacks on September 11, 2001." -
Washington Post (08/28/06)
Most Wanted Terrorist - Usama Bin Laden:
"Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the
August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. In addition,
Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world." -
FBI
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The Complete 9/11
Timeline /
Cover up, lies, contradictions - Center for Cooperative
Research
Those
funny 9-11 coincidences - The Movement
"Oddities" Information Zone - Citizens For Legitimate Government
"Oh Lucy! - You Gotta Lotta 'Splainin To Do" - From the Wilderness
The Truth
About the 9/11 Attacks - Von Chloride
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9-11
Attacks: Was it known beforehand?,
Eleven,
Wing Dings - Anomalous Reality
Facts
& Fiction Related To September 11th - September-11th.us
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- Prison Planet
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