September 11th And The Bush Administration

 Compelling Evidence for Complicity

Introduction

Clearly, one of the most critical questions of the twenty-first century

concerns why the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were not
prevented. As I outline below, there are numerous aspects regarding the
official stories about September 11 th which do not fit with known facts,
which contradict each other, which defy common sense, and which
indicate a pattern of misinformation and coverup. The reports coming out
of Washington do very little to alleviate these concerns.

For example, the Congressional report released on July 25, 2003 by a

joint panel of House and Senate intelligence committees concluded that
9/11 resulted in C.I.A. and F.B.I. "lapses." While incompetence is
frightening enough given a $40 billion budget, it is simply not consistent
with known facts. It is consistent with the reports from other government
scandals such has the Iran Contra Affair which produced damage control
and cover up but not answers to the more probing questions. But
perhaps a comparison to Watergate is more apropos since we now have
twenty-eight pages of this report, which the Bush Administration refuses
to release. The report from the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) is believable unless you are seriously interested in the truth.
Under more careful scientific scrutiny, it does not answer some very
important questions.

Newspapers across the country call for an investigation into Bush’s lies
about the reasons for war on Iraq. Many people may accept the fact of
Bush’s false pretext for a war on Arab people in a distant place,
especially after the fact. However, few people will be as accepting if it is
shown that this Administration was complicit in acts of atrocities against
its own people.

The magnitude of the crisis is readily apparent by noting that 9/11 serves
as a pretext for a never-ending war against the world, including
preemptive strikes against defenseless, but resource rich countries. It
also serves as a pretext for draconian measures of repression at home,
including the cabinet level Department of Homeland Security and Patriot
Act I, and its sequel. September 11 th has become the cause for
numerous other acts from massive increases in military spending and to
a Fast Track Trade Agreement for the President.
To date, investigations stop far too short, the public is left in the dark on
too many questions easily answered, and no one in the Bush
Administration has been held accountable for any actions surrounding
the attacks of September 11, 2001. The National Commission on
Terrorists Attacks Upon the United States, which was formed at the
insistence of the family of some of the victims, is continuing to hold
hearings and a final report is expected by May, 2004. It remains to be
seen if, after a two-year lapse, they can come closer to the truth about
September 11th. I believe that this would only happen if public pressure
were brought to bear and accountability demanded from the Bush
Administration. Accountability for any atrocity should attract the attention
of serious investigative reporters, media critics and even news
commentators. That is their chosen responsibility. Who is to raise the
question of why journalists and others in the mass media are failing the
people of the U.S. and the world?

In this article, I outline twenty-two items of evidence and questions, each

one sufficient reason to demand an investigation into why September
11th was not prevented. Together, these items suggest that the most
plausible explanation of events is that the Bush Administration was
complicit in the terrorist attacks. This should be a national and
international scandal. What is being discovered will shock many people,
which is one of the reasons for deliberate corporate media coverup. But
a significant number of people within the U.S. see (or will see) the
consistencies in the events surrounding 9/11 as described below, and
what they know about U.S. foreign policy. Nevertheless, the degree to
which this Administration is pursuing a course of world domination at any
cost is unprecedented. One of the best ways of putting a halt to this
destructive course is to expose the Bush Administration and insist on
their accountability to the American people. Thus, the intent of this article
is to help fill the void in the media on the issue of the Bush
Administration’s complicity in 9/11.

Here is the official story: On the morning of September 11, 2001 four
Boeing passenger jets were hijacked within an hour by nineteen Arab
terrorists armed with boxcutters. Pilots among these terrorists took
control of the commercial planes and changed course toward targets in
New York City and Washington D.C. Two of the planes were deliberately
crashed into the Twin Towers, causing fires within the towers, which
melted the steel support structures, thereby causing the buildings to
collapse completely. A third plane was deliberately crashed into the
Pentagon. Passengers on the fourth plane overpowered the hijackers
and caused the plane to crash in Pennsylvania. This was an attack on
America planned and directed by Osama bin Laden as the leader of Al-
Qaeda, a previously obscure anti-U.S. international terrorist organization
composed mainly of Arabs. This story cries out for further explanations,
but nothing official is forthcoming. People are simply expected to believe
the official version without question.

Evidence of Complicity by the Bush Administration in 9/11 Terrorist

Attacks

The following twenty-two separate and related points, citing evidence

requiring further investigation, and include questions that demand
answers, were formulated on the basis of the information from the
several sources cited at the end, which should be consulted for
verification and documentation. These sources contain extensive
detailed information and analysis beyond what is provided in this
summary. I hope that this information will incite public outrage leading to
full accountability.

1) The entire United States intelligence community knew of the 9/11

attacks before hand, including the fact that commercial jets were to
be used as bombs; they also knew the approximate dates and
possible targets but were called off their investigations. Western
intelligence had been aware of plans for such terrorist attacks on U.S.
soil as early as 1995. The plan was known as "Project Bojinka." It was
known to both the CIA and FBI and was described in court documents in
the trial in New York of Ramzi Yousef and Abdul Murad for their
participation in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center (WTC).

Seven to eight weeks prior to September 11 th, all internal U.S. security
agencies were warned of the impending Al-Qaeda attacks. The Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) was warned of the attack but did nothing
to beef up security. At least two weeks prior to September 11 th the FBI
agents again confirmed that an attack on lower Manhattan was
imminent. However, the FBI agents were commanded to cut short their
investigations into the attacks and those involved. Agents were
threatened with prosecution under the National Security Act if they
publicized information pertaining to their investigations. Some field
agents predicted, almost precisely, what happened on September 11 th.

As early as 1997, Russia, France, Israel, the Philippines and Egypt all
warned the U.S. of the possibility of the attack. Warning also came from
came from several others sources as well. Recently (May 25, 2002),
CBS revealed that President Bush had been warned in an intelligence
briefing on August 6, 2001that bin Laden might be planning to hijack
commercial planes for a domestic attack in the U.S.

2) There is incontrovertible evidence that the US Air Force all

across the country was comprehensively "stood down" on the
morning of September 11th. Routine security measures, normally in
place, which may well have been able to prevent the attacks, or
reduce their impact, were suspended for one hour while the attacks
were in progress, and re-instated once they were over. Sequence of
events:

8:46 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston smashed into the
north tower of the WTC. The tower collapses at 10:28 a.m.

9:03 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston smashed into the south
tower. It completely collapses at 9:59am.

9:38 a.m.: AA Flight 77 from Dulles hits the Pentagon.

10:10 a.m.: United Flight 93 from Newark crashed in Shanksville,

Pennsylvania.

Andrews Air Force Base is a huge military installation about 10 miles

from the Pentagon. On September 11 th there were two entire squadrons
of combat-ready fighter jets at Andrews. They failed to do their job of
protecting the skies over Washington D.C. Despite over one hour’s
advance warning of a terrorist attack in progress, not a single Andrews
fighter tried to protect the city. The FAA, NORAD and the military have
cooperative procedures enabling fighter jets to automatically intercept
commercial aircraft under emergency conditions. They do not need
instructions from the White House to carry out these procedures, yet
they were not followed.

American Airline Flight 11 departed from Boston Logan Airport at 7:45

a.m. Between 8:13 and 8:20 a.m. Flight 11 became unresponsive to
ground control and radar indicated that the plane had deviated from its
assigned path of flight. Two Flight 11 airline attendants had separately
called American Airlines reporting a hijacking, the presence of weapons,
and the infliction of injuries on passengers and crew. At this point an
emergency was undeniably clear. Yet, according to NORAD's official
timeline, NORAD was not contacted until 20 minutes later at 8:40 a.m.
Tragically the fighter jets were not deployed until 8:52 a.m., a full 32
minutes after the loss of contact with Flight 11.
Flights 175, 77 and 93 all had this same pattern of delays in notification
and delays in scrambling fighter jets. Delays that are difficult to imagine
considering a plane had, by this time, already hit the WTC. The plane
striking the pentagon is particularly spectacular. After it was known that
the plane had a problem, it was nevertheless able to change course and
fly towards Washington, for about 45 minutes, fly past the White House,
and crash into the Pentagon, without any attempt at interception. All the
while two squadrons of fighter aircraft were stationed just 10 miles from
the eventual target. Unless one is prepared to allege collusion, such a
scenario is not possible by any stretch of the imagination.

3) Neither the Joint Chief of Staff, the Secretary of Defense nor the
President of the United States acted according to well established
emergency protocols. Acting Joint Chief of Staff General Richard B.
Myers stated that he saw a TV report about a plane hitting the WTC but
thought it was a small plane. So he went ahead with his meeting. By the
time he came out of the meeting the Pentagon had been hit. Whose
responsibility was it to relay this emergency to the Joint Chief of Staff?

The Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was at his desk when AA77
crashed into the Pentagon. How is it possible that the National Military
Command Center, located in the Pentagon and in contact with law
enforcement and air traffic controllers from 8:46 a.m., did not
communicate to the Secretary of Defense, also at the Pentagon, about
the other hijacked planes especially the one headed to Washington?
After he was notified, why did he go to the war room?

The actions of the President, while the attacks were occurring, indicate
that he deliberately avoided doing anything reasonably expected of a
President wanting to protect American citizens and property. Why didn't
the Secret Service inform him of this national emergency? When is a
President supposed to be notified of everything the agencies know?
Why was the President permitted by the Secret Service to remain in the
Sarasota elementary school? At 9.05, nineteen minutes after the first
attack and two minutes after the second attack on the WTC, Andrew
Card, the presidential chief of staff, whispered something in President
Bush’s ear. The president did not react as if he was interested in trying
to do something about the situation. He did not leave the school,
convene an emergency meeting, consult with anybody, or intervene in
any way, to ensure that the Air Force completed it’s job. He did not even
mention the extraordinary events occurring in New York, but simply
continued with the reading class. His own explanations of his actions
that day contradict known facts.

In the case of a national emergency, seconds of indecision could cost

thousands of lives; and it's precisely for this reason that the government
has a whole network of adjuncts and

advisors to insure that these top officials are among the first to be
informed, not the last. Where were these individuals who did not properly
inform the top officials?

In short, the CIA, the DCI, the State Department, the President, and key
figures around him in the White House, were ultimately responsible for
doing nothing in the face of the mounting evidence of an impending
threat to U.S. national security. Incompetence is a highly improbable
explanation.

4) Prior to 9/11, the US intelligence agencies should have stopped

the nineteen terrorists from entering this country for intelligence
reasons, alone. Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers' visas should have
been unquestionably denied because their applications were
incomplete and incorrect. Most of the 19 hijackers were young,
unmarried, and un-employed males. They were, in short, the "classic
over-stay candidates". A seasoned former Consular officer stated in the
National Review magazine, "Single, idle young .