- A lot of people have trouble believing that there is
a possibility that 9-11 was *allowed* to happen. That's understandable
given the enormity and savagery of the crime.
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- However, be that as it may, that there are a great
many things that remain unexplained about that day and a great deal of
what has been offered by way of explanation is total and utter
crap.
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- The problem is that cutting through the garbage that
is the "news" is a more than full time job and not likely to be
undertaken by the news media - or by Time's Man of the Year, Rudolph
Giuliani, a former prosecutor and supposed lover and leader of New
York who has shown no curiosity whatsoever about toxic substances
still present downtown, the total structural failure of his city's
tallest buildings, and the details of how thousands of people came to
be killed in his city.
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- Anyway, all is not lost. Someone is watching and
sorting out the fact from fiction. The most detailed report on holes
in the "we were caught off guard" story:
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- http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-1.htm
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- In a most recent development, it now appears the
"flight school" which reportedly trained some of the 911 terror pilots
was backed by the same man who owns the only charter Lear service in
Southwest Florida. This makes the still unexplained post 9-11 private
Lear jet flight from Tampa - when all other private planes in the US
were grounded (even Warren Buffet's) - all the stranger.
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- And that's not the only Tampa area link to
"America's next war" See: "Spooks and Saudis in Florida" at
http://www.madcowprod.com
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- Anyway, here's my response to a thoughtful writer
whose main argument against deliberate malfeasance on the part of the
military is that the military, like his wife who heard the news while
traveling in a cab, took a long time to realize that the second hit on
the WTC was an act of aggression... and therefore it is reasonable
that the US military would have been similarly confused and
unprepared.
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- Here's what I had to say about that:
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- CNN may not have known that Middle Eastern
terrorists have been training for this exact kind of mission since the
1980s, but many people did. Yoseff Bodanksy, who is not exactly a
fringe figure, wrote about airport training camps dedicated to
hijacking and suicide air bombings in detail in a book published in
1993 called "Target America"
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- If reading "old" books is too much work, how about
this refresher course: Bush, on his trip to Italy just weeks before
9-11, was aware that there was a threat on his life from precisely
such an attack when he was in Genoa. The pictures of the
surface-to-air batteries set up to defend Genoa were all over the news
media at the time:
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- http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-092701genoa.story
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- Also, the WTC was well known to be a constant, high
profile terrorist target by every NY law enforcement organization and
intelligence agency in the country and that I got directly from the
former head of intelligence from the Port Authority who communicated
and shared files with the FBI, CIA, NSA, DIA, State Department and
Naval Intelligence.
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- It's one thing for your wife to be confused about
what was happening that day, but it's preposterous to accept that the
people in charge of the nation's defense had any confusion about what
was going on when the *second* plane hit.
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- In news reports, the significance of the second hit
was supposedly relayed to the Pentagon from the street by a NYPD cop
via his cell phone. A cop may have been one of many who made a call,
but it leaves the false impression that the military needed to be
advised by someone one in the city to know what was going on.
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- In fact, The whole thing was reported live, blow by
blow on Coast Guard radio which, the last time I checked, is part of
the US military. There was no time delay between the second hit and
the realization that the city was under attack by suicide jet
airliners. In fact, the Coast Guard radio operator who had a clear
view of the second plane's approach *long before it hit,* was
reporting on the open air waves to everyone with a ship's radio in NY
harbor of the danger that *second* plane posed.
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- Finally, planes have gone stray before and responded
to with no procedural glitches or unexplainable delays such as we saw
on 9-11. Here we have the case of multiple planes being off course for
long periods of time and yet not responded to, even after one slammed
into a building and a second behaved in an obviously menacing
manner.
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- I don't claim to know what exactly what went on that
day, but the story as presented is full of deliberate
misrepresentations of the facts and in my experience when people go
through such lengths to offer misleading information, they have
something to
hide.
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