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Momentum growing for inquiry into "oddities" of September 11
By Joyce Lynn
Online Journal Contributing Writer
March 27, 2002�In January 2000, Bob Gipson of El Dorado County, California,
wrote his congressman expressing his fear that the U.S. government would
orchestrate a terrorist attack on "certain" U.S. cities and blame the attacks on
"Islamic terrorists." Gipson told Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-Ca) he thought the
"operation" would be a platform for declaring martial law in the U.S.
When the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks occurred on September 11,
2001, Gipson had a sickening feeling this was the event he feared.
Gipson is among a growing number of Americans who doubt the official U.S. story of
what happened September 11. More than 9,000 people have signed an on-line
petition asking the U.S. Senate to investigate the "oddities" surrounding the attacks.
In January, a delegation of peace and human rights activists met in San Francisco
with the staffs of California Senators Dianne Feinstein (D) and Barbara Boxer (D) to
push for a congressional inquiry into September 11.
"Horrified as I was by the events of 9-11, I was more shocked by the words of the
government and the media in the aftermath," says Carol Brouillet of the Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom who organized the delegation. "The
cries for war were deafening, and the evidence against the 'terrorists' seemed utterly
fabricated, bizarre, and unbelievable�like a passport floating out of the pocket of a
hijacker on a domestic flight, from that inferno to the streets of New York."
At the San Francisco meeting, Kevin Danaher, Public Education Director of Global
Exchange, said citizens he has met while speaking throughout the country had
questions about the events of September 11 and deserved to know the truth.
Questioning the events surrounding September 11 is a burgeoning interest on the
Internet. Independent researchers are providing information that throws in doubt the
U.S. government's official story about the September 11 attacks. Mainstream media
in the U.S. has side-stepped reporting or investigating these issues.
Created by Fallout Shelter News and hosted by www.PetitionOnline.com, the on-line
petition asks the U.S. Senate to investigate issues that include George W. Bush's
possible knowledge of the terrorist attacks; the role of Unocal and the Carlyle Group
in the oil pipeline across Afghanistan (former President George Bush is a paid
advisor to the Carlyle group, a $12 billion equity group with defense contract
holdings); the abnormally high purchase of put options on United and American
Airlines immediately before September 11; the. black box recordings from the four
planes which crashed on September 11, and the role of remote-controlled software
technology in the hijackings.
In the petition, B. Carlton of Olympia Washington wrote, "For the sake of the victims'
families and the American people, please investigate."
Janet of Pasendena, California urged the Senators, "Have no fear! Investigate!!
B. Marie Clark of West Palm Beach, Florida, commented, "Let not my people perish
by lack of knowledge."
Appropriately named, Jane Sunshine from Woodstock, New York, asked, "Is there
any reason the public cannot be told the truth?"
Diane Noland, from Capitola, California, wrote, "Such an atrocity and no
investigation. How /why was this allowed to happen in American? An abomination, I
will never feel safe here again if our government does not care enough to seriously
and thoroughly investigate this issue."
Earlier this month, Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fl) announced joint House-Senate
intelligence committee hearings to begin around May 1. Rather than address the on-
line petition and activists' concerns, an agreement by congressional leaders and the
White House will focus the hearings on the failure of U.S. intelligence agencies to
stop the September 11 attacks. The hearings will also study what can be done to
prevent future terrorist attacks. The committee hired L. Britt Snider, a former CIA
Inspector General and former special counsel to CIA Director George Tenet, to head
the hearings.
"Allowing ex-CIA Snider to investigate 9-11 is like allowing ex- CEO Ken Lay to
investigate Enron," says Brouillet ."The 9- 11 disaster has been used to justify a 'war
on terrorism' which endangers the lives and liberties of millions of people
everywhere. Why is there no search for the truth about the crime of the century?"
A congressional investigation cannot come soon enough for Bob Gipson. Now, he
has renewed dread that his government is planning another attack on U.S. citizens,
this time leaving Saddam Hussein's fingerprints as a pretext to garner public support
to attack Iraqi citizens. "A bio-chemical attack could come at Easter time," he said.
"That would feed the Islamic versus Christian drama the government is creating."
Joyce Lynn is an independent journalist living in the Bay Area. She was a political
journalist in Washington, D.C., covering social welfare issues. Her articles have
appeared in numerous national and local publications, including Ms., Intuition
Magazine, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Women's Feature Service, Northern
California Jewish Bulletin, and the Pacific Sun. She edits the eZine, Political Diary.
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