Updated May 2011  by Barbara Honegger Appendix to THE TERROR CONSPIRACY (Second Ed.) by Jim Marrs

Barbara Honegger, M.S. was Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President as well as White House Policy Analyst (1981-83), and served for more than a decade (2000-2011) as Senior Military Affairs Journalist with the Naval Postgraduate School, the premiere science, technology and national security affairs graduate research university of the Department of Defense. [The views express in this white paper are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Defense or the Naval Postgraduate School].

Honegger was the pioneering Irangate author and whistleblower on the October Surprise (October Surprise, Tudor, 1989); was featured in the Iran-Contra expose documentary “Cover-Up”; and was called as an investigator-witness at the October 23, 2004 and August 27, 2005 Citizens Grand Jury Hearings on the Crimes of 9/11 held at Patriotic Hall in Los Angeles.  Much of the information and analysis contained in this evidence and analysis summary was presented at those Citizen Grand Jury hearings and at numerous 9/11 Truth conferences across the U.S., including most recently in the author’s keynote address to the 9/11-10^th-Anniversary-themed ConspiracyCon conference in Santa Clara, Calif. on June 5, 2011.  

Dean of 9/11 research Prof. David Ray Griffin included the core findings of this white paper – evidence for inside-the-building explosives at the Pentagon on 9/11 paralleling the already-well-known inside-the building explosives at the WTC in New York – in his latest and most definitive book on the Sept. 11^th attacks, The New Pearl Harbor Revisited (Ch. 2, ‘Reports of Bombs’).  In a previous book, Prof. Griffin said that any serious reinvestigation of 9/11 should include the information and analysis contained in this white paper.  Honegger’s two-hour under-oath videotaped interview-testimony of key Pentagon survivor witness April Gallop, summarized below, provided the basis for a critical 9/11 lawsuit filed in Manhattan on Dec. 15, 2008, which is currently on appeal.

"Pentagon Attack Papers” has been published as the Appendix to The Terror Conspiracy and The Terror Conspiracy Revisited by New York Times best-selling author Jim Marrs. Ms. Honegger is also the author of October Surprise (Tudor, 1989), the first book to reveal the true origins of the Iran side of the Iran/Contra scandal.

The second article at this link, "The Scarlet A: The Anthrax Links to 9/11" -- which follows the footnotes to "The Pentagon Attack Papers" -- was published in the Nov. 2008 issue of the independent Washington, D.C. paper The Rock Creek Free Press and as a headline article on www.OpEdNews.com.

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The San Francisco Chronicle commemorated the 100^th anniversary of the Great California 1906 Earthquake with front-page articles featuring a single iconic image -- a charred clock frozen in time at 5:12 a.m. -- the exact moment “The Big One” hit.¹   More than a century after that devastating event, this stopped time piece still serves as both the best evidence and ultimate historic icon that “says it all.” 

Today, another series of clocks and watches frozen in time at the exact moment of the first violent event at the Pentagon on the morning of September 11, 2001 also “capture it all” and serve as the ultimate evidence shattering the Official Conspiracy Theory of what happened there that terrible morning – and narrows the range of who was really responsible. 

Converging Lines of Evidence of a 9:30-to-9:32 a.m. First Violent Event at the Pentagon on Sept. 11 well before the Official Story Says Anything Hit the Building from the Outside             

                The Pentagon was first attacked shortly after 9:30 a.m. -- almost     6 minutes before the official “impact” time of 9:37:46, when the Official Conspiracy Theory says a plane hit the building from the outside.   

The mainstream media actually first reported 9:20 as the time of the Pentagon attack, which quickly changed to “just after 9:30” (See below chronology of reported attack times.)  However, official sources soon began to move the attack time further and further forward, finally settling on 9:37:46, nearly 9:38, based on the claimed final time designation on the flight data recorder (FDR) or ‘black box’ alleged to have been recovered from Flight 77.  Clearly, if the Official Story that Flight 77 hit the Pentagon at almost 9:38 were true, the plane could not have been the cause of massive damage to the inside of the building which occurred almost 6 minutes earlier.  

Chronology of Pentagon Attack Times Reported by the Media  

9:20 Washington Post, by Barbara Vobejda -- 4:59 pm on 9-11-01 

9:20 CNN interv. Bob Franken & Tim Timmerman -- 1:46 pm on 9-11-01

9:30 "about"  Reuters -- 3:57 pm on 9-11-01  

9:30 "about"  USA Today  -- 6:11 am on 9-12-01

9:30  "about"  New York Times -- 9-12-01 

9:30  "shortly after" U.S. News and World Report  9-12-01

9:36   Frank Probast, “A defiant recovery” – 9-12-01     

9:37  Newsday -- 9-12-01

9:37  Washington Post, Timeline in Terrorist Attacks -- 9-12-01 

9:38  CNN, Chris Plante, “Gov’t Failed to React to FAA” – 9-16-01  

9:38  Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies

9:38  USA Today, “Terror Attacks Brought Drastic...” -- 8-13-02  

9:40  Associated Press, 'Pentagon Attack Came Minutes after Rumsfeld Predicted 'There Will Be Another Event’ by Robert Burns -- 5:58 pm on 9/11/01

9:40  Air Force Link

9:40  New York Times, Day of Terror (9-12-01)

9:40  San Antonio Express-News – 9-12-01 

9:43  Pentagram, 'Where Is Safe?' by Dennis Ryan -- 9-14-01  

9:43  New York Times, “The Tragic Timeline” -- 9-12-01  

9:43  Washington Times, “Survivor Studies the Whys of 9-11-01”

9:43  CNN Timeline “Chronology of Terror”  

9:43  Daily Telegraph “At 8.46, World Changed in a Moment”-- 9-16-01

9:45  New York Times, “After The Attack: Sky Rules” -- 9-15-01

9:45  Scripps Howard, “At the Pentagon, Fear & Anger”  

9:45  National Electrical Contractors Association -- 9-14-01   

9:45 "about"  Baltimore Sun -- 9-12-01   

10:00 "just before" CNSNews.com, “Witnesses Describe Pentagon Crash” -- 9-11-01

 Multiple standard-issue battery- and/or electric-operated wall clocks that hung on the walls of the area of the Pentagon attacked on 9/11—including one in the heliport fire station just outside the west wedge—were stopped between 9:30 and 9:32.  The Navy immediately posted a photo of one of these Pentagon wall clocks stopped at 9:31:40 on an official website; and the Pentagon wall clock in the national 9/11 exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution was stopped at 9:31:30.²  These are just some of the west-section Pentagon clocks that were stopped shortly after 9:30 on Sept. 11, 2001.

Significantly, among the first witness reports at the Pentagon was that a fireball was seen rising from the area of the Pentagon heliport just after a helicopter descended towards it, as reported by CNN’s Chris Plant shortly after it happened.  As the poster intentionally placed behind the Navy photo of one of the stopped Pentagon clocks is of an Osprey, an aircraft that can convert in flight from rotor/helicopter mode to fixed-wing plane mode, whoever placed the poster was probably trying to get information out past the official censors. 

In addition, there is April Gallop’s stopped wrist watch.  

April Gallop, an Army employee with a Top Secret clearance, was at her desk in the Army area in the west section of the Pentagon on the morning of 9/11, the part of the building most heavily destroyed and which suffered the most casualties, when what she said sounded and felt “like a bomb” went off, soon followed by a second explosion.  According to the Pentagon’s own after-action report, Gallop’s desk was only approx. 35 feet from the alleged inside trajectory of the alleged impactor plane. 

 “Being in the Army with the training I had, I know what a bomb sounds and acts like, especially the aftermath, and it sounded and acted like a bomb,” Gallop told the author in an under-oath videotaped interview.^2A  “There was no plane or plane parts inside the building, and no smell of jet fuel.”   In those two hours of under-oath videotaped testimony, Gallop states that the explosion went off at the precise instant that she hit the ‘power on’ button on the computer on her desk, to which she had just returned that morning after pregnancy and childbirth leave, and that the first explosion stopped her wrist watch just after 9:30 a.m. ^2B  She has kept the stopped wrist watch in a safe deposit box as evidence of the exact moment of the initial Pentagon explosion.  Significantly, one of the witnesses to an inside-the-building explosion going off at the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City separate from the outside Ryder truck bomb, Jane Graham, revealed to host Bonnie Faulkner in a Pacifica KPFA radio interview that the moment she pressed the on button on her computer at her desk inside the building, an internal explosion went off.^2C  The parallel inside-explosives/outside-attack-cover-story modus operandi of the Murrah Federal Building and Pentagon attacks point to the likelihood of the same inside perpetrators being responsible for the planning and execution of both. 

When the explosion went off as Gallop pressed the ‘on’ button on her computer in the Army area of the west wedge that morning, the massive explosion caused the roof to collapse, which covered her with debris, from which she was able to extricate herself and her infant son.  Gallop then walked out of the building through the so-called ‘entrance’ hole which the Official Story says a large Boeing 757 commercial plane slammed through.  She lost one of her shoes in the blast and walked out with one bare foot.  Despite the claim that massive jet fuel fires consumed the interior of the bldg. at precisely that location, Gallop’s feet were unburned.  (See the below photo taken on the Pentagon lawn immediately after she walked out of the alleged impact hole.  The man to her left is cradling Gallop’s infant son in his arms).   

The huge explosion and massive damage experienced by Gallop at and by her desk inside the west section only about 35 feet from the alleged ‘entrance’ hole of the claimed impactor, combined with the fact that the Pentagon's west outer wall was of 6-foot-thick heavy masonry that had just been specially hardened to withstand damage from an external bomb or impactor, make it almost certain that the explosions she and other witnesses experienced came from inside, not outside, the building. 

Some 9/11 researchers, including early WTC controlled demolition advocate Jim Hoffman, have studied the evidence surrounding the Pentagon attack and, though acknowledging evidence for an explosion not explained by a plane impact or resultant jet fuel combustion, nevertheless believe a Boeing 757 or similarly large aircraft probably hit the building, based predominantly on witnesses who believe they saw a large plane approach and impact the west face.  For such witnesses to believe the incoming plane hit the building, however, the large smoke cloud couldn’t have already been billowing above the Pentagon, or they would have known it was due to some other, prior cause.  Thus, if the early 9:30-to-9:32 inside explosions were the cause of the fireball and smoke cloud, any plane that witnesses saw approaching and believed hit the building  had to have approached near-simultaneously, i.e. just after 9:30, which is no where close to the 9:37:46 official story alleged impact time.

 Other 9/11 researchers, including the Citizens Investigation Team (CIT), assume as fact the author’s original finding that inside-the-building explosion(s) caused the fireball and billowing smoke cloud that a number of CIT witnesses say they saw immediately after a large plane passed to the north of the Citgo gas station, contrary to the official story which claims the path was to the south.  But CIT’s witnesses don’t give a time for the ‘north side’ plane’s approach, and CIT’s videos and website assume the time to be just before the official story impact time of 9:37:46.  In addition, former NASA Director of Research Engineering Dwain Deets recently obtained a reconfirmation from CIT that they believe/assume the time of the north-side approach was, indeed, 9:37:46.  But, again, that’s almost certainly not the case.  If the internal explosion causing the fireball and smoke cloud happened just after 9:30, as marshaled by the evidence presented here, so also must have the approach of the plane that CIT’s witnesses saw -- not at the much later official impact time of almost 9:38.

It is important to note that internal explosion(s) between 9:30 and 9:32 a.m. on the first and/or second floors of the west section of the Pentagon are not inconsistent with there possibly having also been a near-simultaneous and/or later impact by some airborne object smaller than a 757/Flight 77 -- a piloted plane, unmanned drone, or missile -- into the same or a nearby section of the building.  Indeed, if a heat-seeking missile hit the building following the explosions, the heat from the earlier explosion(s) would have become the target for the missile.  (See below claim that A-3 Sky Warrior planes were retrofitted shortly before 9/11 to enable them to be remotely controlled, as well as fitted with missiles.) 

As further evidence of internal explosions at the Pentagon on 9/11, survivor witnesses from inside the west section reported that the blast caused its newly-hardened windows to first expand outwards, and then inwards, consistent with an internal-explosion-caused pressure wave⁷; and the outermost columns closest to where the official story says the right wing of a 757 crashed into the building appear to be blown up and out from the inside, not inward, in online photos.    

Multiple witnesses also said they smelled cordite after the initial explosion at the Pentagon, an explosive which has a distinct and very different smell from that of burning jet fuel, which would have been the smell if Flight 77 had hit and entered the building.  And, as we have already noted, Gallop said there was no smell of jet fuel inside the most-damaged section of the West wedge, where she worked in the Army administrative area, shortly after the first violent event that stopped her watch there shortly after 9:30.  Pentagon eyewitness Don Perkal stated to MSNBC, “Even before stepping outside, I could smell the cordite.  I knew explosives had been set off somewhere.”  Witness Gilah Goldsmith reported, “We saw a huge black cloud of smoke.  It smelled like cordite, or gun smoke.”  And witness Samuel Danner, an AmTrak electrical engineer, was at the site and said he smelled cordite.⁸  Cordite N -- which consists of the main explosive compounds nitroguanidine, nitrocellulose, and nitroglycerin -- is cool-burning and produces little smoke and no flash but, like other explosives,  produces a strong detonation shock wave.  Several witnesses also reported seeing a bright silvery flash, which is inconsistent with both jet fuel combustion from a plane impact, which produces a bright yellow and not a white or silvery fireball; and with cordite explosions which aren’t accompanied by a flash, implying that neither the first nor the second explosions Gallop and other witnesses reported were from a plane impact involving jet fuel.       

Even Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld told Sam Donaldson in an ABC News interview shortly after 9/11 that his first thought, being in the building when the initial attack happened, was that a bomb had gone off.  Donaldson asked, “What did you think it was?”  Rumsfeld replied, “A bomb?”   And, as we have seen from the above chronology of attack times reported by the media, before the attack on his building, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld ‘predicted’ that there would be another attack, i.e. beyond the then two attacks on the WTC.   

The author also interviewed the famous “lone taxi driver” whose cab is the only car visible still parked on I-395 above the Pentagon lawn looking down at the west face after the other cars have  left the freeway. This taxi can be seen in overhead photos taken on the morning of 9/11 and viewable on the Internet. The driver said his was the last car allowed onto that section of I-395 before police put up a barricade and that he decided not to immediately leave the scene like the others “because I realized this was history and I wanted to see for myself.”  He stated that he saw no evidence of a plane having hit the building nor any visible plane pieces on the lawn at the time he arrived, which was after the first violent event had occurred at the building, as black smoke was already streaming up and to the right from inside-the-building fires.  The taxi cab driver drew a diagram of what he saw that morning while overlooking the Pentagon’s west face from I-395, which the author has retained.    

The author has interviewed an Army auditor from Ft. Monmouth , New Jersey, who was on temporary duty assignment at the Pentagon before, on and after 9/11.  He was in the Army financial management spaces only minutes before the Pentagon explosion on the morning of 9/11.  He had just returned to his temporary office on the ground floor of the adjacent south side of the Pentagon by the cafeteria when he heard an explosion and felt the building shake.  Immediately afterwards, he said, hundreds of panicked Pentagon personnel ran by him down the corridor just outside  his office and out the South Entrance, yelling “Bombs!” and “A bomb went off!”  The witness has requested that his name not be used in this evidence summary, but is willing to testify to a grand jury or independent official investigation; his name and contact information have been provided to Prof. David Ray Griffin as bona fides for the ‘Reports of Bombs’ section of the chapter on the Pentagon attack, Chapter 2, in Griffin’s book The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, as has the author’s two-hour under-oath videotaped testimony-interview of April Gallop.

This Army financial management/audit area was part of or contiguous to the Army personnel office, and this general Army administrative area was one of the two west wedge functions most heavily damaged and with the greatest number of fatalities in the Pentagon attack -- the other being the Naval Command Center, more of which below.  The day before 9/11, on September 10, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld publicly announced and acknowledged that the Pentagon was “missing” – that it allegedly could not account for and needed to “find” -- $2.3 Trillion dollars (other reports have put the amount at $2.6 Trillion).  Were some of the auditors who could “follow the money” -- and the computers whose data mining could help them do it -- intentionally targeted by the inside-the-building explosions at the Pentagon on Sept. 11^th ?   In his books, Professor Griffin states that this possibility, first suggested based on publicly known circumstantial evidence by the author, deserves serious investigation.  It is worth noting that the Pentagon’s top financial officer leading up to and at the time of the attacks, Dov Zakheim, who also acknowledged the “missing” Trillions, had a company specializing in aircraft remote-control technology.  As some analyses claim a part found in the Pentagon wreckage is the front-hub assembly of the front compressor of a JT8D turbojet engine used in the A-3 Sky Warrior jet fighter,⁵ and as Air Force A-3 Sky Warriors—normally piloted planes—were reportedly secretly retrofitted into remote-controlled drones and fitted with missiles in a highly-compartmented operation at an airport near Ft. Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport in Colorado in the months before 9/11,⁶ the question further arises as to whether Pentagon auditors trying to “follow the money” and their computerized databases were intentionally targeted by inside-the-building explosives on 9/11, with the plane-impact claim as the preplanned cover story.    

Once it is realized that the real story at the Pentagon – as in the     WTC in New York City – is inside explosives, the possibility that specific offices, functions or even individuals were targeted to be ‘taken out’ becomes very real, whereas the cover story that a Boeing 757 hit the building leads immediately to the assumption -- probably desired by the real perpetrators -- that any specific deaths and destruction were random.   

The Ft. Monmouth Army auditor and his two colleagues were also eyewitnesses to multiple teams of bomb-sniffing dogs and their K-9 handlers in camouflage uniform at the Pentagon metro station just outside the Pentagon at approximately 7:30 am on Sept. 11.  He said that K-9 bomb squads had not been at the Pentagon metro stop before 9/11, or since, but only that day.  Since K-9 dog squads don’t search for airliners, but bombs, some kind of an attack with explosives was apparently anticipated.  Ms. Gallop said she also saw the bomb-sniffing K-9 teams that morning, from the top of the Pentagon Metro stop looking down.  Immediately after the first violent event at the building, also, the Pentagon Metro stop was indeed shut down. (A possible explanation for the dog teams could be advance security for President Bush’s anticipated arrival at the Pentagon heliport, reported to have then been scheduled for approximately 12:30 p.m. on 9/11, but this wouldn’t account for the Pentagon Metro stop being shut down after the attack.)

As mentioned above, in addition to the Army administrative area, the second most-destroyed area of the Pentagon on 9/11 was the Naval Command Center (NCC).  The Official Conspiracy Theory contained in the 9/11 Commission Report and repeated by the mainstream media states that 44 Naval Command Center personnel were physically present in that space on the morning of 9/11, and that 43 of the 44 died.  The author, however, was told a very different story by the military officer in charge of the Navy Anti-Terrorism Division in the NCC on the morning of 9/11, Coast Guard Reserve Rear Adm. Jeffrey Hathaway.^6A  After the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Aden Harbor in Yemen, Hathaway was put in charge of the Navy’s anti-terrorism force protection and was temporarily assigned to the NCC before the attacks.  Upon the author telling Hathaway that the reported sole survivor of the Naval Command Center on 9/11 was Navy Lt. Kevin Shaeffer who had worked at the Naval Postgraduate School before reporting to the Pentagon’s NCC about a year before the attacks, Adm. Hathaway immediately responded that that wasn’t the whole story, and that an 18-to19-person intelligence cell in a hardened room at the NCC were also in the NCC that morning and that the majority of them survived the attack.  Given that everyone officially present in the Naval Command Center, except for Shaeffer, reportedly died -- by far the greatest acknowledged fatalities-per-capita of any section of the Pentagon -- the possibility immediately presents itself that this secret intelligence cell or function was intentionally targeted by the internal explosives.  The author queried Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer -- author of the expose book Operation Dark Heart censored by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and a key operative in the pre-9/11 Special Operations Command (SOCOM) intelligence analysis group “Able Danger” that identified two of the three ‘Al Qaeda’ cells allegedly responsible for the 9/11 attacks including ‘ringleader’ Mohammed Atta before 9/11 -- as to whether this Naval Command Center intel cell potentially targeted by the inside-the-building explosives was part of ‘Able Danger,’ which the new Rumsfeld Pentagon shut down in late January 2001 immediately after Bush and Cheney took control of the White House.  Anthony Shaffer (no immediate relation to sole OCT Naval Command Center survivor Lt. Kevin Shaeffer, who, following months of surgery and therapy after sustaining 60 percent burns from the attacks went on to be the key staff member on the critical 9/11 Commission subgroup on the Pentagon/DoD response to the attacks which, in turn, censored not only “Able Danger” but the Pentagon’s inside-the-building explosions as well as NORAD’s hijack-scenario counterterrorism exercises being ‘played’ on the morning of 9/11) said not to his knowledge, but that he would look further into the identity of the 19-or-so member NCC intelligence cell not numbered among the NCC survivors in the official account.  

The author also interviewed a Navy public affairs officer assigned to the Naval Command Center before and on 9/11, Lt. Cmdr. David Nunally.  This officer was not in the building that morning, having been temporarily assigned elsewhere, but was quickly called back after the attacks to be the deputy public affairs officer at the underground “back-up Pentagon” location in Pennsylvania near the Maryland border, called Site R. Lt. Cmdr. Nunnally said that Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and later Vice President Cheney were flown to the Site R underground bunker in response to Richard Clarke’s officially declaring “Continuity of Government/ Continuity of Operations” (COG/COOP) on the morning of 9/11.  This is confirmed in Clarke’s book, Against All Enemies, which reports that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld chose Wolfowitz to be the designated COG/COOP official at Site R in his stead.  Perhaps significantly, the ‘crash’ site of Flight 93 is not far from Site R and Camp David, which early reports on the morning of 9/11, presumably taken from official sources, said may have been the flight’s intended target (the OCT claims the believed Flight 93 target was the Capitol bldg.) and the airspace around  Camp David, like around Washington, D.C., is a standing ‘shoot down’ area.  Additional information about Site R, on and after 9/11, can be found in James Bamford’s book, A Pretext for War. 

The author has interviewed the then Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations on 9/11, Robert Andrews—the top civilian official in charge of special operations under Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld—a former Green Beret whose office was on the second floor of the south section of the Pentagon, adjacent to the west section. Perhaps significantly, the pre-9/11 ‘Al Qaeda’-tracking and data-mining operation ‘Able Danger’ was under Special Operations Command (SOCOM).  

While drawing the path that he took that morning on a sketch of the Pentagon for the author, Mr. Andrews revealed the following: 

Immediately after the second World Trade Center attack of 9:03 am, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld left his office on the Potomac side of the Pentagon and went (merely) across the hall on the same floor to his Executive Support Center (ESC), which is set up for teleconferencing. There, he joined the now-famous teleconference of top government officials run by White House NSC counterterrorism ‘czar’ Richard Clarke out of the White House Situation Room media room.  Clarke, in his book Against All Enemies, confirms that Rumsfeld was among the first officials on this teleconference shortly after the second WTC tower was hit.  Clarke’s account and Andrews’ confirmation of it are thus completely at odds with the Official Conspiracy Theory and the 9/11 Commission report, which claim that no one could “find” Secretary Rumsfeld until approximately 10:30 a.m. when he walked into the National Military   Command Center (NMCC) in the Pentagon.  The fact that Rumsfeld, the military’s top civilian official, was on Clarke’s teleconference with the top official of the Federal Aviation Administration, FAA Director Jane Garvey, also unmasks the complete lie of the official cover story that Air Force interceptors weren’t scrambled in time “because the military and the FAA couldn’t talk each other” on 9/11.  The top-most officials of the Pentagon and FAA were talking to one another constantly and being recorded on Clarke’s teleconference from as early as 9:10 a.m.  This videotaped Clarke teleconference is thus “The Butterfield Tape” of 9/11 which, not surprisingly, has never been released to the public.  [During the 1970s Watergate scandal, secretly-made tapes of President Nixon’s Oval Office conversations revealed by Alexander Butterfield were the “smoking guns” which forced Nixon to resign or face certain impeachment by the House and trial in the Senate.] 

According to Andrews, immediately after the second WTC tower was struck at 9:03 am, he and his aide left his office and ran as fast as they could down to the Secretary of Defense’s West section Counterterrorism Center (CTC), arriving at approximately 9:10 a.m.   While they were in the CTC, a violent event caused the ceiling tiles to fall from the ceiling and smoke to pour into the room.  Andrews immediately looked at his watch, which read approximately 9:35 a.m. but which was set fast to ensure timely arrival at meetings, so the actual time was closer to 9:32.  He and his aide then immediately evacuated the CTC with the goal of joining Rumsfeld in the Secretary of Defense’s Executive Support Center (ESC) across the hall from Rumsfeld’s main office. He said that Rumsfeld was already on Richard Clarke’s White House teleconference when they arrived.  En route to Rumsfeld’s ESC, Andrews said when he and his aide entered the corridor on the inside ring of the West section, “we had to walk over dead bodies” to get to the inner courtyard.  This is two rings further in towards the center from the inner most purported ‘exit’ hole in the central ‘C’ Ring of the alleged impact of Flight 77 according to the Official Conspiracy Theory of 9/11.     

Once in the inner courtyard, Andrews and his aide ran as fast as they could to Rumsfeld’s Executive Support Center, where he joined Rumsfeld as his special operations/counterterrorism adviser during Clarke’s White House teleconference.  Andrews also said that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld spoke with President Bush while in the ESC.  Whether this was via the Clarke teleconference or by phone or other means was not stated. The fact that Rumsfeld personally communicated with Bush on 9/11 while Rumsfeld was in his Pentagon ESC has been published on the website of the Naval Postgraduate School, an official DoD web site.⁹   

Significantly, investigative journalist Sy Hersh reported that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld broke all previous protocol before 9/11 by allowing Vice President Cheney to oversee the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), then Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense Andrews’ jurisdiction, and Andrews has also been reported to have been Cheney’s top “go to” man for executing his blackest operations, of which the planning and execution for the Sept. 11 attacks would be the ultimate example. When one asks the question, what inside agency or organization would have the high level access and expertise to both obtain and plant the super military grade nano thermate found in the WTC dust as well as obtain and plant the super military grade nano (1 trillion spores per gram) anthrax found in the anthrax letters, the Joint Special Operations Command -- and the CIA’s Special Activities Division with which it works closely -- comes up as the prime candidate. 

            Andrews is but one of the top insiders associated with the Army in  strategic positions before and on 9/11 needed to carry out the real inside plot.  Then Secretary of the Army Tom White was associated with PNAC, which had called for “a new Pearl Harbor” in its pre-9/11 manifesto (PNAC signatory Gary Bauer also happened to have claimed to have been a witness to a large airplane hitting the Pentagon).  The critical role of FAA “hijack coordinator” on 9/11 was held by former JSOC commander Army Lt. Gen. Canavan.  Army bases were closed and/or put on heightened security status shortly before 9/11, but not others; for instance, the Army’s Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif. was closed to the public and put on heightened security protocol about a week before the attacks, though there was no change at the gates of the Naval Postgraduate School, also in Monterey.  Former Director of the Army’s Depleted Uranium Project Maj. Doug Rokke told the author and Physics Professor Steven Jones that the only agency and group he was aware of that controlled the super military grade thermate whose chemical signature Jones found in the WTC dust were “The Golden Boys” from the Army’s Redstone Arsenal.  The Army’s Dugway Proving Ground, in conjunction with the CIA-connected Battelle Memorial Institute, have been identified as the top candidates for the actual sources of the super military grade nano anthrax found in the anthrax letters by lead anthrax attacks investigator Barry Kissin, not the FBI’s conveniently dead patsy Bruce Ivins.  And the Army would have had assured access to its own areas inside the Pentagon to plant explosives; and, indeed, an Army area was the first to be hit when Army declassification specialist April Gallop turned on her computer just after 9:30 on the morning of 9/11.    

High-Level Official Testimony to the 9:32 Violent Event Time  

In addition to the already legion evidence that Flight 77, a large Boeing 757 passenger plane, did not hit the Pentagon – the too-small hole in the west face of the Pentagon, too little debris and no visible damage to the lawn where Flight 77 allegedly skidded before hitting the building on the ground floor, etc. -- there is also official evidence for the way-too-early-for-the-official-story, just-after-9:30 first violent event time.    

The FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] Timeline document “Executive Summary -- Chronology of a Multiple Hijacking Crisis -- September 11, 2001” includes the following entry:  “0932:  ATC [Air Traffic Control] AEA reports aircraft crashes into west side of Pentagon.”³  This earlier-than-official-time is the critical fact here, not the stated cause which was taken from the official narrative and not from direct ATC eyewitness reports.       

On August 27, 2002, then White House Counsel and subsequently Attorney General Alberto Gonzales gave an audio-taped Secretary of the Navy Guest Lecture at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey , Calif., a Department of Defense university, in which he explicitly and clearly states that “The Pentagon was attacked at 9:32.”  A tape of this segment of Gonzales’ talk was played at the 9/11 Emergency Truth Convergence at American University in Washington , D.C. in July 2005, and is on the public record.

Denmark ’s soon-to-be Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller was in a building in Washington , D.C. on 9/11 from which he looked out, heard an explosion and saw the smoke first rise from the Pentagon.  He immediately looked at his wrist watch, which read 9:32 a.m.  He gave radio interviews to Denmark stations the next morning in which he stated that the Pentagon had been attacked at 9:32.⁴

In the Air Force’s own account of the events of 9/11, Air War Over America, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) general who finally ordered interceptor jets scrambled on 9/11, although too late, Gen. Larry Arnold, revealed that he ordered one of his F-16 fighter jets to fly down low over the Pentagon shortly after the attack there that morning, and that this pilot reported back that he saw no evidence that a plane had hit the building.  This fighter—not Flight 77—may well be the plane seen on the Dulles airport Air Traffic Controller’s screen making a steep, high-speed 270- to 330-degree descent before disappearing from the radar.  When a plane flies low enough to go undetected, usually at or below 500 feet, it is said to be flying “under the radar.”  The Pilotsfor911Truth website and their Pandora’s Black Box video documentary have determined from official data released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) that the true altitude/height of the plane represented by the blip seen on the Dulles ATC screen was 476 feet -- way to high to have hit the Pentagon at all, let alone its ground floor, but, significantly, it was in just the height range to been seen by controllers to have just gone off radar so it could be said to have crashed into the building.   Military pilots—like the one sent by Gen. Arnold on 9/11 to report on the Pentagon’s damage—are trained to fly at approx. 500 feet above ground in order to evade radar detection, referred to as “flying under the radar.”  In fact, when Dulles Air Traffic Controller Danielle O’Brien who was tracking this aircraft on her screen watched the “top gun” 330-degree maneuver, they were certain that the plane whose blip they were watching was a U.S. military aircraft, and said so at the time.  As it almost certainly was.

Thus, the likely reason the Pentagon has refused to lower the current official time for “Flight 77” impact, 9:37:46 -- usually ‘rounded down’ to 9:37 in mainstream press reports -- to the 9:30- to 9:32-range actual time of the first explosions there -- is that they decided to claim the ATC screen blip represented by Arnold’s surveillance F-16 fighter jet was Flight 77.  Also, the official cover story claims that the alleged 9:37:46 impact was the only Pentagon attack that morning; yet by the time Arnold’s surveillance jet buzzed down over the building, the first internal violent event had already happened, so the Pentagon cannot acknowledge the earlier 9:30-9:32 time without revealing an inside attack prior to the alleged Official Conspiracy Theory outside impact.  

Even the famous Naudet brothers’ video of the first attack of 9/11, on WTC1 in New York, shows, at the 42:27 mark, a wall clock in a NYC firehouse that reads just after 9:30 as the audio picks up the commentator on the television next to the clock reporting that the Pentagon had been attacked.^4A  

There is even some evidence of internal explosions prior to 9:30.  Pentagon police officer Roosevelt Roberts Jr. was just inside the building’s south side loading dock watching the NYC attacks on TV when he got a call from his sergeant telling him the Pentagon had just gone to Threat Level Delta, the highest security footing which the military takes even for defending against a nuclear attack.  He said that right after he hung up the phone, he “experienced a violent explosion at 9:12 or 9:11, as if it was almost timed for precision.”  Though Roberts doesn’t say so, he implies the “precision” was timing the explosion for 9:11, the same time as the date of the attack.   

Significantly, all of this also happened just after 9:30 a.m.  (From The Complete 9/11 Timeline at www.HistoryCommons):    

*  After an inexplicable delay during which they knew that both WTC towers had been attacked, the Secret Service suddenly acted as if the 9/11 attacks were “real,” rushing President Bush out of the library at the Florida school where they had allowed him to continue to read to children as much as 10 minutes after being told by Andy Card that the second New York Tower had been hit. 

*  Firefighters were suddenly ordered out of WTC 1 in New York City.  

*  The New York Stock Exchange was ordered closed. 

*   The takeover of Flight 93 reportedly began, with the stabbing of a flight attendant and one of the alleged hijackers announced that there       was a bomb on board, reportedly picked up by air traffic controllers.   

NORAD NEADS Commander Acknowledges Conducting Hijack-Scenario “Exercise” on 9/11 

But perhaps the most damning evidence for the Sept. 11 attacks being an inside job is that the actual attacks were mirrored by NORAD/ Air Force hijack-scenario counterterrorism ‘exercises’ being conducted by NORAD’s (an Air Force agency’s) North East Sector (NEADS) on the morning of 9/11 itself.  The author’s research and analysis first revealed the NEADS hijack-scenario exercises that ‘went live’ on 9/11 as the modus operandi for the planning, execution and cover-up of the attacks, credited as “‘The Holy Grail’ of 9/11 research” by Michael Ruppert in his early 9/11 expose Crossing the Rubicon. 

Critically, the author asked a question of former White House NSC counterterrorism ‘czar’ Richard Clarke at a Department of Defense presentation, who in answering confirmed that NORAD was conducting hijack-scenario exercises in the N.E. Sector – where all three NYC, Pentagon and Pennsylvania attacks took place – on the morning of  9/11, published on an official DoD website http://www.nps.edu/About/News/Former-Counterterrorism-Czar-Richard-Clarke-Calls-for-New-National-Cyber-Defense-Policy-to-Prevent-a-Cyber-9/11-.html.^4B  The 9/11-related excerpt from that article (emphases added) follows:         

                “Regarding 9/11 itself, Clarke noted that part of the little known history of that day was confusion by NORAD’s North East Sector, which was about to conduct an exercise on a partial hijack scenario as the actual hijackings began, as to whether the unfolding events were ‘real world’ or part of the exercise – a confusion whose cause bears an eerie similarity to the ‘arm reaching out of the computer’ danger Cyber War [Clarke’s book] warns about.  “Yes, this happened on 9/11, and it happened with TWA Flight 800, when the Navy was doing a sea search exercise in the very area where the plane went down…The White House clears every major exercise… I wouldn’t have been able to respond the way we did on 9/11 if we hadn’t exercised it five times.”  

            Regarding the above acknowledgement by Clarke, it should be noted that the White House office which almost certainly had the lead in “clearing” the hijack-scenario “exercises” scheduled for and run on 9/11 was Clarke’s own National Security Council (NSC), led by its then director Condolezza Rice.  Rice, therefore, almost certainly not only knew of the hijack-scenario exercises being run on 9/11 by the Air Force/ NORAD’s N.E. Sector; the National Reconnaissance Office at its headquarters in Chantilly, Va., near Washington, D.C.; the FBI and CIA in Monterey, California; and STRATCOM, putting the total lie to her claim, as well as President Bush’s, on Sept. 11 that “No one could have imagined” such a scenario.  Public access television journalist and independent 9/11 researcher Vance Green has obtained redacted documents from STRATCOM that make it clear that its exercises were not called off until 10:35 a.m. on the morning of 9/11.

         Also critically, the operational head of NORAD NEADS on 9/11, Col. Bob Marr, has also now acknowledged that his agency was conducting a plane-hijack-scenario counterterrorism exercise on the morning of 9/11, as reported in detail in the book Touching History by Lynn Spencer, who interviewed Marr (pp. 3-6 and 23-27).^4C

Given all of the above, it is also critically significant that when asked by the 9/11 Commission to provide all of its exercises involving a hijack scenario, NORAD’s list contained dozens of such exercises in the years before the attacks, but nothing on the hijack scenario exercises its N.E. Sector, where the actual attacks occurred, was conducting that very morning.  

It is therefore impossible for the U.S. Government to have not been able to “imagine” using planes as weapons when its own military was practicing how to defend against exactly such a hijack-scenario attack on the morning of 9/11 itself.  Clearly impossible. 

On February 4, 2004, the author interviewed Air Force General Ralph Eberhart, Commander of NORAD on 9/11, about NORAD’s hijack-scenario exercises on the morning of 9/11.  Before questioning, the author asked if she could ask Gen. Eberhart a few questions as a private citizen, to which he agreed.  The general was given copies of all mainstream press articles published as of that date on the subject of the confusion on 9/11 of his Northeast Sector/NEADS personnel running NORAD’s “Vigilant Guardian/Vigilant Warrior” emergency response exercises that very morning.  As of Feb. 4, 2004, therefore, at the very latest, the then head of NORAD was made aware of the initial confusion by his own NEADS “game” players on 9/11 between incoming exercise plane “hijack” reports and incoming reports of alleged actual hijackings.   

The author first asked Gen. Eberhart if there was any connection between NORAD’s “Vigilant Guardian/Vigilant Warrior” exercise being run on 9/11 and the plane-crashing-into-tower emergency response exercise being simultaneously run at National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) headquarters outside Washington, D.C.^{12/first cite}  He replied, “No.”  This response was surprising, as a large percentage of NRO personnel are from his own agency, the Air Force.  He was asked for reconfirmation, to which he again said, “No.”  Laying the ground for the next question, the author mentioned that NEADS’ “exercise” director on the morning of 9/11, Lt. Col. Dawne Deskins, has said in press reports that she was confused as to whether initial reports of hijacked planes on the morning of 9/11 were “real world” or “part of the game.”  This, the author noted to the general, showed that the NORAD exercises that morning had to have been on at least a partial hijack scenario at least sufficiently similar to the actual attacks as to cause the confusion.  After considering for a moment, Gen. Eberhart refused to answer any further questions.  Significantly, Gen. Eberhart testifid to the 9/11 Commission that NORAD “tragically” had not exercised a scenario similar to 9/11 before the attacks, a statement that is clearly a lie.  And as noted above, subsequent to the initial publication of this white paper in the first printing of The Terror Conspiracy, the top operational NORAD N.E. Sector officer on 9/11 Col. Marr confirmed that their ‘exercise’ on the morning of 9/11 did, indeed, include a hijack scenario.    

Explosive Revelations Regarding the WTC Attacks    

Millions in the U.S. and around the world now know World Trade Center Towers 1 and 2 as well as WTC Building 7, not hit by any plane, fell due to controlled demolitions using pre-planted super-military-grade thermate pre-planted inside the buildings, to which ‘Al Qaeda’ could never have obtained access – especially to WTC 7, which housed multiple U.S. Government agencies including the CIA, FBI, Secret Service, SEC and even NYC Mayor Giuliani’s own Emergency Operations Center from which emergency counterterrorism responses were to have been run – thanks to the impeccable and courageous efforts of Profs. David Ray Griffin and Steven Jones, Dr. Neils Harritt, and Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (www.ae911truth.org), among others.  Over 1,500 licensed architects and engineers have signed Architects & Engineers’ petition calling for a new, truly independent investigation of the events leading up to and on 9/11.  

Among the most explosive revelations of what really happened at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 is WTC 7 owner and WTC 1 and 2 lease-holder Larry Silverstein’s admission, in an interview on PBS Television that the NYC “Fire Department Commander,” after a discussion in a phone call with Silverstein late on the afternoon of 9/11, made the decision “to pull [the building, a professional term for triggering the controlled demolition of a structure with preplaced explosives], and we watched the building collapse.”  This claim takes on truly sinister dimensions when combined  with the below information the author received from American Helicopter Society Executive Director M.E. Rhett Flater, who knows many of the NYC Fire Department and NYC Police Department principals involved:  

“The NYC Police [Dept.] had two Bell 412’s [helicopters] equipped with hoists and rescuers in the air on 9/11 next to the WTCs.  One of these was the same 412 and police crew which assisted with roof top rescues when one of the buildings was attacked by Al Qaeda bombers several years earlier [in 1993].  The NYC Fire Department, which has no love for the NYC Police Department, assumed jurisdiction and denied access to the roof by the NYC Police helicopters.  Complicating matters, the rooftop doors were [double] locked prior to 9/11 at the direction of the NYC Fire Department.  As a result, there were no helicopter rescue attempts.  When a fleet of Sikorshy U-60L Black Hawks arrived from Stratford with medics and supplies, they were ordered to a local airport and directed to stay away from the towers.  The same was true of other rescue attempts by civil and military and paramilitary helicopters.” ^9A   

Amazingly, the pilot of one of the NYC Police Department helicopters who sent two of his crew members down to the WTC 1 roof to rescue survivors after the basement bombing of the building in 1993, Detective Greg Semendinger, was the official NYPD photographer in one of its four helicopters circling around the Towers on 9/11.  Semendinger expressed “surprise” that there was no one on the roof to rescue^9B, though it was well  known – and even infamous – throughout the Police Department that the NYC Fire Department had ordered the WTC Towers’ roof doors double-locked.  Further, Semendinger’s helicopter that morning was equipped with the same winch and foldable rescue seat he had used to rescue almost two dozen from the WTC roof eight years earlier.  Of the 2,770 photos Semendinger took from the NYPD helicopter on 9/11, which were provided to the National Institute of Standards and Technololgy (NIST) as background for their report that refused to even consider the controlled demolition hypothesis for what caused the Towers to fall and which NIST then provided to the 9/11 Commission, and which subsequently were given to ABC News as a result of its FOIA demand, only 24 have so far been released to the public (see link at above reference).  The remaining 2,746 photos almost certainly contain literal ‘smoking guns’ and need to be forced into the public domain by a new, truly independent investigation of Sept. 11.^.

Putting two and two together based on the above, the NYC Fire Department commander(s) who ordered the WTC 1 and 2 rooftop doors double-locked -- closing off the only hope of escape for victims caught above the point of the plane impacts and fires, many of whom were forced to jump to their deaths – also refused to allow NY Police Department helicopters equipped and ready to rescue anyone able to get to the roofs – or any of the other dozens of civilian, military and paramilitary helicopters that rushed to Manhattan ready to rescue them – to do so; and, after talking with WTC 7 owner Silverstein, ordered that that building be destroyed by classic remote-controlled demolition.  And as what’s ‘good’ for the goose (WTC 7) is also ‘good’ for the gander (WTC 1 and 2), it is almost certain that Silverstein and the NYC Fire Department Commander also made the decision to bring down WTC 1 and 2 by controlled demolition earlier that day. 

This is truly a High Evil forcing a “devil’s alternative” on the victims caught above the plane impacts and fires that would make Hitler’s SS blush.

 To add fuel to the truth fire, Fox News reporter and former Gannett News journalist Jeffrey Shapiro has claimed that NYC Police Department officials told him late on the afternoon of 9/11 that Silverstein also was on the phone with his insurance company trying to talk them into approving the controlled demolition destruction of WTC 7, the one WTC structure he owned outright, using language similar to that Silverstein told PBS he and the Fire Department Commander had used as the pretext for ‘pulling’ the building (http://www.prisonplanet.com/bombshell-silverstein-wanted-to-demolish-building-7-on-911.html ).   

Further, WTC janitor William “Willy” Rodriguez, the last non-emergency-responder to leave the WTC alive on 9/11, has testified that he was in the first basement level of the WTC when an immense explosion went off below him in the even-deeper subbasement level(s) of the building a few seconds  before the plane hit the tower high above.¹⁰  Just as Robert Andrews revealed that the West-side sub-level of the Pentagon was damaged at approximately 9:32 a.m. on 9/11, and as we know that the cause of the first just-after-9:30 a.m. Pentagon attack was not an impact event but inside explosives, there thus are eye- and  ear witness reports of bombs going off in both the Pentagon and the WTC underground level(s) before either were hit by anything from the outside.

As no “outside” terrorist, al Qaeda or otherwise, could have had access to either the Pentagon or the sustained advance access needed to pre-place explosives inside the WTC, only domestic insiders could have pre-placed the explosives in both the Pentagon and the WTC.  Further, because the WTC1 deep-basement explosions(s) experienced by Willy Rodriguez happened before the tower was hit by a plane; as any incoming plane not controlled by the same agents that triggered the sub-basement detonation(s) could have veered off from the building at the last second thereby ruining the plane-impact-as-cover-story for the later building collapse; and as the sub-basement explosions were necessary for the actual later collapse of the buildings by controlled demolition, the same domestic U.S.  insiders had to have controlled both the internal sub-basement detonations and the incoming plane(s).  Thus, even if al Qaeda hijackers were on the incoming planes, they could not have been in control of the final approach and impact of the planes, which had to have been 100 percent guaranteed and thus 100 percent controlled by domestic U.S. insiders to ensure that, once the WTC 1 sub-basement explosions went off, the plane could not veer off and miss the building ruining the plane-impact-and-fires cover story for its collapse.  This fact is crucial, as it can take jurisdiction for the mass murders at the WTC out of th hands from the FBI, which oversees crimes committed in the air, as a compelling legal argument can be made that the real crime of controlling the planes’ impacts into the towers was committed by ground controllers in a terrestrial building or vehicle.  In fact, it has been reported that just-former FBI top ‘Al Qaeda’ hunter John O’Neill, who began his new job as head of security for the WTC on 9/11, told his assistant in his last phone call from the towers that the planes were being controlled “from the ground.”  If so, this places the jurisdiction of the crime of the WTC mass murders squarely with the State of New York, as murder is a State crime and multiple mass murders are the sum of individual State crimes.  And because the controllers of the timing of the WTC 1 basement-level explosives had to have also been the controllers of the final approach and impact of the planes, and the former was arguably, and provably with legal discovery and subpoena power, on the ground and not in the air, a Manhattan Grand Jury can be given the case and pull the jurisdiction for the Bush-Cheney Reichstag Fire out of Federal jurisdiction.   

Because the real modus operandi of both the Pentagon and WTC attacks are the same -- inside explosions with plane-impacts-and-fire cover stories -- it is logical to deduce that the same insider terrorists were responsible for pre-placing and detonating the explosives inside both the WTC and the Pentagon.   That is, a single group of US-domestic conspirators—not al Qaeda or any other outside terrorists—almost certainly planned and executed both the WTC and Pentagon attacks, which significantly narrows the range for the identities of the real perpetrators.  

In addition to the already well known and officially acknowledged evidence of Bush Administration foreknowledge of the broad outlines of the September 11 attacks -- advance warnings from intelligence agencies of as many as 11 foreign countries and the content of the now-famous August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Brief (whose 10-page attachment still has not been made public), etc. -- there is strong evidence that Bush-Cheney administration insiders had near perfect --  if not complete -- advance knowledge of the planned attacks and mirrored them both by controlling the actual attacks under cover of the 9/11 hijack-scenario ‘exercises’ and chose the date for the actual attacks, which was therefore also the date for the exercises.   

(Note:  The fact that Bush Admin. insiders had advance knowledge of the details of a planned “outside” attack, as detailed below, is not inconsistent with these insiders having facilitated and even orchestrated the actual attacks to both ensure they happened ‘successfully’ and to blame them on the planners.   That is, the real plot behind the Sept. 11 attacks is similar to that of the Nazi Reichstag Fire, through which Hitler rapidly consolidated power, which was its purpose.  Like the Nazi-facilitated Reichstag fire, the above and below evidence makes it highly likely that the true story of Sept. 11 is that there was a real though highly-unlikely-to-succeed “outside” plot about which U.S. and allied intelligence gained detailed advance knowledge and the Administration then secretly protected and enabled the plot to ensure not only that it succeeded, but succeeded spectacularly as the psychological operation needed to justify the entire subsequent Bush-Cheney global-military and domestic-surveillance agenda.    

                Below is just some of the compelling evidence that the Bush-Cheney Administration had detailed advance knowledge of the attack plans: 

1)  Shortly after September 11, Newsweek reported that before 9/11, the Bush Administration initiated a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court surveillance/tap of “up to 20” suspected al Qaeda-linked terrorists then in the U.S., but that then FISA Court Chief Justice Royce Lamberth subsequently ordered the then-already-ongoing surveillance stopped. This can only mean one thing --that the Bush Justice Dept./FBI/NSA initiated the tap before asking the FISA Court for a warrant for it, as with the now-famous post-9/11 NSA taps initiated by the Bush administration without first applying for FISA warrants. 

As “up to 20” is a clever way of saying “19” without making the link to 9/11 explicit, the Bush Administration Justice Dept/FBI/NSA almost certainly initiated surveillance of all 19, or close to all 19, of the soon-to-be alleged 9/11 hijackers before 9/11, and probably did so based at least in part on the findings of Special Operations Command’s “Able Danger” data mining intelligence operation which Bush and Rumsfeld ordered shut down just after taking office in late Jan. 2001. Though Judge Lamberth ordered the surveillance ended once the administration filed the formal warrant application, there is evidence that the Bush administration ignored his order to cease the tap and continued its surveillance of the alleged 9/11 hijackers up to and including the day of 9/11:   

Zacarias Moussaoui—the only person indicted by the Bush Administration for anything even related to 9/11—has stated in court filings that both he “and my (al Qaeda) brothers” then in the U.S. were surveilled by the   Bush administration before 9/11 and that the Bush Administration knew he could prove it.  How could this be the case?  If Moussaoui was one of the “up to 20” al Qaeda-linked terrorist suspects the U.S. surveilled before 9/11   without an advance FISA warrant, as reported by Newsweek, then Moussaoui was also one of the “up to 20” whose warrantless surveillance Judge Lamberth ordered stopped.  Moussaoui, after all, was originally named as the “20th hijacker” of the 9/11 plot. Amazingly, the FISA Act requires that, if the FISA Court rejects a surveillance that was initiated before a warrant has been applied for, as in this case, the court must inform “the target(s)” of the surveillance and give him/them the government’s stated reason for initiating the tap in the FISA application.  Thus Moussaoui can “prove” the Bush Administration/FBI initiated surveillance on him before 9/11 because, it can thus be deduced, the FISA Court itself -- or some U.S. agency it ordered to do so on its behalf -- told him so after Lamberth ordered his surveillance and that of the other “up to 20” plotters stopped.  Those other “19 or so” plotters who were required by law to have also been officially informed before the attacks that they had been surveilled and for what stated  reason would have also included Mohammad Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh and all of the other official story hijackers.  And because it was almost certainly the FBIthat surveilled the “19 or 20” inside the U.S. without warrants before the attacks, explains why the FBI was able to so quickly identify the 19 official-story hijackers immediately after the attacks, though it falsely claimed they knew nothing about the hijackers ahead of time and that the attacks were a complete surprise. 

Given the above, the fact that the FISA Court was required to inform most or all 19 of the “up to 20” alleged 9/11 hijackers before 9/11 that they were being surveilled by the Bush Administration—and the reason for such surveillance -- throws new light on the claims by the Pentagon’s then-secret data mining task force “Able Danger” to have tracked lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta and at least four of the other 19 hijackers beginning in January 2000, when Atta actually did enter the country according to Daniel Hopsicker’s taped interview with Atta’s live-in girlfriend Amanda Keller reported in his book Welcome to Terrorland.  The FBI falsely claimed, and still falsely claims, that Atta did not enter the U.S. until the summer of 2000, six months after he actually did so.  The likely reason for this intentional lie about when Atta first entered the country is what Atta is known to have done while inside the U.S. between January and the Summer of 2000.  Hopsicker reveals that, among other activities, Atta visited Portland , Maine , in March, 2000, and perhaps even earlier.  An abiding “mystery” of the official 9/11 cover story is why Atta drove to this very city – Portland, Maine -- on September 10, the day before 9/11, and then flew from Portland to Boston early on the morning  of September 11.  The answer to this “mystery,” which the FBIclearly already knows, is the link between what Atta was doing in Portland before the Bush Administration said he was even in the country, as well as what he was doing there the day before 9/11 and early on the morning of 9/11.  This probably has something to do with the fact that the    CIA reportedly runs secret flights out of an airport in Portland , Maine , and that “rendition” detainees have said they were flown out of the country on special jets after first stopping at Portland ’s International Jet Port.¹²

2) The FBI’s top bin Laden/al Qaeda hunter until shortly before 9/11, John O’Neill, “happened” to be at the same hotel in the same town near Tarragona , Spain in mid-July 2001 just before lead hijacker Mohammed Atta and 9/11 plot “coordinator” Ramzi Binalshibh arrived  there.  Some Bush administration officials now also believe that 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) met there for what the 9/11 Commission calls “the Final 9/11 Planning Meeting.”  This cannot be—and is not—a coincidence.  O’Neill, who was in close contact with German intelligence -- Atta led the “German cell” for the 9/11 attacks -- and Spanish intelligence, clearly had been alerted to the upcoming “Final Planning Meeting” meeting and was at the hotel to surveil/ tap/bug the room and/or monitor the surveillance/taps/bugs of German and/or Spanish intelligence  where it was about to be held.  O’Neill and his agency, the Bush-Cheney Administration’s FBI, thus knew every detail -- or nearly every detail, see below -- of the planned 9/11 plot at least two months in advance of the attacks.  

Perhaps just as significantly, European media reported that bin Laden was in an American hospital in Dubai incapacitated for surgery during precisely this same mid-July 2001 period of the Spanish ”Final 9/11 Planning Meeting.”  Reportedly, bin Laden was visited in the hospital by the CIA’s then UAE station chief, as reported by CBS TV’s Dan Rather.  The question thus naturally arises whether bin Laden was telephoned by Atta, Binalshibh and perhaps even also KSM, or visa versa, while the latter were at the “Final 9/11 Planning Meeting” in the hotel that O’Neill had pre-bugged.  If so, then O’Neill, the FBI, and the highest levels of the Bush Administration—including O’Neill’s then boss Attorney General Ashcroft, who suddenly stopped flying commercial aircraft about this time—knew not only every detail of the 9/11 plot as of that date, but almost certainly recorded all the key conspirators plotting their “final plans” including possibly bin Laden himself, on tape—clearly another “Butterfield” tape to be demanded by subpoena in a new 9/11 investigation. In fact, former FBI translator and 9/11 whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has revealed, based on documents she saw as part of her official duties, that bin Laden himself was working for the U.S. up to and on the day of  9/11 itself.  This almost certainly is the reason the FBI has never listed bin Laden as wanted for 9/11 on its  “Most Wanted Terrorists” web page, and why the FBI’s chief investigative spokesman Rex Tomb has said the reason bin Laden is not officially wanted for 9/11 is because there is no real evidence linking him to the attacks.  

That is, there may be, and probably is, evidence linking bin Laden, Binalshibh, KSM and Al Qaeda to a 9/11-like plot and planning, but not to the actual attacks, as they were physically carried out by insiders under cover of U.S. Air Force/NORAD counterterrorism “exercises” that mirrored the “final plans” discussed at the July 2001Tarragona meeting.  As noted above, on 9/11 itself the U.S. military was conducting NORAD emergency response exercises on scenarios involving plane hijacks, and the NRO was conducting an emergency response exercise on the scenario of a plane crashing into one of the towers of is headquarters just outside Washington, D.C.¹¹ where many NRO personnel are from the Air Force and CIA.  It is next to impossible for this to have been the case unless the exercises were intentionally scripted to mirror what had been learned from the above-mentioned detailed advance intelligence.  That is, the “cover-story” purpose of the military exercises held on 9/11 was to practice how to defend against the very attacks that John O’Neill’s Tarragona meeting surveillance, the Pentagon’s “Able Danger” data-mining operation and the FBI’s pre-attack FISA-warrant-less surveillance of the “up to 20” (19) suspected al Qaeda terrorists had already revealed.  You don’t practice defending against something in multi-million-dollar hijack-scenario exercises on the morning of 9/11 that you “can’t imagine.” 

A few paragraphs above it was stated that, because of O’Neill’s surveillance of the Al Qaeda mastermind’s and lead hijacker’s “Final Planning Meeting” in Tarragona, Spain, he and the Bush-Cheney FBI knew nearly every significant operational detail of the plot.  The one “burning” exception to this, however, is the date of the 9/11 attacks.  Perhaps the most compelling proof of active Bush administration complicity in 9/11is that lead hijacker Mohamed Atta took the information to this critical mid-July “Final 9/11 Planning Meeting” that “the date [for the attacks] has been set”  -- i.e. set by someone else other than Atta) -- and that he, Atta, didn’t yet know it, but would “know it” in five to six weeks, by late August  2001.¹³  Atta was clearly waiting to learn the date of what the Bush Administration and 9/11 Commission allege was “his own” attack.  This last key piece of the puzzle fell into place during the first phase of Zacarias Moussaoui’s sentencing trial, in the 58-page transcript of  “ 9/11 mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s interrogation “testimony” read into the trial record by the Bush Department of Justice prosecution.  In this transcript, KSM says that he and bin Laden “allowed Atta to choose” both the final targets and the attack date.”¹⁴   However, from what Atta said to Binalshibh and probably also to KSM and possibly even  also to bin Laden by phone at the “Final Planning Meeting” in Spain, we know that Atta did not set the attack date, as he was waiting to learn it five to six weeks after that mid-July “Final Planning Meeting.”  Putting two and two together from the above, therefore, we know that neither bin Laden nor alleged “mastermind” KSM nor alleged “coordinator” Binalshibh set the date for “their own” attacks, though setting the date of an attack is the one thing that translates a mere plan – a plot or conspiracy -- into reality.  That is, none of the top alleged “outside” conspirators set the date for the September 11 attacks. 

So if the “9/11 conspirators” didn’t set the date to turn their plot into a reality -- who did? 

The key and central fact of the entire 9/11 plot is that the attack date Atta was “waiting for” was the date of the Bush Administration’s planned counterterrorism exercises, which, in a vicious circle, were scripted to mirror Atta’s and Binalshibh’s attack plan gleaned via advance intelligence obtained from O’Neill’s surveillance of the “Final 9/11 Planning Meeting” near Tarragona, from the Pentagon’s “Able Danger” tracking of Atta and other of the 19 hijack-plotters, and the FBI’s warrantless surveillance of Atta and other of the about-to-be a lleged hijackers.  And because Atta was “waiting to hear” the attack date, which was the hijack-scenario U.S. military exercise date, Atta was the sole plotter to whom the Bush Administration finally chose to tell the actual attack date – Sept. 11th -- as soon as it was selected, and he bought his one-way ticket as soon as he learned it, in late August 2001, just as he had predicted at the “final planning meeting.”  

The No. 1 inside conspirator, therefore, is whoever gave the Pentagon’s own hijack-scenario counterterrorism exercise details and their date -- Sept. 11 -- to Mohamed Atta or to a middleman who, in turn, gave the date to Atta.    

Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Ahmed, then head of Pakistan ’s military intelligence agency ISI, is the prime suspect for a second-level middleman who laundered this No. 1 inside-conspirator’s NORAD hijack-scenario exercise date to Atta.  On the morning of 9/11, Ahmed was in Washington, D.C. having breakfast with future CIA Director Porter Goss and Senator Bob Graham, soon to co-chair of the joint House-Senate “investigation” of the 9/11 attacks, and had met with CIA Director George Tenet and with top officials at the Pentagon, about to conduct the exercises, in the few days leading up to 9/11.  He is therefore the most likely person who was told the date and details of the Pentagon’s hijack-scenario emergency response exercises and communicated them, directly or via an intermediary, to Atta, as Ahmed also approved wiring $100,000 to Atta shortly before 9/11.  (Perhaps significantly, it has been reported that $100,000 is an amount the FBI often pays to key informants).  It is also known that Atta then confirmed 9/11 as the date for the exercises—which was to be the date for the attacks—in his now-famous NSA-intercepted call with KSM of September 10, 2001, in which he related “The Match is about to begin.  Zero hour is tomorrow.”  “Match” is a way of saying “exercise” or “game.”  This critical September 10^th telephone intercept was almost certainly made without an advance FISA warrant, putting the lie to then NSA Director and later CIA Director Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden’s patently false claim that the “first” warrantless taps were initiated only as a defensive response to 9/11 following the attacks.    

Another abiding “mystery” of September 11 is why Gen. Eberhart, the commander of NORAD on 9/11, claimed to the 9/11 Commission that on the morning of 9/11 NORAD was conducting, among others, a preplanned “Soviet-era” emergency response exercise¹⁵ in which U.S. fighter jets were to defend against “Russian” nuclear bombers played by a U.S. military “Red Team” planes.  Why “Soviet era”when the Soviet Union had ceased to exist ten years before?  He didn’t say “Russian,” he said “Soviet.” This is very strange until one discovers that, despite repeated official and media claims that Sept. 11 was “completely unique” and that the skies over America had “never before” been cleared of all commercial and private/civilian aircraft, NORAD (the Air Force) had conducted a previous emergency response exercise 40 years earlier which also completely cleared the skies over the mainland U.S.  This was on October 14, 1961, in a war game called “Sky Shield II,” which was based on a scenario of defending against an air attack by Soviet bombers on New York City.¹⁶  The main difference between the 1961 exercise and September 11th     is that the clearing of the skies was publicly announced in advance in “Sky Shield.”  This actual Soviet-era exercise (and the fact that it was labeled II implies there was  yet an earlier one), which included 1,800 U.S. and 15 Canadian military planes and was billed as “the greatest exercise ever conducted by Western air defense forces,” is even mentioned in the Air Force’s own account of the events of Sept. 11, Air War Over America.  In fact, Gen. Larry Arnold, NORAD’s commander for the continental U.S. on 9/11 directly under Eberhart,who finally ordered interceptor jets scrambled to belatedly meet the hijack threat, made a point of including the eerily similar 1961 Air Force wargame in the book.  Not only did both the 1961 and September 11 NORAD “Soviet-era” wargame scenarios include attacks on New York City; in the 1961 exercise, U.S. military planes played the role of the Soviet attack bombers.  That is, the U.S.military pre-scripted both the defense and the “attack”by its own planes pretending to be Soviet aircraft.  If Eberhart’s testimony to the 9/11 Commission about NORAD’s conducting a “Soviet-era” attack scenario exercise on 9/11 to the Commission is correct, his own Air Force agency was conducting an exercise much like the one in 1961 on 9/11, for which NORAD therefore pre-scripted the 9/11 “attack” scenario, which was “made real” in the actual attacks that morning.  

If a high-level cabal inside the U.S. military and intelligence community intended to make the 9/11 hijack-scenario “exercise(s)” based on Atta’s “Final Planning Meeting” plot become real that morning, they had to have a plan for ensuring the planes actually made it to their targets.  Taking control of the original flight(s) and substituting military planes made to look like them would be the “safest” way to achieve this.  In this light, it is significant that the Joint Chiefs of Staff approved just such a plan in their  proposed Operation Northwoods at about the same time as the above-mentioned 1961 sky-clearing exercise.  It is probably also significant that mainstream press stories contain intriguing reports pointing to the possibility that there were two American Airlines “Flight 11s,” leaving from two different gates at Boston Logan airport within a few minutes of one another on 9/11, as well as emerging evidence of other of the flight numbers of the alleged hijacked planes on 9/11 being “twinned,”¹⁷ or duplicated.  The question thus naturally arises, were these  “twin” planes U.S. military and/or CIA special operations planes “playing” hijacked-airliner “attackers,” similar to the 1961 “Sky Shield” scenario except substituting commandeered airliners for Soviet bombers?  And could the planned 9/11 NORAD exercises have included a “trigger” event to clear the skies over the mainland U.S. so that a realistic test of U.S. air defenses could be conducted without interference from the thousands of civilian aircraft normally in the air? 

Key quotes from New York Times articles before, during and immediately after the 1961 NORAD “Sky Shield” exercise are eerily similar to stories appearing on 9/11 [text in parentheses and italics added]: 

“It is not so much the fear of collisions with military aircraft that has caused civilian planes to be ordered out of the skies, as it is the knowledge that inadequate [civilian FAA] electronic flight controls will be available during the exercise to guide them. [U.S.] Strategic Air Command (SAC) bombers, playing the role of the marauding forces, will seek to foul communications and radar.  They will drop tinsel-like pieces of metal called “chaff” overhead [similar to the myriad small pieces of metal scrap found on the Pentagon lawn and at the Shanksville, Pennsylvania “crash” site on 9/11?]…that will throw radarscopes [including the FAA’s] into a confusion of false signals.”  “All the [exercise “Red Team”] bomber missions were laid out ahead of time and fed into the NORAD computer.”  “An automated shorthand running display of the entire battle was provided at NORAD combat center and in similar centers at Strategic Air Command headquarters  [to which President Bush was taken on 9/11] and in the Pentagon [which was attacked on 9/11].”  “A fight plan for every [exercise] aircraft is fed into the computer’s memory beforehand.  When a plane shows on the radarscope, a console operator picks up an aluminum electronic gun, points it at the blip, and squeezes the trigger.  That brings the flight to the computer’s attention.  If the flight [plan] is filed in its memory, the computer automatically replies, ‘Yes, I am aware of that [plane].’ It does this  by marking the flight with an F for Friendly.  While the computer compares the flight with its memorized data, it marks the flight P for Pending.  Finally, it may mark it H for Hostile. ‘We have two minutes to identify a flight [as Friendly] before we scramble [interceptor jets]…to make a visual identification of an uncertain aircraft or to attack it.’”  ‘We do not train [in exercises like the 1961 ‘Sky Shield II, or on 9/11] with Hostile symbology [showing on screens]; therefore, the Strategic Air Command’s bombers playing the role of the attacking [Soviet-Russian] force [on October 14, 1961] were marked K, for Faker.’”  “There are seventeen units of Army Air Defense Artillery with ground-to-air anti-aircraft missiles near New York [in 1961; how many more were there on 9/11, 40 years later, when none, according to the official story, were used?]” 

The 1961 wargame was directed by then NORAD commander Air Force Gen. Laurence Sherman Kuter from his combat operations center at NORAD’s Colorado Springs headquarters, which in the mid-1960s moved to Cheyenne Mountain, also Gen. Eberhart’s command center on 9/11.  It may also be significant that the Air Force’s war games simulation center is at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama , which Gen. Kuter had earlier commanded and where lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta had received training prior to 9/11. 

The Pentagon’s “Able Danger” data miners claim that “Department of Defense lawyers” -- almost certainlyfrom the National Security Agency, then headed by Gen. Hayden, an officer in the Air Force, the same service that planned the 9/11 wargames -- blocked planned meetings with the FBI at which they wanted to tell the FBI that they had “tracked” Atta and other of the 9/11 hijackers prior to 9/11 and ask the FBI to initiate additional surveillance on them.  The fact that the FBI did initiate exactly such a surveillance of the “up to 20 Al Qaeda linked terrorist suspects” before    9/11 (see above) is strong evidence that, despite its claims to the contrary, the Pentagon’s “Able Danger” team, or someone who knew what they had found, did communicate what they had learned from tracking Atta  and the others to the FBI before 9/11, and that the FBI then initiated FISA-warrant-less surveillances of Atta and others subsequently ordered stopped by then Chief FISA Court Judge Lamberth -- all prior to 9/11.  The fact that initially-suspected “20th 9/11 hijacker” Moussaoui officially filed claims that he “and my brothers” were surveilled before 9/11 is further evidence that   the FBI continued to watch all or most of the 9/11 hijackers right up until the attacks, despite Lamberth’s order to cease  and desist.  In the days leading up to 9/11, FBI Headquarters supervisors David Frasca and his deputy Michael Maltbie refused 70 urgent requests by Moussaoui’s FBI interrogator for either a FISA Court warrant or an “ordinary” criminal warrant to get into Moussaoui’s computer and surveil anyone mentioned therein.  Doing so, it is claimed, would have stopped the plot, as Moussaoui now claims to have personally known 17 -- almost all -- of the alleged 19 hijackers.¹⁸

In addition to all the evidence that plane-impacts-and-fire was the carefully planned cover story for the cause of collapse of WTC 1, 2 and 7, as well as the west façade of the Pentagon, both of which were initially hit by inside-the-buildings explosives, not planes, the other over-whelming line of evidence for 9/11 being an “Inside Job” is the anthrax attacks.   A summary of some of the highlights of the anthrax links to 9/11 itself – not just to the well known mid-October 2001 anthrax letters – follows.  For full details on these links, see the author’s separate White Paper, The Scarlet A: The Anthrax Links to 9/11. 

Any evidence linking 9/11 to the anthrax letters -- dated September 11 but sent in mid-October and only to Democratic leaders in Congress, and no Republicans -- is direct evidence of an inside job because that particular type of anthrax is known to have been of the highly controlled “Ames strain” developed by the U.S. Army at Ft. Detrick, Maryland, and at the University of Iowa in Ames, Iowa.  It was also  high-spore-count, super military-grade weaponized anthrax refined according to a trade secret reportedly personally held by William Patrick, former Ft. Detrick bio-weapons expert and mentor of Steven Hatfill, the only “person of interest” stalked by the FBI as a suspect in the still “unsolved” anthrax case, and the close friend and colleague of Bush Administration bio-counterterrorism expert Jerry Hauer, a signer of the pre-9/11 Project for New American Century (PNAC) manifesto noting the “opportunities” that would be created by “a new Pearl Harbor” attack.    

On September 11, 2001 this same Jerry Hauer reportedly personally delivered the anti-anthrax medication Cipro to Vice President Cheney’s staff at the White House.  Why?  The conservative legal watchdog group Judicial Watch has filed a suit against Vice President Cheney and other Bush Admin. officials demanding to know why Cipro was delivered to the executive mansion -- and only to the   executive mansion -- on the day of the attacks.  So far the response has been deafening silence.  On September 10^th, the day before 9/11, FEMA and other emergency response personnel arrived in    New York City for a counter-bioterrorism exercise called “Tripod II” claimed by the Bush administration to have been scheduled to begin September 12.  There is reason to believe that the bio-agent this drill was to practice defending against was anthrax, as Jerry Hauer was also a major planner of the New York City exercise.  And there is also a strong possibility the true start date for the exercise was Sept. 11, not Sept. 12, as many “exercise” personnel were already in place in New York City on September 10.  As NORAD’s (U.S. Air Force’s) hijack-scenario ‘counterterrorism’ exercise had just “come to life” in real attacks on 9/11, were Hauer and Cheney worried that the same thing might be about to happen with the counter-bioterrorism “exercise” Tripod II?  Is this why the anti-anthrax drug Cipro was distributed to the White House on 9/11 -- “just in case”?   If so, it would be strong evidence that Tripod II was on the scenario of defending New York    City -- and perhaps also the White House -- against an anthrax attack.  Was the “vector” -- the delivery vehicle -- for that anthrax-attack-scenario emergency response exercise to have been via hijacked plane(s)?

Notably, in their book on bio-terrorism, Germs, Judith Miller and William Broad claim, apparently from inside sources, that Ramzi Yousef’s plans for the first World Trade Center attack  in 1993 included explosively pushing large quantities of cyanide out into New York City.  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the official story “mastermind” of 9/11, is Yousef’s uncle.  Finally, former New York City mayor Rudolf Giuliani testified to the 9/11 Commission that even before WTC7, the location of his emergency operations center, collapsed on 9/11, he moved those operations to the command and control center set up for the “Tripod II” bio-terrorism exercise on Pier 92 and that it worked even better than the original.  Giuliani told the 9/11 Commission, “The reason Pier 92 was selected as a command center was because   on the next day, on September 12, Pier 92 was going to have a drill. It had hundreds of people there -- from FEMA, from the Federal Government, from [the] State [Dept.], from the [ New York ] State Emergency Management Office – and they were getting ready for a drill for bio-chemical attack.  So that was going be the place they were going  to have the drill.  The equipment was already there, so we were able to establish a command center  there that was two and a half to three times bigger than the command center that we had lost at 7 World Trade Center.  And it was from there that the rest of the [9/11 and subsequent] search and rescue effort was completed.”    

Conclusion 

A cabal of covert elements within the U.S. military and intelligence community, not al Qaeda, had the highly-controlled access to plant the explosives that went off inside its own most heavily fortified and secure world headquarters, the Pentagon, on 9/11.  Covert elements of the U.S. military and intelligence community, not al Qaeda, had the access to plant the explosives Willy Rodriguez heard and felt go off deep in the sub-basement of the World Trade Center on 9/11.  Covert elements of the U.S. military and intelligence community, not al Qaeda, had the sustained access weeks before 9/11 needed to plant the controlled demolition charges throughout the superstructures of WTC 1, WTC2 and WTC7 in New York City which brought down all three buildings on 9/11, and had offices in WTC 7.  Covert elements of the U.S. military and intelligence community, not al Qaeda, had access to the sulfur-enhanced super-military-grade nano-thermite (thermate) detected in the WTC dust needed to melt the steel found molten deep in its basement levels as long as two months after the attacks, and to the super-military-grade nano anthrax spores in the letters sent only to the Democratic leadership of the Congress and to top media.  It is absurd to believe that al Qaeda would target only Democrats, especially as the U.S. leadership at the time of the attacks was Republican. When he received the anthrax letter dated September 11, then Senate Democratic leader Thomas Daschle was calling for a Congressional investigation of 9/11 and had already been warned off from “looking too closely at” 9/11 by personal calls from both President Bush and Vice President Cheney.  When he received his anthrax letter, another Democratic leader, Senator Patrick Leahy, was leading the Congressional resistance to the Patriot Act, a premeditated assault on Americans’ privacy rights and civil liberties justified by “al Qaeda’s” claimed 9/11 attack clearly drafted by the Bush Administration well before 9/11 and “in the can” awaiting its desired “New Pearl Harbor” trigger event.  The U.S. military and intelligence community, not al Qaeda, would have chosen the least-populated and most-reinforced section of the Pentagon––its newly upgraded west wedge—to strike in order to minimize casualties while being able to blame outside attackers, whereas real terrorists would have tried to maximize them.  Outside terrorists, also, would have maximized casualties at the World Trade Center by placing explosives so as to allow the buildings to haphazardly fall on other buildings and the streets around them, not bring them neatly down by controlled demolition designed to minimize casualties and surrounding physical damage.  A CIA and/or U.S. military plane, not one piloted by al Qaeda, had to have performed the steep ‘Top Gun’ high-speed 330-degree dive towards the Pentagon that Dulles Air Traffic Controllers were certain  was a military plane as they watched it on their screens that morning.  Only a CIA and/or military aircraft, not a civilian airliner flown by foreign terrorists, would have given off the “Friendly” signal needed not to trigger the Pentagon’s anti-aircraft batteries as it approached the building.  Only the U.S. military and intelligence community, not al Qaeda, had the ability to schedule hijack-scenario emergency response “exercises” on the morning of 9/11 mirroring the actual attacks and break their own Standard Operating Procedures and paralyze their own emergency response systems that day, whether under the guise of the exercise or otherwise.    

The most likely candidate for the highly secret ‘black’ covert operators who would have had access to and expertise to handle and plant super militarized nanothermate and super militarized nano-anthrax is the Pentagon’s own Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which operates closely with the CIA’s Special Activities Division and which investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has reported was overseen by Vice President Cheney under a highly unusual agreement between Cheney and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, his long time close associate.     

And who in the U.S. military, CIA/intelligence community and military contractor chains of command and U.S. civilian leadership in the Bush-Cheney Administration are among the prime suspects for having planned, carried out these mass murders and Acts of High Treason? 

First and foremost are the signatories of the pre-9/11 Project for a New American Century (PNAC) manifesto calling for “a new Pearl Harbor” to catalyze its radical right-wing global domination and domestic surveillance-and-control agenda: 1) Vice President Dick Cheney, especially in his role, per the unprecedented agreement of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, as overseer of the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the most likely candidate, together with the CIA’s Special Activities Divison, for the operational insiders who planted the military-grade nano thermate in the WTC and the military-grade nano anthrax in the anthrax letters; 2) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; 3) then Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz; 4) Richard Perle, then head of Secretary Rumsfeld’s Defense Policy Board; 5) Jerry Hauer, one of the government’s top bio-terrorism experts who reportedly took anti-anthrax Cipro to the White House on 9/11.^15A  Hauer had been director of NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM), whose personnel were moved to a New York pier on 9/11 just before its WTC7 offices were destroyed by pre-placed controlled demolition charges.  A central player in scripting the bio-chem terrorism attack scenario for the Sept. 10/11/12 TRIPOD II exercise in NYC, Hauer is also an expert in the response to building collapses (New York Times, July 27, 1999).  It was Hauer who insisted, despite the 1993 terrorist attack on WTC1, that Giuliani still locate his Office of Emergency Management, from which a response to another terrorist attack would be expected  to be orchestrated, in WTC7 next door^15B, and also Hauer who zealously pushed the ‘bin Laden did it and planes-and-fires brought down the Towers’ official story on CBS News on 9/11 in the immediate aftermath of the attacks before anyone without insider knowledge could have possibly determined the actual cause of the collapses, taking pains to state that explosives were not involved, when they were.  The OEM opened on the 23^rd floor of WTC7 in June 1999, where Hauer, its director, had his office.  Hauer was also managing director of Kroll Associates before and on 9/11, the company that provided ‘security’ for the World Trade Center, including all three buildings brought down by controlled demolition that morning, and thus had complete access to pre-place the explosive charges he adamantly insisted on national TV on 9/11 were not involved.  Hauer became a National Security adviser to the National Institutes of Health on Sept. 10, the very day TRIPOD II personnel arrived in New York City, from which new National Institute of Health post he managed the Bush Administration’s ‘response’ to the imminent anthrax attacks and the initial cover up of the insider anthrax killers.  6) Gary Bauer, the right-wing ‘family values’ zealot who ‘happened’ to be one of the ‘witnesses’ to immediately claim publicly to have seen ‘Flight 77 hit the Pentagon’, proven by the evidence to be a physical impossibility.  7) Then National Security Council Middle East adviser Zalmay Khalizad, soon to be the first U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan after 9/11 and then U.S. Ambassador to Iraq – the very two countries whose invasions were rationalized as retaliation for the 9/11 attacks.  During the Cold War, Khalizad was reportedly a liaison to then CIA “bag man” Osama bin Laden in the CIA-Pakistani ISI-Saudi covert war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, the crucible from which al Qaeda later emerged.  ‘Al Qaeda’, in fact, was originally the CIA’s and ISI’s list of anti-Soviet foreign fighters in Afghanistan.  8) Khalizad’s boss, NSC Advisor Condolezza Rice who, despite having preauthorized the hijack-scenario “exercises” that took place on the morning of 9/11, as Clarke noted “the White House [pre]approves all major exercises,” claimed “no one could have imagined” such a scenario.  

Other key suspects are 9) then Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert Andrews, who oversaw both the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) under which “Able Danger” operated as well as the Joint Special Operations Command which Rumsfeld allowed to be placed under Cheney’s oversight before the attacks.  Also 10) the FAA’s key AWOL 9/11 “hijack coordinator” Army Lt. Gen. Canavan, who had just recently been JSOC’s commander and who upon taking the job as ‘hijack coordinator’ began running exercises “pretty damn close to the 9/11 plot” according to John Hawley of the FAA’s Intelligence Divison; and 11) the yet unidentified then head of the CIA’s Special Activities Division, which performs operations jointly with JSOC, leading up to and on Sept. 11.  Also 12) the “Golden Boys” explosives team from the Army’s Redstone Arsenal, whom Army Maj. Doug Rokke told the author and Professor Steven Jones were “the only guys I know who have this stuff [the super militarized nano thermate found by Jones and others in the WTC dust].”   And 13) William Patrick, holder of the trade secret for the 1 trillion-spores-per-gram super militarized nano anthrax found in the anthrax attack letters.  For the direct links of anthrax to Sept. 11 itself, see the author’s “The Scarlet A: The Anthrax Links to 9/11.” ^15C   

Another key suspect is 14) Air Force General William Hayden, later Director of the CIA and then head of the National Security Agency (NSA), which tapped the calls of lead hijacker Mohamed Atta and 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the day before 9/11, and surely on many other occasions before 9/11 as well—all almost certainly without FISA warrants as required by law.  These pre-9/11 warrantless NSA taps put the lie to President Bush’s claim that he initiated the program of warrant-less NSA taps of al Qaeda suspects because of—and thus only after—9/11. 

Yet another key suspect is 15) Army Lieutenant General William “Jerry” Boykin, the radical Christian fundamentalist Special Operations commando recently proposed to head the Army’s Special Operations Command.  Yet another is the 16) Pentagon’s Proactive Preemptive Operations Group, P2OG, and/or its 9/11 predecessor which reportedly plans and scripts “false flag” operations -- attacks planned and orchestrated by U.S. military and intelligence operatives made to appear perpetrated by an outside enemy to justify U.S. “retaliation” -- the ultimate example of which was Sept. 11 itself.      

Yet other suspects are 17) Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Iran expert Lawrence “Larry” Franklin, who was “loaned” to Perle and 18) Wolfowitz’s neocon co-conspirator Douglas Feith and arrested for passing national security secrets to Israeli operatives at a meeting of top American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) personnel.  Franklin also was and is an officer in the Air Force Reserves, which directed NORAD’s “Vigilant Guardian/Vigilant Warrior” hijack-scenario exercises on 9/11.

Scrutiny should also be leveled at 18) the scriptwriters for the NORAD hijack-scenario and NRO plane-into-tower emergency response exercises planned for and held on 9/11, especially members of their lead “White Teams” which set the content and then oversee both “Red Team attackers” and  “Blue Team defenders” on the actual day of an exercise, in this case on 9/11 itself.  Key candidates for the 9/11 hijack-scenario ‘exercise’ planners are 19) Col. Bob Marr, a top NORAD NEADS operational officer on 9/11 who had just previously been an expert in Red Team gaming “verisimilitude” and yet unidentified officers in the Joint Forces Command, which scripts, plans and runs the military’s exercises and wargames.  And 20) every one of  the as-yet-to-be-identified “top Pentagon officials” who on Sept. 10, the day before 9/11, according to Newsweek, suddenly cancelled their already-booked flights for September 11.¹⁹   Also 21) National Military Command Center (NMCC) commander Brig. Gen. Montague Winfield, who on that same day, September 10, asked his deputy, Navy Capt. Charles Leidig to take over for him the next morning  between 8:30 and 10:30 -- precisely the time window of the “exercises” whose details and date had been given to Mohammed Atta. 

The reinvestigation should also focus on 22) “Buzzie” Krongard, who managed the merger of Banker’s Trust and Deutschebank Alex Brown, then became Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown, Vice Chairman of Banker’s Trust, and who was Executive Director of the CIA, the agency’s No. 3 position, before and on 9/11.   Krongard worked closely with 23) CIA-connected Mayo Shattuck, CEO of Deutschebank, whose building was next to the WTC, who wasn’t in his office on 9/11, whose bank was identified as the source of the vast majority of the illegal stock options (“puts”) that bet the stock of United Airlines, American Airlines, Morgan Stanley and other corporations about to be struck on Sept. 11 would shortly plunge, and who resigned for unexplained reason the day after the attacks. The “agency” the 9/11 Commission revealed, without identifying it by name, that it said took out the vast majority of put options on American Airlines, United Airlines, Boeing and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in the few days before 9/11 is thus probably the CIA, via Krongard.  

      Another key suspect is 24) Michael Chertoff, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey during the first 1993 attack on the World Trade Center who, as a private attorney, represented Egyptian-born US resident Magdy Elamir, under investigation for illegally diverting millions of dollars and whose brother, Mohammed Elamir, funded arms smugglers linked to al Qaeda.²⁰  Significantly, Mohamed Atta’s name in his country of birth, Egypt, was also Mohamed Elamir. That is, the very man President Bush put in charge of the entire 9/11 “investigation” at the Department of Justice and who became Director of Homeland Security -- the top official charged with defending the U.S. mainland from an attack by al Qaeda -- may have himself  been directly involved with Al Qaeda and even with Mohamed Atta himself.  In fact, Chertoff   may well have been the top Bush-Cheney insider whom we know (see above) had to have been the source for Atta’s finally being told the date of “his own” attack.  And 25) FBI headquarters supervisor David Frasca and his deputy 26) Michael Maltbie, who ignored 70 pleas by Zacarias Moussaoui’s FBI interrogator to let him investigate the contents of Moussaoui’s computer before 9/11.  Close attention should especially be directed to 27) Phillip Zelikow, a Bush-Cheney White House NSC staff member along with Zalmay Khalizad to then NSC Adviser Condoleezza Rice before and on 9/11.  Zelikow both orchestrated The 9/11 Commission Report cover up of the administration’s inside job and, at Rice’s personal request, rewrote the Bush Administration’s official national strategic plan draft to better match the global domination agenda of the pre-9/11 PNAC manifesto.  Zelikow specializes in political mythologies, clearly the most important qualification for his selection as executive director of the Official Myth of Sept. 11 -- The 9/11 Commission Report.  Only someone in the innermost circle  of the actual criminal conspirators would be trusted with this critical    mission covering up their  mass crime.  

            And last but not least, the new investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks should focus on 28) President George W. Bush, whose cousin Wirt Walker ran the “security” company for the WTC before and on 9/11, and his father, former President 29) George H.W. Bush, who recommended Cheney as his son’s vice president and who was meeting with a high ranking bin Laden family member on the morning of the attacks, which bin Laden family members were allowed to leave the country in special chartered planes shortly after the attacks when all Americans were grounded at airports across the country. 

These are just some of the names knit into the Scroll of the September 11th Truth Revolution. 

Notes:   

1)  The clock stopped at the moment the Great Earthquake hit San Francisco on April 18, 1906 is at http://sfgate.com/greatquake/ .

2)  This photo of a Pentagon wall clock frozen at 9:31:40 am by the first violent event at the Pentagon was posted on an official Navy web site at: http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=2480Pentagonclock_BBC.  Note that whoever took this official Navy photo placed the clock in front of a poster of the controversial Marine Corps part-helicopter/part-fixed-wing plane the Osprey, perhaps thereby suggesting what may have struck the building (after the inside explosions went off), if anything did.  Though the Osprey officially existed  only in prototype at the time, a prototype Osprey would be unique in that its military IFF transponder would have given off a ‘friendly’ signal and it could have approached the Pentagon helipad in its   helicopter mode and changed over into fixed-wing plane mode at the last second, taking defenses off guard.  The “official” Pentagon clock in     the national 9/11 exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution, the electric Skillcraft wall clock that hung on the wall of the Pentagon Heliport fire station, is stopped at 9:31:30 -- only 10 seconds difference:   http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/september11/collection/search.asp?search=1&keywords=Wall+clock&location= .    

2A)  Videotaped under-oath testimony of April Gallop to the author, Irvine, California, March 2007, approx. two hours.  This testimony formed the basis for a lawsuit filed by Ms. Gallop. 

2B)  April Gallop’s watch, which was stopped just after 9:30 by the explosion that happened at the precise moment she hit the ‘power on’ button on her computer on the morning of 9/11, is evidence that the actual time of the initial explosive violent at the Pentagon was closer to 9:30 than 9:32.  As the information about Gallop’s wrist watch was obtained after the first version of this white paper was published, the author has retained 9:32 as a shorthand for the time window 9:30 to 9:32 within which, from the subsequent additional evidence, the initial explosion at the Pentagon occurred.  

2C)  Audio of Jane Graham interview, KPFA Radio, Berkeley, Calif. http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/62892

3) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) timeline document “Executive Summary Chronology of a Multiple Hijacking Crisis, September 11, 2001.” 

4) Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller interview with Denmark Radio P3, September 12, 2001, 6:15 am Denmark time.  “…I saw smoke and fire rising from the Pentagon at 9:32…My first impression was that a bomb had been detonated at the Pentagon.”  The audio of this radio interview is in the 9/11   video documentary “Bomberne som Forsvandt” by Danish researcher Henrik Melvang, available at www.unmask.dk and at www.bombsinsidewtc.dk.  See also the 9/11 timeline by European researcher Jose Garcia in Reality, Truth and Evil Facts, Questions and Perspectives on September 11, 2001, Temple Lodge Publications, 2005.   

4A) Naudet Brothers video:  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2457244225269763926&hl=en# at 42:27.  

4B)  Richard Clarke interview article at  http://www.nps.edu/About/News/Counterterrorism-Czar-Richard-Clarke-Calls-for-New-National-Cyber-Defense-Policy-to-Prevent-a-Cyber-9/11-.html   

4C) Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11, pp. 24-27.  

5) The 9/11 Conspiracy, Catfeet Press/Open Court , James Fetzer, editor, 2006, chapter by Prof. James Fetzer; and photos of a JT8D turbojet engine and the remnant found at the Pentagon at http://www.simmeringfrogs.com/articles/jt8d.html.

6) Report by two civilian defense contractor employees at “Secret Global Hawk Refit for Sky Warrior,” http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/05/318250.shtml.  

6A) Rear Admiral Hathaway bio information     (http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=complete_911_timeline_3229#complete_911_timeline_3229).             

7) 9/11 -- Coup Against America: The Pentagon Analysis, compilation of Pentagon eyewitness reports, photos and analyses with hundreds of references, by Peter Tiradera, Book Surge LLC, 2006, available from petertiradera@yahoo.com .         

8) Perkal and Goldsmith: http://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/witnesses/explosive.html.  Danner:  American Free Press, July 7, 2006, reporting based on audio report by Republic Broadcasting Network, summary at http://www.total911.info/2006/07/pentagon-eyewitness-ids-global-hawk.html.      

9) Author interview with former Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, Monterey, California; summary posted on Naval Postgraduate School web site www.nps.navy.mil, subsequently changed to www.nps.edu.  Article no longer posted; hard copy available from the author.    

9A) Personal communication to the author by Rhett Flater, Executive Director of the American Helicopter Society.  

9B) “Chilling Aerial Photos of 9/11 Attack Released: Police Aerial Photos Show World Trade Center Collapse” http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9796098. 

10) Videotaped testimony of William (“Willy”) Rodriguez, former World Trade Center janitor and the last person to leave the WTC alive on September 11, in the 9/11 documentary “Loose Change,” second edition”, text in parentheses added:  “All of a sudden we hear ‘Boom!’ in the basement.  I thought it was a generator that blew up, and I said to myself, ‘Oh, my God, I think it was a generator.  And I was going to verbalize it, and when I finished saying that in my mind I heard (another, second) ‘Boom!’ right on the top (above), pretty far away.  And so it was a difference (in space and time) between coming from the basement and coming from the top…and a person comes running into the office (in the first basement level, from a deeper basement level) saying ‘Explosion!’…and he said ‘(it was from) The elevators!’  And there were many (deep basement WTC1) explosions.” 

11)  “Agency (NRO) Planned Exercise on September 11 Built Around a Plane Crashing into a Building,” Associated Press, August 22, 2002; by Jonathan Lumpkin; “They Scrambled Jets, but It was a Race They Couldn’t Win,” Syracuse Post-Standard, January 20, 2002, by Hart Seely; “Rome Staff’s Efforts on 9/11 Earn Praise, Commission Says Military Did the Best It Could with the Information It Had,” Syracuse Post-Standard, June 18, 2004, by Hart Seely; Complete 9/11 Military Exercises Timeline, Cooperative Research, at http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&before-9/11=militaryExercises;

Crossing the Rubicon, by Michael Ruppert, Chapter 19: “Wargames and High Tech: Paralyzing the System to Pull Off the Attacks” and Chapter 20: “Q&A: Many Asked, Some Answered––and a Golden Moment,” New Society Publishers, 2004.  In the Acknowledgements to Rubicon, p. xi, Ruppert credits the author with what he refers to as “the Holy Grail of 9/11 research” (p. 336):  “Thanks to Barbara Honegger, who kept hammering on the wargames until we all paid notice…You showed me the most important lead I needed to put it all together.”

12) “Detainee’s Suit Gains Support from Jet’s Log,” New York Times, March 30, 2005, p. A1. Key excerpt, text in parentheses added: “Mr. Arar     (a “rendered” detainee) says he followed the (Gulfstream jet) plane’s movements on a map displayed on a video screen (inside the plane), watching it as he traveled to Dulles Airport outside Washington, to a Maine Airport he believed was in Portland (Maine), to Rome, and finally to Amman, Jordan, where he was blindfolded and driven to Syria.” Though the FAA claims its records show a plane on that date making the other stops but landing in Bangor, not Portland , Maine, the detainee’s account may be accurate, as only Portland ’s airport is labeled an  “International Jet Port ,” specializing in landings and takeoffs of just such private, corporate and government jets.      

13) Ironically, at the final hearing of the Kean Commission, where its report was released to the press and public, commissioner John Lehman responded to the question, What if anything remained unknown, by noting that the Commission still wasn’t clear as to “how Atta chose the date for the attacks.” 

14) Summary interrogation of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, claimed “mastermind” of the September 11 attack plot, read into the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing trial record by the prosecution on March 27, 2006; the full text is part of the court proceedings transcript for that date available through Exemplaris.com.     

15) The 9/11 Commission Report, note 116, p. 458, at http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf.  Key excerpt:  “On 9/11, NORAD was scheduled to conduct a military exercise, Vigilant Guardian, which postulated a bomber attack from the former Soviet Union.” 

15A)  http://www.judicialwatch.org/1967.shtml 

15B)  http://truthmovecom.blogspot.com/2008/07/jerome-hauer-911-suspect-awaiting.html   

15C)  The Scarlet A: Links Between the Anthrax Attacks and 9/11, Rock Creek Free Press, Nov. 2008 issue, archived online at rockcreekfreepress.com.  Updated text of this article follows below.    

Appendix    The Scarlet ‘A’ Links Between the Anthrax Attacks and 9/11  by Barbara Honegger  November 2010 Update

The below article was published in the Nov. 2008 issue  of the independent Washington, D.C. paper The Rock Creek Free Press

and as a headline article on www.OpEdNews.com.
 
By claiming that Bruce Ivins, a bio-warfare expert with the U.S. Army’s Ft. Detrick laboratory, was behind the anthrax attacks, the Bush Administration officially acknowledged that those attacks – WMD attacks, as bio-weapons like anthrax are a category of weapons of mass destruction -- were perpetrated by a U.S. Government insider (and not by bin Laden, Iraq, or any other foreigner). (1) 
 
Though the Bush Admin. alleged the anthrax letters were the work of a ‘lone nut’, Ivins, attorney and anthrax attack investigator Barry Kissin has shown they weren’t done by a rogue operator but by the CIA (and DIA) and its military-intelligence contractor Battelle Memorial Institute (3) institutionally -- i.e. that the anthrax letter attacks were a true ‘inside job.’  Thus, any significant evidence linking the secret-but-official insider anthrax attacks to 9/11 would point toward the same government-military insiders being behind both 9/11 and the anthrax letters.  That is, showing official sanction for the anthrax attacks is a ‘back door’ way of showing official sanction for the mass murders of Sept. 11, 2001.    
 
So what is that evidence linking anthrax to Sept. 11th? 
 
1) The anthrax in the letters was super-weaponized, and whatever insiders sent them wanted Congress, the media and the public to believe they were directly linked to 9/11:     

   As is well known, the date handwritten on the letters mailed with the anthrax is Sept. 11, 2001. Though the official story -- that the first letter, to Florida photo journalist Bob Stevens, wasn’t mailed until after 9/11 and so anthrax wasn’t part of the actual 9/11 plot -- it’s clear that whoever wrote and dated the letters and added the super-weaponized (3) U.S. military anthrax wanted the public to jump to the conclusion that there was a direct connection, and that Islamic terrorists – the official story 9/11 attackers -- were behind both. 
 
2) Super-weaponizing anthrax was completely beyond the capability of ‘Al Qaeda’, but was one of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld’s top priorities.   

   Two days before 9/11, on Sept. 9, 2001, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) held a rare press conference at which it revealed that on his first day as Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld had ordered the DIA to take Project Jefferson, a secret and illegal anthrax weapon-ization program (probably using the Ames strain contained in the anthrax letters) to the next level of lethality and that it had achieved ‘success’ earlier that month in a classified field test. The mainstream press reported this event on Sept. 10, the day before 9/11.

3)  New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's Office of Emergency Management (OEM) preplanned a bio/chem-terrorism exercise likely involving an anthrax scenario for which personnel were already in NYC on 9/11, and Giuliani's just-previous OEM director urged White House personnel to go on the \ anti-anthrax drug Cipro on Sept. 11 itself.   

   Mayor Giuliani testified to the 9/11 Commission that his Office of Emergency Management (OEM) had scheduled a bio/chem-terrorism response exercise, called TRIPOD II, to begin the day after 9/11, Sept. 12.  But personnel who were to take part in the exercise were already in New York City on Sept. 10.  On the morning of Sept. 11, OEM personnel were cleared out of their WTC7 offices and moved to the exercise command center on a New York pier, and thus conveniently out of the building when it was brought down by military-grade thermate explosives later that day -- controlled demolition charges that required weeks to pre-place, the very weeks that the exercise was being planned.

New Jersey’s Ft. Monmouth, an Army base just across the water from the Twin Towers, also held a ‘II’ level exercise, called TIMELY ALERT II, on 9/11 (4), almost certainly coordinated with Giuliani’s TRIPOD II, further evidence that the latter was also scheduled to begin on Sept. 11. 

   The then-recent director of Mayor Giuliani’s Office of Emergency Management, Jerome “Jerry” Hauer --    a bio-warfare expert and one of the signers of the pre-9/11 Project for a New American Century (PNAC) manifesto calling for “a new Pearl Harbor” (like 9/11) who had been a central player in scripting the TRIPOD II bio-chem attack scenario exercise -- was an expert in the response to building collapses (5) and managing director of Kroll Associates before and on 9/11, the company that also managed Giuliani’s OEM ‘bunker’ in WTC 7 and provided ‘security’ for the World Trade Center, including all three buildings brought down by controlled demolition that morning.  He thus oversaw personnel with the complete access needed to pre-place explosive charges.  It was Hauer who had advocated, despite the 1993 terrorist attack on WTC1, that Giuliani locate his OEM, from which a response to an expected follow up attack on the WTC would need to be orchestrated, next door in WTC7 (6). The new OEM opened on the 23rd floor of WTC7 in June 1999, where Hauer, its director, had his office. Hauer became a National Security Adviser to the National Institutes of Health on Sept. 10, the very day TRIPOD II personnel arrived in New York City, from which new NIH post he managed the Bush Administration’s ‘response’ to the imminent anthrax attacks, which falsely pointed the finger at Iraq and diverted attention from the true insider anthrax killers. Indeed, it was Hauer who zealously pushed the ‘bin Laden did it and just planes-and-fires brought down the Towers’ official story on CBS News on 9/11 in the immediate aftermath of the attacks before anyone not on the inside could have possibly determined the actual cause of the collapses, taking pains to insist that explosives were not involved, when they were. 

And according to mainstream press reports and a lawsuit by the conservative government watchdog group Judicial Watch, it was Hauer who personally advised the White House to take anti-anthrax Cipro antibiotics on 9/11 (7). [Other reports state White House personnel were put on Cipro nearly a month before the attacks (8). Did Hauer recommend that White House personnel be put on an anti-anthrax antibiotics on 9/11 because he had reason to believe the 9/11 attacks would also involve anthrax and/or because he had advance knowledge there would be subsequent imminent anthrax attacks? 
 
4) The FBI had been told the 9/11 attacks would involve anthrax.

On Sept. 11, Janette MacKinlay lived in a fourth floor apartment overlooking what was soon to become ‘the pit’ of the World Trade Center.  Her neighbor   and close friend Bruno told her later that day or early the next morning that he had been pulled off the street into a bank lobby next to the WTC towers by an FBI agent on the morning of Sept. 11 to protect them from the dust cloud from the collapsing tower, and was told by the agent that “We were told this was going to happen and that it would involve anthrax.” Another FBI agent told a woman about to enter the NBC Bldg. that she should leave immediately because “there are explosives in the building as well as in the WTC.”  Clearly, the FBI had been pre-alerted because their own offices were in the WTC -- in WTC7 -- which, like WTC1 and WTC2, was pre-wired for a controlled demolition take down that day. MacKinlay had the presence of mind to collect the dust from the cloud that poured into her apartment overlooking the ‘pit’, and it is this dust that physicist Prof. Steven Jones has analyzed and in which he found military-grade thermate as well as other high explosives, proving the presence of pre-placed charges throughout the towers to which ‘Al Qaeda’ could not have had access to set. 

  Though no anthrax has been reported in the dust -- though it may not have yet been tested for -- if TRIPOD II were at least in part on an anthrax attack scenario, it wouldn’t have used actual anthrax, but an anthrax simulant -- an anthrax-like powder that would disperse through the air in a way similar to the real thing. Experts should be consulted for the chemical composition of anthrax simulants and the dust from the WTC collapses tested for these simulants. 
 
5) In the minds of the insider scriptwriters for the Sept. 2001 New York City TRIPOD II emergency response exercise, an attack on the World Trade Center was already associated with bio/chem terrorism. According to respected New York Times science writer William Broad, the plan for the 1993 attack on WTC1, for which alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheihk Mohammed’s nephew Ramzi Yousef is in prison for life, involved a plot to push cyanide into New York City. This is reported in Germs, Broad’s book co-authored with Judith Miller. Though the latter’s credibility has been compromised, Broad remains a respected journalist. 
 
6) Rudolph Giuliani bought the Florida-building crime scene of the first anthrax attack. Anthrax was found throughout the American Media, Inc. (AMI) building    in Boca Raton, Florida where the first anthrax letter victim, Robert Stevens, worked -- as confirmed by AMI employees whose desks were near Stevens’ whom I have interviewed. A ‘don’t cross’ line was put around the building by the FBI, which had been “told 9/11 was coming and that it would involve anthrax.” AMI was forced to move to another location and put the building up for sale. According to The New York Times, this first anthrax attack crime scene with evidence still in place was then bought (at an anthrax sale price) by former    NYC Mayor Giuliani, overseer of the Sept. 11/12 TRIPOD II bio/chem-terrorism probable-anthrax-scenario exercise, who formed a partnership with a decontamination expert qualified to decontaminate the building. Giuliani thus controlled and oversaw the destruction of evidence at both the New York crime scene of the 9/11 attacks, the WTC, ordering the steel containing traces of controlled demolition explosives to be removed, and the crime scene of the first anthrax attack, America Media, Inc, in Florida. 

   The FBI had already joined the conspiracy to obstruct its own investigation of the anthrax attacks by “agreeing to the request” of Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine in Ames, Iowa to destroy its ‘library’ of over 100 vials of the Ames strain gathered since 1928 necessary for a definitive match against the anthrax in the mailed letters, which library was destroyed on Oct. 12, 2001, one week after Bob Stevens became the first victim. (9)  

   This Florida anthrax is critical because, according to press reports on Ivins’ alleged involvement, the anthrax in the mailed letters -- but not the ‘first’    anthrax sent to Stevens (the FBI claims no letter was found in connection with the anthrax recovered from Stevens’ computer keyboard but assumes a ‘missing’ letter) was traced back to a flask in Ivins’ laboratory. The Stevens anthrax is thus key to proving that Ivins, if he was involved at all, did not act alone, as it does not trace back to his flask, and because it’s the closest in time to 9/11 and so most likely to be directly linked to Sept. 11. 

  Before 9/11, one of the six official-story hijackers who lived in Boca Raton, Florida– home of American Media, Inc. where first anthrax attack victim Bob Stevens worked -- Ahmed Alhaznawi -- was treated at a Fort Lauderdale hospital for what the physician believed was cutaneous (skin) anthrax. (9a)  And two other official-story hijackers, Marwan Al-Shehhi and Hamza Alghamdi, found their Boca Raton apartments with the help of realtor Gloria Irish, whose husband Mike was the editor of The Sun tabloid produced out of AMI headquarters where Stevens worked and who (Mike Irish) flew a private plane out of the local airport where Sheehi and Alghamdi took lessons. (9b)  
 
   Based on the above, a reasonable case can be made that Giuliani’s Sept. 11/12 TRIPOD II bio/chem. terrorism response exercise was at least in part on an anthrax scenario, using an anthrax simulant; that the letters mailed slightly later with real anthrax may have been written or the text drafted for that exercise; and that Giuliani’s former Office of Emergency Management director and close friend Jerome Hauer advised White House staff to take anti-anthrax Cipro on 9/11 because he was afraid the anthrax attack exercise scenario might be about to ‘go live’ just as both the NORAD hijacked-plane ‘exercise’ and the NRO plane-crashing-into-tower ‘exercise’ had already just ‘gone live’ earlier the morning of Sept. 11 as parts of their 'game' scenarios suddenly turned horribly real. 
 
   If the Florida anthrax doesn’t link back to Ivins’ Ft. Detrick flask and Ivins, who worked on vaccines (bio-defense) and not its weaponization (bio-offense) wasn’t behind the attacks -- and neither, the government now claims, was Steven Hatfill whom the Bush Administration just agreed to pay millions of dollars to settle his case -- then who was?  

The Trillion Spore Man    

  As detailed in the September issue of independent Washington, D.C. newspaper The Rock Creek Free Press in the lead article by Casey and Kissin, the key suspects are CIA/DIA contractor Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI); and, individually, William Patrick and Ken Alibek. 
 
   Battelle is a bio-defense (and, evidentially bio-offense) contractor located in West Jefferson, Ohio, that has exclusive control of the Ames strain contained in the mailed anthrax letter. (10)  In partnership with the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency, Battelle ran Project Jefferson, the government’s covert bio-weapons program whose goal was to develop hyper-weaponized anthrax like that contained in the mailed letters (11) and which Rumsfeld ordered developed to the next level of lethality on his first day as Secretary of Defense. 
 
   William Patrick, a former top bio-scientist at Ft. Detrick and close colleague of former Giuliani OEM Director Jerry Hauer, was the mentor    of initial FBI ‘person of interest’ in the anthrax attacks Steven Hatfill. Patrick holds five classified patents and trade secrets, including on how to hyper-weaponize anthrax to the 1 trillion spores per gram concentration contained in the letters mailed to Democratic Congressional leaders Senators Daschle and Leahy (12). After leaving Ft. Detrick, he was commissioned by his own protégé Hatfill, who then worked with Battelle contractual partner Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC), and probably also by Hauer who worked at SAIC with Hatfill -- to research and write a report on how mailed letters could be used as the vector for dispersing weaponized anthrax. (13)  On Sept. 9, two days before 9/11, Battelle’s contractor agency DIA announced the ‘success’ of Project Jefferson’s anthrax hyper-weaponization program. Following the Sept./Oct. 2001 letter mailings, some of which were reported to contain anthrax at 1 trillion spores per gram, a footnote in Patrick’s report stating that “We have now arrived at the point where we can purify [anthrax] to the extent of 1 trillion spores in a gram” was removed from publicly available copies. (13)  
 
    William Patrick worked with his close colleague and friend, former Soviet bio-weapons expert Ken Alibek, at Battelle, which also ran Project Clear Vision, a secret CIA program to reverse engineer dry-powder anthrax bombs produced by the former Soviet Union. Patrick and Alibek were the FBI’s first suspects in the anthrax attacks, but the initial FBI investigative team was taken off that focus and replaced by a new team that diverted attention to Hatfill. Director Mueller himself assured a Senator that the FBI “was not investigating, nor intending to investigate, anyone with, or formerly with, BMI [Battelle]." (14)  Battelle is also a contractual partner with BioPort, and directs the anthrax production and experimentation program at the Army’s Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, the second ‘home’ in addition to Ft. Detrick of the Ames strain contained in the letters. Hauer and  Hatfill worked together at SAIC. (15)  

Super-Military-Grade Nano Anthrax and Super-Military-Grade Nano Thermite: Signature of the Real Mass Murderers      of Both 9/11 and the Anthrax Attacks   

It is extremely important for identifying the real mass murderers of both 9/11 and the anthrax attacks that the dual super-military-grade and nano nature of the thermite pre-placed in World Trade Center Towers 1, 2 and 7 parallels the super-military-grade and nano composition of the trillion-spores-per-gram anthrax contained in the anthrax attack letters. And, as we have seen in this white paper that 9/11 is directly, not just indirectly, linked to the anthrax attacks, it is almost certain that the real operative perpetrators of both attacks are experts in military nano technology, a fact which radically narrows the range of the search for the true criminals to a small and manageable number of individuals.  All that is required to identify them and bring them to justice is unlimited supoena power and the authority to take under oath testimony.    
 
The inside-job anthrax attacks were then used as the immediate pretext for the illegal secret domestic wiretap program and assault on the Constitution    

    A Washington Post story revealing the timing of the first legal rationale    brought to Bush for his secret and illegal domestic wiretap program points strongly toward the insider anthrax attacks as having been what was used to legally justify the program. (16)  The paper’s Sept. 14, 2008 article revealed that the very first memorandum, by John Yoo, giving the purported     legal rationale for Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP), was dated Oct. 4, 2001 – just after the first published reports of the first anthrax victim, Bob Stevens, going into the hospital on Oct. 2 and only one day before his death on Oct. 5, reported widely in the mainstream media.  In former President Bush’s memoirs Decision Points, he reveals that then National Security Agency (NSA) Director Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden and “the legal team” brought the Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP) to Bush in the Oval Office on that same date, Oct. 4, 2001 (pg.164), and that the meeting occurred as he was worried about a “second wave” or a “second 9/11” attack.  It is therefore now clear that that “legal team” included and was probably led by Yoo, as Yoo’s memo was also dated Oct. 4.  In the book, immediately following the paragraph mentioning Hayden and Yoo’s Oval Office visit of Oct. 4, 2001, Bush then says, “I gave the order to proceed with the (Terrorist Surveillance) program,” implying by the context that he verbally authorized the TSP on that same date, Oct. 4, probably in that very Oval Office meeting. 

   According to the Bush White House and previous mainstream media reports, however, Bush didn’t formally sign the first official TSP autho-rization’ until Oct. 23, 2001, which was still in the midst of the anthrax attack terror, as was Senator John McCain ABC TV appearance of

Oct. 18 pushing the lie that a nonexistent bentonite additive, purportedly marking the anthrax as having come from Iraq, clearly intended to imply that Saddam Hussein was behind the attacks.  Significantly, the Bush White House repeatedly refused to provide Congress with this claimed

first written Oct. 23, 2001 presidential authorization for the illegal warrant-less domestic surveillance program -- which we’re supposed to take his ‘word for it’ that he authorized on Oct. 23 and not Oct. 4 -- and for obvious reasons.  This is the same authorization that we now know, from a footnote referring to it in another now-released document, contains Bush’s shocking claim, probably written by Yoo, that the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures do not apply to U.S. military operations    conducted inside the United States. 

 
   The fact that the Bush Administration continued its secret and illegal domestic spying program long after it was both internally known as well as publicly alleged that the letter anthrax was from one of its own military labs is further strong evidence the real anthrax perpetrators were one and the same as the high-level officials who used those same anthrax attacks to justify their illegal surveillance program – NSA Director Hayden and the White House itself.  Exposing the inside job anthrax mailings as the contemporaneous false pretext for the illegal warrantless domestic wiretap program is thus critical to bringing President Bush and his administration to account for its Reichtag Fire-like attack on both the Pentagon and World Trade Center but also on Congressional Democratic leaders Daschle and Leahy who were then pushing for an investigation of the 9/11 attacks and resisting the president’s railroading of the Patriot Act.  That Patriot Act is an analog to Hitler’s Enabling Act passed in the wake of the Reichtag Fire.  
 
   We have seen the Terrorists, and They are U.S.  It’s time to interrogate       these suspects, and all others who worked with them, to expose who really wears The Scarlet ‘A’. 
 
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Notes 

1  Likewise, compelling evidence has demonstrated that the mass murders of 9/11 were perpetrated and/or enabled by U.S. Government insiders.  And while it is well known that President Bush publicly admitted Iraq was not behind Sept. 11, it is less widely known that bin Laden has also never been listed as wanted for 9/11 by the FBI on its ‘Most Wanted Terrorists’ web page.  FBI chief investigative spokesman Rex Tomb publicly stated, and publicly reconfirmed, that the reason bin Laden isn’t officially wanted for 9/11 is because there is “no hard evidence” linking him to the Sept. 11 plot;  and FBI Director Mueller himself, in a public address over seven months after the attacks, said that "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."  See: The New Pearl Harbor Revisited:  9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Expose, by David Ray Griffin, Interlink Books, Sept. 2008, designed to be a companion volume with Prof. Griffin’s original  9/11 book The New Pearl Harbor.  See also Griffin’s The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions; 9/11 Contradictions (on the massive internal contradictions in the official story); and Debunking 9/11 Debunking (a detailed rebuttal of specific published attempts to debunk key fact findings of the 9/11 Truth movement).

2 http://www.twf.org/News/Y2006/0608-BinLaden.html 

3 “FBI Sweeps Anthrax Under the Rug,” Rock Creek Free Press, Sept. 2008 issue, pp. 1 and 2. 

4 http://www.amc.army.mil/amc/pa/oct01.html 

5 New York Times, July 27, 1999 

6 http://truthmovecom.blogspot.com/2008/07/jerome-hauer-911-suspect-awaiting.html  

7 http://www.judicialwatch.org/1967.shtml 

8 Crossing the Rubicon, by Michael Ruppert, pp. 505-506. 

9 http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/Bioter/theamesstrain.html 

 

9a “Report Linking Anthrax and Hijackers is Investigated,” The New York Times,

      Mar. 23, 2002, p. A9.   

9b Interview by Leonard A. Cole with Gloria Irish of Apr. 23, 2002, reported in “The U.S. Anthrax Letters,” Chapter 2 in Terrorism, War, or Disease?: Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons, pp. 39-40, Stanford University Press, 2008; Anne Clunan, Peter Lavoy and Susan Martin eds.  

10  http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/2008/08/project-anthrax-cover-up-part-five.html  

11 The FBI recently held a ‘science’ briefing for reporters on the Ivins evidence in which it made a 180-degree reversal from the results of lab analyses of the anthrax reported by Ft. Detrick and other scientists and officials in the first year following the attacks. Those early analyses showed the spores in the letters to Senators Leahy and Daschle to be super-weaponized: they were found to be highly uniform, extremely small in size, extremely concentrated at 1 trillion per gram, electrically charged, and with a silica coating. At its ‘science’ briefing, the FBI absurdly claimed that mail processing machines caused the additional powderizing and electrical charge found in the samples -- both coincidentally common results of weaponization. 

12 http://www.strike-the-root.com/columns/rarey/rarey3.html; “Terror Anthrax Linked to Type Made by U.S.,” by William Broad, New York Times, Dec. 3, 2001. 

13 Ibid. (Broad, New York Times, Dec. 3, 2001).  

14 http://www.worldnewsstand.net/news/anthrax.htm 

15 www.tetrahedron.org/articles/anthrax/open_letter_mueller.html; 
    www.tetrahedron.org/articles/anthrax/anthrax_espionage.html 
 

16  “Conflict Over Spying Led White House to Brink,” Washington Post, Sept. 14, 2008, by Barton Gellman, see Note [6] at the end of the article which refers to Shannen Coffin’s letter to Senator Leahy of Aug. 20, 2007 on the subject of this and other of Yoo’s ‘Top Secret-Codeword’ documents still not released to Congress.         

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