Copyright 2006 Jim Marrs
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Quis custodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will guard the guards themselves?)
Roman poet Juvenal, Satires, VI. 347
There is a conspiracy among us, one that is poisoning our nation. No one can doubt that the tragic attacks of 9/11 were the result of a conspiracy, heretofore a term disparaged by the mass media when connected to any past event in Americawhether the JFK assassination, CIA drug running, or the deaths of church members in Waco.
On September 11, 2001, widespread contempt for the word conspiracy was swept away in the attacks on the United States. No longer could a major tragic event be blamed on a lone deranged individual. The question now became who precisely was behind this conspiracy to kill Americans, a question that the US Government has so far failed to provide an adequate answer.
According to official pronouncements, the 9/11 conspiracy involved 19 suicidal Middle Eastern Muslim terroriststheir hearts full of hatred for American freedom and democracywho used small box cutters to hijack four airliners, crashing two into the Twin Towers of New York City's World Trade Center and a third into the Pentagon, near Washington, D.C. The fourth airliner reportedly crashed in western Pennsylvania after passengers attempted to overcome the hijackers. To add insult to injury, this whole incredible Mission Impossible operation, which defeated a $400 billion defense system, was under the direction of a devout Muslim cleric from Saudi Arabia using cell phones and a portable computer in a cave in Afghanistan.
If this conspiracy theory sounds far-fetched or just too convenient, a closer look at the events of 9/11 reveals a huge number of disturbing and unanswered questions. This also holds true for the aftermath of the event, in which the Bush administration used their customized 9/11 conspiracy theory as a pretext for curtailing the cherished liberties of Americans.
As pointed out by thoughtful students of history, one must not be distracted by the how of an event but instead should focus on the who and the why. Accumulate the facts, though often contradictory, then concentrate on the overall process by which these events transpired. In other words, consider the overview and try to think like a good police detective: Who benefited from this crime? Who had the means, the motive, and the opportunitynot only to devise such attacks, but to circumvent normal security measures and hinder any objective investigation?
Such reasoning brings knowledge, and it is said that knowledge is power.
While many ardent 9/11 researchers have focused on specific and even technical aspects of that eventthe melting temperature of structural steel, the size of the Pentagon's hole, etc.at some point one must back off and look at a broad overview and search for deeper meanings.
The information within this book should empower Americans who long for such a wider framework and who are ready for some straight talk about the many factual anomalies, conflicting claims, and unanswered questions that still surround the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001 as well as its aftermath.
Indeed, it was the provocation of the attacks of 9/11 that provided the underlying justification for all that followedthe hurried passage of The PATRIOT Act, increases in the defense and intelligence budgets, the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the justifications for torture at secret prisons, the warrantless wiretapping of Americans, the centralization of power around the Presidency, and the general stifling of dissent in a nation that claims to be free.
A wider framework for understanding the post-9/11 era is also offered by the Bush administration. It's called the War on Terrorism, yet the dictionary definition of terrorism is organized intimidation, simply a tactic of terrorists. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, what if President Roosevelt had declared a War on Naval Aviation? Yet Americans have been warned by Vice President Dick Cheney and others that this global war against a vague concept will last for many years, even decades.
Knowledge of the facts about 9/11 should have been available in print within months of the 9/11 tragediesbut it seems that freedom of the press, at least within the United States, belongs only to those who own the presses.
To those of us who follow the shadowy side of America's national life, the events of 9/11 immediately raised red flags of warning. Just one day after 9/11, I posted my initial thoughts in a piece on the Internet. Here are some excerpts:
WHOS TRULY BEHIND THE ATTACK ON AMERICA?
Many people have compared the horrendous terrorist attack on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington to the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. It is an apt comparison, though not for the reasons most people think.
For true students of history, it is now beyond dispute that certain high-ranking officials in Washington, D.C. knew in advance of the Japanese intention to attack the US fleet in Hawaii, yet did nothing to prevent it.
Must the citizens of the United States wait another 50 years to learn that the 9/11 terrorist attack was allowed to take place just like Pearl Harbor? Could such an appalling scenario possibly be true?
Simple countermeasures against such an attack now seem apparent. For example, if the airlines would assign just one armed plainclothes security man to each flight, this tragedy may have been averted since apparently the hijackers were armed only with knives or other type blades. So, how were they able to overpower a plane load of people and, more importantly, gain access to the cockpits? Who taught them to fly jumbo jets?
As in the case of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the key to understanding the event lies not in who actually committed the violence but rather who was able to strip away the normal security protection.
Government and airline officials knew immediately that planes had been hijacked, yet no interceptors appeared in the air until after the attacks were completed. Who stripped away the normal security protection of America on 9/11?