Mark H. Gaffney - Black 9/11: Money, Motive and Technology

Watching a coordinated, devastating attack on our country from an underground bunker at the White House can affect how you view your responsibilities.

We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.

Dick Cheney

Honestly, where are we headed? More of us are becoming aware of the criminality entrenched in our system, but while the image in the rear-view mirror gets clearer, our experience of our true heritage recedes. Quaint American notions: freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness have been rendered foggy mists. Wispy memories pushed into near extinction by economic, social and political chicanery, leaving us hoi polloi operating as mindless reactionaries, shills and pawns. A game is afoot and we the people arent even in the race even though we pay the bills.

Mark Gaffneys, Black 911: Money, Motive and Technology takes us on a journey of trying to understand the events of that fateful day in a different light. Showing us what was hidden; what was going on while our thoughts were diverted elsewhere. To help us comprehend the scope, and especially the size of the quasi-official black funds Mark gives some of the historical underpinnings to this massive deceit. A secret history of criminality and corruption beyond the wildest imagination of fiction.

Gaffney also treats us to investigations into secret technologies that may have played a major role in 9/11. He searches for the answers to questions such as: How did the inexperienced hijackers pull off such intense military-type aerial maneuvers? Was UAL 93 shot down in Shanksville? What did the eyewitness see in Shanksville? What does the radar data show? What happened to World Trade Center buildings 6 & 7? Was remote control of the airliners an operational option at the time of 9/11? And many more

In the good old days, an honest politician was one who lied only when he had to. But now lies are becoming the accepted language of government at the highest levels, the theory being that sooner or later the people of the country will become so confused and disillusioned that they will just mind their own business, and leave governing to well-placed liars.

Richard Reeves December 17, 1989

A little over a decade ago, our world changed. Or did it? From David R. Simons Elite Deviance: Between 1860 and 1920, the United States suffered only two major crises involving corruption on the federal level. This amounts to about one scandal every fifty years. However, beginning in 1963 with the investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy, the US government has experienced repeated scandals. The scandals themselves are serious social problems, causing all manner of social harm. And: Many of the scandals that have occurred in the United States since 1963 have been fundamentally interrelated; that is, the same people and institutions have been involved in a number of scandals.

Black 911: Money, Motive and Technology gives us a framework on which to understand how a corrupting confluence of hidden cash, official secrecy and classified technology, may have engendered our horrendous national nightmare leaving the last vestiges of our republic tattered and torn.

The ruling power elite have no illusions, as Bushs brain Karl Rove told Ron Suskind in 2004, Were an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while youre studying that reality judiciously, as you will well act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and thats how things will sort out. Were historys actors and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

With Black 9/11 we do get to study what they have done.

Onward to the Utmost of Futures

Peace,

Kris Millegan

Publisher

TrineDay

April 8, 2012

This book is dedicated to all whistleblowers,

and to trail blazers like Gary Webb,

who instead of cursing the darkness lit a candle...

Wayne Anderson, Matt Walker, Thomas R. McInroy, Richard A. Grove, Steve DeNoo, Peggy and Sterling Seagrave, John Farmer, Bob Pinnacle, Kirk Oakes, Ken Jenkins, Richard A. Sharpstein, Jeremy Hammond, Daniele Ganser, Marcel Bernard, Ben Connor, Jim Fetzer, Frank Barnaby, Bill Deagle, Frank Legge, Miles Kara, Erik Larsen, Rob Balsamo, David Guyatt, William Bergman, Robert Schopmeyer, Russell Becker, Elizabeth Woodworth, Paul Zarembka, and, last but not least, Ed Atkin.

Part One

by Aidan Monaghan (B.Sc., EET)

The flight performance of inexperienced terrorist pilots during the September 11, 2001 attacks has surprised knowledgeable observers. This is because the amateur pilots who are alleged to have committed the attacks showed great skill in operating complex flight control systems. Although less is known about the flight operations of the two planes that struck the World Trade Center (WTC), i.e., American Airlines Flight 11 (AA 11) and United Airlines Flight 175 ( UAL 175), because the Flight Data Recorders (FDRs) for these aircraft were not recovered, both WTC impacts nonetheless showed a high level of piloting skill.

The points of impact also reveal a remarkable coincidence: each aircraft struck precisely the bottom portion of the only sections of each tower recently upgraded (between 1995 and 2000) with thermal insulation, to guard against building fires. The renovation of the North Tower (struck by AA 11 at floors 94-96) involved floor 92 and above. Similarly, the renovation of the South Tower (struck by UAL 175 at floor 78-81) involved floor 77 and above.

The fact that work crews had recently been granted access to the very floors struck on 9/11 is suspicious, and raises questions about the true nature of the upgrade. Could this explain why the collapse of each tower initiated very near the points of the visually spectacular impacts? As we know, largely for this reason, the collapses were attributed to structural failure. Yet, because of the upgrades, the opportunity clearly existed for the clandestine planting of explosives in the critical floors of both towers.

The Flight Data Recorders from the other two planes were recovered: American Airlines Flight 77 (AA 77), which hit the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93 (UAL 93), which crashed in Pennsylvania. They indicate that in both cases the accused hijack pilots performed numerous complex autopilot mode changes.

This has puzzled experts. Recently declassified 9/11 Commission records include interviews with United Airlines personnel who express skepticism that the accused hijack pilots could have performed flight operations involving this level of expertise. One said, Entering changes to the autopilot is something that terrorist pilots probably would not have been trained or able to do. Even the United senior pilot who instructs on how to do that said that he always has to pause before he makes such corrections to make sure he remembered how to enter the change.

The recovered FDRs from AA 77 and UAL 93 indicate multiple erratic changes in altitude, attitude, speed, and direction, which some have interpreted as evidence for human control. However, a chronological discrepancy in the chain of custody of AA 77s FDR suggests that data may have been altered or falsified.

AA 77s readout file was completed four hours and fifteen minutes before the FDR was even found. This has never been explained.

Furthermore, the FDRs from AA 77 and UAL 93 are nearly the only ones during the previous twenty years of major National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) US aviation mishap investigations for which unique inventory control serial numbers were not published. Such serial numbers are required to facilitate FDR data readouts. Indeed, when I contacted the NTSB, I was told that the agency possesses no records that positively identify the FDRs for either aircraft.