June 11, 2004

9/11 B OUTSOURCED BY THE CIA *

PRE- 9/11 B THE BROAD CONTEXT

1970

Year of peak production for oil products in the United States (Heinberg).

1993

1. The World Trade Center is bombed by terrorists. Six people are killed (Hiro).

2. The Department of Defense refuses to let the panel experts it has commissioned include in its ATerror 2000 Report,@ that airplanes could be used as missiles to bomb national landmarks.

3. During the year, three airplanes are hijacked with the intent to use them as weapons, including a highly publicized plan of a terrorist group linked with al-Qaeda to crash one into the Eiffel Tower.

1995

1. In the cover story of Time magazine, Senator Sam Nunn describes a scenario in which terrorists crash a radio-controlled airplane into the U.S. Capitol building.

2. Philippine police find an al-Qaeda computer with a plan called Project Bojinka, one version of which involves hijacking planes and flying them into targets such as the World Trade Center, the White House, CIA headquarters and the Pentagon. The plan has been formulated by:

a. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who has been indicted for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing (see under June 2001).

b. Ramsi Yousef, a relative of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

1996

The U.S. Space Command B the coordinating body for Army, Naval and Air Force Space Forces B publishes the document, AVision for 2020,@ which envisions AGlobal Battlespace Dominance@ (or, as it is now called, AFull Spectrum Dominance@). The document states:

AU.S. Space Command B dominating the space dimension of military operations to protect U.S. interests and investment. Integrating Space Forces into war-fighting capabilities across the full spectrum of conflict... [in a world where] the globalization of the world economy will... continue, with a widening gap between >haves= and >have nots=@ (see also Grossman).

September:

On September 11, Ramsi Yousef is convicted for masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

1997

Zbigniew Brzezinsky, former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, publishes his book, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives. Brzezinsky explains:

A[The American public, which is ambivalent about] the external projection of American power, supported America=s engagements in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.@

AThe pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public=s sense of domestic well being... [The needed consensus on foreign policy issues will be difficult to obtain] except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.@

(On December 7, 1941, 2,330 Americans died in a Japanese bombing attack on American warships, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii) (Gilbert).

1998

January:

Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, among others, send a letter to President Bill Clinton, urging him to adopt a strategy aimed at Athe removal of Saddam Hussein=s regime from power.@

Late March:

According to the revelations of top al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah during his 2002 interrogation, Osama bin Laden and chief of Saudi intelligence Prince Turki bin Faisal, meet in Kandahar. Prince Turki promises that Saudis will continue their support of the Taliban and not ask for Osama=s extradition, provided that al-Qaeda keeps its promise not to attack the Saudi kingdom.

1999

In a special report on terrorism, the National Intelligence Council (which advises the President and U.S. intelligence agencies on emerging threats), states:

AAl-Qaeda=s expected retaliation for the [1998] U.S. cruise missile attack, could take several forms of terrorist attack in the nation=s capital. Suicide bombers... could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives... into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or the White House.@

Late in the Year:

Dick Cheney sounds the alarm regarding oil, in a speech, in London:

ABy some estimates, there will be an average of 2 percent annual growth in global oil demand over the years ahead, along with, conservatively, a 3 percent natural decline in production from existing reserves... By 2010, we will need on the order of an additional 50 million barrels a day... [This compares to the current global use of 75 million barrels a day]@ (Heinberg).

2000

September:

2. The Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a neo-conservative think tank formed, among others, by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and Lewis Libby, publishes, ARebuilding America=s Defenses: Strategy, Forces, and Resources for a New Century.@ The document states:

AThe U.S. has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein...@

A[The needed transformation in military affairs will probably come about slowly] absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event B like a new Pearl Harbor.@

3. The U.S. government publishes an Energy Information Fact Sheet which states:

AAfghanistan=s significance from an energy standpoint stems from its geographic position as a potential transit route for oil and natural gas exports from Central Asia to the Arabian Sea. This potential includes proposed multibillion dollar oil and gas export pipelines through Afghanistan.@

October:

1. Officials carry out an emergency drill to prepare for the possibility that a hijacked airliner might be crashed into the Pentagon.

2. The USS Cole is bombed.

PRE- 9/11 B THE IMMEDIATE CONTEXT

2001

During the Year:

Three times, Mohamed Atta is allowed back in the U.S., despite (1) Expiration of his visa in 2000, (2) Taking flying lessons, in violation of visa regulations, (3) Being known to have terrorist connections, and (4) Being under FBI investigation. (Atta would later be identified as the 9/11 ringleader).

January:

1. On January 11, the Commission to assess U.S. National Security Space Management and Organization, chaired by Donald Rumsfeld, and known informally as the Rumsfeld Commission, publishes its report. It states:

AHistory is replete with instances in which warning signs were ignored and change resisted until an external, Aimprobable@ event forced resistant bureaucracies to take action. The question is whether the U.S. will be wise enough to act responsibly and soon enough to reduce U.S. space vulnerability. Or whether, as in the past, a disabling attack against the country and its people B a >Space Pearl Harbor= -- will be the only event able to galvanize the nation and cause the U.S. government to act.@

2. In January:

a. President Bush rejects a plan by counter-terrorism expert Richard Clarke to Aroll back@ al-Qaeda in response to the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole.

b. FBI headquarters close the criminal case being built by local Chicago agent Robert Wright, to the effect that money used for the bombings of U.S. embassies in 1998, came from a Saudi multimillionaire living in Chicago.

March:

The Russian Permanent Mission at the United Nations secretly submits Aan unprecedentedly detailed report@ to the Security Council about bin Laden and his whereabouts. The Bush administration takes no action.

May:

Warnings of an attack against the U.S. are higher than ever before.

June:

3. June 28: An intelligence summary prepared by CIA Director George Tenet for National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, warns:

AIt is highly likely that a significant al-Qaeda attack [will happen] in the near future B within several weeks.@

4. U.S. intelligence learns that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is interested in Asending terrorists to the United States.@ Mohammed is a Pakistani with links to Inter-services Intelligence (ISI), the Pakistan secret service. He is:

a. Indicted for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

b. One of the planners of Project Bojinka (discovered by the Philippine police in 1995) which called for flying hijacked planes into targets such as the World Trade Center, the White House, CIA headquarters and the Pentagon.

c. An architect of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole.

(Mohammed would later be identified by the U.S. government as the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and also suspected of being behind the January 2002 kidnaping and murder of investigative journalist Daniel Pearl).

July:

1. During a four-day meeting in Berlin with representatives of the Taliban and Pakistan, one of the Americans says:

AEither you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs.@

Another American says:

AEither the Taliban behave as they ought to... or we will use another option..., a military operation.@

2. Osama bin Laden spends two weeks in the American Hospital in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. During his stay, he is:

Treated by American Surgeon Dr. Terry Callaway.

Visited by Prince Turki bin Faisal, head of Saudi intelligence.

Visited by local CIA agent, Larry Mitchell, on July 12.

3. July 10: Phoenix FBI agent Ken Williams sends a memorandum to the FBI headquarters counter-terrorism division, suggesting that bin Laden=s followers might be taking flying lessons for terrorist purposes. The FBI does not follow up.

4. Late July: Taliban=s Foreign Minister informs U.S. officials that Osama bin Laden is planning a Ahuge attack@ inside America. The attack is imminent and will kill thousands.

5. July 26: CBS News reports that Attorney General Ashcroft has decided to stop using commercial airlines because of a threat assessment. The FBI and the Justice Department refuse to comment.

August:

1. August 3: On the basis of information he has obtained from FBI agents, Attorney David Schippers (in 1998, U.S. House of Representatives= Judiciary Committee, Chief Investigative Counsel, and in 1999, the Committee=s chief prosecutor for the impeachment of President Clinton), attempts to warn Attorney General John Ashcroft about attacks planned for Alower Manhattan.@ In a September 13, 2001, public statement, Schippers states that the dates and targets of the attacks as well as the names and funding sources of the hijackers were known by these agents months in advance.

2. A memo from Great Britain warns that al-Qaeda has planned an attack in the United States involving multiple airplane hijackings. The memo is included in President Bush=s daily intelligence briefing of August 6. The White House keeps this warning secret and later refuses to release the memo.

3. A Moroccan agent is brought to the U.S. to discuss his report that bin Laden is planning Alarge scale operations in New York during the summer or fall 2001.@

4. Former CIA agent Robert Baer tells the CIA that a Aspectacular terrorist operation@ is about to take place.

5. Mid-August: The FBI refuses Minneapolis local agents= request for a search warrant directed at Zacarias Moussaoui from France. Moussaoui is training on a Boeing 747 simulator and plans to use a real 747 Aas a weapon.@

6. Russian President Putin warns President Bush Athat 25 terrorists are getting ready to attack the U.S., including important government buildings like the Pentagon.@

7. Jordan gives warning.

8. Egypt gives warning.

9. The National Security Agency (NSA) monitors a call between:

a. Mohamed Atta (see under Year 2001). (Atta is later identified as the ringleader of the 9/11 hijackers), and

b. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (see under June 2001).

10. August 22: Counter-terrorism expert John O=Neill resigns from the FBI, citing repeated obstruction of his investigations into al-Qaeda.

11. August 28: FBI headquarters turn down a request by the New York office to open a criminal investigation on Khalid Almihdhar whom the office believes was involved in the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. (Almihdhar would later be named as one of the 9/11 hijackers).

September:

1. September 1: Prince Turki bin Faisal is dismissed as head of Saudi intelligence. (He is later ambassador to Great Britain).

2. September 4: General Mahmoud Ahmad, Director of ISI (the Pakistan secret service), arrives in Washington for a stay which lasts until several days after 9/11. He meets with CIA Director George Tenet, Pentagon officials, the National Security Council, the State Department, and the chairmen of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.

3. In the Days just before 9/11:

a. Israel warns that perhaps 200 terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden are Apreparing a big operation.@

b. The purchases of Aput options@ for the stock of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter B a firm which occupies 22 stories of the World Trade Center B is extremely high. (To buy a put option is to bet that the price of shares is going to go down).

c. From 9/7 to 9/10, the level of Aput options for United Airlines and American Airlines B and only these two airlines B is up by 1,200 percent.

4. September 8 and 9: Upon the instructions of General Mahmoud Ahmad, ISI Director, his Pakistani agent, Saeed Sheikh (alias Mustafa Ahmed), who is also bin Laden=s financial manager, makes a wire transfer of $100,000 to Mohamed Atta=s bank accounts in Florida.

5. September 9:

a. Ahmad Masood, leader of the Northen Alliance, is assassinated B the work of ISI, according to the Alliance.

b. A foreign intelligence service passes to U.S. intelligence an intercepted message from bin Laden to his mother, in which bin Laden says, AIn two days you=re going to hear big news, then you=re not going to hear from me for a while.@

6. September 10:

The National Security Agency (NSA) obtains electronic intercepts of:

A conversation between Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Mohamed Atta, in which Mohammed gives Atta final approval for the 9/11 attacks. Information as to when this intercept was translated has not been released by the US government.

Conversations in which al-Qaeda members say, ATomorrow will be a great day for us.@

A group of top Pentagon officials suddenly cancel travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns.

THE EVENTS OF 9/11

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a.m.:

7:59 AA-11: American Airlines Flight 11 leaves Boston.

8:14 AA-11: (1) Does not respond to an order to climb from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ground control, and (2) Its transponder goes off.

UA-175: United Airlines Flight 175 leaves Boston.

8:20 AA-11: Goes radically off course.

AA-77: American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757, leaves Dulles airport in Washington, D.C.

8:21 AA-11: Attendants report by telephone that the plane has been hijacked and some people have already been killed.

8:28: AA-11: Turns toward New York.

8:42 AA-11: Is flying across New York City.

UA-175: (1) Veers off course, and (2) Its transponder goes off.

UA-93: Departs from Newark (41 minutes late). Among its passengers are a professional pilot and a flight controller.

8:43 UA-175: FAA notifies the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD, whose commander is General Ralph E. Eberhart) that the flight has been hijacked and is headed toward New York City. (NORAD is in charge of air traffic control).

8:44 UA-175: Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, meeting in the Pentagon with Representative Christopher Cox, and speaking about terrorism, says, AThere will be another event.@

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8:46 AA-11: Crashes into the World Trade Center (WTC)=s North Tower B 32 minutes after the first evidence of hijacking and 25 minutes after it was known that it had definitely been hijacked. The seismic pattern shows an increase in shocks during the first 5 seconds, then an abrupt drop to a lower level for 3 seconds and then a slow taper off.

The FAA and the Secret Service arrange to have an open line. Hence, the Secret Service personnel in the president=s car headed for a Sarasota elementary school, hear about the first attack on the WTC before the President=s motorcade arrives at the school at 9:00.

President Bush later repeats several times, AI saw an airplane hit the tower [on TV, before going into the classroom].@ Since the video of the first plane hitting (accidentally filmed by French documentary film makers), was not released until thirteen hours later, and Bush was in the classroom when Card whispered in his ear about the second tower, Bush must mean that he saw the first hit B perhaps secret images transmitted to him without delay in the secure communications room at the elementary school before going into the classroom.

AA-77: Goes significantly off course for several minutes.

8:48 AA-11: CNN breaks into its regular programming and the first pictures of the burning WTC are broadcast on live television.

8:50 AA-77: Is back on course but radio contact is lost.

8:55 UA-175: A public announcement is broadcast inside the South Tower, to the effect that the building is secure and people can return to their offices.

8:56 AA-77: The transponder goes off and the plane disappears from the air traffic controller=s radar screen in Indianapolis. AIt is not heard from again, until 9:25@ B that is, a plane is lost over American airspace for 29 minutes. The flight control transcript, released on October 16, 2001, ends at 9:18, that is, 20 minutes before the plane is supposed to have crashed into the Pentagon.

9:00 AA-11: President Bush arrives at the elementary school. By this time, UA-175 is known to have been hijacked (at 8:42), AA-11 has crashed into the WTC (at 8:46), and AA-77 has Adisappeared@ (at 8:56). Bush characterizes the WTC hit as a Ahorrible accident.@ He is uninterested in further details, displays no fear that he might be an intended target, and proceeds with his planned photo-op reading session with second graders.

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9:03 UA-175: Crashes into the WTC=s South Tower B 20 minutes after the first evidence of hijacking and 17 minutes after AA Flight 11 has crashed into the WTC=s North Tower. The seismic pattern to which it gives rise, is the same as for the North Tower. All airplane takeoffs from Washington are stopped.

White House chief of staff, Andrew Card, whispers in President Bush=s ear, reportedly telling him about the South Tower. After a brief pause, the president has the children go ahead with their reading demonstration.

UA-93: The intended target is thought to be either the White House or the Pentagon. The Secret Service takes Vice President Cheney and National Security Advisor Rice to the White House=s underground bunker.

9.16 President Bush leaves the classroom and meets with his advisors.

9:25 AAA-77": Dulles Airport air traffic controllers report seeing an unidentified, fast-flying aircraft heading in the direction of the Pentagon and the White House.

9:27 AAA-77": Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, while in the bunker below the White House, are told that an airplane, being tracked by radar, is 50 miles outside and heading toward Washington.

UA-93: Passenger Tom Burnett calls his wife reporting that the plane has been hijacked and she should call the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). She does it.

9:28 UA-93: Ground flight controllers hear sounds of screaming and scuffling.

9:29 President Bush addresses the nation on television. He does this at exactly the time and place stated in his publicly announced advance schedule B making him a possible terrorist target.

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9:33 AAA-77": Radar shows the aircraft cross the Capitol Beltway and head toward the Pentagon.

9:34 UA-93: Passenger Tom Burnett makes a second call to his wife. She tells him about the attacks on the WTC and he realizes that his own plane is on a Asuicide mission.@

9:35 AAA-77": Flies over the Pentagon, makes a very difficult downward spiral from 7,000 feet in 2 2 minutes.

AAA-77": Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, still with Representative Cox and while now watching the television coverage of the WTC, exclaims, ABelieve me, this isn=t over yet. There=s going to be another attack, and it could be us.@

9:36 UA-93: The plane turns toward Washington.

9:37 UA-93: Passenger Jeremy Click and two other passengers learn about the WTC attacks.

9:38 AAA-77": Crashes into the West Wing of the Pentagon (a wall 80 feet high), leaving a hole at most 18 feet in diameter. This is 35 minutes after UA-175 has hit the WTC South Tower.

UA-93: Passenger Tom Burnett tells his wife that he does not think that the hijackers have a bomb and that he and others are making a plan. The FBI is monitoring all calls from the plane.

9:45 UA-93: Passenger Todd Beamer speaks by telephone to a Verizon representative and describes the situation on board.

A general evacuation of the White House begins B 7 minutes after the Pentagon is struck.

9:47 UA-93: Passenger Jeremy Glick tells his wife that all the men have voted to attack the hijackers, believing the latter to have only knives and no guns.

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9:48 UA-93: The U.S. Capitol building is evacuated B 23 minutes after an unidentified aircraft has been spotted flying across Washington, and 10 minutes after it has hit the Pentagon.

9:54 UA-93: Passenger Tom Burnett tells his wife they are planning to gain control of the plane over a rural area.

9:55 President Bush leaves Sarasota on Air Force One, without military escort.

9:56 UA-93: Fighter jets are given orders to intercept and shoot down any airplanes under the control of hijackers. Shortly thereafter, an F-16 goes in pursuit of UA-93.

9:57 UA-93: One of the hijackers is heard saying that there is fighting outside the cockpit. A voice from outside the cockpit says, ALet=s get them!@

9:58 UA-93: Passenger Todd Beamer ends his call to the Verizon representative saying that the passengers plan Ato jump@ the highjackers in the back of the plane. He is heard saying, AAre you ready guys? Let=s roll!@

A passenger talking on the phone to her husband says, AI think they=re going to do it. They=re forcing their way into the cockpit... They=re doing it! They=re doing it! They=re doing it!@ Her husband then hears screaming in the background followed by a Ashooshing sound, a sound like wind,@ then more screaming, then he loses contact.

Another passenger, calling from a restroom, says just before contact with the plane is lost, that he heard Asome sort of explosion@ and saw Awhite smoke coming from the plane.@

The person listening to passenger Jeremy Glick=s open phone line has reported, AThe silence lasted two minutes and then there was a mechanical sound, followed by more screams. Finally, there was a mechanical sound, followed by nothing.@

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9:59 The WTC South Tower collapses, within 10 seconds B 56 minutes after it is struck. The fires, at most 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit, have been neither sufficiently hot nor sufficiently prolonged to melt steel. The collapse has the characteristics of a controlled demolition, based on explosives having been placed throughout the building. The concrete is pulverized and ejected from the building horizontally for 150 feet or more, explosions are seen and heard, and molten steel is later found at the level of the sub-basements. The debris, including the steel, is quickly removed and sold to New York scrap dealers for export to China, Korea and other countries B without prior significant investigation.

10:06 UA-93: A seismic study shows that the crash occurred slightly after 10:06. The cockpit recording released by the government, ends at 10:02 B four minutes before the crash time. The flight control transcripts released by the government for the other airplanes on October 16, 2001, does not include the one for UA-93.

Standard procedures call for fighter jets to intercept possibly hijacked planes within 10 minutes of the first evidence of a potential emergency, such as loss of radar contact or radio communications. By this time on 9/11, however, none of the four airplanes known to have been hijacked, has been intercepted (Ascrambled@).

10:08 UA-93: President Bush is told of the crash of UA-93 and asks, ADid we shoot it down or did it crash?@

10:29 The WTC North Tower collapses, in 8 seconds B 102 minutes after it is struck. As in the case of the South Tower, the collapse has the characteristics of a controlled demolition.

p.m.:

5:20 Building No. 7 collapses. It was 47 stories high, had not been struck, and was two blocks away (355 feet from the North Tower and still farther from the South Tower). Seismic vibrations are registered and they are one-tenth the magnitude of those associated with the other towers. None of its fires had been the magnitude of those in Buildings 4, 5 and 6, which do not collapse. As in the case of the South and North Towers, the collapse has the characteristics of a controlled demolition.

10:00 The video accidentally filmed by French documentary-makers Jules and Gedeon Naudet, showing the first crash on the WTC before the second has taken place, is released B thirteen hours after the event.

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POST-9/11 B THE IMMEDIATE CONTEXT

2001

Shortly after 9/11:

1. Most of the alleged hijackers are identified as being from Saudi Arabia.

2. The U.S. and Saudi governments coordinate efforts to help many members of the bin Laden family depart from the United States B even allowing their jets to fly before the lifting of the national air ban.

3. The Saudi embassy in Washington reports that four of the alleged hijackers are alive and living in Saudi Arabia (Abdulaziz al-Omari, Mohand al-Shehri, Salem al-Hazmi, and Saeed al-Bhamdi).

4. A fifth alleged hijacker (Waleed M. al-Shehri), gives an interview to the Arab-language daily, Al-Quds al-Arabi, based in London.

October:

On October 8, General Mahmoud Ahmad quietly resigns after U.S. authorities seek his removal. The ISI chief, complicit in the attacks of 9/11, walks away free.

2002

Early in the Year:

The U.S. State Department develops a document entitled, AThe Iraq Strategy B Post-conflict Plan for the Economy of Iraq.@ One appendix is entitled, AOptions for the Future of Iraq=s Oil.@ Another appendix, entitled, ASchedule,@ estimates that 360 days will be necessary to implement the proposed strategy. The plan includes (1) The imposition of a flat income tax for the country, (2) The elimination of all tariffs, (3) The re-writing of property tax laws, (4) Allowance of 100 percent ownership for foreign businesses, (5) Privatization of all state assets, (6) The writing of Iraq=s application for membership to the World Trade Organization (WTO), and (7) Privatization and asset sales of concessions, leases and management contracts, especially those in the oil and oil supporting industries (Palast).

March:

1. Sibel Edmonds writes the Department of Justice Inspector General complaining that the FBI has failed to respond to her allegations that her fellow translator, Can Dickerson, is mistranslating sensitive information about an organization which is presently under investigation by the FBI and for which he has previously worked. She is fired soon thereafter. Claiming she was fired for whistle blowing, she sues. In October, at FBI Director Robert Mueller=s request, Attorney General John Ashcroft asks a judge to throw out Edmonds= lawsuit on the basis of Anational security.@

2. Late March: Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi Arabian and top al-Qaeda operative, is captured in Pakistan. Interrogated under Sodium Pentothal (thiopental sodium) by two Arab-Americans pretending to be Saudi Arabians, he reveals that he has been working for senior Saudi officials. He names three, in particular:

Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdul-Aziz, chairman of a huge publishing empire and founder of the Thoroughbred Corporation, which produced Kentucky Derby winner, War Emblem. Zubaydah claims that Prince Ahmed knew in advance that America would be attacked on 9/11.

Prince Sultan bin Faisal bin Turki al-Saud.

Prince Fahd bin Turki bin Saud al-Kabir.

July:

Within 80 days of Zubaydah=s testimony, all three of the Saudis he has named during his interrogation, have died:

1. Prince Ahmed, age 43, reportedly of a heart attack, on July 22.

2. Prince Sultan bin Faisal, age 41, reportedly in a single-car accident, on July 23.

3. Prince Fahd bin Turki, age 21, Aof thirst,@ on July 30.

September:

The Bush administration issues its ANational Security Strategy of the United States of America,@ which declares:

AThe events of September 11, 2001 opened vast, new opportunities.@

And

AOur best defense is a good offense.@

2003

The Bush administration insists on blocking out some 28 pages, reportedly dealing primarily with Saudi Arabia, from the House and Senate joint intelligence committee document, AJoint Inquiry into 9//11.@

2004

The Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO) estimates that the peak global production for all petroleum liquids, will be in the year 2007 (ASPO).

POST- 9/11 B THE BROAD CONTEXT

1. The bin Laden and Bush families have had business relations for more than 20 years.

2. There is much evidence that Osama bin Laden=s close ties with his family have continued.

3. There is evidence that Osama bin Laden has continued to receive covert aid from Saudi Arabia.

CONCLUSIONS

Outsourced by the CIA: The 9/11 attacks were orchestrated by the CIA, with the support and cooperation of the Saudi government, using the Pakistan secret service (ISI), as a conduit to facilitate their execution by al-Qaeda.

The New Pearl Harbor: The attacks provided the necessary Anew Pearl Harbor@ to give the American people a feeling of extreme vulnerability and galvanize them into supporting massive funding for control over Southwest Asian oil reserves (beginning with the control of Afghanistan and Iraq), and massive funding for the weaponization of space in order to achieve total and complete global dominance B a Pax Americana.

Cumulative Evidence: My conclusion is based on cumulative evidence B that is, the kind of argument which consists of several individual arguments, each independent of the others. Each argument supports the others B like a cable composed of many strands, each strands strengthening the cable. Should some strands unravel, the cable can still hold the necessary weight, particularly if one or two strands are very strong. It is not necessary for all of the evidence to stand up.

The argument is not a deductive one, in which each step depends upon the truth of the previous one. In this type of argument, should a single premise be found to be false, the argument fails B like a chain which is only as strong as its weakest link.

NOTE

* These fonts denote items which shed light on the grand strategy of the United States.

REFERENCES

All data are from:

Griffin, David Ray, The New Pearl Harbor B Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (Olive Branch/ Interlink, Northampton, MA), 2004.

Except for:

Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO), London, England.

Gilbert, Martin, The Second World War B A Complete History, Revised Edition (Owl/Henry Holt, New York, N. Y.), 1989, p. 272.

Grossman, Karl, Weapons in Space (Open Media/Seven Stories, N.Y.), 2001, pp. 11 and 13.

Heinberg, Richard, AThe Party is Over B War, Oil and the Fate of Society,@ Speech to the International Inquiry into 9/11 Commission, San Francisco, March 27, 2004. Broadcast on TUC Radio, Berkeley, CA, 06/11/04. (United States peak oil production data refer to the lower 48 states).

Hiro, Dilip, Secrets and Lies: Operation AIraqi Freedom and After B A Prelude to the Fall of U.S. Power in the Middle East? (Nation Book, New York, N.Y.) 2004, p. 9.

Palast, Greg, AU.S. Secret Plans for Iraq=s Oil and 9//11,@ Speech to the Project Censored, Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Sonoma State University, CA, end of April 2004. Broadcast on TUC Radio, Berkeley, CA, 06/04/04.

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