Pentagon burns all copies of revealing 9/11 book

From Alexander Higgins Blog, originally from Fox News.

In a most incredible, yet real, move, the US Department of Defense has purchased and then burnt all copies from a book on 9/11, revealing uncomfortable facts such as the USA knowing about Mohammed Atta (the alleged leader of the attacks) and having him under surveillance as a security threat long before 9/11 (and yet allowing him to live freely in the USA).

The Pentagon had first authorized the book by reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, titled Operation Dark Heart, but then realized they had committed and error, as, allegedly, it contains secret information that hurts "national security".

Specifically, the DIA wanted references to a meeting between Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, the book's author, and the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, Philip Zelikow, removed. In that meeting, which took place in Afghanistan, Shaffer alleges the commission was told about "Able Danger" and the identification of Atta before the attacks. No mention of this was made in the final 9/11 report.

Shaffer, who was undercover at the time, said there was "stunned silence" at the meeting after he told the executive director of the commission and others that Atta was identified as early as 2000 by "Able Danger."

Dr. Philip Zelikow approached me in the corner of the room. 'What you said today is very important. I need you to get in touch with me as soon as you return from your deployment here in Afghanistan'," Shaffer said.

Once back in the U.S., Shaffer says he contacted the commission. Without explanation, the commission was no longer interested. An inspector general report by the Department of Defense concluded there was no evidence to support the claims of Shaffer and others. But Fox News has obtained an unredacted copy of the IG report containing the names of witnesses, who backed up Shaffer's story when contacted for comment.

As I commented at AHB: I’d say that impressively stupid because how do they think they can block info from flowing unless they close the Internet down (which in turn would only cause them to effective lose the little control they may have on the Internet, as other countries would soon push their own versions to fill in the void).

I think that this essentially shows that the whole mentality behind the 9/11 operation and all that is antiquated: it belongs, as its ringleaders (all them members of the Nixon-Ford administration), to the pre-Internet age and that’s why is doomed. Not that in the past information would not flow but was slower and less exuberant, allowing a lot greater control by the governments and media corporations.


Related news: rumor of domestic military deployment of US troops, possibly, Tuesday.

Not sure what to make of this but it does sound quite alarming. According to a YouTube video by SmokinJoeTrainer, he has received several confidential reports from trusted friends in the army being called for domestic deployment by the end of the weekend. It's just an unconfirmed rumor so far but watch it out.




Source: Alexander Higgins Blog.

ZERO, An Investigation Into 911 (documentary film)

You just must watch this film. A genuine research on 9/11, you just cannot still believe the official version after watching this. If you don't have time, watch at least the first bloc, which deals with the Twin Towers.

A version doubled to Spanish (single video, duration: 1 hour 45 min.) can be found at Vimeo.


World Trade Center (Twin Towers)

How three huge buildings collapsed in free fall in what cannot be but controlled demolitions with military grade explosives.

Part 1



Part 2



Part 3




The Pentagon

How the best defended military zone on Earth was breached, how an amateur pilot made impossible acrobatics with a huge passenger plane and how the airplane made a tiny hole and was nowhere to be found. How the defense protocols were changed right before and after 9/11 by Donald Rumsfeld himself and how all the relevant command chain was altered for the event and how all these ad hoc commanders got promoted and not punished for their failure.

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Part 5



Part 6




The terrorists

Who are they? Who are Mohammed Atta, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda? Who pays them? Did they do anything other than serve as decoy?

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Part 8



Part 9




The investigation

Or lack of it thereof. And the frustration of the victims about this big lie.

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Part 11



Italian production. Credits in the last video.

Appendix: complementary information

1. Thermal camera film of the Twin Towers before they were demolished ("collapsed"). The scale at the left margin, allows us to estimate temperatures as not higher than 100 degrees Celsius, which is way too low to melt steel. While there are fires in the impact areas, the rest of the buildings are at ambient temperature, so much that they can't be seen when no fire is in the frame:



2. A new video from Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth explaining some important details on the demolition of Tower 1:

3. Interview with Kurt Sonnefeld, former high ranking FEMA official who filmed Ground Zero after the attacks and who is now exiled in Argentina. Text format at Voltaire Net.

Update (Sep 12): Press conference by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

Full press conference available at Archive.org.

Key part with detailed scientific exposition of why they find the official hypothesis clearly false and the demolition hypothesis absolutely confirmed and also announces the formation of Scientists for 9/11 Truth and Military Officers for 9/11 Truth:

9/11 nine years on

Washington Blog has a lengthy list of "old" news telling of important people (members of the official 9/11 commission, senior intelligence officers, congressmen and other government officials) strongly doubting the official version on the attacks and denouncing the cover-up around this key event of recent history, of ongoing history.

This should be enough almost anywhere to have a ongoing national debate on the authorship and real goals of the attack. It should be enough certainly to consider that the inside-job theory is pretty much mainstream.

But the media is being gagged in this as in many other key issues, ranging from Israel to the Louisiana oil spill catastrophe. One wonders what media that cannot be critical with the authorities is worth for... and the obvious answer is: mere propaganda and mass brainwashing.

And without the media echoing the alternative versions of what was in fact 9/11 and thoughtlessly repeating once and again the official and obviously false version of the events, a lot of people can still keep their blind faith in the system and the authorities.

Lincoln seems to have said that "you can't fool everybody forever" but the Cheney-Rumsfeld school of imperial ruling seems to think that it's enough if you can fool most for a few decades. And for that they have the unbelievably sheepishly or coerced consent of the media, every day concentrated in less and less hands, and hence every day less and less free.

But it's not just the usual media, I knew recently that the most relevant person (of a small camarilla) controlling that the Wikipedia article on the September 11 attacks, someone known as MONGO, works for the US Department of Homeland Security, issue that was "resolved" by declaring he has no "conflict of interest" whatsoever. This kind of manipulations and lack of justice and balance and even the difficulty to speak the truth if it happens to be "unpolite" was what brought me out of collaborating with Wikipedia anymore. Obviously there needs to be new wikipedias because the extant one cannot be neutral, just institutionalist.

This is nothing new, really, and it means that the attack on freedom of speech and truthful information has also arrived to the Internet and did in fact some time ago. But it brings me to what do I understand 9/11 was and is: a coup d'êtat.


The 9/11 coup

In this cases, when there is any doubt, it is always good asking qui bono?: whom does this benefit?

I had doubts right that fatal day. As I watched avidly the news, as did nearly everybody on Earth, I realized that there were very odd contradictions regarding the figure of Mohammed Atta, the supposed leader of the attacks, who allegedly died in one of the planes. On one side the German secret service, BND, famed for its seriousness and efficiency, claimed that they had watched Atta in Hamburg and were certain he was not any Taliban nor member of Al Qaeda but actually a member of the insurgent Northern Alliance. His father then claimed from Egypt that he had talked with him after the attacks and that he was alright. Additionally I was surprised that the popular leader of the Northern Alliance, Ahmad Shah Massoud, had been just murdered on September 9, just two days before the attacks.

I became strongly suspicious and time and information has only made those suspicions grow to a clear understanding that what happened in 9/11 was an inside job. An inside job like no other I could think of, not just because of its dimension, but specially for its implications for the USA and its "Empire", and by extension the whole World.

I started to think that it was nothing but a coup. A coup intended to further institutionalize the Empire and specially a coup against freedoms and rights in the Western World.

Besides Afghanistan which was clearly in the equation when the macabre performance went off, and besides Iraq, which was soon included in the package (it seems that this was Rumsfeld's idea)... besides the Greater Middle East becoming this way an easier target for US-NATO imperialism, there are clear implications for the US and its global extensions. The implications are loss of civil rights and even residual democracy altogether, whose most infamous expression is the Patriot Act but that actually include a large array of fascist laws and directives duly implemented by the George Bush Jr. government but also now by Obama's, who has all the time not just avoided to discuss these extremist abuses by his predecessor but is actually using and expanding them.

The situation is not much better in Europe. Ten years ago the fascistoid attitudes of Berlusconi and Aznar were rather exceptional in my continent. Today they are totally "normal" (Sarkozy for instance, Berlusconi is not anymore snubbed...) and the diffuse dream of a united democratic Europe that existed then has totally waned, as the constitution was imposed by the bureaucracies and EU has now become a mere secretariat for the corporations and NATO. You still do not see many of the involutionary extremes that happen in the USA but it's clear that the EU will follow the USA to hell if demanded as the lapdog it is. Any dream of reorganizing EU as an independent power in the wake of the Cold War has vanished.

But maybe most important is the growing role of the imperial military and corporative superstructure across borders and oceans. Probably the coup really means to create a real Empire, gradually maybe but steadily in any case. And for that civil liberties and freedom of speech must be curtailed and brought under control.

Whatever structures are to exist in an Empire they must be not really democratic. Some formal or consultative democracy and also local subordinated democracy can be tolerated but the structure is designed for the oligarchs, not the common people, so it does not matter too much what these think.

Besides there is no real need for the human rights, democratic and welfare decorations to exist anymore now that the Soviet threat has been annihilated. Earlier it was maybe necessary in order for people not jump the Berlin Wall in the "wrong direction" but now it is superfluous. Triumphant Capitalism can now show itself naked even if ugly and scary. This display of terrifying ugliness is, according to George Orwell, one of the characteristics of totalitarianism, of bullies: I am ugly but you don't dare to laugh at me.

So the oligarchs can now get rid of all those extras, those crumbs they used to throw to their subjects in order to keep them content. 9/11 served, by creating a mass panic to "terrorism" to introduce all kind of abuses and totalitarian laws, specially in the USA but not only.


The perfect foe: Islamic Fundamentalism

Also, the new sock-puppet enemy, Islamic Fundamentalism, a creation of the USA, Israel and Saudi Arabia essentially anyhow, is the perfect foe. As the ghetto ideology and as the reactionary ideology it is, it poses no significant threat of expansion, unlike Communism, and can be used in a wide and strategic but limited area of the World to pit factions against factions in the usual policy of divide et impera. For these geopolitical engineers, who may have some evil genius after all, the whole Muslim World is a petri dish with very special conditions and Islamic Fundamentalism is a bacterial culture they are experimenting with. Experimenting with in order to cause panic and in order to get pretexts for imperialist interventions of all sorts.

And it is also intended to cause confusion in the ideological sphere, because, since 9/11 util very recently, the debate, which still was about Capitalism and Socialism, has been hijacked by a pseudo-debate on religion and culture on which little can be said other than I like or I don't like this or that. It has been hijacked in the Muslim World, where it has been used to promote reaction, and it has been hijacked in the West, where it has been used to promote reaction as well.

In depth, both sides of the Fundamentalist false debate agree: let's fight, and let's bring our peoples back to the Dark Ages, be them Muslim, Christian, Jewish or Hindu... but Dark Ages in any case. There is absolutely nobody arguing for human progress and human freedom in this false debate, just for "join us" and "hate them". The goal is to kill illustration and democracy so the oligarchs can reign unopposed.

It is a coup with very deep and very evil intent.

I could continue but it is not my intention to write a book, so I'll stop here.


Further resources on why 9/11 was an inside job and its implications:

Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, specially the Evidence section. [Update: their evidence presentation today has attracted some media attention: Yahoo News, Forbes and other agencies and media echo it].

Pilots for 9/11 Truth.

Voltaire Net: Themes: September 11th, 2001

Global Research: 9/11 and "War on Terrorism"

The evidence for a controlled demolition of both Twin Towers and building 7 (not hit by any airplane or anything but key for the plot) is overwhelming. Other counter-evidence is pretty strong as well. The official version is a huge lie.

Spanish Inquisition: one step further.

Elected representatives will now, in the legal jurisdiction of Spain, be suspended if they don't parrot with enough vehemence the institutional doctrine promoted by the two official (and almost identical) parties: PP and PSOE.

According to the new wording of the electoral law, just approved by the Constitutional Commission of the Spanish Parliament, representatives elected in any list that is declared illegal after the elections will be suspended. The only way to avoid this suspension would be to repeat constantly the ritual words "terrorists" and "I condemn".

By the letter the popular representatives must formulate "voluntarily" before the "Electoral Administration" in the term of 15 days "an express and doubtless declaration of separation and rejection of the causes determining the declaration of illegality" of his/her list.

This however is not enough: the "lucky" representative will be placed under constant scrutiny and can be suspended at any time if "by act, omission or manifestation" he/she "would show contradiction" with the written declaration.

This process will happen by mere administrative procedure, with no judicial guarantees whatsoever.

Source: Gara.

It is of course a law intended primarily to prohibit one of the largest Basque political factions from having any institutional representation whatsoever under any circumstances but these McCarthyist laws are ample enough to allow the illegalization and persecution of anyone who dares to have different opinions, be them Basque or Spanish.

Furthermore, we must not forget that the Spanish "anti-terrorist" hysteria has been plagiarized by the USA and its empire since 2001. The same that Spain allowed the massacre of Hipercor to happen, the USA allowed 9/11 (if it did not directly engineer it), only to spark mediatic hysteria and rally the people around the Capitalist governments and their repressive policies in what I could not describe but as a de-facto coup against democracy, as it has allowed for further restrictions of human rights and civic freedoms everywhere, impelling almost total police control of the citizenship. All things that would have been unthinkable without this carefully engineered hysteria.

So beware, because it'd be not the first time that a "brilliant" Spanish idea like this would be copied worlwide.

Regarding the Basque political situation it can only make more difficult any path to peace. We must remember that ETA has been in an unspoken but real unilateral truce since more than a year ago and that the Basque Nationalist Left has repeteadly declared its will to achieve independence by peaceful and democratic means, yet the State only responds with more repression.

Zionists may be planning a new "9/11" in Europe

Several mainstream newspapers from West Asia have been speculating that the Zionist intelligence may be planning a new "9/11" massacre in order to relaunch the "clash of civilizations" war mentality. These media claim to have detected unusual activity by Zionist agents, not in the USA, but in Europe. They speculate that they might attempt a massacre at some notable religious such as St. Peter's Basilica or Notre Dame in order to re-stimulate the declining hatred between Christians and Muslims worldwide, that the Zionists exploit to their advantage.

In a related event, top US intelligence officials declared to Congress that Al Qaeda, that ghostly puppet organization, so convenient to some, plans to attack in the USA in three to six months, using improved methods to avoid detection. According to Voltaire Net, which is the source of this information, these declarations, accompanied by ruthless claims that US intelligence is authorized to murder anyone, including US citizens, and speculations about a massive global cyber-attack by China, are meant to counter the information already circulating in West Asia about a "9/11" in Europe orchestrated by the Zionists.

These people (sadly in power) are so absolutely crazy, murderous and powerful that I would not be too surprised if they did all at the same time: massacres in both Europe and the USA, blamed on Al Qaeda, along with an attack against the Internet, blamed on China, in order to reinforce (or try to reinforce) their crumbling imperialist "new world order".

In a separate, retrospective article also at Voltaire Net, research journalist Pino Cabras reports that an unusually high number of passengers of the flight that supposedly crashed against the Pentagon in September 2001, had top level military connections, some quite curious. Another research journalist, Thierry Meyssan, tells in an annex that, already in 2002, the Iranian spokesman for the Supreme Leader of Iran, Hussein Sariatmadari, told him that they had researched carefully in that same line and that they counted that 75% of all passengers of the ill-fated 9-11 flights had connections with the Pentagon.

This can't be a coincidence, can it?

9/11: Pentagon attack plane "could not have been hijacked"

According to Pilots for Truth, the cockpit door of AA-77 was never opened, what means that no hypothetical hijacker could ever have entered in that room:

Newly decoded data provided by an independent researcher and computer programmer from Australia exposes alarming evidence that the reported hijacking aboard American Airlines Flight 77 was impossible to have existed. A data parameter labeled "FLT DECK DOOR", cross checks with previously decoded data obtained by Pilots For 9/11 Truth from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) through the Freedom Of Information Act.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 77 departed Dulles International Airport bound for Los Angeles at 8:20 am Eastern Time. According to reports and data, a hijacking took place between 08:50:54 and 08:54:11[1] in which the hijackers allegedly crashed the aircraft into the Pentagon at 09:37:45. Reported by CNN, according to Ted Olson, wife Barbara Olson had called him from the reported flight stating, "...all passengers and flight personnel, including the pilots, were herded to the back of the plane by armed hijackers..."[2]. However, according to Flight Data provided by the NTSB, the Flight Deck Door was never opened in flight. How were the hijackers able to gain access to the cockpit, remove the pilots, and navigate the aircraft to the Pentagon if the Flight Deck Door remained closed?[3]

According to Voltaire Network, the pilot was a top level special operations professional:

Former U.S. Navy F-4 Phantom jet pilot, Charles F. Burlingame also served as Pentagon spokesman during Operation Desert Storm. He was in charge of an attack simulation exercise, helping to craft response plans in the event of a commercial airliner hitting the Pentagon. (...) His sister Debra Burlingame co-chairs with Liz Cheney (former Vice-President Cheney’s daughter) the Keep America Safe association (one of those fascist scaremonger NGOs).

Extremely suspicious, right? There has been a lot of people who have reported that not only was impossible for a commercial plane to make such a low flight attack maneuver but that nobody ever saw such plane, directly or in any record, and that the impact onto the Pentagon lacks a clear signature of a large plane: no signs of where the wings hit.

For further detail of the many incognites and secrets surrounding 9/11 attacks, check the many articles collected through the years at Voltaire Network on this issue.

9/11: eight years on and it's as murky as ever

Theirry Meissan reviews at Voltaire Network the details of the criminal insider job that was the 9/11 massacre, crime for which the actual culprits are still laughing. They are laughing at the world and laughing at the victims and laughing about being able to get away with such macabre scam.

However, as Lincoln said, you can't deceive everybody forever.
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McKinnon thrown to the sharks

British hacker Gary McKinnon has lost his last appeal to prevent his extradition to the USA, where its feared he will be punished very disproportionately to the offense.

This happened in spite of historical jurisprudence in similar cases of the past, none of whom were extradited. The UK is showing its most shameful vassal face with this act of subservience to the US authorities that leaves unprotected one of its citizens (and potentially others in the future).

Gary McKinnon, now 43, breached repeatedly into US military, NASA and defense department computers in search of UFO files. He felt so secure of what he was doing that even left notes saying that their security was rubbish (what in my opinion was something the US military should thank him for). But at least once he went a bit further and left a note saying that he believed that the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon in September 11th 2001 was an inside job. Something I (and many others) subscribe, by the way.

According to Al Jazeera, that was what really angered the US authorities (this was in the infamous Bush era) and the main reason they have made all efforts to have him extradited and set an example out of him.

His lawyers have tried to stop the extradition based on his mental health (he suffers Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism, and may be at suicide risk) but, legal issues apart, what is clear is that soverign country that prides itself of human rights and democracy, doesn't extradite its own citizens. Only vassals do that.

And in what regards to the USA, they should thank him for his efforts in showing them their vulnerabilities and not just sneaking unnoticed as real spies do. The USA is also making a fool of itself with this affair. And if McKinnock is heavily punished, as everyone expects, it will be another red mark in the quite poor human rights curriculum of the North American republic.

The US-UK extradition treaty that allows the mutual extradition of citizens between these two countries was signed in 2003, in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, and is rather imbalanced in favor of the USA: while the US only has to prove "reasonable suspicion" for a Briton to be extradited, the UK has to prove "probable cause". It's the difference between possible and probable, between a guess and a theory, you know. This puts the UK as a mere vassal of the USA in a degree never reached before.

The case has caused political arguments, with the opposition arguing that the treaty is unfair to the UK and that it is not being used as supposedly intended "to fight against terrorism". The opposition even tried to repeal the treaty after this case sparked public outrage.

Source: Al Jazeera. Also BBC for some details but notice that BBC virtually hides this shameful information from the public (I had to dig deep in the UK section to find any mention at all). Photo from Wikipedia.
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41 US intelligence and counter-terrorism veterans demand a new investigation of 9-11 attacks

From Voltairenet:

Following in the footsteps of well over 1,000 scientists and other professional groups who have already gone on record questioning the official theory, more than 40 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency veterans have come forward to challenge the Government’s rendition of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Their behind-the-scenes knowledge and experience of sensitive and classified issues places them in a uniquely authoritative position. In this sense, their critical stance is all the more damning for the government. Conspicuously absent from the landscape are the mainstream media professionals, as they continue to provide cover for the government’s totally bankrupt theory and fail to report on landmark developments such as this.

The list is too long and detailed to include here. Please read the original article and the attached PDF.
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Saudis who financed Al Qaeda declared immune in USA

Believe it or not, specially considering how 9/11 attacks have served as pretext for nearly any kind of wrongdoings and abuses, a US court has declared four Saudi aristocrats immune from prosecution in spite that they donated large ammounts to a "charity" that financed Al Qaeda in the eve of the New York drama.

The court ruled that they cannot be prosecuted because Saudi Arabia has not been designed as "terrorist state" by the US State Department.

This rulings, of course, appears gives even stronger backing to those who think that the whole 9/11 affair was a covert operation by US secret services and their puppet organizations in the Muslim World.

Al Qaeda accuses Iran of sowing doubts on 9/11

In absence of Osama (who I believe is dead or retired in some exotic place long ago), the "second in command" of the most feared international terrorist network, Ayman Al Zawahiri (actually the boss right now) has accused Iran of spreading the rumor that Israel (sic) was behind the 9/11 attacks against New York and the Pentagon.

More specifically, he blames Hizbullah, the Lebanese Shia Islamist party, militia and state-within-the-state, for being the first one to spread such rumors, "obviously" intended to discredit Sunni Islamist "heroism".

Problem, Mr. Al Zawahiri, is that the people like me that began to have serious doubts in the very aftermath of the massacre, as quickly supressed news of the supposed Al Qaeda cells being actually anti-Taliban (who do you believe: the CIA or the most professional German BND?) and of M. Atta being alive (a story his father apparently still sustains), were broadcasted. We also know who was the boss of Osama for so many years: the CIA, and we know that Al Qaeda took months to assimilate the issue and claim authorship.

In brief: there have been many doubts since 9/12. Maybe Hizbullah was among the first ones casting doubt in the Middle East, but certainly the subject was very controversial here in the West much earlier.

Mr. Al Zawahiri, you forget something important: the World is not just the Muslim world. Allah, may be great, but Reality is much greater.

UN official calls to research the 9/11 conspiration

I recently commented on the promising new appointment to lead the UN comission dealing with Israel behaviour on Palestine, Prof. Richard Falk. Now I read that the same person is calling for an international comission to research the role if US neocons in the 9/11 attacks (read story in NY The Sun), suspicions that many of us have held since about 9/12, when the dust settled and we started pondering how the alleged leader of the plot, M. Atta (supposedly dead in NY attacks), had been talking with his father, why such an serious intelligence agency as the BND had Atta classified as anti-Taliban, how can two skyscrappers collapse so easily and so on and so on and so on.

I think I'm going to like this new UN personality, really. But I also fear that he might get killed like happened to so many honest researchers before him (I'm thinking in Petra Kelly and Gert Bastian right now, for instance).