Debunking Conspiracy Theorists 

GERARD HOLMGREN / Maritimes Independent Media Centre 12feb03

PARANOID FANTASIES ABOUT SEPT 11 DISTRACT FROM THE REAL ISSUES

by Gerard Holmgren debunker@hotmail.com 

Copyright Gerard Holmgren. Jan 2003.

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Astute observers of history are aware that for every notable event there will usually be at least one ,often several wild conspiracy theories which spring up around it. "The CIA killed Hendrix" " The Pope had John Lennon murdered ", "Hitler was half Werewolf", "Space aliens replaced Nixon with a clone" etc, etc. The bigger the event, the more ridiculous and more numerous are the fanciful rantings which circulate in relation to it.

So its hardly surprising that the events of Sept 11 2001 have spawned their fair share of these ludicrous fairy tales. And as always, there is - sadly - a small but gullible percentage of the population eager to lap up these tall tales, regardless of facts or rational analysis.

One of the wilder stories circulating about Sept 11, and one that has attracted something of a cult following amongst conspiracy buffs is that it was carried out by 19 fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, with no apparent motivation other than that they "hate our freedoms."

Never a group of people to be bothered by facts, the perpetrators of this cartoon fantasy have constructed an elaborately woven web of delusions and unsubstantiated hearsay in order to promote this garbage across the internet and the media to the extent that a number of otherwise rational people have actually fallen under its spell.

Normally I don't even bother debunking this kind of junk, but the effect that this paranoid myth is beginning to have requires a little rational analysis, in order to consign it to the same rubbish bin as all such silly conspiracy theories.

These crackpots even contend that the extremist Bush regime was caught unawares by the attacks, had no hand in organizing them, and actually would have stopped them if it had been able. Blindly ignoring the stand down of the US air-force, the insider trading on airline stocks - linked to the CIA, the complicit behavior of Bush on the morning of the attacks, the controlled demolition of the WTC, the firing of a missile into the Pentagon and a host of other documented proofs that the Bush regime was behind the attacks, the conspiracy theorists stick doggedly to a silly story about 19 Arab hijackers somehow managing to commandeer 4 planes simultaneously and fly them around US airspace for nearly 2 hours ,crashing them into important buildings, without the US intelligence services having any idea that it was coming, and without the Air Force knowing what to do.

The huge difficulties with such a stupid story force them to invent even more preposturous stories to distract from its core silliness, and thus the tale has escalated into a mythic fantasy of truly gargantuan proportions.

It's difficult to apply rational analysis to such unmitigated stupidity, but that is the task which I take on in this article. However, it should be noted that one of the curious characteristics of conspiracy theorists is that they effortlessly change their so called evidence in response to each aspect which is debunked. As soon as one delusion is unmasked, they simply invent another to replace it, and deny that the first ever existed. Eventually, when they have turned full circle through this endlessly changing fantasy fog , they then re-invent the original delusion and deny that you ever debunked it, thus beginning the circle once more. This technique is known as "the fruit loop" and saves the conspiracy theorist from ever having to see any of their ideas through to their (ill)logical conclusions.

According to the practitioners of the fruit loop, 19 Arabs took over the 4 planes by subduing the passengers and crew through the use of guns, knives, box cutters and gas, and then used electronic guidance systems which they had smuggled on board to fly the planes to their targets.

The suspension of disbelief required for this outrageous concoction is only for the hard core conspiracy theorist. For a start, they conveniently skip over the awkward fact that there weren't any Arabs on the planes. If there were, one must speculate that they somehow got on board without being filmed by any of the security cameras and without being registered on the passenger lists. But the curly question of how they are supposed to have got on board is all too mundane for the exciting world of the conspiracy theorist. With vague mumblings that they must have been using false ID ( but never specifying which IDs they are alleged to have used, or how these were traced to their real identities), they quickly bypass this problem, to relate exciting and sinister tales about how some of the fictitious fiends were actually searched before boarding because they looked suspicious. However, as inevitably happens with any web of lies, this simply paints them into an even more difficult corner. How are they supposed to have got on board with all that stuff if they were searched ? And if they used gas in a confined space, they would have been affected themselves unless they also had masks in their luggage.

"Excuse me sir, why do you have a box cutter, a gun, a container of gas, a gas mask and an electronic guidance unit in your luggage?"

"A present for your grandmother? Very well sir, on you get."

"Very strange", thinks the security officer. "That's the fourth Arabic man without an Arabic name who just got on board with a knife, gun or boxcutter and gas mask. And why does that security camera keep flicking off every time one these characters shows up? Must be one of those days I guess..."

Asking any of these basic questions to a conspiracy theorist is likely to cause a sudden leap to the claim that we know that they were on board because they left a credit card trail for the tickets they had purchased and cars they had rented. So if they used credit cards that identified them, how does that reconcile with the claim that they used false IDs to get on to the plane? But by this time ,the fruit loop is in full swing, as the conspiracy theorist tries to stay one jump ahead of this annoying and awkward rational analysis. They will allege that the hijackers' passports were found at the crash scenes. "So there!" they exalt triumphantly, their fanatical faces lighting up with that deranged look of one who has just a revelation of questionable sanity.

Hmm? So they got on board with false IDs but took their real passports with them? However, by this time the fruit loop has been completely circumnavigated, and the conspiracy theorist exclaims impatiently, "Who said anything about false IDs? We know what seats they were sitting in! Their presence is well documented!" And so the whole loop starts again. "Well, why aren't they on the passenger lists?"

"You numbskull! They assumed the identities of other passengers!" And so on...

Finally, out of sheer fascination with this circular method of creative delusion , the rational skeptic will allow them to get away with this loop, in order to move on to the next question, and see what further delights await us in the unraveling of this marvelously stupid story.

"Uh, how come their passports survived fiery crashes that completely incinerated the planes and all the passengers? " The answer of course is that its just one of those strange co-incidences, those little quirks of fate that do happen from time to time. You know, like the same person winning the lottery four weeks in a row. The odds are astronomical, but these things do happen...

This is another favorite deductive method of the conspiracy theorist. The "improbability drive" , in which they decide upon a conclusion without any evidence whatsoever to support it, and then continually speculate a series of wildly improbable events and unbelievable co-incidences to support it, shrugging off the implausibility of each event with the vague assertion that sometimes the impossible happens (just about all the time in their world). There is a principle called "Occam's razor" which suggests that in the absence of evidence to the contrary, the simplest explanation is most likely to be correct. Conspiracy theorists hate Occam's razor.

Having for the sake of amusement, allowed them to get away with with the silly story of the 19 invisible Arabs, we move on to the question of how they are supposed to have taken over the planes.

Hijacking a plane is not an easy thing to do. Hijacking it without the pilot being able to alert ground control is near impossible. The pilot has only to punch in a four digit code to alert ground control to a hijacking. Unconcerned with the awkward question of plausibility, the conspiracy buffs maintain that on that Sept 11, the invisible hijackers took over the plane by the rather crude method of threatening people with boxcutters and knives, and spraying gas (after they had attached their masks, obviously), but somehow took control of the plane without the crew first getting a chance to punch in the hijacking code. Not just on one plane, but on all four. At this point in the tale, the conspiracy theorist is again forced to call upon the services of the improbability drive.

So now that our incredibly lucky hijackers have taken control of the planes, all four pilots fly them with breath taking skill and certainty to their fiery end, all four pilots unflinching in their steely resolve for a swift meeting with Allah. Apart from their psychotic hatred of "our freedoms" , it was their fanatical devotion to Islam which enabled them to summon up the iron will to do this. Which is strange, because according to another piece of hearsay peddled by the conspiracy buffs, these guys actually went out drinking and womanizing the night before their great martyrdom, even leaving their Korans in the bar -really impeccable Islamic behavior - and then got up at 5am the next morning to pull off the greatest covert operation in history. This also requires us to believe that they were even clear headed enough to learn how to fly the huge planes by reading flight manuals in Arabic in the car on the way to the airport. We know this because they supposedly left the flight manuals there for us to find.

It gets better. Their practical training had allegedly been limited to Cessnas and flight simulators, but this was no barrier to the unflinching certainty with which they took over the planes and skillfully guided them to their doom. If they are supposed to have done their flight training with these tools, which would be available just about anywhere in the world, its not clear why they would have decided to risk blowing their cover to US intelligence services by doing the training in Florida, rather than somewhere in the Middle East, but such reasoning is foreign to the foggy world of the conspiracy theorist , too trapped in the constant rotation of the mental fruit loop to make their unsubstantiated fabrications seem even semi-believable.

Having triumphantly established a circular delusion in support of the mythical Arabs, the conspiracy theorist now confronts the difficult question of why there's nothing left of the planes. Anybody who has seen the endlessly replayed footage of the second plane going into the WTC will realize that the plane was packed with explosives. Planes do not and cannot blow up into nothing in that manner when they crash.

Did the mythical Arabs also haul a huge heap of explosives on board, and mange to deploy them in such a manner that they went off in the exact instant of the crash, completely vapourizing the plane? This is a little difficult even for the conspiracy theorist, who at this point decides that its easier to invent new laws of physics in order to keep the delusion rolling along.

There weren't any explosives. It wasn't an inside job. The plane blew up into nothing from its exploding fuel load! Remarkable! Sluggishly combustible jet fuel which is basically kerosene, and which burns at a maximum temperature of around 800 C has suddenly taken on the qualities of a ferociously explosive demolition agent, vapourizing 65 tons of aircraft into a puff of smoke. Never mind that a plane of that size contains around 15 tons of steel and titanium, of which even the melting points are about double that of the maximum combustion temperature of kerosene - let alone the boiling point - which is what would be required to vapourize a plane. And then there's about 50 tons of aluminum to be accounted for. In excess of 15lbs of metal for each gallon of kerosene.

For the conspiracy theorist, such inconvenient facts are vaguely dismissed as "mumbo jumbo". This convenient little phrase is their answer to just about anything factual or logical. Like a conjurer pulling a rabbit out of a hat, they suddenly become fanatically insistent about the devastating explosive qualities of kerosene, something hitherto completely unknown to science, but just discovered by them, this very minute. Blissfully ignoring the fact that never before or since in aviation history has a plane vapourized into nothing from an exploding fuel load, the conspiracy theorist relies upon Hollywood images, where the effects are are always larger than life, and certainly larger than the intellects of these cretins. "Its a well known fact that planes blow up into nothing on impact." they state with pompous certainty. "Watch any Bruce Willis movie."

"Care to provide any documented examples? If it's a well known fact, then presumably this well known fact springs from some kind of documentation - other than Bruce Willis movies ?"

At this point the mad but cunning eyes of the conspiracy theorist will narrow as they sense the corner that they have backed themselves into, and plan their escape by means of another stunning back flip.

"Ah, but planes have never crashed into buildings before, so there's no way of telling." they counter with a sly grin.

Well, actually planes have crashed into buildings before and since, and not vapourized into nothing.

"But not big planes, with that much fuel ", they shriek in hysterical denial. Or that much metal to vapourize.

"Yes but not hijacked planes!"

"Are you suggesting that whether the crash is deliberate or accidental affects the combustion qualities of the fuel?" "Now you're just being silly".

Although collisions with buildings are rare, planes frequently crash into mountains, streets, other aircraft, nosedive into the ground,or have bombs planted aboard them, and don't vapourize into nothing. What's so special about a tower that's mostly glass? But by now, the conspiracy theorist has once again sailed happily around the fruit loop. "Its a well documented fact that planes explode into nothing on impact."

Effortlessly weaving back and forth between the position that its a "well known fact" and that "its never happened before, so we have nothing to compare it to", the conspiracy theorist has now convinced themselves ( if not too many other people) that the WTC plane was not loaded with explosives, and that the instant vapourization of the plane in a massive fireball was the same as any other plane crash you might care to mention. Round and round the fruit. loop...

But the hurdles which confront the conspiracy theorist are many, and they are now forced to implement even more creative uses for the newly discovered shockingly destructive qualities of kerosene. They have to explain how the Arabs also engineered the elegant veritcal collapse of both the WTC towers, and for this awkward fact the easiest counter is to simply deny that it was a controlled demolition, and claim that the buildings collapsed from fire caused by the burning kerosene.

For this, its necessary to sweep aside the second law of thermodynamics and propose kerosene which is not only impossibly destructive, but also recycles itself for a second burning in violation of the law of degradation of energy. You see, it not only consumed itself in a sudden catastrophic fireball , vapourizing a 65 ton plane into nothing, but then came back for a second go, burning at 2000C for another hour at the impact point, melting the skyscraper's steel like butter. And while it was doing all this it also poured down the elevator shafts, starting fires all through the building. When I was at school there was a little thing called the entropy law which suggests that a given portion of fuel can only burn once, something which is readily observable in the real world, even for those who didn't make it to junior high school science. But this is no problem for the conspiracy theorist. Gleefully, they claim that a few thousand gallons of kerosene is enough to

• completely vapourize a 65 ton aircraft
• have enough left over to burn ferociously enough for over an hour at the impact point to melt steel ( melting point about double the maximum combustion temperature of the fuel )
• still have enough left over to pour down the elevator shafts and start similarly destructive fires all through the building.

This kerosene really is remarkable stuff! How chilling to realize that those kerosene heaters we had in the house when I was a kid were deadly bombs, just waiting to go off. One false move and the entire street might have been vapourized. And never again will I take kerosine lamps out camping. One moment you're there innocently holding the lamp - the next - kapow!

Vapourized into nothing along with with the rest of the camp site, and still leaving enough of the deadly stuff to start a massive forest fire.

These whackos are actually claiming that the raging inferno allegedly created by the miraculously recycling, and impossibly hot burning kerosine melted or at least softened the steel supports of the skyscraper. Oblivious to the fact that the smoke coming from the WTC was black, which indicates an oxygen starved fire -therefore, not particularly hot, they trumpet an alleged temperature in the building of 2000 C , without a shred of evidence to support this curious suspension of the laws of physics.

Not content with this ludicrous garbage, they then contend that as the steel frames softened, they came straight down instead of buckling and twisting and falling sideways.

Since they're already re-engineered the combustion qualities of jet fuel, violated the second law of thermodynamics, and re-defined the structural properties of steel, why let a little thing like the laws of gravity get in the way?

The tower fell in a time almost identical to that of a free falling object, dropped from that height, meaning that its physically impossible for it to have collapsed by the method of the top floors smashing through the lower floors. But according to the conspiracy theorists, the laws of gravity were temporarily suspended on the morning of Sept 11. It appears that the evil psychic power of those dreadful Arabs knew no bounds. Even after they were dead, they were able, by the power of their evil spirits, to force down the tower at a speed physically impossible under the laws of gravity, had it been meeting any resistance from fireproofed steel structures originally designed to resist many tons of hurricane force wind as well as the impact of a Boeing passenger jet straying off course.

Clearly, these conspiracy nuts never did their science homework at school, but did become extremely adept at inventing tall tales for why.

"Muslim terrorists stole my notes, sir"

"No miss, the kerosene heater blew up and vapourized everything in the street, except for my passport."

"You see sir, the school bus was hijacked by Arabs who destroyed my homework because they hate our freedoms."

Or perhaps they misunderstood the term "creative science" and mistakenly thought that coming up with such rubbish was in fact, their science homework.

The ferocious heat generated by this ghastly kerosene was, according to the conspiracy theorists, the reason why so many of the WTC victims can't be identified. DNA is destroyed by heat. (Although 2000 C isn't really required, 100C will generally do the job.) This is quite remarkable, because according to the conspiracy theorist, the nature of DNA suddenly changes if you go to a different city.

That's right! If you are killed by an Arab terrorist in NY, your DNA will be destroyed by such temperatures. But if you are killed by an Arab terrorist in Washington DC, your DNA will be so robust that it can survive temperatures which completely vapourize a 65 ton aircraft.

You see, these loonies have somehow concocted the idea that the missile which hit the pentagon was not a missile at all, but one of the hijacked planes. And to prove this unlikely premise, they point to a propaganda statement from the Bush regime, which rather stupidly claims that all but one of the people aboard the plane were identified from the site by DNA testing, even though nothing remains of the plane. The plane was vapourized by the fuel tank explosion maintain these space loonies, but the people inside it were all but one identified by DNA testing.

So there we have it. The qualities of DNA are different, depending upon which city you're in, or perhaps depending upon which fairy story you're trying to sell at any particular time.

This concoction about one of the hijacked planes hitting the Pentagon really is a howler. For those not familiar with the layout of the Pentagon, it consists of 5 rings of building, each with a space in-between. Each ring of building is about 30 to 35 ft deep, with a similar amount of open space between it and the next ring. The object which penetrated the Pentagon went in at about a 45 degree angle, punching a neat circular hole of about a 12 ft diameter through three rings ( six walls). A little later a section of wall about 65 ft wide collapsed in the outer ring. Since the plane which the conspiracy theorists claim to be responsible for the impact had a wing span of 125 ft and a length of 155 ft, and there was no wreckage of the plane, either inside or outside the building, and the lawns outside were still smooth and green enough to play golf on, this crazy delusion is clearly physically impossible.

But hey, we've already disregarded the combustion qualities of jet fuel, the normal properties of common building materials, the properties of DNA, the laws of gravity and the second law of thermodynamics, so what the hell - why not throw in a little spatial impossibility as well ? I would have thought that the observation that a solid object cannot pass through another solid object without leaving a hole at least as big as itself is reasonably sound science. But to the conspiracy theorist, this is "mumbo jumbo". It conflicts with the delusion that they're hooked on, so it "must be wrong" although trying to get them to explain exactly how it could be wrong is a futile endeavour.

Conspiracy theorists fly into a curious panic whenever the Pentagon missile is mentioned. They nervously maintain that the plane was vapourized by it's exploding fuel load and point to the WTC crash as evidence of this behavior. (That's a wonderful fruit loop.) Like an insect which has just been sprayed, running back and forth in its last mad death throes, they first argue that the reason the hole is so small is that the plane never entered the wall, having blown up outside, and then suddenly backflip to explain the 250 ft deep missile hole by saying that the plane disappeared all the way into the building, and then blew up inside the building (even though the building shows no sign of such damage). As for what happened to the wings - here's where they get really creative. The wings snapped off and folded into the fuselage which then carried them into the building, which then closed up behind the plane like a piece of meat.

When it suits them, they'll also claim that the plane slid in on its belly, (ignoring the undamaged lawn) while at the same time citing alleged witnesses to the plane diving steeply into the building from an "irrecoverable angle." How they reconcile these two scenarios as being compatible is truly a study in stupidity.

Once they get desperate enough, you can be sure that the UFO conspiracy stuff will make an appearance. The Arabs are in league with the Martians. Space aliens snatched the remains of the Pentagon plane and fixed most of the hole in the wall, just to confuse people. They gave the Arabs invisibility pills to help get them onto the planes. Little green men were seen talking to Bin Laden a few weeks prior to the attacks.

As the nation gears up to impeach the traitor Bush, and stop his perpetual oil war, it's not helpful to have these idiots distracting from the process by spreading silly conspiracy theories about mythical Arabs, stories which do nothing but play into the hands of the extremist Bush regime.

At a less serious time, we might tolerate such crackpots with amused detachment, but they need to understand that the treachery that was perpetrated on Sept 11, and the subsequent war crimes committed in "retaliation" are far too serious for us to allow such frivolous self indulgence to go unchallenged.

Those who are truly addicted to conspiracy delusions should find a more appropriate outlet for their paranoia.

Its time to stop loony conspiracy theories about Sept 11.

WTC CONSPIRACY

by Snafu 10:17am Wed Feb 19 '03

Gerard Holmgren,

Very interesting thoughts on The WTC situation. However, if you feel that everything you say is true...Then who and how in your opinion are the culprits of such acts.

SNAFU

Question re: Phone Calls
by Annabelle L. 11:11am Wed Feb 19 '03
moongirl552@yahoo.com 

This is not a comment so much as a question. I really enjoyed the article about debunking conspiracy theory... particularly the 9/11 one, but I have a question.

You didn't mention this in your piece but what alternative explanations are there for the phone calls from cell phones to people's homes and loved ones.

I don't know anything about the technology of these things but it is difficult to explain the phone calls without really sounding like a conspiracy theorist.

Just wondering...

Thanks,
Annabelle

Valid comments

by Gerard 3:17pm Wed Feb 19 '03

These are reasonable questions. Some of them can be answered quite specifically, some of the answers are still murky. I don't pretend to know every single detail of what happened that day, but the compilation of research presented below sorts out most of it. I will add the general observation that the few remaining pieces of the puzzle yet to be answered conclusively need to approached with the following in mind - the Bush regime's propagnada line on these events is totally impossible, and its not valid to argue that an impossible explanation is better than none.

However, the following compilation of research answers most questions.

(The Web pages below have been backed up. If any links are dead, the backed up page can be mailed on request.)

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THE TRUTH ABOUT SEPT 11

Section 1: Airforce stand-down 

1:1 It has become popular mythology in the media that fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the hijacked planes. This is 
completely untrue as the following research shows. 
Guilty For 9-11: Bush, Rumsfeld, Myers, by Illarion Bykov and Jared 
Israel, 14 Nov 2001 
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-1.htm  

1:2 Mr. Cheney's Cover Story -- Section 2 of Guilty For 9-11, 20 Nov 
2001 
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-2.htm  

1:3 9-ll: Nothing Urgent, by George Szamuely, Research & documentation 
by Illarion Bykov and Jared Israel, Jan 2002 
http://emperor.vwh.net/indict/urgent.htm  

1:4 Planes "did scramble " on 9/11,they just " arrived late " 
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/indict/faq.htm  

1:5 Scrambled Messages, by George Szamuely, 12 Dec 2001 
http://www.nypress.com/14/50/taki/bunker.cfm  

1:6 Air National Guard Mission and Vision statements 
http://nerdcities.com/guardian/SeptemberEleventh/ang-mission.htm  

1:7 Russian Air Force chief says official 9/11 story impossible 
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/airf.htm  

Scrambling of fighter jets to intercept stray aircraft is a routine procedure. It happened 67 times in the 10 months between 
September 2000 and June 2001. 

1.8 Use of military jets jumps since 9/11. Associated Press Aug 13 2002. 
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/completetimeline/2002/ap081302.html  
1.9 CBS News. Scrambling to prevent another 9/11 Aug 14 2002 
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/08/14/attack/main518632.shtml  
1.10 Preventing another 9/11 Military.com 
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/1,13319,FL_jet_081502,00.html  
1.11 ABC News Jets on high Alert. Aug 13 2002. 
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/homefront020813.html  
1.12 Military now notified immediately of unusual air traffic events. Fox news Aug 12 2002 
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,60245,00.html#top  

So on Sept 11, 2001 - Why were no fighter jets scrambled, and why has a cover up story been concocted? 

In the unlikely event that the airforce failed through incompetence, ( not once but 4 times! ) where is the major inquiry? 
I have seen bigger inquiries into car crashes at race tracks. 

Section 2: Complicit behavoir of G.W.Bush 

It has become common mythology in the media that George W. Bush was at Booker Elementary School when he learned of the first 
WTC crash. This is a lie. Why is Bush lying about where he was, and what he knew? 

2:1 Guilty for 9-11 Section 3: Bush in the open by Illarion Bykov and Jared Israel. 
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-3.htm  

This is not the only lie Bush has told about his movements that morning. See how many times he has changed his story. 

2:2 Sept 11 attacks- evidence of US collusion by Steve Grey. 
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/01/113757.php 

(Read the section called "A tangle of lies") 

2.3 Bush gets tangled in his lies Part 1. A strange press conference. 
By Jared israel and francisco Gil-White Sept 25 2002. 
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/calif1.htm  

2:4 Bush Gets Tangled in his 9-11 Lies, Part 2: 
White House Cover-up Creates More Problems than it Solves 
by Jared Israel and Francisco Gil-White [7 October 2002] 
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/calif2.htm  

2:5 The President as Incompetent Liar: Bush's Claim that he Saw TV Footage of 1st Plane Hitting WTC 
Comments by Jared Israel [Posted 12 September 2002] 

http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/liar.htm  

Clinton was impeached for lying about an affair. Bush is lying about where he was, what he was doing and what he knew, during 
the crucial period between 8.45 and 9 AM on Sept 11. 

Why did the President - after being told "America is under attack" continue to listen to schoolchildren reading for another 
25 minutes ? Why was he cheering, smiling and joking even as it was known that at least one more hijacked plane was on the 
loose ? View the TV footage which proves treason at the top level. 

2:6 http://www.emperors-clothes.com/indict/vid.htm  

Section 3: The Ficticious Hijackers 

If 19 Arabs hijacked the planes, why are there no Arabic names on any of the passenger lists? If they used non-Arabic 
aliases, which of the " innocents " on the lists are alleged to be the hijackers? 
3:1 http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/AA11.victims.html  
Passenger and crew list for AA 11 (first WTC crash.) 

3:2 http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/AA77.victims.html  
AA 77 (Pentagon crash) 

3:3 http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/ua175.victims.html  
UAL 175 (2nd WTC crash) 

3:4 http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/ua93.victims.html  
UAL 93 (Pensylvannia crash) 

If they are alleged to have been using non- Arabic aliases (19 obviously Arabic men got on board using non-Arabic ID, with 
100% success rate ? ), why did the FBI claim that they were traced through the use of credit cards to buy tickets in their 
own names? 

If 9 of the alleged hijackers were searched before boarding, as claimed in this article 
3:5 http://www.policetalk.com/9_hijackers.html  
why is there no airport security footage of them? How did they (allegedly) get on board with knives, guns, AND electronic 
guidance systems, while being searched, but avoiding security cameras and not being on the passenger lists? 
What aliases were they alleged to be using when they were searched,and if they were not using aliases, why are they not on 
the passenger lists? 


What of reports that some of the alleged hijackers are still alive, and had nothing to do with the attacks ? 
3:6 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm  
3:7 http://www.rense.com/general20/alives.htm  
3:8 http://www.muslimedia.com/archives/world01/afgwar-die.htm  
3:9 http://www.americanfreepress.net/10_12_01/STILL_ALIVE__FBI_Mixed_Up_on_T/still_alive__fbi_mixed_up_on_t.html 
3:10 http://www.mujahideen.fsnet.co.uk/wtc/wtc-hijackers.htm 

According to this article 
3:11 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20021210/ts_nm/attack_germany_trial_dc_2  

the FBI now claims that the hijackers used gas to subdue the passengers and crew. If they used gas they would have been 
affected themselves - unless they had masks. The story gets better all the time. They somehow got on board with masks, gas, 
guns,knives and electronic guidance systems, in spite of being searched, didn't show up on the airport security cameras, and 
were not on the passenger lists. They left flight manuals in Arabic in rented cars outside the airport ( last minute brushing 
up on the way there, about how to fly the things! ) and then crashed the planes in breath taking displays of skilled 
piloting. Just to make sure we knew who they were, their passports were conveniently found in spite of fiery crashes which 
incinerated the planes and occupants. So they got on board with false IDs but used their real passports ? 

If the mythical Arab hijackers really were on the planes and airport security systems failed due to incompetence ( not once 
but 19 times! ), where is the major inquiry? I have seen bigger inquiries into racehorse doping scandals. 

Section 4: More oddities 

Why the official story concerning the hijacking of AA11 (first WTC crash) cannot possibly be true. 

4:1 9/11 Redux: (The Observer¹s Cut) American Airlines Flight 11, Reexamined By David L. Graham 
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/redux.html  

Was an urban rescue team sent to New York the night before the 
attacks? 
4:2 http://www.halturnershow.com/FEMA.htm 
4:3 http://www.tpromo.com/gk/jun02/062602.htm  

4.4 Former top German Cabinet Minister rejects official story of 9 11 attacks. 
Interview with Andreas von Buelow. Tagesspiegel Jan 13 2002. 
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/VonBuelow.html  

National Security Advisor Rice and White House spokesman Fleischer lied in saying that nobody had ever concieved of planes 
being used in this manner, their statements in this article, 

Bush Was Warned of Hijackings Before 9/11; Lawmakers Want Public Inquiry ABC News May 16 2002 
4:5 http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/warningmemo020516.html  

when the 1994 extract from Time magazine, quoted in article 2:1 demonstrates that the potential problem had been recognized 
for decades. 
And there are other examples of this possibility having been widely recognized prior to sept 11. 
4:6 "Omens of terror." by David Wise Oct 7 2001 
http://www.hermes-press.com/omens.htm  

In article 4:5 Rice also lied in saying that any threat had been overwhelmingly perceived as being overseas. The statement 
she made is in this press briefing. 
4:7 Press Briefing by National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice 
The James S. Brady Briefing Room May 16 2002 . 4.10PM EDT http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/05/20020516-13.html  

But this is the truth about the memo to which she refers. 

4:8 August memo focused on attacks in the U.S. by Bob Wooward and Dan Eggen. Washington Post staff writers. May 18 2002. page 
A01. 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A35744-2002May17&notFound=true  

What did happen to Flight 93? by Richrad Wallace. The Daily Mirror sept 13, 2002 

4:9 http://www.unansweredquestions.net/timeline/2002/mirror091302.html  

4:10 http://www.thepowerhour.com/postings-three/flight-93-shot-down.htm  

4.11 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12192317&method=full&siteid=50143  

Section 5: Where is the evidence against Bin laden? 

Why is it that the US government doesn't feel confident enough of it's case against Bin laden to lay any formal charges, but 
keeps " finding" convenient video " confession" tapes ? Probably because new video technology makes it impossible to 
distinguish between a real video confession and a fake. 

When seeing and hearing isn't believing. by William M. Arkin. Washington Post Feb 1 1999 
5:1  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin020199.htm  

Last word in High Tech trickery. by David Higgins Sydney Morning Herald. may 16 2002 
5:2 http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/16/1021415016681.html  

For more detailed evidence of a preplanned agenda to fabricate evidence against Bin Laden, 

Sept 11 attacks- evidence of US collusion by Steve Grey. 
2:2 http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/01/113757.php  

(Read the section called "Evidence please !") 

It has become a common myth that Bin Laden has admitted to the attacks. This simply isn't true. 

Bin laden denies terror attacks and points finger at jews. Annanova news. 
5:3 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_410936.html?menu=news.latestheadlines  

Bin laden denies attacks as Taliban talks holy war. ABC news online Sept 17 2001. 
5:4 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2001/09/item20010917010639_1.htm  

Bin Laden denies being behind attacks. JS ONline Milwaukee Jornal Sentinal Sept 16 2001 
5;5 http://www.jsonline.com/news/nat/sep01/binladen-denial.asp  

Osama Bin Laden claims terrorist attacks in USA were committed by some American terrorist group. Pravda Sept 12 2001 
5:6 http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/2001/09/12/14910.html  

Bin laden Denies US attack says paper. Middle East News 
5:7 http://www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-37/reg/bin_laden_denies.htm  

Bin laden says he wasn't behind attacks CNN sept 17 2001 
5:8 http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/16/inv.binladen.denial/index.html  

Bin Laden denies role in attacks. newsday.com Sept 17 2001 
5:9 http://www.newsday.com/ny-wobin172369727sep17,0,7370581.story  

Taliban says Bin Laden denied role in attacks. Yahoo news Sept 13 2001. 
5:10 http://www.welfarestate.com/wtc/denies-reuters-taliban.htm 

Section 6: Insider trading reveals high level foreknowledge 

In the first few hours after the attacks, it was reported that investigators were already looking into huge volumes of 
insider trading on airline stocks in the weeks leading up to the attacks. 
Why has this story since completely disappeared? Do authorities seriously expect us to believe that more than a year later, 
they still do not know who was responsible? Should not alarm bells have been ringing BEFORE the attacks with these record 
volumes of trading? 
If the executive director of the CIA had previously managed the firm which handled much of the trade, are we seriously 
expected to believe that he doesn't know who was responsible? 

Suppresed Details of Criminal Insider Trading Lead Directly Into The CIA's Highest Ranks -- CIA Executive Director `Buzzy' 
Krongard Managed Firm That Handled `Put' Options on UAL, by Michael C. Ruppert, 9 Oct 2001 
6:1 http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/10_09_01_krongard.html  

Mystery of terror `insider dealers', by Chris Blackhurst, 14 Oct 2001 
6:2 http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=99402  

Profits of Death -- Insider Trading and 9-11, by Tom Flocco - Edited by Michael C. Ruppert, 6 Dec 2001 
6:3 http://globalresearch.ca/articles/FLO112B.html  

Where is the major inquiry? I have seen bigger inquiries into local government contract scandals. 

Section 7: The pentagon frame up 

It is alleged that that American Airlines 77 ( a hijacked Boeing 757 ) crashed into the Pentagon. A Boeing 757 is a very 
large aircraft with a wingspan of 125 ft and a length of 155 ft. So how did it make an initial hole 12 ft wide, collapsing 
only about a 35 ft depth of the outer ring of the building - and not leave any wreckage outside ? 
This photo of the damage to the Pentagon wall 
7:1 http://66.129.143.7/june2aa.htm  
proves that whatever crashed into the pentagon was NOT AA 77, which demonstrates the Pentagon attack to have been a self - 
inflicted frame up. 

For a quick overview of the impossibility of the official story 
7:2 http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/pentagone/erreurs_en.htm  

For a full physical analysis of the crash scene 

Physical and mathematical analysis of Pentagon crash. by Gerard Holmgren Oct 2002 
7:3 http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/4578.php  

Why was there a concerted effort to fabricate eyewitness evidence for the official story regarding AA 77? 

Did AA 77 hit the Pentagon? Eyewitness accounts examined. by Gerard Holmgren June 2002 

7:4 http://hamilton.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=1786&group=webcast  

7:5 The Pentaogn crash hoax 
http://nerdcities.com/guardian/SeptemberEleventh/WhatHitThePentagon/  

Sectrion 8: If the Attack on Afghanistan was a retaliation for Sept 11, why had it already been planned months before ? 

BBC News report by George Arney. 
8:1 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1550000/1550366.stm  

U.S. Planned for attack on Al -Qaida. White house given strategy two days before Sept 11.NBC news. May 16 2002 
8:2 
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:A5WwRGMKgTYC:www.unansweredquestions.net/timeline/2002/msnbc051602.html+U.S.+Planned+for+attack+on+Al+-Qaeda.+White+house+given+strategy+two+days+before+Sept+11.&hl=en&ie=UTF-8   

US planned to hit bin Laden ahead of September 11 By David Rennie in Washington 

8:3 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/05/walq05.xml  
Why were we originally told that the attack on Afghanistan was not planned prior to sept 11, and was purely a retaliation to 
a " surprise " attack, and the story then changed after proof of the preplanned attack came to light ? 

Section 9: U.S. and Bin Laden co-operate behind the scenes. 

The new story is that they allegedly feared Bin Laden so much that they wanted to get him first. So why didn't they arrest 
him when they had the chance in July 2001? 
The CIA met Bin Laden while undergoing treatment at an American Hospital last July in Dubai, by Alexandra Richard, Translated 
courtesy of Tiphaine Dickson, Le Figaro, 11 Oct 2001 
9:1 http://globalresearch.ca/articles/RIC111B.html  
9:2 http://guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,584444,00.html  
9:3 http://emperors-clothes.com/misc/lefigaro.htm  

Bin Laden met with the CIA in July and walked away by Michael C. Ruppert 
9:4 http://www.rense.com/general16/bin.htm  
And why was the Bush family still in business with the Bin Laden Family, even AFTER Sept 11? 

Osama bin Laden's Bush family Business Connections, Alliance With Pakistan Will Stimulate Drug Trade, Bring Revenues Under 
U.S. Control --Colombian Opium Production Will Soar; The Taliban's Biggest Economic Attack on the U.S. Came in February With 
The Destruction of Its Opium Crop by Michael C. Ruppert, 18 Sept 2001 
9:5 http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/09_18_01_bushbin.html  
Carlyle profit from Afghan war, by David Lazarus, 2 Dec 2001 
9:6 http://globalresearch.ca/articles/LAZ112A.html  

Elder Bush in Big G.O.P. Cast Toiling for Top Equity Firm, by Leslie 
Wayne, 5 Mar 2001 
9:7 http://www.truthout.com/0662.Bush.Saudi.htm  

The George W. Bush Money Tree 
9:8 http://www.bushnews.com/bushmoney.htm  

Bush Family's dirty little secret: President's oil companies funded by Bin Laden family and wealthy Saudis who financed Osama 
bin Laden, by Rick Wiles,Sep 2001 
9:9 http://www.americanfreedomnews.com/afn_articles/bushsecrets.htm  

Arms Buildup Enriches Carlyle Group, Bush Sr. is Consultant, by Mark Fineman, 10 Jan 2002 
9:10 http://www.truthout.com/01.11F.Arms.Carlyle.htm  

Gaping holes in the CIA V Bin Laden Story by Jared Israel 
9:11 http://emperors-clothes.com/news/probestop-i.htm  

BushLaden by Jared Israel 
9:12 http://emperors-clothes.com/news/bushladen.htm  

Addition to the above article 
9:13 http://emperors-clothes.com/news/bushladen2-i.htm  

Judicial Watch:Bush/Bin Laden connection " has now turned into a scandal " Statement from Judicial watch with comments by 
Jared Israel 
9:14 http://emperors-clothes.com/news/jw.htm  

9:15 Bin laden. Terrorist monster:Take two ! by Jared Israel. Oct 9 2001 
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/taketwo-a.htm  
9:16 New Chairman of 9/11 Commission had business ties with Osama's Brother in Law by Michel Chossudovsky 27 december 2002 
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO212A.html  

And why did the US turn down an offer to extradite Bin Laden in 1996, AFTER naming him as wanted for the 1993 WTC bombing? 

Section 10: The suspicious collapse of the World trade centre Towers. 

How did the WTC collapse? Why no serious inquiry? Why was the debris rushed away for recycling before any examination could 
be held? 

10:1 Muslims suspend laws of physics by J. McMichael Nov 25 2001 
http://www.public-action.com/911/jmcm/physics_1.html  
10:2 Muslims suspend laws of Physics. part 2 by J.McMichael 
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/wot/mslp_ii.htm  

"Burning Questions...Need Answers": Fire Engineering's Bill Manning Calls for Comprehensive Investigation of WTC Collapse, 4 
Jan 2002 
10:3 http://zgrams.zundelsite.org/pipermail/zgrams/2002-January/000200.html  
10:4 http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2002/markr19-12.htm  
10:5 http://www.nyenvirolaw.org/PDF/FireEngineering-1-4-02-BurningQuestionsNeedAnswers.pdf  
10:6 A firefighter says "we think there were bombs set in the building" 
http://people.aol.com/people/special/0,11859,174592-3,00.html  

10:7 In Curious Battle: An expert recants on Why the WTC collapsed by John Flaherty and Jared Israel 
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/albu.htm  

10:8 Documentary footage from the scene of the WTC attacks,and eyewitness accounts from firefighters at the scene reveal 
serious flaws in the official accounts. 
http://www.thepowerhour.com/postings/911-oddities-revealed.htm  

For a series of engineering articles and informative videos on the WTC collapse, see 

10:9 http://home.attbi.com/~jmking/Collapse_update.htm  

10:10 Evidence of explosives in South WTC Tower collapse 
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/23816.php  

10:11 The World Trade Centre demolition 
http://www.nerdcities.com/guardian/WTC/wtc-demolition.htm  

10:12 Capter 1 of the FEMA WTC collapse report (with comment) 
http://www.nerdcities.com/guardian/WTC/WTC_ch1.htm  

10:13 Capter 2 (with comment) 
http://www.nerdcities.com/guardian/WTC/WTC_ch2.htm  

Steel melts at 1539 degrees. Jet fuel (kerosine) burns at 800 degrees. Are we seriously expected to believe that burning 
kerosine towards the top of the building ( heat travels upwards ) somehow caused both towers to neatly implode in a manner 
identical to that of a controlled demolition ? 
Where is the inquiry? I have seen bigger inquiries into suburban housefires. Why is discussion of the possibility of a 
controlled implosion completely taboo? Why do authorities keep inventing ridiculous stories about burning jet fuel melting 
steel?

Section 11: Hands off Bin laden ! 

Why were the FBI told to not investigate the Bin Laden family links in the US? 

Has someone been sitting on the FBI? Transcript of a BBC Newsnight Report on "the questionable links of the bin Laden 
Family," 6 Nov 2001 
11:1 http://globalresearch.ca/articles/BBC111A.html  
11:2 http://emperors-clothes.com/news/probetrans.htm  (added comments by Jared Israel) 


Bush thwarted FBI probe against bin Ladens, Hindustan Times, 7 Nov 2001 
11:3 http://globalresearch.ca/articles/HIN111A.html  

US efforts to make peace summed up by `oil', by Lara Marlowe, 19 Nov 2001 
11:4 http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MAR111A.html  
11:5 http://www.fisiusa.org/fisi_News_items/news369.htm  
Called Off the Trail? FBI Agents Probing Terror Links Say They Were Told, ‘Let Sleeping Dogs Lie’ 
By Brian Ross and Vic Walker. ABC News Dec 19 2002 
11:6 http://abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/DailyNews/FBI_whistleblowers021219.html  
After capuring one of the six most wanted Taliban leaders, the US then let him go. "By mistake " of course, because of 
"flawed intelligence." 
11:7 Taliban general 'freed by mistake' Sunday Times Dec 19 2002 
http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,5704967%255E15574,00.html  
11:8 US accidentally set wanted taliban Leader free. Clari news dec 18 2002. 
http://quickstart.clari.net/qs_se/webnews/wed/bn/Qus-attacks-taliban.RVGa_CDI.html  
11:9 FBI agent Robert Wright say FBI assigned to intelligence operations continue to protect terrorists from criminal 
investigations and prosecutions. Judicial Watch Sept 11, 2002. 
http://www.judicialwatch.org/2469.shtml  

Section 12: Its really not so surprising. 

In 1962, the joint chiefs of staff approved a CIA plan to commit terrorist acts against the US and frame Cuba. 

Friendly Fire -- Book: U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba, by David Ruppe, 1 May 
2001 
12:1 http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html  

Pentagon Proposed Pretexts for Cuba Invasion in 1962, The National Security Archive, 30 Apr 2001 
12:2 http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/  

Northwoods - a plan for terror to justify war. Comments by Jared Israel. 
12:3 http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-int.htm  

Scanned images of the actual document. 
12.4 Page i http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-i.htm  
12.5 Page ii http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-ii.htm  
12:6 Page iii http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-iii.htm  
12.7 Page 1 http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-1.htm  
12.8 Page 2 http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-2.htm  
12.9 Page 3 http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-3.htm  
12.10 Page 4 http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-4.htm  
12.11 Page 5 http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-5.htm  
12.12 Page 6 http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-6.htm  
12.13 Page 7 http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-7.htm  
12.14 Page 8 http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-8.htm  
12.15 Page 9 http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-9.htm  
12:16 Page 10 http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-10.htm 
12.17 Page 11 http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-11.htm  
12.18 Page 12 http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-12.htm  

US military schemes- ominously like 9/11. 
12:19 http://emperors-clothes.com/misc/bamford.htm  
If such tactics were considered normal and acceptable practice by the Government in 1962, what evidence is there that things 
have changed? 

Henry Kissenger advocated a similar strategy in 1992 
12:20 http://www.spotlight.org/Newsbureau/Prisoner/Media/media.html  

as Did Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1997. 
A War in the Planning for Four Years. HOW STUPID DO THEY THINK WE ARE? Zbigniew Brzezinski and the CFR Put War Plans In a 
1997 Book - It Is "A Blueprint for World Dictatorship," Says a Former German Defense and NATO Official Who Warned of Global 
Domination in 1984,in an Exclusive Interview With FTW byMichael C. Ruppert 
12:21 http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/zbig.html  

Section 13: Who created and funded the Al Qaeda Network? 

A Vital Piece of the Puzzle: Dollars for Terror -- The United States and Islam, by Carol Brouillet · 
13:1 http://www.communitycurrency.org/vital.html  

Bin Laden in the Balkans - Collection of mainstream media articles. Compiled by Jared Israel 
13:2 http://emperors-clothes.com/news/binl.htm  

The Creation called Osama by Shamsul Islam  
13:3 http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/creat.htm  

"Articles documenting US creation of taliban and Bin Laden's terrorist network" Series of links to different articles 
13:4 http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/doc.htm  

"Osama Bin Laden: Made in USA" by Jared Israel 
13:5 http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/madein.htm  

"Bush and the media cover up the Jihad schoolbook scandal" by Jared Israel 
13:6 http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/jihad.htm  

U.S. Protects Al-Qaeda Terrorists in Kosovo, by Umberto Pascali, 2 Nov 2001 
13:7 http://globalresearch.ca/articles/PAS111A.html  
Which Terrorists are worse? Al Quaeda? Or the KLA? by Jared Israel 
13:8 http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/kla-aq.htm  

Section14 : Who created the civil war in Afghanistan? 
Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser [Posted 6 October 2001] 
Ex- National Security Chief Brzezinski admits: Afghan war and Islamism were made in Washington 
14:1 http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/brz.htm  

Section 15:Why have the President and Vice President resisted moves for an inquiry into Sept 11? 
Bush asks Daschle to limit Sept. 11 probes CNN Jan 29 2002. 
15:1 http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/01/29/inv.terror.probe/  
Bush,GOP blast calls for 9/11 inquiry. CNN May 17 2002 
15:2 http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/05/16/president.gop.senators/  
Daschle: Bush, Cheney Urged No Sept. 11 Inquiry Reuters newswire UK May 26 2002 
15:3 http://www.newsfrombabylon.com/article.php?sid=1680  
Bush and Cheney Block 9-11 Investigation By Mike Hersh Oct 24, 2002, 2:22pm 
15:4 http://www.mikehersh.com/article_158.shtml  
Bush Was Warned of Hijackings Before 9/11; Lawmakers Want Public Inquiry ABC News May 16 2002 
4:5 http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/warningmemo020516.html  
15.5 Bush opposes 9/11 query panel. CBS News. May 23 2002. 
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/15/attack/main509096.shtml  
15:6 9/11 Panel asks what briefers told Bush. White House retreats on independent probe. 
Dana Priest and Dana Milbank. Washington Post Sept 21 2002. Page A01 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A46446-2002Sep20&notFound=true  

 

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