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Was America Attacked by Muslims on 9/11?
By David Ray Griffin
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09/09/08 "ICH" --
Notes
1. On the ways in which torture, extraordinary rendition, government
spying, and the military tribunals have undermined US constitutional
principles, see Louis Fisher, The Constitution and 9/11: Recurring
Threats to America's Freedoms (Lawrence: Kansas University Press,
2008).
2. The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National
Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, authorized
edition (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), 160 (henceforth 9/11CR).
3. 9/11CR 154.
4. Kevin Fagan, "Agents of Terror Leave Their Mark on Sin City," San
Francisco Chronicle, 4 October 2001 (click
here
5. See ibid.; David Wedge, "Terrorists Partied with Hooker at Hub-Area
Hotel," Boston Herald, 10 October, 2001 (click
here and Jody A. Benjamin, "Suspects' Actions Don't Add Up,"
South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 16 September 2001 (click
here
6. "Terrorist Stag Parties," Wall Street Journal, 10 October 2001 (http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=95001298).
7. 9/11CR 248.
8. "Meet the Press," NBC, 23 September, 2001 (click
here
9. "Remarks by the President, Secretary of the Treasury O'Neill and
Secretary of State Powell on Executive Order," White House, 24
September 2001 (click
here
10. Seymour M. Hersh, "What Went Wrong: The C.I.A. and the Failure
of American Intelligence," New Yorker, 1 October 2001 (http://cicentre.com/Documents/DOC_Hersch_OCT_01.htm).
11. "White House Warns Taliban: "-We Will Defeat You,'" CNN, 21
September 2001 (click
here
12. Office of the Prime Minister, "Responsibility for the Terrorist
Atrocities in the United States," BBC News, 4 October 2001 (click
here
13. "The Investigation and the Evidence," BBC News, 5 October 2001 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1581063.stm).
14. Kathy Gannon, "Taliban Willing to Talk, But Wants U.S. Respect,"
Associated Press, 1 November 2001 (click here
15. Federal Bureau of Investigation, "Most Wanted Terrorists: Usama
bin Laden" (http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm).
16. Ed Haas, "FBI says, "-No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to
9/11'" Muckraker Report, 6 June 2006 (http://www.teamliberty.net/id267.html).
17. See my discussion in The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the
Cover-Up, and the Exposé (Northampton: Olive Branch, 2008), 208-11.
18. BBC News, "Tape "-Proves Bin Laden's Guilt,'" 14 December 2001 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1708091.stm).
19. See "The Fake 2001 bin Laden Video Tape" (http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape.html).
20. Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton, with Benjamin Rhodes,
Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission (New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 2006).
21. 9/11CR 149, 155, 166.
22. See 9/11CR Ch. 5, notes 16, 41, and 92.
23. Kean and Hamilton, Without Precedent, 118.
24. Ibid., 122-24.
25. Ibid., 119.
26. Robert Windrem and Victor Limjoco, "The 9/11 Commission
Controversy," Deep Background: NBC News Investigations, 30 January
2008 (click
here
27. Tim O'Brien, "Wife of Solicitor General Alerted Him of Hijacking
from Plane," CNN, 11 September 2001 (http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/pentagon.olson).
28. Charles Lane and John Mintz, "Bid to Thwart Hijackers May Have
Led to Pa. Crash," Washington Post, 13 September 2001 (click
here
29. Kerry Hall, "Flight Attendant Helped Fight Hijackers," News &
Record (Greensboro, N.C.), 21 September 2001 (click
here
30. 9/11CR 6.
31. Gail Sheehy, "Stewardess
ID'd Hijackers Early, Transcripts Show," New York Observer, 15
February 2004 (http://www.observer.com/node/48805).
32. "Calm Before the Crash: Flight 11 Crew Sent Key Details Before
Hitting the Twin Towers," ABC News, 18 July 2002 (click
here
33. A. K. Dewdney, "The Cellphone and Airfone Calls from Flight
UA93," Physics 911, 9 June 2003 (http://physics911.net/cellphoneflight93.htm).
For discussion of this issue, see The New Pearl Harbor Revisited,
112-14.
34. See Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up
to the Facts: An In-Depth Investigation by Popular Mechanics, ed.
David Dunbar and Brad Reagan (New York: Hearst Books, 2006), 83-86.
35. Lechner FBI Affidavit; available at Four Corners: Investigative
TV Journalism (click
here Woodward and Sweeney are not identified by name in the
affidavit, which refers simply to the former as "an employee of
American Airlines at Logan" and to the latter as "a flight attendant
on AA11." But their names were revealed in an "investigative
document compiled by the FBI" to which Eric Lichtblau referred in "Aboard
Flight 11, a Chilling Voice," Los Angeles Times, 20 September 2001 (click
here
36. 9/11CR 453n32.
37. Gail Sheehy, "9/11 Tapes Reveal Ground Personnel Muffled Attacks,"
New York Observer, 24 June, 2004 (http://www.observer.com/node/49415).
38. Greg Gordon, "Prosecutors Play Flight 93 Cockpit Recording,"
McClatchy Newspapers, KnoxNews.com, 12 April 2006 (click
here The quoted statement is Gordon's paraphrase of the
testimony of "a member of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force."
39. See United States v. Zacarias Moussaoui, Exhibit Number P200054
(click
here This graphics presentation can be more easily viewed in "Detailed
Account of Phone Calls from September 11th Flights" at 9-11 Research
(click here
40. "The Final Moments of United Flight 93," Newsweek, 22 September
2001 (click here See "Interview with Deena Lynne Burnett (re: phone
call from hijacked flight)," 9/11 Commission, FBI Source Documents,
Chronological, September 11, 2001, Intelfiles.com, 14 March 2008 (click
here Greg Gordon, "Widow Tells of Poignant Last Calls,"
Sacramento Bee, 11 September 2002 (click
here and Deena L. Burnett (with Anthony F. Giombetti), Fighting
Back: Living Beyond Ourselves (Longwood, Florida: Advantage
Inspirational Books, 2006), where she wrote: "I looked at the caller
ID and indeed it was Tom's cell phone number" (61).
42. William M. Arkin, "When Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing,"
Washington Post, 1 February 1999 (click here Although Brickhouse
Security's advertisement for Telephone Voice Changers (click
here has been modified in recent years, it previously included a
device called "FoneFaker," the ad for which said: "Record any call
you make, fake your Caller ID and change your voice, all with one
service you can use from any phone."
44. For Deena Burnett's reconstruction of the calls, see
click here
45. See The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, 122.
46. Lichtblau, "Aboard Flight 11, a Chilling Voice" (see note 34,
above).
47. 9/11CR 4, 6.
48. See note 38, above.
49. 9/11CR 19.
50. Ibid.
51. "Summary of Air Traffic Hijack Events: September 11, 2001," FAA,
17 September 2001 (click
here
52. Frank J. Murray, "Americans Feel Touch of Evil; Fury Spurs Unity,"
Washington Times, 11 September 2002 (click
here
53. "Ashcroft Says More Attacks May Be Planned," CNN, 18 September
2001 (click
here "Terrorist Hunt," ABC News (click here
54. Anne Karpf, "Uncle Sam's Lucky Finds," Guardian, 19 March 2002 (click
here Like some others, this article mistakenly said the passport
belonged to Mohamed Atta.
55. Statement by Susan Ginsburg, senior counsel to the 9/11
Commission, at the 9/11 Commission Hearing, 26 January 2004 (click
here The Commission's account reflected a CBS report that the
passport had been found "minutes after" the attack, which was stated
by the Associated Press, 27 January 2003.
56. Sheila MacVicar and Caroline Faraj, "September 11 Hijacker
Questioned in January 2001," CNN, 1 August 2002 (click
here 9/11 Commission Hearing, 26 January 2004.
57. 9/11CR 14; Jere Longman, Among the Heroes: United 93 and the
Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back (New York: HarperCollins, 2002),
215.
58. In light of the absurdity of the claims about the passports of
al-Suqami and Jarrah, we can safely assume that the ID cards of
Majed Moqed, Nawaf al-Hazmi, and Salem al-Hazmi, said to have been
discovered at the Pentagon crash site (see "9/11 and Terrorist
Travel," 9/11 Commission Staff Report [click
here 27, 42), were also planted.
59. For a photograph of the headband, see 9-11 Research, "The Crash
of Flight 93" (click
here
60. Quoted in Ross Coulthart, "Terrorists Target America," Ninemsn,
September 2001 (click
here
61. Lechner FBI Affidavit (see note 34, above).
62. Sydney Morning Herald, 15 September 2001; Boston Globe, 18
September, 2001.
63. The 9/11 Commission's Staff Statement No. 16, dated 16 June 2004
(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5224099),
said: "The Portland detour almost prevented Atta and Omari from
making Flight 11 out of Boston. In fact, the luggage they checked in
Portland failed to make it onto the plane."
64. 9/11CR 1-2.
65. 9/11CR 451n1; FBI
Director Robert S. Mueller III, "Statement for the Record," Joint
Intelligence Committee Inquiry, 26 September 2002 (click
here
66. "Two Brothers among Hijackers," CNN Report, 13 September 2001 (click
here
67. "Feds Think They've Identified Some Hijackers," CNN, 13
September 2001 (click
here
68. "Portland Police Eye Local Ties," Associated Press, Portsmouth
Herald, 14 September 2001 (click
here
69. Joel Achenbach, "'You Never Imagine' A Hijacker Next Door,"
Washington Post, 16 September 2001 (click here Rowland Morgan and
Ian Henshall, 9/11 Revealed: The Unanswered Questions (New York:
Carroll & Graf, 2005), 181.
71. David Hench, "Ticket Agent Haunted by Brush with 9/11 Hijackers,"
Portland Press Herald, 6 March 2005 (http://www.spartacus.blogs.com/ticketagent.htm).
72. This photo can be seen at click here
73. Associated Press, 22 July 2004. The photo with this caption can
be seen in Morgan and Henshall, 9/11 Revealed, 117-18, along with a
genuine security video (with identification data), or at
http://killtown.911review.org/flight77/hijackers.html (scroll
half-way down).
74. Rowland and Henshall, 9/11 Revealed, 118.
75. 9/11CR 452n11.
76. Jay Kolar, "What We Now Know about the Alleged 9-11 Hijackers,"
in Paul Zarembka, ed., The Hidden History of 9-11 (New York: Seven
Stories, 2008), 3-44, at 8 (emphasis Kolar's).
77. Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on
Terror (New York: Free Press, 2004), 13.
78. "Statement of Robert C. Bonner to the National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks upon the United States," 26 January 2004 (click
here
79. Ibid.
80. "FBI: Early Probe Results Show 18 Hijackers Took Part," CNN, 13
September 2001 (click
here "List of Names of 18 Suspected Hijackers," CNN, 14
September 2001 (click
here
81. "List of Names of 18 Suspected Hijackers."
82. Gail Sheehy, "Stewardess ID'd Hijackers Early, Transcripts
Show," New York Observer, 15 February 2004 (http://www.observer.com/node/48805).
83. Satam al-Suqami replaced a man named Amer Kamfar, and Abdulaziz
al-Omari replaced a man with a similar name, Abdulrahman al-Omari;
see Kolar, "What We Now Know," 12-15.
84. Another problem with the claim that Woodward had identified
these three men is that the seat numbers reportedly used to identify
Atta and al-Omari (see Gail Sheehy, "Stewardess ID'd Hijackers Early")
did not match the numbers of the seats assigned to these two men
(9/11CR 2).
85. All four passenger manifests can be found at click here
86. Terry McDermott, Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They
Were, Why They Did It (New York: HarperCollins, 2005), photo section
after p. 140.
87. This is stated at "The Passengers," 911myths.com (http://911myths.com/html/the_passengers.html).
88. Although discussions on the Internet have often claimed that
these manifests were included in the FBI's evidence for the
Moussaoui trial, several researchers failed to find them. See Jim
Hoffman's discussion at
click here
89. To view them, see "Passenger Lists," 9-11 Research (click
here To download them and/or read cleaned-up versions, see "The
Passengers," 911myths.com (http://911myths.com/html/the_passengers.html).
90. "Hijackers Linked to USS Cole Attack? Investigators Have
Identified All the Hijackers; Photos to Be Released," CBS News, 14
September 2001 (click
here Elizabeth Neuffer, "Hijack Suspect Lived a Life, or a Lie,"
Boston Globe, 25 September 2001 (click
here
91. "Four Planes, Four Coordinated Teams," Washington Post, 16
September 2001 (click here
92. David Dunbar and Brad Reagan, eds., Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why
Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts (New York: Hearst
Books, 2006), 63.
93. Andrew M. Baker, M.D., "Human Identification in a Post-9/11
World: Attack on American Airlines Flight 77 and the Pentagon
Identification and Pathology" (click
here
94. Steve Vogel, "Remains Unidentified for 5 Pentagon Victims,"
Washington Post, 21 November 2001 (click here See my discussion in
Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other
Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory, revised & updated
edition (Northampton: Olive Branch, 2007), 268-69.
96. "Ziad Jarrah," Wikipedia, as the article existed prior to
September 8, 2006. On that date, that passage was removed. However,
the earlier version of the article, containing the passage, is
available at
http://www.wanttoknow.info/articles/ziad_jarrah.
97. Thomas R. Olmsted, M.D. "Still No Arabs on Flight 77," Rense.com,
23 June 2003 (http://www.rense.com/general38/77.htm).
98. 9/11CR 5.
99. David Bamford, "Hijack
"-Suspect' Alive in Morocco," BBC, 22 September 2001 (click
here
100. "Hijack "-Suspects' Alive and Well," BBC News, 23 September
2001 (click here "Panoply of the Absurd," Der Spiegel, 8 September
2003 [click
here
102. Steve Herrmann, "9/11 Conspiracy Theory," The Editors, BBC News,
27 October 2006 (click
here
103. Jay Kolar, "Update: What We Now Know about the Alleged 9-11
Hijackers," Zarembka, ed., The Hidden History of 9-11: 293-304, at
293-94.
104. For discussion of some of these other men, see ibid., 295-98.
105. The story "Silver Blaze" is available at Wikisource (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Silver_Blaze).
106. "America Under Attack: How could It Happen?" CNN Live Event, 12
September 2001 (click
here
107. Ibid. This was the "radio transmission" discussed earlier.
108. Richard A. Serrano, "Heroism, Fatalism Aboard Flight 93," Los
Angeles Times, 12 April 2006 (click
here
109. All of these statements are contained in the section headed "Senior
Military, Intelligence, Law Enforcement, and Government Officials"
at Patriots Question 9/11 (http://www.patriotsquestion911.com).
110. "9/12/2001: CIA Veteran Doubts Bin Laden Capable of 9/11
Attacks, Suspects Larger Plot," Aidan Monaghan's Blog, 11 March 2008
(http://www.911blogger.com/blog/2074).
111. Marc Fisher and Don Phillips, "On Flight 77: "-Our Plane Is
Being Hijacked,'" Washington Post, 12 September 2001 (click here
112. "FAA Was Alerted To Sept. 11 Hijacker," CBS News, 10 May 2002 (click
here
113. Jim Yardley, "A Trainee Noted for Incompetence," New York
Times, 4 May 2002 (click here 9/11CR 242.
115. Greg Szymanski, "Former Vietnam Combat and Commercial Pilot
Firm Believer 9/11 Was Inside Government Job," Arctic Beacon, 17
July 2005 (click here Email from Ralph Omholt, 27 October 2006.
117. Alan Miller, "U.S. Navy 'Top Gun' Pilot Questions 911 Pentagon
Story," OpedNews.com, 5 September 2007 (click here Dunbar and Reagan,
eds., Debunking 9/11 Myths, 6.
119. Ibid.
120. These problems and more are discussed in The New Pearl Harbor
Revisited, Ch. 1.
121. For such people who have been willing to go public, see
Patriots Question 9/11 (http://PatriotsQuestion911.com).
122. Patriots Question 9/11 (http://PatriotsQuestion911.com/engineers.html#Munyak).
123. Stated at Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (http://www.ae911truth.org/profile.php?uid=998819).
124. For anyone aware of the facts, NIST's report on the collapse of
WTC 7, issued August 22, 2008, is laughable. For one thing, as I had
predicted (Ch. 1 of The New Pearl Harbor Revisited), NIST simply
ignored all the facts to which its fire theory cannot do justice,
such as the melted steel, the thermite residue, and the reports of
explosions in the building.
125. Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (click here This
interview can be seen at "Controlled Demolition Expert and WTC7" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3DRhwRN06I).
A portion is contained in the film Loose Change Final Cut.
127. "The Myth of Implosion" (http://www.implosionworld.com/dyk2.html).
David
Ray Griffin is professor emeritus at Claremont School of Theology
and Claremont Graduate University, where he taught philosophy of
religion and theology, with special emphases on the problem of evil
and the relations between science and religion, theology and ecology,
religion and politics, and modernity and postmodernity. He has
published 34 books, including seven about 9/11, most recently The
New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, The Cover-Up, and the Exposé
(Olive Branch, 2008). Dr. Griffin's previous books about 9/11
include The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush
Administration and 9/11 (2004), The 9/11 Commission Report:
Omissions and Distortions (2005), The American Empire and the
Commonwealth of God (2005, co-authored with John B. Cobb, Jr.,
Richard Falk, and Catherine Keller), Christian Faith and the Truth
about 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action (2006), 9/11 and
American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out (2006, co-edited with Peter
Dale Scott), Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular
Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory
(2007), and 9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the
Press (2008). |