Posted on 08/20/2011 1:43:17 PM PDT by Kaslin
For their new book, 'The Eleventh Day’, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan trawled through thousands of documents, piecing together a definitive account of the attacks.
On September 11, bereaved family members will mark the 10th anniversary of the cataclysmic terrorist attacks on American cities. They will gather around the pools of remembrance at the newly opened memorial, where the names of the 2,982 known victims who died on the day and in the earlier bombing of 1993 are engraved on parapets of bronze. President Obama and his predecessor, George W Bush will be on hand.
Two official inquiries have investigated the who, the how, and the why of 9/11. A decade on, however, many questions remain. Osama bin Laden and his terrorist cohort plotted and executed the operation, but did they act alone? Only days after the onslaught, President Bush's defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, said the terrorists "live and work and function and are fostered and encouraged, if not just tolerated, by a series of countries… I know a lot… It's a sensitive matter."
In the months that followed, President Bush and Vice President Cheney – especially Cheney – insinuated publicly that Iraq had been involved in 9/11. Polls showed that by 2003, when the US invaded Iraq, millions of Americans had come to believe that was the case. The US 9/11 Commission, however, would conclude that Iraq had nothing to do with the attacks.
Rumsfeld's other suspects after 9/11 had included Libya, Sudan and Iran, all countries associated with terrorism. No evidence was to emerge pointing to Libya or Sudan, though bin Laden was long based in Khartoum. Iran is another story.
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Its still by belief that the 9/11 terrorists trained in Iraq on the jet they found at Saddam training center
No one ever acts alone. No one ever is a lone gunman, a lone terrorist, a lone voice. There’s always someone backing them.
I remember that fuselage story distinctly. If memory serves, there were some fuzzy sat images of it as well. The story was deep sixxed almost as quickly as it came on the scene.
I believe so too
salmon pac...Iraqi training center for 9/11
President Bush and Vice President Cheney – especially Cheney – insinuated publicly that Iraq had been involved in 9/11.
.... insinuated? I thought we had it as they out and out lied.... insinuated?
Ok, who lied, the PRESS???? or CHENEY??? Seems the Press are saying they didn’t say it, but they .... insinuated
Does everyone remember the days leading up to the Presidential Election of Obama everyone shouting Bush Lied, Troops Died about Iraq.
These guys are absolutely shameless.
I still remember thinking back then (and still do to this day), "Wait a minute. Just what exactly did your staff tell President Bush's staff? How was President Bush supposed to prevent airliners from being used as missiles?"
"The following year, when the report of Congress's Joint Inquiry into 9/11 was published, its final 28 pages were blank. All that remained was the heading: "Finding, Discussion and Narrative Regarding Certain Sensitive National Security Matters." Virtually the entire contents had been withheld from the public, on the personal orders of George W Bush. The suppressed material, said the inquiry's staff director, Eleanor Hill, was "very disturbing. It had to do with sources of foreign support for the hijackers." Sources made it clear that there had been "direct, very specific links" with Saudi officials and "apparent connections between high-level Saudi princes and associates of the hijackers." "
Both attacks were preceded by orchestrated recessions. In both cases the attack was intended to be a one two punch.
Al Quaida didn't have the means to orchestrate a recession, that took help. Not just help from overseas, but help from people in this country.
Or as W consistently referred to them: “Our Dear Friends, the Saudis”...
So, after the BP spill we become even MORE dependent on Saudi oil, because our new president banned drilling in the Gulf. Almost treasonous.
Um. No.
The 9/11 attack was much broader.
World Trade Center - Economy.
Pentagon - Military
Flt 93 (Capitol bldg?) - Civil authority.
There there are the multiple reports of small groups of swarthy men simply walking away from their grounded flights that day.
How much of what is going on with Obama and Boehner, Martha's Vineyard and Canadian buses, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney just a dog and pony show?
Who is the Great Oz behind the curtain?
Who is the Great Oz behind the curtain?
Soros and his clan are one of them.
Excellent point. Also what must never be forgotten is the fact that bin laden was offered several times to Billy Jeff on a silver platter, and he refused to take it
George SorOZ?
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