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9/11: al-Qaeda didn’t act alone
The Telegraph ^ | August 20, 2011 | Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; alqaeda; alqaida
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1 posted on 08/20/2011 1:43:19 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
I wonder if these guys got their information from anywhere else outside of the 9-11 Commission report.


2 posted on 08/20/2011 1:51:51 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: Kaslin

Its still by belief that the 9/11 terrorists trained in Iraq on the jet they found at Saddam training center


3 posted on 08/20/2011 1:52:47 PM PDT by South Dakota (shut up and drill)
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To: Kaslin

No one ever acts alone. No one ever is a lone gunman, a lone terrorist, a lone voice. There’s always someone backing them.


4 posted on 08/20/2011 1:52:47 PM PDT by arderkrag (Georgia is God's Country. LOOKING FOR ROLEPLAYERS. Check Profile.)
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To: South Dakota

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.


5 posted on 08/20/2011 1:54:45 PM PDT by Michael Barnes (Obamaa+ Downgrade)
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To: arderkrag

I believe so too


6 posted on 08/20/2011 1:55:56 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: South Dakota

salmon pac...Iraqi training center for 9/11


7 posted on 08/20/2011 1:56:11 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: Kaslin

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.


8 posted on 08/20/2011 1:57:56 PM PDT by dila813
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To: darkwing104
"Where the Commission found "no evidence" that Iran or Hizbollah, the paramilitary organisation it supports, knew in advance of the 9/11 plot, the Havlish memorandum asserts that they not only knew about it but were complicit."
9 posted on 08/20/2011 2:40:58 PM PDT by arkady_renko (I spelled it that way on purpose...)
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To: Kaslin
Keep in mind that it wasn't long after the attacks that disgraced ex-President Bill Clinton said his staff had met with President Bush's staff during The Transition to inform him of possible terrorist attacks and President Bush's team didn't take the warning seriesly.

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?"

10 posted on 08/20/2011 2:46:26 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: arkady_renko
Good read:

"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." "

11 posted on 08/20/2011 2:48:57 PM PDT by arkady_renko (I spelled it that way on purpose...)
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To: Kaslin
The first WTC attack and the 9/11 attack were both attacks against the economy.

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.

12 posted on 08/20/2011 2:50:10 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: arkady_renko

Or as W consistently referred to them: “Our Dear Friends, the Saudis”...


13 posted on 08/20/2011 2:53:01 PM PDT by null and void (Day 939. The mob is decisive when the law is not.)
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To: arkady_renko
"Saudi Arabia's oilfields are a vital resource, and their protection was a vital priority on 9/11. For that same reason, it was seen as necessary to preserve America's "friendship" with the Saudi regime – even when some of its members were suspected of complicity in the most dastardly terrorist onslaught in history.

So, after the BP spill we become even MORE dependent on Saudi oil, because our new president banned drilling in the Gulf. Almost treasonous.

14 posted on 08/20/2011 2:55:27 PM PDT by arkady_renko (I spelled it that way on purpose...)
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To: Kaslin
Yeah, no kidding.

Bush and Clinton Counter-Terrorism Czar Alleges Massive 9/11 Cover Up

15 posted on 08/20/2011 2:55:49 PM PDT by Palter (Celebrate diversity .22, .223, .25, 9mm, .32 .357, 10mm, .44, .45, .500)
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To: IMR 4350
The first WTC attack and the 9/11 attack were both attacks against the economy.

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.

16 posted on 08/20/2011 3:01:55 PM PDT by null and void (Day 939. The mob is decisive when the law is not.)
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To: null and void
We 'little people' are really at the mercy of the Powers That Be, aren't we?

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?

17 posted on 08/20/2011 3:03:19 PM PDT by arkady_renko (I spelled it that way on purpose...)
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To: arkady_renko

Who is the Great Oz behind the curtain?
Soros and his clan are one of them.


18 posted on 08/20/2011 3:07:48 PM PDT by Chickensoup (In the 20th century 200 million people were killed by their own governments.)
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To: Texas Eagle

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


19 posted on 08/20/2011 3:08:54 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: arkady_renko
Who is the Great Oz behind the curtain?

George SorOZ?

20 posted on 08/20/2011 3:10:41 PM PDT by null and void (Day 939. The mob is decisive when the law is not.)
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