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In spite of the years of statements and actions of al-Qaeda, some people reject the evidence and claim that al-Qeada were not the perpetrators or sole perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks. The theory that the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy of the US government itself is simply wrong. Below are good arguments that expose the erroneous theory.
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The explosives in the buildings and missile at the Pentagon crap simply is illogical. There is nothing in the events of 9/11 that defied basic physics. The steel was fireproofed, why would it have been fireproofed in the first place if according to your theory fire could not harm it? When the planes crashed the explosion and impact knocked off a great deal of the fireproofing. The steel supports were stressed already because of the structural damage, with the unexpected fires the structural supports gave way and the floors fell. "There were fires located on 15 to 20 different floors. So there was never enough water to arrest the fire to prevent structural instability." "When the plane impacted the building, it severely damaged those exterior columns. The following fire further damaged the support columns. So it was a two step event; initial damage by plane and further damage or subsequent loss of structural stability that caused the building to fail." When these floors fell onto the floor below them they exceeded what that floor could support so it collapsed along with what was on-top of it onto the floor below it. A cascade of floor failures repeated as the building collapsed top down not all floors at once which is how a controlled explosion happens.
Another important point is that WTC 7 was severely damaged and was on fire for hours. Contrary to the claims of 9/11 conspiracy people, WTC 1 did not collapse into its footprint like a controlled explosion. Instead, as the building collapsed, the debris from WTC 1 spilled into the surrounding streets and onto WTC 7 among others, damaging the building. Read the eyewitness accounts and see the diagram Some people think that the Madrid Windsor Tower was not damaged by the fire, this is simply not true. Look at the fact that the steel collums of the Madrid Windsor Tower did indeed collapse.No one with the bizarre "explosives theory" has explained how the hell these hypothetical explosives would not have been set off by the fires for all the time the fires burned. How the hell would the hypothetical wires and remote controls to these hypothetical fire-resistant explosives withstood the fires? The theory is of such tortured logic I really find it incredible that some people believe it. It is incredible that in spite of the years of statements and actions of al-Qaeda, some people reject the evidence and claim that al-Qeada were not the perpetrators or sole perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks. The theory that the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy of the US government itself is simply wrong.
"Political Research Associates does not criticize conspiracism because we want to shield those with unfair power and privilege; but because we believe that conspiracism impedes attempts to build a social movement for real social justice, economic fairness, equality, peace, and democracy."
"Griffin’s book reflects a relentless disregard of substantial evidence from multiple sources that contradict the claims he is making. Griffin repeatedly uses classic Fallacies of Logic in his presentation rendering whole sections of the book refutable on this basis alone." Review by Chip Berlet
Refuting the Claims in the Griffin Book: Post
9/11 Conspiracism (Democracy Now folowup)
Post 9/11 Conspiracism
Dubious claims made in the book "The New Pearl Harbor"
Chip Berlet's
Review of "The New Pearl Harbor"
The New Pearl Harbor: A Debate On A New Book That Alleges The Bush Administration
Was Behind The 9/11 Attacks
Transcript
of the the Democracy Now Program of May 25, 2004 on claims in the Griffin Book,
both David Ray Griffin and Chip Berlet debate
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The Gorilla
in the Room is US Support for Israel. Lee Hamilton insults the American people at a "9/11 Public Discourse Project" Q&A. At the August 2, 2005 "public event," Hamilton quickly trys to silence someone who asks why US support for Israel isn't being addressed since it is what drove the plotter of 9/11 to attack us. see transcript |
The ring leader of the September 11th suicide hijackers also held the same
grievance. Mohamed Atta coordinated the other 9/11 terrorists and he was a pilot
who flew into the WTC. Ralph Bodenstein, who traveled, worked and talked a lot
with Mohamed Atta, is quoted as describing Mohamed Atta as "most imbued actually
about Israeli politics in the region and about US protection
of these Israeli politics in the region. And he was to a degree personally
suffering from that."
This motive is shared by the terrorists who first attacked the World Trade Center
in 1993. The terrorists sent a letter to the New York Times after attacking
the WTC, "We declare our responsibility for the explosion on the mentioned
building. This action was done in response for the American
political, economical, and military support to Israel the state of terrorism
and to the rest of the dictator countries in the region."
That 1993 attack was led by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's nephew, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef.
Inspired by the 1993 attack on the Twin Towers, Mohammed later allied with Ramzi
Ahmed Yousef "in a plan to blow up as many as a dozen American airliners over
the Pacific Ocean." 1 That plan was never successfully executed but Mohammed
then conceived of using Airliners to attack targets in the US. "It was then
that he sought to interest Bin Laden in an operation to attack the United States
from the air." 2
"Bin Laden approved funding for Mohammed's plot in late 1998 or early 1999."
"In an early version of the Sept. 11 plot, Mohammed proposed flying one of the
hijacked planes himself, landing it in the United States and, after killing
all the men aboard, making a speech urging America to change
its Middle East policies. Bin Laden eliminated that flourish from
the attack plan." 3 Bin Laden no doubt assumed that the public declarations
of war that he made more than once demanding that America change its Middle
East policies had made it crystal clear why the attacks were being made.
"It should not be hidden from you that the people of Islam had suffered from aggression, iniquity and injustice imposed on them by the Zionist-Crusaders alliance and their collaborators; to the extent that the Muslims blood became the cheapest and their wealth as loot in the hands of the enemies. Their blood was spilled in Palestine and Iraq." - The 1996 Fatwa entitled "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places."
The 1998 Fatwa
was signed by Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and others. It lists three
grievances:
1. U.S. occupation of the Arabian Peninsula.
2. U.S. aggression against the Iraqi people.
3. U.S. support of Israel.
Your position against Muslims in Palestine is despicable and disgraceful.
America has no shame. ... We believe that the worst thieves in the world today
and the worst terrorists are the Americans. Nothing could stop you except perhaps
retaliation in kind. We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian.
As far as we are concerned, they are all targets, and this is what the fatwah
says ... . The fatwah is general (comprehensive) and it includes all those
who participate in, or help the Jewish occupiers in killing Muslims. " - Osama
bin Laden May 1998
"For over half a century, Muslims in Palestine have been slaughtered and
assaulted and robbed of their honor and of their property. Their houses
have been blasted, their crops destroyed." - Osama bin Laden May 1998
"The International Islamic Front for Jihad against the U.S. and Israel has issued
a crystal-clear fatwa calling on the Islamic nation to carry on jihad aimed
at liberating holy sites. The nation of Muhammad has responded to this appeal.
If the instigation for jihad against the Jews and the Americans in order
to liberate Al-Aksa Mosque and the Holy Ka'aba Islamic shrines in the Middle
East is considered a crime, then let history be a witness that I am a criminal."
- Osama bin Laden May 1999
After the 9/11 attack, bin Laden once again made a statement to make the motive
clear: "We swore that America wouldn't live in security until we live it
truly in Palestine. This showed the reality of America, which puts Israel's
interest above its own people's interest. America won't get out of this crisis
until it gets out of the Arabian Peninsula , and until it stops its support
of Israel." -Osama bin Laden, October 2001
Bin Laden had underestimated the power of special interests to deceive large
numbers of the America public about why the US was being attacked. After the
lies that Bush and others told about why America was being attacked, bin Laden
once again made an attempt to make the motives clear by pointing out that Bush
is hiding the truth: "... the Mujahideen saw the black gang of thugs in the
White House hiding the Truth, and their stupid and foolish leader, who is
elected and supported by his people, denying reality and proclaiming
that we (the Mujahideen) were striking them because we were jealous of them
(the Americans), whereas the reality is that we are striking
them because of their evil and injustice in the whole of the Islamic World,
especially in Iraq and Palestine and their occupation of the Land of the Two
Holy Sanctuaries." -Osama Bin Laden , February 14 , 2003
" ... in 1995 , the explosion in Riyadh took place, killing four Americans,
in a clear message from the people of that region displaying their rejection
and opposition to the American policy of bankrolling the Jews and occupying
the Land of the Two Holy Sanctuaries. The following year, another
explosion in Al-Khobar killed 19 Americans and wounded more than 400 of them,
prompting them to move their bases from the cities to the desert . Then in 1998
, the Mujahideen warned America to cease their support to
the Jews and to leave the Land of the Two Holy Sanctuaries, but the
enemy refused to heed this warning, so the Mujahideen, with the ability from
Allah , smashed them with two mighty smashes in East Africa . Then again America
was warned, but she refused to pay attention to the warnings, so the Mujahideen
destroyed the American Destroyer, the USS Cole, in Aden, in a martyrdom operation,
striking a solid blow to the face of the American military and at the same time,
exposing the Yemeni Government as American agents, similar to all the countries
in the region." -Osama bin Laden February 14, 2003
It is also the
same motive that Mir Aimal Kasi had for killing CIA employees Frank Darling
and Lansing Bennett outside CIA headquarters in Langley,Virginia in 1993 . Mir
Aimal Kasi said, "What I did was a retaliation against
the US government for American policy in the Middle East and its support
of Israel ." Mir Aimal Kasi once professed a love for this country,
his uncle testified. "He always say that 'I like America, I love America
and I want to go there,'" Amanullah Kasi said at a sentencing hearing for
his nephew, Mir Aimal Kasi . Kasi's roommate, who had reported him missing after
the shootings, told police that Kasi would get incensed watching CNN when he
heard how Muslims were being treated. After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks,
Kasi said he did not approve of the attack on the World Trade Center because
innocent were killed. He understood, however, the attack on the Pentagon, the
symbol of government might.
1 New Plot Details Emerge, By Terry McDermott, Los Angeles Times July 23, 2004
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
Bush lied about "why
they hate us" ( why were we attacked on September 11th )
Representative
Press archive What Osama
bin Laden, Mohammed Atta, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and others want has been
made crystal clear. "When someone asked why he and Atta never laughed,
Shehhi retorted, 'How can you laugh when people are dying in Palestine?'"
* Abdulaziz Alomari, one of the hijackers aboard Flight 11 with Mohammed Atta,
said in his video will, "My work is a message those who heard me and to
all those who saw me at the same time it is a message to the infidels that you
should leave the Arabian peninsula defeated and stop giving a hand of help to
the coward Jews in Palestine."
* Ahmed Al Haznawi, a hijacker aboard Flight 93, said in his video will, "Here
is Palestine for more than a half-century, its wound has continued to bleed."
The US has supported outrageous crimes against the people in the Middle East.
Bush and others are lying about why we were attacked. When Tenet and others
quote the 1998 Fatwa they omit the key part in order to suppress the motives"
THIS PART: "in
order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque [Mecca] from their
grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated
and unable to threaten any Muslim." That is the motives OK? NOT "in
order to establish an "Islamic world"". LOOK at the fact that US officials omit
the part of the sentence that
mentions motives, they are manipulating the American public because they
serve agendas that don't want to change the policies in the Middle East. What
do Jihadists say to recruit others? They don't say "do you want to set
up an "Islamic world?"" what they say is "do you want to do something about
the injustices that America has caused?" Look:
A former member of an extremist Islamic organization which is part of al-Qaeda
explained how the organization's recruiters operate on susceptible young men.
"Someone approached me in the mosque as I was praying, and started to talk to
me about injustice in the Middle East, the poverty, our impotence in the face
of Israel. He made me want to listen to him - to find a solution. At first these
people don't talk about violence. They concentrate on how much injustice America
has caused in the world and how to get rid of this unfairness. They mention
Palestine, they call on you to uphold your national dignity, to defend people,
and suggest for that you must sacrifice yourself. Then your people will live
after you and will always remember you." The young man, himself an Egyptian,
speaking in the privacy of a quite courtyard in Cairo, believed this was the
way Mohamed Atta was approached. "Al-Qaeda" by Jane Corbin p125
There are people with power serving special interests who want the forign policies
unchallanged so they decieve the public about why they are being attacked. For
example see George
Tenet's sick game.
Someone wrote on the Internet, "When did Osama bin Laden ever live in Palestine?
And why should we believe he speaks for the Palestinians? "
Abdallah Azzam was born in Palestine and he was an "early spiritual mentor"
of Osama bin Laden. (see page 2 of "Al-Qaeda"
by Jason Burke ) Stop trying to fool the public about why we are being attacked.
Your "reasoning" is obviously to serve Israel.