9/11:

We shall prevail. We shall

Overcome.

THE TRUTH IS ON OUR SIDE

For generations, we have been through monumental changes. 9/11 was one huge transformative
event that impacted our world forevermore from how we travel into airports to how we think
about international affairs. From buildings coming down to the new realities of our time, we
have had to adjust to many circumstances. After 20 years, we have seen a terrorist insurrection,
mosques being vandalized, unjust wars including imperialism have existed, the growth of hate
crimes, the rise of movements for black lives, and a new President. The events of 9/11
transformed the 21st century to reckon with the reality that America can never be an isolationist
nation. If we desire true change, we must engage with the world in making real positive actions
to transpire. Our understanding of what took place has magnified, and the embrace of our core
values is always etched in our minds plus souls.
 THE TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Prologue 2. The History of 3. The 1993 Bombing 4. The Bin Laden
the World Trade Family and the Bush
Center Family

5. Warnings of 6. My Memory of 7. The Events of 8. NORAD

Attacks on America 9/11 September 11th, 2001

9. A Summary of 10. The Collapses of 11. Aftermath 12. The 9/11

the Pentagon’s the Twin Towers (Including Our Civil Commission
History and Building Liberties and the
Number 7 War on Terror)

13. The 9/11 Truth 14. Other Stories 15. A New Political 16. Conclusion
Movement (The Reality in 2021
Elephant in the
Room)
20 Years after 9/11 came about so fast. We exist in a new era of human history. A lot of changes
have happened in the world socially, technologically, politically, and economically over the span of
two decades. We have witnessed new musicians arise and
the existence of advanced laptops including smartphones.
One thing remains the same. It is that we believe in the
same commitment to human justice for all. Still, after 20
years, I still believe in black liberation, in environmental
justice, in voting rights, in economic justice, in reparations,
and in social justice. 9/11 started a new era of the 21st
century that we still live in currently. Constantly, I
contemplate about 9/11 a great deal. The vicious attacks
on 9/11 were one of the most horrendous attacks on
Americans in American history when almost 3,000 human
beings (of many colors, creeds, sexes, and backgrounds)
were unjustly murdered by terrorists. The pain of the
victims' families is unfathomable. To this very day, the
victims of 9/11 and their families continuously fight for
health aide given to those who ingested the smoke from the
debris. To this day, many heroic activists have endorsed the
protections of our civil liberties and our democratic
institutions. The irony is that now in 2021, the biggest
terrorist threat domestically are not terrorists who claim to be Muslims (but they are not), but the
biggest domestic threat are white racist nationalists who seek to destroy America. The terrorist
insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 document that reality. 9/11 harmed human
beings in three states during the morning of Tuesday on September 11, 2001. After 20 years, we
know more of truth. Since that time, the haters of truth have tried to intimidate those who want
independent investigations and further research. I don't believe in the view of these haters. The
First Amendment dictates the freedom of speech, and there is no shame to expose the fact that the
neo-conservatives exploited the evil events of 9/11 as an excuse for them to establish a war in Iraq,
allow the increased militarization of American society, and permit certain imperial policies in the
War on Terror. It is right to condemn Osama bin Laden as an evil, disgraceful person who used
terrorism against innocent human life. He lived wickedly, and he deserves no sympathy.
On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda affiliated hijackers flew two Boeing 767 jets into the World
Trade Centers. The hijackers used a plane to hit the Pentagon, and heroes stopped the hijackers
from sending one plane into the U.S. Capitol. That plane was crashed in Pennsylvania. Also, it is
important to be clear about the evil committed by Western imperialism too from secret torture
centers to the cruel acts at Abu Ghraib. I still remember when the former Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency during the George W. Bush administration and former
Governor Christine Whitman said that the air in New York City was safe to breathe immediately
after 9/11. She was wrong. Investigations about 9/11 have existed. We know that many Western
corporate interests were overt in trying to gain oil, gas, water, and mineral resources in the Middle
East and Asia as a means for them to compete against Russian including Chinese geo-political
hegemonic powerbases. We know about the warnings of terrorist attacks in American soil before
9/11 existed (as documented by mainstream news reports). Recently, the 2021 fall of Kabul and
the start of the end of the American major military operations in Afghanistan are upon us. The
wild thing now is that some want to rehabilitate the bad legacy of the George W. Bush
administration because of the huge failures of the previous Trump administration.

The reality is that the George W. Bush Presidency promoted torture memos, made a terrible
response to Hurricane Katrina, advanced an NSA warrantlesss wiretap program, and caused the
Iraq War (which ended in sectarian violence and divisions that haven’t stabilize Iraq in great
measure. It is only recently when Iraq is in a better state than during the initial aftermath of the
invasion of Iraq). So, Bush-era policies aren't things that should be greatly glorified. We know about
the FBI agents trying to reveal to the public about these warnings before 9/11. Back then and today,
multinational corporations, NGOs, and other organizations have huge international power. After
9/11, controversial anti-democratic laws existed like the Patriot Act and the USA Military
Commissions Act. Therefore, the truth about 9/11 is very real. The truth is that 9/11 was a product
of many terrorists, and 9/11 was used by the Western imperialists to permit wars for control over
the world's resources. We will never forget 9/11, because it was a traumatic event that taught us
that unjust violence is evil. Also, joining a cause for justice via constructive means makes sense too.

President George W. Bush is being U.S. troops going into Afghanistan Many firefighters and first
briefed on the attacks at Saratoga, came during the immediate responders sacrificed their lives to
Florida. aftermath of 9/11. save many human lives on
September 11, 2001.

*Therefore, after 20 years since the attacks on September 11,

2001, our goal of human liberation is the same. We have the
right to live our lives, to investigate the mysteries of life, to hold
dear plus stand up for our human rights unequivocally, and to
always be in league with the Golden Rule.

Protestors in Portland, Oregon on
March 19, 2006 are here protesting
the Iraq War.
By September of 2021, the statue of
Robert E. Lee has been gone from
Richmond, Virginia. It was a great
action to pursue.
NJ National Guard Troops were
deployed inside the Capitol,
pictured during the swearing-in on
January 12, 2021. The 1/6 terrorist
attack on the U.S. Capitol changed
America forever also.
The image on the left showed New York City during the early 20th century, and the image
on the right showed the One World Trade Center Tower by the modern times.
The History of the World Trade Center
The World Trade Center was originally created by
1973, and it exists today in 2021 in a completely
different format. The World Trade Center is made up
of a complex of buildings in Lower Manhattan at New
York City. The original 7 buildings were destroyed
during the September 11 attacks. Today in 2021, the
World Trade Center complex is rebuilt with 6 new
skyscrapers. Four of them have been completed.
There is a memorial and a museum to those who were
murdered in the attacks. The elevated Liberty Park is
adjacent to the site having the St. Nicholas Greek
Orthodox Church and Vehicular Security Center and a
transportation hub. People know of the new 104 story
One World Trade Center building, and the One World
Trade Center is the tallest building in the Western
Hemisphere. The new complex includes: One World
Trade Center, 3 World Trade Center, 4 World Trade
Center, 7 World Trade Center, and one other high-rise
office building being planned at 2 World Trade Center.
The original World Trade Center was opened on April
4, 1973. The old complex had the Marriott World
Trade Center (3 WTC), as well as 4 WTC, 5 WTC, 6 WTC,
and 7 WTC. Construction of the first World Trade
Center started in August 6, 1968 after the
groundbreaking ceremony took place on August 5,
1966. The complex contained 13,400,000 square feet
(1,240,000 m2) of office space. The core complex was
built between 1966 and 1975, at a cost of $400 million
(equivalent to $2.27 billion in 2018). During its
existence, the original World Trade Center
experienced several major incidents, including a fire
on February 13, 1975, a bombing on February 26,
1993, and a bank robbery on January 14, 1998. In
1998, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
decided to privatize it by leasing the buildings to a
private company to manage. It awarded the lease to
Silverstein Properties in July 2001. The World Trade
Center was first proposed in 1943. The New York State
Legislature passed a bill to authorize New York
Governor Thomas E. Dewey to start developing plans
for the projects. Plans were stopped in 1949. Later,
David Rockefeller wanted the Port Authority to build a
World Trade Center to promote urban renewal in
Midtown, Manhattan. On September 20, 1962, the
Port Authority announced the selection of Minoru
Yamasaki as lead architect and Emery Roth and Sons
as associate architects. Yamasaki devised the plan to
incorporate twin towers. His original plan called for
the towers to be 80 stories tall, but to meet the Port
Authority's requirement for 10,000,000 square feet
(930,000 m2) of office space, the buildings would each
have to be 110 stories tall. Yamasaki's design for the
World Trade Center, unveiled to the public on January
18, 1964, called for a square plan approximately 208
feet (63 m) in dimension on each side.

The man on the right is the architect Yamasaki

The architect Yamasaki wanted narrow office windows and elements of Arabic architecture in the construction
of the building. The structural engineering firm Worthington, Skilling, Helle and Jackson worked to implement
Yamasaki's design, developing the framed-tube structural system used in the twin towers. The core of the
towers housed the elevator and utility shafts, restrooms, three stairwells, and other support spaces. The core
of each tower was a rectangular area 87 by 135 feet (27 by 41 m) and contained 47 steel columns running from
the bedrock to the top of the tower. The large, column-free space between the perimeter and core was bridged
by prefabricated floor trusses. The floors supported their own weight as well as live loads, providing lateral
stability to the exterior walls and distributing wind loads among the exterior walls. The floors consisted of 4-
inch (10 cm) thick lightweight concrete slabs laid on a fluted steel deck. A grid of lightweight bridging trusses
and main trusses supported the floors. The trusses connected to the perimeter at alternate columns and were
on 6 foot by 8 inch (2.03 m) centers. The top chords of the trusses were bolted to seats welded to the spandrels
on the exterior side and a channel welded to the core columns on the interior side. The floors were connected
to the perimeter spandrel plates with viscoelastic dampers that helped reduce the amount of sway felt by
building occupants. By March 1965, the Port Authority started acquiring property at the World Trade Center
site. The World Trade Center 1 and 2 were controversial, because of the location and other reasons. Many
businesses, industrial tenants, and property openly didn't like re-location. The original World Trade Center
housed more than 430 companies. On a weekday, about 50,000 people worked in the complex along with
140,000 people being visitors. It had its own zipcode and had 13,400,000 square feet.
*To understand 9/11 is also to know that 9/11 is much more complex than many people realize. There is
information about the ownership, access, and security of the World Trade Center complex that must be
explained. As we know, David Rockefeller and his brother Nelson Rockefeller promoted the World Trade Center
Complex back in the 1960's. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was the manager of the WTC
complex. The Port Authority chairman on 9/11 was Lewis Eisenberg (who was appointed by Governor of New
Jersey Christine Todd Whitman and with the support of Governor George Pataki of New York state). By July
2001, Larry Silverstein with Frank Lowy as a minor partner, leased the World Trade Center from the Port
Authority. We know that Peter Peterson's Blackstone Group bought the debt on World Trade Center 7 from the
Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association. Peter Peterson was a Pilgrim Society member and one of the most
powerful Americans during his lifetime. Kroll was the WTC's primary security consultant. Joseph Kasputys was a
tenant in the impact zone of the World Trade Center.

The new World Trade Center existed years after 2001. After years of delay and controversy, reconstruction at
the World Trade Center site started. The new complex includes One World Trade Center, 3 World Trade Center,
4 World Trade Center, 7 World Trade Center, and one other high-rise office building being planned at 2 World
Trade Center. The new World Trade Center complex also includes a museum and memorial, and a transportation
hub building that is similar in size to Grand Central Terminal. In 2006, the Port Authority took over One World
Trade Center's ownership from Silverstein Properties. 7 World Trade Center opened on May 23, 2006, making
it the first of five skyscrapers to have been completed in the World Trade Center complex. In May 2006,
architects Richard Rogers and Fumihiko Maki were announced as the architects for 3 and 4 WTC, respectively.
The final designs for 2, 3, and 4 WTC were unveiled on September 7, 2006. 4 World Trade Center, the first
building completed as part of the site's master plan, opened on November 12, 2013. The National September
11 Memorial opened on September 11, 2011, while the Museum opened on May 21, 2014. One World Trade
Center was opened on November 3, 2014. The World Trade Center Transportation Hub opened to the public on
March 4, 2016, and 3 World Trade Center opened on June 11, 2018. 2 World Trade Center's full construction
was placed on hold in 2009, with a new design announced in 2015. The Freedom Tower was designed to be
1,368 feet (417 m) tall, the height of the original World Trade Center north tower, and its spire rises to the
symbolic height of 1,776 feet (541 m), a reference to the year in which the United States Declaration of
Independence was signed. Today, many stores are in the World Trade Center area, and a transportation hub
does exist in the vicinity too.
 The 1993 Bombing
The first Bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 is key in understanding 9/11. The events of the past relate
to the present and future. This major terrorist attack took place on February 26, 1993. I was in the fourth grade
of elementary school when it happened. I remembered it before. The bomb was a 1,336 pound urea nitrate-
hydrogen gas enhanced device. The people involved in the evil action wanted both Twin Towers to all. It failed.
6 people were murdered, and more than 1,000 people were injured in the blast. The attack was planned by a
group of terrorists including Ramzi Yousef, Mahmud Abouhalima, Mohammad Salameh, Nidal A. Ayyad, Abdul
Rahman Yasin, and Ahmed Ajaj. They received financing from Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, Yousef's uncle. In
March 1994, four men were convicted of carrying out the bombing: Abouhalima, Ajaj, Ayyay, and Salameh. The
charges included conspiracy, explosive destruction of property, and interstate transportation of explosives. In
November 1997, two more were convicted: Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind behind the bombings, and Eyad
Ismoil, who drove the truck carrying the bomb. Ramzi Yousef was born in Kuwait, and he spent time in an Al-
Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. Khalid Sheikh Muhammad gave Yousef advice and tips over the phone. He
funded the co-conspirator Mohammed Salameh with a US$660 wire transfer. Yousef came into America illegally
on September 1, 1992. Yousef would live in Jersey City, New Jersey, and he traveled around New York plus New
Jersey. Yousef assembled the gas enhanced device to deliver it to the WTC. As early as 1991, Ramzi Yousef spent
time at an Al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan to plan a bombing attack within the United States.

On Friday, February 26, 1993, Ramzi Yousef and a Jordanian friend, Eyad Ismoil, drove a yellow Ryder van into
Lower Manhattan, and pulled into the public parking garage beneath the World Trade Center around noon.
They parked on the underground B-2 level. Yousef ignited the 20-foot fuse and fled. Twelve minutes later, at
12:17:37 pm, the bomb exploded in the underground garage, generating an estimated pressure of 150,000 psi.
The bomb exploded in the basement. The World Trade Center’s main electrical power line was knocked out.
Smoke rose to the 93rd floor of both towers. 6 people died in the blast along with over 1,000 people being
injured. During the trial, it was revealed that the FBI had an informant, a former Egyptian army officer named
Emad Salem. Salem claims to have informed the FBI of the plot to build a bomb that would eventually be used
in the World Trade Center towers as early as February 6, 1992. Salem's role as informant allowed the FBI to
quickly pinpoint the conspirators out of hundreds of possible suspects. The transcripts do not make clear the
extent to which Federal Authorities knew that there was a plan to bomb the World Trade Center, merely that a
bombing of some sort was being discussed. Salem said that the FBI plan was for Salem to give the conspirators
with a harmless powder instead of an actual explosive. The FBI allowed him to do other actions. Also, the Salem
secretly recorded hundreds of hours of telephone conversations with his FBI handlers. So, the FBI knew about
such terrorism. It is no secret that the FBI has been involved in dubious conduct for decades from illegal spying
to other actions. J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO came from the FBI.

A granite memorial fountain honoring the victims of the bombing was designed by Elyn Zimmerman and
dedicated in 1995 on Austin J. Tobin Plaza, directly above the site of the explosion. It contained the names of
the six adults who were killed in the attack as well as an inscription.
 Osama was taught judo as a younger person.

The Bin Laden Family and the Bush

Family
For years, there has been business relationships between the Bush and Bin Laden families. Back then, few people
knew of this fact. Now, we do. Obama bin Laden's brother was Salem. The English media has shown a
photograph from 1971. It displayed Osama when he was 14 and Saleem when he was 19. They were in a summer
holiday at the Astoria Hotel in Falun, Sweden. The Bin Laden family had immense wealth. According to the Daily
Mail’s Peter Allen, “…Salem went on to become a business partner of the man who is leading the hunt for his
brother…" In June of 1977, George W. Bush formed his own drilling company called Arbusto Energy (Arbusto
means bush in Spanish). This was based at Midland, Texas. Like his father's business, George W. Bush's oil
business was backed by businessmen like Houston businessman James R. Bath. Bath had links to Saudi Arabian
sheiks. Time reporters Beaty and Gwynne suggest in their book that the $50,000 Bath invested in Dubya's
Arbusto Energy drilling company may have belonged to Bath's Saudi clients since the Houston businessman "had
no substantial money of his own at the time." At the time of the investment, Bath was a representative for Saudi
businessman Salem bin Laden, the oldest son of Mohammed bin Laden, founder of the Saudi Binladin Group,
the largest old construction company in Saudi Arabia. Salem was the head of the bin Laden family business by
1977. George W. Bush knew of the Texas businessman James Bath. Salem Bin Laden was one of the investors in
the Arbusto oil company. Salem bin Laden and banker and BCCI member Halid bin Mahfouz wanted to go into
the oil business. Bath's business partner Charles White later became involved in a legal dispute with Bath, during
which he claimed that Bath had actually invested in the company on behalf of bin Laden and other Saudi
businessmen.

Both Bath and Bush have denied this, and according to journalist Craig Unger, who examined the relationship
between the Bushes and Saudi financiers in his 2004 book House of Bush, House of Saud. Journalist Steve Coll,
whose book The Bin Ladens examines the family's history, mentioned that there is no evidence to support the
claim. In 1984, his company merged with the larger Spectrum 7, and Bush became chairman. The company was
hurt by decreased oil prices, and it folded into HKN, Inc. Saleem died in a plane crash in 1988 near San Antonio,
Texas. Salem was a close friend of Saudi King Fahd. During the 1980’s, the controversial BCCI banking institution
grew as well.
Education in Afghanistan in the years preceding the Soviet-Afghan war was largely secular. With religious
textbooks produced in Nebraska, the number of CIA sponsored religious schools (madrasahs) increased from
2,500 in 1980 to over 39,000. The following sources reveal this information on how the West funded the
mujahadeen in Afghanistan:

“Advertisements, paid for from CIA funds, were placed in newspapers and newsletters around the world offering
inducements and motivations to join the [Islamic] Jihad.” (Pervez Hoodbhoy, Peace Research, 1 May 2005)

“The United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent
images and militant Islamic teachings….The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings
of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system’s core curriculum. Even
the Taliban used the American-produced books...” (Washington Post, 23 March 2002)

“According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after
the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely
otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the
opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I
explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.” (Former National
Security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Interview with Le Nouvel Observateur, 15-21 January 1998)

What more evidence that people need to witness the fact that these elitists wanted to control the resources of
the Middle East and Central Asia.

The BCCI was the Bank of Credit and Commercial International. It was a crooked offshore bank that the CIA used
to run guns to Hussein, finance Osama bin Laden, move money in the illegal Iran-Contra operation, and carry
out other secret agency “ops.” BCCI was created in 1972 by a Pakistani banker, Agha Hasan Abedi, with the
support of Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan, ruler of Abu Dhabi and head of the United Arab Emirates. Its
corporate strategy was money laundering. It became the banker for drug and arms traffickers, corrupt officials,
financial fraudsters, dictators and terrorists. The CIA used BCCI Islamabad and other branches in Pakistan to
funnel some of the two billion dollars that Washington sent to Osama bin Laden's Mujahedeen to help fight the
Soviets in Afghanistan. It moved the cash the Pakistani military and government officials skimmed from U.S. aid
to the Mujahedeen. It also moved money as required by the Saudi intelligence services. Both Syed A. Hussain
(b. 1960 or 1961) and Amjad Awan, (b. 1946 or 1947) a Pakistani banker that headed the Panamanian branch of
BCCI in the early 1980s, assisted Noriega with Noriega's accounts at BCCI. William von Raab, a former U.S.
Commissioner of Customs, also told the Kerry Committee that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency held "several"
accounts at BCCI. According to a 1991 article in Time magazine, the National Security Council also had accounts
at BCCI, which were used for a variety of covert operations, including transfers of money and weapons during
the Iran–Contra affair.

The BCCI was so corrupt that it ended in 1991. The Washington Post reported that the Carlyle Group (which
supported investments globally) met at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C. on the day of 9/11. In that
meeting were former President George H. W. Bush, James Baker, and Shafiq bin Laden or the brother of Osama
bin Laden. Shafig bin Laden is an investor. George H. W. Bush would make many speeches years ago on behalf
of the Carlyle Group. No commercial planes, including chartered flights, were permitted to fly into, out of, or
within the United States until Sept. 13, 2001. After the air space reopened, six chartered flights with 142 people,
mostly Saudi Arabian nationals, departed from the United States between Sept. 14 and 24. One flight, the so-
called bin Ladin flight, departed the United States on Sept. 20 with 26 passengers, most of them relatives of
Osama Bin Laden. This is further documented in the article entitled, "Bush ties to bin Laden haunt grim
anniversary" written by Cindy Rodriguez from the Denver Post (on September 11, 2006). The Bin Laden family
liquidated its holdings in Carlyle's funds in October 2001, just after the September 11 attacks, when the
connection of their family name to the Carlyle Group's name became impolitic.
 Warnings of Attacks on America
It is a historical fact that the United States government received warnings from even foreign countries that
terrorist attacks were coming in America (even in the realm of planes) for years. This reality has been
documented for years. Immediately following the attacks, President George W. Bush stated that: "Nobody in
our government at least, and I don't think the prior government, could envisage flying airplanes into buildings."
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice claimed: "no-one could have predicted that they would try to use
an airplane as a missile." An Air Force general called the attack: "something we had never seen before,
something we had never even thought of.” A few days after the attacks, FBI Director Robert Mueller announced:
"There were no warning signs that I'm aware of that would indicate this type of operation in the country.” We
know that these comments are outright falsehoods and lies. Even Mueller noted that an FBI agent in
Minneapolis said Moussaoui might be "that type of person that could fly something into the World Trade
Center.” Mueller said this warning should have been followed more vigorously. Here are many examples of the
U.S. government receiving warnings of various attacks against America (including attacks using planes as
weapons):

1. Chris Whipple from Politico wrote about how the Bush administration ignored a warning of an attack from
the CIA months before 9/11 along with others that were far more detailed that previous revealed. There was
the “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” CIA Presidential daily brief. It was given to President George W.
Bush on August 6, 2001. Months earlier during the spring of 2001, the CIA repeatedly warned the White House
that an attack was coming. On May of 2001, Cofer Black (then chief of the CIA’s counterterrorism center)
mentioned that: “it was very evidence that we were going to be struck, we were gonna be struck hard and lots
of Americans were going to die.” Gorge Tenet told Cofer that: “There were real plots being manifested.” July
10, 2001 was a meeting where the CIA talked about these things. It was first reported by Bob Woodward in 2006
and Tenet wrote about it in general terms in his 2007 memoir “At the Center of the Storm.” Tenet and Black
during the Spring of 2001 sent the Blue sky paper to Bush’s new national security team. They wanted to strike
at Al-Qaeda.
2. A top NSA whistleblower said that the NSA had all the information it needed prior to 9/11 to stop the attacks.
The only reason NSA didn’t share that information with other agencies is because of corruption … to consolidate
power. There was widespread spying by the U.S. government on Americans long before 9/11. Ryan Singel wrote
an article for Wired on 10/11/2007 entitled, “NSA Domestic Surveillance Began 7 Months Before 9/11, Convicted
Qwest CEO claims.” This shows that NSA surveillance was more extensive than some perceive. An FBI informant
hosted and rented a room to Mihdhar and another 9/11 hijacker in 2000.

3. The Bojinka Plot was a foiled large-scale al-Qaeda terrorist attack to blow up eleven airliners and their
passengers as they flew from Asia to America, due to take place in January 1995. In September 2002, one year
after the 9/11 attacks, The Chicago Sun-Times reported that:

"The FBI had advance indications of plans to hijack U.S. airliners and use them as weapons, but neither acted on
them nor distributed the intelligence to local police agencies. From the moment of the September 11 attacks,
all high-ranking federal officials insisted that the terrorists’ method of operation surprised them. Many continue
to stick to that story. Actually, elements of the suicide hijacking plan were known to the FBI as early as 1995
and, if coupled with current information, might have uncovered the plot."

4. In April 2001, NORAD ran a war game in which the Pentagon was to become incapacitated; a NORAD planner
proposed the simulated crash of a hijacked foreign commercial airliner into the Pentagon, but the Joints Chiefs
of Staff rejected that scenario as "too unrealistic.”

5. On the morning of September 11, 2001, the National Reconnaissance Office, which is responsible for
operating U.S. reconnaissance satellites, had scheduled an exercise simulating the crashing of an aircraft into
their building, 4 miles (6 km) from Washington Dulles International Airport.

6. The US administration, CIA and FBI received multiple prior warnings from foreign governments and
intelligence services, including France, Germany, the UK, Israel, Jordan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Morocco and Russia.
The warnings varied in their level of detail, but all stated that they believed an Al-Qaeda attack inside the United
States was imminent. British Member of Parliament Michael Meacher cites these warnings, suggesting that
some of them must have been deliberately ignored. Some of these warnings include the following: On March of
2001, Italian intelligence warns of an al Qaeda plot in the United States involving a massive strike involving
aircraft, based on their wiretap of al-Qaeda cell in Milan. On July of 2001, Jordanian intelligence told US officials
that al-Qaeda was planning an attack on American soil, and Egyptian intelligence warned the CIA that 20 al-
Qaeda Jihadists were in the United States, and that four of them were receiving flight training. August 2001–
The Israeli Mossad gives the CIA a list of 19 terrorists living in the US and say that they appear to be planning to
carry out an attack in the near future. August 2001 – The United Kingdom is warned three times of an imminent
al-Qaeda attack in the United States, the third specifying multiple airplane hijackings. According to the Sunday
Herald, the report is passed on to President Bush a short time later. September 2001 – Egyptian intelligence
warns American officials that al-Qaeda is in the advanced stages of executing a significant operation against an
American target, probably within the US.
7. FBI agent and Al-Qaeda expert John P. O'Neill warned of an al-Qaeda threat to the United States in 2000. He
retired from his position in mid-2001, citing repeated blocking of his investigations of al Qaeda by FBI officials.
After his retirement from the FBI, the World Trade Center hired him as its chief of security. He started work on
August 23, 2001; 9/11 rescue workers found his body in a staircase inside the south tower rubble.

8. According to Senator Bob Graham, who was chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee from June 2001
through the buildup to the Iraq war, "Two of the September 11, 2001, hijackers had a support network in the
United States that included agents of the Saudi government, and the Bush administration and FBI blocked a
congressional investigation into that relationship," as reported by the Miami Herald. In Graham's book,
Intelligence Matters, he makes clear that some details of that financial support from Saudi Arabia were in the
27 pages of the congressional inquiry's final report that were blocked from release by the administration,
despite the pleas of leaders of both parties on the House and Senate intelligence committees. In March 2012,
as part of a lawsuit by 9/11 victims’ families, Graham and another former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey said in
affidavits that they were certain that there were direct links between the Saudi government and the attacks.
 My Memory of 9/11
I always remember the events of 9/11 like yesterday. It started on a Tuesday morning being a very sunny day.
During that time, I was 17 years old and my 18th birthday was coming up in a few months later. The start of the
day was normal and without controversy. It was during the late Summer near Fall. I was a freshman in college
back then. First, I woke up to go to a college level Algebra class. I was in the university early in the morning. It
was on a Tuesday, so classes readily end early. After the class was over, I came into the University's library to
relax. There was a Yahoo chat that was very popular back then. On that Yahoo Chat, people talked about hijacked
planes hitting a building in New York City. I didn't believe that at that time, because I couldn't fathom such a
horrible event occurring like that. So, I had great skepticism. I came home early, and I turned on the television
at my house. Immediately, I saw the TV screen from the news showing the fires from the crash and massive
damage. I saw the emotion of reporters and other journalists.

An immediate shock certainly was in my consciousness. I knew that this time represented a new era of human
history, and nothing will ever be the same again. It was so serious and bad that schools in Virginia came home
early. I ate lunch, and tons of people asked questions about the whole nefarious attacks in the United States of
America. The whole atmosphere of the day was filled with sadness and shock. Other people unfortunately did
evil by vandalizing mosques and Muslim centers across America. Yet, we believe in religious freedom, not
religious bigotry. No one of any creed should have his or her houses of worship harmed or desecrated. Networks
like ABC, NBC, MSNBC, FOX, CNN, etc. have shown nonstop coverage of 9/11 throughout the whole day including
the night. I witness the collapse of both Twin Towers live on television. The collapse of Building Number Seven
transpired during the afternoon. Many people fought the hijackers on Flight 93, and the airplane crashed as
Shanskville, Pennsylvania. Even during the early morning of 9/12, reporters were still on the scene talking about
the tragic news. People were in a daze in their faces for weeks after 9/11 too. It took a long time for society in
general to break out of the emotional malaise. It took a long time for many human beings to adjust to this new
reality.
Back then, many Americans didn't know about Operation Cyclone which was a CIA program to aid, finance, and
arm the Afghan mujahideen in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989 in trying to stop the Soviets from being in
Afghanistan. Sources show how the CIA funded Haqqani and Hekmatyar (who were key allies of Osama bin
Laden. Many CIA agents, journalists, and U.S. government officials deny any direct CIA funding of Osama bin
Laden. You have the right to believe them or not). Haqqani had direct cash payments from CIA agents without
the mediation of the ISI. Haqqani and his network were involved in the formation and growth of Al-Qaeda. The
US worked with the Pakistani ISI to aid the Afghan Mujahideen too. The victims of this horrendous tragedy suffer
pain every day. Afterwards, many voices were suppressed if they spoke out against the most egregious policies
of the War on Terror. One example was when MSNBC's Phil Donahue show was on, his show was immediately
cut after Phil spoke out publicly against the Iraq War in 2003. Another example was when Jeremy Glick, the son
of a 9/11 victim, was cursed out and disrespected by Bill O'Reilly (who was on FOX News. He was later fired).
Jeremy Glick spoke out against the invasion of Afghanistan. The Bush administration reached massive popularity
during the immediate aftermath of 9/11 until the events of the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina existed. Also,
the news coverage has shown the heroic firefighters and other rescues who saved lives. They risked their lives
for others. Many of them passed away, so their memories of almsgiving and courage will always be remembered
by all of us.

After the events of September 11, 2001, I did embrace the love of civil liberties more thoroughly. After the Great
Recession of the late 2000's, I certainly became more progressive on economic issues. Every day of my life, I will
always remember 9/11 completely.
 The Events of September 11th, 2001

The events of September 11, 2001 involving the terrorist attacks must be understood fully in a chronological
fashion. The terrorists involved in the attacks were influenced by extremists like Sayyid Qutb. From 1976 to
1980, Osama Bin Laden was radicalized by Qutb while attending King Abdulaziz University for business
administration. In 1979, Osama Bin Laden came into Afghanistan to assist the Sunni Mujahideen in the Afghan-
Soviet War. In 1981, Bin Laden's future deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Jama At al-Jihad, was arrested
for his role in the assassination of Anwar Sadat and imprisoned for three years. By October 1984, Osama bin
Laden co-founded the network of Maktab al-Khidamat, with Adullah Yusuf Azzam in Afghanistan plus Pakistan.
They wanted to recruit extremists to promote the Afghan resistance. Al-Qaeda forms its first training camps in
Afghanistan by February of 1987. Bin Laden also survived a Soviet attack during the Battle of Jaji on May 25,
1987. His reputation grows. The Persian Gulf War further made Osama bin Laden stricter in his call for jihad
against the West. On September 1990, Bin Laden makes an offer to Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to defend Saudi
Arabia from Ba'athist Iraq with 100,000 fighters after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. He is turned down, and he
became embittered by the intervention of non-Islamic troops from the U.S.-led international coalition in the
Gulf War. Al-Qaeda bombs Yemen hotels in Aden filled with U.S. military forces on December 29, 1992. Bin
Laden's Saudi citizenship was revoked on April 9, 1994. The Taliban was forced by Mohammed Omar at
Kandahar. Bin Laden issued a fatwa declaring war on America on August 23, 1996. On August 7, 1998, the 1998
U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania are carried out by Al-Qaeda. The USS Cole was bombed in Yemen
by Al-Qaeda on October 12, 2000.

The following are the events found on 9/11/2001. At 6:45am. on September 11, 2001, Atta and al-Omari arrived
at Logan International Airport. 7:15 am. was when Khalid al-Mihdhar and Majed Moqed arrived at Washington
Dulles International Airport and check in for American Airlines Flight 77. By 7:59 am. on 9/11, the American
Airlines Flight 11 takes off from Boston Logan International Airport, bound for Los Angeles International Airport.
Flight 11 was hijacked on 8:14 am. On that same time, the United Airlines Flight 175 took off from Boston Logan
and also bound for Los Angeles. At 8:20 am., American Airlines Flight 77 takes off from Washington Dulles
International Airport, also bound for Los Angeles. United Airlines Flight 93 took off from Newark International
Airport, bound for San Francisco International Airport on 8:42 am. Flight 175 was hijacked on 8:42-46 am. Flight
11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center between the 93rd and 99th floors on 8:46:20 am.
Flight 77 was hijacked on 8:50-54 am. By 9:03 am, President Bush entered a classroom as part of his school visit.
On 9:03:02 am., Flight 175 crashes into the South Tower of the World Trade Center between the 77th and 85th
floors. On 9:05 am.: After brief introductions to the Booker elementary students, President Bush is about to
begin reading The Pet Goat with the students when Chief of Staff Andrew Card interrupts to whisper to the
president, "A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack." The President stated later that he
decided to continue the lesson rather than alarm the students. By 9:14 am: President Bush returns to an
adjacent classroom commandeered by the U.S. Secret Service. The classroom contains a telephone, a television
showing the news coverage, and several senior staff members. The President speaks to Vice President Dick
Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, New York Governor George Pataki, and FBI Director Robert Mueller, and prepares
brief remarks.

On 9:37:46 am., Flight 77 crashes into the western side of The Pentagon and starts a violent fire. On 9:45, United
States airspace is shut down; all operating aircraft are ordered to land at the nearest airport. Flight 93 was
hijacked on 9:28 am. On 9:59 am, the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed, 56 minutes after the
impact of Flight 175. The South Tower collapsed on 9:59:00 am. Flight 93 crashed into a field in Shanksville,
Pennsylvania on 10:03:11 am. The North Tower collapsed on 10:28:22 am. On that time, the Marriott Hotel,
located at the base of the two towers, is also destroyed. Five stories of part of the Pentagon collapse due to the
fire on 10:50:19 am. By 1:04 pm.: President Bush puts the U.S. military on high alert worldwide (known as Force
Protection Condition Delta). Taped remarks from the President were aired from Barksdale Air Force Base, stating
that "freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward and freedom will be defended." He also
said that the "United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts." He then
leaves for a U.S. Strategic Command bunker located at Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue, Nebraska
On 5:20:33 pm., World Trade Center 7 (which was a 47-story building) collapsed. By 8:30 pm: U.S. President
George W. Bush addresses the country from the White House in Washington, D.C. On 11:30 pm: Before sleeping,
President Bush entered into his journal: "The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today...We think it's
Osama bin Laden."

NORAD

NORAD is the North American Aerospace Defense Command. It is run by USNORTHCOM. It was created by the
late 1950's. NORAD's purpose is combined organization of America and Canada that provides aerospace
warning, air sovereignty, and defense for North America. Its headquarters is found in Peterson Air Force Base in
El Paso County, near Colorado Springs, Colorado. There are many questions and investigations about NORAD's
and the military's response during the September 11 attacks on 2001. Standing orders on September 11 dictated
that, upon receiving a request for assistance from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the North
American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) would normally order escort aircraft to approach and follow
an aircraft that was confirmed to be hijacked in order to assure positive flight following, report unusual
observances, and aid search and rescue in the event of an emergency. The 9/11 Commission determined that
on the morning of September 11, the FAA did not adequately notify NORAD of the hijackings of Flights 11, 77,
93, or 175 in time for escort aircraft to reach the hijacked flights. Notification of the hijacking of Flight 11
prompted the scrambling of two fighter jets from Otis Air National Guard Base, but they were not in the air until
after Flight 11 had hit the North Tower. An erroneous FAA report of a hijacked plane heading towards
Washington ("phantom Flight 11") prompted the scrambling of three more fighters from the 1st Fighter Wing
at Langley Air Force Base, which due to "poor communications", ended up flying eastward, out to sea, instead
of heading toward Washington, significantly delaying their arrival on the scene.

What we know now is that the hijackers of the four planes switched off the transponders or changed their codes
upon taking control. That made it difficult for authorities to track them on radar. Northeast Air Defense Sector
(NEADS) /NORAD personnel stated they had difficulty identifying and tracking the aircraft, though they were at
times able to locate them. For example, NEADS technicians spotted Flight 11 twenty miles north of Manhattan,
just two or three minutes before it crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center: "Looking at the
general capitol area, one of the [NEADS] tracker techs thinks he spots the plane on radar." The 9/11 Commission
Report said that, "Radar techs at NEADS/Rome are tracking Flight 77 near Washington, D.C."

At 08:24, the controller heard what he believed was the voice of a hijacker (believed to be Mohamed Atta) in a
radio transmission from Flight 11. Two minutes later, the plane veered off course and turned south near Albany,
NY. The Boston Center called the FAA Command Center at Herndon at 08:28 to report the hijacking. At 08:32,
Herndon called FAA Headquarters in Washington. At 08:34, Boston Center contacted Otis Air National Guard
(ANG) base to notify them of the hijacking. The controller at Otis directed Boston to contact NORAD's Northeast
Air Defense Sector (NEADS), and then informed the Otis Operations Center to expect a call from NEADS ordering
a scramble. At this time two pilots began to suit up and drove to their waiting F-15 fighter jets. At 08:37, Boston
Center contacted NEADS in Rome, New York. This was the first report of a hijacking that reached NORAD.

Flying supersonically, the F-15s were just south of Long Island when United Airlines Flight 175 smashed into the
World Trade Center's south tower. NEADS wanted to direct the fighters over Manhattan, but FAA air controllers,
fearing collisions with civilian aircraft, told NEADS to hold off. According to the FAA, there is an average of 200
flights per 24 hours over the Hudson River in the vicinity of NYC. The fighters were then ordered in a holding
pattern off the coast of Long Island (in military-controlled airspace), where they remained from 09:09 to 09:13.
After the airspace was cleared, the Otis fighters were directed towards Manhattan, where they arrived at 09:25
and established a combat air patrol (CAP). At 09:49, the decision about whether to call the military had still not
been made, and no one from the FAA called NEADS until 10:07, four minutes after Flight 93 had crashed near
Shanksville, PA. Had Flight 93 made it to Washington, D.C., Air National Guard pilots Lieutenant Colonel Marc H.
Sasseville and Lieutenant Heather "Lucky" Penney were prepared to ram their unarmed F-16 fighters into it,
perhaps giving their lives in the process. On September 18, 2001, NORAD issued a press release containing a
timeline of the events of the September 11, including when they were contacted by the FAA. This page has been
removed, but a copy can be found at archive.org. However, in 2004, the 9/11 Commission, after listening to
tapes of communications, found that portions of this timeline were inaccurate. That is why after 9/11, NORAD
and other agencies used new policies to help intercept aircraft if that situation occurred again.
On September 11, 2001, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was involved in an ongoing
operation which involved deploying fighter aircraft to northwestern North America. The U.S. Military and
NORAD had also planned to conduct several military exercises and a drill was being held by the National
Reconnaissance Office, a Department of Defense agency. The operations, exercises and drills were all canceled
following the September 11 attacks. The military exercises or war games planned for 9/11 were Global Guardian
and Vigilant Guardian. Aside from military exercises, a National Reconnaissance Office drill was being conducted
on September 11, 2001. In a simulated event, a small aircraft would crash into one of the towers of the agency's
headquarters after experiencing a mechanical failure. The NRO is the branch of the Department of Defense in
charge of spy satellites. According to its spokesman Art Haubold: "No actual plane was to be involved -- to
simulate the damage from the crash, some stairwells and exits were to be closed off, forcing employees to find
other ways to evacuate the building." He further explained: "It was just an incredible coincidence that this
happened to involve an aircraft crashing into our facility, as soon as the real world events began, we canceled
the exercise." Most of the agency's personnel were sent home after the attacks.

On September 12, 2001, there was due to take place the second part of an exercise known as Operation Tripod,
set up to "test the plan to distribute antibiotics to the entire city population during a bioterrorism
attack". Richard Sheirer, director of the New York City Mayor's Office of Emergency Management (NYC OEM),
had hired "over 1,000 Police Academy cadets and Fire Department trainees to play terrified civilians afflicted
with various medical conditions, allergies, and panic attacks." Various individuals were invited to watch,
including Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the police and fire commissioners, and representatives of the FBI and the
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Pier 92 was set up as a model distribution station where the
"victims" of the mock attack who needed to receive antibiotics would be treated. The reality is that the existing
system at the time was not designed to respond to suicide hijackings inside the Continental USA, making a
successful intercept near to impossible.
General Arnold also stated "In the immediate aftermath of 9/11 we had to hook up to FAA radars throughout
the country, install compatible radios for nationwide coverage between our command and control agencies and
our airborne assets, and purchase a new command and control computer system to integrate radar and
communications. The initial investment was for $75 million, and this number has grown to nearly $200 million.
Organizations outside the FAA (e.g., the airlines, Department of Defense, NASA, and international sites) also
have access to the FAA's Enhanced Traffic Management System (ETMS) software and/or data for purposes of
flight management and tracking.

A Summary of the Pentagon's History

The Pentagon is located at Arlington County, Virginia. It is the famous headquarters of the United States
Department of Defense. It is one large symbol of the U.S. military. Its architect was the American George
Bergstrom. It was built by the contractor John McShain. September 11, 1941 was when ground was broken to
build the location. It was dedicated on January 15, 1943. It has 7 floors and 6,636,360 square feet. Its parking
has 67 acres. Colonel Leslie Groves was responsible for overseeing the project for the U.S. Army. It is the world's
largest office building with 150 acres of floor space where military people and civilian employees work at. On
September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 77 was hijacked and flown into the western side of the building,
killing 189 people. Of those killed, 64 were on the hijacked airplane, and 125 were in the Pentagon. It was the
first significant foreign attack on Washington's governmental facilities since the city was burned by the British
during the War of 1812. Before the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Department of War was the headquarters
of the Munitions Building. It was built during World War along Constitution Avenue on the National Mall at
Washington, D.C. Now, the Pentagon building has 2 basement levels and five ring corridors per floor with a total
of 17.5 miles of corridors. The Pentagon includes a five-acre (20,000 m2) central plaza, which is shaped like a
pentagon and informally known as "ground zero", a nickname originating during the Cold War on the
presumption that it would be targeted by the Soviet Union at the outbreak of nuclear war.
Stimson told U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in May 1941 that the War Department needed additional
space. On July 17, 1941, a Congressional hearing took place, organized by Virginia congressman Clifton
Woodrum, regarding proposals for new War Department buildings. Woodrum pressed Brigadier General Eugene
Reybold, who was representing the War Department at the hearing, for an "overall solution" to the
department's "space problem" rather than building yet more temporary buildings. Reybold agreed to report
back to the congressman within five days. The War Department called upon its construction chief, General
Brehon Somervell, to come up with a plan. Governmental officials agreed to have the Federal Office Building
Number 1 to be where the Pentagon would exist across the Potomac River in Arlington, County, Virginia.
Contracts cost totally 31.1 million dollars (or $423 million in 2019). The building has the Hall of Heroes since
1968 to celebrate the Armed Forces. The Pentagon is not without controversy. Many people in the Pentagon
have legitimately defended democratic values. Yet, other people in the Pentagon have been involved in
nefarious actions including promoting unjust wars for decades (as part of the military industrial complex). We
know that the CIA is complicit in Operation Phoenix, agreement with the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, and
other disgraceful acts since 1947. There was a massive protest of the Vietnam War on October 21, 1967 including
a sit in. These ca. 30,000 protesters were part of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
(or MOBE). 2,500 armed soldiers protected the Pentagon. The Weather Underground Organization bombed a
fourth-floor women's restroom to disagree with the Nixon administration's bombing of Hanoi during the end of
the Vietnam War (which was a war crime). You know how I feel about the Weathermen Underground. Fred
Hampton said it best that the Weathermen put people in a position where lives are lost which has nothing to
do with enacting revolutionary change. Revolutionary change is done by building structures of change not
nihilistic violence as the Weathermen Underground member have done. By March 17, 2007, 4,000 to 15,000
people (estimates vary significantly) protested the Iraq War by marching from the Lincoln Memorial to the
Pentagon's north parking lot.

September 11, 2001, coincidentally the 60th anniversary of the Pentagon's groundbreaking, was when five al-
Qaeda affiliated hijackers took control of American Airlines Flight 77, en route from Washington Dulles
International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport. These hijackers deliberately crashed the Boeing 757
airliner into the western side of the Pentagon at 9:37 am EDT as part of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The
impact of the plane severely damaged the outer ring of one wing of the building and caused its partial collapse.
The area of impact had renovations, so fewer people were injured.

One myth is that view that no plane hit the Pentagon on 9/11. This myth is common among many people who
are sincere and others who are outright disinformationists. One such person is Steve Pieczenik. He was an
assistant and chief anti-terrorist hostage negotiator at the State Department to Rockefeller allied members
Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, George Shultz, and James Baker. He listed himself as member of the AFIO and the
National Military Intelligence Association. He was a member of the CFR too, which is an establishment
organization. He was an ally of the Reagan administration and is a reactionary person. Joel Skousen promotes
the no-757 hit the Pentagon myth too. Joel is the nephew of the Mormon Cleon Skousen (he wrote the 1970
conspiracy best-seller 'The Naked Capitalist' (largely a review of Carroll Quigley's book 'Tragedy and Hope'). The
Skousens have ties to the Council for National Policy. The CNP is a far-right organization (who abhor the
separation of church and state, many human rights, and other legitimate progressive views) with establishment
ties. Oliver North and the Blackwater founder Erik Prince are members of the CNP. Many witnesses have said
that they saw an airplane crash into the Pentagon. Images show debris of an airplane surrounding the Pentagon
area. Quotes from the aftermath of the crash site present conclusive proof that a 757 hit the building. So, a 757-
plane hit the Pentagon.
 The Collapses of the Twin Towers and Building
Number 7

The destruction of the New York City World Trade Center Towers existed by many events. First, 2 hijacked
commercial airlines struck both towers. World Trade Center One or the North Tower was hit first at 8:46 am.
EST, and it collapsed at 10:28 am. World Trade Center Two or the South Tower was hit at 9:03 am. and collapsed
at 9:59 am. The resulting debris severely damaged or destroyed more than a dozen other adjacent and nearly
structures. In September 2005, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published the results
of its investigation into the collapse. The investigators did not find anything substandard in the design of the
twin towers, noting that the severity of the attacks was beyond anything experienced in buildings in the past.
They determined the fires to be the main cause of the collapses, finding that sagging floors pulled inward on the
perimeter columns, causing them to bow and then to buckle. Once the upper section of the building began to
move downwards, a total progressive collapse was unavoidable. The cleanup of the World Trade Center site
involved round-the-clock operations and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Some surrounding structures that
were not hit by the airplanes still sustained significant damage, requiring them to be torn down. Demolition of
the surrounding damaged buildings continued even as new construction proceeded on the Twin Towers'
replacement, the new One World Trade Center, which was opened in November 2014. The World Trade Center
towers were designed with a framed tub structure. It had a floor truss system and a concrete floor over steel
pans.

The buildings were square and 207 ft (63 m) on each side but had chamfered 6 feet 11 inches (2.11 meters)
corners making the exterior of each building roughly 210 ft (64 m) wide. Numerous, closely spaced perimeter
columns provided much of the strength to the structure, along with gravity load shared with the steel box
columns of the core. Above the tenth floor, there were 59 perimeter columns along each face of the building
spaced 3 feet 4 inches (1.02 meters) on center. While the towers were square, the interior cores were
rectangular and were supported with 47 columns that ran the full height of each tower. All the elevators and
stairwells were in the core, leaving a large column-free space between it and the perimeter that was bridged by
prefabricated floor trusses. As the core was rectangular, this created a long and short span distance to the
perimeter columns. The floor has a 4-inch-thick lightweight concrete slabs laid on a fluted steel deck. Even an
analysis of the impacts of low speed jet aircraft impacts had been undertaken prior to their completion, the full
scope of those studies no longer exists. Nevertheless, since fire had never caused a skyscraper to collapse and
aircraft impacts had been considered in their design, their destruction initially came as a surprise to some in the
engineering community.

Leslie Robertson, one of the chief engineers working on the design of the World Trade Center, stated that he
considered the scenario of the impact of a Boeing 707, which might be lost in the fog and flying at relatively
low speeds while seeking to land at either JFK or Newark Airports. In an interview with the BBC two months
after the building collapses, Robertson claimed that, "with the 707, the fuel load was not considered in the
design, I don't know how it could have been considered." In the interview, Robertson stated that the main
difference between the design studies and the event that ultimately caused the towers to collapse was due to
the velocity of the impact, which greatly increased the absorbed energy, and was never considered during the
construction process.

During their investigation into the collapse, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) obtained
a three-page white paper that stated the buildings would survive an aircraft-impact of a Boeing 707 or DC 8
flying at 600 miles per hour (970 km/h). In 1993, John Skilling, lead structural engineer for the WTC, during an
interview conducted after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing remarked, "Our analysis indicated the biggest
problem would be the fact that all the fuel (from the airplane) would dump into the building. There would be a
horrendous fire. A lot of people would be killed", he said. "The building structure would still be there." In its
report, NIST stated that the technical ability to perform a rigorous simulation of aircraft impact and ensuing fires
is a recent development, and that the technical capability for such analysis would have been quite limited in the
1960s. In their final report on the collapses, the NIST stated that they could find no documentation that
examined the impact of a high-speed jet nor that of a large scale fire fueled by aviation fuel. Fireproofing was
deficient by 2001. The aircraft removed a large part of the fireproofing contributing to the buildings' collapse. In
WTC 1 the impact stripped the insulation off 43 of 47 core columns on more than one floor as well as floor
trusses over a space of 60,000 square feet (5,600 m2). In WTC 2 the impact removed insulation from 39 of the
47 columns on multiple floors and from floor trusses spanning an area of 80,000 sq ft (7,400 m2). The collapse
of the Twin was a progressive collapse. Structural components fell apart. So, the collapse of the Twin Towers
existed by jet fuel, weakening floors, and the buildings never experiencing such a power from large airplanes
before in a massive impact. These factors caused both buildings to come down.
Building Number 7 collapsed in a symmetrical fashion. As the North Tower collapsed, heavy debris hit the 7
World Trade Center. This caused damage to the south face of the building. Fires burn all afternoon. Structural
damage occurred to the southwest corner between Floors 7 and 17 and on the south facade between Floor 44
and the roof; other possible structural damage includes a large vertical gash near the center of the south facade
between Floors 24 and 41. The building was equipped with a sprinkler system, but had many single-point
vulnerabilities for failure: the sprinkler system required manual initiation of the electrical fire pumps, rather
than being a fully automatic system; the floor-level controls had a single connection to the sprinkler water riser;
and the sprinkler system required some power for the fire pump to deliver water. Also, water pressure was low,
with little or no water to feed sprinklers. Firefighters tried to stop the fires in WTC, but low water pressure
hindered their efforts. Around 3:30 pm FDNY Chief Daniel A. Nigro decided to halt rescue operations, surface
removal, and searches along the surface of the debris near 7 World Trade Center and evacuate the area due to
concerns for the safety of personnel. There was a cut in the building. It collapsed by 5:21:10 pm. EST. One issue
with the NIST final report was that much of the steel was eliminated from the scene. Indeed, when NIST
published its final report, it noted "the scarcity of physical evidence" that it had had at its disposal to investigate
the collapses. Only a fraction of a percent of the buildings remained for analysis after the cleanup was
completed: some 236 individual pieces of steel, although 95% of structural beams and plates and 50% of the
reinforcement bars were recovered. The NIST and FEMA reports said that the jet fuel causing fires among many
floors of the buildings caused a large heat output which caused the collapse of both Twin Towers. NIST's report
said that fires from debris caused the WTC to collapse. Larry Silverstein said a comment about "pull it." A PBS
documentary about the 9/11/01 attack, America Rebuilds, features an interview with the leaseholder of the
destroyed WTC complex, Larry Silverstein. In it, the elderly developer makes the following statement:

"I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they
were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, "We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing
to do is pull it." And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse." There are many
views on what he meant by that, but it's a bizarre statement to make during a crisis. There are scholars and
researchers who disagree with the official stories on the collapse of the buildings. They have the right to their
views. Pull it doesn't necessary mean demolish as it could mean to pull the firefighters away from the location
as the fires in the WTC 7 were too dangerous (after people were evacuated from the building). It is also
important that to this very day, we don't know everything pertaining to 9/11. We have the right to research
information.

Aftermath (including Our Civil Liberties

and the War on Terror)
After the crime of 9/11 existed, a new era of world history commenced. Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda once
again showed their cowardice. The neo-conservatives and other extremists used the 9/11 attacks as the pretext
for them to promote the war on terror including passing new laws that violate our civil liberties (including the
rest of our democratic rights). After 20 years, more people know of the truth. While this is going on, the elitists
and the one percent has expanded their wealth resulting in an increase of economic inequality. The Project for
a New American Century document, which was made by neo-conservatives, wanted American hegemony to
spread worldwide, especially if a Pearl Harbor like event happened. By 9/11 on 8:30 pm., President George W.
Bush gave his speech about the attacks. Soon, his approval rating soared into 90%. Rescues happened. The world
sent humanitarian aid to help the victims. By September 20, 2001, President George W. Bush wanted to have a
war against terrorism to defend freedom in my mind. New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani's prominence
increased, but people had to fight to prevent all the steel from the Twin Towers to leave NYC. Relief efforts
helped the victim and their families. The government was under a continuity of government status until
February of 2002. Also, the government was restructured to create Homeland Security in 2002, and the USA
Patriot Act was passed in 2001. The Patriot Act had an ambiguous definition of terrorism and increase the power
of law enforcement to deal with privacy issues. The NSA increased its powers. Not to mention that militarized
police grew nationwide.
New York City, to this day, has witnessed have local police with automatic weapons patrolling the streets. Hate
crimes against Muslims, Sikhs, South Asian Americans, and other human beings came shortly after the attacks
in America. To his credit, President George W. Bush said that Muslims are not to be blamed, Muslims should be
treated with respect, and that Muslims made many contributions to American society. I am not going to blame
one religion for 9/11. 9/11 is a product of evil people who pervert principles of morality in seeking murder of
innocent human beings. There is no justification for
the murder of innocent people period. Muslim
Americans condemned the 9/11 attacks in
uncompromising terms. These organizations
included the Islamic Society of North America,
American Muslim Alliance, American Muslim
I remember on December 6, 2001, when then Attorney
Council, Council on American-Islamic Relations,
General John Ashcroft made the radically inappropriate
Islamic Circle of North America, and the Shari'a statement (at the Senate Judiciary Committee) that, “To
Scholars Association of North America. Along with those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of
monetary donations, many Islamic organizations lost liberty message is this: your tactics only aid
launched blood drives and provided medical terrorists.” He is wrong as people have every free speech
right to defend and promote their civil liberties without
assistance, food, and shelter for victims. compromise or objection.

From September 11, 2001, White House officials like Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wanted his aides to
find evidence of Iraqi involvement. There was none. By September 15, 2001, the Bush administration didn't
attack Iraq in response to 9/11. U.S. and NATO forces came into Afghanistan to fight the Taliban and al-Qaeda
by October of 2001. Bush and his team said that they wanted to bring bin Laden and the al-Qaeda network to
justice. On the following morning, September 12, 2001, NATO’s Atlantic Council meeting in Brussels, endorsed
the Bush administration’s declaration of war on Afghanistan, invoking Article 5 of the Washington Treaty. On
September 14, 2001, the U.S. Congress passed the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists.
Still in effect, it grants the President the authority to use all "necessary and appropriate force" against those
whom he determined "planned, authorized, committed or aided" the September 11 attacks, or who harbored
said persons or groups. Meanwhile, on two occasions during September 2001, the Afghan government –through
diplomatic channels– offered to hand over Osama Bin Laden to US Justice. These overtures were turned down
by President Bush, on the grounds that America “does not negotiate with terrorists." The war on Afghanistan
was launched 26 days later the morning of October 7, 2001. U.S. military forces invaded Afghanistan along with
British forces. Special Forces were on the ground. The Taliban ended their total control of Afghanistan with the
Fall of Kandahar on December 7, 2001. The Afghanistan war continues to this very day until the start of the Fall
of Kabul on August 2021. Thousands of people were sick from the toxic debris having 2,500 contaminants
including carcinogens in Lower Manhattan. Many people died. Christine Todd Whitman, administrator of the
EPA in the aftermath of the attacks, was heavily criticized by a U.S. District Judge for incorrectly saying that the
area was environmentally safe. Mayor Giuliani was criticized for urging financial industry personnel to return
quickly to the greater Wall Street area.

On December 22, 2010, the United States Congress passed the James L. Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation
Act, which President Barack Obama signed into law on January 2, 2011. It allocated $4.2 billion to create the
World Trade Center Health Program, which provides testing and treatment for people suffering from long-term
health problems related to the 9/11 attacks. The WTC Health Program replaced preexisting 9/11-related health
programs such as the Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program and the WTC Environmental Health Center
program. Massive job loss happened as a result of the attacks too. There was an increase of more church
attendance, public expression of patriotism, and shows reflecting this patriot fervor during the initial aftermath
of 9/11 too. The unjust Iraq War came about by the Bush administration who promoted the myth that Saddam
Hussein (who was once aided by America during the 1980's. Hussein shook Donald Rumsfeld's hand in 1983.
Google has a picture of this image too) had massive quantities of weapons of mass destruction. That was not
true. The war on terror caused massive wars, destruction of infrastructure, the refugee crisis, the growth of
imperialism (Pentagon's Northern Command is highly powerful. We know of NATO's bombings of Libya including
black Libyans being murdered by racists), Big Brother's expansion (with the NDAA, the NSA being caught having
warrantless wiretapping, etc.), and other foreign policy crises.

The members of the 9/11 Commission were Chair Thomas H. Kean, Vice Chair Lee H.
Hamilton, Richard Ben-Veniste, Max Cleland (replaced when he started asking questions), Fred
F. Fielding, Jamie S. Gorelick, Slade Gorton, John F. Lehman, Timothy J. Roemer, and James R.
Thompson

The 9/11 Commission

The 9/11 Commission report was a very important part of our history as human beings. The report is formally
named the Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. This is a
governmental report whose purpose is to find the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
It was prepared by the Kean/Hamilton Commission at the request of then President George W. Bush and
Congress. People can download the whole report for free. The commission was established on November 27,
2002 (442 days after the attack) and their final report was issued on July 22, 2004. The report was originally
scheduled for release on May 27, 2004, but a compromise agreed to by then Speaker of the House Dennis
Hastert allowed a sixty-day extension through July 26. The commission interviewed over 1,200 people in 10
countries. It reviewed a half million pages of documents including closely guarded classified national security
documents. It used the FBI's PENTTBOM investigation. After releasing the report, commission chair Thomas
Kean declared that both Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were "not well served" by the FBI and CIA.
The 9/11 Commission was a middle of the road report. It denied that the Saudi government conspired the
attacks or funded attacks, but even the report admitted that Saudi Arabia was the primary source of Al-Qaeda
funding. That is a contradiction. We can all agree that the hijackers came from all over the world, and they were
members of al-Qaeda (which is a terrorist organization led by Osama bin Laden). The Commission is right to say
that Saddam Hussein never assisted Al-Qaeda to carry out 9/11 attacks. The commission report chose to place
blame for failure to notify the military squarely upon the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Ben Sliney, FAA
operations manager at Herndon, Virginia, and Monte Belger, FAA Acting Deputy Administrator on 9/11, both
stated to the commission that military liaisons were present and participating in Herndon's response as the
events of 9/11 unfolded. Sliney stated that everyone who needed to be notified, including the military, was. The
Commission wanted a creation of a National Intelligence Director over the CIA and the FBI and changes to
security and immigration policy. As time went on, we know that parts of the 9/11 Commission report were a
whitewash with blatant omissions and conflicts of interests.

One of the biggest whitewashes of the 9/11 Commission report is that it omitted the whole story about warnings
of terrorism against 9/11 prior to the attacks. While the report did describe that "the system was blinking red"
and that an al Qaeda attack was imminent, it did not include the testimony of former CIA director George Tenet
to the commission in January 2004, in which he claimed to have given a specific warning to the Administration
in a July 2001 meeting with Condoleezza Rice. Commission members Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton stated that
they had not been told about the meeting. But the Boston Globe reported that "it turns out that the panel was,
in fact, told about the meeting, according to the interview transcript and Democratic commission member
Richard Ben-Veniste, who sat in on the interview with Tenet." George W. Bush waited until 2002 to form the
Commission. Henry Kissinger was head of the Commission. So much outcry came about this that he resigned
over conflicts of interests as Henry Kissinger is totally in league with the establishment. The members of the
9/11 Commission are Chairman Thomas Kean (He was the former Republican Governor of New Jersey). Vice
Chairman Lee H. Hamilton (a former Democratic House Representative of Indiana), Richard Ben-Veniste
(Democratic attorney part of the Watergate investigation), Max Cleland (a Democrat from Georgia and a former
Senator), Fred F. Fielding a (Republican), Jamie Gorelick (a Democrat and former U.S. Deputy Attorney General
in the Clinton administration), Slade Goton, Bob Kerrey, John F. Lehman, Timothy J. Roemer, and James R.
Thompson. Other people on staff are Philip D. Zelikow, Christopher Kojm,
Daniel Marcus, John J. Farmer, Dieter Snell, Janice Kephart, and Alvin S.
Felzenberg. Some have compared this Commission to the Warren
Commission. Former NJ Governor Thomas Kean was on the board of
Amerada Hess petroleum company and had dealings with Saudi interests.

Rudy Giuliani was the Republican
Mayor of New York City for years. He
was propped up by the
establishment as “America’s Mayor,”
but his response to 9/11 is more
complex and nuisance. Also, his
ultimate legacy is about being a
reactionary person. He has
promoted anti-civil liberty policies
like him being in favor of stop and
frisk. Rudy once married his own
cousin, and he spoken stereotypical,
racist comments about black people
fighting police brutality. Giuliani
supports Trump unconditionally, so
his legacy has been filled with
corruption.
and tapes of air traffic controllers in the FAA on 9/11. Philip Zelikow co-authored a book with Condoleezza Rice
before 9/11. The 9/11 Commission omitted Osama bin Laden's ties to U.S. Intelligence when Bin Laden fought
The irony was that Senator Max Cleland was expelled from the 9/11
Commission when he asked too many important questions. He said that,
"As each day goes by, we learn that this government knew a whole lot
more about these terrorists before September 11 than it has ever
admitted.'" (Senator Max Cleland, member of the official National
Commission on Terrorist Attacks Against the United States quoted in the
New York Times, October 27, 2003). Max Cleland also said that, "If this
decision stands, I, as a member of the commission, cannot look any
American in the eye, especially family members of victims, and say the
commission had full access. This investigation is now compromised."
Max Cleland accused the Bush administration of delaying access to vital
documents in an effort to run out the clock on its investigation. The 9/11
Commission refused to investigate Cheney's energy task force documents,
all of the warnings of attacks using planes as weapons, the CIA/National
Reconnaissance war games that took place on 9/11, and the radar tapes
the Soviets in Afghanistan during the 1980's. Kean is a director of petroleum giant Amerada Hess, which in 1998
formed a joint venture--known as Delta Hess--with Delta Oil, a Saudi Arabian company, to develop oil fields in
Azerbaijan. One of Delta's backers is Khalid bin Mahfouz, a shadowy Saudi patriarch married to one of Osama
bin Laden's sisters. According to a 1998 Senate testimony of former CIA director James Woolsey, powerful
financier Khalid bin Mahfouz’s younger sister is married to Osama bin Laden. (US Senate, Senate Judiciary
Committee, Federal News Service, 3 Sept. 1998, See also Wayne Madsen, Questionable Ties, In These Times,12
Nov. 2001). The 9/11 Commission allowed Bush and Cheney to give their testimonies together instead of
separately.

Philip Shenon, a reporter for The New York Times, in a book released in February 2008, entitled, "The
Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation" claims that Zelikow had closer ties with the
White House than he publicly disclosed and that he tried to influence the final report in ways that the staff often
perceived as limiting the Bush administration’s responsibility and furthering its anti-Iraq agenda. According to
the book, Zelikow had at least four private conversations with former White House political director Karl Rove,
and appears to have had many frequent telephone conversations with people in the White House. The
Commission staff kept a record only of calls Zelikow received, but Government Accountability Office records
show his frequent calls to the 456 telephone exchanges in the 202 area code used exclusively by the White
House. Also, the book states that Zelikow ordered his assistant to stop keeping a log of his calls, although the
Commission's general counsel overruled him. Zelikow had pledged to have no contact with Rove and
Condoleezza Rice during his work for the 9/11 Commission.

Commission chairmen Lee H. Hamilton and Thomas H. Kean accused the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of
making a conscious decision to impede the commission’s inquiry after the agency received a memorandum
prepared by Philip D. Zelikow, the panel's former executive director. Zelikow prepared this memorandum after
former commission members reviewed thousands of classified documents following the disclosure that the CIA
in November 2005 destroyed videotapes documenting the interrogations of two al-Qaeda operatives. In
January 2008, NBC News released an investigative report on the 9/11 Commission's use of information acquired
by torture of detainees. The 9/11 Commission omitted
Able Danger. Former Senator Bob Graham, the co-chair
of an earlier congressional report into the 9/11 attacks,
has called for re-opening an investigation into Saudi
funding of the attack and the declassification of
documents discussing the subject, including 28 pages
from that report. Lee Hamilton is a member of the CFR
along with Jamie Gorelick. Timothy Roemer and other
people in the Commission complained about access
issues in forming the results of their investigations. We The document of “Rebuilding America's Defenses,
know about the Alec Station when a group of CIA and September 2000, Project for a New American
FBI agents had a mission to track Osama bin Laden. Century,” shows the views related to the political
Former FBI agent Mark Rossini said that when he (and ideologies of Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush, and the rest of
Doug Miller) tried to pass information on terrorists the neo-conservatives. Part of that document has the
following quotation:
trying to attack America to the CIA in getting them to
send the info to the FBI, the CIA denied their request to “...While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the
pass this information to FBI headquarters. Michael immediate justification, the need for a substantial
Scheuer later denied this by blaming the FBI for not American force presence in the Gulf transcends the
having a “useable computer system.” Richard A. Clarke issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein…the process
of [military] transformation, even if it brings
(whose views are shared by Jack Cloonan, former revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one,
manager at the FBI’s unit for tracking al-Qaeda or Squad absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like
I-49 including several FBI agents) said that the decision a new Pearl Harbor...advanced forms of biological
to withhold information from the FBI and form the warfare that can "target" specific genotypes may
transform biological warfare from the realm of terror
White House information about Khalid al-Mihdhar and
to a politically useful tool….”
Nawar Al-Hazmi (who were 2 of the hijackers) came
from the level of the CIA back then.

Former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel gave a National Press Club speech on 9/9/10 saying: "The [9/11 Commission's]
investigation was not what we call an investigation. It was to develop a storyline of what happened to be fed to
the American people and to receive their acquiescence. Victims' family members ... have said that only a fourth
of their well-researched questions were answered."
 The 9/11 Truth Movement (The Elephant
in the Room)

You can't mention anything about 9/11 with analyzing the elephant in the room. We know what that elephant
is, and it's the 9/11 Truth Movement. That movement has been praised and criticized by people throughout the
world. One of the strongest critics of 9/11 Truth have been members of the corporate media (as found in
networks, mainstream newspapers, etc.). What is necessary to do now is to fairly talk about 9/11 Truth without
outlining biased, without hysteria, or displaying the typical demonization of people. That is what I'm born to do.
The 9/11 Truth movement is a diverse amount of people in America and in the world, who don't believe in the
official story of 9/11. They are unified on that point. They don't believe that 9/11 was a surprise attack. Some
believe that 9/11 was allowed to happen, and some believe that the government orchestrated 9/11 outright.
The peak of the popularity of the 9/11 Truth movement was from 2001 to 2009. The first decade of the 21st
century saw such a rapid advance of 9/11 Truth that then President George W. Bush condemned it as promoting
"outrageous conspiracy theories." Ironically, the 9/11 Truth Movement has did some good in getting more
people interested in researching the war on terror and questioning authority. They have done a great job in
organizing people to promote human civil liberties and peace in the world. We all know about the imperfections
found in the Patriot Act and in the USA Military Commissions Act. We know of the high level of surveillance
technology in the world that came after 9/11 too. Many 9/11 Truth members unfortunately have promoted
overt hoaxes that only advance falsehoods and not the truth. There are two major factions of the 9/11 Truth
Movement. One faction is made up of sincere human beings who try to document information. They want
serious research to be presented to the public. The other faction of this movement is made up of people who
advance disinformation, falsehoods (like the myth that no plane hit the Pentagon which only distracts from real
issues), and don't advance serious, documented information.
Back in March of 2004, the 9/11 Truth movement members met in March 2004 at the International inquiry into
9/11 being held at San Francisco, California. There is the intersectionality of 9/11 Truth members working in
peace, environmental, and anti-imperialist movements too. It is not unusual to find that governments
throughout human history organize terror to advance fear and control over the people. For example, Operation
Gleiwitz was done by the Nazis in order to provoke the Nazi Germany invasion of Poland. We know about
Operation Northwoods when some in the government wanted to bomb places in America to provoke an
invasion of Cuba. President John F. Kennedy rejected that plan outright. We know about President LBJ exploiting
the Gulf of Tonkin situation to advance the Vietnam War in another level. Operation Ajax was when British and
American intelligence used a false flag operation to overthrow a democratically elected leader Muhammad
Mossadeq from power in Iran (so, Western forces can get the oil resources in Iran. The Shah was installed, and
the Shah was a dictator in Iran for decades). Operation Gladio was involved by NATO. Many 9/11 related
questions still remain. By the end of this prose, you will know where I agree and disagree with 9/11 Truth. We
know that just before 9/11, George W. Bush was ready to sign papers to involved the U.S. in Afghanistan (as
sited by the British Jane's International Security magazine, the magazine of India Reacts from June 26, 2001, and
from an article from Julian Boger as cited in The Guardian). Also, many of the same folks who claim to be against
governmental corruption are allied with the far-right movements of extremists (and excuse neoliberal
capitalism).

THE THREATS TO OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES 20 YEARS LATER

The massive militarization of the
police and the widespread acts of
police brutality remains long after
9/11. Supporting black human lives
means that structures of oppression
must be gone, and infrastructures to
build communities must exist. Black
Lives always Matter.
The Patriot Act and other laws
violated our civil liberties in many
ways. Our civil liberties must be
protected regardless of what anyone
says. From spying programs to
torture, we always have to condemn
any injustice.
Voting rights is heavily under threat
with the Supreme Court gutting
Section 3 of the Voting Rights Act,
and the recent Texas voter
suppression laws banning even 24-
hour voting in Texas. Many more
states have similar voter
suppression laws too.

Some far right extremists even falsely equate neoliberalism with socialism when socialists defended labor rights,
civil rights, and human rights for decades and centuries. Some of the fake "patriots" even equate any kind of
government intervention with communists. These folks are the paleoconservative, anti-governmental
individuals who dismiss any health care programs and have a fetish of gun rights (there is nothing wrong with
an innocent person owning a gun, but criminals should never own a gun. A gun is a tool not a god). In our time,
we have many of these paleoconservative, info-entertainers who want to sell products and are multimillionaires
at the expense of promoting paranoia, xenophobia, nativism, and other evils. We know which info-entertainer
that I'm talking about. He's from Austin, Texas. His name is Alex Jones.

On February 12, 2016, Alex Jones praised Barry Goldwater. Goldwater was the man who disgracefully opposed
the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and didn’t rule out using nuclear weapons in Vietnam. His friend was General
Curtis LeMay (he executed firebombing of even Japanese civilians during World War II) who tried to provoke
war with the Russians during the 1950’s and the 1960’s. Alex Jones is silent on the American Security Council,
the World Anti-Communist League, the Council for National Policy, the Western Goals Foundation, and Le
Cercle. Alex Jones is also the friend of the notorious racist and sexist Ted Nugent. Birds of a feather do flock
together.

This image showed the events of Operation Ajax.

It is true that many political elites have done evil against many people and the Third World people, but I reject
anti-progressive lies that are meant to advance xenophobia, sexism, and racism. Now, it is very important to
expose government corruption. We know that the oligarchy has done illegal actions. I have noticed that these
paleaoconservatives only attack the so-called “liberal” Eastern Establishment. They never attack the
conservative establishment groups like the Council for National Policy, the American Security Council, Le Cercle,
the Pilgrim Society, the John Birch Society, etc. because many of these groups have links to the far-right
movements that they endorse. One leading Skulls & Bones author is Kris Millegan. He published the works of
Sutton, Iserbyt, and others. His father is Lloyd Millegan, who was a ranking OSS, Army G2, and CIA officer. Lloyd
Millegan Sr. was acquainted with John Foster Dulles from a very young age. A few years later Millegan, Sr. was
recruited into the OSS and kept tabs on the notoriously reactionary and stubborn General Douglas MacArthur
as one of the general's staffers. A full decade later, in 1956, years before the massive American troop
involvement in the Vietnam War broke out, he was partying with General Edward Lansdale and even a few North
Vietnamese leaders in Saigon. The common lie and myth was that JFK started American military involvement in
the Vietnam War. The truth is that Eisenhower had military advisors in Vietnam long before JFK was President.
Dulles, along with his brother, later belonged to the Pilgrim Society. MacArthur and Lansdale were favorites of
the American Security Council. Even author Alexandra Robbins was a member of the Scroll & Key.
Gordon Duff is senior editor of Veterans Today, has promoted the missile into the Pentagon myth. Dick Eastman
is not only a person who believes in the lie that no 757 hit the Pentagon. He is an evil anti-Semite who believes
in the slander of Holocaust denial. Jewish people, Roma people, black people, Slavic people, etc. died in the
Holocaust by the murderous actions of the evil Nazis. I’m glad that the Allied forces defeated the Nazis by 1945.
Many of the disinformation agents are racist Holocaust deniers like Ryan Dawson. Dr. Richard Falk is a CFR
member, a proponent of the no plane hit the Pentagon myth, and he was a vocal support of the radical Ayatollah
Khomeini back in the day. The CNP have members with links Oliver North and Jack Abramoff. The son of CNP
board member Elsa Prince, Erik Prince, later founded and chaired Total Intelligence Solutions and Blackwater
USA (with links to the Knights of Malta), the private CIA and Bush White House nexus of the JSOC assassination
programs in the post 9/11 world. Blackwater later changed its name to Academi, with the new chairman being
a long-time key shareholder in Coast to Coast AM. Top-level neocon, former CIA director and known CNP
speaker James Woolsey chairs the advisory board of Executive Action, LLC, a firm named after the CIA's term for
assassination. Also, these palaeconservatives who talk about conservativism readily believe in unrestrained
corporate fascism by opposing any kind of involvement of the state in the market. Some want a ban on taxes
and a powerless government. There is a huge difference between moderate socialism and communism. Even
socialism is a reality in the world and has helped many people.

The corporations that treats its personnel the worst - the lowest wages, the least amount of benefits, the longest
hours, the harshest spy and enforcement measures against unionists, etc. are abysmally unjust. Even the good
parts of FDR's New Deal program (with similar programs appearing in Western Europe) had progressive parts to
it. It established a minimum wage, a maximum number of working hours, abolished child labor, provided
pensions, and set up watchdog agencies for banks and corporations. To a large extent it ended the age of the
robber barons and is one of the cornerstones of the modern social democracy. Therefore, there is nothing wrong
with exposing real conspiracies, yet we must use accurate information and inspiration to call for justice too.

The official story is accurate to mention that many Islamist extremists wanted to attack America, and these
extremists did attack America. Yet, it ignores how that anger is a product of U.S. and Western intervention in
the Middle East. Also, the official story definitely ignores how governments have exploited terrorist attacks for
their own aims of expanding the power of the oligarchy. The official story ignores how U.S. allies provided
specific warnings about terrorist threats to America. Many FBI agents who tried to stop the attacks were blocked
by headquarters. That was obstruction not incompetence. The official story ignores the CIA’s “plane into
building exercise” and NORAD war games (which were conducted by Western forces) during that morning.
Around noon on 9/11, air traffic controllers who handled some of the hijacked flights made a recording recalling
their experiences of the events from a few hours earlier. The tape was later destroyed by an unidentified FAA
supervisor without any transcripts taken.

The 9/11 Truth Movement correctly says that there was a

deliberate conspiracy to use the attacks as an excuse to promote
the war on terror, an invasion in Middle Eastern and Central
Asian nations, and for the West to get resources throughout the
Earth. The 9/11 Truth movement is right that the 9/11
Commission is a complete whitewash of the facts. Some 9/11
truth people unfortunately mix true conclusions with myths and
falsehoods (like the no plane hit the Pentagon myth, only
explosives alone caused the Twin Towers to fall, and the pod
myth). So, the 9/11 Truth Movement has been praised, reviled,
and slandered. One thing is true. The 9/11 Truth Movement is
here to stay. The 9/11 Truth movement has been courageous to
show their views whether people agree with them or not. I
agree with 9/11 Truth on some issues and not on others. I want
to make that point known.

WHAT IS THE PILGRIM SOCIETY?

These men were involving in having great

influences in the entire WTC complex from
leasing to security or involvement in the
Western establishment. They are Peter G.
Peterson, David Rockefeller, and Maurice
Greenberg. Peterson was part of the Blackstone
Group, he was a member of the Pilgrim Society,
and he visited the Cercle group too. Sir Ronald
Grierson was a long-time advisory board co- The Pilgrim Society is one of the most powerful political
chairman of the group. David Rockefeller, organizations in the world. It represents the Anglo-American
Maurice Greenberg, and Henry Kissinger are establishment with influences or membership found in the families
friends of each other and part of the political of Rockefeller, Mellon, Luce, Rothschild, Cecil, Windsor, etc. The old
establishment. Many of these people have links families of Europe (with members from the Order of the Garter, the
to the Trilateral Commission and the Pilgrim Knights of Malta, the Knights of St. John, etc.) and their descendants
Society. Blackstone is headquartered at 345 Park in America still have a large influence in how wealth is centralized
Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, with eight into the 1 percent. Large corporations are heavily influenced by the
additional offices in the United States, as well as Pilgrim Society too. The Pilgrim Society’s goal has been to form
offices in London, Paris, Dusseldorf, Sydney, better ties between the American and UK establishments.
Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing,
Shanghai, Madrid, Mumbai, and Dubai.
 Other Stories
9/11 existed because of many complex reasons. A conspiracy is an event organized by more than one person
with a plan, and people carrying it out. By that definition alone, 9/11 was a product of a conspiracy as Osama
bin Laden and other people planned it out and executed terrorism against America. The Western establishment
exploited the 9/11 attacks as an excuse for some to try to reshape the Middle East and Central Asia (in growing
markets, competing against Russia plus China, and gain more oil, gas, mineral resources). President George W.
Bush already long before 9/11 wanted to go after Saddam Hussein in part to finish what his father started. There
was the 1993 attempt to assassinate his father too. Iraqi oil reserves were huge, so private contractors worked
heavily in Iraq for the purpose of gaining profit. George W. Bush's Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill in his 2004
book of The Price of Loyalty mentioned a January 30, 2001 meeting. This meeting, he claimed had Bush, National
Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, CIA Director George Tenet), Donald Rumsfeld, and others to prepare for a
possible invasion of Iraq. George W. Bush disputes the claim from O'Neill. Yet, we know of a memo dated
January 23, 2001 outlining the "Origins of the Iraq Regime Change Policy." This was requested by Vice President-
elect Dick Cheney before taking office, presumably as a way to justify policy formation around aggressive US
efforts for "regime change" in Iraq. Bush calling Iraq, Iran, and Syria an Axis of Evil is pretty much saying that he
wanted those nations to be pro-American puppets of the West via war if necessary. Domestically, the corporate
police state system that we see now was built greater since 9/11. NSA programs like PRISM, Boundless
Informant, and Stellar Wind grew.

There is the inspiring story of Port Authority Secretary Genelle Guzman-McMillan. She was rescued 27 hours
after the collapse of the North Tower. She came to work on the 64th floor of the North Tower of the World
Trade Center. She grabbed a bagel. Out of the window, she saw debris and a ball of fire falling from the sky
above. Then, she felt an earthquake. The walls burst open and rubble came falling down. She couldn't move for
27 hours. Later, she heard voices calling for help, radios going in and out. She drifted in and out of consciousness.
She prayed to God and hoped for a miracle. A person grabbed her, and this person was a man named Paul.
Later, many rescuers retrieved her out of the rubble. Her book is entitled, "Angel in the Rubble: The Miraculous
Rescue of 9/11's Last Survivor." It's found online and at Amazon.com. We should always be thankful to live on
this Earth, because our ancestors sacrificed so much for us to be in this generation to live.

New York City's first woman firefighter is Brenda Berkman. She fought discrimination and was one of the many
first responders who saved lives during the terrible events of September 11. She commenced her firefighting
career in 1982. Then, she retired as a captain by 2006. She became an artist which was a lifelong dream of hers.
She created many lithograph drawings of the events on that day and other drawings of New York City in general.

One of the many heroes on 9/11 also includes another firefighter. Her name is Regina Wilson. Her life was filled
with amazing developments. She worked at a corporate job in real estate. She didn't find fulfillment. Later, she
became an African American New York City firefighter. It was a move that would change her life forever. By
September 11, 2001, she was 32 years old. It was her 3rd year on the job. She was a first responder along with
others who assisted in the search, rescue, and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center location. Her firehouse
lost 7 members on that day. Its name is Engine 219 at Park Slope, Brooklyn, NYC. A fellow firefighter, who was
part of her team, passed away later on that day. Regina Wilson has been a member of FDNY for over 10 years.
To this day, she is dedicated for equity and opportunity for all people. She refutes the old lie that a firefighting
is just a "man's jobs." Firefighters can and should exist among every color and every background period without
any exception. Judith Castro worked to help save lives on 9/11 too.

On Flight 93, many Americans decided to fight the hijackers on the flight. They knew they would sacrifice their
lives. That is why many of them called their loved ones before proceeding with their plan. The hijackers in Flight
93 were possibly trying to attack the U.S. Capitol building, but brave people on flight fought back. The plane
crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Now, there is a memorial to honor the memory of the heroes on Fight 93.
With unity, we grow stronger. That is why on this time, we are always committed to justice and freedom for all.
The picture of the left showed American National Guard troops protecting the U.S. Capitol after
the evil, treasonous, and terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Over 117,000
human beings have been evacuated from Afghanistan since August of 2021 (as shown in the
image of the right).

A New Political Reality in 2021

20 years after 9/11, we still have massive political polarization. Nothing would be the same again after 20 years.
You have some people who believe in truth and justice by defending voting rights (the protests on August 28,
2021 in Washington, D.C. and across America document how we must strengthen voting rights federally without
delay), promoting living wages, and believing in environmental justice. Then, you have other people who believe
in the lie that the 2020 election was stolen, who believe in sugarcoating real American history (under the guise
of disagreeing with critical race theory. Critical race theory is not offensive. It is about exposing systematic
racism in the legal system and desiring racial justice to exist. Not to mention that CRT is not taught officially in
public schools) and promote their attacks on democracy with puppets like the bigot plus far right extremist
Tucker Carlson. So, we are in an ideological crisis point in American history. Donald Trump is no longer President,
but the Republican Party is headed by him. We already know that Trump is a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe, and
a habitual liar. The most important thing to do is to do the right thing. Doing the right thing means to build in
our communities, promoting our rights, working with organizations dedicated to results, build people up, and
advancing real progressive values that our ancestors fought and died for. Many of my ancestors and late
relatives fought in the Civil War and in World War II. The Republican Party now is so extreme that Abraham
Lincoln, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ulysses S. Grant, and other Republicans back then would be considered Marxists
by the far right. It's that serious. Now, people are discussing about the 2022 elections. People want to see what
the future composition of Congress will be by 2022 (and after the 2020 Census has been fully completed). People
want the social safety net protected and strengthened not weakened as many GOP extremists desire.
Establishment groups like the New York City-based think tank the Council on Foreign Relations exist now. The
CFR has members in the political establishment, in the mainstream media, in the CFR, in controlled “grassroots”
organizations, in NGOs. The CFR is financed by large multinational corporations like JPMorgan Chase, Shell,
ExxonMobil, etc. Human beings want real change in our world. We have work to do, and we should constantly
work to make justice exist for all indeed.

Growing our economy is not about record tax cuts for the super wealthy. It’s
about policies to build from the lower income up and from the middle class
out. Investments, fighting poverty, rejecting authoritarianism, advancing
justice for all, and creating economic justice will make a real difference in
our world.

In conclusion, 9/11 was ideology. Also, it is important Mossadegh. We know about

plotted an executed by Osama to note that Western
bin Laden and the Al-Qaeda imperialism have blood on its
network. The attacks were evil, hands for decades too. For
unjust, and wicked. The example, the CIA and the MI6
murderers, who murdered worked together (via
almost 3,000 people in Operation Ajax) to overthrow
America, followed a the democratically elected
reactionary, ultranationalist President or Iran Mohammed
the CIA's Operation Phoenix
where Vietnamese people were
assassinated and murdered
constantly beyond a war
strategy. Drone strikes,
imperialist wars, and other
bombings by the West have
occurred in Lebanon, Libya,
Iraq, Iran, Sudan, etc. Once
upon a time, America wanted
fundamentalist extremists to
defeat Soviet forces in
Afghanistan. America was once
an ally of the Taliban because
of its anti-Communist views
during the 1980's. That has
changed years later.
The war on terror existed after
the attack. There were many
Saudi and Pakistani elites that
worked with Western elites for
many reasons (as Iran and Syria
are heavily Shia states). The
CIA promoted the Iraq War
and advanced many actions of
secret prison camps that
included waterboarding. The
desire of the neo-cons and their
supporters was to restructure
the Middle East into the image
of a Pax Americana. Also, the
Bush administration used the
lie of Iraq having massive
quantities of weapons of mass
destruction as an excuse for
them to invade Iraq, to gain
resources in Iraq, etc. Now, we
are still fighting the Delta and
the Mu variants of the
pandemic virus. Many lives
By Timothy
have been lost as a product of
the virus, and we are certainly
serious in respecting the
sanctity of human life (as the
value of life is priceless and
advancing a real health care
culture is our aim. Obviously,
health care is never a privilege
but a human right
unequivocally). To support
human life, you must invest in
Medicare, Medicaid, maternity
leave, and Social Security. Our
ancestors shed blood for the
nation of the United States of
America (which is now a
multiracial democracy and
whose democracy is constantly
under threat), and we are
entitled to black liberation. I
am still human, and I'm
growing. I have a lot of living to
do, and I will be a better person
than the past. Likewise, I will
still maintain my core
convictions of believing in
God, of following the Golden
Rule, of wanting
environmental justice, of
loving Blackness, of believing
in justice, and discovering
more truth. Today, President
Biden is the current President
The recent 2021 book of Peril by
Bob Woodward and Robert Costa
shown the world how close
Trump’s coup attempt was near
reality. Trump to this day
promotes the 2020 election lie.
With 4 Trump supporters being
subpoenaed by the 1/6 House
Committee, we shall see what
the future holds.
in 2021. He is dealing with
many issues (from Texas laws
to infrastructure). We will
make sure that he is rightfully
evaluated in his policies from
an independent progressive
perspective. Additionally, we
want federal voting rights
legislation to be passed and
D.C. statehood. The attacks in
America on September 11th,
2001 represented the start of
the 21st century indeed.
We will never Forget September 11, 2001. I think about
that date and the tragic events on that day every day of
my life.