Foreword by Glen Stanish

Truth Marches On

By Glen Stanish

September 11, 2001, much like December 7, 1941, is a day that will live in infamy. The post 9-11 period is one of the saddest times in American history. It has, however, provided the American people a slow and painful awakening of sorts.
    
As an airline pilot for American Airlines, the attacks of 9-11 hit very close to home. I was in the middle of a four-day trip on a layover in downtown Fort Worth on 9-11.  Like many Americans that day, I woke up to the news of the devastating attacks. And, like most Americans, for a brief period after the attacks I was in a state of shock and awe.
    
Very shortly after the attacks we were informed by our elected leaders and the media that we had been attacked by Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaida because they didn’t like our freedoms. Simple enough, but lacking a plausible political motive. For those who think a bit further than what we’re told and deeper about the causes of war - greed in a word - this explanation was hard to accept. It was as if President George W. Bush had given us a square peg, and no matter how hard we tried, we could not make it fit into the proverbial round hole. I suspect that the author of this book, Christopher Bollyn, may have experienced this same thought process.

My own personal discovery of the truth of 9-11 began with Bollyn. I had been subscribing to a newspaper, American Free Press, where he had been a regular contributing reporter. I had enjoyed reading Bollyn’s articles, appreciating his thorough research and open and honest candor. It was shortly after 9-11, when I was reading one of Bollyn’s articles about the scene of the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. He described how many eyewitnesses, including the mayor of Shanksville, reported never seeing any wreckage of a Boeing 757, saying things like there was no smoke or fire, no pieces of airframe, things along these lines. Other reports that quoted the coroner on the scene said there were no bodies or body parts. While reading these reports, I could not reconcile them with the usual scenes of airline accidents.  

As an airline pilot, we have been required for several years by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to complete, during our initial and annual training, a course called Crew Resource Management (C.R.M.). This is the study of airline accidents and incidents and what we as flight crew members could have done differently to have prevented a particular accident. This study of airline accidents typically involves reviewing cockpit and air traffic control recordings, flight data recordings, and the well recorded and documented scenes of the accidents. So I have studied many airline accidents over the course of my career.

It was difficult for me to accept the reports from Shanksville about the lack of any wreckage of Flight 93 because after an airline accident, large pieces of the aircraft are normally found.  There are the remains of the virtually indestructible engine cores, landing gear, and tail sections, to name just a few of the larger parts that would be found in the debris field. Other wreckage that one would normally expect to find from a well constructed Boeing 757 airframe would be several of the plug type entry and service doors, cargo doors, over wing exits, sections of fuselage and passenger seats, hydraulic tanks and pumps, and flight controls such as spoiler panels, flaps, slats, rudders, and elevators. Wreckage from inside the cabin that would have survived would include the emergency exit slides, the emergency inflatable rafts, life preserver jackets, and other emergency equipment, galley carts, lavatories, coffee pots, ovens, in-flight magazines, and catalogues. Luggage, freight, and mail would also be recovered from the immediate vicinity. These are the things eyewitnesses and first responders normally observe after a Boeing 757 collides with terrain.  Temporary morgues are usually set up in nearby facilities where recovered bodies and body parts are taken and identified for the families of the deceased.
    
Therefore, soon after reading his article, and experiencing the difficulty of reconciling these reports with my experience and background, I contacted Bollyn and thus began my personal friendship with the author. Bollyn has continued to report breakthrough material and information about the inadequacies and the erroneous and deceptive nature of the official 9-11 reports. He has bravely pressed forward with determination, working with scientists and physics professors and other qualified professionals to show that the three World Trade Center buildings that collapsed on 9-11 were brought down by explosives in controlled demolitions. He has enlightened many to the intrigues of “false flag” operations used as pretexts for war by powerful, corrupt, and covetous politicians and bloodthirsty heads of state. 

This he has done in the face of heavy resistance by those who would attempt to keep the American people in the dark, namely the mainstream press and other special interest groups. But like a small candle in a large dark room, the light shines through.
    
The 9-11 truth movement, as it is known, owes much to the work of Bollyn. Since his first writings about the subject, virtually thousands of scientists, professors, architects, engineers, pilots, politicians, firefighters, religious leaders, lawyers, and others with expertise and qualifications have organized to have their voices heard and refute the official explanation of the attacks of 9-11.  These are our attempts to petition the government for a redress of grievances, as it were. Yet some still ask, why would the U.S. government either attack its own people or cover up for those who attacked us on 9-11?
    
And this is where some of Bollyn’s most important work leads. To answer difficult questions like these, observers of history and geopolitics should consider the policies that have shifted, been postponed, cancelled, changed course, or otherwise bent as a result of the attacks of 9-11. And as most observers will attest, there was and still is an ongoing and unresolved major political issue in the Middle East, one whose developments have been very much affected by 9-11 and one that apparently has our own U.S. political house divided, or at least unable to clearly define and implement its policies concerning this issue. And this unresolved political issue is the establishment of an independent and democratic Palestinian state, to co-exist with Israel with peace and justice for all.
    
So what is our national policy concerning the establishment of an independent and democratic Palestinian state?  Is it fluid, undefined, and changing course over time with other changes in the political landscape?  Or, is it solid, stable, and complete, just waiting for the ideal time to be implemented?  Or, perhaps, like other major international political issues (Iran Contra comes to mind) -- is there more than one policy?  Is there one policy presented to the public, which never seems to progress towards completion, and another, planned behind closed doors, that develops in opposition to and in defiance of the stated public policy?

As former President Jimmy Carter wrote in his book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid:

The unwavering official policy of the United States since Israel became a state has been that its borders, unless modified through negotiations, must coincide with the armistice lines prevailing from 1949 until 1967… 

The unanimously adopted UN Resolution 242 specifies the withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from occupied territories... these include the Golan Heights, Gaza, the Sinai, and the West Bank, including Jerusalem… 

U.S. policy was that Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza were ‘illegal and obstacles to peace’… also, as a member of the International Quartet that includes Russia, the United Nations, and the European Union, America supports the Roadmap for Peace which espouses exactly the same requirements…and whose ultimate aim is the creation of a democratic and independent Palestinian state.

To highlight U.S. and international efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East, a brief historical review is in order. 

•    The Camp David Accords led directly to the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty.

•    The Madrid Conference was hosted by the government of Spain and co-sponsored by the USA and the USSR. It convened on October 30, 1991, and lasted for three days. It was an early attempt by the international community to start a peace process through negotiations involving Israel and the Palestinians as well as Arab countries including Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan.

•    The Oslo Accords, agreed in Norway on August 20, 1993, and signed at a public ceremony in Washington D.C. on September 13, 1993, was a milestone in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  This was the first direct, face-to-face agreement between Israel and political representatives of the Palestinians. It was intended to be a framework for the future relations between Israel and the Palestinians, when all outstanding final status issues between the two sides would be addressed and resolved in one agreement. Permanent issues such as Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees, Israeli settlements, borders, and security were deliberately left to be decided at a later stage.

•    The Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, also known as Oslo 2, was signed by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on September 28, 1995. It became the basis and the reference point for subsequent negotiations and agreements such as the Hebron Protocol of 1997 and the Wye River Memorandum of 1998, and it is a basis for the latter Road Map for Peace which calls for the creation of a democratic independent Palestinian state, part of the two-state solution for Middle East peace.

•    The Wye River Memorandum, signed on October 23, 1998, was an agreement negotiated between Israel and the Palestinian Authority to implement the earlier Interim Agreement of September 1995.

•    The Sharm El Sheikh Memorandum on Implementation Timeline of Outstanding Commitments of Agreements Signed and the Resumption of Permanent Status Negotiations was signed on September 4, 1999, by Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat. Its purpose was to implement the Interim Agreement (Oslo II) and to implement all other agreements between the PLO and Israel since 1993. The two sides agreed to resume the Permanent Status negotiations to achieve the goal of reaching a Permanent Status Agreement. They reaffirmed that the negotiations on the Permanent Status will lead to the implementation of Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338. They agreed to make a determined effort to conclude a Framework Agreement and setting a timetable to achieve these goals. A timetable for final status talks to deal with Jerusalem, borders, refugees, and settlements, and a framework agreement on permanent status (FAPS) were to be achieved by February 2000 with a permanent agreement signed by September 2000.

•    The Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David of July 2000 took place between U.S. President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasir Arafat. It was an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to negotiate a “final status settlement” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

•    The Taba Summit were talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, held during January 21-27, 2001, at Taba in the Sinai Peninsula. They were talks aimed at reaching the “final status” negotiations to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and came closer to reaching a final settlement than any previous or subsequent peace talks. The talks were discontinued due to upcoming Israeli elections.

As can be seen by the record, U.S. and international efforts to reach a comprehensive settlement for peace in the Middle East and the establishment of an independent and democratic Palestinian state were proceeding nicely until early 2001. One might consider that we, as a global community, were in the end game, late in the fourth quarter or in the bottom of the ninth inning, to use sports analogies – but perhaps ‘sudden death’ would be more apt.
    
To have come this far and not taken the ball into the end zone, to have failed to cross the finish line when we were so close, indicates that there must be a very determined and powerful force preventing it.  There must be an opposing power, a well organized political entity whose objective is to prevent any final settlement of the crucial issues in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.  This antagonistic element is opposed to any agreement that would allow the establishment of an independent and democratic Palestinian state.

In February 2001, Ariel Sharon was elected prime minister of Israel, and according to former President Jimmy Carter, Sharon was committed to the rejection of the Oslo peace agreement. 

Historically speaking, Ariel Sharon, like many other Israeli politicians, made statements and policies that indicated his intention to kill the peace process.  In 1977, Menachem Begin assembled a coalition that accepted his premise that the land in Gaza and the West Bank belonged rightfully to the State of Israel and should not be exchanged in a peace agreement with the Arabs. In the early 1980s, during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, Israel announced the annexation of the Golan Heights (taken from Syria) and increased their efforts to build Israeli settlements throughout the West Bank and Gaza.  As a matter of fact, since 1980, with the Likud Party in control of the government, the confiscation of Arab land has accelerated greatly with the building of illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank being one of the government’s top priorities. 

Ariel Sharon stated that the East Bank of the Jordan is “ours but not in our hands, just as East Jerusalem had been until the Six-Day War.” During the Clinton years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a Likud hawk, promised never to exchange land for peace.  Then Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon declared the Oslo Agreement to be “national suicide” saying, “Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours.”

In Jewish History, Jewish Religion, author Israel Shahak, an Israeli Jew critical of Israeli policies, explained the reasons behind the actions of his country’s government. Shahak wrote:

The main danger which Israel, as a ‘Jewish state’ poses to its own people, to other Jews, and to its neighbors is its ideologically motivated pursuit of territorial expansion and the inevitable series of wars resulting from this aim… In 1956, I eagerly swallowed all of Prime Minister Ben Gurion’s political and military reasons for Israel initiating the Suez War, until he pronounced in the Knesset on the third day of that war, that the real reason for it is ‘the restoration of the Kingdom of David and Solomon’ to its Biblical [Old Testament] borders…The Biblical borders of the land of Israel, “which rabbinical authorities interpret as ideally belonging to the Jewish state” include the following areas: in the south, all of Sinai and a part of northern Egypt up to the environs of Cairo; in the east, all of Jordon and a large chunk of Saudi Arabia, all of Kuwait and a part of Iraq south of the Euphrates; in the north, all of Lebanon and all of Syria together with a huge part of Turkey (up to Lake Van); and in the west, Cyprus… In May of 1993, Ariel Sharon formally proposed in the Likud Convention that Israel should adopt the ‘Biblical borders’ concept as its official policy.

Well, it sounds as if we may have identified the opponent to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.  As we can see, up until shortly before September 2001, U.S. and international efforts to achieve a final agreement and resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were very close to their goal. Shortly before September 11, 2001, an Israeli government was elected whose stated objectives were in sharp opposition to the aims of the peace efforts of the United States and the international community.

Immediately after the 9-11 attacks, Israeli spokesman Benjamin Netanyahu stated publicly, “It is a very good thing,” because it would strengthen American support for Israel. And as if to confirm Netanyahu’s sentiments, using 9-11 as justification, Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon escalated the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, pummeling Palestinian civilian infrastructure, homes and businesses in the West Bank and Gaza on the pretext of fighting terrorism.

Shortly thereafter, Sharon’s Chief of Staff Dov Weisglass admitted that the purpose of his government's policy to expand settlements in the West Bank was to undermine peace plans, stymie the creation of a Palestinian state, and halt talks about the right of return for Palestinian refugees:

The significance of our disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process. It supplies the formaldehyde necessary so there is no political process with the Palestinians. When you freeze the process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state… Effectively, this whole package called a Palestinian state has been removed indefinitely from our agenda. All of this was done with the United States' blessing.

What? Wait a minute! This was done with the blessing of the government of the United States? What about our “unwavering official policies”? What about Israeli settlements in the West Bank being “illegal and obstacles to peace”? What about our official support of the creation of an independent and democratic Palestinian State as an integral part of a just and final resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the peace process? Do we have more than one policy here?
    
On March 28, 2001, at the Arab League meeting in Beirut, twenty-two nations ended a long debate by endorsing a resolution introduced by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. It offered Israel normal relations with all Arab states if Israel complied with UN Resolutions 194 and 242. The next day, a massive Israeli military force surrounded and destroyed Yasir Arafat’s office compound in Ramallah. Later, the United States voted for a UN Security Council resolution demanding Israeli withdrawal from Ramallah, which Israel ignored.
    
Arab diplomats accused Ariel Sharon of deliberately sabotaging the peace overture and Crown Prince Abdullah called the prime minister’s assault on Arafat “a brutal, despicable, savage, inhumane, and cruel action.”
    
In April 2003, a “Roadmap” for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was announced by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on behalf of the U.S., the UN, the European Union, and Russia (i.e. the Quartet).  Kofi Annan stated:

Such a settlement, negotiated between the parties, will result in the emergence of an independent, democratic Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with Israel and its neighbors. The settlement will end the occupation that began in 1967, based on the Madrid Conference terms of reference and the principle of land for peace, UN Security Council Resolutions 242, 338, and 1397, agreements previously reached by the parties, and the Arab initiative proposed by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah and endorsed by the Arab Summit in Beirut.

The Palestinians accepted the Roadmap in its entirety. The Israeli government announced several caveats and prerequisites, some of which would preclude any final peace talks. Some of the Israeli provisos were: Israeli control over Palestine, including the entry and exit of all persons and cargo, plus its airspace and electromagnetic spectrum (radio, television, etc.). No discussion of Israeli settlements in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza or the status of the Palestinian Authority and its institutions in Jerusalem. No reference to the key provisions of UN Resolution 242, and the waiver of any right of return of refugees, among others.
    
The practical result of all this, according to former President Jimmy Carter, is the Roadmap for Peace has become moot, with only two results: Israel has been able to use it as a delaying tactic with an endless series of preconditions that can never be met, while proceeding with plans to implement its unilateral goals; and the U.S. has been able to give the impression of positive engagement in a “peace process.”

With Ariel Sharon and George W. Bush in office, the so-called "peace process" went nowhere.
    
In early 2005, Jimmy Carter again arrived in Israel. In Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, he describes the “most disturbing intrusions of the great dividing wall being built by the Israelis.”

The Israeli separation wall divides the Holy Land.

Described as a ‘security fence’, Carter wrote about the Israeli wall of separation:

"…its other purpose became clear as we observed its construction and examined maps of the barrier’s ultimate path through Palestine. Including the Israeli-occupied Jordan River Valley, the wall would take in large areas of land for Israel and encircle the Palestinians who remained in their remnant of the West Bank. This would severely restrict Palestinian access to the outside world. ‘Imprisonment Wall’ is more descriptive than ‘security fence.’

Sharon’s purpose was to implement the unilateral disengagement policy and to complete building a wall to separate Palestinians from territory to be claimed by Israel, according to President Carter.
    
In Carter’s book, he further describes the conditions and developments that have occurred in the Middle East and that have been allowed to occur in the wake of 9-11 have taken us further from a final resolution and the creation of an independent and democratic Palestinian state as part of the two-state solution.  Carter wrote:

With increasing control of East Jerusalem, with relative security from the wall surrounding what is left of the West Bank, and with thousands of remaining settlers east of the wall protected by a strong occupying force, there is a temptation for some Israelis simply to avoid any further efforts to seek a peace agreement based on the Quartet’s Roadmap or good-faith negotiations on any other basis…

In this diplomatic vacuum, Israeli leaders have embarked on a series of unilateral decisions, bypassing both Washington and the Palestinians…Utilizing their political and military dominance, they are imposing a system of partial withdrawal, encapsulation, and apartheid on the Muslim and Christian citizens of the occupied territories. The driving purpose for the forced separation of the two peoples is…the acquisition of land…

The future prospects for the West Bank are…dismal. Especially troublesome is the huge dividing wall in populated areas and an impassable fence in rural areas. The governments of Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert have built the fence and wall mainly within Palestinian territory, intruding deeply into the West Bank to encompass Israeli settlement blocs and large areas of other Palestinian land. It is projected to be at least three and a half times as long as Israel’s internationally recognized border and already cuts directly through Palestinian villages, divides families from their gardens and farmland…

One example is that the wandering wall almost completely surrounds the Palestinian city of Qalqiliya with its 45,000 inhabitants, with most of the citizens’ land and about one-third of their water supply confiscated by the Israelis. Almost the same encirclement has occurred around 170,000 citizens of Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus.

First, a wide swath must be bulldozed through communities before the wall can be built. In addition to the concrete and electrified fencing materials used in the construction, the barrier includes two meter deep trenches, roads for patrol vehicles, electronic ground and fence sensors, thermal imaging and video cameras, sniper towers, and razor wire – almost entirely on Palestinian land. The area between the closed segregation barrier and the Israeli border has been designated a closed military region for an indefinite period of time. Israeli directives state that every Palestinian over the age of twelve living in the closed area has to obtain a ‘permanent resident permit’ from the civil administration to enable them to live in their own homes…

To summarize, whatever territory Israel decides to confiscate will be on its side of the wall, but Israelis will still control the Palestinians who will be on the other side of the barrier…

Since 1945, the International Court of Justice has functioned essentially as the judicial arm of the United Nations system, and in July 2004 the court determined that the Israeli government’s construction of the segregation wall in the occupied West Bank was illegal…The court called on Israel to cease construction of the wall, to dismantle what has already been built in areas within the occupied Palestinian territory, and to compensate Palestinians who suffered losses as a result of the wall’s construction. The Israeli Supreme Court has chosen not to accept the International Court’s decision…

The wall ravages many places along its devious route that are important to Christians. In addition to enclosing Bethlehem in one of its most notable intrusions, an especially heartbreaking division is on the southern slope of the Mount of Olives, a favorite place for Jesus and his disciples, and very near Bethany, where they often visited Mary, Martha, and their brother, Lazarus. There is a church named for one of the sisters, Santa Marta Monastery, where Israel’s thirty-foot concrete wall cuts through the property. The house of worship is now on the Jerusalem side, and its parishioners are separated from it because they cannot get permits to enter Jerusalem. Its priest, Father Claudio Ghilardi, says, ‘For nine hundred years we have lived here under Turkish, British, Jordanian, and Israeli governments, and no one has ever stopped people coming to pray. It is scandalous. This is not a barrier. It is a border. Why don’t they speak the truth?’

Father Claudio adds a comment that describes the path of the entire barrier:  ‘The wall is not separating Palestinians from Jews; rather, Palestinians from Palestinians.’ Nearby are three convents that will also be cut off from people they serve. These 2,000 Palestinian Christians have lost their place of worship and their spiritual center.

In addition to cutting off about 200,000 Palestinians in Jerusalem from their relatives, property, schools, and businesses, the wall is designed to complete the enclosure of a severely truncated Palestine, a small portion of its original size, compartmentalized, divided into cantons, occupied by Israeli security forces, and isolated from the outside world. In addition, a network of exclusive highways is being built across even these fragments of the West Bank to connect the new Greater Israel in the west with the occupied Jordan River valley in the east, where 7,000 Jews are living in twenty-one heavily protected settlements among about 50,000 Palestinians who are still permitted to stay there. The area along the Jordan River, which is now planned as the eastern leg of the encirclement of the Palestinians, is one of Palestine’s most lucrative and productive agricultural regions. Most of its inhabitants were forcibly evicted in 1967, and the Israelis have not allowed these original families to return. Israeli customs officers keep lists of their names and are careful to prohibit their crossing any international checkpoint into occupied territory, where they might lay claim to their homes and farmland. 

President Carter continues to describe the rather hopeless prospects for the Palestinians, the result of developments that were allowed to occur in the Middle East political arena since the attacks of 9-11:  "It is obvious that the Palestinians will be left with no territory in which to establish a viable state… The Palestinians will have a future impossible for them or any portion of the international community to accept."
    
So it sounds as if a two-state solution to the peace process has become null and void. Was this the real reason for 9-11?  Was it carried out to create a condition of war, based on lies, deception, and fraud, that would distract and obfuscate attempts to reach a two-state settlement, which seemed within reach just before September 2001?  Was it designed to allow Israel to continue its unilateral goals of further expansion, to create a Greater Israel that reaches from the Euphrates to the Nile, ethnically cleansing the land of its original inhabitants? Have we established in the Green Zone in Baghdad a base to conduct future operations to assist our Zionist ally with her future expansionist conquests? Do we have more than one policy here?  As observers of history and geopolitics, it certainly makes more sense now than the ridiculous, “They attacked us because they hate our freedoms” rubbish.

Recently, on April 25, 2009, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported:

New foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Wednesday that Israel was changing its policies on the peace process and was not bound by commitments it made at a U.S. sponsored conference to pursue creation of a Palestinian state… 

A source in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party confirmed Wednesday that his new government intended to distance itself from U.S. sponsored understandings on working towards a Palestinian state.

“Israel’s government said Sunday that it would not halt construction of a planned housing project in east Jerusalem,"USA TODAY reported on July 20, 2009.  "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet there would be no limits on Jewish construction anywhere in ‘unified Jerusalem’" and "declared Israeli sovereignty over the entire city ‘indisputable.’”

In September 2009, “Israel approved on Monday the building of 455 settler homes in the occupied West Bank," as reported by Reuters on September 7, 2009.  "A Defense Ministry list of the first such building permits since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took office in March showed the homes would be erected in areas Israel intends to keep.”
    
As President Jimmy Carter wrote in Palestine Peace Not Apartheid:

The overriding problem is that, for more than a quarter century, the actions of some Israeli leaders have been in direct conflict with the official policies of the United States, the international community, and their own negotiated agreements… Israel’s continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land. In order to perpetuate the occupation, Israeli forces have deprived their unwilling subjects of basic human rights. No objective person could personally observe existing conditions in the West Bank and dispute these statements.
    
Two other interrelated factors have contributed to the perpetuation of violence and regional upheaval: the condoning of illegal Israeli actions from a submissive White House and U.S. Congress during recent years, and the deference with which other international leaders permit this unofficial U. S. policy in the Middle East (emphasis added) to prevail.

In order to achieve its goals, Israel has decided to avoid any peace negotiations and to escape even the mild restraints of the United States by taking unilateral action, called ‘convergence’ or ‘realignment,’ to carve out for itself the choice portions of the West Bank, leaving Palestinians destitute within a small and fragmented remnant of their own land.

The only rational response to this continuing tragedy is to revitalize the peace process through negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, but the United States has, in effect, abandoned this effort.

In 1796, George Washington gave his Farewell Address which contained many important parting words of advice for future generations of politicians and citizens alike, the disregard for which has helped bring us to this sad post 9-11 political world we find ourselves in.  President Washington said:

Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty…

Nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachment for others should be excluded; and in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest…
    
So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It also leads to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to be retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearance of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliance of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.
    
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
    
Excessive partiality for one nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real Patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interest.
    
The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible…
    
It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world…
    
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

As you read Christopher Bollyn’s Solving 9-11: The Deception that Changed the World, you will understand just exactly who and what foreign political interest actually attacked us on September 11, 2001. These foreign political interests with their traitors (George Washington referred to these types as tools and dupes) inside our U.S. political establishment attempted to deceive us in order to pursue their foreign-sponsored political will and expansionist policies in the Middle East. 

As you read, the real perpetrators of the 9-11 attacks will become apparent, and they will be identified. The motive will become clear, and you will see this peg as a natural fit. You will understand that our country is filled with “ambitious, corrupted, and deluded citizens (in positions of political power, office holders, judges, the press, etc.) who devote themselves to the foreign nation, and have sacrificed the interests of their own country, with popularity, gilding, with the appearance of a virtuous sense of obligation.  You may even find yourself supporting a new investigation into the attacks of 9-11.

So what else should one do when he or she finds that their government has attempted to deceive them, in order to pursue unofficial policies through the arts of lies, fraud, deception, and cover up. For Christopher Bollyn and like minded believers, the Scriptures are clear. “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.” (Ephesians 5:11, NKJV)

Glen Stanish is a professional pilot and the author of "Where is the Wreckage of UAL 93?" and Uncle Sam's Christian Patriots, a book about the attacks of 9-11.

Preface

"We Are Not Afraid"

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.            For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

- President John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962

Eight years have passed since the terror atrocities of September 11, 2001, heinous false-flag terror crimes which took the lives of thousands of innocent people and led to drastic changes in the United States and around the world.  Although the terror attacks have yet to be properly investigated and prosecuted by the federal government, we now have scientific evidence that proves that the official explanation is nothing but a pack of lies, a massive deception foisted on the public by corrupt government officials and the controlled media.  Most significantly, this deception was promoted by officials and media owners who knew it to be false.  The U.S. Department of Justice, for example, oversaw the destruction of many tons of structural steel - crucial evidence from the crime scenes.

On one hand, the government and media have intentionally pushed a fabrication that a band of Islamic terrorists hijacked airplanes and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, causing the complete destruction and pulverization of two 110-story towers and a 47-story building in lower Manhattan.  Using this deception, the federal government and its agents have created a police state in the United States and forced Americans and other Western nations to participate in an utterly fraudulent "War on Terror," waging illegal wars of aggression and occupation in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa.  Untold thousands have died in these illegal wars of aggression. 

On the other hand, we have scientific evidence that the Twin Towers were blown up with an advanced form of super-thermite, chips of which were found in five different samples of the dust from the demolished towers by Dr. Steven E. Jones of Brigham Young University.  This crucial discovery, published as a peer-reviewed paper in March 2009 with other scientists, completely disproves the official version that the Twin Towers fell as a result of fires caused by the plane crashes.  This discovery also explains the explosive destruction and pulverization of the immense steel-frame and concrete buildings.  As Professor Jones says, "The data doesn't lie."

Rather than addressing the evidence that the World Trade Center was demolished with explosives, however, the new administration of President Barack Obama continues to use the 9-11 deception to increase the war effort in Afghanistan, occupying a nation that had nothing to do with the terror attacks in the United States.  Neither Osama Bin Laden nor the Taliban had anything to do with the demolition of the World Trade Center, which the evidence proves was carried out using an advanced form of Thermite created using nano-technology.  Nor did the airplane crashes themselves cause the towers to collapse.  The plane crashes were merely part of the deception, meant to provide a plausible explanation for the pre-planned explosive demolitions that followed.

This is why 2009 is such a crucial year for 9-11 truth.  A modern republic like the United States cannot continue for very long as a free nation with a government and media that lie to the people about the murder of thousands of its citizens and illegal wars supposedly waged on their behalf.  This is clearly a state in the process of a revolutionary change.  The American people will not tolerate a police state using such outrageous lies to rob them of their money and freedom. 

"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts," President John F. Kennedy said in 1962.  "For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." So, who is really afraid of unpleasant facts and the truth of 9-11?  It is not the people, but the culprits of the terror atrocity and the subsequent cover-up who fear the truth. 

My work provides some of the unpleasant but essential facts about 9-11.  It represents eight years of work and is dedicated to the truth and the people who died on that day.  It is unacceptable that their deaths, and the suffering of their families, have been exploited to deceive the world and wage illegal wars.

Christopher Bollyn
Labor Day, 2009

Chapter I

9-11 Through the Eyes of an American Skeptic

As a journalist with an independent weekly newspaper based in Washington, D.C., I became caught up in the events of 9-11 from the minute it happened and was able to write freely about the terror attacks that were exploited to start the pre-planned War on Terror. 

From my position as a skeptic of the unproven official version, I have examined the facts and evidence since the day it happened and have concluded that the U.S. government and controlled media have engaged in a conspiracy to deceive the world about what really happened on that terrible day. 

THE DREAM 

The early morning hours of September 11, 2001 found me with my family driving through New York City en route toWashington, D.C. after a weekend trip to Stowe, Vermont.  We had visited the Trapp family lodge and gotten a late start from Stowe on Monday afternoon.  By the time we reached New York City, our two small children were fast asleep in the back seat of our rented Buick. 

Because the hotels were all full or outrageously expensive, I was left with no choice but to continue driving down the highway when I should have been sleeping.  To keep me awake as I drove through New York City, my wife Helje told me about a vivid dream she had had a week earlier, the night before we had left our home near Chicago. 

I had heard parts of Helje's strange dream when she had first told it to our children in the backseat of the car as we set out across Indiana for Washington, D.C.  Now, to help keep me awake on the busy highways of New York City, she told me her dream from the week before. 

In the dream we were driving toward a city with a skyline of densely packed skyscrapers when a large airplane flew right at our car and dove into the road about 50 meters in front of us.  She turned and saw the plane emerge from the ground behind us and another plane coming at us from another angle.  This was a strange dream in which she felt that our family had been under attack. 

Helje's dream turned out to be an eerie and uncanny premonition of what was to happen in the skies of New York Cityless than eight hours later. 

It was about 3 a.m. on September 11 when we finally found an affordable hotel room just inside the state of Maryland on Interstate 95.  The kids woke up and jumped on the beds and then we all fell asleep about a half-hour later. 

I woke up about 8:30 a.m. and went down to the lobby for a cup of coffee.  The television was on in the breakfast area reporting that a plane had struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan.  I grabbed some pastries and coffee and hurried back to the room and turned the television to the news channel. 

The children and I went to get more donuts and coffee and were on our way back to the room when the second plane hit the South Tower.  Helje had seen it happen live on television.  We were shocked by the events and realized that Americawas under attack.  I immediately called my office in Washington, D.C. and told my boss that kamikaze airplanes had hit the World Trade Center.  He thought I was joking.  I said I wouldn't joke about such a thing and told him to turn on the radio.  I called the office again after the Pentagon was hit and said we would not be coming to Washington but were heading home to Chicago.  Having no idea what would happen next, I thought it would be best to take the country roads and stay away from big cities.           

We drove through rural Lancaster County past Amish farmers harvesting a very tall corn crop.  I stopped and walked into the fields to ask some of the German-speaking farmers if they knew what had happened in New York City.  They said they had not heard anything about it and carried on working with their horse-drawn harvester. 

Our route from Pennsylvania to Chicago took us near the site in Shanksville where Flight 93 supposedly crashed, but I had no desire to go to the scene of the disaster.  We stopped for lunch in a small town.  The diner was full of people but nobody was talking.  The people sat quietly, as if mesmerized, listening to the news on the radio.           

INDICATIONS OF ISRAELI INVOLVEMENT 

We listened to the radio as we drove across Pennsylvania.  It was a beautiful sunny day with a bright blue sky.  About noon I heard a news report that five "Middle Eastern" men had been seen in New Jersey videotaping and celebrating the destruction of the World Trade Center. 

"They're probably Israelis," I told Helje.  For millions of Americans who automatically associate "Middle Eastern" with Arab, this news report planted the idea in their minds that Arabs from the Middle East were behind the terror attacks on New York and Washington. 

This line of thinking quickly became the media's only acceptable version of events and although it has still not been proven, it has become the official version of 9-11. 

The first indication that the attack on the World Trade Center was an elaborate "false flag" operation came with the arrest of the five men on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. These men, described as "Middle Eastern" in the first media reports, were later identified as Israelis.  A false flag operation is a crime which is designed and carried out so that another party or nation is blamed.

That the five jubilant Middle Eastern men, who had photographed themselves smiling and celebrating with the burning World Trade Center in the background, were indeed Israelis (namely Sivan and Paul Kurzberg, Oded Ellner, Omer Marmari, and Yaron Schmuel) and that two of them were known to U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies as agents of Israeli intelligence, was ignored by the mass media. 

The men had been observed taking video or photos of themselves with the World Trade Center burning in the background.  Sivan Kurzberg told the police that the men had been driving in their van in the immediate vicinity of the towers that morning.  He was photographed flicking a lighter with the burning towers behind him. 

A woman who had observed the jubilant Israelis said she was struck by the expressions on the men's faces. "They were like happy, you know," she said.  "They didn't look shocked to me. I thought it was very strange." 

When they were arrested, Sivan, the driver of the van, told the police, "We are Israeli. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are the problem." 

The story of the five men celebrating the destruction of the Twin Towers was dropped from the national news when it became known that they were not Arabs or Muslims from the Middle East, but Jews from Israel. 

The noteworthy fact that these men, who clearly had prior knowledge of the attacks, were in fact Israelis, and that they had been arrested at gunpoint with box cutter knives, multiple passports, and thousands of dollars in cash in a van that tested positive for explosives was only reported by Paolo Lima in a local New Jersey newspaper, the Bergen Record, the following day. 

This important and timely information, however, was completely ignored by the New York Times and the other national mass media outlets based across the river in New York City. 

I discussed the pertinent details with Lima by phone, and this important and suppressed story became the subject of my first article about 9-11.  I realized then, during the first week after 9-11, that the mainstream news media was ignoring and covering up important information and evidence about the terrorist attacks. 

There would be, for example, no reporting in the mainstream media of Israeli involvement or prior knowledge of the attacks.  And this was just the beginning of the censorship the controlled media was to impose on the events of 9-11. 

The possibility that these men could be Israeli intelligence agents involved in a spectacular "false flag" terror attack was discussed in my article that went to print in the American Free Press on September 20, 2001.  It was the only newspaper in the United States where such thoughts could openly be expressed. 

Months later, Forward, a well known New York-based Jewish newspaper, confirmed that Urban Moving Systems, the Weehawken, New Jersey-based "moving" company that the men worked for, was actually an Israeli intelligence front operation and that at least two of the men, evidently the Kurzberg brothers, were known agents of Mossad, Israel's military intelligence agency. 

Dominic Suter, the Israeli "owner" of the company and a prime suspect, was somehow allowed to flee to Israel after the Federal Bureau of Investigation had initially interviewed him, but before they could interrogate him a second time.  He has not been extradited to the United States since. 

After being held for 10 weeks, the five Israelis were sent back to Israel on visa violations.  Ellner, Marmari, and Schmuel appeared on an Israeli television show, without the Kurzberg brothers, in November 2001.

The three sheepish and suspiciously guilty looking young men admitted on Israeli television that they had prior knowledge of the terror attacks that changed America – and the world. "The fact of the matter is that we come from a country that experiences terror daily," Oded Ellner (center) said.  "Our purpose was to document the event."  The obvious question, "And who gave you that task?" was not asked, at least not openly. 

One would think that such a revealing public admission by a suspect, claiming prior knowledge of the terror attack and saying that his purpose "was to document the event" would be extremely newsworthy information in the United States. 

Sadly, this was not the case.  Rather than discuss the evidence, the mainstream media has constructed and defended an unproven version of events in which the blame is assigned to nineteen Arabs with ties to Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaida. 

Indications of Israeli involvement in 9-11 were conspicuous from the beginning. Benjamin Netanyahu, the former Israeli prime minister and leader of the right wing Likud Party, actually said that he viewed 9-11 as a positive development. On the day of the attacks, Netanyahu was interviewed by James Bennet of the New York Times: 

Asked tonight what the attack meant for relations between the United States and Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister, replied, "It's very good." Then he edited himself:  "Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy." 

Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Ehud Olmert are Israeli politicians from the extreme right-wing Likud party, which grew out of the Zionist terror organization, the Irgun.  Olmert, then mayor of Jerusalem, made a secret visit to New York City the day before the terror attacks.  Asked what the attacks meant for U.S.-Israeli relations, Netanyahu said, "It's very good."

Netanyahu predicted that the attack would "strengthen the bond between our two peoples, because we've experienced terror of so many decades, but the United States has now experienced a massive hemorrhaging of terror." 

Prior knowledge of the 9-11 attacks clearly indicates complicity in the murder of some 3,000 people. 

Journalists like me, who challenge the official version with evidence and facts are marginalized as "conspiracy nuts."  I have been portrayed as an anti-Semitic writer by the leading media networks simply because I dare to investigate the evidence of Israeli involvement in the terror attacks. 

The level of the personal attacks against me increased dramatically in August 2006, when a police assault by three unidentified heavily-armed men resulted in my right elbow being fractured and my being unjustifiably shocked with 50,000 volts from a police device known as a TASER.  This outrageous and illegal assault occurred at my home in front of my wife and eight-year-old daughter. 

I was taken to jail and subsequently charged by the police with resisting arrest and aggravated assault, both misdemeanor charges.  In the Chicago system nearly everyone in such a situation is forced to plead guilty and accept the sentence meted out by the judge.  I refused to plead guilty, however, and spent nearly one year trying to defend myself against the baseless charges and malicious prosecution.  In early June 2007, I was found guilty of both misdemeanors after a seriously flawed four-day-trial in which the police were allowed to destroy the video evidence and then lied on the stand.  My expert witness and evidence were not allowed to be presented by the Cook County judge, Hyman Riebman, a Zionist Jew.  Having seen that there was no way to obtain justice in the corrupt court system, I was compelled to leave Chicago with my family before the date of sentencing.  It would have been irresponsible for me to allow this criminal system to cause more harm to me and my family than it already had.

ODIGO WARNINGS 

In the first days and weeks after 9-11, I paid very close attention to the large number of Israeli terror suspects arrested, which was more than two hundred by November 2001, and investigated the published reports that an Israeli instant text message service had been used to warn Israelis of the attacks in New York, hours before they occurred.  Many Israelis were evidently forewarned of the attacks through an Israeli instant messaging service called Odigo. This story, which presents the clearest evidence of Israeli prior knowledge of the attacks, was reported only very briefly in the U.S. media – and then forgotten. 

According to the published reports, Israel-based employees of Odigo reported having received warnings of an imminent attack at the World Trade Center hours before the first plane hit the north tower.  Odigo, an Israeli-owned company, had its U.S. headquarters two blocks from the World Trade Center, but the forewarned Odigo employees did not pass the terror warning on to the authorities in New York, an act that would have saved thousands of lives. 

Two weeks after 9-11, Alex Diamandis, Odigo's vice president, said, "The messages said something big was going to happen in a certain amount of time, and it did – almost to the minute."  "It was possible that the attack warning was broadcast to other Odigo members, but the company has not received reports of other recipients of the message," Diamandis said.  Four thousand Israelis were expected to have been working at the World Trade Center on 9-11, yet only one was reported to have died at the complex.  Based on the Israeli government figure that 4,000 Israelis were expected to have been at the World Trade Center at the time of the attacks, it seems evident that many Israeli Odigo users got the message of warning. 

Odigo, which offers real-time messaging, has a feature called "People Finder" which allows a user to send an instant message to a large group based on a common characteristic, such as Israeli nationality.  "People Finder" allows Odigo users to search for online "buddies," with filters like Israeli nationality, while maintaining user privacy at all times.  The message was probably sent in Hebrew.  The Internet address of the sender of the warning was allegedly given to the FBI.  Two months later it was reported that the FBI was still investigating the matter. Since then there have been no further media reports about the Odigo warning of 9/11. 

These two news stories about the fake Israeli "movers" and the Odigo messages, which clearly indicated that some Israelis had very specific prior knowledge of the attacks, were published in American and Israeli newspapers shortly after 9-11.  Had the recipients of these Odigo instant messages contacted the New York police department, thousands of lives could have been saved.  The question that has not been asked is, why didn't they? 

CUI BONO? 

There were several early indicators that Israelis were involved in 9-11 and that it was a spectacular "false flag" terror attack designed to serve as a casus belli to drag the United States into the "War on Terror."  Apart from the previously mentioned evidence of Israeli prior knowledge, there were also the amazingly insensitive comments of Netanyahu about 9-11 being "very good" in his view. 

Netanyahu, it should be noted, is the author of several books which call for the western nations to engage in a global "War on Terror."  Since 1986, Netanyahu has urged the United States and western democracies to take up arms against the enemies of Israel in the name of "fighting terrorism," which is the title of one of his books.  The "terrorists" that Netanyahu wants the West to wage war on, however, all happen to be the people and states opposed to Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian land. 

I approached the 9-11 investigation with a twenty-five year history of having lived in and followed the events of theMiddle East.  After many years of traveling in Europe and the Middle East, I obtained a degree in History from theUniversity of California at Santa Cruz in 1992.  My academic emphasis was on Palestine and Israel.  After the first U.S. war against Iraq, which I was actively opposed to, I spent my final year of university training researching the Soviet occupation of the newly liberated Baltic republics and completing my courses at the University of Bergen in Norway. 

Fate brought me into the proximity of another mass disaster on the morning of September 28, 1994, when I arrived by ship in Sweden and learned that the Baltic ferry named Estonia had sunk during the night with 852 victims lost at sea.  My wife's first husband, a famous Estonian singer named Urmas Alender, was among the missing.  While it was abundantly clear that something much more explosive than a "monster wave" had sunk the ferry, the Swedish government and media pretended that natural forces had caused the catastrophe.  In the process of investigating what happened in the ferry disaster, I came to realize that a modern "democratic" state, like Sweden, could actually be complicit in the cover-up of the mass murder of hundreds of its own citizens. 

When in the year 2000, I began working as a journalist for the Washington-based Spotlight, later to become theAmerican Free Press, I turned my attention to the mysterious 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New York.  I attended the final sessions of the government agency (NTSB) involved in investigating the "crash" of Flight 800 and was appalled at the obvious cover-up of the facts.  I watched how three Jewish members of the board completely dominated the NTSB final sessions and how the testimonies of more than 100 eyewitnesses, who had testified to having seen a streaking object hitting the aircraft in flight, were categorically dismissed because, according to a young Jewish member of the board, based on the time of the observations, all of the witnesses must have been drunk and hallucinating.  After the two-day presentation of the NTSB findings there was no press conference or session allowing for questions from the media or public.  This was clearly another cover-up. 

I had also studied the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty and seen how the U.S. government and military had covered up the truth of the Israeli military attack on the unarmed Navy vessel off the coast of Egypt in 1967.  With this background I approached the events of 9-11.  Well aware of the history of false-flag terror, the overwhelming Zionist influence in government and media, and dishonest official investigations into recent mass disasters, I was a natural skeptic from the start. 

EVIDENCE OF EXPLOSIONS IGNORED 

The administration of George W. Bush rushed the nation and its allies into war in Afghanistan within one month of the 9-11 attacks using the unsolved crime as the casus belli for an overt act of aggression that had been planned long before.  The war against the government of Afghanistan, called Operation Enduring Freedom by the government and military, began on Oct. 7, 2001. 

The week before the war began I wrote an article about the immense oil and gas reserves of the Caspian Basin and the new "Great Game" to gain control of these valuable energy resources.  I also wrote several articles about the long-standing business and personal ties between George W. Bush and the Bin Laden family.  One month after 9-11, I wrote about how the mass media was ignoring the large number of eyewitness accounts describing explosions at the WorldTrade Center before the collapse of the Twin Towers and Building 7. 

"Despite reports from numerous eyewitnesses and experts, including news reporters on the scene, who heard or saw explosions immediately before the collapse of the World Trade Center, there has been a virtual silence in the mainstream media," I wrote in the article titled "Some Survivors Say 'Bombs Exploded Inside WTC.'" 

"After the airplanes hit the World Trade Center there were some explosive devices inside the buildings that caused the towers to collapse," Van Romero, an explosives expert and former director of the Energetic Materials Research andTesting Center at New Mexico Tech, told the Albuquerque Journal minutes after the collapses.  The collapse of the structures resembled controlled implosions used to demolish old structures and was "too methodical to be a chance result of airplanes colliding with the structures," Romero said.  Coming from a man who is an expert in the effects of explosives on structures, Romero's comments carried a lot of weight in my opinion. 

"It would be difficult for something from the plane to trigger an event like that," Romero said. If explosions did cause the towers to collapse, "It could have been a relatively small amount of explosives placed in strategic points." 

"One of the things terrorist events are noted for is a diversionary attack and secondary device," he said.  Then suddenly, ten days after the attack, without any explanation, Romero did a complete about-face in his analysis of the collapse. "Certainly the fire is what caused the building to fail," he told the Albuquerque Journal on September 21. 

A friend of mine from Brooklyn told me that he had been standing among a crowd of people on Church Street, about two blocks from the South Tower (WTC 2), when he saw "a number of brief light sources being emitted from inside the building between floors 10 and 15." He saw about six of these brief flashes, accompanied by "a crackling sound" immediately before the tower collapsed. 

Even a veteran 51-year-old fire fighter, Louie Cacchioli, told People magazine that he had witnessed explosions in theSouth Tower: "I was taking firefighters up in the elevator to the 24th floor to get in position to evacuate workers. On the last trip up a bomb went off. We think there were bombs set in the building." 

What is most peculiar about the eyewitness reports of explosions was that they were completely ignored by the mainstream news media, even when the reports came from their own reporters on the scene.  Stephen Evans of the BBC, for example, was in the South Tower where he witnessed "a series of explosions" and felt a "big explosion, from much, much lower."  Yet the BBC, like the rest of the mainstream media failed to investigate or even discuss the evidence of explosions in the towers.

How did the editors of the mass media networks in the United States and Britain make the decision not to discuss the evidence of explosions even when the information came from their own reporters on the scene?  Eyewitness reports and images of explosions were broadcast only once and then swept under the carpet.  It soon became quite clear that the mass media was censoring any discussion of the evidence of explosions in the World Trade Center. 

Within a few weeks I realized that the media and government were working together to deceive the public about what really had happened on 9-11 and that there was a conspiracy to promote a false version of events in order to gain public support for a previously planned war policy in the Middle East.  The mass media engaged in a comprehensive propaganda campaign to instill fear in the public.  My family and I decided that it would be safer and more sane to live in Europe, so at the end of November, after the Thanksgiving holiday, we flew to Germany.

DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE 

In Germany, I had the opportunity to interview Andreas von Bülow near Köln.  Von Bülow, an author and former member of the Bundestag (the German parliament) served on the parliamentary commission which oversees the three branches of the German secret service.  Von Bülow said he thought Israel's intelligence service, Mossad, was behind the 9-11 attacks. These attacks, he said, were carried out to turn public opinion against the Arabs and boost military and security spending. 

"You don't get the higher echelons," von Bülow said, referring to the "architectural structure" which masterminds such terror attacks. At this level, he said, the organization doing the planning, such as Mossad, is primarily interested in affecting public opinion.  The terrorists who actually commit the crimes are what von Bülow calls "the working level," such as the nineteen Arabs who allegedly hijacked the planes on September 11.  "The working level is part of the deception," he said. 

"Ninety-five percent of the work of the intelligence agencies around the world is deception and disinformation," he said, which is widely propagated in the mainstream media creating an accepted version of events.  "Journalists don't even raise the simplest questions," he said.  "Those who differ are labeled as crazy." 

Eckehardt Werthebach, the former president of the Verfassungsschutz (a branch of German intelligence), told me that "the deathly precision" and "the magnitude of planning" behind the attacks would have needed "years of planning."  Such a sophisticated operation, Werthebach said, required the "fixed frame" of a state intelligence organization, something not found in a "loose group" of terrorists.  Both Werthebach and von Bülow said the lack of a complete "blue ribbon" investigation, with congressional hearings, into the events of September 11 was incomprehensible.  These men made more sense to me than anyone in the U.S. government or media. 

As incomprehensible as it might seem, the Bush administration delayed and avoided an official investigation for as long as possible – at least until all of the evidence was destroyed.  The steel from the World Trade Center was quickly shipped to Asia where it was melted down.  The evidence from the crime scene was being destroyed as quickly as possible.  This was clearly criminal, yet the highest authorities in the U.S. government and the Department of Justice were allowing it to happen. 

MOLTEN METAL 

I consider 9-11 to be an unsolved crime and have done what I could to investigate the crime using the available evidence.  In the summer of 2002, for example, I wrote an article about the seismic data that showed unexplained spikes occurring at the beginning of each collapse. 

In my research into the removal of the rubble, I learned from one of the contractors and a demolition expert that molten metal had been discovered at the bottom of the rubble pile in the lower basement levels.  This molten metal was described to me as "molten steel" by Peter Tully, president of Tully Construction of Flushing, New York, and Mark Loizeaux, president of Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) of Phoenix, Maryland. 

The molten steel was found "three, four, and five weeks later, when the rubble was being removed," Loizeaux said. He said molten steel was also found at WTC 7, the 47-story building owned by Larry Silverstein, which collapsed mysteriously in the late afternoon.  Loizeaux said, "If I were to bring the towers down, I would put explosives in the basement to get the weight of the building to help collapse the structure." 

The molten metal found beneath the rubble was clearly important evidence that could explain how the towers were brought down.  Because each tower was held up by 47 huge box core columns, there had to be an explanation for what caused these columns to fall.  The official explanation that fires had caused the floor trusses to give way failed to explain what happened to the core columns.  To explain the extremely quick collapse of the core columns, the seismic spikes and molten metal seemed to be very important clues. 

Steven E. Jones, a professor of physics at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Utah, contacted me in the summer of 2005 and asked me what I had learned about the discovery of molten metal at the World Trade Center.  I told Jones exactly what Peter Tully and Mark Loizeaux had said about the discovery of molten iron in the basements of the Twin Towersand Building 7.  After studying the reports and photographs of molten metal, Jones had been able to obtain some fragments of the metal.  He concluded that the fragments were primarily iron and possible evidence that Thermite had been used to demolish the buildings. 

The author and Professor Steven E. Jones discuss the evidence of thermite in May 2006.

Encouraged by his research, I visited Professor Jones on the campus of Brigham Young University in the spring of 2006.  From Provo, Utah, I then traveled by train to the University of California at Davis where I met with Professor Thomas A. Cahill, an expert on airborne particles.  Dr. Cahill had conducted a study of the particles contained in the thin bluish smoke that rose from the rubble for nearly four months after 9-11.  Cahill's air sampling began on October 2, 2001 and continued until late December, after the last fires were finally extinguished. 

Asked why it took so long to begin a scientific evaluation of the air contamination that accompanied the destruction of the WTC, Dr. Cahill said he had assumed that there were scores of agencies and scientists monitoring the air quality inNew York City after 9-11.  "I assumed it was happening. I could not believe it was not," Cahill said. "The EPA did nothing." 

Cahill's work revealed the presence of extremely small metallic aerosols in unprecedented amounts in the plumes coming from the burning WTC rubble. Most of the particles in these plumes were in the categories of ultra-fine and nano-particles: from 0.26 to 0.09 microns.  The extraordinarily high level of ultra-fine aerosols was one of the most unusual aspects of the data, Cahill said.  "Ultra-fine particles require extremely high temperatures," he said, "namely the boiling point of the metal." 

Since the scientific data supports the theory that some form of Thermite was used to destroy the towers, the question is how it got onto the 81st floor of the south tower, where large amounts of molten metal were seen falling before the collapse?

Molten iron pours out of South Tower about one minute before the tower disintegrated. 

The official final report of the fires does not explain what was on the 81st floor, which seems odd because this is the floor, leased by Fuji Bank, into which the airplane crashed.  A former employee of the bank came forward and told me that the bank had reinforced the floor in 1999 to support a very heavy load of computer back-up batteries.  "The whole floor was batteries," he said, "huge battery-looking things."  They were "all black" and "solid, very heavy" things, which had been brought in during the night.  They had been put in place during the summer prior to 9-11, he said.  But were they really batteries? "It's weird," he said.  "They were never turned on." 

So, what really was on the 81st floor of WTC 2?  What was in these heavy "battery-looking things?"  Were they batteries, or were they Thermite?  And is it more than a coincidence that both planes flew directly into secure computer rooms in both towers and that both spectacular explosions showed evidence of Thermate-produced white smoke? 

THE COVER-UP CONTINUES 

Despite the legal difficulties, slander, criticism, and other setbacks, I have continued to examine the evidence from 9-11 and ask the questions that demand to be answered.  The wasted lives of the thousands of victims from the terror attacks and the illegal wars that have been waged in the name of 9-11 deserve to be honored with the truth, not a pack of lies pushed by the controlled media onto a gullible public. 

It would be naïve and foolish for us to expect the truth from a government that has been shown to have repeatedly lied to the media and international community in order to accomplish its dubious goals. The truth of 9-11 will certainly not be given to us on a silver platter.  It is something we will have to fight for. 

Finis

This chapter was originally written in February 2007 for ZeitenSchrift, a Swiss magazine. 

Benjamin Netanyahu quote from New York Times article "Spilled Blood is Seen as Bond That Draws 2 Nations Closer," by James Bennet, September 12, 2001

Edited – May 24, 2009;
Final Edit – August 8, 2009
Latest Correction - February 9, 2010

 Chapter II

The Planes of 9-11

A little-known and privately-held aircraft leasing company created by the Israeli military intelligence is connected to the Mossad-run airport security and passenger screening company at the center of the "false flag" terror network of 9-11. 

I am not like those who claimed to be 9-11 researchers, but who now say they have "moved beyond 9-11." How can anyone abandon the pursuit of the truth about 9-11 before the crime has been solved?  More than eight years after the terrorist attacks in which some 3,000 innocent people died, not one victim's lawsuit has yet gone to trial. As a nation, Americans can not allow 9-11 to go unsolved. 

How can we forget the hundreds of people who were roasted alive in the burning twin towers? How can we ignore the death and destruction that we, as a result, have wrongfully inflicted on the innocent people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Palestine?  Who can accept an irresponsible administration dragging our military from one illegal war to another in the utterly fraudulent "war on terror," which the Bush administration promised will last for generations? 

Vice President Dick Cheney said the U.S. must be prepared to fight the "War on Terror" for decades. 

If we, as Americans, don't demand the truth about 9-11, who and what do we really stand for?  Everything this administration has done for the past six years has been based on an unproven interpretation of the events of 9-11.  What does it mean to be a citizen of "the land of the free and the home of the brave" if we allow our minds and our nation to be so easily hijacked by government lies and propaganda?  During the past few months, I have redoubled my efforts to solve 9-11. As the cover-up becomes more obvious and the guilty parties reveal themselves, this is the time to intensify the pressure, not give up. 

ZIONIST ZEITGEIST  

I cannot abide mass murder, occupation, and genocidal wars of aggression. Nor can I accept the corruption of our values and destruction of our basic American rights to suit an artificially imposed "War on Terror."  With the passage of time, it is now clear that 9-11 was carried out in order to kick-start the perverse Zionist Zeitgeist called the "War on Terror" with its pre-planned wars of aggression, conquest, and occupation. 

 
Guantanamo - An affront to American values 

In December 2001, veteran German intelligence professionals told me that 9-11 had been executed by a state-sponsored criminal network and had required years of planning.  Eckehardt Werthebach, the former president of Germany's domestic intelligence service, Verfassungsschutz, told me in 2001 that "the deathly precision" and "the magnitude of planning" of the 9-11 attacks would have required "years of planning."  Such a sophisticated operation, Werthebach said, would require the "fixed frame" of a state intelligence organization, something not found in a "loose group" like the one allegedly led by Mohammed Atta while he studied in Hamburg. 

If Werthebach's analysis is correct, and I have every reason to believe it is, the official version is nothing but a pack of lies. This would mean that the members of the criminal network are still in the highest positions of power in the U.S., Israel, and other nations.  The members of this network are dedicated to preventing the evidence from being released because it would expose the real perpetrators. This is the only logical reason why the 9-11 evidence has been suppressed, the investigation controlled, and the litigation and discovery processes obstructed. 

At this point, it should be clear that 9-11 will never be solved by the federal government, politically appointed investigators, law enforcement agencies, or the corrupt courts.  These controlled agencies, like the Zionist-controlled media, are only interested in controlling the information and preventing the real truth from being revealed.  This crime will only be solved by concerned and dedicated independent researchers.

THE ZIONIST STRATEGY 

9-11 was a very sophisticated operation, as Werthebach said, which required the "fixed frame" of a state intelligence organization. It was carefully planned years in advance and carried out for one strategic purpose: to kick-start the Zionist-planned "War on Terror." 

The rabid neo-con Zionists who have dominated the Bush administration pushed the "War on Terror" with its criminal wars of aggression, occupation, and Balkanization in the Middle East as the strategic response to 9-11. The Zionist media moguls, who dominate the U.S. mass media, have in turn pushed the "war on terror" into the public mind as the suitable and proper response to the attacks, which they have refused to investigate. 

An Israeli official named Oded Yinon revealed the Zionist strategy to Balkanize the entire Middle East into ethnic mini-states in the early 1980s. The plan for a global "War on Terror" to accomplish this goal has been articulated since the mid-1980s ad nauseam by Benjamin Netanyahu, the former Israeli prime minister of the extreme right-wing Likud party. The Israeli military's plans to realize these strategic goals have obviously been in the works for at least three decades.

THE HOAX OF 9-11 

9-11 is, in fact, a gigantic hoax. Only by exposing the terrorist masterminds behind 9-11 will we reveal the criminals behind the fraudulent "War on Terror" and the epidemic of "false flag" terrorism that plagues the world.  False flag terrorism is a crime designed and committed by the architects with the intention of having it blamed on another faction, state, or organization. The media outlets, which the criminals control, facilitate the blame game by repeating the chorus as if from a script and stifling any independent investigation or analysis of the crime. 

9-11, after all, remains an unsolved crime.  It is, however, quite obvious who is responsible for blocking discovery and obstructing justice for the victims and their relatives.  At every critical point where the events and circumstances of 9-11 should have been investigated and discussed, there has been a Zionist, a dedicated devotee of the State of Israel, occupying the key position and acting as the controller and censor of evidence - the gatekeeper of information. 

I have seen this pattern in earlier cover-ups. The same pattern was used with the sinking of Estonia in the Baltic Sea (1994) and theU.S. government's (NTSB) investigation of the downing of TWA Flight 800, two of the most egregious examples of government cover-ups in modern times.  In each case, the three critical phases of the cover-up: investigation and access to evidence, media interpretation of the event, and related litigation, were all tightly controlled to prevent any meaningful discovery of what had really caused the disaster.

Bernard S. Loeb, Director of Aviation Safety at the NTSB, summarized the TWA 800 investigation: "We cannot be certain that this, in fact, occurred, but of all the ignition scenarios we considered, this scenario is the most likely." 

The people who are preventing the discovery of the facts in such cases are actually complicit in covering-up crimes of mass murder.  Logically, there can be no reason for dedicated Zionists to obstruct the investigation of 9-11 other than to conceal the evidence of Israeli and Zionist involvement in the crimes. 

Michael Chertoff, then Asst. Attorney General, oversaw the non-investigation of 9-11 and destruction of the steel from the World Trade Center - crucial evidence.  Chertoff went on to head the Department of Homeland Security, where he continued to control access to the evidence through the Sensitive Security Information (SSI) program. 

The FBI, for example, under the command of the Israeli dual-national Michael Chertoff, is responsible for the confiscation of the crucial evidence from 9-11, evidence which has been withheld to this day.  This evidence includes video tapes of the Pentagon attack and physical pieces from the different aircraft involved.  This evidence is critical to prove what happened and which aircraft were involved in the attacks - but the FBI has refused to release this evidence. Neither President George W. Bush nor the U.S. Congress has demanded that they do so.  The destruction and suppression of crucial evidence from 9-11 and the lack of a real investigation indicate that a culture of corruption and lack of transparency exist at all levels of government. 

The appointed federal judges Alvin K. Hellerstein and Michael B. Mukasey, and the former assistant attorney general Michael Chertoff, who now heads Homeland Security, have not worked since 9-11 to hide the critical evidence and block discovery in order to protect fanatical Arab Muslims or conspiratorial Jesuits. The efforts of these dedicated Zionists have been exerted to protect Israel, the foreign state to which they are wholeheartedly devoted.

U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein controls the 9-11 tort litigation in which not one single case has gone to trial.  Hellerstein has close family ties to Israel. 

The 9-11 cover-up is now full-blown, and the Zionist role in this charade is obvious.  The players who are involved in obstructing justice are known.  At this point, patriotic Americans must not abandon the pursuit of the truth.  For those who died on 9-11 and in its aftermath, for our nation, and our posterity, we are obliged to find those who are responsible for the crimes and cover-up of 9-11.

THE EVIDENCE OF ISRAELI INVOLVEMENT 

I have pursued the leads of Israeli involvement simply because the evidence indicates that the Israeli military and intelligence had prior knowledge and involvement in 9-11.  The five jubilant Israeli Mossad agents who were caught celebrating and filming themselves in front of the destruction of the World Trade Center, and their subsequent public statements, clearly indicate that the Mossad had prior knowledge of 9-11.

Three of the Israeli agents arrested on 9-11 appeared on Israeli television in November 2001 and admitted that their mission had been to document the 9-11 attacks.

The text message warnings of the attacks sent over the Mossad-controlled Odigo instant messaging system several hours prior to the attacks are further evidence of Israeli prior knowledge.  Furthermore, the Israelis have a long history of committing "false flag" terror attacks, particularly against American targets. The Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967 and the Israeli terrorist bombings of U.S. and British civilian targets in Egypt during the 1954 Lavon Affair are the first that come to mind.  

The USS Liberty after the Israeli attack that killed 34 U.S. servicemen and wounded 171.  "The [Israeli] ground control station ordered the aircraft to attack and sink the target and ensure they left no survivors," Steve Forslund, a former USAF intelligence analyst told the Chicago Tribune. 

If the evidence indicated that Saudis, Pakistanis, or even Jesuits were behind the attacks, I would investigate them. The evidence, however, points to Israelis being involved - so I look there.  There has been no independent investigation of 9-11 done by the controlled media other than Carl Cameron's now deeply-buried four-part series on FOX News in December 2001. Think about this for a minute. The mass media in the land of the "free press" has not done any independent investigation about the crime of the century. 

The evidence of Israeli involvement in 9-11 is too obvious, so senior editors in the controlled media don't let their journalists even approach the subject. The journalists of the "free press" in the United States are, unfortunately, confined to the same "Auschwitz of the Mind" as the American public they write for. They know very well that to touch the subject of Israeli involvement in 9-11 would be like touching a live wire.  Likewise, when it comes to tracking the Israeli criminal network that has operated in the United Statesfor decades, the U.S. media is simply a dog that won't bark - or hunt. 

The extent of Zionist control over the U.S. mass media, including the Internet, is astounding.  The mass media has effectively prevented most Americans from understanding who is really behind the false flag terror attacks of 9-11, and, by extension, the illegal and genocidal wars in Afghanistan, Palestine, Lebanon, and Iraq.  The controlled media has also left Americans with an extremely distorted view of the Middle East, Zionism, and the history of the Zionist state, Israel. 

 
Jews from Eastern Europe created an empire of their own in Hollywood in the early 1900s and have influenced how Americans see the world ever since. 

ISRAEL - A TERRORIST STATE 

Israel is a nation which was founded by terrorists, ruthless men with histories of committing genocidal crimes and false flag terror attacks.  Israel was created in 1948 in Palestine on land that had been "ethnically cleansed" of its indigenous Christian and Muslim inhabitants. 

Ariel Sharon, the former prime minister who has been in a coma since January 4, 2006, is a prime example of an Israeli terrorist. Sharon came to power in early 2001, about the same time as George W. Bush, some eight months before 9-11.  Sharon is a well-known terrorist and génocidaire, i.e. a person who has been involved in genocide.  

Sharon has supervised numerous terrorist atrocities, such as the 1982 massacre in Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, in which thousands of innocent people were massacred. Sharon is a Zionist extremist who believes that every Jew should live in Israeli-occupied Palestine.  Realistically, what else besides terrorism and bloodshed should one expect from such fanatical and genocidal terrorists?

Ariel "Arik" Sharon (smiling on left) with Moshe Dayan and members of his notorious "anti-terror" Unit 101 (1953-56) which committed a number of atrocities such as the Qibya Massacre of October 1953 in which 69 Palestinians were killed, many whose houses were blown up over their heads. Forty-five houses, a school, and a mosque were destroyed.  Sharon, a well known terrorist, became Israel's prime minister in 2001. 

The sons and daughters of the original Zionist terrorists have occupied the highest positions of power in the Israeli government. Tzipora Malka "Tzipi" Livni, for example, the foreign minister (2006-09), is the daughter of the former terror chief of the Irgun.  Born in Tel Aviv in July 1958, "Tzipi" is the daughter of Eitan Livni (born Yerucham Bzozowitch in Grodno) a Polish-born Irgun terrorist associated with the King David Hotel bombing. 

Steven Erlanger, in a New York Times article about Livni entitled "Israel's Top Envoy," dated February 5, 2006, wrote: 

Tzipi Livni, 47, is the first woman to serve as Israel's foreign minister since Golda Meir. Some think she may be the first since Ms. Meir to be prime minister. 

She is also a deeply Israeli figure, the daughter of Zionist guerrillas - terrorists in some eyes - who met in the Irgun, the underground organization that fought the British and the Arabs, and that blew up the British headquarters in the King DavidHotel in 1946, killing 91 people. 

Her father, Eitan, was the Irgun's head of operations, and on his gravestone is the map of Greater Israel, extending over both sides of the Jordan River.  Erlanger suggests that blowing up a hotel full of people in Jerusalem and killing 91 people is only a terrorist act "in some eyes."

Eitan Livni (born Yerucham Bzozowitch in Grodno, 1919) was head of operations for the Irgun.  Livni was part of the Irgun mission sent to Britain in the 1940s to kill British political and military leaders. 

The fact that the Israeli political leadership and military command decided to launch a vicious attack on a defenseless U.S. reconnaissance ship, the USS Liberty, off the coast of Gaza and kill every man on board illustrates that the Israelis are fully capable of committing such atrocities in their attempts to blame their enemies and achieve their strategic goals.  Dedicated Zionists will either deny or defend these acts of Israeli false flag terrorism as the "pragmatic" thing to do and attack those who disagree as anti-Semitic.

FALSE FLAG TERROR - AN ISRAELI SPECIALTY 

The Zionist-controlled media has refused to conduct its own investigation of 9-11, the crime of the century.  Controlled news outlets like the New York Times promoted the "War on Terror" and pushed the illegal war of aggression against Iraq, with propaganda and false reports about weapons of mass destruction provided by Judith Miller.

False flag terror acts are an Israeli specialty, as Dr. Kaasem Khaleel points out in his book Wrongly Blamed (2007).  "Public terror was invented by the Israelis," Khaleel wrote citing Christopher Sykes' book Crossroads to Israel: 

To achieve their political goals, Zionists are dependent on terror. These terror acts are used as a distraction. Even though the Israelis are the sources, they effectively blame others.  The fabricated terror they commit is an assault on people's intelligence.  Thus people are being purposely misled regarding the real source of these crimes. 

The Zionist-controlled media has purposely misled the public about 9-11 for the same reason as the Zionist judges, investigators, and commissioners:  to protect the evidence of Israeli involvement from being exposed.

Judith Miller of the New York Times lied about weapons of mass destruction in order to build public opinion for the pre-planned Zionist war of aggression against Iraq. 

Deception comes naturally to Judith Miller.  She is the daughter of William Miller, a Jew from Pinsk, Russia.  Bill Miller was a New Jersey nightclub owner who later made it big as entertainment director of the Sahara, Dunes, Flamingo, and International hotels inLas Vegas. 

The controlled U.S. media works with the Zionist criminal network and allows it to flourish by failing to investigate, identify, or report on the companies and individuals involved.

THE PLANES OF 9-11 

9-11 was an act of false flag terror in which four allegedly "hijacked" airplanes were used as weapons of mass destruction. There are, however, many unanswered questions about the airplanes involved.  There are many observations about these planes which suggest they were not the civilian airliners they are said to have been. The plane that struck the SouthTower, for example, had unusual shapes, bulges, and holes, which have led many analysts to believe it was a Boeing 767-300 refueling tanker that had been disguised as a 767-200 United Airlines passenger jet.

Images of the plane that struck the South Tower

Durable parts from the two jets that struck the twin towers, such as landing gear and engines, landed on the streets of Manhattan. On these engines and landing gear are many numbered time-tracked parts which could prove precisely which aircraft they had been put on and when they had been serviced, but the FBI has refused to present this evidence to make its case. Why wouldn't the FBI present this evidence if it had it? 

The jet engine that landed on Murray Street contains specific numbered and time-tracked parts which would identify exactly which aircraft struck the World Trade Center.  Why has the U.S. government withheld this evidence?

The only possible explanation for the FBI's failure to present this evidence is that the evidence does not match the planes they claim hit the buildings or "crashed" in Pennsylvania.  If the planes that were involved in the attacks on the World Trade Center were, in fact, not United Airlines Flight 175 and American Airlines Flight 11, but remotely-controlled tankers painted to look like civilian aircraft, who could have produced such disguised planes and inserted them into the NORAD anti-terrorism exercise that was taking place in the airspace of the East Coast on the morning of 9-11?

ISRAEL AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES (IAI) 

Given the evidence of Israeli prior knowledge, the obvious questions are: Did the Israelis have the means to carry off such a complex operation? And if they had the means, is there a link between their capability and the events of 9-11?  The answer to both questions is yes. 

The Israeli military and intelligence agency have long had the capability to convert and disguise large-body aircraft in the United States, and their companies that do this kind of work are connected to ICTS, the Israeli airport security company that is a prime suspect in the "false flag" terrorism.  ICTS is also a key defendant in the 9-11 litigation. 

The Israeli military has spawned several aircraft leasing and maintenance companies in the United States since the late 1960s. There is, in fact, a network of Israeli-controlled aviation companies operating in the United States which were all started by Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), now known as Israel Aerospace Industries.  Israel Aircraft Industries is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Israeli Defense Ministry, which produces and maintains planes and missiles. 

One of the Israeli military's aviation companies spawned in the United States is or was an aircraft leasing company named ATASCO, which began operating in the United States in the early 1970s.  I began investigating ATASCO in August 2006.  As a matter of fact, I spoke with Shalom Yoran, the Israeli chairman of this now defunct Israeli company, about six hours before three undercover police arrived at my house and, without cause or provocation, TASERed me and broke my elbow in front of my family on August 15, 2006. 

I had come across Shalom Yoran's name while researching Amit and Naftali Yoran, the suspicious young Israelis who oversaw cyber-security for the U.S. government and military computers prior to and after 9-11. 

Shalom Yoran has an extremely suspicious and unusual profile for an Israeli immigrant to the United States.  He was in the original Israeli air force of 1948 and is a founder and former head of Israel Aircraft Industries.  Yoran was instrumental in building the IAI into an internationally recognized company and the largest industry in Israel.

Shalom Yoran (born Selim Sznycer, Poland) wearing a fake British uniform in Palestine, 1946.  Yoran became the co-founder and head of Israel Aircraft Industries and Bedek. 

Before Yoran emigrated to the United States, which is very unusual for Israelis of his age and with his high-level military background, he had spent the previous ten years as senior vice president of IAI and as president of IAI's parent company, Bedek. Israelis like Yoran don't usually come to America as immigrants - they are sent there on a mission. 

Israel Aircraft Industries was established in 1953 as Bedek Aviation Company, five years after the establishment of the State of Israel. Today, Bedek is the senior group of Israel Aerospace Industries and specializes in aircraft operation, conversion, maintenance, and overhaul.  In 1975, when Yoran "left" Bedek and IAI at the unusually young retirement age of fifty, the corporation had 22,000 employees, of which 4,000 worked in the Bedek Division. In reality, Yoran didn't leave Bedek and IAI at all; he was sent by the Israeli military to the United States to manage one of their most important operations - ATASCO. 

In his on-line biographies, Yoran says he was appointed to this position: "When he retired at the age of fifty [ca. 1975], he was appointed the President of Atasco, an American Flight company for cargo shipment and maintenance." 

His 2003 biography on the website of Tel Aviv University (TAU) has a similar tale: "At the age of fifty, Shalom Yoran retired from the Israel Aircraft Industries. In 1978 he moved to the U.S. where he became chairman of ATASCO USA - a private aircraft trading and service company. ATASCO bought and leased airplanes to major airlines around the world. The company also had an aircraft maintenance and modification plant in Smyrna, Tennessee. 

"Shalom Yoran continues to be chairman of ATASCO USA," the 2003 TAU entry noted.  How could an Israeli be appointed to be president or chairman of an "American" company, unless that company were actually an Israeli company disguised as an American company?  And why would an Israeli company doing business in the United States want to disguise the fact that it is Israeli-owned in the first place?

THE ATASCO-BEDEK CONNECTION 

ATASCO USA was, of course, created and owned by the Israeli military and connected to the Mossad, but this information is not easily found.  There has only been one article that I have found that mentions what ATASCO has been doing for the past 36 years in the United States, since it was first created by the Israeli Defense Ministry in 1971.  That article, entitled "Ugandan Plane Deal Believed Key to Israeli Spy Operation," was published in the Washington Post of September 11, 1978. 

This investigative article, which involved an international team of journalists that included an Israeli, focused on the "mysterious Israeli tycoon and the Mossad, Israeli's intelligence service," and how they had provided the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin with two Boeing 707 jetliners as part of an Israeli effort to spy on Libya.  The "big winner" and tycoon in this Mossad spying operation was Shaul Nehemia Eisenberg (1921-1997), "the reclusive Israeli entrepreneur at its center." 

Eisenberg was, as the Washington Post reported in 1978, the central figure in the Mossad spying operation on Libya: 

The chief Eisenberg firm in these deals was Aircraft Trading and Services Inc., or Atasco. Headquartered in Asia House, Eisenberg's luxury building in Tel Aviv, Atasco also has branches in the "Eisenberg Building" in New York and in London. 

Atasco was put together in 1971 by executives of Israeli Aircraft Industries, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Israeli Defense Ministry that makes planes and missiles. 

Eisenberg got into Atasco as an equal partner with Israeli Aircraft for $500,000 in cash. After the 1973 Middle East War, Israeli Aircraft, staggered by scandals, sold its share in Atasco to Eisenberg, leaving him its sole owner. 

The rest of Atasco's original capital, $5 million, came from the U.S. Export-Import Bank, which is supposed to make loans to promote American exports. 

The Ex-Im Bank certainly found the right man in Eisenberg. He quickly turned into an eager customer for Pan American Airways' used Boeing 707s. 

Atasco bought 12 or 15 of the advance series "C" 707s that Pan Am was selling and purchased six out of ten earlier series "C" 707s being sold by the airline. 

At its Israeli hangars, currently jammed with 707s bearing obscure markings, Atasco remodels the interiors to suit customers, and paints on their proud colors - Iran Air, Tarom of Romania, Uganda Airlines. 

In May 1976, Atasco sold the 707 that was once Pan Am's "Clipper Jupiter" to a firm in Zurich, which dealt it on to Amin.

Intelligence sources say that the head of this Zurich firm is a 15-year veteran of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, and the firm is an agency "laundry." It exists, these sources say, to pass on Mossad funds for deals in which the Israeli secret service is interested. 

The Washington Post, one of the most important newspapers in the United States, is a leading national newspaper of record. Oddly, however, the extremely important information contained in this article about ATASCO was never repeated in any of the subsequent articles in which this mysterious company was mentioned, for example, when Gerald L. Gitner, an aviation executive with Pan Am, TWA, and a host of smaller airlines, was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ATASCO USA, Inc. 

In 1986, when Gitner became CEO of the Israeli-owned company with a documented history of murky business, the company was described as a New York aircraft leasing and brokerage company. ATASCO's previously published history of involvement in Mossad operations was never mentioned.  Gitner, who was CEO of Mossad's "privately held" aircraft leasing and maintenance company until 1990, was involved in the dismemberment and selling off of the assets of the once prosperous Pan Am and TWA airlines. 

In October 1986, when Gitner was appointed CEO of the Mossad-run ATASCO U.S.A. Inc., he was or had been a senior executive with PanAm Corporation and TWA.  He was the president of Texas Air Corporation, the holding company for Continental Airlines and New York Air, when he was appointed president and CEO of ATASCO U.S.A., "a private aviation concern involved in commercial aircraft leasing and heavy aircraft maintenance." 

Gitner was also co-founder and president of People Express Airlines. The Houston Chronicle of October 3, 1986, however, only identified ATASCO as "an aircraft leasing and brokerage company."

EISENBERG - "WORLD ENTREPRENEUR" 

In November 1982, when Eisenberg became involved in the Tregaron deal and tried to take over a large piece of prime real estate inWashington, D.C., the Washington Post wrote about Mossad's "world entrepreneur" and their point man in China - and Panama: 

Eisenberg was profiled in a 1981 Business Week article as a businessman of enormous wealth, diversity of business interests, and a proclivity for secretiveness in his dealings. He owns a worldwide network of corporations. His largest company, United Development Inc., was set up in Panama in 1960. 

Eisenberg essentially acts as a middleman, according to reports on his dealings, assembling consortiums of manufacturers, builders and banks to construct industrial facilities of all types. 

Since Eisenberg was the "sole owner" of ATASCO since 1973, the Mossad's "aircraft trading and services" company naturally began its murky business on the American continent in Panama.  In 1978 the Washington Post reported that there were "frequent but unsubstantiated reports that Eisenberg operates mostly from Central America." Eisenberg was the "Panamanian honorary general consul in Tel Aviv," the Post reported. 

The first mention of ATASCO other than the 1978 article in the Washington Post was in the New York Times on October 29, 1981, when it reported that Emery Air Freight had purchased a Boeing 727-100 from Atasco-Panama.

IDF - ISRAELI DRUG FORCES? 

Israel Aircraft Industries also has a branch, IAI Sucursal Colombia, in Bogota, Colombia.  Colombia is a nation better known for the production and distribution of cocaine than aircraft. Why would IAI establish aircraft leasing and maintenance facilities in Colombiaand Panama? 

Is airlifting drugs a central part of the IAI operations in Latin America?  Does the Mossad use IAI facilities in Colombia to run its own drug smuggling routes to fund its operations? Does Mossad drug smuggling involve American politicians (and intelligence agencies) which it controls through criminal complicity?

 
Israel is deeply involved in the Colombian drug trade.  Here a Colombian military chief tries out Israeli weapons during a visit to Israel. 

There are a number of indications that the Mossad is deeply involved in the Colombian drug trade. The horde of Mossad operatives who were disguised as Israeli art students in the years prior to 9-11 were known to have been targeting the offices and personnel of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Why would the Mossad be seeking to penetrate the DEA if it were not involved in drug smuggling? 

It is also well known that Israeli gangs are heavily involved in illicit drug smuggling. A disproportionately large number of Israelis have been arrested in Europe and the United States with large amounts of narcotics and synthetic drugs such as Ecstasy. Are these the small fry of a much larger Israeli presence in the illegal drug trade? 

The rumors about the Bush and Clinton families being involved in large scale drug smuggling operations are legion.  From George H.W. Bush's days in the Texas oil business and as head of the CIA to his position as a director of the Prozac giant Eli Lilly and Company, the drug trade is a central part of the Bush family legend. 

The allegations about Governor Bill Clinton's involvement in the drug smuggling operation in Mena, Arkansas are also legion. Aircraft were used to smuggle drugs and weapons through the airport in Mena in the 1980s while Gov. Clinton protected the entire operation.  "Given the scope and implications of the Mena story, it may be easy to understand the media's initial skepticism and reluctance," Sally Denton and Roger Morris wrote in their July 1995 article "The Crimes of Mena": 

Mena, from 1981 to 1985, was indeed one of the centers for international smuggling traffic. According to official I.R.S. and D.E.A. calculations, sworn court testimony, and other corroborative records, the traffic amounted to thousands of kilos of cocaine and heroin and literally hundreds of millions of dollars in drug profits. According to a 1986 letter from the Louisianaattorney general to then U.S. attorney general Edwin Meese, [Adler Berriman Seal, or "Barry"] Seal "smuggled between $3 billion and $5 billion of drugs into the U.S." 

Adler Berriman Seal had been a pilot with TWA from 1966 to 1974, according to his on-line biography. Gitner, who began his career at TWA in 1968 was a vice president when he also left TWA in 1974 to join the much smaller Texas International Airlines. 

The numerous reports and allegations of involvement in drug smuggling are what the Bush and Clinton families have in common. These are the families which have dominated the executive branch of the United States government since 1981. There has been either a Bush or Clinton in the White House for the past 26 years, since January 1981.  Is the illegal drug business the central criminal activity that the Bush and Clinton families have participated in with the Israeli Mossad? 

If the reports, allegations, and rumors are true, the illegal drug trade is where the interests of the Bush family, the Clintons, the CIA, and the Mossad all come together. This would explain the choice to invade and occupy Afghanistan, where opium production is now at record levels after having been nearly eradicated under the Taliban regime.  This would also explain the unusual pressure to medicate the 9-11 relatives.  It appears that drug smuggling could very well be the illegal enterprise at the center of the criminal network behind 9-11. This is a subject that certainly deserves further investigation.

"CLIPPER JUPITER" AND ZIMEX AVIATION 

In the 1978 article about Eisenberg and the Mossad the Washington Post reported that ATASCO had sold the Boeing 707, which had been Pan Am's "Clipper Jupiter," to a firm in Zurich, which had immediately transferred ownership to Idi Amin in Uganda: 

Intelligence sources say that the head of this Zurich firm is a 15-year veteran of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, and the firm is an agency 'laundry.' It exists, these sources say, to pass on Mossad funds for deals in which the Israeli secret service is interested. 

Pan Am's "Clipper Jupiter," with tail registration number N766PA, was sold to a Zurich-based company called Zimex Aviation on May 12, 1976. The same day, Zimex Aviation transferred the plane with a new tail number, 5X-UAL, to Uganda Airlines. 

The "15-year veteran of Mossad" would be Hans Ziegler, who headed Zimex as reported in The Oregonian on August 22, 1988: 

Charles Hanner, then a Page [Airways] vice president, testified by deposition that he had been introduced to Amin by Hans Ziegler, a veteran agent of Mossad, the Israeli military intelligence service. Ziegler's Swiss company, Zimex Aviation, had sold a number of aircraft to Middle Eastern potentates and to Amin's friend Moammar Khadafy, the Libyan dictator.

ATASCO TIES TO 9-11 

Gitner reportedly stayed with ATASCO from October 1986 through December 1989.  In 1989, Gitner was appointed to head Presidential Airways of Herndon, Virginia.  Gitner later served on the board of directors of another Mossad-run company, ICTS, which is one of the key defendants in the 9-11 litigation. Along with a handful of senior Israeli Mossad veterans, Gitner was a director of ICTS from at least 1997 through 2005. Most significantly, he was a director of the Israeli parent company which was responsible for airline security and passenger screening at Boston's Logan Airport on 9-11. 

International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS) International, N.V. is the Mossad-run company that owns Huntleigh USA, the airline security company that oversaw the passenger screening operation at Boston and Newark airports on September 11, 2001.  How would Gitner be a director or CEO of a Mossad-run company like ATASCO or ICTS if he were not working for the Mossad? Has Gerald Gitner from Boston been working with the Israelis since he began at TWA in the late 1960s? Is this the reason he left TWA and began working for Texas International?

BOEING 767 CONVERSIONS - BEDEK'S SPECIALTY 

IAI is "a world leader in aircraft conversion and modernization programs, unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), communication programs and defense electronics," according to the company's website.  Shalom Yoran's company, Bedek Aviation Group, reportedly converted its first Boeing 767 from a passenger to cargo jet in early 2000.  The converted passenger jet was the first of eleven 767s to be converted for Airborne-Express, according to the Jerusalem Post of April 4, 2000.  "Bedek is one of the world's leaders in plane conversions," the Israeli newspaper reported. 

In early 2001, Bedek delivered a refurbished Boeing 707 refueling tanker for the Israeli air force, according to the Jerusalem Post of February 22, 2001.  "The number of [Israeli] refueling tankers is classified," the Post reported. "The first 707 air refueling tanker converted for the Air Force was delivered twenty years ago."  This Israeli report indicates that Bedek has been converting Boeing aircraft into tankers since the early 1980s. 

"The main benefit of this present aircraft is in its versatility, its quick conversion from a refueling tanker to a cargo jet. In this way, the aircraft can be used as a cargo plane in times of peace and a refueling tanker in an emergency," an IAI statement said. 

 
A Boeing 767 refueling tanker

IAI IN MIAMI - COMMODORE AVIATION 

"Boeing has been working with Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd. for 30 years," the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported in October 1998. 

Miami International Airport has long been the site of one of Bedek's maintenance stations, along with Paris, Moscow, Baku, and Baikal, according to the Jerusalem Post of January 13, 1995.  The Bedek operation in Miami was known as Commodore Aviation. IAI and Bedek had "offices in Arlington, Va.; New York City; Princeton, N.J., for its Galaxy Aerospace subsidiary; and in Miami for its Commodore Aviation unit," according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer article from 1998. 

Florida Governor Jeb Bush made a four-day trade mission to Israel in November 1999 during which he appealed to the state-owned Israel Aircraft Industries to expand their business operations in Florida.  IAI's Miami-based Commodore Aviation was already the largest Israeli business presence in Florida in 1999 with about 500 employees, the Stuart News (Florida) reported. 

Commodore Aviation hangar at Miami airport, ca. 1992

In 2003, Commodore Aviation, "part of IAI's Bedek Aviation Group," pulled out of Miami, reportedly owing nearly a million dollars to the Miami airport, and moved to Rome, New York, where it renamed its operation the "Empire Air Center." 

"Commodore has been searching for a new location since June 2002 and owes $800,000 in back rent to Miami International Airport, where it's currently based," South Florida CEO reported in May 2003, when it announced Commodore Aviation's move to New Yorkand its name change. 

Like ATASCO, Commodore has been generously funded by the U.S. taxpayer. Commodore Aviation actually made money by its move to the former Griffis Air Force Base, where it operates in a massive hangar in which B-52 bombers and tankers were once serviced.  The move profited Commodore, which received some $25 million in grants and tax incentives from federal and New York sources, the Jerusalem Post reported on November 21, 2003.  "The whole relocation didn't cost IAI one dollar," said Gerry Stoch, New Yorkstate's economic attache in Israel. 

Finis

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Originally published - 25 October 2007
Edited - May 24, 2009
Final Edit - August 9, 2009 
Latest Correction - February 9, 2010

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