THE BIG BAMBOOZLE
911 & THE 'WAR' ON TERROR
BY PHILIP MARSHALL
911 & THE 'WAR' ON TERROR
BY PHILIP MARSHALL
14
Man Behind The Curtain
The President was not in Washington on 9/11. This left the Vice President as the de facto
commander of the White House response. In theory, Dick Cheney, a former Defense Secretary was the
perfect person at the perfect time. Note that the initial response by our fighter jet coverage was quick
and competent. Isn’t it interesting that when the tactical plan began to experience delays, the military
went into an inexplicable stall? Most bizarre was the President’s attempt to look busy reading The
Pet Goat with second-graders. Later, the Vice President claimed he scrambled more fighter jets but
when we checked seven separate logs of communication and orders, this claim was unfounded and
misleading. [1]
The planning, knowledge and skill required for the mission involved a host of matters large and
small, basic and highly esoteric. Somehow the hijackers had confidence that they could defeat airline
security with lethal weapons that would just narrowly pass checkpoint scrutiny – as if this matter had
been thoroughly tested.
The most challenging aspect of conducting an air raid against the United States is defeating our
blanket of fighter jet coverage. On any given day, in any given time frame, U.S. fighters may be up and
flying within seconds of New York and Washington. Without someone on the inside of our top military
commanders, it would be impossible to know where these fighters would be positioned when the
attack commenced.
Coincidentally (or not), no fighters were airborne on the east coast on the morning of 9/11. But
still, the world’s most advanced system of military fighter jets was ready to scramble at a moment’s
notice, with a variety of lethal missiles capable of taking down any hostile aircraft in short order. It is
impossible to explain why, for two hours, our fighters were not scrambled to at least intercept and
interfere with the raiding planes. As a last resort, which would require approval from our
Commander in Chief**, fighter pilots could have shot down any hostile plane heading for a populated
area.
15
The Decoy
Now, let’s take another run through the 2002 Congressional Joint Inquiry’s report with a
different focus. This time, we will see how the Inquiry began on page 3 with a pre-set notion that the
matter of guilt had long been decided by the Intelligence Community** and that Osama bin Laden was
responsible for the attack. We are led to believe that a man with no country, armed solely with a
vague “fatwa,” was able to defeat a $9 billion a year Intelligence Community** within a trillion
dollars worth of U.S. national security.
Let us note that someone on the Inquiry was making a case that bin Laden was responsible for
the attack. Someone kept inserting bin Laden as the culprit, and that someone must have had a hand in
the editing and writing of this report. Later, we will see exactly who this person was, but for now,
let’s see what was reported. Once we get past the headline, we find nothing to support the claim that
Osama bin Laden defeated, or had any capacity to defeat our domestic fighter jet coverage or to plan
anything that resembles a coordinated air raid. Once we get past the mysterious claims, we see no
evidence of his involvement in any planning or operational knowledge of the attack. None.
Osama bin Laden’s role in international terrorism had also been well known for some time
before September 11. He initially came to the attention of the Intelligence Community** in the
early 1990's as a financier of terrorism. However, bin Laden’s own words soon provided
evidence of the steadily escalating threat to the United States he and his organization posed. In
August 1996, he issued a fatwa – or religious decree – authorizing attacks on Western military
targets in the Arabian Peninsula. In February 1998, bin Laden issued a second fatwa authorizing
attacks on U.S. civilian and military personnel anywhere in the world. Bin Laden’s fatwas cited
the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, the Palestinian issue and U.S.
support for Israel as justification for ordering these attacks. (Page 3)
RED FLAG – After studying the entire report, this paragraph is used (time and again) as the
absolute justification that Osama bin Laden was behind 9/11. The Intelligence Community’s**
conclusion is based primarily on a fatwa supposedly written to unknown members of a vague
organization. Says who? The Intelligence Community’s** unnamed analysts.
Also, on the bottom of page 3, we get a footnote of sorts about the Anthrax scare that added
hysteria to an already hysterical scenario.[1] A thousand words of fear are countered with:
To date, no connection has been established between the anthrax attacks and the terrorist
attacks of September 11, 2001.
(Bottom of page 3 in footnote form)
RED FLAG – If there is no connection to 9/11, then why is this in the report? The Anthrax that
was used to scare the hell out of everyone was actually linked to a U.S. military lab** in Maryland.
[2] But this report has linked a fatwa writer to anthrax – as part of the overall hysteria delivered to
the nation. In 2001, Americans were suddenly feeling vulnerable from a host of new enemies and all
types of strange weapons. Fox News reported these threats as a real possibility every single day from
9/11 until the American invasion of Iraq. [3]
For the next 100 pages we get “intelligence” from the Intelligence Community**. All frightening
quotes about a “new breed” of terrorism, violent Islamic cells, not linked to any specific country but
united in anti-American zeal.
In January 1996, the Counter terrorist Center (C.T.C)** – which had been established at
CIA** in 1986 (Reagan-Bush Administration**) – created a special unit that was dedicated to
focusing on bin Laden and his associates. The unit** quickly determined that he was more than
a terrorist financier, and it** soon became a hub for expertise on bin Laden and for operations
directed against his terrorist network, al-Qaida. Officials from the unit**
, which started with
about 16 CIA officers** and grew to about 40 officers** from throughout the Intelligence
Community** prior to September 11, 2011, had unprecedented access to senior agency
officials** and White House policymakers**.” (Page 4)
RED FLAG – This confirms that the C.T.C** and the CIA Bin Laden Unit** were actually
Intelligence Community** operations under White House** control. For the remainder of the report,
heavy quotes from these two CIA units** are used to counter FBI field agents’ reports. This report
goes down a road to pinning all types of attacks on bin Laden, without mentioning any specific
operational evidence. None.
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Weakest Link
So, let’s get to the nitty-gritty. On page 154 of the Congressional Joint Inquiry’s report, we get
exactly what we are looking for in a relatively small, four paragraph section entitled: The Case
Against Bin Laden. The case is a bread sandwich.
The Case Against Bin Laden
In the days following the September 11 attacks, the FBI** received additional photographs
from the surveillance of the Malaysia meeting. One of these, the FBI** quickly learned, was a
photograph of Khallad. The Bureau** also learned that a January 2001 photo identification of
Khallad by the joint CIA/FBI** asset had been mistaken. The person thought to be Khallad was
actually Nawaf al-Hazmi.
The conclusion that Khallad had attended the meeting was nonetheless correct.
Later in September, the FBI** prepared an analysis of bin Laden’s responsibility for the
September 11 attacks to help the State Department** develop a “white paper” that could be
shared with foreign governments:
Even at this early stage of the investigation, the FBI** has developed compelling evidence
(the analyst** concluded) which points to bin Laden and al-Qaida as the perpetrators of this
attack. By way of illustration, at least two of the hijackers met with a known senior al-Qaida
terrorist, the same al-Qaida terrorist that reliable information demonstrates orchestrated the
attack on USS Cole and who was involved in the planning of the East Africa embassy bombings.
The two hijackers were al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi. The senior al-Qaida terrorist was
Khallad. The place they met was Malaysia. The facts linking al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi to
Khallad and therefore to bin Laden became the crux of the case the State Department** made
to governments around the world that bin Laden should be held accountable for the September
11 attacks. (page 154)
RED FLAG
Compelling evidence? They pin 9/11 on bin Laden because a guy he may have
known was at a meeting with suspected terrorists in Malaysia. This is the case? Where’s the aviation
expert, or tactical planners, or any operational evidence? There are 80 pages in the report linking
Saudi Intelligence directly to the hijackers and this is all they found on Bin Laden.
As we have seen earlier, these are the same two hijackers (Mihdhar and Hazmi) that were
receiving checks from Saudi Prince Bandar’s wife’s account at the Washington-based Riggs Bank**.
This opens a can of worms.
In 2002, FBI field agents reported an interesting link straight to the top of the Saudi government.
The field agents discovered that the same Saudi Government agent, Omar Bayoumi, who met two
hijackers in Los Angeles and became their logistical handler throughout their preparation, had opened
bank accounts for two hijackers at the Washington-based Riggs bank. About two weeks after the
accounts were opened, Bayoumi’s wife began receiving huge monthly payments from another Riggs
account belonging to Saudi Prince Bandar’s wife’s. Red Flag. [1]
When we follow the money that funneled to the 9/11 hijackers, we see that it originated from
high officials of the Saudi Arabian government through accounts at Riggs. Wouldn’t you know, the
storied Riggs Bank, which opened in 1836 and was the bank of choice for twenty-three U.S.
Presidents, world leaders and notorious dictators, abruptly shut down in 2005 when the FBI started
probing Prince Bandar’s frequent withdrawals of a million dollars or more. The bank, founded by
members of an Ivy League secret society, survived the Civil War but the connections to Saudis and
9/11 took them down. [2]
Now, let’s find their evidence against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the American media’s
convicted “mastermind” who is being held at Guantanamo Bay**.
The first mention of K.S.M comes on page 29:
Finally, an early summer 2001 Intelligence Community** report stated that Khalid Shaykh
Mohammed – the senior al-Qaida official who has been identified as the mastermind of the
September 11 attacks – was recruiting individuals to travel to the United States and engage in
planning terrorist-related activity there.
(page 29)
RED FLAG – They call K.S.M a senior al Qaeda official identified as the 9/11 mastermind. If
you repeat that the world is flat a million times, it does not make it flat. This is where we see
evidence that the Intelligence Community** continued setting up their decoys in early 2001, while
special activities knew the attack was in “go mode”, when the hijackers were in the final stages of
flight training.
Nearly every time we see mention of K.S.M by the Intelligence Community**, there is a
deliberate effort to hot-wire him as the 9/11 mastermind. But when researching evidence of his
involvement, there’s a biography about a guy who graduated from North Carolina A&T so, therefore
he’s hot-wired as the 9/11 mastermind.
He’s also been blamed by the Intelligence Community** for the murder of New York Times
journalist Daniel Pearle. The evidence: K.S.M is a suspect based on a gruesome photograph of an
unidentified man, holding Pearle’s severed head by the hair. The photo only shows a hand,supposedly of the executioner. One Philippine investigator claimed that the hand in the picture
resembled the hand of K.S.M. Therefore, we are to believe, that K.S.M splits time between chopping off
heads and figuring fuel calculations for Boeing 767 flights.
Let’s take a look at the most detailed evidence on KSM. It’s there on page 30, where KSM gets
his very own paragraph and once again we see an effort to label him the mastermind:
Khalid Shaykh Mohammad
5.i. Prior to September 11, the Intelligence Community** had information linking Khalid
Shaykh Mohammad (K.S.M), now recognized by the Intelligence Community** as the
mastermind of the attacks, to bin Laden, to terrorist plans to use aircraft as weapons, and to
terrorist activity in the United States. The Intelligence Community**
, however, relegated K.S.M
to rendition target status following his 1996 indictment in connection with the Bojinka Plot and,
as a result, focused primarily on his location, rather than his activities and place in the al-Qaida
hierarchy. The Community** also did not recognize the significance of reporting in June 2001
concerning K.S.M’s active role in sending terrorists to the United States, or the facilitation of
their activities upon arriving in the United States. Collection efforts were not targeted on
information about K.S.M that might have helped better understand al-Qaida plans and intentions,
and K.S.M’s role in the September 11 attack was a surprise to the Intelligence Community**.
(According to information obtained by the Intelligence Community** from several sources after
September 11, 2001, K.S.M – also known as “Muktar” (Arabic for “the Brain”) – masterminded
the September 11 attacks.
(Page 30 in bold print)
RED FLAG – Muktar the brain? Are you kidding? Now read that last sentence again and check
where this information (evidence) originates – who exactly are the sources? They say “several
sources” without naming any.
Now below, we see the Intelligence Community** tell a doozie of a story that has no source:
The information indicates that K.S.M presented a plan to Osama bin Laden to mount an
attack using small rental aircraft filled with explosives. Osama bin Laden reportedly suggested
using even larger planes. Thus, the idea of hijacking commercial airliners took hold. Thereafter,
K.S.M reportedly instructed and trained the hijackers for their mission, including directing them
to undergo flight training.
(page 31)
RED FLAG – Apparently K.S.M, or Muktar the Brain, and bin Laden are tight. Is this a comedy
script? They say K.S.M trained the hijackers? Where? How? This passing hearsay of an intention to simply use airliners is the equivalent to having it done. But this is it and the real evidence of K.S.M
related to pilot training is missing. As this un-sourced hot-wire to bin Laden continues, we see on the
next page a continuation of vague evidence: “linked” to the Bojinka Plot in the Philippines,
“connected” to the first World Trade Center bombing; “might have” been involved in the East Africa
embassy bombing.
The Bojinka Plot sounds scary; an ambitious plan, according to intelligence officials**, to place
bombs on twelve jumbo trans-Pacific airliners. But there was a typical problem: While these
terrorists were making the bombs in Manilla, they burned down the apartment and this Bojinka Plot
was thwarted. According to the Intelligence Community**, K.S.M was “connected” to the plot but, as
usual, there is no evidence that he was anywhere near Manilla. Our super-terrorist, according to the
Intelligence Community**, then made a miraculous leap from a failed airline bombing to actually
flying four airliners as bombs. Really? The next terror event “linked” to al-Qaeda was back to
lighting off a shoe bomb, which failed, followed by a hostage decapitation, followed by an underwear
bomb, which failed, followed by a five gallon propane tank “bomb” that was left in a car near Times
Square, which also failed. The media gave all these ominous titles: Christmas Day Bombing was the
underwear job, the Times Square Bombing was the propane job and the bombs that never made it
anywhere close to the airport was the Bonjika Plot. Between these failures, thanks to Muktar the
Brain, they hijacked commercial passenger airliners and defeated our entire national security system.
Outstanding! What’s next? Maybe they can hijack the Space Shuttle and start shooting at us from
outer space.
On page 31, we get a summary of K.S.M in a report disseminated by all Intelligence Community
agencies**, military commanders, and components in the Treasury** and Justice Departments**
emphasizing K.S.M’s ties to bin Laden as well as his continuing travel to the United States.
The report explained that K.S.M appears to be one of Bin Laden’s most trusted lieutenants
and was active in recruiting people to travel outside of Afghanistan, including to the United
States, on behalf of bin Laden. According to the report**
, he traveled frequently to the United
States, including as recently as May 2001, and routinely told others that he could arrange their
entry into the United States as well.
Reportedly, these individuals were expected to establish contact with colleagues already
there. The clear implication of his comments, according to the report** was that they would be
engaged in planning terrorist-related activities.
(Page 31)
RED FLAG – It is possible and feasible that K.S.M may have actually been doing what this says:
recruiting people for the attacks and having some role in getting them to the United States. But after all
this relatively believable account, the Inquiry called the bluff at the bottom of page 31:
Neither the CIA** or FBI** has been able to confirm whether K.S.M had in fact been traveling to the United States or sending recruits here prior to September 11.
(Page 31)
RED FLAG
Just when we thought we had something of consequence, we learn that none of the
assertions made by the Intelligence Community** can be verified. There were no photographs of
K.S.M in the U.S., no plane tickets or customs or immigration records presented. There’s little wonder
why the Administration** didn’t want to try him in a U.S. Federal Court; there is no evidence and he
would not be convicted. Even worse, if they found K.S.M innocent, the president** and his vice
president** could be tried for war crimes.
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Electronic Hide And Seek
Before any commercial airliner is dispatched for flight, primary and back-up electronic
transponders must be operational. The transponders are a major part of the air traffic control system,
relaying an electronic signal through an antenna on the aircraft that is recognized by A.T.C radar. Each
flight is assigned a four digit code that pilots dial in prior to departure which transmits all the
pertinent flight information to A.T.C controllers – flight number, type of aircraft, ground speed, altitude,
cleared route, departure airport and destination – in one easy-to-read block on the controller’s
screen. The four pilot/hijackers had been specifically trained to turn off the transponders immediately
after commandeering the craft, a move that was designed to create initial confusion in a deadly game
of hide and seek against the A.T.C and military defense systems.
Based on expected routine radio calls to A.T.C that never came because the two pilots had been
murdered, we know that A.A.11 was hijacked at 8:14 a.m. As in all four attacks, evidence indicates
that the cockpit was stormed, the pilots were killed with box cutters and the passengers were herded
to the back of the plane under direct force, mace, bomb threats, bloodshed and panic. [1]
The hijackers knew that the autopilot would be engaged, so they could pull the pilots out of their
seats without losing control of the craft. There was one pilot on each hijacker team of five (or four, in
the case of United 93); the remaining four (or three) were muscle guys. Evidence indicates that each
plane was under the hijackers’ control within five minutes after the cockpit was stormed. [2]
In the case of A.A.11, by 8:21 a.m. Mohamed Atta was in the captain seat just 22 minutes after
takeoff from Boston and in control of the aircraft. We know this because just before the Boeing 767
turned south on a course for New York, the transponder was switched off and A.T.C instantly lost
A.A 11’s data on their radar screens. There was still a basic or “primary” radar return reflecting off
the airplane; the controllers would simply tag the target aircraft and manually enter the aircraft’s
identification. No one was expecting the airplane to deviate from its cleared route over the vicinity of
Albany and make a screaming beeline for the World Trade Center. [3]
18
The Media Bamboozle
The bamboozle began within hours of the attacks, before anyone could think straight. Without
presenting a shred of evidence, the American news media, led by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, began
injecting the 9/11 virus: corrupted information that this was the work of Osama bin Laden and a
frightening “network” of terror.
The quick spread of this virus was understandable; the terrorists were quickly labeled by nearly
every senior member of the Bush Administration** and every major news media outlet. However, no
media analysts bothered to address the miraculous leap from previous al-Qaeda attacks. The
widespread assumption of al-Qaeda responsibility dovetailed perfectly with new injections of fear;
as the administration spread the mysterious Anthrax scare and disinformation about weapons of mass
destruction that were supposedly intended for America, the Bush Administration** warned us to
brace for further “spectacular” attacks.
Of course America was afraid. If a terrorist organization could truly select the perfect airplanes
for their mission, slip 19 Arabic-speaking suicidal maniacs and two dozen weapons through airport
security, murder four flight crews, take and hold hostages at bay while piloting four immensely
complicated Boeing jetliners from high altitude to a low-altitude precision air strike after navigating
for hundreds of miles straight to the nation’s capital and U.S. military headquarters without being shot
down by a blanket of military fighters, what could they not do? Instead, after we take a collective
breath and realize that not before or since 9/11 has al-Qaeda ever executed anything more
sophisticated than their signature crude bombings.
This new administration had broken the code.
The code was that money bought the greatest dictator of all, commercial television time.
Through a one-way flow of persuasion, strategically scripted and delivered with moving pictures and
dubbed with base drums, to millions of working (taxed) Americans, a message, any message can be
sold.
The endless barrage of television time during the 2004 election made John Kerry, a Vietnam
veteran with three Purple Hearts look like a headline grabbing coward while a guy that went AWOL
from his Texas Air National Guard unit, a swashbuckling hero, capable of leading the world. [1]
In the entire case of Osama bin Laden, from his formal introduction on September 11, 2001 until
his media death on May 2, 2011, not one American has heard a single word attributed to this person.
Not one solid piece of evidence has ever been presented in a court of law, not one plausible
explanation as to how bin Laden was able to defeat all elements of U.S. national security. Yet, a vast majority of Americans are somehow convinced that Osama bin Laden was the evil force behind the
9/11 attacks.
The bamboozle is a concoction of media reported events. We have been told a thousand times
that he was “behind” the attacks. We were shown videos of him shooting a rifle. We have seen him in
a gold robe. We have heard through an Intelligence Community** interpretation that he admitted to the
attack. We have seen the photos of him walking in the mountains. We have been told that al Qaeda has
a press secretary who sends out news releases. Most American taxpayers know this as common
knowledge, as fact.
But when we take a closer look, we see an entirely different picture. The Washington Post
reported on May 25, 2010 that a psych-ops group** within the Special Activities Division** was
caught producing fake bin Laden videos. [1] They also traced the al-Qaeda “press releases” to a U.S.
intelligence contractor** called SITE**, an interesting liaison between the White House** and Fox
News**. [2]
SITE, an acronym of Search for International Terrorist Entities, is actually a Pentagon subcontractor
that seems to be al Qaeda’s press department. When we hear that al Qaeda has released a
statement, it’s actually coming through SITE. Who knows where they get information? [3]
SITE has released 29 audio messages and three videos, supposedly of Osama bin Laden. The
last video in 2007 was so ridiculously obvious, that they just stuck with audios until they could fake
his death. The Post article reported that our friends at special activities were making propaganda
films, “using one of our ‘darker’ members to play [super-terrorist] Osama bin Laden.”[3]
The last tape released to the national media was of a man that SITE** claimed was Osama bin
Laden. The tape was “frozen” for all but three minutes while an unknown interpreter** told us what
he supposedly said. Later, we learned that this SITE** group, led by Rita Katz, had sent this tape to
several officials in the Executive Branch** before the tape was released by “al-Qaeda. “ Oops. [4]
After a small amount of media speculation directed toward bin Laden’s physical bearing, which
included a dyed black beard, a differently shaped face and smaller hands, all major American
networks reported to millions of taxpayers that U.S. Intelligence officials** had confirmed that the
tape was really Osama bin Laden. [6]
Consider the raid that supposedly killed bin Laden. Americans have not been afforded one piece
of evidence that confirmed that he was ever in the raided house or one piece of evidence that he was
killed. There was no trial, no jury, no judge, just a claim that originated deep within the Intelligence
Community** and reported in a month-long media blitz as fact.
The following day, the national news reported that al Qaeda released a statement vowing
revenge for “bin Laden’s” death. The bamboozle is that al Qaeda doesn’t really have a press
department.
The residents of the town where the raid transpired never saw bin Laden. The head of the
Taliban disputed the raid and said that bin Laden had died long ago and was buried in an unmarked
grave in the Afghan mountains. [4] An obituary of bin Laden was published in a Pakistani newspaper
in December of 2001. [5] But still the Intelligence Community** has convinced nearly everyone that they actually killed him in 2011.
Although the Intelligence Community** claimed they had watched the raided house for months,
they could not produce one iota of proof; not one surveillance photo, not one voice recording, not a
body, nothing. Yet, as in all media reports concerning bin Laden, the claim was reported as fact in all
major media stories. It was a coordinated message trumpeted on headlines of every major American
newspaper. Fox News was in a state of euphoria.
President Obama said that he was 50/50 that the intelligence he had received from the
Intelligence Community** was accurate. What if the 50/50 evidence, the same chance as a coin toss,
was actually tails instead of heads. How would we ever know? My calculation, after ten years of
research is that the actual chances of the 9/11 “architect” (bin Laden’s final media title) being in that
house was a solid 0/100. I don’t know who they killed, if anyone, but it wasn’t the architect of 9/11.
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notes
Chapter 14
9/11 Commission report crosschecked with black boxes times and home video taken of President
Bush’s visit to second grade classroom.
The logs disputing Cheney’s account was covered extensively in The Commission.
Chapter 15
Notes 1,2: Straight from the CJI report. thebigbamboozle.com resources
Note 3: www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200499,00.html
Chapter 16
Directly from CJI report
Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riggs_Bank
Chapter 17
ATC transcripts and Cockpit Voice Recorders (CVR) crosschecked with FAA radar recordings.
thebigbamboozle.com
Chapter 18
Note 1: thebigbamboozle.com campaign ads of the 2000 US Presidential election.
Notes 2-4: Washington Post article May 25, 2010.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/spytalk/2010/05/cia_group_had_wacky_ideas_to_d.html/2010/05/cia_group_had_wacky_ideas_to_d.html
Note 5: there are several reports of bin Laden’s death in December of 2001 including links from this
site. http://globalrumblings.blogspot.com/2011/05/osama-bin-ladens-obituary-december-2001.html
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