PART 5:THE BIG BAMBOOZLE 911 & THE 'WAR' ON TERROR

THE BIG BAMBOOZLE
911 & THE 'WAR' ON TERROR
BY PHILIP MARSHALL

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B.C.C.I - The Special Bank 

To get a glimpse of the world-wide roots of black operations and their ties of the administrations of the elder Bush and his son to Saudi Arabia and international terrorism, it is helpful to look at the case of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, or B.C.C.I. 

Time magazine ran a cover story on June 29, 1991, that was so sensational and so profoundly disturbing that no one seemed able to put their arms around it. It, was too bad to be true. Perhaps the mind set was, if we ignored it, it would simply go away. It couldn’t be as bad as all that. Could it? [1] 

Judging from the mild reaction to Time’s revelations, Americans could not believe that there was a new criminal thread within the upper floors of the U.S. government actually cooperating with crooks, terrorists, political con artists and foreign dictators. 

Time’s cover story of June 29, 1991, was titled: “The Dirtiest Bank of All.” The entire article is available at Time’s website but for now, here are some excerpts from the article. With the benefit of twenty years of research and fact checks, we can plainly see the footprints of our gang: Bush**, Bandar, Mueller** and the Intelligence Community** as they transport gold, cash and illicit drugs. Guess who was in the Oval Office** during this period.[A link to the article,I have this feeling that Saddam's involvement with this bank was more then meets the eye. DC...https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_globalbanking118.htm 

TIME MAGAZINE ARTICLE 

JUNE 29, 1991 

“I could tell you what you want to know, but I must worry about my wife and family – they could be killed.” 

– a former top B.C.C.I officer “We better not talk about this over the phone. We’ve found some bugs in of ices that haven’t been put there by law enforcement.” – a Manhattan investigator probing B.C.C.I 

Nothing in the history of modern financial scandals rivals the unfolding saga of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, the $20 billion rogue empire that regulators in 62 countries shut down early this month in a stunning global sweep. 

Never has a single scandal involved so much money, so many nations or so many prominent people. Superlatives are quickly exhausted: it is the largest corporate criminal enterprise ever, the biggest Ponzi scheme, the most pervasive money-laundering operation and financial supermarket ever created for the likes of Manuel Noriega, Ferdinand Marcos, Saddam Hussein and the Colombian drug barons. B.C.C.I even accomplished a stealth-like invasion of the U.S. banking industry by secretly buying First American Bankshares, a Washington-based holding company, whose chairman is a former U.S. Defense Secretary. 

But B.C.C.I is more than just a criminal bank. Time has pieced together a portrait of a clandestine division of the bank called the “black network,” which functions as a global intelligence operation and a Mafia-like enforcement squad … (which) has used sophisticated spy equipment and techniques, along with bribery, extortion, kidnapping and even, by some accounts, murder. The black network – so named by its own members – stops at almost nothing to further the bank’s aims the world over. 

The more conventional departments of B.C.C.I handled such services as laundering money for the drug trade and helping dictators loot their national treasuries. The black network, which is still functioning, operates a lucrative arms-trade business and transports drugs and gold. 

According to investigators and participants in those operations, it often works with Western and Middle Eastern intelligence agencies. The strange and still murky ties between B.C.C.I and the intelligence agencies of several countries are so pervasive that even the White House has become entangled. 

The National Security Council used B.C.C.I to funnel money for the Iran-Contra deals, and the CIA maintained accounts in B.C.C.I for covert operations. Moreover, investigators have told Time that the Defense Intelligence Agency has maintained a slush-fund account with B.C.C.I, apparently to pay for clandestine activities.” 

—But the CIA may have used B.C.C.I as more than an undercover banker: U.S. agents collaborated with the black network in several operations, according to a B.C.C.I black-network “officer,” who is now a secret U.S. government witness. Sources have told investigators that B.C.C.I worked closely with Israel’s spy agencies and other Western intelligence groups as well, especially in arms deals. The bank also maintained cozy relationships with international terrorists, say investigators. 

In the U.S. investigators now say openly that the Justice Department has not only reined in its own probe of the bank, but is also part of a concerted campaign to derail any full investigation. Says Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney who first launched his investigations into B.C.C.I two years ago: “We have had no cooperation from the Justice Department since we first asked for records in March 1990. In fact, they are impeding our investigation, and Justice Department representatives are asking witnesses not to cooperate with us.” 

RED FLAG – The chief of the Justice Department’s white collar crime criminal division under former President Bush was our friend Robert Mueller, who was appointed by President George W. Bush as the director of the FBI on September 4, 2001, one week before 9/11. [2] 

Back to excerpts from the article. Here’s why I wonder if anyone has checked the inventory at Ft. Knox lately… 

"If B.C.C.I is such an embarrassment to the U.S. that forthright investigations are not being pursued, it has a lot to do with the blind eye the U.S. turned to the heroin trafficking in Pakistan,” says a U.S. intelligence officer. “ … A typical operation took place in April 1989, when a container ship from Colombia docked during the night at Karachi, Pakistan. Black-unit operatives met the ship after paying $100,000 in bribes to Pakistani customs officials. The band unloaded large wooden crates from several containers. “They were so heavy we had to use a crane rather than a forklift,” says a participant. The crates were trucked to a “secure airport” and loaded aboard an unmarked 707 jet, where an American, believed by the black-unit members to be a CIA agent, supervised the frantic activity. 

The plane then departed for Czechoslovakia, taking the place of a scheduled Pakistan International Airlines commercial flight that was aborted at the last minute by prearrangement. The 707’s radar transponder was altered to beep out the code of a commercial airliner, which enabled the plane to over fly several countries without arousing suspicion. “From Czechoslovakia the 707 flew to the U.S.,” said the informant, insisting that none of the black-unit workers had any knowledge of what was in the heavy wooden crates. “It could have been gold. It could have been drugs. It could have been guns. We dealt in those commodities….” 

U.S. intelligence agencies were well aware of such activities. “B.C.C.I played an indispensable role in facilitating deals between Israel and some Middle Eastern countries,” says a former State Department official. “And when you look at the Saudi support of the Contras, ask yourself who the middleman was: There was no government-to-government connection between the Saudis and Nicaragua.” 

RED FLAG – Thanks to Bandar’s innocent-confession as reported in the 2007 book The Prince, and cross-checked in Ollie North’s congressional testimony, we now know that North was the middleman. (1) 

TIME MAGAZINE (continued) 

JUNE 29, 1991 

When you couldn’t use direct government transfers or national banks, B.C.C.I was there to hot-wire the connections between Saudi Arabia, China and Israel. The bank also helped transfer North Korean Scud-B missiles to Syria, a B.C.C.I source told TIME. 

Sources say B.C.C.I officials, known as protocol officers, were responsible for providing a smorgasbord of services for customers and national officials: paying bribes to politicians, supplying “young beauties from Lahore,” moving drugs and expediting insider business deals. 

The black network was the bank’s deepest secret, but rumors of its activities filtered through the bank’s managerial level with chilling effectiveness. Senior bankers voice fears that they will be financially ruined or physically maimed – even killed – if they are found talking about B.C.C.I’s activities. 

Businessmen who pursued shady deals with B.C.C.I are just as frightened. “Look,” says an arms dealer, “these people work hand in hand with the drug cartels; they can have anybody killed …” Currently the black units have focused their scrutiny and intimidation on investigators. “Our own people have been staked out or followed, and we suspect tapped telephones,” says a New York law-enforcement officer.

The black unit’s mission eventually became the pursuit of power and influence for its own sake, but its primary purpose was to foster a global looting operation that bilked depositors of billions of dollars. Price Waterhouse, the accounting firm whose audit triggered the worldwide seizure of B.C.C.I assets, says the disarray is so extreme that the firm cannot even put together a coherent financial statement, but investigators believe $10 billion or more is missing, half of B.C.C.I’s worldwide assets. 

The bank’s extensive use of unregulated Cayman Islands accounts enabled it to hide almost anything … in the … mid-1980's, B.C.C.I became a magnet for drug money, capital-flight money, tax evading money and money from corrupt government officials. 

B.C.C.I quickly gained a reputation as a bank that could move money anywhere and hide it without a trace. It was the bank that knew how to get around foreign-exchange rules and falsify letters of credit in support of smuggling. 

In Iraq, B.C.C.I became one of the principal conduits for money that Saddam Hussein skimmed from national oil revenues during the 1980's … B.C.C.I helped the dictator move and hide money all over the world. 

Billions of dollars were vanishing. At the highest levels, B.C.C.I officials whisked deposits into secret accounts in the Cayman Islands. 

These accounts constituted a hidden bank within B.C.C.I, known only to founder Abedi and a few others. From those accounts, B.C.C.I would lend massive amounts to curry favor with governments … or to buy secret control of companies. 

U.S. regulators discovered recently that such loans had enabled B.C.C.I to buy clandestine control in three American banks: First American Bankshares in Washington, National Bank of Georgia (later purchased by First American) and Independence Bank of Encino, California. 

RED FLAG – The First American takeover was assisted by Jackson Stephens, head of a powerful Little Rock investment firm and husband of the Bush for President 1988 campaign manager in Arkansas. Mr. Stephens has been the rainmaker in many of the Bushes’ political and financial enterprises. In 1991, he donated $100,000 to the elder Bush’s campaign fundraising dinner and when George W. Bush was awarded the Florida election in 2000, Jack Stephens made another substantial contribution. The former president told Stephens, “Jack, we love you and we are very, very grateful for what you have done.” This remark coincided with a $25 million investment from the Union des Banques Suisses, the Swiss Bank that held the minority interest in the Geneva-based subsidiary of B.C.C.I. Both Stephens and a Saudi real estate investor signed the financial transaction, which was never to be repaid. (2-Compromised by Terry Reed) 

Coincidentally, Jack Stephens owned a major office complex within walking distance of the Venice, Florida, airport where Mohamed Atta, Marwan al Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah trained for the 9/11 mission. Witnesses from a local diner reported overhearing a conversation in which the hijackers were arguing about $200,000 payments to “the families,” an anecdote that matches a report in the British Observer of a financial agreement with the Saudi intelligence chief. 

[Back to the TIME MAGAZINE

JUNE 29, 1991 article] 

In the United States, millions of dollars flowed through B.C.C.I’s Washington of ice, allegedly destined to pay of U.S. officials. 

Senate investigator Blum: “There’s no question in my mind that it’s a calculated effort inside the federal government to limit the investigation. The only issue is whether it’s a result of high-level corruption or if it’s designed to hide illegal government activities.” 

The Justice Department denies any reluctance to investigate …Yet the evidence of a cover up is mounting: 

In one of the most mysterious events in the case, B.C.C.I bank records from Panama City relating to Noriega “disappeared” in transit to Washington while under guard by the Drug Enforcement Administration. After an internal investigation, the DEA said it had no idea what had happened to the documents. 

Lloyd’s of London, which is enmeshed in a racketeering lawsuit against B.C.C.I, has fruitlessly made offers to provide evidence of bribery and kickbacks and has made “repeated pleas” to U.S. Attorneys in Miami and New Orleans to seize B.C.C.I records. Lloyd’s accuses B.C.C.I of taking part in smuggling operations and falsifying shipping documents. The insurance underwriters offered the results of their voluminous research into the bank’s illegal activities. The Justice Department attorneys ignored the offers, Lloyd’s says. 

The U.S. Attorney General has assigned only a handful of FBI agents to its Washington grand jury investigation of B.C.C.I’s relationship to First American Bankshares. The department’s main probe of B.C.C.I itself is being handled by a sole Assistant U.S. Attorney in Tampa, who has recently been assigned another major case. Similar under staffing is evident in a Miami grand jury probe of the relationship between B.C.C.I and the CenTrust savings and loan, whose failure is estimated to cost taxpayers $2 billion. This may help account for the fact that a 16 month investigation has yielded no indictments. 

Still to be probed, with potentially explosive results, is B.C.C.I’s Washington office. Sources have told Time magazine that one of B.C.C.I’s Washington representatives distributed millions of dollars in payoffs to U.S. officials during the past decade. 

RED FLAG - In 2012, we can look back and realize that this is the group that were given the keys to our treasury for three more terms – amounting to a dozen years. How’s that working out, my fellow taxpayers? 

The Price Waterhouse audit that led to B.C.C.I’s seizure in July of 1990 covered only its banking activities. It said nothing about immensely profitable deals in other businesses, notably weaponry. Nor could it account for profits it could not see. 

And while the enterprise’s known banking services were shut down around the world, virtually the full cadre of B.C.C.I’s black network, arms traders and global operatives remained unindicted, unaccused and at large. They would move on to bigger things. [4]

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Cloud Of Incompetence 

The busy A.T.C controllers initially lost A.A 11 because they would have expected any primary return to show up somewhere along the planned course. A.T.C reception of A.A 11 was just one more blip on the screen identical with the dozens of small private aircraft in the vicinity, which were not required to have a transponder. A.T.C’s natural first reaction was that A.A 11 was having some sort of electronic malfunction. [1] 

This confusion was designed to buy time to complete the mission, which was planned to be over before the first fighter could get airborne. On 9/11, the Air Force launched two planes immediately out of Otis on Cape Cod, but when the Saudi execution started running behind schedule, the Air Force mysteriously flew into a cloud of sudden incompetence. For nearly two hours, they just couldn’t get any more fighters off the ground from Otis, Andrews, Langley or anywhere. [2] 

In theory, turning the transponder off would buy time but as it turned out, the Boston A.T.C controllers were not fooled for long. Even if A.T.C had been fooled, the flight attendants in the back of the plane had already notified American Airlines operations via the Flite Phones of the hijacking two minutes before the plane veered south toward Manhattan at 8:23. [3]

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Patriot Games 

Tom Clancy is one of America’s favorite authors and millions have enjoyed his Intelligence Community thrillers over the years. Many of Clancy’s books were aided by information obtained from a source named Steve Pieczenik, a veteran insider, an upper level manager in the Intelligence Community**. Clancy’s main protagonist, Dan Ryan, was based on information provided by Steve Pieczenik, who has held several key positions in the covert world. [1] 

In the week of May 3, 2011, Pieczenik appeared on two radio broadcasts shortly after the “raid” that according to the Intelligence Community** killed Osama bin Laden. The former official at the U.S. State Department had some astonishing news to share with Americans. In an interview conducted by a radio host in San Antonio, Texas, Pieczenik asserted that bin Laden died in 2001 and that the 9/11 attack was something called a false flag, an act of war carried out to appear that someone else had done it. It’s an old trick derived from naval ships attacking a target while flying another country’s flag. [2] 

This interview was treated by the American media conglomerates in the same manner as Senator Graham’s book: completely ignored. Later, we see similar officials come forward including the 9/11 Commission’s own General Counselor John Farmer, who also wrote and published a book in 2008 entitled The Ground Truth. Farmer wrote, “What government and military officials told Congress, the 9/11 Commission on which he served, the media, and the public, was almost entirely, and inexplicably, untrue.” Additionally, we see that the two co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission, the top two, also had more allegations of conflicts of interests and wrote yet another book entitled Without Precedent. They made an astonishing allegation: “The 9/11 Commission was designed to fail.” [3] 

So, for those of us keeping score, there have been two official federal investigations into the September 11th attack and three out of four of the co-chairmen have written and published books to tell us that something is seriously wrong with the Bush Administration’s version of events. 

The more we focus on 9/11, the more we see that anyone who has truly investigated it has tried to speak up. But like Graham and Farmer, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, Steve Pieczenik’s interview was simply ignored by the commercial, corporate media. In today’s America, if any revelation is not reported in the six top media conglomerates, it simply never happened. The Intelligence Community** has a revolving door to Congress, to the Executive Branch, to Wall Street and now they appear to have all official information avenues to the American voter blocked. Here’s the press release of the interview: [4]

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under three different administrations Steve R. Pieczenik says he is prepared to tell a federal grand jury the name of a top general who told him directly 9/11 was a false flag attack. 

Top U.S. government insider Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, a man who held numerous different influential positions under three different Presidents and still works with the Defense Department, shockingly said that Osama Bin Laden died in 2001 and that he was prepared to testify in front of a grand jury how a top general told him directly that 9/11 was a false flag inside job. 

Pieczenik cannot be dismissed as a “conspiracy theorist.” He served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under three different administrations, Nixon, Ford and Carter, while also working under Reagan and Bush senior, and still works as a consultant for the Department of Defense. A former U.S. Navy captain, Pieczenik achieved two prestigious Harry C. Solomon Awards at the Harvard Medical School as he simultaneously completed a Ph.D at M.I.T. 

Recruited by Lawrence Eagleburger as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Management, Pieczenik went on to develop the basic tenets for psychological warfare, counter terrorism, strategy and tactics for trans-cultural negotiations for the U.S. State Department, military and intelligence communities and other agencies of the U.S. Government, while also developing foundation strategies for hostage rescue that were later employed around the world. 

Pieczenik also served as a senior policy planner under secretaries of state Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, George Schultz and James Baker and worked on George W. Bush’s election campaign against Al Gore. His record underscores the fact that he is one of the most deeply connected men in intelligence circles over the past three decades. 

The character of Jack Ryan, who appears in many Tom Clancy novels and was also played by Harrison Ford in the popular 1992 movie “Patriot Games,” is based on Steve Pieczenik. 

Back in April 2002, more than nine years ago, Pieczenik is on record as saying that bin Laden had already been “dead for months,” and that the government was waiting for the most politically expedient time to roll out his corpse. Pieczenik would be in a position to know, having personally met bin Laden and worked with him during the proxy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan back in the early 1980’s. 

Pieczenik said Osama Bin Laden died in 2001, “Not because Special Forces had killed him, but because as a physician, I had known that the CIA physicians had treated him and it was on the intelligence roster that he had marfan syndrome.” Marfan syndrome is a genetic disorder of connective tissue, which strengthens the body’s structures including the skeletal system, cardiovascular system, eyes and skin. 

“He died of marfan syndrome, Bush junior knew about it, the intelligence community knew about it,” said Pieczenik, noting how CIA physicians had visited bin Laden in July 2001 at the American Hospital in Dubai. 

“He was already very sick from marfan syndrome and he was already dying, so nobody had to kill him,” added Pieczenik, stating that bin Laden died shortly after 9/11.

“Did the intelligence community or the CIA doctor up this situation? The answer is yes, categorically yes,” said Pieczenik, referring to (the May 2, 2011) claim that bin Laden was killed at his compound in Pakistan, adding, “This whole scenario where you see a bunch of people sitting there looking at a screen and they look as if they’re intense, that’s nonsense,” referring to the images released by the White House, which claim to show Biden, Obama and Hillary Clinton watching the operation to kill bin Laden live on a television screen. 

“It’s a total make-up, make believe, we’re in an American theater of the absurd”, said Pieczenik. 

“Osama bin Laden was totally dead, so there’s no way they could have attacked or confronted or killed Osama bin laden,” said Pieczenik, joking that the only way it could have happened was if special forces had attacked a mortuary. 

“This is orchestrated, I mean when you have people sitting around and watching a sitcom, basically the operations center of the White House, and you have a president coming out almost zombie-like telling you they just killed Osama Bin Laden,” said Pieczenik, calling the episode “the greatest falsehood I’ve ever heard; I mean it was absurd.” 

Pieczenik’s assertion that Bin Laden died almost ten years ago is echoed by numerous intelligence professionals as well as heads of state across the world. 

Bin Laden was “used in the same way that 9/11 was used to mobilize the emotions and feelings of the American people in order to go to a war that had to be justified through a narrative that Bush junior created and Cheney created about the world of terrorism,” stated Pieczenik. 

Pieczenik asserted that he was directly told by a prominent general that 9/11 was a stand down and a false flag operation, and that he is prepared to go to a grand jury to reveal the general’s name. 

“They ran the attacks,” said Pieczenik, naming Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Stephen Hadley, Elliott Abrams and Condoleezza Rice among others as having been directly involved. 

“It was called a stand down, a false flag operation in order to mobilize the American public under false pretenses … it was told to me by a general on the staff of Wolfowitz – I will go in front of a federal committee and swear on perjury who the name was of the individual so that we can break it open,” said Pieczenik, adding that he was “furious” and “knew it had happened.” 

“I taught stand down and false flag operations at the national war college, I’ve taught it with all my operatives so I knew exactly what was done to the American public,” he added. 

Pieczenik reiterated that he was perfectly willing to reveal the name of the general who told him 9/11 was an inside job in a federal court. 

Pieczenik explained that he was not a liberal, a conservative or a Tea Party member, merely “an American who is deeply concerned about the direction in which his country is heading.” 

Add Steve Pieczenik to the growing list of insiders who have tried to expose the truth. Remember that three out of four committee co-chairs of federal investigations looking into 9/11 wrote books and tried to reach American voters to inform us of gross imbalances between the official accounts and what their committees discovered. That leaves one that did not write a book. We shall soon learn who that guy was. In fact, it’s official public information.

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American 11 

On the morning of 9/11, American Flight 11, a Boeing 767 loaded with 12,000 gallons of jet fuel, lifted off from Boston’s Logan airport at 7:59 a.m. Communication during the initial climb was conducted by A.T.C’s Boston Center controllers who would monitor the flight’s progress and direct it westbound. 

A.T.C controllers are vigilant and precise as they routinely move aluminum and mankind safely through American skies. As a captain with 300 passengers in my care, it’s always comforting to know that our A.T.C controllers are quick and competent, especially on the insanely busy east coast, with streams of crossing traffic, some climbing and some descending. The Boston Center controller working American 11 was simply doing his usual outstanding job when the pilots failed to respond to his instructions to climb to a higher altitude at 8:14 a.m., just 15 minutes after takeoff. 

The controller began a series of calls to the aircraft. “American 11, this is Boston Center, how do you read, sir? American 11, Boston.” In the next two minutes, the controller tried to reach American 11 on the emergency frequency that dominates all others, broadcast into every cockpit within range. On his landline, he called the American dispatcher in Dallas in an attempt to reach the plane via American’s dispatch system. The dispatcher tried and also had other American flights attempt to reach them on yet another company channel. There was no answer. At 8:21, A.A 11’s transponder data disappeared from his screen. 

As the attack on America began, so did a competent response from A.T.C, who knew exactly what to do. Boston Center and all A.T.C centers practice coordination techniques with our military on a regular basis. Initially, A.T.C got a competent response from the Air Force and from military controllers. The next 15 minutes saw a quickening tempo of urgent communications among A.T.C, American, the F.A.A, NORAD and the nearest F-15 fighter squadron at Otis Air Force Base on Cape Cod. [1] 

By 8:19, American 11 flight attendant Betty Ong was already on the AT&T AirPhone with American Airlines reservations in North Carolina, which was on the phone’s speed dial. She reported an emergency – they were being hijacked. By 8:21, just as Mohamed Atta switched A.A.11’s transponder to the off position, the reservations agent passed the call to the on-duty manager in American’s operations center in Fort Worth. Ong relayed that the aircraft was under attack, passengers had been stabbed, the cabin was full of mace, she could hardly breathe, and two flight attendants had been stabbed. When American operations placed a call to Boston Center A.T.C at 8:29 to say that the aircraft had been hijacked, it was old news. In fact, Boston had already initiated a conference call to Washington and New York. This confirms that the normal swift communication in the aviation world was working just fine. For investigators, it confirms that everyone at F.A.A knew that an American Airlines 767 was a hijack, that this was real world and that the plane was on a direct line for New York City. We will see that The National Security Adviser** would later claim that she didn’t relay this to the president** after she spoke to the F.A.A and before she spoke to the president**. This conversation took place before Bush** had entered the classroom in Florida. [2] Holy smoke.

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Mistake Number One 

At 8:21 a.m., the transponder was turned off and Boston Center lost the data from American 11 (A.A 11), but still had the primary radar return blip of the aircraft with each sweep of the quick moving radar. American 11’s blip had turned onto a direct route to the south, toward Manhattan. 

At 8:23, Mohamed Atta made a mistake. The communications panel of the Boeing 767 sits between the captain and the first officer just aft of the throttle quadrant. There are dozens of tiny buttons on this particular panel, some of which select one of the aircraft’s five radios to transmit and others of which select the radio to receive transmissions directed at the aircraft. Passengers may occasionally hear an errant radio call over the P.A. that had been intended for A.T.C. It is a common mistake that is usually made because of a distraction. Occasionally, A.T.C might hear an announcement intended for the passengers on the P.A. system. 

Atta’s mistake is understandable, considering the violent takeover of the cockpit. Blood was surely everywhere as he sat within the fresh murder scene, the seat still warm from the captain who was now bleeding to death on the floor behind him. But Atta had been well trained for this mission and he had been trained to make an announcement to the passengers in an attempt to pacify them enough to buy the time required to complete the mission. This illustrates how critical the timing was and the amount of detail in the hijackers’ training. 

In his heightened state, he must have looked down at the dozens of switches and hastily transmitted on the last setting that had been selected by American’s pilots. The last setting was set to Boston Center. He thought he was speaking to the passengers when he was actually broadcasting on a recorded A.T.C frequency. 

The electronic hide and seek with A.T.C was also designed to buy time; to create confusion that theoretically would delay the call from A.T.C to the United States Air Force and fighter jets that would soon be airborne. But, in his haste, Atta transmitted to Boston Center when he thought he was transmitting over the P.A. to the passengers. He picked up the mike at 8:23 a.m. and said, “We have some planes. Just stay quiet and you’ll be okay. We are returning to the airport.” 

A few seconds later, “Nobody move. Everything will be okay. If you try to make any moves, you’ll endanger yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet.” What Atta didn’t know was that he had just given away the secret, and consequently, at 8:23 Boston Center was completely aware that American 11 had been hijacked. Meanwhile, flight attendant Betty Ong was calmly and professionally giving a blow-by-blow account to American Operations in Fort Worth from American 11’s back cabin.

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Radars Don’t Lie, People Do 

At 8:23, a controller at the Boston A.T.C Center began the notification process to get the fighters in the air and briefed his supervisor on the transmissions. “Pull the tapes,” the supervisor commanded, which meant to have a specialist listen again to the recorded transmission from Atta, “and report back to me.” In the aviation world, most everything is recorded. [1] 

Betty Ong is an American hero. At 8:26, she reported from the Air Phone that “the plane was flying erratically.” She held the flight manifest with passenger names and read off the seat numbers of the hijackers who had stormed the cockpit. Her fellow flight attendant, Amy Sweeney, is also an American hero. She was on another Air Phone, reporting seat numbers and saying that American 11 was hijacked and there was a bomb in the cockpit. She calmly said that a passenger in Business Class had had his throat slashed and two flight attendants had been stabbed, one seriously. She reported that the passengers in the coach section were under the impression that it was just a routine medical emergency in First Class. She knew better. They had been trying to call the pilots on the inter-phone, but there was no answer. [2] 

At 8:28, Boston Center supervisors called the F.A.A Command Center in Herndon, Virginia, to report that American 11 had been hijacked and was heading for New York airspace. By 8:32, the Command Center alerted F.A.A Headquarters in Washington that American 11 had been hijacked but the F.A.A already had received the information from Boston and from American’s supervisor at Fort Worth. The F.A.A was already five minutes into a conference call with the New England regional office. There was no doubt that by 8:30, the F.A.A was well aware that an American Airlines 767 had been hijacked and that it was heading south on radar toward New York. As we shall see, Condoleezza Rice** will testify that she talked to the FAA after the plane hit the north tower at 8:46. She would claim that “all she knew” was that it was a twin-engine plane when she spoke to President Bush at 8:55. [3] 

Really?

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The Set Up 

There was quite a stir about the celebrated intelligence briefings that the President received about Osama bin Laden in the months prior to 9/11. But when we take a closer look, it becomes apparent, rather obvious, that the Intelligence Community** began floating bin Laden’s name at the exact time that the Saudi operation went into go mode. All of a sudden, a string of warnings began to accumulate. 

Mysteriously, briefings fell out of the blue after four years of silence on the bin Laden case. [1] 

They were titled: 

Bin Laden Planning Multiple Operations (April 20, 2001) 

Bin Laden’s Network’s Plans Advancing (May 3) 

Bin Laden Attacks May Be Imminent (May 23) 

Bin Laden and Associates Making Near Term Threats (May 26) 

Bin Laden Planning High-Profile Attacks (June 23) 

Bin Laden Threats Are Real (June 30 and my personal favorite) 

Planning for Bin Laden Attacks Continues, Despite Delays (July 2) 

Wow! Seems as though our boys were really on top of it. But when we actually take time to read these briefings, they just can’t manage to name a single, verifiable source. [2] 

These briefings would serve as a “case history” which “proved” that the Intelligence Community** had a prime suspect. After 9/11 these were quickly used by “senior intelligence officials” to point away from the Saudi operation.

to be continued...next

Not a drill,This is the Real World

notes

Chapter 19 

Notes 1-4: cited in text Passages from Time article from June 29, 1991. Entire article at thebigbamboozle.com 

Chapter 20 

Notes 1-3 ATC Transcripts, black box recordings, phone calls from American 11 

Chapter 21

1: Steve Pieczenik bio 

2: false flag definition 

3: Without Precedent  

4: Radio interview and press release with talk show host Alex Jones. Hear it at thebigbamboozle.com and www.infowars.com/top-us-government-insider-bin-laden-died-in-2001- 911-a-false-flag/ 

Chapter 22 

9/11 Commission report at thebigbamboozle.com Cockpit and ATC transcripts from 9/11 Commission report. 

Chapter 23 

All times and hijacker quotes were from 9/11 Commission report. 

Chapter 24 

Notes 1-2: 9/11 Commission report 

Note 3: The Commission pages 118-121 

Chapter 25 

Notes 1-2: The Commission (Chapter 23) actual reports at thebigbamboozle.com