- A mass movement and a mountain of disturbing
evidence has been growing beneath the radar of U.S. media. The U.S.
media (including alternative media) has done an extraordinarily
superhuman job of "hearing" "seeing" and "speaking no evil." However,
almost immediately after 9-11-2001's horrendous attacks on New York
and Washington D.C., many researchers, ordinary citizens, and
journalists [who've been given precious little print in U.S. papers or
TV] began to smell something rotten . . . not in Denmark . . . but
rather, right here in the good ol' US of A.
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- This movement's early roots began when many people
scratched their heads in wonder at "how 4 commercial jet liners could
fly hijacked for nearly an hour and a half the morning of 9-11,
without any Air Force fighter interceptor jets turning a wheel until
it was too late," as stated by acclaimed Canadian TV journalist, Barry
Zwicker. Zwicker's powerful documentary "The Great Deception," which
suggests top Bush Admin. officials were likely complicit in the 9-11
attacks, aired on Canada's Vision TV network which is viewed by
millions of Canadians. Unfortunately Americans in the U.S. have been
"protected" from viewing this critical documentary.
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- Researchers, like Zwicker and others, quickly
learned that in 2001 before the 9-11 attacks 62 aircraft had been
intercepted by Air Force fighter interceptor jets, and usually within
10 to 15 minutes of going off course.
[http://septembereleventh.org/airdefense.php] Yet bizarrely, on 9-11
four commercial jets were hijacked off course for about one and a half
hours before the last one crashed into the most highly protected
building in the world (the Pentagon). . . yet no interceptor jet
intercepted it in all that time. Alarm bells went off with citizens
across the U.S. and the world. A number of people including former
NYPD detective, Frank Serpico (played by Al Pacino in the movie about
his life as an NYPD whistleblower exposing corruption at the New York
Police Department), began to express a suspicion of the "official 9-11
story" during a whistleblower awards ceremony nationally televised on
C-SPAN.
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- Then other issues came to light regarding 9-11, and
foreknowledge of the attacks. For example, a former Los Angeles Police
Detective named Michael Ruppert noted that outrageously high volumes
of insider trading on United and American Airlines stocks prior to
9-11, (reported on by CBS, Bloomberg and other financial papers)
actually had some strange ties to the Central Intelligence Agency.
9/11-related insider trading was worldwide. It occurred on markets in
Hong Kong, Tokyo, Chicago, New York, London and Berlin. Estimates of
the total amount of insider trades have ranged from the hundred of
millions (CBS), to the billions (Ernst Weltke ñ Chief of the
Bundesbank), to the tens of billions (Andreas von B¸low, former German
cabinet minister).
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- But some of the "put" options purchased on United
and American airlines inside the US caught Ruppert's attention. "Put
Options" are bets one can make AGAINST a stock, betting that it will
fall.
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- As Ruppert quickly noted, in one known case, a large
number of "put" options were placed through the Alex Brown or (AB
Brown) Unit of Deutschebank. Ruppert recalled that AB Brown had been
chaired until he became the Executive Director (No. 3) at the CIA in
1998, by A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard.
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- AB Brown and Deutschebank have a history of being
connected with covert operations and money laundering. In fact had,
they had just been investigated by Senator Levin's committee on
Correspondent Banking and mentioned in Department of Justice
investigations. So, it begs the question, if you were an Arab
terrorist who wanted to cash in on your foreknowledge of the next
days' attacks using United and American Airlines stock, would you go
to a known CIA connected bank to do it? --especially, if you knew, as
Ruppert had previously documented, that the CIA tracks all stock
trades in real time? Probably not.
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- One $2.5 million trade, made through AB Brown by a
late-comer went unclaimed after 9-11 when the markets were closed for
four days. By that time alarms over the insider trades were sounding
all over, even on CBS News. Most of the smarter crooks had absconded
with their money by exercising their put options while the attacks
were taking place through offshore accounts.
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- The head of AB Brown, Mayo Shattuck III, who is a
close friend and associate of Krongard, resigned the day after
9-11-2001 without anyone except Ruppert connecting the dots. To this
day the Bush Administration has not told us who made those insider
trades or why the head of AB Brown resigned on 9-12-2001.
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- Other stories from foreign press began to be read by
a growing number of Americans who realized quickly that they had to
read foreign press to get to the ugly facts around 9-11. A
conservative French newspaper, La Figaro, reported an incredible fact,
that the CIA station chief in Dubai had met with Osama Bin Laden weeks
before the 9-11 attacks as Osama was being treated at a U.S. Army
hospital in Dubai. Yet, even though Osama was on the CIA most wanted
list, the CIA station chief did not only NOT arrest him, but met with
him and then reportedly went back to the U.S. for high level meetings
in Washington following his meeting with Osama. Even more bizarrely
alarming facts surfaced such as the article in a prominent Indian
newspaper reporting that the hijacker mastermind of 9-11, Mohammed
Atta, had been wired $100,000.00 by the head of Pakistani Intelligence
weeks before 9-11, who oddly enough was in Washington meeting with top
Bush Admin. officials ON 9-11-2001.
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- Although none of these bizarre facts raised any
hairs in the U.S. media corps, a corps which had done such an
"outstanding" job ferreting out the truth on the weapons of mass
destruction issue before the ill fated war on Iraq, these facts WERE
disturbing to many other Americans. Some Americans were able to see
through the endless media fixation on celebrities and their endless
foibles, and these vigilant Americans were looking deep, long and hard
at the above facts and the more they saw the more alarming it
became.
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- A movement began to build as people across America,
who were seeing that the U.S. media's Orwellian ability to focus on
celebrity gossip, and yet be blind, deaf, and dumb to the growing
likelihood that people within our government had foreknowledge of the
coming attacks . . . was just too much too bear. 9-11 Truth or 911
Visibility movement actions began to spring up across the nation. 9-11
researchers, and concerned citizens began to organize through sites
like www.911visibility.org and www.911truth.org.
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- 9-11 family members became increasingly alarmed and
disgusted as the Bush Administration ordered the Senate not to
investigate the 9-11 attacks, and then spent the next two years trying
to block all 9-11 investigations. One widow, Ellen Mariani with her
attorney, former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania Phil Berg
filed suit against the Bush Administration under the RICO Racketeering
Act. Ellen charged Bush et al with foreknowledge of the coming
attacks, willfully allowing them to occur for political gain, and
engaging in a criminal obstruction of the 9-11 investigations. Other
suits were filed by other 9-11 family members, including one
represented by a former aid to Bob Dole filed in San Francisco court.
These suits have been virtually ignored by U.S. media, and by much of
U.S. "alternative" media.
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- FBI agents Crowley and Wright, and former FBI
translator Sibel Edmonds came forward to tell the public that our
government had not acted on the information they had that may have
prevented the coming 9-11 attacks. Sibel Edmonds told the media (who
mostly ignored her) that Condaleeza Rice was "lying" when she told
America that they knew nothing of the coming attacks.
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- The intensity of the 9-11 truth issue continued to
build, even as U.S. media virtually ignored the growing mountain of
facts that directly contradict the "official" 9-11 story. More voices
began to clammer together to raise the issue in the public eye.
Protesters at "ground zero" in New York City raised a banner reading
"Bush Engineered 9-11," while hundreds of protesters lined the streets
of downtown Kansas City with "Stop Bush's 9-11 Cover Up" signs. 9-11
widow Ellen Mariani went on a national tour speaking in churches and
town meetings, explaining her RICO Act suit against Bush et al for
9-11, and 9-11 truth protests and teach-ins began to spread across the
U.S. and Canada, and even Europe. At the March 20th, 2004 Mobilization
Against the War marches in San Francisco and New York thousands
carried "Stop the 9-11 Cover Up" posters that were photographed by
Associated Press and carried on the front page of papers across the
U.S. and even radio shock jock Howard Stern's website featured a shot
of the "Stop the 9-11 Cover Up" signs on his websites homepage. Even
Minister Farakkhan of the Nation of Islam suggested on national
television that people in the Bush Administration allowed the 9-11
attacks to occur to fool us into wars. The 9-11 truth issue suddenly
seemed to be bursting forth from all corners of society. From shock
jocks to Islamic leaders the official 9-11 story seemed to be
crumbling apart before the nation's eyes. 9-11 activists from across
North America met in San Francisco for the first International Inquiry
into 9-11. Although BBC World Radio and local media covered the event,
it was virtually ignored by mainstream and even much of alternative
U.S. media. But, the movement builds anyway. Canada is about to host
the second International Inquiry into 9-11, and a third may be held
later.
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- The 9-11 truth issue gained momentum when respected
theologian David Ray Griffin released his new book "The New Pearl
Harbor," which meticulously spells out why the official story is
likely a snow job. When it was endorsed by respected social justice
author, teacher and activist Howard Zinn, the light of hope for 9-11
truth to come forth cast a brighter ray across the nation.
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- Then, actor and long time peace activist Ed Asner
broke the 9-11 truth issue open to the national peace movement when he
issued an open letter to the American peace movement urging them to
make 9-11 truth their main priority, because two wars and endless
losses of civil liberties are being based on 9-11. And as many are
realizing when they take the time to look into the issue, the official
story does NOT stand up to the light of day. Almost immediately after
Asner's letter released, the National Green Party released a press
statement that called into question the official 9-11story, the
integrity of the 9-11 Commission, and called for an entirely new 9-11
investigation which would include 9-11 family members who are
increasingly unhappy with the Commission's milk toast efforts of
inquiry.
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- This national 9-11 truth movement is going to get
nothing but larger, clearer, and more organized. The "official" story
continues to grow thinner and more transparent as the snow job that it
obviously is. The United States media, both mainstream and
alternative, continue to damage their credibility beyond repair. A
growing number of citizens reach out to foreign media, and only watch
U.S. media to observe the distortion and omission that has made a
mockery of our newspaper, television and radio media. We are beginning
to see what Soviet's felt like when they picked up their newspapers or
turned on their televisions.
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- After 9-11 our nation was turned upside down. Those
who challenged Bush suddenly became labeled as "un-American." Ashcroft
sought to turn our postal service and gas company employees into a
domestic spy force to "keep an eye on us all." The Patriot Act was
rammed through Congress, a Congress in chaos as U.S. military AMES
strain anthrax is sent... not to Bush or the Pentagon but to the top
two Democrats who were actively challenging the Patriot Act-Daschle
and Leahy (head of the Senate Judiciary Committee). To believe the
several hundred page Patriot Act was created in the few short weeks
since 9-11 before it was rammed through Congress is naivetÈ at it's
highest. It was written before 9-11, it only needed the proper climate
for it to be rammed through. Bush et, al, had plans to invade Iraq
before 9-11, they only needed the proper climate to enact their plans.
FBI field agents were screaming the facts that could have prevented
the attacks, and in the words of FBI Agent Crowleyher attempts to get
this information up the chain of command were "almost DELIBERATELY
thwarted". 9-11 exploitation and the constant terror invoked by Bush
et al to keep us in a state of mind conducive to giving up liberty and
to conduct "endless wars" becomes an increasingly obvious
"formula."
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- Yet, all is not lost, for today we have the
Internet. And we still have a democracy, if we act to preserve it.
This will require a mammoth effort to demand the full truth of 9-11.
www.911visibility.org provides tools and support for doing just that.
The truth shall set U.S. free. Unless we demand the full truth of 9-11
any discussion in the future about our environment, education policy,
social spending, military spending, etc. will be poisoned with the
unexposed lies of 9-11. 9-11 truth is the most critical issue facing
America and the world. Get involved in the www.911truth.org campaign,
and get activated at www.911visibility.org.
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- - Bill Douglas is the Co-Founder of National
911Visibility.org and author of "The Amateur Parent - A Book on Life,
Death, War & Peace, and Everything Else in the Universe".
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