By R. Joseph, PhD
5-29-2004

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The September 11 attack on America was planned, coordinated, and carried out under the watchful eyes and with the helpful assistance of top officials in the FBI, CIA, and Bush Administration--officials who did everything in their power to insure that the operation would be a spectacular triumph unequaled in the world of terrorism and political opportunism. As planned, the mass murder of over 3,000 Americans, transformed an inept, seemingly incompetent president into a war time leader, possibly insuring his reelection and a Republican resurgence and power grab.

As expected, the gamble paid off handsomely.

REALITY CHECK:  The world knows -- it's well documented -- that al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden are CIA assets that were funded, directed and managed by rogue cells in the CIA, FBI and Bush Administration.  Much of the American public also knows - those who watched Fahrenheit 9/11 -- that the Bush Administration secretly allowed the flight of Osama bin Laden's family out of the US immediately following 9/11 when commercial flights in the US were grounded.  Sworn affidavits from top military and NORAD officials [read: www.heartcom.org/BUSHwhacked1.htm] prove that Bush authorized the attack and Cheney ran the operation... just as the Roosevelt administration set up and "allowed" Pearl Harbor to get us into World War II... just as Wall Street and government insiders set up and orchestrated World War I.  In short, treason and mass murder by the REAL terrorists who use terror tactics for tyranny... those who truly hate our freedoms and created the Patriot Act laws and "Homeland Security" -- the translation of the German acronym "Gestapo" -- to take away our freedoms and spy on "the resistance".

Top officials in the United States government had in fact known about the plot since 1995 when they received a warning from Philippine officials who informed them that bin Laden associates were undergoing flight training in the U.S. Terrorists were planning to crash hijacked airliners into the Pentagon and New York's World Trade Center, U.S. officials were told.

In 1995 and 1996, the FBI also learned that al-Qaeda associate, Abdul Hakim Murad and two other men, had received flight training at four different flight schools in the U.S. during the early 1990s Coastal Aviation, Richmor Aviation, Schenectady flight school and Alpha Tango Flying Services in San Antonio. Murad was in fact recruited by Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the bin Laden operative who had plotted and carried out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Murad was subsequently convicted of plotting to crash a suicide plane into CIA headquarters and blow up a dozen U.S. commercial jetliners over the Pacific.

Specifically, in addition to the World Trade Center bombing, it was determined in 1996, that Yousef and Murad had been plotting to train and deploy five-man terrorist teams who were to infiltrate and bomb 12 different commercial jetliners, including Northwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines, some of which were to be crashed into U.S. cities, including New York and Washington.

U.S. government prosecutors described the plot as "one of the most hideous crimes anyone ever conceived."

In October of 1996, FBI agents in Phoenix were also informed by an undercover agent, Harry Ellen, that a number of Arab extremists at a local mosque were receiving aviation training. Ellen was alarmed and informed the Phoenix office "that it would be terrible if the bad guys were able to gain this kind of access to airplanes, flight training and crop dusters. You really ought to look at this, it's an interesting mix of people."

Indeed, one of the bad guys was Hanji Hajour, one of the September 11 hijackers. Hanjour was living in Phoenix and taking flight lessons at two different local schools Professional Pilot Training and Cockpit Resource Management. Yet another suspected terrorist, Lotfi Raissi, was also in Phoenix, and later was briefly jailed in Britain on suspicion of training some of the 9/11 terrorists.

For example, following the arrest of those involved in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, documents were discovered which contained numerous references to pilot training and flight schools and a plot to hijack U.S. jetliners. Two participants in the 1998 bombings, who subsequently turned government informant, also revealed to the FBI that they and other men directly linked with bin Laden, had been ordered to take flight classes. Specifically, Essam al-Ridi, received flight training at the Ed Boardman Aviation School in Fort Worth whereas Ihab Ali Nawawi received flight training at Airman Flight School in Norman, Oklahoma. This same Ihab Ali Nawawi was linked to the 1998 embassy bombings. Another terrorist, L'Houssaine Kerchtou, received flight raining in Nairobi.

In yet another high profile case, an Algerian terrorist, Ahmed Ressam, with direct links to al-Qaeda and bin Laden, informed FBI officials that al-Qaeda was planning to carry out coordinated terrorist assaults on high profile American targets including New York City and the Pentagon. Ressam, who had been arrested in 1999 for plotting to carry out terrorist attacks on the Los Angeles airport, detailed the plot to FBI agents as part of a plea agreement. Bin Laden, he warned, would soon unleash an incomprehensible horror on the people of the United States, and American commercial jetliners would be used as weapons in the attack.

In 1999, the CIA and FBI received additional intelligence reports which warned that terrorists might hijack commercial jetliners and slam them into the Pentagon or the White House.

Over the ensuing months and throughout 2001, the FBI, CIA, and other U.S. intelligence agencies became increasingly aware that individuals known or suspected to be linked with bin Laden or other terrorists groups, had been slipping into the country. They also knew that suspected terrorists on the FBI's "watch list" were receiving flight training. And they knew that men on their "watch list" were holding late night meetings that were attended by other men who were being watched, and many of these men then attended yet other meetings at different locations with yet other men on the FBI's "watch list" as well as with men who would later carry out the 9/11 attacks.

In fact, a dozen different individuals that the FBI maintains on a "watch list" and who were under some form of surveillance, shared the same U.S. addressees and were in fact living with several of the 9/11 hijackers.

For example, eight of those on the FBI's watch list lived at the same address as two of the 9/11 hijackers Hamza Alghamdi and Ahmed Alghamdi. All ten men shared a dormitory at Flight Safety International--a flight school in Vero Beach--and were training to be pilots. Hamza and Ahmed were on the jet that hit the south Tower of the World Trade Center.

Yet another certified pilot on the FBI's watch list shared an address in Daytona Beach with Waleed Alshehri, a hijacker on the flight that struck the north Tower of the World Trade Center. Also at that address Saeed Alghamdi, a hijacker on the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania.

Waleed Alshehri and his brother Wail Alshehri, also shared yet another address with a woman living in Hollywood, Florida, who was also on the "watch list." And, she shared their surname Alshehri.

A Coral Springs man who was also on the FBI's watch list shared the same address as Marwan Al-Shehhi and Mohamed Atta. Al-Shehhi and Atta piloted the commercial jets that struck the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.

The FBI was not only aware that Mohamed Atta was in the U.S. and receiving flight training, but that he been implicated in previous terrorist attacks, and had met with a senior Iraqi intelligence officer. In fact, by law, Atta and his "cousin" Marwan, should have never been granted visas or allowed into the country; yet in the months prior to 9/11 they were allowed to continue their activities unhindered.

They were not alone. Several of the other hijackers had also been granted visas and allowed into this country in the weeks and months before 9/11 although they were known to be veterans of previous terrorist attacks. Salem Alhamzi and Khalid Al-Midhar were on a special terrorist-watch list given to Border Patrol and I.N.S. agents on August 21, 2001.

There were excellent reasons for keeping an eye on Khalid Al-Midhar and to prevent him from entering the country. The year before he had been videotaped meeting with one of the suspects in the Oct. 12, 2000 terrorist attack of the USS Cole. Yet, Khalid Al-Midhar had no difficulty entering the United States. Although the I.N.S. and Border Patrol had been alerted, Khalid Al-Midhar, a man known to have been associating with known terrorists, legally entered the United States on a business visa.

Salem Alhamzi also waltzed right in and did so in a "legal" manner. He had a business visa.

Despite the fact that Alhamzi and Al-Midhar were considered dangerous, they were allowed free entry into the U.S., and immediately set up housekeeping together at the Marriott Hotel in New York, which was listed as their official residence. Three weeks later, on September 11, Khalid Al-Midha and Salem Alhamzi would hijack American Airlines flight 77 and then crash it into the Pentagon.

The FBI, CIA, and Bush administration, not only had advanced and detailed information and then did nothing to prevent the 9/11 assault and murder of 3000 Americans, they tried to cover it up and then lied about it.

After the September 11, attack, Robert S. Mueller III, Director of the FBI, said he was surprised to discover there were terrorists in the U.S., and even more surprised to learn they had been receiving flight training. "This is news to me" he said, and then added, "obviously, if we had understood that to be the case, we would have averted this."

In the months before 9/11, top officials in the FBI, CIA, and Bush administration, formed an unholy alliance and "silent" partnership with al-Qaeda and the Taliban, providing them with over 43 million dollars in funding in March of 2001--despite the objections of all other government agencies. The 9/11 hijackers were not only trained in this country, their activities were funded by U.S. dollars provided by the Bush administration.

Moreover, these same officials sabotaged the efforts of any and all FBI field agents, especially those in Florida, Arizona, and Minnesota, who threatened to unravel and reveal the plot.

On August 15 of 2001, just weeks before the 9/11 attack, FBI agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, arrested Zacarias Moussaoui who was in the U.S. illegally. They were alerted to Moussaoui's presence and the danger he represented, by the manager of the International Flight School in Eagan, Minnesota.

Moussaoui, the FBI was told, had been requesting training in a Boeing 747 simulator. However, he had no interest in learning about landings or takeoffs. According to an instructor at the flight school "He just wanted to learn to steer the plane, which was very odd."

The FBI field office soon learned from French intelligence officials that Zacarias Moussaoui was a suspected terrorist affiliated with radical fundamentalist Islamic groups and Osama Bin Laden. Upon further investigation, Minneapolis FBI agents became convinced that Moussaoui posed a direct threat to the security of the United States and that he was part of a widespread terrorist plot that involved the hijacking and destruction of commercial U.S. jet liners.

However, in order to confirm their suspicions and prevent what they were convinced was a major threat to the United States, the field agents required a criminal search warrant which would allow them to search his personal affect and in particular, his computer lap top.

As detailed by Coleen Rowley, a senior FBI agent in the Minneapolis office, they required approval from FBI Headquarters and the Department of Justice, before they could seek a warrant from the United States Attorney's Office in Minnesota.

What makes the behavior of FBI headquarters even more outrageous is that they and the CIA were on heightened alert and had just received a report from Israel's intelligence services which warned that as many as 200 terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden had slipped into the country and were preparing to launch a major assault on the United States. Moreover, the previous month, "terrorism czar" Richard Clarke issued a "superalert" and warned FBI, aviation and INS officials that "something really spectacular" was in the works and that the U.S. would soon be attacked and that U.S. aircraft might be hijacked as part of a coordinated terrorist assault.

When informed that the warrant request had been altered and then denied, FBI agents in the Minneapolis field office were shocked and outraged as they were convinced an attack was about to take place and that Moussaoui was the key to preventing it. In fact, given the widespread knowledge that the U.S. was about to be attacked and that commercial jets would be employed, the roadblocks erected by FBI headquarters seem incredibly suspicious to these agents. Some of the Minneapolis field agents even began to suggest that top FBI officials were acting as "accomplices" to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

According to Rowley, top officials in the FBI were obviously determined to sabotage, disrupt, block, and prevent access to Moussaoui's computer.

And why was that?

Following 9/11, a search warrant was finally issued, and specific details pertaining to the 9/11 terrorist attack was found--information that would have enabled the U.S. government to prevent the attack if it has been uncovered prior to 9/11. Moussaoui, it is now believed, was to be the "20th" hijacker.

The Minneapolis field office was not alone in these failed and sabotaged attempts to prevent this catastrophe. In July of 2001, Phoenix FBI agent, Kenneth Williams, had concluded a painstaking investigation and had uncovered detailed information that linked a number of Middle Eastern flight students to Osama bin Laden and to a radical British Islamic group, Al-Muhajiroun.

Williams became alarmed and sought to warn FBI headquarters because eight of these Middle Eastern men were not only receiving flight training but had sought information about airport security. Moreover, he discovered that one of the flight school students had communicated with Abu Zubaydah, one of bin Laden's top aides.

In July of 2001, just two months before the 9/11 attack, Williams prepared a secret memorandum which named names and detailed his suspicions and which recommended that the FBI immediately begin canvassing flight schools in order to identify any suspected terrorists. Williams' memo and suggestions were sent to and then rejected by the very same FBI officials in the FBI headquarters who weeks later would alter and turn down the warrant requested by the Minneapolis offices.

Inexplicably and completely contrary to established protocol, neither the Phoenix or Minnesota FBI field offices were informed that each had independently developed information suggesting that commercial jets might soon be hijacked and crashed into U.S. cities. The alteration and deletion of information contained in the Minnesota warrant request was also a direct violation of FBI regulations.

FBI agents in Minnesota, however, were so convinced that an attack would soon take place, that they rewrote the warrant applications only to again have information removed and deleted; an action which insured the warrant would again be rejected and that terrorists could successfully carry out the 9/11 attack.

Why did this happen?

Another question that deserves a detailed answer "If they knew in advance, why would top officials in the FBI, CIA, and Bush administration allow this tragedy to take place?"

These questions have the same probable answer

We believe the answer is obvious.

The cover up began well before 9/11. The cover up continues to this day.

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