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Subject: [Gators-911] 9/11 Truth nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
2008
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9/11 Truth nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2008
by Torstein Viddal
Tuesday Oct 7th, 2008 9:29 PM

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/07/18543360.php
Dr. David Ray Griffin and everyone involved in the 9/11 truth
movement have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The recipient
of the Peace Prize will be announced this Friday, October 10.
From Torstein Viddal [1];

Dear friends,

this is the auto-translated Google English version of the story
currently heading our truth site 9/11 Truth Norway.

http://www.911truth.no/ [2]
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9/11 Truth nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2008 [4]
4 October 2008

Reason for the nomination of
David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement to the Nobel Peace
Prize 2008
Supported by 10 professors, or current or former MPs

The wars of the 21st century – what the U.S. President has
called 'The global war on terror' - are justified with a tragic
event: the attacks against New York and Washington 11 September 2001.
This event would come to justify pre-emptive war on enemies who
seemed to be everywhere and nowhere. From 2001 terrorism was
presented as the biggest threat to Western society, and the foremost
evidence of this threat, we were told, were the events of 11
September.

In recent years, however, the 9/11 Truth Movement and their
outstanding academic David Ray Griffin presented strong evidence that
the attacks of 11 September were not carried out by Islamist
terrorists, as we have been told, but by a U.S. 'war lite' as an
excuse to go to war against Afghanistan and Iraq (wars that were
already approved). David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement have
presented convincing evidence showing that this 'war elite' carried
out these attacks to establish a new enemy after the Cold War, and to
start wars in line with their economic and political interests. We
believe the most important contribution to peace in the 21st century
is the disclosure of these elite political games and the removal of
the false reasons for its aggressive wars. This Griffin and the 9/11
Truth Movement have done in an excellent way. If the attack on 11
September was a U.S. 'false flag operation' to justify wars in the
Middle East, the disclosure of
that fact should be honored with the Nobel Peace Prize. We therefore
nominate this David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement to share
the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008.

Since 2001, the major mass media - the major newspapers, TV channels
and news agencies - have been instruments of war propaganda. While
more and more academics, military officers and intelligence analysts
presented a growing amount of evidence that 9/11-angrepene against
New York and Washington were carried out by people inside the United
States system, not mainstream media reported this information.
Despite the fact that almost 50% of the U.S. population is skeptical
of the official version of 11 September, the mass media has not
presented the background for this skepticism. The regular mass
media's inability to safeguard their democratic responsibilities have
forced the 9/11 Truth Movement to put their information on the
Internet. Despite the corruption in the regular mass media David Ray
Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement have been able to present
significant information that could have turned war to peace. This, as
we understand it made them the
most worthy candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The 9/11 Truth Movement began as a marginal group of activists and
academics who questioned the official version of the 11 September
events. Today, this movement includes about 100 professors, over 200
architects and engineers, 100 former military officers and
intelligence analysts, over 60 pilots and 200 survivors or etterlatte
after 11 September (see below). The 9/11 Truth Movement also includes
former European government members. It includes a former CIA division
chief, a former national Etterretningsoffiser and director of the
CIAs Office of Regional and Political Analysis, a former Chairman of
the National Intelligence Estimates, a former head of the president's
daily update (PDB), a former intelligence leader at the Pentagon, a
former the leader of the Star Wars program, a former sjefsøkonom for
President George W. Bush and a former Deputy Finance Minister and
Chief of Wall Street Journal. Many of these people have praised David
Ray Griffin's
books. The 9/11 Truth Movement has evolved into a larger movement of
dissidents who are trying to change the world.

Today we have a peace movement with hundreds of thousands of
activists who have turned against the lies, like 'global war on
terror'. A significant part of this movement of students, professors,
intelligence analysts and military officers protest not only against
the war. They have also shown that the United States 'war elite' has
stood for acts of terrorism as an excuse for their own wars. It is
about an old tactic of 'false flag operations' that have been used as
long as wars have demanded reasons for initiation: It allows a secret
military force or terrorist attack force one's own military forces or
one's own people for an attack war to work as a 'response'.
Historically speaking, false flag operations have been used by the
British, Germans, Americans, Israelis and even the Swedes. USA
started the Spanish-American War in 1898 by attacking their own
warships USS Maine in Cuba. In 1962, the U.S. military leadership in
a secret document to implement a
similar attack against its own warships at Guantanamo in Cuba, as
well as to bomb their own marinebase, which would look like a Cuban
attack. The document suggested the U.S. terrorist attacks with bombs
that explode in American cities and Cuban forged documents to put the
blame on Cuba and justify a war against Cuba. President John F.
Kennedy approved the plan and was not considered to be unacceptable
for the 'war elite'. Two years later, however, was a counterfeit
North Vietnamese bomb attack against the U.S. Destroyer USS Maddox in
the Tonkin Bay justify war against North Vietnam. A year ago, former
U.S. national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski spoke in the
Senate, and he said that the United States Government through
adopting a 'provocation in Iraq or a terrorist attack in the United
States attributed to Iran' may attempt to justify a U.S. military
attack against Iran. Justification of war is particularly necessary
in more or less democratic
countries, and false flag operations are the standard technique to
justify aggressive attack. All new evidence of what happened on 11
September shows that this attack was a false flag operation. When
David Ray Griffin published the book The New Pearl Harbor -
Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 in 2003-
2004, he could point out precisely this fact. Soon the 9/11 Truth
Movement was born, and it was a global phenomenon. In book after
book, video after video and on site by site, the U.S. 'war elite' has
been undressed and revealed by Griffin and his colleagues.

The 9/11 Truth Movement has pointed to the U.S. official statements
that the administration was taken by surprise on 11 September, while
a large amount of evidence shows that the Egyptian, Jordanian,
Israeli, German, French, British, Russian and U.S. intelligence
services in advance informed the U.S. lead on an imminent attack on
U.S. soil. Some of these were specific about the airlines intervened
in September against U.S. landmarks as the World Trade Center. Senior
Agents from the FBI and CIA informed their superiors about the
impending attack, but to his great surprise was the top management is
not interested in more information. U.S. officers said no one could
imagine that terrorists could fly passenger airliners into buildings
in such a large scale, while the evidence now point to the fact that
U.S. Air Force and other U.S. agencies had trained for such attacks
for months. In the months that led up to 11 Sept. they conducted
several military
exercises with the aircraft that crashed into the World Trade Center
and Pentagon. The official story is not credible.

The 9/11 Truth Movement has also been able to show that the World
Trade Center towers were removed with explosives of military type,
and bombs planted in buildings. The 47-stories tall Building 7 was
removed without it being hit by any aircraft. Over 100 firefighters
are talking about explosives in the buildings. Many witnesses are
talking about huge explosions in the building's basement. Garage
floor in the basement of the North Tower disappeared in an explosion
already when the first plane hit the building. Firefighters talked
about 'rivers of molten steel'. When the towers were collapsing,
the 'volcanoes' of molten steel,' as lava ', under the destroyed
towers, and the melting steel was not cold until months later.
Experts have said that 'it even burned fires and cream melted steel
21 days after the attack'. Mayor Rudy Giuliani said that the
underground fires 'lasted one hundred days'. For several months cream
large amounts of molten steel at Zero
point on the World Trade Center, suggesting much higher temperatures
than the actual melting point (1,560 ° C). Regular fires carbon and
oxygen poor carbon fires, as we clearly saw the TV pictures from the
World Trade Center towers, will not be near these temperatures. The
fact that the molten steel whipped around in the months can only be
explained by the massive use of explosives by the military type, or
non-conventional weapons. Video and photographs showing massive
explosions and molten steel. Specialists point out that steel
evaporated. A typical carbon fire can not reach temperatures of over
1000 ° C. To evaporate steel need temperatures above 3000 ° C. The
9/11 Truth Movement has given a great contribution through collecting
the evidence. They know now that the attack on 11 September was a
mission conducted by a professional military, and the disclosure of
this fact is probably the absolute most important contribution to
peace in the 21st
century, and the most important motivation for giving the Nobel
Peace Prize in 2008 to David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement.

Certain groups in the West has not only been skeptical, but also
dismay of the fact that the United States' war elite'could be able to
sacrifice thousands of American lives in Washington and New York to
create the pretext for wars in the Middle East, and to replace the
Soviet enemy with a new enemy after the Cold War. Why would the
United States 'war elite' sacrifice American lives, they ask. These
groups in the West, said no U.S. elite could be as cynical and
cunning. But to replace the Cold War order with a global war on
terror has been considered essential for these people. Today we also
know that thousands of rescue workers after the World Trade Center
towers' collapse has breathed the toxic dust, which has tragic
consequences. Far more people actually die of the toxic dust than by
the fires and collapse. We know also that the White House instructed
EPA pollution audit to give people misleading information - they told
the new yorkers that the air was
safe to breathe, even though they knew the air was toxic. The White
House offered with the knowledge and the willingness of thousands of
newyorkere by forcing the EPA to present inaccurate information.

The disclosure of the 11 September events as an 'inside job'
interferes not only with the justification of the U.S. aggressive war
in the oil-rich Middle East and Central Asia, it is also a damper
Islamists for the justification of terrorist attacks against Western
targets, as Griffin and the 9/11 Truth movement's disclosure of the
U.S. 'inside job' can force the Islamist activists or insurgents to
understand their own role as pieces in the game of the U.S.
authorities. These Islamists will understand that they have been used
as useful idiots of the United States 'war elite', which needed these
terrorist acts to justify their wars. The contribution from David Ray
Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement is not only a blow to America's
aggressive wars, these contributions are also a very important blow
against an Islamist terrorism that has provoked forward or been used
to justify the U.S. war against Muslim countries.

In that era the U.S. administration called 'The global war on terror'
David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement have provided the most
significant contribution to peace, and for this they should be given
the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008.

[For more info - contact 9/11 Truth Norway at the address 'press at
911truth.no'.]
[PS: The final decision of the Norwegian Nobel Institute is announced
on October 1oth.]

Links:
[1] http://viddal.wordpress.com/
[2] http://www.911truth.no/
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fredspris-2008/

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Oct. 1st Military starts Martial Law Mission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYxTzDFofZQ

I wonder if AIG was the selected company for bailout because of its relationship to the U.S. intelligence community and what others would discover if AIG's books were opened in an audit. The last person to get close to AIG and its shady operations was Eliott Spitzer.- -from a Cynthia McKinney speach
http://www.counterpunch.org/mckinney09192008.html

I think she's on to something
FTW has also conducted an extensive investigation into AIG and its predecessors, including the C. V. Starr Insurance Companies, revealing deep connections to US intelligence dating back to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in World War II.

These connections include documented CIA operatives connected to drug smuggling from Southeast Asia and a current board member, Frank Wisner, Jr., whose father was a key figure in the creation of the CIA. History, as well as AIG's current operations, suggest that these relationships continue unabated today.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/part_2.html

Building on Scott's research, Michael C. Ruppert's investigation "AIG" (From The Wilderness, August 14, 2001) exhaustively deconstructed Hank Greenberg
(Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberger Group, the Trilateral Commission) and the Heritage Foundation, a former candidate for CIA director (1995), Bush family crony, and high-level functionary for all US presidents stretching back to Kennedy) and AIG, exposing continuing connections to covert operations, narcotrafficking, money laundering, and AIG's central role in the Wall Street/Washington power nexus.

In addition to explaining how "insurance" is used in intelligence operations, Ruppert tracked down then-AIG employee Coral Talavera, the wife of Medellin Cartel co-founder Carlos Lehder. The questions raised by Ruppert regarding AIG's connection to Lehder and millions in drug money (laundered between 1987-1992) remain unanswered, and the dark realities about the conglomerate, studiously ignored.
http://www.copvcia.com/free/ww3/070105_target_aig.shtml
It's a cesspool... Diogenes moves on- ain't one honest man in Washington DeCeit
"every question, if it's a truthful question,can be answered by askin' it." -Bob Dylan

"Do not adjust your mind, it is reality that is malfunctioning. "- Robert Anton Wilson -

“We have, as far as possible, closed every avenue by which light may enter their (the slaves) minds.
If we could extinguish the capacity to see the light, our work would be complete;
-Virginia House of Delegates 1832,“Henty Berry

#16 No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11 in Top 25 Censored Stories for 2008
Source: The Muckraker Report, June 6, 2006, and Ithaca Journal, June 29, 2006 Title: “FBI says, ‘No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11’” Author: Ed Haas http://www.teamliberty.net/id267.html
Student Researcher: Bianca May and Morgan Ulery Faculty Evaluator: Ben Frymer, Ph.D.
Osama bin Laden’s role in the events of September 11, 2001 is not mentioned on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” poster. On June 5, 2006, author Ed Haas contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters to ask why, while claiming that bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 1998 bombings of US Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, the poster does not indicate that he is wanted in connection with the events of 9/11. Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI responded, “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Osama bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.” Tomb continued, “Bin Laden has not been formally charged in connection to 9/11.” Asked to explain the process, Tomb responded, “The FBI gathers evidence. Once evidence is gathered, it is turned over to the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice then decides whether it has enough evidence to present to a federal grand jury. In the case of the 1998 United States Embassies being bombed, bin Laden has been formally indicted and charged by a grand jury. He has not been formally indicted and charged in connection with 9/11 because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.” Haas pauses to ask the question, “If the US government does not have enough hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11, how is it possible that it had enough evidence to invade Afghanistan to ‘smoke him out of his cave?’” Through corporate media, the Bush administration told the American people that bin Laden was “Public Enemy Number One,” responsible for the deaths of nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001. The federal government claims to have invaded Afghanistan to “root out” bin Laden and the Taliban, yet nearly six years later, the FBI said that it had no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11. Though the world was to have been convinced by the December 2001 release of a bin Laden “confession video,” the Department of Defense issued a press release to accompany this video in which Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said, “There was no doubt of bin Laden’s responsibility for the 9/11 attacks even before the tape was discovered.” In a CNN article regarding the bin Laden tape, then New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said that “the tape removes any doubt that the US military campaign targeting bin Laden and his associates is more than justified.” Senator Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said, “The tape’s release is central to informing people in the outside world who don’t believe bin Laden was involved in the September 11 attacks.” Shelby went on to say “I don’t know how they can be in denial after they see this tape.” Haas attempted to secure a reference to US government authentication of the bin Laden “confession video,” to no avail. However, it is conclusive that the Bush Administration and US Congress, along with corporate media, presented the video as authentic. So why doesn’t the FBI view the “confession video” as hard evidence? After all, notes Haas, if the FBI is investigating a crime such as drug trafficking, and it discovers a video of members of a drug cartel openly talking about a successful distribution operation in the United States, that video would be presented to a federal grand jury. The participants identified in the video would be indicted. The video alone would serve as sufficient evidence to net a conviction in a federal court. So why, asks Haas, is the bin Laden “confession video” not carrying the same weight with the FBI? Haas strongly suggests that we begin asking questions, “The fact that the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Osama bin Laden to 9/11 should be headline news around the world. The challenge to the reader is to find out why it is not. Why has the US media blindly read the government-provided 9/11 scripts, rather than investigate without passion, prejudice, or bias, the events of September 11, 2001? Why has the US media blacklisted any guest that might speak of a government-sponsored 9/11 cover-up, rather than seeking out those people who have something to say about 9/11 that is contrary to the government’s account?” Haas continues. “Who is controlling the media message, and how is it that the FBI has no ‘hard evidence’ connecting Osama bin Laden to the events of September 11, 2001, while the US media has played the bin Laden-9/11 connection story for [six] years now as if it has conclusive evidence that bin Laden is responsible for the collapse of the twin towers, the Pentagon attack, and the demise of United Flight 93?” UPDATE BY ED HAAS On June 6, 2006 the Muckraker Report ran a piece by Ed Haas titled “FBI says, ‘No hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.’” Haas is the editor and a writer for the Muckraker Report. At the center of this article remains the authenticity and truthfulness of the videotape released by the federal government on December 13, 2001 in which it is reported that Osama bin Laden “confesses” to the September 11, 2001 attacks. The corporate media—television, radio, and newspapers—across the United States and the world repeated, virtually non-stop for a week after the videotape’s release, the government account of OBL “confessing.” However, not one document has been released that demonstrates the authenticity of the videotape or that it even went through an authentication process. The Muckraker Report has submitted Freedom of Information Act requests to the FBI, CIA, Department of Defense, and CENTCOM requesting documentation that would demonstrate the authenticity of the videotape and the dates/circumstances in which the videotape was discovered. CENTCOM has yet to reply to the FOIA request. After losing an appeal, the FBI responded that no documents could be found responsive to the request. The Department of Defense referred the Muckraker Report to CENTCOM while also indicating that it had no documents responsive to the FOIA request either. The CIA however claims that it can neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of records responsive to the request. According to the CIA the fact of the existence or nonexistence of requested records is properly classified and is intelligence sources and methods information that is protected from disclosure by section 6 of the CIA Act of 1949, as amended. Therefore, the Agency has denied your request pursuant to FOIA exemptions (b)(1) and (b)(3). Many people believe that if the videotape is authentic, it should be sufficient hard evidence for the FBI to connect bin Laden to 9/11. The Muckraker Report agrees. However, for the Department of Justice to indict bin Laden for the 9/11 attacks, something the government has yet to do, the videotape would have to be entered into evidence and subjected to additional scrutiny. This appears to be something the government wishes to avoid. Some believe that the video is a fake. They refer to it as the “fat bin Laden”video. The Muckraker Report believes that while the videotape is indeed authentic, it was the result of an elaborate CIA sting operation. The Muckraker Report also believes that the reason why there is no documentation that demonstrates that the videotape went through an authenticity process is because the CIA knew it was authentic, they arranged the taping. It is highly probable that the videotape was taped on September 26, 2001—before the US invaded Afghanistan.
See the full list of Top 25 Censored Stories for 2008

http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news
U.S. to sell Israel Air Force 1,000 bunker-buster bombs 14 Sep 2008
Despite 'reservations' in Washington regarding a possible Israeli
strike on Iran, the American administration will supply Israel with
sophisticated weapons for heavily fortified targets, the U.S.
administration announced. The U.S. Department of Defense announced it
would sell the Israel Air Force 1,000 new smart bombs, rumored to
significantly enhance the IAF's military capabilities.

Congress notified of bunker buster sale to Israel 14 Sep 2008 The US
Department of Defense has notified Congress of a potential sale to
Israel of 1,000 smart bombs capable of penetrating underground
bunkers, which would likely be used in the event of a military strike
on Iran's nuclear facilities. The notification to Congress was made
over the weekend by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the
branch of the Pentagon responsible for evaluating foreign military
sales. The deal is valued at $77 million and the principal contractor
would be Boeing Integrated Defense Systems.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1020702.html

Last update - 21:27 14/09/2008

U.S. to sell IAF smart bombs for heavily fortified
targets

By Aluf Benn and Amos Harel

Tags: Iran, United States

Despite reservations in Washington regarding a possible
Israeli strike on Iran, the American administration will supply
Israel with sophisticated weapons for heavily fortified targets, the
U.S. administration announced.

The U.S. Department of Defense announced it would sell
the Israel Air Force 1,000 new smart bombs, rumored to significantly
enhance the IAF's military capabilities. The deal was approved amid
public and secret messages from Washington, with the Americans
expressing their reservations about a possible Israeli strike against
the Islamic Republic's suspected nuclear sites.

The Pentagon's announcement, which came on Friday, said
the U.S. will provide Israel with 1,000 units of Guided Bomb Unit-39
(GBU-39) - a special weapon developed for penetrating fortified
facilities located deep underground.
Advertisement

The $77 million shipment, which includes launchers and
appurtenances, will allow the IAF to hit many more bunkers than
currently possible. Although each bomb weighs 113 kilograms, its
penetration capabilities equal those of a one ton bomb, according to
professional literature.

Most U.S. Air Force aircraft are able to carry a pack of
four of these bombs in place of a single one-ton bomb. The bomb's
small size allows a single-strike aircraft to carry more of the
munitions than is possible utilizing currently available bomb units,
thus increasing firepower, or, alternatively, allowing the aircraft
to fly longer distances to deliver a single bomb.

During demonstrations, the GBU-39 - labeled by the
manufacturer, Boeing, as a Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) - has
successfully penetrated more than 1.8 meters of thick reinforced
concrete with a 23-kilogram warhead. The GPS-guided weapon is said to
have a 50-percent probability of hitting its intended target within 5-
8 meters, which should minimize collateral damage.

The estimated value for the bomb's GPS version, which
military experts have called the latest development in the bunker-
buster line, is around $70,000 to $90,000 for each individual bomb.

The U.S. has already supplied Israel with earlier
versions of bunker busters. In 2005, the Pentagon authorized the sale
of GBU-28 to Israel, in a move that commentators construed as a
hinted threat aimed at Iran. Haaretz reported earlier this month that
the U.S. was hesitant about selling Israel heavier busters.

The Pentagon's announcement also said that the U.S. would
help upgrade the Israel Defense Forces' patriot anti-aircraft
missiles - which Israel uses as part of its missile-interception
array. Israel will also receive 28,000 LAW (Light Anti-Tank Weapon)
tube launchers for land forces.

Statement of Robin Hordon
Former FAA Air Traffic Controller
April 10, 2007

Robin Hordon - Former FAA Air Traffic Controller at the Boston Air
Route Traffic Control Center, located in Nashua, NH, 1970 - 1981.
Former Certified Commercial Pilot for light aircraft holding multiple
category ratings. Former Certified Flight Instructor and Certified
Ground Instructor. After leaving the FAA, he had a 12-year career in
the field of comedy ending up as artistic coordinator for "Catch A
Rising Star" in Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA. In that capacity,
he chose to support comic talent that spoke truth to power, truth to
hatred, truth to racism, truth to sexism, truth to xenophobia, and
truth to militarism, not knowing where the young talent would go, but
knowing that they would say something somewhere for the good of the
country and for the good of the world. When Air America Radio
launched in 2004, a "Catch" vet was on air or writing for four of the
five shows making up the daytime schedule. Currently he lives in
Kingston, WA, where he continues his four decades of activism on
behalf of peace and justice in the world.

Statement to this website 4/10/07: "I was an FAA Air Traffic
Controller from 1970 - 1981. In 1981, I was one of 15,000 FAA air
traffic controllers who went on strike and one of the 12,000 fired
for going on strike, a strike that was primarily based on our
complaints about safety and working conditions within the FAA, which
are still seen today.

During my time as an Air Traffic Controller, I worked at the Boston
Air Route Traffic Control Center in Nashua, NH, and I was certified
in the air traffic sector where American Airlines Flight 11 became
an "IN-FLIGHT-EMERGENCY" before being declared a "hijack" on 9/11.

In my 11-year FAA career, I worked in the development of "procedures
and airspace design", including some military operations, and was
part of the team which trained other Air Traffic Controllers and
transitioned the FAA from its old broadband radar and simple flight
data processors into the RDP (Radar Data Processing) and computerized
radar displays.

I was a Facility Training Instructor and was certified to create
transcripts from audio tapes, to interpret radar data in tracking
aircraft from computer files, and to analyze computer tracking data,
all of which would combine to "tell the story" of air traffic
incidents. I was also the main creator of the Boston Center Profile
Descent and Metering Program for Boston Logan airport.

And while "on the boards", I personally worked one commercial
airliner hijacking and assisted on another.

I received several Letters of Commendation for my work, including one
where my piloting experience was instrumental in saving the lives of
two people on board an aircraft suffering an "IN-FLIGHT EMERGENCY" in
which the aircraft had a total loss of electrical power while in the
clouds. Our air traffic controller team ordered the scrambling of
suitable military aircraft and directed the intercept which
successfully led the helpless and lost aircraft down to a safe
landing in "socked in" weather conditions.

Several times each year, practice exercises were conducted on how to
handle high speed scrambles and group departures called "flushes" all
in conjunction with military exercises and NORAD (North American
Aerospace Defense Command). Out of Otis Air Force Base alone, twenty
to thirty jet fighters would scramble and then later return.

In addition to my career as an Air Traffic Controller, I have a great
deal of other experience in aviation. I was a Certified Commercial
Pilot and accumulated 1600 hours total time in light aircraft;
qualified in Single-Engine Land, Multi-Engine Land, Single-Engine
Sea, and Glider. I was also a Certified Flight Instructor and
Certified Ground Instructor. And prior to my becoming an Air
Traffic Controller, I passed the Flight Engineer Basic exam focused
on the Boeing 727 and accumulated over 2000 hours of aircraft
maintenance, repair and rebuilding time.

I knew within hours of the attacks on 9/11/2001 that it was an inside
job. Based on my 11-year experience as an FAA Air Traffic Controller
in the busy Northeast corridor, including hundreds of hours of
training, briefings, air refuelings, low altitude bombing drills,
being part of huge military exercises, daily military training
exercises, interacting on a routine basis directly with NORAD radar
personnel, and based on my own direct experience dealing with in-
flight emergency situations, including two instances of hijacked
commercial airliners, I state unequivocally; There is absolutely no
way that four large commercial airliners could have flown around off
course for 30 to 60 minutes on 9/11 without being intercepted and
shot completely out of the sky by our jet fighters unless very highly
placed people in our government and our military wanted it to happen.

It is important for people to understand that scrambling jet fighters
to intercept aircraft showing the signs of experiencing "IN-FLIGHT
EMERGENCIES" such as going off course without authorization, losing a
transponder signal and/or losing radio contact is a common and
routine task executed jointly between the FAA and NORAD controllers.
The entire "national defense-first responder" intercept system has
many highly-trained civilian and military personnel who are committed
and well-trained to this task. FAA and NORAD continuously monitor
our skies and fighter planes and pilots are on the ready 24/7 to
handle these situations. Jet fighters typically intercept any
suspect plane over the United States within 10 - 15 minutes of
notification of a problem.

This type of "immediate, high speed, high priority and emergency"
scramble had been happening regularly approximately 75 - 150 times
per year for ten years. In the same ten years, there were ZERO "low
speed, delayed reaction, and low priority" hijacking scrambles
reported, which means that the only time interceptors were ever
scrambled for ten years before 9/11, they were using the high speed
immediate scrambles. The system was well tuned and ready before June
2001. However, the "emergency scramble" is NOT what was used on
9/11/2001...it was the "laissez fair" scramble for a hijacking that
had to get Pentagon approval before departing.and there was none
forthcoming.

I have the deepest and most sincere respect and sadness at the loss
of so many lives on 9/11. With no disrespect towards the surviving
family members still feeling the horrors surrounding the attacks on
9/11, I see the events of September 11th as being a symptom of a far
bigger problem. A problem that Dwight David Eisenhower had brought
to our attention as he left office in the 1950's where he warned this
country about two significant elements of our economy looming above
us: The Military Industrial Complex, and the Military Industrial
Congress. 9/11 served the goals of both of those elements but our
government and military failed to serve and protect its citizens.

In my fourth decade within the Peace Movement and now the first
decade in the 9/11 Truth Movement, I can now clearly see that General
Eisenhower was absolutely correct and that the military-corporation-
political-economical cabal has indeed gone out of control.

I believe that 9/11 was what is known as a "False Flag Operation" in
which a country inflicts casualties upon itself, and then blames it
on an enemy that they want to go to war against. It is one more
instance in the United States' long history of using "False Flag
Operations" and blatant propaganda to ramp-up hostile emotions
towards an enemy in a population otherwise resistant to going to
war. The destruction of the battleship USS Maine in Havana harbor,
which led to the Spanish-American War, allowing the attack on Pearl
Harbor to occur, the declassified 1960's plan Operation Northwoods,
which was going to be used as a pretext for going to war with Cuba,
the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, which justified the war in Viet Nam, the
planted story about babies being taken from incubators and killed by
Iraqi soldiers to help justify the first Gulf War, and now, the
attacks on 9/11/2001 being used to justify the current war in Iraq,
were all used to manipulate the "warring emotions" within U.S.
citizens so that they would come to support this country going to war
against this "new enemy". And in all of these wars, everyone in this
decadent cabal shares in the financial profits associated with war,
and, of course, share in none of the pain and deaths associated with
war. Bob Dylan says it best in his unheralded, yet seminal
song "Masters of War".

Four decades of experiencing the John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King,
and Robert F. Kennedy assassinations, the Vietnam lies, the Watergate
saga, the Iran-Contra scandals, stolen elections and the
conglomerization and ensuing control of the mainstream media,
instructed me that this was going to be a long battle to uncover the
truth about who was behind the attacks on 9/11/2001. That I can show
how Rumsfeld's Military reshaped interceptor protocols so that 9/11
could happen without the airliners being shot from the sky, is but a
small bit of evidence that is flooding past the Bush regime, the U.S.
Military and the mainstream media's best efforts to continue the
cover-up of their callous and deathly malfeasances.

Russian TV interviews Giuletto Chiesa of the EU Parliament about 9/11 and his Documentary Zero

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7_pqXokZvQ

Dennis J Kucinich
September11, 2008
We suffer in our remembrance of 9/11, because of the terrible loss of innocent lives on that grim day. We also suffer because 9/11 was seized as an opportunity to run a political agenda... It is not simply 9/11 that needs to be remembered. We also need to remember the politicization of 9/11 and the polarizing narrative which followed... As we were all victims of 9/11, so we have become victims of the interpretation of 9/11.
9/11 Op-Ed article by Dennis Kucinich:
America must move from the errant, retributive justice of 9/11 to a healing, restorative process of truth and reconciliation.
Before the Congress adjourns, I will bring forth a new proposal for the establishment of a National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation, which will have the power to compel testimony and gather official documents to reveal to the American people not only the underlying deception which has divided us, but in that process of truth seeking set our nation on a path of reconciliation.
We suffer in our remembrance of 9/11, because of the terrible loss of innocent lives on that grim day. We also suffer because 9/11 was seized as an opportunity to run a political agenda, which has set America on a course of the destruction of another nation and the destruction of our own Constitution. And we have become less secure as a result of the warped practice of pursing peace through the exercise of pre-emptive military strength.
It is not simply 9/11 that needs to be remembered. We also need to remember the politicization of 9/11 and the polarizing narrative which followed, locking us into endless conflict, a war on terror which has wrought further terror worldwide and which has severely damaged our standing worldwide as an honorable, compassionate nation. As we were all victims of 9/11, so we have become victims of the interpretation of 9/11.
Our government's external response to 9/11 was to attack a nation which did not attack us. Indeed on the first anniversary of 9/11, the Bush administration issued a well-publicized stern warning to Iraq which was part of a campaign to induce people to believe Iraq had something to do with 9/11.
The deliberate, systematic connection of Iraq with 9/11 has led America into a philosophical and moral cul-de-sac as over one million Iraqis and over 4155 US soldiers have died in a war which will cost over $3 trillion. Additionally, soldiers from 23 other countries have died in the Iraq war.
We attempt to unite Iraq by further dividing it. We talk about restoring Iraq while taking steps to place control of its vast oil wealth in the hands of US oil giants. And we intend to impose upon the Iraqi people the cost of rebuilding a country which our government ruined, keeping a once prosperous nation lashed to debt and poverty for a long, long time. Iraq has paid for 9/11. We all continue to pay for 9/11.
The heartbreaking loss of the lives and injuries to America troops further binds us to the Administration's illogic of the Iraq war: We remember our troops' sacrifice by demanding more sacrifice; we support our troops by continuing the war.
The dominant color of our new national security since 911 is neither red, white nor blue. Everyday is orange. Everyday reminders of fear of 9/11 become banal.. Yet we no longer hear the airport announcements nor see the orange colored warnings because they have commonplace standards in our new national security state, as is the Patriot Act, wiretapping, and a host of invasions of privacy and diminution of civil liberties. The Constitution has been roundly attacked by the very people who took an oath to defend it.
There is a powerful desire across America for change, not necessarily from control by one political party to another, but a change from living with lies to living with truth.
Over two dozen nations, facing peril within and without, deeply divided by politics and war have travelled down a path of restoring civil society through a formal process of reconciliation. At some point within each of those countries it was understood that the way forward is shown through the light of truth. This process is not without pain because it requires a willingness to study evidence to which eyes had been averted and ears had been closed. But in the process of truth and reconciliation, nations found new strength, new resolve, new commitment.
The South African Truth and Reconciliation enabled that nation to come to grips with its past through a public confessional, bringing forward those who committed crimes and having the power to grant amnesty for full disclosure of crimes against the people. Of course, our path may necessarily be different: High US government officials stand accused in Impeachment petitions of violating national and international law. Our continued existence as a democracy may depend upon how thoroughly we seek the truth. I will call upon the America people to join me in supporting this effort.
The truth can move us forward, as a unified whole, so that we can one day become a re-United States. 9/11 is the day the world changed. It is the day America embraced a metaphor of war. If we are open to truth and reconciliation, we may one day be able, once again, to embrace peace.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) says he won't cease his efforts to hold the president and his administration accountable for their alleged abuses of power just because George W. Bush will be returning to his Texas ranch come January.

Kucinich says he wants Congress to create a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" to examine what really went on within the Bush White House in the aftermath of 9/11 and the lead up to the Iraq war. He says only an independent body with truth-seeking as its goal -- rather than "fake political unity" -- can repair divisions that have emerged in an increasingly polarized nation. During a brief press conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday, and in an interview with RAW STORY afterward, Kucinich said he would...

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