Asia Times: 20 questions about 9/11

[Col. Flagg]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KI18Ak02.html

1. In the first months of 2001, three years after Bin Laden's 1998 fatwa against the US, Mullah Omar wanted to "resolve or dissolve" the Osama-Taliban nexus in exchange for Washington maneuvering to lift United Nations sanctions. Would anyone from the first George W Bush administration confirm a solid Taliban offer? Kabir Mohabbat, a Houston-based, Paktia (Afghanistan)-born businessman also involved in the (failed) 1990s negotiation for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan pipeline, and then named by Bush's National Security Council as a key Taliban contact, has sustained that was the case.

2. Eight names on the "original" Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) list of 19 Muslim hijackers happened to be found alive and living in different countries; the FBI has always sustained that the identity of the hijackers was established from DNA collected at all four sites - the World Trade Center (WTC), the Pentagon and the Shanksville, Pennsylvania, crash site. Would the FBI explain how is that remotely possible?

3. All four planes referenced in the official narrative have thousands of parts with a serial number, plus tail numbers. Any one of these would have been enough to identify the plane(s). How come all of these parts disintegrated or vaporized? Why was not a single one of them recovered and/or matched up with all the mass of data about these four flights?

4. How come cell phones miraculously find a signal and work properly at 10,000 meters?

5. How to explain the enormous surge in "option puts" on both United Airlines and American Airlines on September 10?

6. How come the passport of alleged hijacker Satam al Suqami (and not Mohammed Atta, as reported) was miraculously found amid massive World Trade Center debris - either by "police and FBI" or by "a passerby who gave it to the NYPD", according to different versions?

7.Why was a military grade of thermite - a super-explosive - found at all sample sites surrounding Ground Zero? A peer-reviewed, scientific journal analysis is here.

8. How come Barry Jennings, who worked for New York City's Housing Department, reported on 9/11 to ABC News how he heard an explosion on the 8th floor of WTC 7? Jennings happened to die just a few days before the release of the NIST report on the WTC 7 collapse. A great number of actual 9/11 witnesses also heard and saw explosions going off inside the Twin Towers long before their collapse. A montage of news reports about these explosions can be seen here.

9. Why did the BBC confirm live on air the collapse of the WTC 7 building - which was not even hit by any plane - no less than 23 minutes before it actually collapsed? In the BBC live report, the WTC7 building is shot still standing.

10. Why there has been no investigation of Dov Zakheim? He was a prominent member of the Project for the New American Century group, and chief executive officer of SPC - a company making systems for remote control of airplanes - for four years prior to 9/11. Six months before 9/11, he became supervisor of a group of Pentagon comptrollers responsible for tracking no less than $2.3 trillion missing from the Pentagon books; many of these comptrollers died on 9/11.

11. The "five dancing Israelis" question. How come Oded Ellner, Omer Marmari, Paul Kurzberg, Sivan Kurzberg and Yaron Shmuel had set up a video camera on top of their white van pointing at the Twin Towers even before they were hit? Later they were seen celebrating. The FBI established that two were Mossad agents and that their employer, Urban Moving Systems, was a front operation. The investigation about them was killed by the White House. After being deported from the US, they admitted on Israeli TV that they had been sent to New York to "document" the attacks. How about other reports of vans packed with tons of explosives intercepted on New York bridges?

12. How come two US employees of Odigo, an Israeli instant messaging company based in Herzliya, the headquarters of Mossad, received an SMS about an attack on the WTC two hours before the fact?

13. How come there was no investigation of ICTS International, owned by Ezra Harel and Menachem Atzmon, and crammed with former Israeli Shin Bet agents? This was the company responsible for airport security at Dulles, Logan and Newark airports on 9/11.

14. Why was there no full investigation of the circumstances related to how Larry Silverstein leased the WTC only seven weeks before 9/11 - as facilitated by New York Port Authority chairman Lewis Eisenberg? Silverstein over-insured the WTC against terrorism and made an astonishing profit.

15. Why were anthrax packages mailed to the only two US senators who voted against the Patriot Act?

16. Why did situation room director Deborah Loewer follow Bush to Florida on 9/11 - considering that's not part of her job description?

17. Where are the full tapes from the Pentagon's security cameras? The hole in the Pentagon may be the most glaring hole in the official narrative - as the destruction caused by a Boeing 757 was simply not compatible with the size of the hole. Why were no significant plane debris and remains of passengers ever found?

18. Why did the 9/11 Commission not consult reputed engineers and architects to show that in the real world, steel and concrete skyscrapers simply cannot dissolve into molten metal and fine powder in only 10 seconds after very localized and relatively low-temperature fires? Kerosene simply cannot melt steel.

19. Why did the 9/11 Commission not consult airline specialists who insist trainee pilots who had practiced on very light aircraft for a few weeks simply cannot land a jet on the ground floor of the Pentagon after allegedly slicing through half a dozen light poles and evading a series of trees, cars and overpasses?

20. How come no one investigated claims by the two co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, who wrote in the New York Times on January 2008 that the Central Intelligence Agency "failed to respond to our lawful requests for information about the 9/11 plot [and] obstructed our investigation?"

The rest of the world knows the truth behind 9/11... when will the people as a whole in the U.S. figure it out?

[BroJones]

Wow -- where is Asia Times published, by what country? How large the distribution?
Thanks.

[Rob]

Nice catch, Flagg. And the article references 50 questions about 9/11. Excellent.

[truthseeds]

That is a tidy questionaire. I believe the Asia Times is big. China!

[ithink]

The rest of the world knows the truth behind 9/11... when will the people as a whole in the U.S. figure it out?

Not a perfect list, but very good. ie. I believe they do have serial numbered parts from NY.

Anyway, the article was written by Pepe Escobar. I hope there is no relation to Pablo.

Col, many in the US mainstream have figured it out. We have Charlie Sheen, Rosie, various Rap artists, death metal group Megadeath, and Penthouse publisher Larry Flynt. Why these "low levels" can figure it out but Orrin Hatch (et al) cannot is beyond me.

[Mark]

Col, many in the US mainstream have figured it out. We have Charlie Sheen, Rosie, various Rap artists, death metal group Megadeath, and Penthouse publisher Larry Flynt.

Well that settles it for me. China's state run newspaper along with paragons of virtue like Sheen, Rosie, M&M, Megadeath, and Larry Flint. Why would I not want to unite with that bunch?

PS Just playin with you ithink.

[Col. Flagg]

Col, many in the US mainstream have figured it out. We have Charlie Sheen, Rosie, various Rap artists, death metal group Megadeath, and Penthouse publisher Larry Flynt.

Well that settles it for me. China's state run newspaper along with paragons of virtue like Sheen, Rosie, M&M, Megadeath, and Larry Flint. Why would I not want to unite with that bunch?

PS Just playin with you ithink.

Saw that one comin' from a mile away!

Mark, you know the truth... just admit it. By the way... you ever gonna get rid of Chris as your avatar? I'm starting to think you've got a thing for him.

[Col. Flagg]

Wow -- where is Asia Times published, by what country? How large the distribution?
Thanks.

Steve, their main offices are apparently in Hong Kong and Thailand...

http://www.atimes.com/mediakit/contact.html

This publication apparently covers all of Asia.

[mchlwise]

Not a bad list.

Some of the questions, like the one below, over-state and exaggerate things a bit, but other than that it's a decent start.

19. Why did the 9/11 Commission not consult airline specialists who insist trainee pilots who had practiced on very light aircraft for a few weeks simply cannot land a jet on the ground floor of the Pentagon after allegedly slicing through half a dozen light poles and evading a series of trees, cars and overpasses?

[Col. Flagg]

Wow... here's an article that covers the health consequences of 9/11... not only did the Bush administration want Wall Street open again ASAP, they wanted first responders and rescuers in there to help remove all of the rubble and debris get shipped off to China and to a local landfill before the crime scene could be investigated and the steel analyzed, etc. Where were the arrests for this felony (tampering with evidence)??? Check out the pollutants first responders were exposed to:

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish ... 5156.shtml

Over 400 tons of asbestos, which once inhaled in any quantity cannot be expelled by the lungs

90,000 liters of jet fuel containing benzene, a carcinogen that suppresses the immune system and causes leukemia

Mercury from over 500,000 fluorescent lights that is toxic to the nervous system, and damaging especially to the kidneys

200,000 pounds of lead and cadmium from personal computers, toxic to the respiratory track, especially damaging to kidneys

Polycystic aromatic hydrocarbons that cause lung, laryngeal and throat cancers

130,000 gallons of transformer oil with PCBs, causing serious skin rashes and liver damage

Crystalline Silica from 420,000 tons of concrete, sheetrock and glass (tiny particulates that lodge in heart, causing ischemic heart disease)
. . . and so on and on and on . . .

Is it any wonder so many innocent people got sick and are dying that the federal Mafia refuses to cover medical expenses for? Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Guiliani, Wolfowitz, etc. are all guilty of murder and treason, yet walk just as free as OJ did.