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Who believes that "hijackers" struck the Pentagon? And the
three towers at the WTC collapsed when intentionally demolished. So this is the
classic "limited hangout" designed to throw the public off the trail. Don't we
all realize at this point that 911 was an inside job?
Weldon stated that the FBI Director has now "publicly said if he would
have had that information, the FBI could have used it to perhaps prevent
the hijackings that struck the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the plane
that landed in Pennsylvania and perhaps saved 3000 lives and changed the
course of world history."
Be sure to read Dr. Griffin's comments on the
towers:
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Case For WTC Tower
Demolition Sealed By
Griffin
Theologian Says Controlled Demolition
is
Now a Fact, Not a Theory
From Kevin
Barrett
Coordinator MUJCA-NET
Muslim-Christian-Jewish Alliance For
911
10-21-5
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- In two speeches to overflow crowds in New York last
weekend, notable theologian David Ray Griffin argued that recently
revealed evidence seals the case that the Twin Towers and WTC-7 were
destroyed by controlled demolition with explosives. Despite the many
enduring mysteries of the 9/11 attacks, Dr. Griffin concluded, "It is
already possible to know, beyond a reasonable doubt, one very
important thing: the destruction of the World Trade Center was an
inside job, orchestrated by terrorists within our own
government."
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- On Oct. 15th and 16th, New Yorkers filled two venues
to hear the prominent theologian and author of two books on 9/11 give
a presentation entitled "The Destruction of the Trade Towers: A
Christian Theologian Speaks Out." Dr. Griffin has continued to blaze a
trail of courage, leading where most media and elected officials have
feared to tread. His presentation went straight to the core of one of
the most powerful indictments of the official story, the collapse of
the towers and WTC 7.
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- Dr. Griffin included excerpts from the firemen's
tapes which were recently released as a result of a prolonged court
battle led by victim's families represented by attorney Norman Siegel
and reported in the NY Times. He also included statements by many
witnesses. These sources gave ample testimony giving evidence of
explosions going off in the buildings. A 12 minute film was shown for
the audiences, who saw for themselves the undeniable evidence for
controlled demolition.
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- Dr. Griffin listed ten characteristics of the
collapses which all indicate that the buildings did not fall due to
being struck by planes or the ensuing fires. He explained the
buildings fell suddenly without any indication of collapse. They fell
straight into their own footprint at free-fall speed, meeting
virtually no resistance as they fell--a physical impossibility unless
all vertical support was being progressively removed by explosives
severing the core columns.
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- The towers were built to withstand the impact of a
Boeing 707 and 160 mile per hour winds, and nothing about the plane
crashes or ensuing fires gave any indication of causing the kind of
damage that would be necessary to trigger even a partial or
progressive collapse, much less the shredding of the buildings into
dust and fragments that could drop at free-fall speed.
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- The massive core columns--the most significant
structural feature of the buildings, whose very existence is denied in
the official 9/11 Commission Report--were severed into uniform 30 foot
sections, just right for the 30-foot trucks used to remove them
quickly before a real investigation could transpire.
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- There was a volcanic-like dust cloud from the
concrete being pulverized, and no physical mechanism other than
explosives can begin to explain how so much of the buildings' concrete
was rendered into extremely fine dust. The debris was ejected
horizontally several hundred feet in huge fan shaped plumes stretching
in all directions, with telltale "squibs" following the path of the
explosives downward.
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- These are all facts that have been avoided by
mainstream and even most of the alternative media. Again, these are
characteristics of the kind of controlled demolitions that news people
and firefighters were describing on the morning of 9/11. Those
multiple first-person descriptions of controlled demolition were
hidden away for almost four years by the City of New York until a
lawsuit finally forced the city to release them. Dr. Griffin's study
of these accounts has led him beyond his earlier questioning of the
official story of the collapses, to his above-quoted conclusion: The
destruction of the three WTC buildings with explosives by US
government terrorists is no longer a hypothesis, but a fact that has
been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
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- Itís important to note that Dr. Griffin is one of
many prominent intellectuals--including the likes of Gore Vidal,
Howard Zinn, Peter Dale Scott, Richard Falk, Paul Craig Roberts,
Morgan Reynolds and Peter Phillips--who have seen through the major
discrepancies of the official explanation of 9/11 and have risen to
challenge it. These brave individuals represent the tip of an
ever-growing iceberg of discreet 9/11 skeptics. Indeed, 9/11
skepticism appears to be almost universal among intellectuals who have
examined the evidence, since there has not yet been a single serious
attempt to refute the case developed by Dr. Griffin and such
like-minded thinkers as Nafeez Ahmed and Mike Ruppert. As for the
general public, polls have shown that a strong majority of Canadians
(63%, Toronto Star, May '04) and half of New Yorkers (Zogby, August
2004) agree that top US leaders conspired to murder nearly 3,000
Americans on 9/11/01.
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- How, then, can the mainstream US media continue to
ignore the story of the century? Perhaps the best answer was given by
Dr. Griffin himself in the conclusion of his talk, and is worth
quoting at length:
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- "The evidence for this conclusion (that 9/11 was an
inside job) has thus far been largely ignored by the mainstream press,
perhaps under the guise of obeying President Bush's advice not to
tolerate "outrageous conspiracy theories." We have seen, however, that
it is the Bush administration's conspiracy theory that is the
outrageous one, because it is violently contradicted by numerous
facts, including some basic laws of physics.
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- "There is, of course, another reason why the
mainstream press has not pointed out these contradictions. As a recent
letter to the Los Angeles Times said:
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- "'The number of contradictions in the official
version of . . . 9/11 is so overwhelming that . . . it simply cannot
be believed. Yet . . . the official version cannot be abandoned
because the implication of rejecting it is far too disturbing: that we
are subject to a government conspiracy of "X-Files" proportions and
insidiousness.'
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- "The implications are indeed disturbing. Many people
who know or at least suspect the truth about 9/11 probably believe
that revealing it would be so disturbing to the American psyche, the
American form of government, and global stability that it is better to
pretend to believe the official version. I would suggest, however,
that any merit this argument may have had earlier has been overcome by
more recent events and realizations. Far more devastating to the
American psyche, the American form of government, and the world as a
whole will be the continued rule of those who brought us 9/11, because
the values reflected in that horrendous event have been reflected in
the Bush administrationís lies to justify the attack on Iraq, its
disregard for environmental science and the Bill of Rights, its
criminal negligence both before and after Katrina, and now its
apparent plan not only to weaponize space but also to authorize the
use of nuclear weapons in a preemptive strike.
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- "In light of this situation and the facts discussed
in this lecture---as well as dozens of more problems in the official
account of 9/11 discussed elsewhere---I call on the New York Times to
take the lead in finally exposing to the American people and the world
the truth about 9/11. Taking the lead on such a story will, of course,
involve enormous risks. But if there is any news organization with the
power, the prestige, and the credibility to break this story, it is
the Times. It performed yeoman service in getting the 9/11 oral
histories released. But now the welfare of our republic and perhaps
even the survival of our civilization depend on getting the truth
about 9/11 exposed. I am calling on the Times to rise to the
occasion.
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- Dr. Griffin's speech given at the University of
Wisconsin earlier this year, entitled "9/11 and the American Empire,"
was broadcast twice on C-SPAN. In late September Dr. Griffin was asked
to give expert testimony at hearings sponsored by Cynthia McKinney and
the Congressional Black Caucus investigating the 9/11 Commission
Report. He is currently Professor Emeritus at Claremont College in
California.
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- This weekend's events were sponsored by
NY911truth.org, WBAI and the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Alliance for 9/11
Truth: http://mujca.com .
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- Kevin Barrett
- Coordinator, MUJCA-NET
- http://mujca.com
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Subject: [cia-drugs] ABLE DANGER: REP.
CURT WELDON: DIA LIES, DESTROYS REPUTATIONS
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_9983.shtml
ABLE DANGER: REP. CURT WELDON: DIA LIES,
DESTROYS REPUTATIONS
By J. Grant Swank,
Jr.
MichNews.com
Oct 21, 2005
If what US Congressman
Curt Weldon (R-PA) says is true about the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA),
America has been wearing a blindfold so as not to see the truth about 9 / 11
prevention.
Weldon, Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services and
Homeland Security Committee, addressed the House of Representatives. He
exposed the DIA as a perpetrator of deceit and intentionally destroying the
reputation of a reputable American so that the latter would not be able to
tell the truth. He is LTC Anthony Shaffer, a 23-year defense intelligence
officer, whom the DIA has sought to smear.
"Shaffer is being abused and
used as a scapegoat. If they (the DIA) can ruin Shaffer, they can silence the
story," Weldon stated.
His speech also focused on a 20-person team,
Able Danger, that came up with invaluable information via new technology that
revealed crucial data that could have prevented 9 / 11. Weldon said further
that Able Dangers significant data has been destroyed purposefully so as not
to embarrass the DIA.
Just months ago, Weldon said he learned that in
1999 and 2000 a secret program known as Able Danger was put in place by the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and seen through by the general in
charge of the Special Forces Command. It was a force able to uncover key cells
of al Qaeda globally, giving the military the capability to destroy those
cells so they could not repeat carnage as set loose at the Trade Center,
Khobar Towers, USS Cole and the African embassy.
Just months ago,
Weldon stated he discovered that Able Danger "actually identified the Brooklyn
cell of al Qaeda in January and February 2000, over 1 year before 9 / 11 ever
happened. In addition, I learned that not only did we identify the Brooklyn
cell of al Qaeda, but we identified Mohamed Atta as one of the members of that
Brooklyn cell along with three other terrorists who were the leadership of the
9 / 11 attack."
In September 2000, Able Danger tried to inform the FBI
about their findings. Lawyers denied three times their admittance to the
FBI.
Weldon stated that the FBI Director has now "publicly said if he
would have had that information, the FBI could have used it to perhaps prevent
the hijackings that struck the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the plane
that landed in Pennsylvania and perhaps saved 3000 lives and changed the
course of world history."
Now, Weldon contends, the DIA, including its
deputy director, does not want this truth to get out. Why? Weldon states:
"Because they perhaps are fearful of being embarrassed and
humiliated."
So what has the DIA done to keep the truth under cement
bars?
Weldon stated to Congress that the DIA has "gagged the military
officers." They cannot speak truth to Congresspersons. They cannot tell the
facts to the press. Further, the DIA has set their aim on destroying the
reputation and life of Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer.
They have
engineered a precise smear campaign against Shaffer so as to leave him ruined.
They have taken from Shaffer his security clearance, his salary, health care
benefits for himself and children. They took away his security clearance one
day before he was to "testify before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, in
uniform."
Almost a year before 9 / 11, the DIA Deputy Director met with
Shaffer. Shaffer showed him "a disk in his office with information about al
Qaeda and Mohammed Atta." The Deputy Director halted the conversation,
informing Shaffer that he did not want to see the data. "You cannot show me
that. I do not want to see it. It might contain information I cannot look
at." That is what Weldon reports that the deputy told Shaffer. Others were in
the room so as to witness this dialogue.
To this date, the DIA deputy
informs media that he never met with Shaffer about such a disk. He never said
what Shaffer says he said.
Yet, Weldon states, "Lieutenant Colonel
Shaffer, like Commander Scott Philpot of the Navy, like J. D. Smith, and like
a host of other Able Danger employees, have told the truth."
So we have
Able Danger with the data: identification of Mohammed Atta and al Qaeda before
9 / 11. Such information was not able to get to the FBI because of legal
obstructions. A large part of that data was destroyed in the summer of
2000.
Weldon then pointed to a man with "impeccable credentials" whom
he left nameless in his address. However, Weldon did state that he would
reveal the name to any Member of Congress, "any of our colleagues that want to
come to me. I will tell you privately who this official is."
The
significance of the man is that he was a leading official with Able Danger.
However, though he is of utmost importance due to the knowledge he has of Able
Dangers activities and finding prior to 9 / 11, he has never once been asked
to speak to anyone at the Pentagon, the DIA, nor the 9 / 11 Commission staff
in their investigations.
This particular man informed Weldon that there
is a separate "cache of information collected from over 20 Federal agencies in
1999 and 2000 on Able Danger that still may exist. Now the Pentagon has told
us all this material was destroyed." Yet the leading official with Able Danger
tells Weldon that there is a body of information that just may still
exist.
Weldon is incensed that the DIA has covered up "their own
shortcomings." They fear Able Dangers data going public.
Able Danger
knew about Mohammed Atta and al Qaeda cell a year before 9 / 11. Further, they
knew about the threat to the USS Cole 2 weeks before the attack. Two days
"before the attack (Able Danger) was screaming not to let the USS Cole come
into the harbor at Yemen because they knew something was about to
happen."
The DIA is jealous of Able Dangers capability with the
latters new, state of the art technology. Twenty persons had data that the
DIA did not come by. This, the DIA concludes, must never come to
light.
For that, and the ruination of Shaffers reputation, Weldon
holds the DIA on the same par as dictatorships down through history and around
the world. He exposes the DIA as anti-freedom, anti-democracy, anti-American.
He spoke to Congress of the troops serving in New Iraq particularly who are
valiantly seeking to plant liberties for others. Yet at the same time the DIA
is working as a despotic regime unto itself, destroying freedoms and reputable
persons careers.
There are "bureaucrats in the Defense Intelligence
Agency and possibly some political operatives that do not want the facts to
come out about Able Danger and the information that the Able Danger team put
together. And in the process, they are going to destroy a man, a man who has
been recognized by his country, who has a family, and who simply wants to do
the right thing," Weldon stated.
The DIA had millions of dollars,
hundreds of millions, Weldon stated, but could not perform what the 20-person
team accomplished. "DIA does not want that to come out. . .Heaven forbid that
the Defense Intelligence Agency, with hundreds of millions of dollars, would
have a 20-member team do what they could not do because they were using new
technology and new software."
Weldon called on Congress to appoint a
"full independent investigation by the Inspector General of the Pentagon. I
have asked Secretary Rumsfeld today to do that."
Further, "if DIA is
going to continue to press this ridiculous set of facts, then as I said
earlier, I want DIA prosecuted for the five felonies they committed in sending
classified documents to a person that 2 weeks earlier they said was incapable
of receiving classified information.
"And if this continues, I want DIA
held responsible for illegally transferring $500 of public assets to a person,
that in the process of sending that stuff to him, DIA committed fraud against
the taxpayers.
"I want them held accountable: DIA's stupidity; DIA's
incompetence.
"Let the Able Danger story finally come out to the
American people. Let them understand what really happened. Let Scott Philpott
talk. Let Tony Shaffer talk. Let the others who have been silenced have a
chance to tell their story to Congress and openly to the American
people.
"In the end, the country will be stronger."
For the full
speech, visit: http://curtweldon.house.gov/News/
DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=35792
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