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=================================================NINE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN MISSING PIECES
What don't we know, and why don't we know it?
by Alan Cabal
NY Press 1/1/04The Southern Solstice has passed, and with it the deadline for 9/11
families to file their claims with the "Feinberg Fund," as it has come to
be known. Of an official death toll of 2976, claims have been filed by for
2,851. The claim involves signing off on any future litigation against the
government, the airlines, the airports or any security firms.
One hundred and twenty-five claims remain outstanding, but little has been
written about any of these families. Where is the coverage of those
insisting on finding out what really happened on that day before they sign
away their "claims?"First to stand up were five widows: Kristen Breitweiser, Patty Casazza,
Mindy Kleinberg and Lorie van Auken. Breitweiser's husband was killed in
his office at Fiduciary Trust on the 94th floor of the South Tower, while
Casazza, Kleinberg and van Auken are Cantor-Fitzgerald widows. They began
lobbying for answers early in 2002, navigating the labyrinth of American
bureaucracy and hammering the bureaucrats for direct answers to direct
questions. In September 2002, Breitweiser testified at the first televised
public hearing before the Joint Intelligence Committee Inquiry (JICI) in
DC.Like many others, she wanted to know why, on May 16, 2002, National
Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice stated that she didn't "think anybody
could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it
into the World Trade Center� That they would try to use an airplane as a
missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile."Breitweiser knows the historical facts say otherwise. She noted the
following points in her statement. In her words:o In 1993, a $150,000 study was commissioned by the Pentagon to
investigate the possibility of an airplane being used to bomb national
landmarks. A draft document of this was circulated throughout the
Pentagon, the Justice Department and to the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA).o In 1994, a disgruntled Fed Ex employee invaded the cockpit of a DC-10
with plans to crash it into a company building in Memphis. That same year,
a lone pilot crashed a small plane into a tree on the White House grounds,
and an Air France flight was hijacked by members of the Armed Islamic
Group with the intent to crash the plane into the Eiffel Tower.
o In January 1995, Philippine authorities investigating Abdul Murad, an
Islamic terrorist, unearthed a plot to blow up 11 airliners over the
Pacific, and in the alternative, several planes were to be hijacked and
flown into civilian targets in the U.S. Among the targets mentioned were
CIA headquarters, the World Trade Center, the Sears Tower and the White
House.o In September 1999, a report, "The Sociology and Psychology of
Terrorism," was prepared for U.S. intelligence by the Federal Research
Division, an arm of the Library of Congress. It stated, "Suicide bombers
belonging to al Qaeda's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft
packed with high explosives (C-4 and Semtex) into the Pentagon, the
headquarters of the CIA, or the White House."Like many others, Breitweiser believes that American intelligence had long
speculated that terrorist organizations could and would utilize airplanes
as weapons.She also included a March 11, 2002 statement by the director of the CIA,
George Tenet: "[The United States] never had the texture-meaning enough
information-to stop what happened." She offered a similar statement by the
director of the FBI, Robert Mueller, from May 8, 2002: "[T]here was
nothing the agency could have done to anticipate and prevent the attacks."
Once again Breitweiser argued that the facts indicated otherwise. As she
said:o Throughout the spring and early summer of 2001, intelligence agencies
flooded the government with warnings of possible terrorist attacks against
American targets, including commercial aircraft, by al Qaeda and other
groups. The warnings were vague but sufficiently alarming to prompt the
FAA to issue four information circulars, or ICs, to the commercial airline
industry between June 22 and July 31, warning of possible terrorism.o On June 22, the military's Central and European Commands imposed "Force
Protection Condition Delta," the highest anti-terrorist alert.o On June 28, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said, "It is
highly likely that a significant al Qaeda attack is in the near future,
within several weeks."o As of July 31, the FAA urged U.S. airlines to maintain a "high degree of
alertness."o One FAA circular from late July noted, according to Condoleezza Rice,
that there was "no specific target, no credible info of attack to U.S.
civil aviation interests, but terror groups are known to be planning and
training for hijackings, and we ask you therefore to use caution." Two
counter-terrorism officials described the alerts of the early and mid-
summer 2001 as "the most urgent in decades."Breitweiser is resolute in her assertions. Airport security officials, she
believes, could have done much more to prevent the hijackings. Beyond
that, however, she wonders what September 11 would have been like had the
government made the public aware of the threats. How many people, she
asks, would have chosen to board planes that morning? And how many of
those in World Trade Center 2 would have remained in their offices,
watching the inferno of Tower 1, had they known of the possibility of an
air attack?One of the more compelling passages in Breitweiser's statement concerns a
July 5, 2001 White House gathering of the FAA, the Coast Guard, the FBI,
Secret Service and INS wherein a top counter-terrorism official, Richard
Clarke, stated that "[s]omething really spectacular is going to happen
here, and it's going to happen soon." Despite being put on heightened
alert, intelligence agencies ignored-or at least dismissed-what is now
widely known as the "Phoenix Memo."On July 10, an FBI field agent in Phoenix, AZ, named Kenneth Williams
reported suspicions of a hijacking plot. He recommended that the FBI
investigate the possibility that al Qaeda operatives were training at U.S.
flight schools, suggesting that Osama bin Laden's followers may have been
securing jobs as security guards, pilots and other personnel.Too many questions remain, and Breitweiser is very thorough in outlining
the possible failures of not only our government's communication prior to
the attack, but its response. She wonders why, for instance, the NY/NJ
Port Authority didn't evacuate the World Trade Center when they knew that
a second plane was heading in? And why weren't the F-16s and Stealth
bombers that tracked on radar screens at approximately 8:05 a.m. used to
prevent tragedy?Concerning the attack on the Pentagon, Breitweiser notes that Washington
Air Traffic Control Center was aware of the first plane before it hit the
World Trade Center. And yet, the third plane-American Airlines Flight 77,
soon to plunge into the Pentagon-made a few "loop de loops" over DC one
hour and 45 minutes after Washington Center was made aware of the
hijackings. Why, she asks, was our Air Force so late in its response?In late 2002, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United
States-now known popularly as the "9/11 Commission"-was reluctantly
created, in large part due to the efforts of the widow Breitweiser. The
commission's object is not so much to get the facts straight, but to
assign blame for "shortcomings" and "failures" in the bureaucracy. It's
what is known in intelligence circles as a "limited hang-out."
On September 12, 2003, the widow Ellen Mariani filed a civil RICO suit in
the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania naming George W.
Bush, Richard Cheney, John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Norman
Mineta, Peter G. Peterson, Condoleezza Rice, George H.W. Bush and Kenneth
Feinberg, in addition to "Other unnamed past, present, officials,
representatives, agents, and private consultants of the UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA" as defendants. She is demanding a jury trial.She also fired off an open letter to President Bush in which she claims
that he "intentionally allowed 9/11 to happen to gather public support for
a 'war on terrorism.'" She accuses him of being "fully aware of the
unfolding events" yet "[choosing] to continue on to the Emma E. Booker
Elementary School to proceed with a scheduled event and 'photo op.'" With
America under attack, she writes, our president "did not appear to blink
an eye or shed a tear [but] continued on as if everything was 'business as
usual.'"Speaking for the families of the victims, she poses the following
questions to President Bush:Why were 29 pages of the 9/11 committee report personally censored at your
request?Where are the "black boxes" from Flight 11 and Flight 175?
Where are the "voice recorders" from Flight 11 and Flight 175?
Why can't we gain access to the complete air traffic control records for
Flight 11 and Flight 175?Where are the airport surveillance tapes that show the passengers boarding
the doomed flights?When will complete passenger lists for all of the flights be released?
Why did your brother, Jeb Bush, the governor of Florida, personally go to
the offices of the Hoffman Aviation School and order that flight records
and files be removed? These files were then put on a C130 government cargo
plane and flown out of the country. Where were they taken and who ordered
it done?Her letter ends ominously: "I will prove this in a court of law!"
So many, many questions. Why did World Trade Center 7 collapse? No
airplane hit that building, and before September 11, no steel skyscraper
had ever collapsed because of a fire. Yet three fell-very neatly and
virtually into their own footprints.
(Even if one allows the engineers their claims that WTC1 and WTC2 were
designed to collapse in on themselves, what of the perfect collapse of
WTC7?)The firefighters who were in the two towers were not in the least
concerned about a collapse, as demonstrated in the fire department's
transcript of their radio traffic. In fact, they stated that the fires
were dying out and could be extinguished with just a couple of lines of
hose. Jet fuel burns like kerosene or charcoal fluid-quickly and
completely-yet Ground Zero burned for 100 days.
The idea of rigging the buildings for a controlled demolition was
dismissed as unrealistic by even the most suspicious types. How to gain
access? Well, President Bush's other brother, Marvin, had a security
company covering the World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport and
United Airlines.In The American Reporter (Jan. 20, 2003), Margie Burns raises the question
of Marvin Bush's role in September 11. She notes that two of the planes
involved that day were United, and another took off from Dulles airport.
The firm that handled security, formerly named Securacom, "listed [Marvin]
Bush on its board of directors and as a significant shareholder. The firm,
now named Stratesec, Inc., is located in Sterling, Va., a suburb of
Washington, D.C., and emphasizes federal clients."
The company, Burns writes, was never investigated. Rather, it has
benefited from increased security measures instituted in the wake of the
attacks.Some doubt altogether that a plane hit the Pentagon. On Sept. 12,
Arlington County Fire Chief Ed Plaugher made some revealing statements.
When asked about aircraft wreckage, he responded that "there are some
small pieces of aircraft visible from the interior during this fire-
fighting operation�but not large sections. In other words, there's no
fuselage sections and that sort of thing." When asked about jet fuel, he
referred to a "puddle."Look at pictures, however, and it's hard to believe that a Boeing 757 flew
into the Pentagon. The damage is not in proportion to the claim,
especially when one considers that two Boeing 757s are said to have taken
down three skyscrapers. The Pentagon was dented, the plane evaporated.
Nothing that has been reported as truth escapes examination. Even the 19
men at the controls, now infamously known as the 9/11 hijackers, cannot be
tied with real evidence to the event itself. This, according to FBI
Director Robert Mueller. "Mohammed Atta" appears to have been a stolen
identity, as per the real Atta's father and his passport, which went
missing in 1999, and on Sept. 23, 2001, the BBC reported that at least
four other of the 19 men identified as the hijackers were alive and well-
and considerably unsettled.Why would seismographs in the NYC area register two tiny quakes at Ground
Zero at the commencement of the collapse of each tower?
Why were the planes up in the air for so long? And why did they fly over
so many military bases? Was America's defense team on a crack break, or
was it a National Reconnaissance Office exercise, a wargame that involved
hijacked aircraft being splashed into buildings in New York and DC? The
two that took the towers flew within spitting distance of the Indian Point
nuclear reactor facility.Condoleezza Rice's preposterous May 16, 2002, statement that no one could
have foreseen this scenario was particularly ironic given that Pacifica
Radio identified her that day as the source of San Francisco Mayor Willie
Brown's "airport security" call warning him not to fly on Black Tuesday.The internet is boiling with analyses of the 9/11 event. In Europe, a fair
number of people believe the American government was complicit in the
attacks. According to recent polls, one-third of young Germans believe
this. Print and broadcast media here ignore the questions, but it can't be
kept from public view forever. It's all out there. It's been two years,
and we still have nothing but questions and Grassy Knoll theories. The
answers lay scattered in shreds and pieces, waiting to be assembled.
Now come the widows, asking the right questions. Mariani's lawyer, Phil
Berg, makes a point to remind people that he is not in the least bit
suicidal, or given to playing with loaded guns. They may not be able to
reassemble or reanimate their loved ones in a literal sense, but these
families who are choosing the hard road, the Narrow Way, will get to the
truth.###
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