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According to the view I hold with, which again is not shared by many in the Truth Movement, the Pentagon was hit by a guided missile, as Donald Rumsfeld himself affirmed in a subsequent magazine interview. (10)  Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski worked at the Pentagon and went outside on 9/11 to look at the damage. What she saw shocked her.  There was no wreckage on the scene (wings, tail, engines, seats, luggage, bodies).  There was an entry hole only 20 feet wide.  No adjacent windows were smashed.  The lawn was not damaged or scorched. She thought the scene consistent with a missile attack, but not with an airplane crash.  (11)  Government involvement would explain why the FBI confiscated all film footage and released only five inconclusive frames from all the footage available.  (12) 


Hani Hanjour, alleged to have piloted the “aircraft,” may have been part of the government’s plot insofar as he trained at an American flight school. His instructor said he was average at flying a Cessna. The instructor could not imagine Hanjour flying a 757.  When one adds to that the fact that the flight data recorder shows a rapid descent and a bank which a passenger jet could hardly have made and then a precision hit on the first floor of the building which military pilots have said they would find difficult, the hypothesis that Hani Hanjour flew whatever hit the Pentagon becomes too improbable to be believed.  (13) 


As for the rest of the “hijackers,” the theory is that some of them were paid money to attend flight school, but that is the extent of their role.  Mohammed Atta was paid $100,000 on Sept. 11, the payment being made in Washington through a Pakistani ISI general.  On 9/11, Atta entered the United States and was photographed at the airport, following which he took a connecting flight back out of the United States. (14)  No Arab names appear on any of the flights’ manifests. (15) 


The serendipitous survival and discovery of a “hijacker’s” passport in excellent condition near Ground Zero after the total destruction of the North and South Towers is so questionable as to seem impossible. (16)  The lack of credibility of such an event must implicate the agents who put the story forward. 


At least five of the "hijackers" were found alive and well after 9/11; one was surprised to see his name in the news.  This element of the official story is so important that I shall quote at length the evidence refuting it: 


The New Pearl Harbor reported evidence that at least six of the alleged hijackers are still alive. David Harrison of the Telegraph interviewed two of the men who supposedly died on Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania, one of whom said that he "had never even heard of Pennsylvania," let alone died there. The Associated Press reported that Waleed al-Shehri, supposedly on Flight 11, contacted the U.S. embassy in Morocco about two weeks after 9/11. The 9/11 Commission Report, nevertheless, suggested that al-Shehri was responsible for stabbing one of the flight attendants shortly before Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower.” (17) 


“Saeed Al-Ghamdi, Mohand Al-Shehri, Abdul Aziz Al-Omari and Salem Al-Hazmi ‘are not dead and had nothing to do with the heinous terror attacks in New York and Washington,’ the Saudi Arabian embassy told the Orlando Sentinel.” 


“Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal told the Arabic Press after meeting with President George W. Bush on Sept. 20th [that] "it was proved that five of the names included in the FBI list had nothing to do with what happened.”  (18) 


Some news reports point out that Osama bin Laden stayed in the American military hospital in Dubai and was visited by the local CIA chief in June/July 2001. (19) At that time, he was wanted for the African embassy bombings, but no one attempted to arrest or harm him.  


Others point out that, on Sept. 10, 2001, Osama bin Laden was admitted into a Pakistani hospital for his renal condition.  He was closely guarded by the Pakistani military, though no explanations were furnished as to why.  Surely the U.S. would have been aware of bin Laden’s whereabouts on Sept. 11.   (20)  


Again, one has to notice that the FBI is not actively pursuing bin Laden for 9/11, as their spokesmen have said and as their website wanted poster demonstrates. (21) Last January, the CIA shut down its team dedicated to finding bin Laden.  (22)  


Why would they do that if bin Laden was the author of the worst crime in U.S. history? 


One of the frustrations of investigating events that are being covered up is that the investigator can say what sounds untrue (contradictory, improbable, implausible, etc.), but ONE cannot say what is true.  I therefore have no idea if Osama bin Laden actually played some role in 9/11, but, if he did, increasingly that role comes to resemble a part paid for by the CIA.  


Now why do I bring up these events?  I do not bring them up because I want you to subscribe to my view of them as what really happened on 9/11.  I do not know what really happened.  I’m not sure anyone does, with the exception that scientists who have looked at physical remains and others like them can with some assurance say what events happened at the chemical and physical level.


I write this article to say that it does seem clear to me that 9/11 was made in America and made by what appear to be officials at the highest levels of power.


Following these events, these same officials dictated that a policy of rounding up American Muslims, racially-profiling them at airports, and treating the community with suspiciousness should prevail, even though they themselves had caused the catastrophe and not the American Muslim community.

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