On September 11, 2001, nearly 3000 people were murdered, when terrorists attacked New York and Washington, D.C..
The official story holds that 19 fanatical Muslims hijacked four planes, and crashed two of them into the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center in New York, another into the Pentagon, the other crashing in Pennsylvania.
The attacks were then used to justify the American invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, in latter case leading to over half a million deaths.
That was 25 years ago, but the official narrative has been treated with widespread skepticism. Besides the millions of individual doubters world wide, organised groups sprang up all over the world such as Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Pilots for 9/11 Truth, Firefighters for 9/11 Truth, Lawyers for 9/11 Truth, and Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth.
These diverse groups formed in response to the compelling, and arguably conclusive, evidence that the official narrative is top to bottom false. But beyond arguing that the terrorists were not fanatical Muslims, these groups have devoted scant attention to the identity of the true perpetrators, surely the key question.
That particular issue had been left to a small group of courageous, independent journalists, such as Christopher Bollyn, Laurent Guyénot, and Jeremy Hammond, all of whom point the finger at Israel’s Mossad.
And not only journalists. Dr Alan Sabrosky, a former Director of Studies at the United States Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, pulled no punches when he said that “It is 100% Certain That 911 Was a Mossad Operation”.
And in 2015, Senator Ron Johnson called for Congressional hearings on ‘what actually happened on 9/11’, eliciting a torrent of abusive comments from fellow politicians.
Typical of these was Rep. Mike Lawler, a New York Republican, who said that the Wisconsin senator should
“stop peddling conspiracy theories about the worst terrorist attack in our nation’s history.”
And the media, of which the Urban Milwaukee was typical:
“Wisconsin’s Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson is pushing his newest and perhaps most incredible conspiracy theory, that 9/11 was an inside job that is being covered up.”
In what follows, I will show that Senator Johnson is right, implying that with the exception of the tiny minority represented by Johnson, the entire political establishment and media are acting as if they are bought and paid for by Israel.
So, now to the evidence, first that it was an ‘inside job’ and second, that it was an ‘inside/outside job’, the outside element being Israel.
‘Inside job’
Amid the many lines of evidence, it is only necessary to deal with the one that represents definitive proof – Building 7 at the World Trade Center in New York.
Otherwise known as WTC 7, this was one of three skyscrapers that truthers argue were brought about by pre-planned, controlled demolition. Unlike the Twin Towers (WCT 1 and 2), it was not hit by a plane, and its fires were relatively small.
So what is the evidence? There is no need to quote the eyewitness evidence that it was expected to come down, or that its collapse was preceded by explosions, because we have irrefutable proof of controlled demolition of WTC 7. This was provided first by physicist David Chandler, followed, ironically, by the government agency NIST.
Video Analysis
David Chandler made a careful video analysis of the television footage of the collapse, which showed that its collapse was close to freefall, and that for 2.25 seconds it was in exact freefall This can only mean that there was no resistance holding it up. There is only one possible conclusion: that all supporting columns were destroyed simultaneously across the entire cross section, which can only be achieved by explosives.
Despite this, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), the government organisation given the responsibility for investigating the collapses of the World Trade Center towers, concluded its report that there was no evidence for the use of explosives. Yet in its final report on the collapse of WTC 7, NIST admitted that for 2.25 seconds the building was in freefall.
Fig 3-15 (below) from the Report shows that between 1.75 and 4 seconds (‘Stage 2’), the downward velocity was increasing from 32 ft/s (feet per second) to 80 ft/s. This is an increase of 32 ft/s every second, which is the acceleration due to gravity – i.e. freefall.
Page 46 of the Report:
“In Stage 2, the north face descended at gravitational acceleration, as the buckled columns provided negligible support to the upper portion of the north face. This free fall drop continued for approximately 8 stories or 32.0 m (105 ft), the distance traveled between times t = 1.75 s and t = 4.0 s.”
With this single graph, NIST had unwittingly destroyed the entire official 9/11 narrative. Significantly, while implicitly admitting freefall but using the phrase ‘gravitational acceleration’, NIST carefully ignoring its unavoidable implication: explosive demolition.
Yet in its Report Summary, NIST states that:
“Blast events did not play a role in the collapse of WTC 7.”
Note their avoidance of the word ‘explosives’ by the use of the phrase “blast events.
Evidence for Israeli involvement
Though there is no ‘smoking gun’ or a ‘deathbed confession’, the evidence implicating Israel in 9/11 is compelling, verging on conclusive. Yet no mainstream journalist or prominent politician has dared to so much as hint of this.
The reason is that of all contentious topics, the role of Israel as the chief architect and senior perpetrator in 9/11 is the most ‘radioactive’. Such topics can be described as ‘third rail’, after the ‘live’ rail in underground railways. If you fall on it you’re electrocuted and almost certainly dead, just as your career in politics or journalism will be over if you so much as hint of Israel’s complicity.
The evidence is diverse and, ironically, much of it comes from Israeli sources.
Public reaction of Israeli politicians
In contrast to the state of stunned horror of the American people, prominent Israeli politicians were already thinking about its strategic significance:
- Within an hour or so of the attacks, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak was Interviewed by the BBC in London. Seconds into the interview, Barak mentioned ‘the Bin Laden organisation’. Though not directly accusing Bin Laden, the seed had been planted during a time of national trauma, when critical faculties were at their lowest. And only two hours after the pulverization of the North Tower, Paul Bremer, chairman of the National Commission on Terrorism, appeared on NBC to name bin Laden as prime suspect.
- On September 12, The New York Times reported that when asked what the attacks meant for Israel, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu replied, ”It’s very good.” Then he hurriedly edited himself: ”Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy.” He predicted that the attack would ”strengthen the bond between our two peoples, because we’ve experienced terror over so many decades, but the United States has now experienced a massive haemorrhaging of terror.”
Even on the day it happened, as Americans looked on in horror, Netanyahu was clearly not thinking about sympathy for the victims, but about its strategic significance, and in particular, how it could be used to get America to do more for Israel.
Silverstein’s escape
The owner of the World Trade Center complex, Larry Silverstein, was extraordinarily lucky on that particular Tuesday. He and his company, Silverstein Properties, had offices on the 88th floor of the North Tower. Two of his children, Roger and Lisa, were Vice presidents of the company and three Silversteins would have been in the company’s offices. But on that particular day, all three were absent.
Larry said he had had a dermatologist’s appointment, while Roger and Lisa had been ‘running late’. Roger had been in the parking garage of WTC Building 7 when the North Tower was hit, and Lisa had been turned away from the WTC by police.
And there’s more. Geoffrey Wharton, Silverstein’s top aide, was at the 8.30 at Silverstein’s offices, but “had to cut the meeting a little short”. He went down to the lobby, minutes before Flight 11 hit the North Tower.
And Howard Rubenstein, who had represented Silverstein as publicist for over 30 years, had agreed to join a meeting at 8:00 am on the 88th floor on September 11, but had asked for the meeting to be delayed, and it was rescheduled for 9 o’clock, an hour after the plane hit.
So, five people – Larry Silverstein, two of his children, and two close business associates – all got lucky on that day.
In parenthesis, it’s worth noting that on Nov 21, 2001, in an article “Up in Smoke” in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz mentioned that “Every Sunday afternoon, New York time, Netanyahu would call Silverstein. It made no difference what the subject was or where Netanyahu was, he would always call, Silverstein told an Israeli acquaintance.”
“The dancing Israelis”
According to ABC News, a few minutes after the North Tower (WTC1) was struck, a New Jersey resident had her attention drawn to the destruction, which she could see across the Hudson river. Maria (who didn’t want her family name to be used), grabbed her binoculars. As she watched the disaster, she noticed three young men on the roof of a white van in the parking lot of her apartment building. She said that “they seemed to be taking a movie”. The men were taking video or photos of themselves with the World Trade Center burning in the background, she said. What struck her was that “they were like happy, you know … They didn’t look shocked to me. I thought it was very strange”.
She found the behaviour so suspicious that she called the police with the license plate number of the van. Soon, the FBI arrived, and a statewide bulletin was issued on the van.
The FBI found that the van belonged to a Mossad front company called Urban Moving Systems. It was located and van was pulled over, and five young Israeli men, Sivan and Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari, were arrested.
The police report stated that the driver had said: “We are Israeli. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are the problem.”
According to ABC, The FBI’s Foreign Counterintelligence Section took over the case because they believed Urban Moving Systems was a “cover for an Israeli intelligence operation”.
When the FBI raided the company’s offices in Weehawken, N.J., the owner of the company, Dominic Suter, had fled to Israel.
The Israelis had been detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, and the men were held in detention for more than two months. Eventually, a deal was struck between Israeli and U.S. governments, and after 71 days the five were put on a plane and deported to Israel.
Once back in Israel, three of the five men appeared on Yair Lapid’s T.V. show and spoke about their time in America. When asked what they were doing in such close proximity to the scene of the crime, one of the men, Oded Ellner, made the extraordinary statement: “Our purpose was to document the event.”
How can you film and photograph an event if you don’t know it’s going to happen?
Israelis warned in advance
Odingo was an Israeli-owned instant messaging company, which had been used to warn its recipients to keep clear of the World Trade Center on 9/11. The story was reported in the Israeli press as well as by Brian McWilliams of Newsbytes on Sept. 27, 2001. According to an online report in the Jerusalem Post of Sept. 12, 2001, Israel’s foreign ministry were aware of 4,000 Israelis thought to be in the area of the WTC at the time of the attacks, yet only one is reported to have died.
Insider trading
In the two weeks prior to 9/11 there was a sudden and unaccountable explosion of speculative trades on the US stock and bond markets, indicating that some well-connected investors had advance knowledge of the attacks. The most significant forms of speculation are ‘put options’, in which the investor bets that a particular stock will decrease in value. In contrast, ‘call options’ are bets that a stock value will increase.
In normal trading, put and call options fluctuate about averages that roughly balance out, but in his blog “From the wilderness”, Michael Ruppert noted that
Between September 6 and 7, the Chicago Board Options Exchange saw purchases of 4,744 put options on United Airlines, but only 396 call options. Assuming that 4,000 of the options were bought by people with advance knowledge of the imminent attacks, these “insiders” would have profited by almost $5 million.
and
On September 10, 4,516 put options on American Airlines were bought on the Chicago exchange, compared to only 748 calls. Again, there was no news at that point to justify this imbalance; again, assuming that 4,000 of these options trades represent “insiders,” they would represent a gain of about $4 million.
Moreover,
On September 29, 2001 – in a vital story that has gone unnoticed by the major media, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, “Investors have yet to collect more than $2.5 million in profits they made trading options in the stock of United Airlines before the Sept. 11, terrorist attacks, according to a source familiar with the trades and market data.
“The uncollected money raises suspicions that the investors – whose identities and nationalities have not been made public – had advance knowledge of the strikes.” They don’t dare show up now. The suspension of trading for four days after the attacks made it impossible to cash-out quickly and claim the prize before investigators started looking.
So who was making the put option bets? The company involved was AB Brown Investment Bank, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank. A former CEO of AB Brown was Alvin ‘Buzzy’ Krongard, who went on to become the Executive Director of the CIA.
And guess what? The UK’s Independent (October 14,2001) reported that:
To the embarrassment of investigators, it has also emerged that the firm used to buy many of the ‘put options’ — where a trader, in effect, bets on a share price fall — . . . was headed until 1998 by ‘Buzzy’ Krongard, now executive director of the CIA.
Suspicions of government involvement in 9/11 were further raised by the official 9/11 Commission Report. Referring to the insider trading before 9/11, on page 499, the Report states (emphasis added):
A single U.S.-based institutional investor with no conceivable ties to al Qaeda purchased 95 percent of the UAL puts on September 6 . . . .
Any independent, objective inquiry into the attacks would begin with determining the identity of the terrorists, but the 9/11 Commission took the Islamic identity of the terrorists to be axiomatic. One is therefore bound to ask the question: if it wasn’t al Qaeda that was in the know, who was it?
CIA Director had strong Israeli connections
Krongard had strong links to Israel via his connections to the company Scitex, which was based in Israel. And Krongard’s later-to-be wife, Sheryl Gordon, was a long-serving employee of Rothschild Asset Management. The Rothschilds are a Jewish family of international bankers, and reputably the wealthiest family in the world.
Airport Security controlled by Israelis
Of the four planes allegedly hijacked on 9/11, three departed from airports whose security was provided by Huntleigh USA, a subsidiary of ICTS International. ICTS was founded in 1982 by Israelis Menachem Atzmon and Ezra Harel. IDF (Israel Defense Forces) president Menachem Atzmon, then national treasurer of the Right Wing Likud Party in Israel.
ZIM Shipping: An Israeli Company got out of the Twin Towers in the nick of time
ZIM shipping, a large Israeli company once owned by Shaul Eisenberg, had a 10,000 sq. ft. office in the North World Trade Center Tower. A week before 9/11, ZIM vacated their office, forfeiting a $50,000 security deposit by breaking their lease. ZIM CEO Shaul Cohen-Mintz told USA Today in November 2001, it was “like an act of God, we moved.”
Control of Investigation
The greatest mass murder in U.S. history was never treated as a crime to be investigated. Instead, the U.S. treated it as an ‘act of war,’ and responded by invading Afghanistan and Iraq, while hastily destroying the evidence from the crime scene.
Rather than subjecting the thousands of tons of steel at the WTC site to forensic examination, the steel was rapidly cut into small pieces and shipped to China at a time when the price of steel was just $80/ton, the lowest it had been in fifty years. In a January 2002 article for Fire Engineering magazine, editor Bill Manning denounced the destruction of critical evidence:
“For more than three months, structural steel from the World Trade Center has been and continues to be cut up and sold for scrap. Crucial evidence that could answer many questions about high-rise building design practices and performance under fire conditions is on the slow boat to China…The destruction and removal of evidence must stop immediately.”
The man who oversaw this destruction of crucial evidence was Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff, an Israeli citizen, and whose mother, Livia Eisen, had been a Mossad agent. His father was a rabbi who taught at New York City’s Jewish Jewish Theological Seminary.
As head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Chertoff’s job was to collect evidence and prosecute the crime of 9/11. Instead, he concerned himself with the removal of the steel from the crime scene, assigning Richard Sheirer to do the job. Sheirer was the director of Mayor Rudolf Giulani’s Office of Emergency Management, and took charge of the WTC cleanup. His role was detailed in article in New York Magazine (October 15, 2001) titled ‘The Man Behind the Mayor’:
“ …. Since September 11, Sheirer has taken charge of the biggest clean-up effort in American history, coordinating 100 federal, state, and local agencies, including FEMA. He’s become, in effect, the CEO of a company with thousands of workers and a budget that could run up to $40 billion . . . “
Under Sheirer’s direction all the steel was taken from the WTC and transported to two Jewish-owned scrapyards in New Jersey. Here it was cut into smaller pieces and shipped to China before any inspections could be carried out. In April 2002 the New York Daily News reported:
Some 185,101 tons of structural steel have been hauled away from Ground Zero. Most of the steel has been recycled as per the city’s decision to swiftly send the wreckage to salvage yards in New Jersey. The city’s hasty move has outraged many victims’ families who believe the steel should have been examined more thoroughly. Last month, fire experts told Congress that about 80% of the steel was scrapped without being examined because investigators did not have the authority to preserve the wreckage.
Zionist Scrapyards
All the steel from the WTC went to two scrapyards that were owned by Zionist owned companies:
- Hugo Neu was a company founded by a German Jew of that name.
- Metal Management’s president was Alan Ratner and his managing director was Daniel Dienst, who had previously worked for the investment bank CIBC World Markets, which has strong ties to Israel.
Between them, these two Jewish owned companies were responsible for preventing forensic examination of more than 250,000 tons of steel from the biggest crime scene in U.S. history.
And it was not just the scrap yards. The truck company that hauled away the material from the WTC was run by an Israeli, Yoram Shalmon of PowerLoc Technologies.
Control of Litigation
Shortly after 9/11, the U.S. government set up the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (VCF), with the ostensible purpose of compensating the victims and their families. But it was actually a gag – a condition for compensation was an agreement not to file lawsuits against the airlines, government, or security agencies or to speak publicly about the attacks.
Head of the VCF was Kenneth Feinberg, a Zionist lawyer, whose wife, Diane Feinberg, is member of the United Jewish Appeal.
Once a grieving family accepted Feinberg’s payout money, it was effectively gagged.
97% of the families agreed to accept the hush money. The other 3% who opted instead for a day in court were harassed and intimidated by Jewish lawyer Sheila Birnbaum. Though appointed as a ‘special mediator, her actual role was to pressure families to accept the compensation money.
Judge Hellerstein’s litigatory road block
For all 96 families who chose the courts rather than accept hush money, legal process was effectively denied to them by Zionist Alvin Hellerstein, the sole judge dealing with 9/11 litigation. At every step of the way he created delays, with the result that ten years after the attacks, the last family settled out of court.
9/11 Commission had a Jewish Executive Director
Philip Zelikow, Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission, is Jewish and reportedly has dual Israeli citizenship. It was he who decided which matters were worth looking into, and which were not. Crucially, he also decided which witness testimony would be included in the Report.
In his book “The Commission”, Philip Shenon says that more than anyone else, Zelikow “controlled what the final report would say. Although the first draft of each chapter was written by one of the investigative teams, Shenon says that “Zelikow rewrote virtually everything that was handed to him — usually top to bottom.” Shenon also says that before the commission staff even had their first meeting, Zelikow had written a detailed outline of the Commission’s report, complete, with “chapter headings, subheadings, and sub-subheadings.”
As David Ray Griffin put it, “the 9/11 Commission’s report could, therefore, be called ‘The Zelikow Report’”.
Popular Mechanics – Mossad and CIA mouthpiece
The leading article in the March 2005 edition of the magazine Popular Mechanics was titled “9/11: Debunking the Myths”, and in 2006 it was enlarged in book form with the subtitle “Why Conspiracy Theories Can’t Stand Up to the Facts; an in-depth investigation by Popular Mechanics”, edited by David Dunbar and Brad Regan.
Michael Shermer, of Skeptic Magazine, described the second (2011) edition of the book as:
“. . . one of the finest works of investigative journalism and skeptical analysis that I have ever encountered, and the book-length treatment of this codswallop will stop the conspiracy theorists in their fantasy-prone tracks.”
For those who needed reassurance that their government would not have committed cold blooded murder of thousands of its own citizens, it was just what the doctor ordered.
But in 2007, David Ray Griffin published “Debunking 9/11 debunking: an answer to Popular mechanics and other defenders of the official conspiracy theory”.
Unsurprisingly, Griffin’s book was largely ignored by the media, but in a rare exception, Publishers Weekly said:
He responds to criticisms of these efforts and shows that the charge that is regularly leveled against critics of the official theory–that they employ irrational and unscientific methods to defend conclusions based on faith–actually applies more to those who defend the official theory. (emphasis added)
The point made by Publshers Weekly might well refer to the Editor’s notes to the March 2005 magazine, in which James Meigs wrote:
“. . . . Sadly, the noble search for truth is now being hijacked by a growing army of conspiracy theorists. . . .
and
“many conspiracy advocates demonstrate a maddening double standard. They distrust every bit of the mainstream account of 9/11, yet happily embrace the flimsiest evidence to promote their wildest notions: . . . .
and
Don’t get me wrong: Healthy skepticism is a good thing. Nobody should take everything they hear from the government, the media or anybody else at face value”.
The sincerity of these statements can be judged by their treatment of the evidence, for which the collapse of WTC 7 will be more than sufficient:
Popular Mechanics makes no mention of the following:
- Until that day, no steel-framed building anywhere in the world had collapsed due to fire. Yet the fires in WTC7 were localised and no plane had hit it, as detailed above, dozens of firefighters went on record as stating that it was expected to collapse.
- The interview testimony of eyewitness Barry Jennings, in which he said he’d heard big explosions, was ignored.
- The fact that its collapse was visually identical to freefall.
Moreover, Popular Mechanics drew heavily on ‘evidence’ drawn from NIST which, David Chandler’s forensic analysis has subsequently shown, is anything but independent.
Indeed. So thorough is Griffin’s evisceration of Popular Mechanics’ attempt that, after reading it, I almost felt a fleeting tinge of embarrassment for Dunbar and Regan.
Interestingly, and with the passage of time, revealing, was the Foreword, by Senator John McCain. In it, he milked ‘patriotism’ for all it was worth:
. . . . But as 19 men showed the world their worst, we Americans displayed what makes our country great: courage and heroism, compassion and generosity, unity and resolve. We were united, first in sorrow and anger, then in recognition that we were attacked not for a wrong we had done, but for who we are—a people united in a kinship of ideals, committed to the notion that the people are sovereign, and that people everywhere, no matter what their race or country or religion, possess universal and inalienable rights. In that moment, we were not different races.
We were not poor or rich. We were not Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative. We were not two countries.
We were Americans.
McCain finished with a rhetorical flourish:
. . . . The innocent thousands who perished on that terrible day deserve to be remembered with honor and truth.
The appeal to patriotism is one of the oldest tools in the totalitarian’s box. When Samuel Johnson famously described it as “the last refuge of a scoundrel” he did not mean a real and generous love of one’s country, but “the pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self-interest.”
Though not directly relevant to Popular Mechanics, in the broader context, it’s worth pointing out that McCain’s father, Admiral John McCain, played a key role in preventing a proper inquiry into Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967, by preventing the court of inquiry from interviewing the chief suspects, viz. the Israelis.
And there’s more. Just three months before Popular Mechanics published its hit piece, Hearst Magazines, owner of Popular Mechanics, fired many of the magazine’s senior staff, and installed James B. Meigs and Benjamin Chertoff. The latter happens to be the cousin of Michael Chertoff who, as detailed above, played a major part in the rapid removal of the steel from the World Trade Center.
The president of Hearst Magazines was Kathleen P. Black, whose husband is Thomas E Harvey, an attorney and former special assistant to the director of the CIA.
And as for Benjamin Chertoff, he was a senior journalist involved in the Popular Mechanics article “9/11: Debunking The Myths”. Since then, a number of people had been wondering if he was related to Michael Chertoff. Chertoff repeatedly denied this, stating that “no one in my family has ever met anyone related to Michael Chertoff. And when independent journalist Christopher Bollyn repeatedly called the manager of public relations for Popular Mechanics with a view to determine if Benjamin was a cousin of Michael Chertoff, he had no response. When he called Benjamin directly, asking if he was related to Michael Chertoff, Benjamin said that he didn’t know. So Bollyn phoned Benjamin’s mother in New York, asking if Benjamin was related to Michael, she said: “Yes, of course, he is a cousin.”
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Even if you can’t accept that the Mossad was the perpetrator of 9/11, it’s clear that Israel was in charge of the cover-up.
So, when Paul Craig Roberts, one time Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration and associate editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, said that “America Is Not Really a Country. It Is a Province of Israel”, the forgoing provides plenty of evidence to support this.
If so, the America-Israel must be the only example in history of a small country colonising a much larger and more powerful country.
