The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama bin Laden
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35 seven blocks: Village Voice, 7/31/07
36 “We lost”/Torcivia: DiMarco, 191–, St. Petersburg Times, 2/3/02
37 2007 study: UPI, 5/9/07
38 2,000 firefighters: Guardian (U.K.), 1/28/08
39 “The World Trade Center dust”: Voice of America, 4/8/10
40 young attorney: (Felicia Dunn-Jones) “NYC Links First Death to Toxic Dust,” www.msnbc.com, 5/23/07
41 “sick and under”: Fact Sheet, http://stws.org, Sacramento Bee, 1/6/11
42 479 people: NY Post, 9/6/09
43 One by one: e.g., WSJ, 12/9/10, Dallas Morning News, 11/29/10, New York Post, 1/10/11, NY Daily News, 3/30/11
44 risen to 664: NY Post, 9/12/10
45 James Zadroga Act/$4.2 billion/“We will never”: USA Today, 2/2/11, H.R. 847 James Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act 2010, http://thomas.loc.gov
46 cancer: WSJ, 2/17/12, Downtown Express, 4/11/12, Fox News, 3/5/12, NY1.com, 2/13/12, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 2/13/12
47 “very reassuring”: “EPA’s Response to the WTC Collapse”
48 “safe to go”: ibid., NYT, 9/18/01.
49 “safe to breathe”: “EPA’s Response to the WTC Collapse.” John Henshaw has since explained that a decision not to enforce safety regulations was made because of the delay that would have caused: “We had to deploy a strategy that achieved compliance as soon as the hazard was recognized so corrective action was immediate.” Christine Todd Whitman, for her part, told a congressional committee that allegations that she misled New Yorkers about air quality in lower Manhattan were “outright falsehoods.” She said that reassurances that air quality was safe applied to lower Manhattan, not to Ground Zero itself (EHS Today, 6/27/07).
50 “I want”: Richard Clarke, 24. The President also discussed the closure of the markets with his assistant for economic policy, Larry Lindsey, urging a “return to normal as soon as possible.” Lindsey discussed with the EPA’s Christine Todd Whitman “the need to get the financial markets open quickly.” Whitman has denied that Lindsey pressured her. The EPA’s own inspector general, meanwhile, has said that the Agency’s press releases were “influenced” by the White House Council on Environmental Quality. According to the EPA’s Tina Kreischer, there was “extreme pressure from the White House” (Lindsey: MFR 04018180, 1/20/04; Whitman denied: CR, 555n13; “influenced”/“extreme pressure”: “EPA’s Response to the WTC Collapse,” 7, 16–, CR, 555n13).
51 9:55: CR, 325
52 “The President”: 9/11, transcript, ABC News, 9/11/02
53 Card: White House transcripts of ints. of Andy Card for ABC, 8/12/02, CNN, 8/12/02, NBC, 8/15/02, CBS, 8/16/02
54 Bush said: CR, 40, 464n212
55 “inexcusable”: 60 Minutes, transcript, CBS News, 9/11/02
56 “could not remain”: Kean & Hamilton, 265
57 “The military”: 60 Minutes, 9/11/02
58 flickering TV: 9/11, ABC News
59 “credible” threat/Armed guards: CR, 325, 554n1, 60 Minutes, Bill Sammon, Fighting Back, Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2008, 128
60 cell phones: Salon, 9/12/01
61 saluted: Spencer, 255–.
62 baseless scare: The Secret Service tracked down the source of the “threat” within hours, and concluded that the flap had arisen because of a watch officer’s misunderstanding. Even so, press secretary Fleischer would still be talking of the threat at a press briefing the next day—and describing it as having been “real and credible” (CR, 554n1).
63 “The American people”: 60 Minutes; “faceless coward”: CNN, 9/12/01
64 running backward: int. Dan Alcorn, Salon, 9/12/01
65 “We’re at war”: 60 Minutes, 9/11/02
66 “very much in control”: World-Herald (Omaha), 2/27/02
67 took part: Sammon, 122
68 “I’m not going”: Telegraph (U.K.), 12/16/01
69 “tin-horn terrorist”: 60 Minutes, 9/11/02
70 “increasingly difficult”: Telegraph (U.K.), 12/16/01
71 “The mightiest”: 9/11, ABC News
72 “We will stand”: CNN, 9/12/01, Graham with Nussbaum, 100
73 Bush address: 60 Minutes, 9/11/02, BBC News, 9/12/01
74 key officials: CR, 330
75 al Qaeda/Taliban: WP, 1/27/02.
76 “You know”: The authors have here cited Clarke’s interview with Vanity Fair in 2009, in which he stated that Rumsfeld made these remarks on the night of September 11. In his 2004 memoir, however, Clarke appeared to indicate that the remarks were made at a meeting the following day (Vanity Fair, 2/09, Richard Clarke, 31).
77 bed early: Telegraph (U.K.), 1/15/08
78 He balked, etc.: Newsweek, 12/3/01, Sammon, 133–
79 “Incoming plane!”: Spencer, 282, 279
80 Ground Zero: DiMarco, 269–.
81 one more survivor: This was Genelle Guzman, who had worked for the Port Authority in the North Tower and was found in the same area as was Pasquale Buzzelli earlier. She suffered serious leg injuries, but recovered in the hospital (Time, 9/1/02, Langewiesche, 107).
82 “heaved”: Langewiesche, 72
83 flames: Barrett & Collins, 247
84 would burn: ABC News, 12/19/01.
Part II: DISTRUST AND DECEIT
CHAPTER 10
1 “not a fringe”: Time, 9/3/06
2 “no dependable”: Matt Taibbi, The Great Derangement, NY: Spiegel & Grau, 2009, 189
3 “tend to be”/poll: San Diego Union Tribune, 12/4/06
4 18 to 29: “Questions with Kathryn Olmsted,” 4/13/09, http://theaggie.org
5 Arab Americans/Arabs worldwide: NY Post, 5/23/07, “Muslim Public Opinion on US Policy, Attacks on Civilians and al Qaeda, 2007” & “No Public Consensus on Who Was Behind 9/11, 2008,” www.worldpublicopinion.org
6 “well-educated, pious”: Taibbi, 171
7 “conspiracy theories dominate”: Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, and Jean Sasson, Growing Up bin Laden, NY: St. Martins, 2009, 290
8 “unfounded”: “The Top September 11 Conspiracy Theories,” 5/5/09, www.america.gov.
9 MIHOP/LIHOP: BBC News, 7/4/08, Vanity Fair, 8/06
10 As late as 2011: Conspiracy vs. Science, National Geographic Channel, & see re first aired NY Post, 9/2/09.
11 Rostcheck/“Is it just”: corr. David Rostcheck, 2010, Rostcheck message on USAttacked@topica.net, 9/11/01, 3:12 P.M., cited on www.serendipity.li, Rostcheck profile, www.linkedin.com, Rostcheck to Ira Glasser, ACLU, 7/4/01, www.keepandbeararms.com
12 million Web pages: NY Post, 9/12/06
13 “I don’t believe”/“conspiracy”: “Who We Are,” & “Criminal Negligence or Treason,” www.emperors-clothes.com
14 “for thinking people”: See the “About” page on Meyer’s website, www.serendipity.li
15 doubt expressed: “Reply to Popular Mechanics,” www.serendipity.li
16 Valentine: Valentine articles, “Operation 911: No Suicide Pilots,” 10/6/01, www.public-action.com, “Internet Censorship and Jewish Destiny,” http://library.flawlesslogic.com, “Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum: Fire,” www.public-action.com, & “Waco Suits for Waco Suckers,” www.web-ak.com
17 Vialls/“electronically hijacked”: “Flight 93 Saddest Flight of All,” and various Vialls articles at www.vialls.homestead.com, “Home Run, Electronically Hijacking the WTC Attack Aircraft,” 10/01, www.geocities.com
18 “very strange”: “Reality Check,” No. 82, 10/12/01, www.ratical.org
19 Dewdney: “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” 1/22/02, www.ilaam.net
20 “ordered to land”: “Operation Pearl,” 8/03, www.serendipity.li
21 Dewdney professor: Dewdney bio. on University of W. Ontario website, www.csd.uwo.ca
22 North Ph.D: www.garynorth.com
23 “aeronautical engineer”: www.vialls.homestead.com
24 Valentine: “About” page on www.comeandhear.com
25 Meyer degrees: “Interzine” int. of Meyer at www.deoxy.org
26 Christian/“attempt to apply”: see masthead of North’s periodical Remnant Review & see Gary North & Gary DeMar, Christian Reconstructionism: What It Is, What It Isn’t, Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, 1984
27 Cuba “soon”: “China Backs Iran Against the Great Satan,” 12/22/04, www.web.archive.org, “Why the March 8.7 Quake Did Not Cause a Tsunami,” www.whale.to
28 Waco Museum/shot: “Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum: Catalogue of Evidence,” www.public-action.com, “Internet Censorship & Jewish Destiny,” 11/8/98, http://library.flawlesslogic.com
29 Meyer indulged/“Timewave Zero”: “Interview of TWZ Programmer Peter Meyer,” Interzine, issue 2, http://deoxy.org, “DMT & Hyperspace,” & “Interpretations of the Experience” by Peter Meyer, Psychedelic Monographs & Essays, no. 6, www.lycaeum.org.
30 The Big Lie: Thierry Meyssan, 9/11: The Big Lie, NY: Carnot, 2002, esp. 24, 28, 39, 56, 60, 139, www.effroyable-imposture.net, eds. David Dunbar & Brad Reagan, Debunking 9/11 Myths, NY: Hearst, 2006, 60. The book was first published in France as L’Effroyable Imposture, which translates as The Appalling Deception
31 Griffin bio/“dean” of opposition: e.g., Griffin as “high priest of the ‘truther’ movement,” The News Statesman (U.K.), 9/24/09
32 “show that the attacks”: Griffin speech, University of Wisconsin, 4/18/05, BookTV, C-SPAN2; Loose Change: viewable on www.youtube.com in various editions—the authors have primarily viewed Loose Change—The Final Cut (Louder Than Words, 2007) and Loose Change 9/11—An American Coup (Collective Minds Media, 2009)
33 125 million: “Fact Sheet,” www.loosechange911.com
34 “This is our”: Vanity Fair, 8/06
35 $2,000/$1 million: “Fact Sheet”
36 Avery: “Bios,” www.loosechange911.com
37 “to get the”: Barrie Zwicker, Towers of Deception, Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society, 2006, 303.
38 Falk/foreword: to U.S. edition of David Ray Griffin, The New Pearl Harbor, Northampton, MA: Interlink, 2004, foreword also posted at www.transnational.org, & see Jerusalem Post, 1/27 & 1/31/11; Falk has praised the professor’s work as “objective and compelling” as recently as 2008—and his comments on 9/11 were still causing controversy in early 2011. He referred then to “the apparent cover up” (Richard Falk, “9/11: More than Meets the Eye,” 11/9/08, www.journal-online.co.uk, Sky News, 1/29/11, “Interrogating the Arizona Killings from a Safe Distance, 1/11/11,” http://richardfalk.wordpress.com).
39 Internet groups: David Ray Griffin, The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7, Northampton, MA: Olive Branch, 2010, 5
40 skeptics: e.g., “Reply to Scientific American’s Attempted Debunking of 9/11 Skeptics,” www.serendipity.li.
41 Fetzer/Jones: Fetzer bio, www.d.umn.edu; Jones CV, www.physics.byu.edu, Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 10/22/06. Fetzer’s group retains the name Scholars for 9/11 Truth, while Jones’ group took the name Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice. The appellation “Scholars” is loose—the membership ranges from people with Ph.D.’s in anything from physics to classics to French, medical doctors and dentists, attorneys, college students, and a yoga instructor. In a public statement in 2005, Jones’s department and college administrators at Brigham Young University said they were “not convinced that his analyses and hypotheses [on 9/11] have been submitted to relevant scientific venues that would ensure rigorous technical peer review.” Jones took early retirement in 2007 (membership ranges: “Full Member List,” www.911scholars.org, “Members,” http://stj911.org; Jones: “BYU Discredits Prof. Jones for 9/11 WTC Paper!,” by Greg Szymanski, 11/29/05, www.rense.com, Jones CV, Deseret News [Salt Lake City], 10/22/06).
42 members “believe”/“established”/“high-tech”: “Scholars for 9/11 Truth—Who Are We?” & “Scholars: On Its First Anniversary,” www.9/11scholars.org
43 “discretion”/“Scientific”: “What Is the Goal of the 9/11 Truth Community?,” by Steven Jones, http://stj911.org
44 “inside job”: Guardian (U.K.), 9/5/06
45 MacDonald: cited at www.patriotsquestion911.com
46 Reynolds: “Bush Insider Says WTC Collapse Bogus,” by Greg Szymanski, undated 2005, www.americanfreepress.net
47 Roberts: “What We Don’t Know About 9/11,” by Paul Roberts, 8/16/06, www.informationclearinghouse.info
48 CIA veterans: “Seven CIA Veterans Challenge 9/11 Commission Report,” 9/23/07, www.opednews.com
49 Christison: “Stop Belittling the Theories About September 11,” 8/14/06, www.dissidentvoice.org
50 Charlie Sheen: int. on Alex Jones Show, 3/20/06
51 Cotillard: “Plus Fort Que Thierry Meyssan,” 2/29/08, www.marianne2.fr
52 Lynch: int. on Wereldgasten, VPRO (Dutch TV), 12/3/06
53 O’Donnell: The View, ABC News, 3/29/07
54 Nelson: int. on Alex Jones Show, 2/4/08
55 Ventura: “9/11,” Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, 12/9/09, www.trutv.com, int. on Alex Jones Show, 4/2/08; Jesse Ventura with Dick Russell, American Conspiracies, NY: Skyhorse, 2010
56 Hirschhorn: “Painful 9/11 Truth,” by Joel Hirschhorn, www.blogcritics.org, bio on http://word.world-citizenship.org
57 Deets: profile on www.ae911truth.org—the adjective “pyroclastic” is used to refer to material formed by volcanic or igneous action
58 Erickson: profile on www.ae911truth.org
59 Griscom: Griscom blog, www.impactglassman.blogspot.com
60 Waser: profile on www.ae911truth.org
61 thousand architects & engineers: Examples of others who have made their views known on the collapses, or joined their names to petitions, include:
In the United States:
Dr. Robert Bowman, formerly an Air Force lieutenant colonel who served as director of Advanced Space Programs Development, questioned the towers’ collapses and called for a new investigation (bio on www.thepatriots.us)
Major Jon Fox, former Marine Corps fighter pilot and pilot for Continental Airlines, thought research “proved” the use of explosives (statement to http://patriotsquestion911.com)
Former Navy commander Dennis Henry, who worked as a civil engineer for thirty-four years, doubted the simple collapse account (profile on www.ae911truth.org)
Commander Ralph Kolstad, former fighter pilot and commercial airline captain, said the collapse story did not “make any sense” (statement to http://patriotsquestion911.com)
Joel Skousen, a fighter and commercial airplane pilot, thought there was “significant evidence that the airplane impacts did not cause the collapse” (“Debunking the Debunkers,” by Joel Skousen, 2/14/06, www.rense.com)
Roy Andes, a former assistant attorney general of the state of Montana, signed a petition on the collapses (petition at www.ae911truth.org)
Barbara Honegger, a senior military affairs journalist at the Naval Postgraduate School, suggested that “the U.S. military, not al Qaeda, had the sustained access weeks before 9/11 to also plant controlled demolition charges throughout the superstructures of WTC 1 and WTC 2, and in WTC 7, which brought down all three buildings” (“The Pentagon Attack Papers,” by Barbara Honegger, www.physics911.net)
Karen Johnson, a member of the Arizona state legislature, expressed doubt about the collapses and joined her name to a call for a new investigation (Arizona Republic, 5/3/08, petition at www.ae911truth.org)
William Nugent, former assistant director of research for Technology Services at the Library of Congress, thought “controlled demolition the only scientifically plausible explanation” of the collapses (statement at www.ae
911truth.org)
Lon Waters, a former staff member of a Defense Department–funded computing and research facility in Hawaii, signed the architects and engineers’ petition on the collapses (petition at www.ae911truth.org)
Outside the United States:
In Denmark: Commander Jens Claus Hansen, of the Danish Defense Academy, thought “bombs must have been placed inside the Trade Center towers” (http://patriotsquestion911.com)
In Finland: Heikki Kurtila, a veteran in the investigation of pressure-vessel explosion accidents, said the “great speed of the [Building 7] collapse and the resistance factor strongly suggest controlled demolition” (“Collapse Examination of WTC7,” by Heikki Kurtila, 11/18/05, www.syyskuun11.ja)
In Japan: Yukihisa Fujita, a member of the upper house of the Diet, included doubt about the collapses in a forty-minute presentation to the Committee on Foreign Affairs in 2008 (http://patriotsquestion911.com)
In Malaysia: Former prime minister Tun Mahathir bin Mohammad expressed doubts about the collapses and said he “could believe” the U.S. government would organize the strikes to have an excuse for war in Iraq (“No Place for War Criminals,” 10/6/07, www.globalresearch.ca)
In Norway: Lieutenant Commander Rolf Hustad, a navy weapons specialist, said the statistical likelihood of the “only three steel-framed buildings ever to collapse [due to fire] … is just too remote to grasp” (profile at www.ae911truth.org)
In Switzerland: Lieutenant Colonel Albert Stahel, senior lecturer in strategic studies at the Federal Institute of Technology, has raised questions about the collapses, and especially about Building 7 (“Je Mehr Wir Forschen, Desto Mehr Zweifeln Wir,” 9/15/06, www.blick.ch)
Celebrities:
Actors Ed Asner, Juliette Binoche, Janeane Garofalo, and Woody Harrelson have expressed doubts in a more general sense (Post Gazette [Pittsburgh], 11/27/06, Asner letter, 4/26/04, www.septembereleventh.org, Telegraph [U.K.], 9/1/07, http://patriotsquestion911.com)