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La Gran Impostura: Ningún Avión Se Estrelló En El Pentágono
Las irregularidades de las primeras fotografías del atentado contra el Pentágono y la posterior confusión y contradicciones de las declaraciones oficiales, incluidas las que se realizaron sobre el World Trade Center, intrigaron a Thierry Meyssan , siempre atento observador de la actualidad internacional. A partir de entonces emprendió una investigación que lo ha llevado de revelación en revelación, tan insospechada como sobrecogedora. Según el autor, la versión oficial no se sostiene con un análisis crítico. Esta obra demuestra que se trata de un montaje. En algunos casos, los datos recogidos permiten reconstruir la verdad; en otros, las preguntas aún siguen sin respuesta, lo que no es una razón para continuar creyendo las mentiras de las autoridades. En cualquier caso, la tesis elaborada por Meyssan permite desde ahora poner en duda la legitimidad de la respuesta norteamericana en Afganistán y «la guerra contra el Eje del Mal». La gran impostura es un esfuerzo por recordar al lector que la libertad, en un período en que Estados Unidos separa el Bien del Mal, no es creer en una visión simplista del mundo, sino comprender, ampliar las perspectivas y aumentar los matices.
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First published January 1, 2002
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Thierry Meyssan
19 books23 followersFrench journalist and political activist.
In 1994, Meyssan became a staff member of the Radical Party of the Left and campaiged for Bernard Tapie Christiane Taubira. In the same year he founded the Voltaire Network.
From 1996 - 1999 he worked as substitute coordinator of the National Committee of Surveillance against the extreme right
In 2002 hecpublished a book claiming the 9/11 attacks were organized by a faction of the US military–industrial complex.
In 1994, Meyssan became a staff member of the Radical Party of the Left and campaiged for Bernard Tapie Christiane Taubira. In the same year he founded the Voltaire Network.
From 1996 - 1999 he worked as substitute coordinator of the National Committee of Surveillance against the extreme right
In 2002 hecpublished a book claiming the 9/11 attacks were organized by a faction of the US military–industrial complex.
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November 11, 2013
هذا الكتاب لا يعلمك بتفاصيل وأسرار الحادي عشر من سبتمبر، بقدر ما يعلمك كيف يمكنك أن تؤمن مستقبلك المالي بكتاب سيشترى بكميات كبيرة، ويترجم ويطبع بأكثر من لغة. فقط ضع صورا وروابط، مع قليل من الشبهات لتجد تجاوبا من الجميع. مع طرح أسئلة لماذا وكيف وما السر..دون الخوض في لب الموضوع والإجابة بقدر ما هو تشكيك بالرواية الرسمية!
الذين احتفوا بالكتاب غربيا، كانوا يرغبون بسماع قصة أخرى وبتفسير آخر للحدث.، وهذا السلوك له جهموره الذي لا نملك أن نغير من طريقة تفكيرهم شيئا. أما عربيا وإسلاميا، فقد كان المحتفون بالكتاب يرغبون في تأكيد الاستسلام لفكرة أننا أمة مغلوبة، ولا يمكن أن تنتفض في وجه المعتدين وتضربهم في عقر دارهم. الطريف أنه في الوقت الذي كانت تعقد الندوات وتكتب البحوث إجابة على سؤال: لماذا يكرهوننا؟ وكيف نواجه هذا الغضب الإسلامي؟..كان بعض المنهزمين من رهطنا يقدمون التفسيرات الخائبة لما حدث، كي يؤكدوا أن عربنا ، أبناء الصحراء، لا يقدروا وربما لن يقدروا على فعل مثل هذا الحدث الجلل!
لم يمض يومين على الحدث حتى جاءت التحليلات "العبقرية" التي تتحدث عن محاربي ڤييتنام الذين استاؤوا من سياسات حكومتهم الأمريكية، فقرروا الانتقام، إلى الصرب الذين يريدون الانتقام من الأمريكان، جراء ما جرى لهم من قصف في حرب البوسنة وحرب كوسوڤا..إلى المضي إلى ما هو أغرب من ذلك..فقد طلعوا علينا بنظرية انتقام تجار المخدرات الكولمبيين بسبب مطاردة الأمريكان الفاعلة لأحد قادتهم، وتوعدهم بالانتقام لأجله!!...لينتهوا إلى ما هو أكثر منطقية قليلا مما سبق، وهي نظرية التحكم الأرضي بالطائرات.
كانت فترة سوداء بالنسبة لي..فالكل يتحدث وينظر ويسرد على أسماعك ما يظنه سبقا صحفيا، وصله عبر الإيميل..فقد كان وسيلة ناجحة للشائعات بعد انتهاء عصر المنشورات والأشرطة الكاسيت!!..اضطررت حينها إلى تحمل سماع الحماقات في التحليلات. أغرب تلك التحليلات هي أن العملية إسرائيلية موسادية بدليل، زعمهم تغيب ٤٠٠٠ يهودي عن البرج بسبب علمهم بالطائرات!!
٤٠٠٠ آدمي يعرف بخبر الطائرات، ولا يصل الخبر إلى باقي شعب أمريكا!!هذا والله كنا نسمعه من المتعلمين. الغريب أن ناشر هذا الخبر هي صحيفة الخليج الإماراتية..فالصحفيون لم يكونوا أفضل حالا من شعوب المنطقة العربية!
بعد ذلك جاءنا تحليل في أحد المنتديات العربية..وشاع حتى صار يباع مقاله في أقراص مدمجة كي يعم خبره. وهو أن أمريكا ضربت البرجين والمباني بصواريخ..والدليل صورة فيها صورة مجسم صغير يشبه الصاروخ بجانب البرجين..والطائرات كانت وسيلة الأمريكان لتلفيق التهمة للعرب الذين ركبوا الطائرة!!
المضحك أن الصور كانت مأخوذة من موقع ياباني يتحدث عن الأطباق الطائرة اليوفو..والمبكي أن الجميع كان يشكر سعادة المحلل والخبير الجنائي والسياسي الذي طلع علينا بصور الأطباق الطائرة، واعتبرها صواريخ وليست أطباقا طائرة
تيري ميسان أثار شبهتين أو ثلاث..بنى عليها نظريته للمؤامرة..صفق له عربنا كثيرا.وصفق هو للمال الذي دخل جيبه، وما زال بعضنا يصدق أن ما جرى فيلما هوليووديا - بوليووديا، وأننا نحن ضحاياه!
لا ينقضي عجبي ممن زعم أن القرآن قد تنبأ بأحداث الحادي عشر من سبتمبر..فجعلوا الآية ١٠٩ من سورة التوبة ترمز لعدد أدوار البرج، وبعضهم زعم أن هذا رقم البرج..وشيئا آخر في نفس السورة جعلوه لمكان اصطدام الطائرة (الدور رقم ٨٧)..وجعلوا كلام الله (على شفا جرفٍ هارٍ) المنطقة التي سيقع بها الحدث (جارفن هارن) [استدعت هذه السخافة من أحد العقلاء أن يجلب خريطة للحي بمنهاتن كي ينفي مقولة وجود شارع يدعى جارفن هارن]، كما زعموا أن التاريخ قد حدد في نفس الآية بأنه ١١-٩..وأن عدد الحروف حتى نهاية الآية ١١٠ هو ٢٠٠١..السنة الميلادية للحدث. كل هذا قيل ونحن مضطرون للسماع مع التزام الصمت!.ولمن لا يصدق مثل هذا الخيال الغريب سأعطيه رابطا فيه شيء من الخيالات الغريبة التي كنا نسمعها
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العجيب أن أصحاب هذا التفسير لا يستطيعون أن ينبئونا بعملية عسكرية جديدة بناء على حساباتهم..فكل ما يفعلوه هو انتظار الحدث لربطه بغرائب ما أنزل بها من سلطان. وقد رأيت من يطبع مثل هذه الأقوال ويوزعها بين الناس رغبة منهم في الانتصار لدين الله!
خلاصة القول: أن عقول المسلمين تحتاج إلى أن تتحرر من خيبتها، قبل أن يتحرروا من الاستعمار، فالتخلف هو من يجلب الاستعمار..بخلاف النص الشرعي الذي دعا إلى جهاد العدو..فهو من جلب العزة. ولكم في قصة القرية التونسية التي ذهبت إلى شيخ القرية كي يقود ثورتهم ضد المستعمر الفرنسي.٠، فما كان من الشيخ الذي اشترى الفرنسيون ذمته إلا أن قال بأن الولي فلان صاحب المزار نصحه بالاستسلام للفرنسيين حتى لا يهلكوا..وبذا أخذ الفرنسيون القرية بلا دم مهراق ولا سيف مسلول!
الحادي عشر من سبتمبر كانت ضربة للصلف والعنجهية الأمريكية..لا نملك أمامها إلا التأييد أو الإستنكار. أما أن نقول بمعرفة ٤٠٠٠ يهودي بالحدث أو أن الصرب أو الكولمبيين هم من فعلوا ذلك فهذا ضرب من العته والجنون، لا يجعلنا أهلا لمقاومة الأعداء، لأننا ننقاد للتفسير الأحمق بسبب انهزامنا الحضاري.
ولا يعني هذا عدم الإنصات لتفسير تزعمه الصحفي والإعلامي بقناة الجزيرة/ يسري فودة في سلسلة حلقات سري للغاية بعنوان، أجراس الخطر، عن وجود تسهيل وتغاضي متعمد عن إحباط "غزوتي نيويورك وواشنطن"..فالتغاضي شيء، والزعم بأن العملية مفبركة من الألف إلى ياء شيء آخر!
الذين احتفوا بالكتاب غربيا، كانوا يرغبون بسماع قصة أخرى وبتفسير آخر للحدث.، وهذا السلوك له جهموره الذي لا نملك أن نغير من طريقة تفكيرهم شيئا. أما عربيا وإسلاميا، فقد كان المحتفون بالكتاب يرغبون في تأكيد الاستسلام لفكرة أننا أمة مغلوبة، ولا يمكن أن تنتفض في وجه المعتدين وتضربهم في عقر دارهم. الطريف أنه في الوقت الذي كانت تعقد الندوات وتكتب البحوث إجابة على سؤال: لماذا يكرهوننا؟ وكيف نواجه هذا الغضب الإسلامي؟..كان بعض المنهزمين من رهطنا يقدمون التفسيرات الخائبة لما حدث، كي يؤكدوا أن عربنا ، أبناء الصحراء، لا يقدروا وربما لن يقدروا على فعل مثل هذا الحدث الجلل!
لم يمض يومين على الحدث حتى جاءت التحليلات "العبقرية" التي تتحدث عن محاربي ڤييتنام الذين استاؤوا من سياسات حكومتهم الأمريكية، فقرروا الانتقام، إلى الصرب الذين يريدون الانتقام من الأمريكان، جراء ما جرى لهم من قصف في حرب البوسنة وحرب كوسوڤا..إلى المضي إلى ما هو أغرب من ذلك..فقد طلعوا علينا بنظرية انتقام تجار المخدرات الكولمبيين بسبب مطاردة الأمريكان الفاعلة لأحد قادتهم، وتوعدهم بالانتقام لأجله!!...لينتهوا إلى ما هو أكثر منطقية قليلا مما سبق، وهي نظرية التحكم الأرضي بالطائرات.
كانت فترة سوداء بالنسبة لي..فالكل يتحدث وينظر ويسرد على أسماعك ما يظنه سبقا صحفيا، وصله عبر الإيميل..فقد كان وسيلة ناجحة للشائعات بعد انتهاء عصر المنشورات والأشرطة الكاسيت!!..اضطررت حينها إلى تحمل سماع الحماقات في التحليلات. أغرب تلك التحليلات هي أن العملية إسرائيلية موسادية بدليل، زعمهم تغيب ٤٠٠٠ يهودي عن البرج بسبب علمهم بالطائرات!!
٤٠٠٠ آدمي يعرف بخبر الطائرات، ولا يصل الخبر إلى باقي شعب أمريكا!!هذا والله كنا نسمعه من المتعلمين. الغريب أن ناشر هذا الخبر هي صحيفة الخليج الإماراتية..فالصحفيون لم يكونوا أفضل حالا من شعوب المنطقة العربية!
بعد ذلك جاءنا تحليل في أحد المنتديات العربية..وشاع حتى صار يباع مقاله في أقراص مدمجة كي يعم خبره. وهو أن أمريكا ضربت البرجين والمباني بصواريخ..والدليل صورة فيها صورة مجسم صغير يشبه الصاروخ بجانب البرجين..والطائرات كانت وسيلة الأمريكان لتلفيق التهمة للعرب الذين ركبوا الطائرة!!
المضحك أن الصور كانت مأخوذة من موقع ياباني يتحدث عن الأطباق الطائرة اليوفو..والمبكي أن الجميع كان يشكر سعادة المحلل والخبير الجنائي والسياسي الذي طلع علينا بصور الأطباق الطائرة، واعتبرها صواريخ وليست أطباقا طائرة
تيري ميسان أثار شبهتين أو ثلاث..بنى عليها نظريته للمؤامرة..صفق له عربنا كثيرا.وصفق هو للمال الذي دخل جيبه، وما زال بعضنا يصدق أن ما جرى فيلما هوليووديا - بوليووديا، وأننا نحن ضحاياه!
لا ينقضي عجبي ممن زعم أن القرآن قد تنبأ بأحداث الحادي عشر من سبتمبر..فجعلوا الآية ١٠٩ من سورة التوبة ترمز لعدد أدوار البرج، وبعضهم زعم أن هذا رقم البرج..وشيئا آخر في نفس السورة جعلوه لمكان اصطدام الطائرة (الدور رقم ٨٧)..وجعلوا كلام الله (على شفا جرفٍ هارٍ) المنطقة التي سيقع بها الحدث (جارفن هارن) [استدعت هذه السخافة من أحد العقلاء أن يجلب خريطة للحي بمنهاتن كي ينفي مقولة وجود شارع يدعى جارفن هارن]، كما زعموا أن التاريخ قد حدد في نفس الآية بأنه ١١-٩..وأن عدد الحروف حتى نهاية الآية ١١٠ هو ٢٠٠١..السنة الميلادية للحدث. كل هذا قيل ونحن مضطرون للسماع مع التزام الصمت!.ولمن لا يصدق مثل هذا الخيال الغريب سأعطيه رابطا فيه شيء من الخيالات الغريبة التي كنا نسمعها
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العجيب أن أصحاب هذا التفسير لا يستطيعون أن ينبئونا بعملية عسكرية جديدة بناء على حساباتهم..فكل ما يفعلوه هو انتظار الحدث لربطه بغرائب ما أنزل بها من سلطان. وقد رأيت من يطبع مثل هذه الأقوال ويوزعها بين الناس رغبة منهم في الانتصار لدين الله!
خلاصة القول: أن عقول المسلمين تحتاج إلى أن تتحرر من خيبتها، قبل أن يتحرروا من الاستعمار، فالتخلف هو من يجلب الاستعمار..بخلاف النص الشرعي الذي دعا إلى جهاد العدو..فهو من جلب العزة. ولكم في قصة القرية التونسية التي ذهبت إلى شيخ القرية كي يقود ثورتهم ضد المستعمر الفرنسي.٠، فما كان من الشيخ الذي اشترى الفرنسيون ذمته إلا أن قال بأن الولي فلان صاحب المزار نصحه بالاستسلام للفرنسيين حتى لا يهلكوا..وبذا أخذ الفرنسيون القرية بلا دم مهراق ولا سيف مسلول!
الحادي عشر من سبتمبر كانت ضربة للصلف والعنجهية الأمريكية..لا نملك أمامها إلا التأييد أو الإستنكار. أما أن نقول بمعرفة ٤٠٠٠ يهودي بالحدث أو أن الصرب أو الكولمبيين هم من فعلوا ذلك فهذا ضرب من العته والجنون، لا يجعلنا أهلا لمقاومة الأعداء، لأننا ننقاد للتفسير الأحمق بسبب انهزامنا الحضاري.
ولا يعني هذا عدم الإنصات لتفسير تزعمه الصحفي والإعلامي بقناة الجزيرة/ يسري فودة في سلسلة حلقات سري للغاية بعنوان، أجراس الخطر، عن وجود تسهيل وتغاضي متعمد عن إحباط "غزوتي نيويورك وواشنطن"..فالتغاضي شيء، والزعم بأن العملية مفبركة من الألف إلى ياء شيء آخر!
November 20, 2015
Meyssan came out with American conspiracy theory concerning the perpetrators of 911. But I was confused by the different hypotheses he assumed.
Meyssan supposed that the attacks were for financial profits in the stock market; délice initié. He also listed the controversial news reports issued just after the attacks along with FBI's non upstanding inquiries.
He mentioned Robert Mueller III as the one who orchestrated 911 attacks, indicating that he got appointed by G. Bush jr. one week before the attacks, maybe to justify the forthcoming American aggression.
I was shocked by the internet domain names, that was bought anonymously one year before the attacks, i.e. pearlharborinmanhattan.com worldtradecenterstrikes.com august11attacks.com!!!
He stressed on Bush being aware of the first scenes of the attacks, before any of the news cables had aired any footage of World Trade Center or the Pentagon, alluding that he had watched the attacks live before any one did.
Meyssan wondered why airlines companies, owning the aircraft used in the attacks, showed the passengers list with the names of the "supposed" pirates excluded!
The buildings parts that had been attacked were either partially evacuated 2 hours before the attacks or already empty like the Pentagon.
Tense negotiations with NATO, UN & developed countries were held the next days of the attacks, some countries were skeptical about officials' statements alluding that perpetrators are mostly Bin Laden's militants. Bringing up the ex-Pakistani diplomat's statements, according to Berlin 4 day negotiation about Afghanistan in July 2001, showed that the US was to overthrow Taliban by mid October 2001.
Measures taken by the States as "war on terrorism", mentioned on pages 95:99; i.e. Suspending any lawyer who files a case for victims families, USA PATRIOT Act that violates fundamental rights, Intercepting communications and detaining any suspect without giving him the right to contact his lawyer or counselor!!! Made no difference of any developing country undermining freedom.
Meyssan detailed the far right tendencies in the US army and secret service; stating the 'Northwoods' operation as an example, which aimed at making of Fedel Castro a danger to international community, by perpetrating attacks planned and made by the CIA on Cuban and international territories! An operation plotted by general Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Chief of Staff of the Army, who didn't agree with Kennedy's policy in Cuba, especially when the latter refused to resort to military intervention during the Bay of Pigs crisis. According to Meyssan, secret documents revealed in the 90's revealed that Lemnitzer decided to sabot Kennedy's policy & drag the public opinion into war through that operation, Northwoods.
Meyssan supposed that the attacks were for financial profits in the stock market; délice initié. He also listed the controversial news reports issued just after the attacks along with FBI's non upstanding inquiries.
He mentioned Robert Mueller III as the one who orchestrated 911 attacks, indicating that he got appointed by G. Bush jr. one week before the attacks, maybe to justify the forthcoming American aggression.
I was shocked by the internet domain names, that was bought anonymously one year before the attacks, i.e. pearlharborinmanhattan.com worldtradecenterstrikes.com august11attacks.com!!!
He stressed on Bush being aware of the first scenes of the attacks, before any of the news cables had aired any footage of World Trade Center or the Pentagon, alluding that he had watched the attacks live before any one did.
Meyssan wondered why airlines companies, owning the aircraft used in the attacks, showed the passengers list with the names of the "supposed" pirates excluded!
The buildings parts that had been attacked were either partially evacuated 2 hours before the attacks or already empty like the Pentagon.
Tense negotiations with NATO, UN & developed countries were held the next days of the attacks, some countries were skeptical about officials' statements alluding that perpetrators are mostly Bin Laden's militants. Bringing up the ex-Pakistani diplomat's statements, according to Berlin 4 day negotiation about Afghanistan in July 2001, showed that the US was to overthrow Taliban by mid October 2001.
Measures taken by the States as "war on terrorism", mentioned on pages 95:99; i.e. Suspending any lawyer who files a case for victims families, USA PATRIOT Act that violates fundamental rights, Intercepting communications and detaining any suspect without giving him the right to contact his lawyer or counselor!!! Made no difference of any developing country undermining freedom.
Meyssan detailed the far right tendencies in the US army and secret service; stating the 'Northwoods' operation as an example, which aimed at making of Fedel Castro a danger to international community, by perpetrating attacks planned and made by the CIA on Cuban and international territories! An operation plotted by general Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Chief of Staff of the Army, who didn't agree with Kennedy's policy in Cuba, especially when the latter refused to resort to military intervention during the Bay of Pigs crisis. According to Meyssan, secret documents revealed in the 90's revealed that Lemnitzer decided to sabot Kennedy's policy & drag the public opinion into war through that operation, Northwoods.
June 27, 2019
Governments should not be trusted, especially US government and their official story regarding 11th September.
November 26, 2016
This was one of the first books that looked at the 9/11 attacks as a false flag attack. Written by French journalist and political activist Thierry Meyssan. He was one of the first people to bring out the facts of the extreme right Neo-Conservative branch of our government, many of whom were on G.W. Bush's cabinet and others that had direct access, including his father, George H. W. Bush.
This book opened my eyes to the fraud that led to America invading the Mid East and it dramatic effects that has led to the disaster that we are still facing.
This book opened my eyes to the fraud that led to America invading the Mid East and it dramatic effects that has led to the disaster that we are still facing.
October 20, 2014
Demonstrates the problem with deductive arguments on geopolitical issues. Sure, we can make cui bono assumptions and track the hypothetical lines of force emanating from empire, but that doesn't really mean much in the end. An amusing exercise, certainly.
May 20, 2013
Conspiracy theorist mumbo-jumbo...
January 19, 2025
At first sight, the facts are indisputable. And yet, once one goes into the details, the official explanations become embarrassingly contradictory.
THE PENTAGON
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) issued a press release on September 14. Filling in the gaps of General Myers 's memory, NORAD claimed it only received warning of the hijacking at 9:24 am and assured that it had immediately ordered two F -16 fighters from the Langley Air Force base in Virginia to intercept the Boeing. But the Air Force, not knowing its exact location, believed the plane was on its way to commit a third strike against New York and sent its fighters northwards. How can we believe that the U.S. military's radar system was incapable of locating a Boeing within a zone of only a few dozen miles in radius? Or that a big jetliner could elude two fighters launched in its pursuit?
Even supposing that the Boeing managed to overcome this first obstacle, it should have been shot down while approaching the Pentagon. The security arrangements protecting the Department of Defense are of course a military secret, as are those concerning the White House nearby. It is known that the systems were revised after a series of incidents that occurred in 1994, notably the landing of a small airplane, a Cessna l 50L, on the White House lawn. We also know that these anti-aircraft defenses include five batteries of missiles installed on top of the Pentagon and fighters stationed at the Presidential airbase of Saint Andrews. Two fighter squadrons are permanently based there: the Air Force's I 13th Fighter Wing and the Navy's 321st Fighter Attack Wing. Equipped respectively with F-16's and F/A-18's, they should never have let the Boeing approach the Pentagon.
A point to remember when speaking about the destruction caused by the plane is how the Pentagon is structured. It’s in the shape of a pentagon composed of concentric rings. Meyssan writes: Despite its weight (a hundred tons) and its speed (between 250 and 440 mph), the plane only destroyed the first ring of the building. If one superimposes the plane's outline onto the satellite photo below, [photo provided for in original] it can be seen that only the nose of the Boeing entered the building. The fuselage and the wings remained outside. The plane was stopped dead, without its wings having struck the facade. There is no visible trace of any impact except that from the Boeing's nose. We should thus be able to see the wings and the fuselage outside, on the lawn in fact. While the plane's nose is made of carbon and the wings, containing the fuel, can burn, the Boeing's fuselage is aluminium and the jet engines are built out of steel. At the end of the fire, it would necessarily have left a burnt-out wreck. If you refer to the Associated Press photo (on the front cover of this book), you will clearly observe that there is no plane. So, although officials, members of Congress and military personnel all claimed to have seen the aircraft fall, no one saw the smallest piece of the plane, not even from the landing gear: there were only unidentifiable metal fragments. As for the video surveillance cameras in the Pentagon parking lot, they did not see the Boeing either, at any point of time or at any angle.
Numerous people, who were in their cars on the highway running alongside the Pentagon, heard the sound of a plane passing overhead. This sound was shrill, like that of a fighter aircraft, not a commercial air liner. Some said they saw this aircraft. They then described it as a small plane that might have contained eight to twelve persons, not a Boeing 757. Danielle O'Brien, an air traffic controller at Dulles airport, described to ABC News the behavior of this aircraft, as seen on radar. It was flying at a speed of around 500 mph and was heading at first for the protected airspace surrounding the White House and the Capitol, then veered sharply towards the Pentagon. For O'Brien and her colleagues, there was no possible doubt: given its speed and maneuverability, it could not be a commercial airliner, but only a military aircraft.
THE WORLD TRADE TOWERS
The professional pilots we talked to confirmed that few amongst themselves could envisage performing such an operation and completely ruled it out in the case of amateur pilots. There is, however, one infallible method of achieving this result: the use of radio beacons. A signal, transmitted from the target, guides the plane in automatically. Now, the existence of a beacon in the World Trade Center has been attested to by radio hams who recorded its signal. It was detected because it interfered with the transmission of television antennas placed on top of the towers. It is probable that the signal was activated at the last moment so that no one could discover it and destroy it. It is possible that the hijackers used two beacons, because one alone would scarcely have done the job, despite the alignment of the two targets. In any event, they required accomplices on the ground. And if they had them, it was not necessary to have numerous hijackers on board. A small team would have sufficed to put the plane on automatic pilot. It was not necessary in fact to have any hijackers on board at all, as there was no taking of hostages: by hacking into the planes' computers before takeoff, it would have been possible to take over the aircraft in flight, thanks to the Global Hawk technology perfected by the Department of Defense. The Boeing would have been under remote control, like a drone - a plane without a pilot.
BUIDLING 7
A journalist's scoop that appeared in the New York Times may shed some light here. The World Trade Center, which was believed to be a civilian target, also concealed a secret military one. Perhaps thousands of people perished because they served as its human shield. Tower 7 - but perhaps other buildings and basements as well - masked a CIA base. During the 1950's it served as a base for spying on foreign delegations to the United Nations, but under Bill Clinton it had illegally extended its activities to electronic espionage of Manhattan.
PRE-ATTACK WARNINGS
Despite appearances, the attacks did not aim to produce the maximum possible deaths. On the contrary, prior intervention was required to ensure that numerous persons, at least those working on the top floors, were absent from their offices at the critical hour. Thus, the Israeli daily, Ha'aretz revealed that Odigo, a leading firm in electronic communications, received anonymous messages warning of the New York attacks, two hours before they occurred. These facts were confirmed by Micha Macover, the firm's director. Warnings of various types could have addressed to the occupants of north tower, even if all of them were not taken seriously in the same way. One re-encounters here a pattern similar to that of the attack perpetrated in Oklahoma City on 19 April 1995. That day, a large portion of the civil servants working in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building were given a half-day off work so that the car bomb explosion only killed 168 persons. This was an attack we now know was carried out by military personnel belonging to an extreme right-wing organization which itself had been infiltrated by the FBJ. In Oklahoma City, the FBI had thus let an attack go ahead about which it had been informed in advance, but had limited its scope.
THE HIJACKERS
The day after the attacks, the FBI had already managed to establish the modus operandi of the terrorists. Agents of the bin Laden networks had entered American territory legally. Once inside the country, they had taken accelerated pilot training courses. Regrouped into four teams of five kamikazes each, they hijacked the airliners with the mission of crashing them into major objectives. On 14 September, the FBI published a list naming nineteen presumed plane hijackers. In criminal proceedings involving facts as complicated as these, the police should have constructed a number of hypotheses and followed each trail to the end, without neglecting any of them. The hypothesis of domestic terrorism was rejected in principle, without ever being studied. Instead, the finger was already being pointed at Osama bin Laden by "sources close to the investigation", a few hours after the attacks.
The FBI presented Mohammed Atta as the leader of the operation. In ten years, this 33 year old was said to have stayed in Salou (Spain), then Zurich (Switzerland) where, according to investigators, he paid by credit card for Swiss knives destined to be used in the plane hijackings - and finally Hamburg (Germany). Along with two other terrorists, he took courses there in electronics, without causing comment about himself or letting his extremist convictions become known. Upon arriving in the United States, he joined his accomplices in Florida, took pilot courses in the town of Venice and even paid for several hours on a flight simulator in Miami. Anxious to disguise his fundamentalism, Mohammed Atta went as far as to frequent the Olympic Garden in Las Vegas, the biggest topless cabaret in the world. This peerless agent was believed to reached Boston on 11 September by a domestic flight. Given the short time between the two flights, he appears to have lost his baggage in transit. In searching them, the FBI found training videos on piloting Boeing aircraft, a book of Islamic prayers and an old letter in which he announces his intention to die as a martyr. Atta was identified as the head of the commando team by a steward who made a call with his cellular telephone during the hijacking and indicated the leader's seat number: 8D. Should we take such information seriously? One would have to accept that Mohammed Atta spent ten years carefully hiding his real intentions and that he must have adhered to strict procedures in communicating with his accomplices to escape the attention of the intelligence services. Nevertheless, at the last moment he left behind a bagful of clues. Even more ridiculous, the FBI claims to have dis covered Mohammed Atta's passport intact in the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center!
The international press commented at length on the profiles of the nineteen terrorists designated by the FBI. The only problem with these identikit portraits is that they are based on a list which itself is subject to dispute. The Saudi embassy in Washington has confirmed that Abdulaziz Al-Omari, Mohand Al-Shehri, Salem Al Hazmi and Saeed Al-Ghamdi are all alive and well, and living in their own country. Waleed M. Al-Shehri, who lives at present in Casablanca and works as a pilot for Royal Air Maroc, gave an interview to the Arab-language daily, Al-Qods al-Arabi, based in London. Prince Saud Al-Faisal, the Saudi Foreign Minister, declared to the press that, "It has been proven that five of the persons named in the FBI's list had no connection with what hap pened." And Prince Nayef, the Saudi Minister of the Interior, declared to an official American delegation, "Until now, we have no evidence that assures us that they are related to September 11. We have not received any thing in this regard from the United States."
INSIDER TRADING
"Who profits from the crime?" Concerning that precise subject, in the period following the attacks it was found that maneuvers characteristic of "insider trading" had taken place in the six days preceding September 11. The stock of United Airlines (owner of the planes that crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center and near Pittsburgh) fell artificially by 42%. In the case of American Airlines (owner of the plan that crashed into the north tower of the WTC and of the one that was said to have crashed into the Pentagon), its stock fell by 39%. No other airline companies in the world were the object of comparable maneuvers, with the exception of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. From this, one can deduce that a plane belong to the Dutch company may have been chosen as the target for a fifth hijacking.
Investigations were coordinated by the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). On 15 October, it held a video-conference where the national authorities presented their interim reports. It appeared that the illicit gains added up to several hundred million dollars, constituting the "biggest case of insider trading ever committed". Osama bin Laden, whose bank accounts have been blocked since 1998, does not dispose of the money needed for this speculative operation.
It has been possible to establish that the greater part of the transactions were "handled" by the Deutsche Bank and its American investment subsidiary, Alex. Brown. This company was directed until 1998 by a colorful figure, A.B. Krongard. A former captain in the Marines and an enthusiast of firearms and martial arts, this banker became an advisor to the director of the CIA, and since March 26, 2001, the official number three in the hierarchy of the American intelligence agency. Given the importance of the investigation and the influence of A.B. Krongard, one would have thought that Alex. Brown would have cooperated readily with the authorities to facilitate the identification of inside traders. But this was not the case. Strangely indeed, the FBI gave up on exploring this line of inquiry and IOSCO closed its investigation without resolving the affair. It would nevertheless be easy to trace the capital movements because all of the bank-to-bank transactions are archived with two clearing organizations. One could accept that, given the importance of what was at stake, that it would be possible to break banking secrecy and determine just who the happy beneficiaries of the 11 September attacks actually were. But nothing came of all this.
OSAMA BIN LADEN
Osama bin Laden is one of fifty-four children of Sheikh Mohammed bin Laden, founder in 1931 of the Saudi Binladen Group (SBG). This holding, the most important in Saudi Arabia, derives about half of its revenues from construction and public works, and the other half from engineering, real estate, distribution, telecommunications and publishing. It formed a Swiss investment firm, the Saudi Investment Company (SICO), which created several companies in partnership with subsidiaries of the Saudi National Commercial Bank. The SBG has important holdings in General Electric, Nortel Networks and Cadbury Schweppes. It is represented in the United States by Adnan Kashoggi (the ex-brother-in-law of Mohammed Al-Fayed), while its financial assets are managed by the Carlyle Group. Up until 1996, the setting-up of the SBG's subsidiaries were prepared in Lausanne by its councilor, the Nazi banker Francois Genoud, executor of Dr. Goebbels's will and a donor of funds to the terrorist Carlos. The SBG is indissolubly linked to the Wahhabite regime in Saudi Arabia, to the point of having been for a long time the one and only contractor for the construction and management of the kingdom's holy places, Medina and Mecca. Similarly, it won the majority of building contracts for U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia and for the reconstruction of Kuwait after the Gulf War.
Born in 1957, Osama, reputed to be a prudent businessman, was approached in December 1979 by his tutor, Prince Turki Al-Faisal Al-Saud (director of the Saudi secret services from 1977 to August 2001), to financially manage the CIA's secret operations in Afghanistan. Over a period of ten years, the CIA invested two billion dollars in Afghanistan to hold the Soviets in check, making these the most expensive operations in the agency's history. The Saudi and United States services recruited Islamic militants, trained them, armed them, and manipulated them in jihad (holy war) to combat and defeat the Soviets for them. Osama bin Laden managed the needs of this irregular milieu on a computer file called "Al-Qaeda" (literally, the "base", as in data base). After the defeat of the USSR, the USA completely lost interest in the fate of Afghanistan, which they left in the hands of warlords and the mujahiddin they had recruited from throughout the Muslim world to fight the Red Anny. Osama bin Laden supposedly then ceased to work for the CIA and recovered these fighters for his own purposes.
But did bin Laden really break with the CIA and become an enemy of America? From 1987 to 1998, the training of Al-Qaeda's fighters was supervised by Ali Mohammed, an Egyptian officer incorporated into the United States military. At the same time, Mohammed also taught at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, where he trained members of the most secret network of US influence, the "stay-behind', as well as officers of the US Special Forces. In light of the security regulations of the American secret services, which call for constant surveillance of its agents, can one believe for a single instant that Ali Mohammed could alternate between a military base in the USA and Al-Qaeda camps in Sudan and Afghanistan without being immediately unmasked? The widely publicized arrest of Ali Mohammed at the end of 1998 does not suffice to hide the fact that this "stay-behind' agent trained Al-Qaeda's fighters and t..hat therefore Osama bin Laden continued to work for the CIA at least until 1998 ! How can one not see that Osama bin Laden legend is a cover story fabricated out of whole cloth by the CIA?
The links between the CIA and bin Laden were not severed in 1998. Seriously ill, he went for treatment from 4 to 14 July 2001 at the American Hospital in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). "During his hospitalization [he] received visits from several members of his family and other important persons from Saudi Arabia and the Emirates. During this same stay, the local representative of the CIA, who is a well-known figure in Dubai, was seen taking the main elevator to visit “Osama’s room" the French newspaper Le Figaro revealed.
Since the Cold War era, Washington has deliberately supported Osama bin Laden, while placing him on the FBI's most wanted list. While mujahiddin are implicated in armed insurrections on behalf of the United States in the Balkans and the former USSR, the FBI has the mission to bring him to the US and to carry out a war on terrorism. By all appearances, it's not only a matter of contradictory actions, but a policy of lying to citizens, because since the USSR-Afghanistan war the CIA has supported international terrorism through its secret operations" writes Professor Michel Chossudovsky of the University of Ottawa.
THE PENTAGON
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) issued a press release on September 14. Filling in the gaps of General Myers 's memory, NORAD claimed it only received warning of the hijacking at 9:24 am and assured that it had immediately ordered two F -16 fighters from the Langley Air Force base in Virginia to intercept the Boeing. But the Air Force, not knowing its exact location, believed the plane was on its way to commit a third strike against New York and sent its fighters northwards. How can we believe that the U.S. military's radar system was incapable of locating a Boeing within a zone of only a few dozen miles in radius? Or that a big jetliner could elude two fighters launched in its pursuit?
Even supposing that the Boeing managed to overcome this first obstacle, it should have been shot down while approaching the Pentagon. The security arrangements protecting the Department of Defense are of course a military secret, as are those concerning the White House nearby. It is known that the systems were revised after a series of incidents that occurred in 1994, notably the landing of a small airplane, a Cessna l 50L, on the White House lawn. We also know that these anti-aircraft defenses include five batteries of missiles installed on top of the Pentagon and fighters stationed at the Presidential airbase of Saint Andrews. Two fighter squadrons are permanently based there: the Air Force's I 13th Fighter Wing and the Navy's 321st Fighter Attack Wing. Equipped respectively with F-16's and F/A-18's, they should never have let the Boeing approach the Pentagon.
A point to remember when speaking about the destruction caused by the plane is how the Pentagon is structured. It’s in the shape of a pentagon composed of concentric rings. Meyssan writes: Despite its weight (a hundred tons) and its speed (between 250 and 440 mph), the plane only destroyed the first ring of the building. If one superimposes the plane's outline onto the satellite photo below, [photo provided for in original] it can be seen that only the nose of the Boeing entered the building. The fuselage and the wings remained outside. The plane was stopped dead, without its wings having struck the facade. There is no visible trace of any impact except that from the Boeing's nose. We should thus be able to see the wings and the fuselage outside, on the lawn in fact. While the plane's nose is made of carbon and the wings, containing the fuel, can burn, the Boeing's fuselage is aluminium and the jet engines are built out of steel. At the end of the fire, it would necessarily have left a burnt-out wreck. If you refer to the Associated Press photo (on the front cover of this book), you will clearly observe that there is no plane. So, although officials, members of Congress and military personnel all claimed to have seen the aircraft fall, no one saw the smallest piece of the plane, not even from the landing gear: there were only unidentifiable metal fragments. As for the video surveillance cameras in the Pentagon parking lot, they did not see the Boeing either, at any point of time or at any angle.
Numerous people, who were in their cars on the highway running alongside the Pentagon, heard the sound of a plane passing overhead. This sound was shrill, like that of a fighter aircraft, not a commercial air liner. Some said they saw this aircraft. They then described it as a small plane that might have contained eight to twelve persons, not a Boeing 757. Danielle O'Brien, an air traffic controller at Dulles airport, described to ABC News the behavior of this aircraft, as seen on radar. It was flying at a speed of around 500 mph and was heading at first for the protected airspace surrounding the White House and the Capitol, then veered sharply towards the Pentagon. For O'Brien and her colleagues, there was no possible doubt: given its speed and maneuverability, it could not be a commercial airliner, but only a military aircraft.
THE WORLD TRADE TOWERS
The professional pilots we talked to confirmed that few amongst themselves could envisage performing such an operation and completely ruled it out in the case of amateur pilots. There is, however, one infallible method of achieving this result: the use of radio beacons. A signal, transmitted from the target, guides the plane in automatically. Now, the existence of a beacon in the World Trade Center has been attested to by radio hams who recorded its signal. It was detected because it interfered with the transmission of television antennas placed on top of the towers. It is probable that the signal was activated at the last moment so that no one could discover it and destroy it. It is possible that the hijackers used two beacons, because one alone would scarcely have done the job, despite the alignment of the two targets. In any event, they required accomplices on the ground. And if they had them, it was not necessary to have numerous hijackers on board. A small team would have sufficed to put the plane on automatic pilot. It was not necessary in fact to have any hijackers on board at all, as there was no taking of hostages: by hacking into the planes' computers before takeoff, it would have been possible to take over the aircraft in flight, thanks to the Global Hawk technology perfected by the Department of Defense. The Boeing would have been under remote control, like a drone - a plane without a pilot.
BUIDLING 7
A journalist's scoop that appeared in the New York Times may shed some light here. The World Trade Center, which was believed to be a civilian target, also concealed a secret military one. Perhaps thousands of people perished because they served as its human shield. Tower 7 - but perhaps other buildings and basements as well - masked a CIA base. During the 1950's it served as a base for spying on foreign delegations to the United Nations, but under Bill Clinton it had illegally extended its activities to electronic espionage of Manhattan.
PRE-ATTACK WARNINGS
Despite appearances, the attacks did not aim to produce the maximum possible deaths. On the contrary, prior intervention was required to ensure that numerous persons, at least those working on the top floors, were absent from their offices at the critical hour. Thus, the Israeli daily, Ha'aretz revealed that Odigo, a leading firm in electronic communications, received anonymous messages warning of the New York attacks, two hours before they occurred. These facts were confirmed by Micha Macover, the firm's director. Warnings of various types could have addressed to the occupants of north tower, even if all of them were not taken seriously in the same way. One re-encounters here a pattern similar to that of the attack perpetrated in Oklahoma City on 19 April 1995. That day, a large portion of the civil servants working in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building were given a half-day off work so that the car bomb explosion only killed 168 persons. This was an attack we now know was carried out by military personnel belonging to an extreme right-wing organization which itself had been infiltrated by the FBJ. In Oklahoma City, the FBI had thus let an attack go ahead about which it had been informed in advance, but had limited its scope.
THE HIJACKERS
The day after the attacks, the FBI had already managed to establish the modus operandi of the terrorists. Agents of the bin Laden networks had entered American territory legally. Once inside the country, they had taken accelerated pilot training courses. Regrouped into four teams of five kamikazes each, they hijacked the airliners with the mission of crashing them into major objectives. On 14 September, the FBI published a list naming nineteen presumed plane hijackers. In criminal proceedings involving facts as complicated as these, the police should have constructed a number of hypotheses and followed each trail to the end, without neglecting any of them. The hypothesis of domestic terrorism was rejected in principle, without ever being studied. Instead, the finger was already being pointed at Osama bin Laden by "sources close to the investigation", a few hours after the attacks.
The FBI presented Mohammed Atta as the leader of the operation. In ten years, this 33 year old was said to have stayed in Salou (Spain), then Zurich (Switzerland) where, according to investigators, he paid by credit card for Swiss knives destined to be used in the plane hijackings - and finally Hamburg (Germany). Along with two other terrorists, he took courses there in electronics, without causing comment about himself or letting his extremist convictions become known. Upon arriving in the United States, he joined his accomplices in Florida, took pilot courses in the town of Venice and even paid for several hours on a flight simulator in Miami. Anxious to disguise his fundamentalism, Mohammed Atta went as far as to frequent the Olympic Garden in Las Vegas, the biggest topless cabaret in the world. This peerless agent was believed to reached Boston on 11 September by a domestic flight. Given the short time between the two flights, he appears to have lost his baggage in transit. In searching them, the FBI found training videos on piloting Boeing aircraft, a book of Islamic prayers and an old letter in which he announces his intention to die as a martyr. Atta was identified as the head of the commando team by a steward who made a call with his cellular telephone during the hijacking and indicated the leader's seat number: 8D. Should we take such information seriously? One would have to accept that Mohammed Atta spent ten years carefully hiding his real intentions and that he must have adhered to strict procedures in communicating with his accomplices to escape the attention of the intelligence services. Nevertheless, at the last moment he left behind a bagful of clues. Even more ridiculous, the FBI claims to have dis covered Mohammed Atta's passport intact in the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center!
The international press commented at length on the profiles of the nineteen terrorists designated by the FBI. The only problem with these identikit portraits is that they are based on a list which itself is subject to dispute. The Saudi embassy in Washington has confirmed that Abdulaziz Al-Omari, Mohand Al-Shehri, Salem Al Hazmi and Saeed Al-Ghamdi are all alive and well, and living in their own country. Waleed M. Al-Shehri, who lives at present in Casablanca and works as a pilot for Royal Air Maroc, gave an interview to the Arab-language daily, Al-Qods al-Arabi, based in London. Prince Saud Al-Faisal, the Saudi Foreign Minister, declared to the press that, "It has been proven that five of the persons named in the FBI's list had no connection with what hap pened." And Prince Nayef, the Saudi Minister of the Interior, declared to an official American delegation, "Until now, we have no evidence that assures us that they are related to September 11. We have not received any thing in this regard from the United States."
INSIDER TRADING
"Who profits from the crime?" Concerning that precise subject, in the period following the attacks it was found that maneuvers characteristic of "insider trading" had taken place in the six days preceding September 11. The stock of United Airlines (owner of the planes that crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center and near Pittsburgh) fell artificially by 42%. In the case of American Airlines (owner of the plan that crashed into the north tower of the WTC and of the one that was said to have crashed into the Pentagon), its stock fell by 39%. No other airline companies in the world were the object of comparable maneuvers, with the exception of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. From this, one can deduce that a plane belong to the Dutch company may have been chosen as the target for a fifth hijacking.
Investigations were coordinated by the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). On 15 October, it held a video-conference where the national authorities presented their interim reports. It appeared that the illicit gains added up to several hundred million dollars, constituting the "biggest case of insider trading ever committed". Osama bin Laden, whose bank accounts have been blocked since 1998, does not dispose of the money needed for this speculative operation.
It has been possible to establish that the greater part of the transactions were "handled" by the Deutsche Bank and its American investment subsidiary, Alex. Brown. This company was directed until 1998 by a colorful figure, A.B. Krongard. A former captain in the Marines and an enthusiast of firearms and martial arts, this banker became an advisor to the director of the CIA, and since March 26, 2001, the official number three in the hierarchy of the American intelligence agency. Given the importance of the investigation and the influence of A.B. Krongard, one would have thought that Alex. Brown would have cooperated readily with the authorities to facilitate the identification of inside traders. But this was not the case. Strangely indeed, the FBI gave up on exploring this line of inquiry and IOSCO closed its investigation without resolving the affair. It would nevertheless be easy to trace the capital movements because all of the bank-to-bank transactions are archived with two clearing organizations. One could accept that, given the importance of what was at stake, that it would be possible to break banking secrecy and determine just who the happy beneficiaries of the 11 September attacks actually were. But nothing came of all this.
OSAMA BIN LADEN
Osama bin Laden is one of fifty-four children of Sheikh Mohammed bin Laden, founder in 1931 of the Saudi Binladen Group (SBG). This holding, the most important in Saudi Arabia, derives about half of its revenues from construction and public works, and the other half from engineering, real estate, distribution, telecommunications and publishing. It formed a Swiss investment firm, the Saudi Investment Company (SICO), which created several companies in partnership with subsidiaries of the Saudi National Commercial Bank. The SBG has important holdings in General Electric, Nortel Networks and Cadbury Schweppes. It is represented in the United States by Adnan Kashoggi (the ex-brother-in-law of Mohammed Al-Fayed), while its financial assets are managed by the Carlyle Group. Up until 1996, the setting-up of the SBG's subsidiaries were prepared in Lausanne by its councilor, the Nazi banker Francois Genoud, executor of Dr. Goebbels's will and a donor of funds to the terrorist Carlos. The SBG is indissolubly linked to the Wahhabite regime in Saudi Arabia, to the point of having been for a long time the one and only contractor for the construction and management of the kingdom's holy places, Medina and Mecca. Similarly, it won the majority of building contracts for U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia and for the reconstruction of Kuwait after the Gulf War.
Born in 1957, Osama, reputed to be a prudent businessman, was approached in December 1979 by his tutor, Prince Turki Al-Faisal Al-Saud (director of the Saudi secret services from 1977 to August 2001), to financially manage the CIA's secret operations in Afghanistan. Over a period of ten years, the CIA invested two billion dollars in Afghanistan to hold the Soviets in check, making these the most expensive operations in the agency's history. The Saudi and United States services recruited Islamic militants, trained them, armed them, and manipulated them in jihad (holy war) to combat and defeat the Soviets for them. Osama bin Laden managed the needs of this irregular milieu on a computer file called "Al-Qaeda" (literally, the "base", as in data base). After the defeat of the USSR, the USA completely lost interest in the fate of Afghanistan, which they left in the hands of warlords and the mujahiddin they had recruited from throughout the Muslim world to fight the Red Anny. Osama bin Laden supposedly then ceased to work for the CIA and recovered these fighters for his own purposes.
But did bin Laden really break with the CIA and become an enemy of America? From 1987 to 1998, the training of Al-Qaeda's fighters was supervised by Ali Mohammed, an Egyptian officer incorporated into the United States military. At the same time, Mohammed also taught at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, where he trained members of the most secret network of US influence, the "stay-behind', as well as officers of the US Special Forces. In light of the security regulations of the American secret services, which call for constant surveillance of its agents, can one believe for a single instant that Ali Mohammed could alternate between a military base in the USA and Al-Qaeda camps in Sudan and Afghanistan without being immediately unmasked? The widely publicized arrest of Ali Mohammed at the end of 1998 does not suffice to hide the fact that this "stay-behind' agent trained Al-Qaeda's fighters and t..hat therefore Osama bin Laden continued to work for the CIA at least until 1998 ! How can one not see that Osama bin Laden legend is a cover story fabricated out of whole cloth by the CIA?
The links between the CIA and bin Laden were not severed in 1998. Seriously ill, he went for treatment from 4 to 14 July 2001 at the American Hospital in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). "During his hospitalization [he] received visits from several members of his family and other important persons from Saudi Arabia and the Emirates. During this same stay, the local representative of the CIA, who is a well-known figure in Dubai, was seen taking the main elevator to visit “Osama’s room" the French newspaper Le Figaro revealed.
Since the Cold War era, Washington has deliberately supported Osama bin Laden, while placing him on the FBI's most wanted list. While mujahiddin are implicated in armed insurrections on behalf of the United States in the Balkans and the former USSR, the FBI has the mission to bring him to the US and to carry out a war on terrorism. By all appearances, it's not only a matter of contradictory actions, but a policy of lying to citizens, because since the USSR-Afghanistan war the CIA has supported international terrorism through its secret operations" writes Professor Michel Chossudovsky of the University of Ottawa.
March 21, 2022
Para ser un libro considerado complotista, tiene buenas referencias que el autor mismo rescató en caso de que estás fueran borradas, lo cual terminó pasando. Lo que diré y quizás puedo equivocarme, es que este es un periodismo de investigación que no estamos habituados a leer en los mass medias actuales, puesto que se ha venido uno acostumbrando a la propaganda y al denuesto de los enemigos de Estados Unidos con fines geopolíticos. La gente no cree que haya intereses o agendas ocultas dentro de nuestros gobiernos, porque la certeza puede ser una prioridad antes que el miedo de encontrarse con la verdad y no saber qué hacer con ella, sin embargo hay hechos que se escriben o se delatan antes de que sucedan y la gente siempre optará por la certeza: es que es una casualidad, no hay nada malo ahí. Pero tengamos en cuenta algo: si dejamos de dudar y aceptamos la realidad como la presentan o como la vivimos, corremos el riesgo de dotar de un saber a otros sujetos que no somos nosotros, y entonces, habremos perdido nuestra libertad sin oponer resistencia.
July 21, 2024
ONE OF THE FIRST "REVISIONIST" BOOKS ON 9/11, BY A FRENCH JOURNALIST
Thierry Meyssan (born 1957) is a French journalist and political activist, who has investigated the extreme right-wing, as well as the Catholic Church (e.g., Opus Dei). He has also written the book 'Pentagate,' arguing that a missile, not American Airlines Flight 77, caused the destruction at the Pentagon.
He states in the Introduction to this 2002 book, "this official version does not stand up to critical analysis. We will demonstrate that it is nothing more than a cover-up. In some instances... our questions remain for the moment unanswered, but this is no reason to go on believing the lies put forward by officials."
He asserts that "only a missile of the United States armed forces transmitting a friendly code could enter the Pentagon's airspace without provoking a counter-missile barrage. This attack could only be committed by United States military personnel against other U.S. military personnel." (Pg. 28) He draws a parallel between 9/11 and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, when "a large portion of the civil servants were given a half-day off work so that the car bomb explosion only killed 168 persons. This was an attack we now know was carried out by military personnel belonging to an extreme right-wing organization which itself had been infiltrated by the FBI." (Pg. 37)
He suggests that the creation of the Office of Homeland Security is leading to "a takeover of civilian life by the military and the intelligence agencies." (Pg. 92) His ultimate conclusion is that "the attacks of September 11 were masterminded from inside the American state apparatus." (Pg. 139)
Meyssan's book influenced David Ray Griffin, whose own books on 9/11 now far surpass Meyssen's in detail; but Meyssan's book contained the earliest statement of some positions later adopted by many 9/11 "Truthers."
Thierry Meyssan (born 1957) is a French journalist and political activist, who has investigated the extreme right-wing, as well as the Catholic Church (e.g., Opus Dei). He has also written the book 'Pentagate,' arguing that a missile, not American Airlines Flight 77, caused the destruction at the Pentagon.
He states in the Introduction to this 2002 book, "this official version does not stand up to critical analysis. We will demonstrate that it is nothing more than a cover-up. In some instances... our questions remain for the moment unanswered, but this is no reason to go on believing the lies put forward by officials."
He asserts that "only a missile of the United States armed forces transmitting a friendly code could enter the Pentagon's airspace without provoking a counter-missile barrage. This attack could only be committed by United States military personnel against other U.S. military personnel." (Pg. 28) He draws a parallel between 9/11 and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, when "a large portion of the civil servants were given a half-day off work so that the car bomb explosion only killed 168 persons. This was an attack we now know was carried out by military personnel belonging to an extreme right-wing organization which itself had been infiltrated by the FBI." (Pg. 37)
He suggests that the creation of the Office of Homeland Security is leading to "a takeover of civilian life by the military and the intelligence agencies." (Pg. 92) His ultimate conclusion is that "the attacks of September 11 were masterminded from inside the American state apparatus." (Pg. 139)
Meyssan's book influenced David Ray Griffin, whose own books on 9/11 now far surpass Meyssen's in detail; but Meyssan's book contained the earliest statement of some positions later adopted by many 9/11 "Truthers."
May 13, 2019
Governments should not be trusted and there is something fishy about 9/11. However, it's books like these that make me believe the official version more and more. Poorly written and arguments presented are even worse. The author identifies any minor discrepancies and based on them often makes significant conclusions without presenting any facts that support his claims.
December 21, 2021
Las verdades duelen y a conveniencia de quienes controlan el mundo, se callan.
Como siempre el periodista francés deslumbra con su narrativa y sorprende al inocente que todavía tiene fe ciega en el gobierno norteamericano, o en cualquier otro en general.
Como siempre el periodista francés deslumbra con su narrativa y sorprende al inocente que todavía tiene fe ciega en el gobierno norteamericano, o en cualquier otro en general.
April 6, 2020
The only person that will not believe is the person who doesnt want to believe...this book clearly explains that tgere was a serious inside job by someone...
March 28, 2023
Me pareció genial
September 9, 2023
Very true!
March 3, 2024
Ignore those screaching "conspiracy theory ".
Read it and find out yourself.
Read it and find out yourself.
September 2, 2014
Para el alcance que da como expectativa el título el libro está muy bueno e incluso va más alla, ya que además del supuesto avion que se estrelló en el pentágono estudia todos los aviones que se estrellaron el 11 de septiembre del 2001 en los Estados Unidos. Afirma mediante una buena documentación los supuestos motivos reales y los verdaderos causantes de los ataques, con una hipótesis de ataque interno bastante sostenible sobre todo por el despliegue de fuerzas para un ataque contra Afganistán antes de los ataques. Este ataque debio haberse realizado como siempre por motivos económicos ya que las multinacionales necesitaban pasar un oleoducto por Afganistán y el Talibán no se lo iba a permitir, llevando con esto un ataque para quitar a los talibanes del poder, asi que nada de esa basura de un ataque para liberar al pueblo Afgano. Tambien se dan pruebas de los distintos grupos económicos involucrados en esto, con la participación de altos cargos del gobierno de los Estados Unidos para esa fecha. Además, se dan pruebas de la vinculación de Osama Bin Laden a la CIA para el 2001, lo que desmiente de que ya no era ayudado por la CIA desde los 90. Un libro bastante bien documentado que pone a pensar sobre la mentira con que el gobierno de Estados Unidos comenzó una guerra por el oro negro.
April 13, 2015
Str 4~ da svoboda ni enostransko in poenostavljeno razumevanje sveta, temveč sta za to, da se dokopljemo do nje, potrebna širok pogled in upoštevanje različnosti.
Str. 61~ ker gre človek le redko v vojno, ne da bi si prej na svojo stran poskušal pridobiti BOGA, so po 11. septembru ameriške televizijske studie najprej zasedli pridigarji in šele potem vojaški strategi. Vsi so pojasnjevali napad kot BOŽJE sporočilo, ki Ameriko poziva k spremembam.
November 30, 2013
Muy interesante. Muestra otra lectura de los sucesos del 11 de Setiembre, bastante dispar a la oficial. Se basa en la actualidad del momento, la historia del país, políticamente hablando, y el manejo de la información que se ha ido recibiendo con el tiempo sobre todo lo que concierne a dicho suceso.
December 15, 2012
Relata una perspectiva más de aquellos sucesos que hemos debatido tantas veces. Quienes aman el periodismo amarillista sin caer en la conspiración amarán este libro pues refiere en cada suceso narrado fuentes bibliográficas y/o electrónicas bastante válidas. Quienes busquen indagar, disfrutarán este libro.
November 12, 2016
Cosa è successo esattamente l'11 settembre 2001? Perchè di alcuni fatti che accaddero quel giorno, o il giorno prima, non si è più parlato? Perchè nelle foto del Pentagono in fiamme non ci sono rottami dell'aereo che lo avrebbe colpito? Un tentativo di rispondere a queste e ad altre domande. Da leggere, con la consapevolezza che i misteri di quel giorno rimarrano tali per qualche generazione.
February 5, 2017
¿Que ocurrio realmente el 11 de septiembre del 2001?. Meyssan plantea hipótesis que suponen una operación de bandera falsa que habría sido encubierta como un atentado fanático perpetrado por los seguidores de la jihad islámica.
April 28, 2009
Turrible
March 24, 2013
نجمة إضافية بدلا من نجمتين لأهمية الكتاب وتأثيره في فترة نشر طبعته الاولى وتفاعل الشعوب العربية معه بقوة.. لكنه ضعيف الاستدلال وإن استخدم المنطق وحس المؤامرة لإقناع القارئ
September 10, 2013
المعلومات الموجودة في الكتاب ... بالإضافة الى مجموعة من الفيديوهات .. جديرة بإقناع أي عقل بسخافة القصة الملفقة لـ 11 سبتمبر ...
October 2, 2013
يدل على الكثير من الحقائق لكنه ممل بعض الشيء.
May 22, 2014
A good book for anyone that is interested in learning the truth behind 9/11.
August 14, 2014
Muchos datos interesantes en contra del gobierno estadounidense ¬¬
September 6, 2014
لم أستطع إنهائه
January 18, 2016
ببساطة ، كتاب يجعل فكك يتدلى من الدهشةّ
December 16, 2019
I liked it,
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