From the flight deck of a Boeing 767, airline captain Philip Marshall pulls back the veil of deception surrounding the 911 attacks. In gripping, authoritative detail he recreates the hijacked flights, including all their technical challenges, exploding the myths behind official accounts of pilot training and tactical planning. His the mission could not have been carried out by any known terrorist group. Explaining for the first time the hijackers’ mysterious trips to Las Vegas, where and how they could have been trained, and the document that actually states a political motive for the attacks, he finds abundant evidence implicating a nexus of Saudi officials, American contractors and, most unthinkably, members of the Bush administration. Analyzing 911 in terms of its original tactical plan, Marshall concludes that the attack partially failed, and that its failures could ultimately serve to bring the creators of the Post 911 World to light, if not to justice.
The chapters about his work as a pilot for Barry Seal during the Bush 41-orchestrated Iran-Contra affair are the most interesting part of this book. These chapters are interspersed with one page chapters of the play-by-play of Bush 43’s behavior in the Florida classroom on that clear Tuesday morning.
My main problem with this book is that his early conclusions that the hijackers were trained on Boeing planes by Saudi pilots on US soil are drawn on the assumption that the official story (19 hijackers piloted three of the four planes into their intended targets) is accurate.
The Saudis are named in the title of the book as having a hand in creating the post-9/11 world yet he has little evidence to show for it other than Prince Bandar’s connections to Bush and a reliance on the official story.
However, Marshall covers important historical ground such as who actually called the shots in the 80s WH (hint: it wasn’t Reagan), the BCCI scandal and Wall Street activity around September 11, 2001.
Philip Marshall, his two teenage children, and their dog were killed in a “black ops hit” in February 2013.
A really good book and quick read about Bush, Cheney and the Saudis before, during and after 911. I was astonished as some of the things I read, but then thought we are living in that nightmare right now too with all the government corruption. The author was a pilot and understands aviation extremely well, did some things he probably regrets, yet explained how next to impossible it would have been for these no-name pilots to have flown a 550 mph plane into a building at such low altitude. It was very, very interesting.
. Chaney as ex CEO of Halliburtom securesd no contest bids on all government contracts for Iraq war. But sure he didn’t set all in motion for huge payoff. Nooo way!!! That was ball got plan rolling for White House.
This is a horrible book...I believe it's the worst book on the 9/11 subject I've read. I could cut it some slack because it was written in 2008 and technical views of what happened have changed radically since that time...but No, I'm not going to cut Philip Marshall any slack... -Just before I started reading this book I did some research on author Marshall and I dropped into a very sad and violent story. Doing a search of Philip Marshall will lead you to a Wiki-Spooks page...at the bottom of the page is a link that will lead you to a police report in California of Marshall...The report is VERY conclusive...It concludes that Marshall killed his teen-aged son & daughter and then took his own life...I read the report a number of times, then, I did more research and could not find anything to put the report in question...THEN, I started reading the book...and...it's just bad. I'm moving on...I don't have the time or energy to continue this review much less the book...
A friend gave me the book to read. Not the genre (conspiracy theories) I would typically read. The author gave some compelling information that would leave the average American (me, included) why there wasn't a more thorough investigation by a non-partisan committee, much like the Benghazi investigations where 4 Americans died rather than thousands, done.
I would recommend the book, more because it really reminds the reader to ask questions always and not just accept as Truth what we hear in the media. The media can be misled and is sometimes even complicit in putting out false truths.
It's a quick read. I may even follow through with the authors recommendation of contacting my representatives and ask that the 911 investigation be reopened and dig deeper into the facts we were given that actually didn't really add up when you looked at them more closely. We need to know that the pieces of information we do have actually fit together and guide us to a reasonable conclusion.