Was America Attacked by Muslims on 9/11?
By David Ray Griffin
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Notes
1. On the ways in which torture, extraordinary rendition,
government spying, and the military tribunals have undermined US
constitutional principles, see Louis Fisher, The Constitution
and 9/11: Recurring Threats to America's Freedoms (Lawrence:
Kansas University Press, 2008).
2. The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National
Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States,
authorized edition (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), 160
(henceforth 9/11CR).
3. 9/11CR 154.
4. Kevin Fagan, "Agents of Terror Leave Their Mark on Sin City,"
San Francisco Chronicle, 4 October 2001 (click
here
5. See ibid.; David Wedge, "Terrorists Partied with Hooker at
Hub-Area Hotel," Boston Herald, 10 October, 2001 (click
here and Jody A. Benjamin, "Suspects' Actions Don't Add Up,"
South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 16 September 2001 (click
here
6. "Terrorist Stag Parties," Wall Street Journal, 10 October
2001 (http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=95001298).
7. 9/11CR 248.
8. "Meet the Press," NBC, 23 September, 2001 (click
here
9. "Remarks by the President, Secretary of the Treasury O'Neill
and Secretary of State Powell on Executive Order," White House,
24 September 2001 (click
here
10. Seymour M. Hersh, "What Went Wrong: The C.I.A. and the
Failure of American Intelligence," New Yorker, 1 October 2001 (http://cicentre.com/Documents/DOC_Hersch_OCT_01.htm).
11. "White House Warns Taliban: "-We Will Defeat You,'" CNN, 21
September 2001 (click
here
12. Office of the Prime Minister, "Responsibility for the
Terrorist Atrocities in the United States," BBC News, 4 October
2001 (click
here
13. "The Investigation and the
Evidence," BBC News, 5 October 2001 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1581063.stm).
14. Kathy Gannon, "Taliban Willing to Talk, But Wants U.S.
Respect," Associated Press, 1 November 2001 (click here
15. Federal Bureau of Investigation, "Most Wanted Terrorists:
Usama bin Laden" (http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm).
16. Ed Haas, "FBI says, "-No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden
to 9/11'" Muckraker Report, 6 June 2006 (http://www.teamliberty.net/id267.html).
17. See my discussion in The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11,
the Cover-Up, and the Exposé (Northampton: Olive Branch, 2008),
208-11.
18. BBC News, "Tape "-Proves Bin Laden's Guilt,'" 14 December
2001 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1708091.stm).
19. See "The Fake 2001 bin Laden Video Tape" (http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape.html).
20. Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton, with Benjamin Rhodes,
Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission (New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006).
21. 9/11CR 149, 155, 166.
22. See 9/11CR Ch. 5, notes 16, 41, and 92.
23. Kean and Hamilton, Without Precedent, 118.
24. Ibid., 122-24.
25. Ibid., 119.
26. Robert Windrem and Victor Limjoco, "The 9/11 Commission
Controversy," Deep Background: NBC News Investigations, 30
January 2008 (click
here
27. Tim O'Brien, "Wife of Solicitor General Alerted Him of
Hijacking from Plane," CNN, 11 September 2001 (http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/pentagon.olson).
28. Charles Lane and John Mintz, "Bid to Thwart Hijackers May
Have Led to Pa. Crash," Washington Post, 13 September 2001 (click
here29. Kerry Hall,
"Flight Attendant Helped Fight Hijackers," News & Record
(Greensboro, N.C.), 21 September 2001 (click
here
30. 9/11CR 6.
31. Gail Sheehy, "Stewardess ID'd Hijackers Early, Transcripts
Show," New York Observer, 15 February 2004 (http://www.observer.com/node/48805).
32. "Calm Before the Crash: Flight 11 Crew Sent Key Details
Before Hitting the Twin Towers," ABC News, 18 July 2002 (click
here
33. A. K. Dewdney, "The Cellphone and Airfone Calls from Flight
UA93," Physics 911, 9 June 2003 (http://physics911.net/cellphoneflight93.htm).
For discussion of this issue, see The New Pearl Harbor
Revisited, 112-14.
34. See Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't
Stand Up to the Facts: An In-Depth Investigation by Popular
Mechanics, ed. David Dunbar and Brad Reagan (New York: Hearst
Books, 2006), 83-86.
35. Lechner FBI Affidavit; available at Four Corners:
Investigative TV Journalism (click
here Woodward and Sweeney are not identified by name in the
affidavit, which refers simply to the former as "an employee of
American Airlines at Logan" and to the latter as "a flight
attendant on AA11." But their names were revealed in an
"investigative document compiled by the FBI" to which Eric
Lichtblau referred in "Aboard Flight 11, a Chilling Voice," Los
Angeles Times, 20 September 2001 (click
here
36. 9/11CR 453n32.
37. Gail Sheehy, "9/11 Tapes Reveal Ground Personnel Muffled
Attacks," New York Observer, 24 June, 2004 (http://www.observer.com/node/49415).
38. Greg Gordon, "Prosecutors Play Flight 93 Cockpit Recording,"
McClatchy Newspapers, KnoxNews.com, 12 April 2006 (click
here The quoted statement is Gordon's paraphrase of the
testimony of "a member of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force."
39. See United States v. Zacarias Moussaoui, Exhibit Number
P200054 (click
here This graphics presentation can be more easily viewed in
"Detailed Account of Phone Calls from September 11th Flights" at
9-11 Research (click here
40. "The Final Moments of United Flight 93," Newsweek, 22
September 2001 (click here See "Interview with Deena Lynne
Burnett (re: phone call from hijacked flight)," 9/11 Commission,
FBI Source Documents, Chronological, September 11, 2001,
Intelfiles.com, 14 March 2008 (click
here Greg Gordon, "Widow Tells of Poignant Last Calls,"
Sacramento Bee, 11 September 2002 (click
here and Deena L. Burnett (with Anthony F. Giombetti),
Fighting Back: Living Beyond Ourselves (Longwood, Florida:
Advantage Inspirational Books, 2006), where she wrote: "I looked
at the caller ID and indeed it was Tom's cell phone number"
(61).
42. William M. Arkin, "When Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing,"
Washington Post, 1 February 1999 (click here Although Brickhouse
Security's advertisement for Telephone Voice Changers (click
here has been modified in recent years, it previously
included a device called "FoneFaker," the ad for which said:
"Record any call you make, fake your Caller ID and change your
voice, all with one service you can use from any phone."
44. For Deena Burnett's reconstruction of the calls, see
click here
45. See The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, 122.
46. Lichtblau, "Aboard Flight 11, a Chilling Voice" (see note
34, above).
47. 9/11CR 4, 6.
48. See note 38, above.
49. 9/11CR 19.
50. Ibid.
51. "Summary of Air Traffic Hijack Events: September 11, 2001,"
FAA, 17 September 2001 (click
here
52. Frank J. Murray, "Americans Feel Touch of Evil; Fury Spurs
Unity," Washington Times, 11 September 2002 (click
here
53. "Ashcroft Says More Attacks May Be Planned," CNN, 18
September 2001 (click
here "Terrorist Hunt," ABC News (click here
54. Anne Karpf, "Uncle Sam's Lucky Finds," Guardian, 19 March
2002 (click
here Like some others, this article mistakenly said the
passport belonged to Mohamed Atta.
55. Statement by Susan Ginsburg, senior counsel to the 9/11
Commission, at the 9/11 Commission Hearing, 26 January 2004 (click
here The Commission's account reflected a CBS report that
the passport had been found "minutes after" the attack, which
was stated by the Associated Press, 27 January 2003.
56. Sheila MacVicar and Caroline Faraj, "September 11 Hijacker
Questioned in January 2001," CNN, 1 August 2002 (click
here 9/11 Commission Hearing, 26 January 2004.
57. 9/11CR 14; Jere Longman, Among the Heroes: United 93 and the
Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back (New York: HarperCollins,
2002), 215.
58. In light of the absurdity of the claims about the passports
of al-Suqami and Jarrah, we can safely assume that the ID cards
of Majed Moqed, Nawaf al-Hazmi, and Salem al-Hazmi, said to have
been discovered at the Pentagon crash site (see "9/11 and
Terrorist Travel," 9/11 Commission Staff Report [click
here 27, 42), were also planted.
59. For a photograph of the headband, see 9-11 Research, "The
Crash of Flight 93" (click
here
60. Quoted in Ross Coulthart, "Terrorists Target America,"
Ninemsn, September 2001 (click
here
61. Lechner FBI Affidavit (see note 34, above).
62. Sydney Morning Herald, 15 September 2001; Boston Globe, 18
September, 2001.
63. The 9/11 Commission's Staff
Statement No. 16, dated 16 June 2004 (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5224099),
said: "The Portland detour almost prevented Atta and Omari from
making Flight 11 out of Boston. In fact, the luggage they
checked in Portland failed to make it onto the plane."
64. 9/11CR 1-2.
65. 9/11CR 451n1; FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, "Statement
for the Record," Joint Intelligence Committee Inquiry, 26
September 2002 (click
here
66. "Two Brothers among Hijackers," CNN Report, 13 September
2001 (click
here
67. "Feds Think They've Identified Some Hijackers," CNN, 13
September 2001 (click
here
68. "Portland Police Eye Local Ties," Associated Press,
Portsmouth Herald, 14 September 2001 (click
here
69. Joel Achenbach, "'You Never Imagine' A Hijacker Next Door,"
Washington Post, 16 September 2001 (click here Rowland Morgan
and Ian Henshall, 9/11 Revealed: The Unanswered Questions (New
York: Carroll & Graf, 2005), 181.
71. David Hench, "Ticket Agent Haunted by Brush with 9/11
Hijackers," Portland Press Herald, 6 March 2005 (http://www.spartacus.blogs.com/ticketagent.htm).
72. This photo can be seen at click here
73. Associated Press, 22 July 2004. The photo with this caption
can be seen in Morgan and Henshall, 9/11 Revealed, 117-18, along
with a genuine security video (with identification data), or at
http://killtown.911review.org/flight77/hijackers.html
(scroll half-way down).
74. Rowland and Henshall, 9/11 Revealed, 118.
75. 9/11CR 452n11.
76. Jay Kolar, "What We Now Know about the Alleged 9-11
Hijackers," in Paul Zarembka, ed., The Hidden History of 9-11
(New York: Seven Stories, 2008), 3-44, at 8 (emphasis Kolar's).
77. Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War
on Terror (New York: Free Press, 2004), 13.
78. "Statement of Robert C. Bonner to the National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks upon the United States," 26 January 2004 (click
here
79. Ibid.
80. "FBI: Early Probe Results
Show 18 Hijackers Took Part," CNN, 13 September 2001 (click
here "List of Names of 18 Suspected Hijackers," CNN, 14
September 2001 (click
here
81. "List of Names of 18 Suspected Hijackers."
82. Gail Sheehy, "Stewardess ID'd Hijackers Early, Transcripts
Show," New York Observer, 15 February 2004 (http://www.observer.com/node/48805).
83. Satam al-Suqami replaced a man named Amer Kamfar, and
Abdulaziz al-Omari replaced a man with a similar name,
Abdulrahman al-Omari; see Kolar, "What We Now Know," 12-15.
84. Another problem with the claim that Woodward had identified
these three men is that the seat numbers reportedly used to
identify Atta and al-Omari (see Gail Sheehy, "Stewardess ID'd
Hijackers Early") did not match the numbers of the seats
assigned to these two men (9/11CR 2).
85. All four passenger manifests can be found at click here
86. Terry McDermott, Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers: Who
They Were, Why They Did It (New York: HarperCollins, 2005),
photo section after p. 140.
87. This is stated at "The Passengers," 911myths.com (http://911myths.com/html/the_passengers.html).
88. Although discussions on the Internet have often claimed that
these manifests were included in the FBI's evidence for the
Moussaoui trial, several researchers failed to find them. See
Jim Hoffman's discussion at
click here
89. To view them, see "Passenger Lists," 9-11 Research (click
here To download them and/or read cleaned-up versions, see
"The Passengers," 911myths.com (http://911myths.com/html/the_passengers.html).
90. "Hijackers Linked to USS Cole Attack? Investigators Have
Identified All the Hijackers; Photos to Be Released," CBS News,
14 September 2001 (click
here Elizabeth Neuffer, "Hijack Suspect Lived a Life, or a
Lie," Boston Globe, 25 September 2001 (click
here
91. "Four Planes, Four Coordinated Teams," Washington Post, 16
September 2001 (click here
92. David Dunbar and Brad Reagan, eds., Debunking 9/11 Myths:
Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts (New York:
Hearst Books, 2006), 63.
93. Andrew M. Baker, M.D., "Human Identification in a Post-9/11
World: Attack on American Airlines Flight 77 and the Pentagon
Identification and Pathology" (click
here
94. Steve Vogel, "Remains Unidentified for 5 Pentagon Victims,"
Washington Post, 21 November 2001 (click here See my discussion
in Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and
Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory, revised &
updated edition (Northampton: Olive Branch, 2007), 268-69.
96. "Ziad Jarrah," Wikipedia, as the article existed prior to
September 8, 2006. On that date, that passage was removed.
However, the earlier version of the article, containing the
passage, is available at
http://www.wanttoknow.info/articles/ziad_jarrah.
97. Thomas R. Olmsted, M.D. "Still
No Arabs on Flight 77," Rense.com, 23 June 2003 (http://www.rense.com/general38/77.htm).
98. 9/11CR 5.
99. David Bamford, "Hijack "-Suspect' Alive in Morocco," BBC, 22
September 2001 (click
here
100. "Hijack "-Suspects' Alive and Well," BBC News, 23 September
2001 (click here "Panoply of the Absurd," Der Spiegel, 8
September 2003 [click
here
102. Steve Herrmann, "9/11 Conspiracy Theory," The Editors, BBC
News, 27 October 2006 (click
here
103. Jay Kolar, "Update: What We Now Know about the Alleged 9-11
Hijackers," Zarembka, ed., The Hidden History of 9-11: 293-304,
at 293-94.
104. For discussion of some of these other men, see ibid.,
295-98.
105. The story "Silver Blaze" is available at Wikisource (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Silver_Blaze).
106. "America Under Attack: How could It Happen?" CNN Live
Event, 12 September 2001 (click
here
107. Ibid. This was the "radio transmission" discussed earlier.
108. Richard A. Serrano, "Heroism, Fatalism Aboard Flight 93,"
Los Angeles Times, 12 April 2006 (click
here
109. All of these statements are contained in the section headed
"Senior Military, Intelligence, Law Enforcement, and Government
Officials" at Patriots Question 9/11 (http://www.patriotsquestion911.com).
110. "9/12/2001: CIA Veteran Doubts Bin Laden Capable of 9/11
Attacks, Suspects Larger Plot," Aidan Monaghan's Blog, 11 March
2008 (http://www.911blogger.com/blog/2074).
111. Marc Fisher and Don Phillips, "On Flight 77: "-Our Plane Is
Being Hijacked,'" Washington Post, 12 September 2001 (click here
112. "FAA Was Alerted To Sept. 11 Hijacker," CBS News, 10 May
2002 (click
here
113. Jim Yardley, "A Trainee Noted for Incompetence," New York
Times, 4 May 2002 (click here 9/11CR 242.
115. Greg Szymanski, "Former
Vietnam Combat and Commercial Pilot Firm Believer 9/11 Was
Inside Government Job," Arctic Beacon, 17 July 2005 (click here
Email from Ralph Omholt, 27 October 2006.
117. Alan Miller, "U.S. Navy 'Top Gun' Pilot Questions 911
Pentagon Story," OpedNews.com, 5 September 2007 (click here
Dunbar and Reagan, eds., Debunking 9/11 Myths, 6.
119. Ibid.
120. These problems and more are discussed in The New Pearl
Harbor Revisited, Ch. 1.
121. For such people who have been willing to go public, see
Patriots Question 9/11 (http://PatriotsQuestion911.com).
122. Patriots Question 9/11 (http://PatriotsQuestion911.com/engineers.html#Munyak).
123. Stated at Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (http://www.ae911truth.org/profile.php?uid=998819).
124. For anyone aware of the facts, NIST's report on the
collapse of WTC 7, issued August 22, 2008, is laughable. For one
thing, as I had predicted (Ch. 1 of The New Pearl Harbor
Revisited), NIST simply ignored all the facts to which its fire
theory cannot do justice, such as the melted steel, the thermite
residue, and the reports of explosions in the building.
125. Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (click here This
interview can be seen at "Controlled Demolition Expert and WTC7"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3DRhwRN06I).
A portion is contained in the film Loose Change Final Cut.
127. "The Myth of Implosion" (http://www.implosionworld.com/dyk2.html).
David Ray Griffin is professor
emeritus at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate
University, where he taught philosophy of religion and theology,
with special emphases on the problem of evil and the relations
between science and religion, theology and ecology, religion and
politics, and modernity and postmodernity. He has published 34
books, including seven about 9/11, most recently The New Pearl
Harbor Revisited: 9/11, The Cover-Up, and the Exposé (Olive
Branch, 2008). Dr. Griffin's previous books about 9/11 include
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush
Administration and 9/11 (2004), The 9/11 Commission Report:
Omissions and Distortions (2005), The American Empire and the
Commonwealth of God (2005, co-authored with John B. Cobb, Jr.,
Richard Falk, and Catherine Keller), Christian Faith and the
Truth about 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action (2006), 9/11
and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out (2006, co-edited
with Peter Dale Scott), Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to
Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy
Theory (2007), and 9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to
Congress and the Press (2008).
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