Reply #26: I'll offer a quick and dirty, if you care to you can read the Timeline

[Sinti]

It's a lot of information:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/project.jsp?project=911_project

They moved war games that would normally take place in October to coincide with other training exercises taking place on 9/11. This preoccupied those who would have defended us. Consider the ATC/FAA/NORAD standard operating procedures, a plane turns off its transponder, you send up jets to find out what happened, and possibly bring them down. This type of thing happened/happens basically once a day or more (averaged out over the course of a year). It's nothing new or unusual.

On 9/11 everybody had their heads on backward. I don't believe there was a "stand down order" as some do, there didn't need to be. The exercises included inputs into the radar system and no one seemed to know what was happening. The then head of NORAD, rather than being demoted or something of the kind, was promoted to heading up the new NORTHCOM. He's now retired.

Even if they hadn't been chasing their tails at NORAD, the SOP for sending up jets was changed months before. They couldn't go until Rummy gave the okay according to the new reg.

Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were in a meeting together when the Towers were hit. They knew we were under attack, yet Wolfie himself said they "didn't think there was anything they could do," so they continued with their meeting. They continued with their meeting until the Pentagon itself was hit. Does that sound like an even remotely reasonable thing to do when we're under attack? There was nothing they could do?

General Montague Winfield, Deputy Director for Operations for the National Military Command Center (the war room) had Captain Leidig, a rookie, take over his role as the NMCC’s Director of Operations from 8:30 to 10:30 on the morning of 9/11. Leidig relieved him minutes after Flight 11 was identified as hijacked. After the Towers were hit, he still left him in charge. It was Leidig's first day on that job, he had only qualified to do this one month before.

General Mahmud Ahmed The head of the ISI (Pakistan Intelligence) was in a meeting with Porter Goss and Bob Graham (chairs of the Intelligence Committee) on the morning of 9/11, while we were being attacked. Seems reasonable that the head of the ISI would be meeting with our intelligence folk, until you find out that he had wired $100000 wired directly to Mohamed Atta, via an underling but on his command. Mahmud later had to step down because of this. Porter Goss and Bob Graham went on to head the Joint Inquiry into 9/11, and of course Goss did a tour as head of the CIA clearing out the anti-Bush folk in there.

Thomas Pickard, acting head of the FBI at the time, tried to warn Ashcroft to prevent 9/11 and Ashcroft told him, "I don't want to hear any more about that." Several FBI field agents (look up Robert Wright, Harry Samit, and Colleen Rowley if you're interested) were stopped cold in their investigations. No one wanted them to investigate what was about to happen. The official story seems to say this happened because it would have implicated close friends of the * crime family, namely the Saudi Royals and the bin Ladens. John O'Neill, the top anti-terrorist guy at the FBI, quit, and wound up going to work at WTC, because the FBI would not let him do his job.

Follow the money, it's where all good investigations go if they plan on getting anywhere. The money came from *'s friends, other than the Paki Intel general guy mentioned above, who I've read was pretty much hand-picked by our CIA. Prince Bandar's wife (that's the infamous Bandar Bush) made direct payments to hijackers (Saudi women are allowed to handle their own money? Since when?) The bin Laden family financed a great deal of the operations, though they say they've disowned their won and so on. The bin Laden's have also gained quite handsomely from the post-9/11 military spend frenzy, BTW. Then there's a man named Khalid bin Mahfouz old BCCI chum of poppy and banker for the CIA, he also financed their operations. He's a can of worms all to himself.

Think about this. Bush sits at Booker - he just sits there after he knows we're under attack. Rummy and Wolfie just continue their meeting until the Pentagon is hit, then they spring into action. Winfield leaves this noob in charge of the war room after he knows we're under attack. The Saudis and Pakis paid for the attack, yet they're our good friends and allies in this GWOT. People that should have been demoted or fired were promoted. Now we're in "the Long War" or "world war III" as * likes to call it. Who's making the bank on this? Cui Bono?

I could go on for a long time, this just touches on a few things, but I think you'll get the point if you're going to. Honestly, the more you find out, the harder it is to believe the fairytale
.