Is There Any Truth in 'The 9/11 Truth Movement?'
In the Media
Steve Hammons
Research analyst
IntelDesk.com
April 28, 2005
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The 9/11 Truth Movement" is a phrase being used to describe a wide range of people and organizations who are asking these questions and digging up information that appears on the surface to be quite serious if true.
One of the major questions being asked is if anyone in the U.S. Government had foreknowledge that a terrorist attack was being planned using airliners as weapons. And if so, did they deliberately allow the attacks to occur so this new Pearl Harbor-like event would create a desired climate in America.
The idea that officials within our government would allow innocent Americans to be killed to advance other goals and agendas is difficult for many to believe. Surely this is impossible. Yet, 9/11 investigators keep coming up with allegations that make us wonder.
Researchers within The 9/11 Truth Movement put forth interesting allegations and hypothesize about possible motivations for powerful people to want an event like the 9/11 attacks to occur. The investigative reports, facts, theories, allegations and hypotheses are spelled out in several books, films and Web sites.http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050430011519490The author continues by summarizing a few of the apparent anomalies re. the 911 attacks that have fed the conspiracy theories.
For example: The financial trading prior to 911 that indicated some individuals were taking advantage of foreknowledge of the event.
The many warning that were coming from intelligence agencies all over the world and which appear to have been ignored or not acted on in any meaningful manner.
The delayed response in getting fighter aircraft into position to intercept the hijacked aircraft.
The missile instead of a plane theory that a missile and not a plane hit the Pentagon (I know this particular issue is seen by many of the 911 skeptics as disinfo designed to make it easy to discredit all non-sanctioned investigations into 911).
In response to the above article one of the organizers of the citizens' inquiries into 911 posted as a response:
In January 2002, a delegation of people from Human Rights and Peace organizations marched on our Senators and Congresswoman's offices to demand a Congressional Investigation of 9-11. We raised some of the questions raised in the article, but also a key question that was not mentioned- Why were top US government officials meeting from September 3rd- September 13th with the "Money Man Behind 9-11" (who had $100,000 wired to Mohammed Atta- identified by the FBI as the lead terrorist in the attack on the WTC)? Immediately Bush and Cheney asked Daschle to limit the investigations and have the "official inquiry" limited to "intelligence failures" and headed by the CIA and the very men who should have been investigated. Porter Goss and Bob Graham (who chaired the joint House/Senate Intelligence Oversite Committee's official Inquiry) on the morning of September 11th were having breakfast with the ISI's Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad who ordered the $100,000 to be wired to Atta. Whatever the truth is about September 11th, we do know that the government is lying about it, covering it up, destroying evidence, and has presented "unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about what happened" to sell their wars to the American people and to justify their trashing of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the construction of the National Security State.
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http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050430011519490