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Speaker 1: The following presentation Isadel marve citia is production.

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Speaker 2: He well, thank you both for coming. I am James

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Huppard and the founder of Nine to eleven Truths of

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Central Iowa, which is a branch of the Nine to

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eleven Truth Organization, the only such in Iowa. We are

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hoping that some of you will feel inclined to sign

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up for our call lists for our monthly meetings. We

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meet the sometime in the third week of every month

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Speaker 1: Adell and we would.

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Speaker 2: I have over one hundred names on my call list

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now and our meetings are normally attended by around thirty people,

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different thirty each month.

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Speaker 1: You never know who's going to show up. But I'd

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really love to.

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Speaker 2: Have some of you or I guess all of you

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would have to find a new place to meet, but

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love to have you join up. And all you need

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to do is is give me your name and your

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phone number. If you're not from Des Moines, maybe put

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your talent that would be interesting. You can give me

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your email address if you prefer, and then before each

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of our meetings in the week before, I'll give you

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a call or an email and inform you when the

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meeting will be and very privileged to be able to

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introduce two time Nobel Prize nominee in nineteen and I'm

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still in the last century two thousand and eight and

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two thousand and nine Nobel Peace Prize nominee that should win.

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He should win one of these years, and if he does,

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it'll be a victory for the whole world when that happened,

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and we'll all me to celebrate. But he's the author

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of over thirty five books. He's an eminent theologian, and

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I think I'm safe in saying that he probably knows

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more about nine to eleven than any other individual on

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the base of the Earth, with the exception of the planners.

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Further Ado, Oh, I'm supposed to tell you that afterwards

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the course will be a question and answer session, and

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you will be asked, if you ask a question, to

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come down and sign a release form so that you

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can appear in the DVD which we hope will be

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released not too long from now. UH of this UH,

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of this event, and UH if you're interested in getting

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one of those DVD's, where you're gonna have to pick

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up our invitation sheet which tells about our group, and

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get my phone number and and call.

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Speaker 1: Me and and then we can arrange uh for you

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to acquire a DVD.

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Speaker 2: So uh well, without further ado, then I uh I

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give you David Ray Griffin.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Griffin.

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Speaker 2: I I want to uh formally invite you, induct you

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as a member of our informal group, and to do

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so I present you with our official shirt of our

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of our group.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Well, thank you very much, James.

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And many people have asked me this is my first

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time to des moine. The answer is yes. And the

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next question is how do you like it? I'm going

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to withhold judgment until I get out of town, but

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so far I like it very very much. I'm very

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pleased to be here and very impressed that so many

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people have turned out for this non controversial topic. Now,

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so is that okay? Where the microphone is? No, it

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needs to be up a little bit too. Okay, does

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that do it? Okay? Thank you? So the topic of

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my lecture is is the war in Afghanistan justified by

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the nine to eleven attacks? There are many questions to

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ask about the war in Afghanistan. One being widely asked

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is whether it will turn out to be Obama's Vietnam.

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This question implies another whether this war is winnable or

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is destined to be a quagmire like Vietnam, a question

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motivated by many things, including the widespread agreement that the

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Afghan government Underhammad Karzai is at least as corrupt and

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incompetent as the government that the United States tried to

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prop up in South Vietnam for twenty years. There are

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many other similarities, but there's also one big difference. This time.

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There is no draft. If there were a draft, so

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that college students and their friends back home were being

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sent to Afghanistan, there would be huge demonstrations against this

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war on campuses all across United States and Canada. If

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the sons and daughters of wealthy and middle class parents

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were coming home in boxes, or with permanent energy in injuries,

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or with post traumatic stress syndrome, this war would have

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probably been stopped long ago. This room would be packed

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with college students. If there were a draft. People have

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often asked, did we learn any of the lessons of Vietnam?

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The US government learned one. If you're going to fight

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an unpopular war, don't have a draft. There are many

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many other questions but in this lecture I will focus

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on only one Is the war in Afghanistan justified? This

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question has two parts. First, is the war legally justified? Second?

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Is it morally justified? As I deal with these questions,

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try to imagine that there is a draft so that

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you or your spouse, or your friends, or your children

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or grandchildren might be sent to fight in this war.

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I begin with the question of legal justification. Since the

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founding of the United Nations in nineteen forty five, international

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law with regard to war have been defined by the

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UN Charter. Measured by this standard, the USRD war in

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Afghanistan is illegal. Marjorie Kohane, a well known professor of

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international law, wrote in November two thousand and one, the

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bombings of Afghanistan by the United States and the United

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Kingdom are illegal. In two thousand and eight, Khne repeated

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this argument in an article entitled Afghanistan the Other Illegal War.

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The point of this title was that although it was

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by then widely accepted that the war in Iraq was illegal,

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the war in Afghanistan, in spite of the fact that

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many Americans did not realize it, was equally illegal. Her

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argument was based on the following facts. First, according to

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international law as codified in the UN Charter, disputes are

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to be brought before the UN's Security Council, which alone

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may authorize the use of force. Without this authorization, any

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military activity against another country is illegal. Second, there are

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two exceptions. One is that if your nation has has

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been subjected to an armed attacked by another nation, you

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may respond militarily in self defense. This condition was not

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fulfilled by the nine to eleven attacks because they were

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not carried out by another nation. Afghanistan did not attack

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the United States. Indeed, the nineteen men charged with the

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attacks were not from Afghanistan. The other exception occurs when

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one nation has certain knowledge that an armed attack by

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another nation is imminent, too eminent to bring the matter

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to the Security Council. The need for self defense must

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be in the generally accepted phrase instant overwhelming, leaving no

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choice of means and no moment for deliberation. Although the

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US government claimed that its military operations in Afghanistan were

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justified by the need to prevent a second attack, this need,

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even if was not urgent, as shown by the fact

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that the Pentagon did not launch its invasion until almost

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a month later, US political leaders have claimed to be

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sure that the UN did authorize the US to attack Afghanistan.

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This claim, originally made by the Bush Cheney administration, was

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repeated by President Obama in his West Point speech of

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November one, two thousand and nine, in which he said

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the United Nations Security Council endorsed the use of all

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necessary steps to respond to the nine to eleven attacks,

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so US troops went to Afghanistan under the banner of

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international legitimacy. However, the language of all necessary steps is

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from UN's Security Council Resolution thirteen sixty eight, in which

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the Council, taking note of its own responsibilities under the Charter,

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expressed its own readiness to take all necessary steps and

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to respond to the terrorist attacks of eleventh September two

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thousand and one. Of course, the Security Council might have

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determined that one of those necessary steps was to authorize

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the United States to attack Afghanistan, but it did not.

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Resolution thirteen seventy three, the only other Security Council resolution

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about this issue, laid out various responses, but these included

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matters such as freezing assets, criminalizing the support of terrorists,

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exchanging police information, about terraces and prosecuting terrasts. The use

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of military force was never mentioned. The U S war

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in Afghanistan was not authorized by the UN Security Council

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in two thousand and one or at any time since.

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So this war began as an illegal war, and it

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is an illegal war today. Our government's claim to the

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contrary is false. This war is illegal moreover, not only

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under international law, but also under US law. The UN

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Charter is a treaty which was ratified by the United States,

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and according to Article six of the US Constitution, any

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treaty ratified by the United States is part of the

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supreme law of the land. The war in Afghanistan is

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therefore in violation of US as well as international law.

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It could not be more illegal. Merrigan public, for the

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most part, is probably unaware of the illegality of this

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war because this is not something that our political leaders

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or our corporate media have been anxious to point out,

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so most people simply don't know. If they were informed, however,

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many Americans would be inclined to argue that, even if

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technically illegal, the US military effort in Afghanistan has been

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morally justified by the attacks of nine to eleven. For

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a summary statement of this argument, we can turn again

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to the west point speech of President Obama, who has

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taken over the Bush Cheney rationale for nine to eleven.

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Answering the question of why America and our allies were

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compelled to fight a war in Afghanistan in the first place,

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Obama said, we did not ask for this fight. On

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September eleventh, two thousand and one, nineteen men hijacked four

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airplanes and used them to murder nearly three thousand people.

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They struck at our military and economic nerve centers. They

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took the lives of innocent men, women, and children, without

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regard to their faith, or race or station. As we know,

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these men belonged to al Qaeda, a group of extremists

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who have distorted and defiled Islam. After the Taliban refused

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to turn over Osama bin Laden, we sent our troops

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into Afghanistan. This standard account can be summarized in terms

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of three points. First, the attacks were carried out by

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nineteen Muslim members of al Qaeda. Second, the attacks had

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been authorized by the founder of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden,

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who was in Afghanistan. Third, the US invasion of Afghanistan

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was necessary because the Taliban, which was in control of Afghanistan,

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refused to turn bin Laden over to US authorities. On

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the basis of these three points, our political leaders have

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claimed that the United States has the moral right, arising

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from the universal right of self defense, to attempt to

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capture or kill Ben Laden and his al Kaeda network

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to them from launching another attack on our country. The

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only problem with this argument is that all three points

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are false. I will show this by looking at these

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points in reverse order. The claim that the Taliban refused

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to turn over ben Laden has been repeatedly made by

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political leaders and our mainstream media. Reports from the time, however,

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show that the truth is very different. Ten days after

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the nine to eleven attacks, CNN reported the Taliban refused

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to hand over ben Laden without proof or evidence that

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he was involved in last week's attacks on the United States.

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The Taliban ambassador to Pakistan said Friday that deporting him

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without proof would amount to an insult to Islam. CNN

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also made clear that the Taliban's demand for proof was

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not made without reason, saying Ben Lauden himself has already

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denied he had anything to do with the attacks, and

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Taliban officials repeatedly said he could not have been involved

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in the attacks. Bush, however, said the demands were not

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open to negotiation or discussion. With this refusal to provide

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any evidence of ben Lauden's responsibility, the Bush administration made

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it impossible for the Taliban to turn ben Laden over.

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the Taliban, in order to turn over a fellow Muslim

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to an infidel Western nation, needed a faith saving formula.

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Milton bon Bearden, who had been the CIA station chief

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in Afghanistan in the nineteen eighties, put it this way.

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While the United States was demanding give up ben Lauden,

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the Taliban was saying, do something to help us give

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him up, but the Bush administration refused. As the bombing

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began in October, the Taliban tried again, offering to turn

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ben Laden over to a third country if the United

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States would stop the bombing and provide evidence of ben

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Laden's responsibility, but Bush replied, there's no need to discuss

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innocence or guilt. He know he's guilty. An article in

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London's Guardian, which reported this development, was entitled Bush rejects

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Taliban offered to hand ben Laden over, So it was

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the Bush administration, not the Taliban, that was responsible for

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the fact that ben Laden was not turned over. In

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August of two thousand and nine, President Obama, who had

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criticized the US invasion of a Rock as a war

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of choice, said of the US involvement in Afghanistan, this

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is not a war of choice. This is a war

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of necessity. But the evidence shows, as we have seen,

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that it, like a Rock, is a war of choice.

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This conclusion is reinforced by reports indicating that the United

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States had made the decision to invade Afghanistan two months

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before the nine A. Leaven attacks. The background for this

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decision was the United States longtime support for a pipeline

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project proposed by UNICOL, which would transport oil and gas

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from the Caspian Sea region to the Indian Ocean through

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Afghanistan and Pakistan, and therefore not through Russian territory. This

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project had been stymied through the nineteen nineties because of

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the civil war that had been going on in Afghanistan

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since the Soviet withdrawal in nineteen eighty nine. In the

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mid nineteen nineties, the US government had supported the Taliban

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with the hope that its military strength would enable it

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to unify the country and therefore protect the pipeline. By

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the late nineteen nineties, however, the Clinton administration had given

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up on the Taliban. When the Bush administration came to power,

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it decided to give the Taliban one last chance. During

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a four day meeting in Berlin in July two thousand

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and one, representatives of the Bush administration insisted that the

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Taliban must create a government of national unity by sharing

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power with factions friendly to the United States. The US

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representatives reportedly said, either you accept our offer of a

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carpet of gold, or we will bury you under a

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carpet of bombs. After the Taliban refused this offer, the

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Americans reportedly said military action against Afghanistan would go ahead

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before the snows started falling in Afghanistan by the middle

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of October at the latest, and indeed, given the fact

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that the nine to eleven attacks occurred on nine to

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eleven September eleventh, the Pentagon was a able to mobilize

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to begin its attack on Afghanistan by October seven. It appears, therefore,

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the United States invaded Afghanistan for reasons far different from

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the official rationale according to which we were there to

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capture or kill Osama bin Ladden. It turned now to

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the second point, the claim that Osama bin Laden had

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authorized the attacks. Even if it refused to give the

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Taliban evidence for this claim, the Bush administration surely most

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Americans probably assumed had such evidence and had provided it

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to those who needed it. Again, however, the reports from

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the time indicate otherwise. Two weeks after nine to eleven,

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Secretary of State Colin Powell said that he expected in

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the near future to put out a document that will

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describe quite clearly the evidence that we have linking bi

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Laden to this attack. But at a joint press conference

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the very next day with President Bush, Palell had to

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withdraw this pledge, saying that most of the evidence is classified.

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Seymour Hirsch, citing officials from both the CIA and the

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Department of Justice, said the real reason why Powell withdrew

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the pledge was a lack of solid information. Following week,

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British Prime Minister Tony Blair issued a document to show

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that Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, the terrorist network

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which he had planned and carried out the atrocities. On

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eleventh September two thousand and one. Blair's report, however, began

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by saying this document does not purport to provide a

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prosecutable case against Osama bin Laden in a court of law,

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So it was good enough to go to war, not

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good enough to go to court. The next day, the

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BBC emphasized this weakness, saying, there is no direct evidence

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in the public domain linking Osama bin Laden to the

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eleventh September attacks. What about our own FBI? Its most

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wanted terrorist web page on Usama bin Laden does not

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list nine to eleven as one of the terrorist acts

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for which he is wanted. Most Americans still do not

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know this. When asked why not, the FBI's chief of

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Investigative Publicity replied, because the FBI has no hard evidence

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connecting ben Laden to nine to eleven. What about the

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nine to eleven Commission? Its entire report is based on

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the assumption that ben Laden was behind the attacks. However,

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the report's evidence to support this premise has been disowned

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by the commission's own co chairs, Thomas Kane and Lee Hamilton.

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This evidence consisted of testimony that had reportedly been elicited

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by the CIA from al Qaeda operatives. The most important

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of these operatives were Colleague Sheik Mohammad, generally known simply

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as KSM, who has been called the mastermind of the

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nine to eleven attacks. If you read the nine to

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eleven Commission's account of how ben Laden planned the attacks

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and then check the notes in the back, you will

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find that almost every note says the information came from KSM.

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In two thousand and six, Cain and Hamilton wrote a

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book giving the inside story of the nine to eleven Commission,

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in which they called this information untrustworthy. They had no success,

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they reported, in obtaining access to star witnesses in custody,

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most notably Colleague Sheik Muhammad. Besides not being allowed by

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the CIA to interview KSM, they were not permitted to

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observe his interrogation through one glass. They were not even

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allowed to talk to the interrogators. Therefore, Kane and Hamilton complained,

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we had no way of evaluating the credibility of detaining information.

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How could we tell if someone such as Khalid Sheik

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Muhammad was telling the truth. They could not. Accordingly, neither

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the Bush administration, the British government, the FBI, nor the

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nine to eleven Commission ever provided reliable evidence of Ben

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Luden's responsibility for the attacks. Some people argue to be

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sure that such evidence is no longer needed because Ben

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Lauden admitted his responsibility in a videotape that was discovered

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in November two thousand and one. But Ben Lauden had

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previously denied his involvement many times, and some Ben Lauden

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experts call this later video a fake, and for good reasons.

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Many of the physical features of the man on this

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video are different from the those of Osama bin Ladden,

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and he said many things that Osama bin Laden himself

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would not have said. I've thus felled this out in

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a little book called Osama bin Laden Dead or Love.

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The FBI, in any case, evidently does not believe that

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this video provides hard evidence of bin Laden's responsibility for

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nine to eleven, or it would have revised it. Most

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wanted terrorist page on him to add this fact. So

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to review the first two points. The Taliban said it

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would turn over bin Laden if the government had given

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it good evidence of his responsibility for nine to eleven,

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but our government refused, and good evidence of this responsibility

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has never been given to the public. I turn now

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to the third claim that even if there is no

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proof that Osama bin Laden authorized the attacks, we have

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abundant evidence that the attacks were carried out by Muslims

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belonging to his Al Qaeda organization. This is still widely assumed.

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The truth, however, is that the evidence in favor of

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al Qaeda hijackers falls apart upon examination, and this suggests

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that nine to eleven was instead a false flag attack,

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an attack that people within our own government orchestrated while

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planning evidence to implicate Muslims. Let us begin with the

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nine to eleven Commissions claimed that the men who took

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over the Plaines were devout Muslims ready to sacrifice their

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lives for the cause. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that

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Atta and other hijackers had made at least six trips

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to Las Vegas, where they had engaged in some undecided,

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some decidedly un Islamic sampling of prohibited pleasures. The Chronicle

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then quoted the head of the Islamic Foundation of Nevada

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as saying, true Muslims don't drink, don't gamble, don't go

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to strip clubs. The contradiction was especially strong with regard

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to Mohammad Atta, said to be the ringleader. On the

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one hand, according to the nine to eleven Commission, he

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was very religious, even fanatically so. This characterization was supported

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by Professor Ditmark mccooley, who with autist thesis supervisor at

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a technical university in Hamburg, Germany in the nineteen nineties.

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Professor mccooley says he knew this student only as Mohammed

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el almir although his full name was the same as

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his father's Mohammad al Amir Atta. In any case, Micoula

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said that he was this student was very religious, prayed regularly,

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and never touched alcohol. According to the American press, on

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the other hand, Muhammad Aada drank heavily and one night,

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after downing five glasses of vodka, shouted an Arabic word

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that Newsweek said roughly translates as and now I need

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what John Stewart has. Whenever he says the F word,

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it gets blooped bleaped. But this is what the Newsweek wrote.

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They put f dish dish k god. Investigative reporter Daniel Hopsicker,

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who wrote a book about Atta, stated that auDA regularly

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went to strip clubs, hired prostitutes, drank heavily and even

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took cocaine. auDA even lived with a stripper for several months,

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and after she kicked him out, he came back and

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disimboweled her cat and her kittens and strewed them on

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her kitchen table. Could this be the same individual as

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Professor Makuli's student, Mohammed al Almir, who would not even

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shake hands with a woman upon being introduced, and who

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never touched alcohol. I would put my hand in the fire,

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said the professor that this Mohammed al Amir, I know,

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will never taste or touch alcohol. Could the Otta described

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by Hopsicker and the American press be the young man

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whom this professor described as not a bodyguard type but

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more a girl looking type. Could the man who disemboweled

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kittens be the young man known to his father as

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a gentle and tender boy who was nicknamed Nightingale. We

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are clearly talking about two different men. This is confirmed

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by the difference in their appearance. The American Otta was

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often described as having a hard, cruel face, and the

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standard FBI photo of him bears this out. The face

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of the Hamburg student was quite different, as photos available

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on the Internet show. Also, his professor described him as

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very small, being one meter sixty two in height, which

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means slightly under five foot four, whereas the American auDA

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has been described as five eight and even five ten.

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One final reason to believe that these different descriptions apply

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to different men. The father of Mohammed al emir Ada

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reported that on September twelfth, before either of them had

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learned about the attacks, his son called him and they

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spoke for two minutes about this and that. And in

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case anybody doesn't know, Mohammadada was allegedly the pilot of

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flight eleven, which to the North Tower. His father says

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he called him the next day. There are also problems

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in relation to many of the other alleged hijackers. For example,

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the BBC reported that Walid al al Shiri, who supposedly

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died along with Atta on American flight eleven, spoke to

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journalists and American authorities in Casablanca the following week. Moreover,

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there were clearly two men going by the name Ziad Jirrar,

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the name of the hijacker pilot of United flight ninety three,

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and those are just a few illustrations. Accordingly, besides the

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fact that the men labeled the hijackers were not devout Muslims.

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They might not have been Muslims of any type. And

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if that were not bad enough for the official story,

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there is no good evidence that these men were even

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on the planes. All the evidence for this claim falls

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apart upon examination. I will illustrate this point with a

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couple of examples. Now, maybe two examples won't be enough

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for you, but when you see about ten of them,

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you start to become a believer. And you can get these.

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In my two thousand and eight book, The New Pearl

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Harbor revisited. One of the purported proofs that the nineteen

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men identified as the hijackers were on the plains was

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the reported discovery of some of their passports at christ sites.

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But the reports of these discoveries are simply not believable.

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For example, the FBI claimed that while searching the streets

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after the destruction of the World Trade Center, they discovered

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the passport of Sirtam Al Sukami, one of the hijackers

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on American Flight eleven, which he chrished into the North Tower.

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But for this to be true, the passport would have

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had to survive the collapse of the North Tower, which

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pulverized almost everything in the building into fine particles except

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the dust into fine particles of dust except the steel,

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and al Sukami's passport. But this claim was too absurd

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to pass the Giggle test, and it was modified by

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two thousand and four. The claim was that a passerby

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picked it up and gave it to a New York

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police detective shortly before the World Trade Center towers collapsed,

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So rather than needing to survive the collapse of the

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North Tower, the passport merely needed to escape from Alsukami's

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pocket or his suitcase, then from the plane's cabin, and

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then from the North Tower without being burned up or

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even sins by that giant fireball that erupted immediately. This

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version was no less ridiculous than the first one, and

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the other stories about passports that crash sites are equally absurd. Actually,

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the funniest one is about flight ninety three, So if

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in the Q and A you want a funny story,

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ask about that is widely believed. Of course, that we

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know that there were hijackers on the airlines, thanks to

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the numerous phone calls from the passengers and crew members

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in which they reported the hijackings, but we have good

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reasons to believe that these calls never occurred. More stuff

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you've not been told by your corporate media. About fifteen

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of the reported calls from the airliners were said to

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have been made on cell phones, with about ten of

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those being from United Flight ninety three alone, the one

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that allegedly crashed in Pennsylvania. Three or four of those

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calls were by Dina Burnett from her husband Tom Burnett,

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and Dina says she knows he was using his cell

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phone because she looked at her caller ID and there's

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Tom's cell phone number. Proof right. However, given the technology

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cell phone technology available in two thousand and one, high

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altitude cell phone calls from airliners were not possible. They

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were generally not possible over one thousand feet, and certainly

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not above thirty five or even forty thousand feet, where

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most of the calls were allegedly made. Articles describing the

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impossibility of the calls were published in two thousand and two,

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thousand and three, and four by two well known Canadians.

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Ak Doudney, formerly a columnist for The Scientific American, and

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well known economist Michelle Schoffedowski. Perhaps in response to these articles,

480
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:04,119
the FBI changed the story. In two thousand and six,

481
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,760
it had to present a report on the phone calls

482
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:12,559
from the airliners for the trial of Zakarias Mussawi, the

483
00:36:12,559 --> 00:36:19,480
so called twentieth hijacker. In its report on United Flight

484
00:36:19,639 --> 00:36:23,039
seventy ninety three, it said that the cell phones were

485
00:36:23,119 --> 00:36:28,079
used for only two calls, both of which were made

486
00:36:28,119 --> 00:36:31,639
after the plane had descended down to five thousand feet,

487
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:35,719
or at least one might argue that cell phone calls

488
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:41,400
were possible, these two calls were. Moreover, according to this

489
00:36:41,559 --> 00:36:45,760
FBI report, the only two cell phone calls from all

490
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:54,519
four planes put together, So the FBI thereby avoided claiming

491
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:58,800
in official report for a court of law that any

492
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:03,320
high altitudes cell phone calls were made. But if the

493
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:07,000
FBI's new account is true, how do we explain that

494
00:37:07,079 --> 00:37:12,239
so many people received reported receiving cell phone calls from

495
00:37:13,639 --> 00:37:18,079
loved ones. Most of these people said that they had

496
00:37:18,119 --> 00:37:21,960
been told by the caller that he or she was

497
00:37:22,079 --> 00:37:26,039
using a cell phone, so we might suppose well they

498
00:37:26,079 --> 00:37:29,960
misheard or they misremembered. Although it be a little hard

499
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:34,119
to believe that over a dozen people had the same

500
00:37:34,199 --> 00:37:38,320
made the same era. But if you want to believe it,

501
00:37:38,639 --> 00:37:41,559
you could maybe do that. But if so, still, what

502
00:37:41,559 --> 00:37:47,199
do you do with Dina Burnett? She saw his cell

503
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:51,440
phone call his note number on her ID. Now, the

504
00:37:51,519 --> 00:37:56,519
FBI says he called using a seatback phone. How in

505
00:37:56,559 --> 00:37:59,719
the world would his cell phone number have gotten on

506
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:05,159
her caller ID. The only answer seems to be these

507
00:38:05,199 --> 00:38:09,840
calls were faked. There was the technology at the time

508
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:14,199
to do that. You can morph the voice. This was

509
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:17,840
demonstrated in a nineteen ninety nine article in The Washington

510
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:21,119
Post using the voice of Colin Powell. Everybody in the

511
00:38:21,199 --> 00:38:25,679
room swore it was Colin Powell. And also there are

512
00:38:25,679 --> 00:38:30,639
devices to fake the caller ID. So maybe that was it,

513
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:35,880
or maybe somebody just had Tom's had taken Tom's cell

514
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,800
phone and made these calls to Dina from the ground

515
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:45,199
using voicemorphing. But whatever the case is, either of those,

516
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:56,159
Tom Burnett did not call his wife from flight ninety three.

517
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,320
We have lots of these problems, but let me go

518
00:38:58,559 --> 00:39:02,360
right to the other one. The most famous of all

519
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,800
the reported calls from the plane were those reported by

520
00:39:06,039 --> 00:39:09,000
Ted Olson, who was the Solicitor General at the time

521
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,000
you know him. He's the one that argued before the

522
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:17,119
Supreme Court successfully that the election in Florida, the election

523
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,800
recount should be stopped. The recount that would have made

524
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:28,000
al Gore the president. That's Ted Olsen. So we have

525
00:39:28,159 --> 00:39:34,480
him to thank for four and then eight years of bushantiny. Well, anyway,

526
00:39:34,519 --> 00:39:37,039
that morning, we also have him to thank for the

527
00:39:37,079 --> 00:39:39,480
most famous of the phone calls from the planes. He

528
00:39:39,559 --> 00:39:44,159
reported that his wife, Barbara Olson, many of you remember her,

529
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:50,079
well known commentator on CNN, that she had been on

530
00:39:50,159 --> 00:39:55,599
flight seventy seven, that she had called him twice. The

531
00:39:55,639 --> 00:39:58,800
first phone call lasted about a minute, and the second

532
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:03,559
one two three four minutes, and that she reported that

533
00:40:03,599 --> 00:40:06,920
the hijackers had taken over the crew with knives and

534
00:40:08,679 --> 00:40:12,960
box cutters. The only report of all the alleged phone

535
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,800
calls that mentioned box cutters. So this call is the

536
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:23,800
one that put that in the public imagination. But when

537
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:28,559
the FBI gave its report to the Mussaui trial, it

538
00:40:28,679 --> 00:40:33,559
did mention Barbara Olson, but it said she attempted one call,

539
00:40:34,159 --> 00:40:37,519
not to but she only attempted the call, that it

540
00:40:37,559 --> 00:40:44,360
was unconnected and therefore it lasted zero seconds. Now this

541
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,920
is pretty amazing. The FBI is part of the Department

542
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,400
of Justice, and so in two thousand and six, the

543
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:55,039
FBI put on the website, on a website publicly available,

544
00:40:56,239 --> 00:41:03,199
that those calls from Barbara Olson to Ted Olsen never happened.

545
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:07,400
There were no calls from Barbara Olson. Wouldn't you think

546
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:11,360
this would be front page news with screaming headlines. How

547
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:16,719
many of you before tonight had heard this story. I

548
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:20,320
think the mainstream press is not keeping us informed of

549
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:32,719
some very important developments. So anyway, these calls, these are

550
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,559
the main evidence that there were hijackers on the planes,

551
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:46,559
and now we learned these calls didn't happen. Furthermore, besides

552
00:41:46,639 --> 00:41:49,960
not having evidence that these guys were on the planes,

553
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,519
we have pretty strong evidence they weren't. First of all,

554
00:41:54,519 --> 00:42:00,480
psychiatrists got from a FOIL request the autopsy report from

555
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:06,760
the Pentagon crash. No hijacker names on the autopsy list,

556
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:13,679
not a single Arab name. The airlines released the flight manifest,

557
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:19,440
the passenger manifest from the four flights, no hijacker names

558
00:42:19,559 --> 00:42:25,599
on the manifest, no Arab names whatsoever. And then here's

559
00:42:25,679 --> 00:42:32,280
the clincher. In all these planes, there's a little transponder,

560
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:37,800
and pilots are trained that if there's any sign that

561
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:42,400
there's a hijacking, you punch in the universal hijacking Code

562
00:42:42,599 --> 00:42:50,800
seventy five hundred takes about two seconds. Four flights, two

563
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:56,880
pilots in each cabin, eight pilots altogether. No one did

564
00:42:56,960 --> 00:43:00,000
that that day. You say, well, maybe they didn't have time.

565
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,000
According to the official story about flight ninety three, it

566
00:43:03,039 --> 00:43:07,079
took the hijackers thirty seconds to break into the cabin.

567
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:11,639
Can you really believe that these highly trained pilots would

568
00:43:11,639 --> 00:43:21,119
not have thought to punch in the hijack code. Okay,

569
00:43:21,199 --> 00:43:28,559
it looks like what we have here is a fall

570
00:43:28,639 --> 00:43:33,920
flag attack, and these are very common by imperialist nations.

571
00:43:34,599 --> 00:43:37,480
They use these when there's some other nation they want

572
00:43:37,519 --> 00:43:41,320
to attack. They attack their own people, then plant evidence

573
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:45,800
to show that the other nation did it. So Japan

574
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:49,079
did this when it was ready to attack Nanchuria that

575
00:43:49,119 --> 00:43:52,000
started the Asian part of World War two. Hitler did

576
00:43:52,039 --> 00:43:54,719
it when he was ready to start to attack Poland

577
00:43:55,159 --> 00:44:00,599
that started the European part of World War two. Our

578
00:44:00,679 --> 00:44:07,960
own Pentagon chiefs of a document called Operation Northwoods. They

579
00:44:08,039 --> 00:44:13,599
brought to President Kennedy shortly after Fidel Castro had taken

580
00:44:13,679 --> 00:44:16,760
Cuba back for the Cubans after we had controlled it

581
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:22,639
for a half century, and this was labeled pretexts for

582
00:44:22,679 --> 00:44:27,960
an invasion of Cuba. And in these pretexts were events

583
00:44:28,039 --> 00:44:32,719
that would kill American citizens and then blame the Cubans

584
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:39,440
and use that for the basis of the attack. Now,

585
00:44:39,519 --> 00:44:44,920
this proposal was turned down by President Kennedy. But in

586
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:48,559
two thousand and one the White House was occupied by

587
00:44:48,599 --> 00:44:53,840
an administration that wanted to attack Afghanistan and Iraq and

588
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:58,679
other predominantly Muslim countries. They had seven Muslim countries on

589
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:02,360
their hit list, and so it appears evidence was planeted

590
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:08,840
to implicate Muslims. I turned now to the strongest evidence

591
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,519
that the nine to eleven attacks were orchestrated by insiders

592
00:45:11,599 --> 00:45:15,360
rather than foreign terrace. The collapse of Building seven of

593
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:18,119
the World Trade Center, which is the subject of my

594
00:45:18,199 --> 00:45:21,440
most recent book, The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center seven,

595
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:25,079
by the final official report about nine to eleven is

596
00:45:25,119 --> 00:45:32,920
unscientific and false. I speak of the mysterious collapse because

597
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:36,039
from the very beginning, the collapse of this building was

598
00:45:36,079 --> 00:45:39,320
seen as the biggest mystery of nine to eleven given

599
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,679
the fact that the twin towers had been hit by planes,

600
00:45:42,679 --> 00:45:45,760
which then started big fires because of the jet fuel,

601
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:52,440
most people evidently thought it understandably understandable, if wrongly, that

602
00:45:52,519 --> 00:45:57,079
these two buildings came down. But Billing seven was not

603
00:45:57,159 --> 00:45:59,679
hit by a plane, and yet it came down at

604
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:05,480
five that afternoon. This would have meant, assuming that it

605
00:46:05,559 --> 00:46:09,800
was not deliberately demolished, the Building seven, had been brought

606
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,679
down by fire alone, and this would have been an

607
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:20,119
unprecedented occurrence. New York Times writer James Glands wrote, experts

608
00:46:20,119 --> 00:46:23,440
said no building like it, a modern steel reinforced high rife,

609
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:28,400
had ever collapsed because of an uncontrolled fire. Glanstone quoted

610
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:33,039
a structural engineer as saying, within the structural engineering community,

611
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,400
building seven is considered to be much more important to

612
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:40,480
understand than the twin towers, because engineers had no answer

613
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:45,960
to the question why did seven come down? Moreover, although

614
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:50,199
Glance spoke of uncontrolled fire, there were significant fires on

615
00:46:50,199 --> 00:46:54,360
only six of this building's forty seven floors, and these

616
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:57,800
fires were visible for at most three or four hours,

617
00:46:58,639 --> 00:47:02,079
And yet fires have burnt earn in other steel frame buildings.

618
00:47:02,079 --> 00:47:06,760
For seventeen and eighteen hours turning these buildings into towering

619
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:14,239
infernals without causing collapse. So why did Building seven come down? FEMA,

620
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,519
which in two thousand and two put out the first

621
00:47:16,559 --> 00:47:21,840
official report on this building, admitted that its best hypothesis

622
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:28,119
had only a low probability of occurrence, which is scientific

623
00:47:28,159 --> 00:47:34,719
speech for we don't have a clue By its best hypothesis.

624
00:47:35,079 --> 00:47:40,039
FEMA meant that meant the best hypothesis it could come

625
00:47:40,159 --> 00:47:43,079
up with, in light of the fact that it, as

626
00:47:43,119 --> 00:47:48,679
a government agency, could not posit the use of explosives. Now,

627
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,599
why might anyone think that explosives had brought this building down?

628
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:55,920
One even is simply that prior to nine to eleven,

629
00:47:56,519 --> 00:48:01,559
every collapse of a steel frame rise building in our

630
00:48:01,679 --> 00:48:05,840
universe was brought about by explosives in the procedure known

631
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:12,079
as controlled demolition. Collapses had never been caused by fires, earthquakes,

632
00:48:12,159 --> 00:48:16,719
or any other cause other than explosives. Another reason to

633
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:21,079
posit explosives is that the building came straight down, collapsing

634
00:48:21,159 --> 00:48:27,119
into its own footprint. Now this is the part of

635
00:48:27,159 --> 00:48:31,360
the lecture where I most need a video. How many

636
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:35,119
of you have seen Buildings seven come down? So how

637
00:48:35,159 --> 00:48:38,800
many have not not seen that. Okay. If you've not

638
00:48:39,519 --> 00:48:44,079
and your skeptical, just go google collapse of World Trade

639
00:48:44,079 --> 00:48:47,880
Center seven, collapse of Building seven. You'll find it. You'll

640
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:52,400
see this building is perfectly stable. This is a very

641
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:54,800
tall building in half of the states in the Union.

642
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:56,880
It would have been the tallest building in the state.

643
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:00,239
So this should have been big news. It's sitting, They're

644
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:09,800
perfectly stable, and then all of a sudden, It's pretty

645
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:14,360
dramatic when you see it. My acting isn't quite so good.

646
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:24,400
I got to work on playing buildings, playing Building seven now.

647
00:49:25,119 --> 00:49:28,480
For this to happen, this building was held up by

648
00:49:28,559 --> 00:49:32,719
eighty two steel columns, these vertical columns, eighty two of them.

649
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:39,599
For the roofline to remain level, all eighty two columns

650
00:49:39,599 --> 00:49:47,239
had to fail simultaneously within a split second. This cannot

651
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:50,800
happen because of fire. This is what happens in the

652
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:55,480
type of controlled demolition known as implosion, or the building

653
00:49:55,519 --> 00:49:59,119
folds in on itself. It is not something that can

654
00:49:59,159 --> 00:50:05,800
be caused by fires. Simply seeing the video of this

655
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:09,840
building coming down makes it obvious to anyone who knows

656
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:13,159
anything about these things that it was brought down by explosives.

657
00:50:13,159 --> 00:50:17,760
On nine to eleven itself. CBS anchor Dan Rathers said,

658
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:21,719
it's reminiscent of those pictures we've all seen on television

659
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:25,239
where a building was deliberately destroyed by well placed dynamite

660
00:50:25,519 --> 00:50:29,719
to knock it down. In two thousand and six, a

661
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:34,719
filmmaker named as asked Danny you'll Winkle, the owner of

662
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:38,880
a controlled demolition company in the Netherlands, to comment on

663
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:42,360
a video of the collapse of Building seven, without telling

664
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:46,280
him what it was. Although you'll Winkle was in the

665
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,079
in the field, he had never heard that a third

666
00:50:49,119 --> 00:50:52,519
building came down that day. After viewing the film, Jill

667
00:50:52,519 --> 00:50:55,840
Winkle said, they simply blew up columns and the rest

668
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:59,840
caved in afterwards. This is controlled demolition. When asked if

669
00:50:59,880 --> 00:51:03,880
he was certain, he replied, absolutely, it's been imploded. This

670
00:51:04,079 --> 00:51:06,519
was a higher job. A team of experts did this.

671
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:11,039
An organization called Architects and Engineers for nine to eleven Truth,

672
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:14,360
which was formed in two thousand and six, now has

673
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:19,119
over twelve hundred members. When I did an interview with

674
00:51:19,199 --> 00:51:22,920
Amy Goodman a few years ago, this was the crucial question,

675
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:27,079
how many engineers did you have? We didn't have any.

676
00:51:27,159 --> 00:51:31,000
The implicit assumption seemed to be well, if you had

677
00:51:31,039 --> 00:51:34,400
a bun engineers, we would believe you. Now we have

678
00:51:34,559 --> 00:51:42,920
twelve hundred architects and engineers. Somehow they haven't come around.

679
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:48,719
Many of the people said they joined architects and engineers

680
00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:52,199
when they saw the collapse of Building seven. In the

681
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:55,639
light of all these considerations and investigations, seeking the truth

682
00:51:55,679 --> 00:51:59,360
about Building seven should have begun with a hypothesis that it,

683
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:03,920
too had been brought down by explosives. However, this hypothesis

684
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:07,920
did not provide the starting point for NIST, the National

685
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:12,159
Institute of Standards and Technology, which took over from FEMA

686
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:16,039
the responsibility for writing the official report on the destruction

687
00:52:16,119 --> 00:52:19,639
of the World Trade Center. Rather, NISS said, with regard

688
00:52:19,679 --> 00:52:23,400
to Building seven, the challenge was to determine if a

689
00:52:23,639 --> 00:52:29,519
fire induced floor system failure could occur in WTC seven

690
00:52:30,039 --> 00:52:37,280
under an ordinary building contents fire That was the challenge.

691
00:52:37,599 --> 00:52:41,559
So although every other steel framed building that has collapsed

692
00:52:41,559 --> 00:52:45,440
did so because explosives were used to destroy its support columns,

693
00:52:45,599 --> 00:52:50,360
NIST said, in effect, we think fire brought down this one.

694
00:52:51,199 --> 00:52:55,320
To understand why NIST started with this hypothesis, it helps

695
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:57,880
to know that it is an agency of the US

696
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:01,639
Commerce Department, which means that all the years that it

697
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:04,280
was working on these reports, it was an agency of

698
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:10,800
the bush Cheney administration. Also, a scientist who had worked

699
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:14,880
for ANST reported that by two thousand and one, nists

700
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:19,360
had been fully hijacked from the scientific into the political realm,

701
00:53:20,119 --> 00:53:24,280
so that scientists working there were had lost their scientific

702
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:31,639
independence and became little more than hired guns. One manifestation

703
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:34,079
of NIS's political nature may be the fact that it

704
00:53:34,159 --> 00:53:38,519
delayed its report on Building seven year after year after year,

705
00:53:39,599 --> 00:53:42,800
releasing it only late in two thousand and eight, when

706
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:47,159
the bush Cheney administration was prepared to leave office. Be

707
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:50,599
that as it may, NIS did in August of two

708
00:53:50,679 --> 00:53:53,400
thousand and eight, finally put out a report in the

709
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:57,320
form of a draft for public comment. Announcing this draft

710
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:02,199
report at a press conference, sham Sunder Nis lead investigator, said,

711
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:06,400
our take home message today is that the reason for

712
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:09,880
the collapse of World Trade Center seven is no longer

713
00:54:10,039 --> 00:54:14,679
a mystery. World Trade Center seven collapse because the fire

714
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:22,159
is fueled by office furnishings. It did not collapse from explosives, however,

715
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:25,320
and then he said science is really behind what we

716
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:30,159
have said. However, far from being supported by good science,

717
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:35,760
this report repeatedly makes its case by resorting to scientific fraud.

718
00:54:36,679 --> 00:54:39,960
Two of the major types of scientific fraud, as defined

719
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:44,960
by the National Science Foundation are fabrication, which is the

720
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:49,800
making up of results, and falsification, which means either changing

721
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:56,760
or omitting data. I will begin with falsification. Claiming that

722
00:54:56,840 --> 00:55:01,960
it found no evidence of controlled demolition, NIS simply omitted

723
00:55:02,079 --> 00:55:05,639
or distorted all such evidence, some of which was testimonial.

724
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:09,960
Two city officials, Barry Jennings of the Housing Authority and

725
00:55:10,039 --> 00:55:14,320
Michael hess the city's Corporation Council and Juliani's good friend,

726
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:18,320
reported that they became trapped by a massive explosion in

727
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:24,360
Building seven shortly after they arrived there at nine a m. NIS, however,

728
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:27,840
claimed that what they called an explosion was really just

729
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:32,119
the impact of debris from the collapse of the North Tower,

730
00:55:32,639 --> 00:55:36,880
which did not occur until ten twenty eight, in other words,

731
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:42,760
at least an hour later than what they reported. Jennings

732
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:46,119
had explicitly said that they were trapped by this explosion

733
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:49,960
before either of the towers had come down, which would

734
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:54,400
mean before nine fifty nine, when the South tower came down.

735
00:55:55,360 --> 00:56:00,719
This rather obviously distorted this testimonial evidence. People reported that

736
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:03,480
explosions went off in the late afternoon when the building

737
00:56:03,559 --> 00:56:07,280
finally started to come down. Reporter Peter DeMarco of the

738
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:10,280
New York Daily News said there was a rumble, the

739
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:13,000
building's top row of windows popped out, Then all the

740
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:15,559
windows on the thirty ninth floor popped out, Then the

741
00:56:15,559 --> 00:56:17,880
thirty eighth floor, pop pop, pop was all you heard

742
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:21,320
until the building sank into a rising cloud of gray.

743
00:56:23,119 --> 00:56:28,920
NIS dealt with such testimonies by simply ignoring them. Nis

744
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:31,719
also ignored a lot of physical evidence the Building seven

745
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:35,719
was brought down by explosives. For example, three professors from

746
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:40,239
Worcester Polytechnic Institute discovered a piece of steel from Building

747
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:44,519
seven that had melted so severely that it had holes

748
00:56:44,559 --> 00:56:48,199
in it, making it look like a piece of Swiss cheese.

749
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:50,519
New York Times, pointing out that the fires in the

750
00:56:50,559 --> 00:56:53,559
building could not have been hot enough to melt the steel,

751
00:56:54,320 --> 00:57:00,599
called this the deepest mystery uncovered in the investigation. Professors

752
00:57:00,599 --> 00:57:04,119
and a report included as an appendix to the two

753
00:57:04,159 --> 00:57:08,760
thousand and two FEMA report, said a detailed study into

754
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:14,239
the mechanism of this phenomenon is needed. When this report

755
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:17,440
on Building seven appeared, However, it did not mention this

756
00:57:17,559 --> 00:57:22,320
mysterious piece of steel. NIST even claimed that no recovered

757
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:27,440
steel from Building seven was identified, and this was just

758
00:57:27,559 --> 00:57:33,639
the beginning of this omission of physical evidence. The nearby

759
00:57:33,679 --> 00:57:37,519
Deutsche Bank building was heavily contaminated by dust when the

760
00:57:37,599 --> 00:57:41,800
towers came down, but the bank's insurance company refused to

761
00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:44,880
pay for the cleanup, claiming that the dust in the

762
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:48,159
Deutsche Bank building was simply ordinary building dust, not something

763
00:57:48,199 --> 00:57:55,320
from the WTC event. So the bank hired the RJ

764
00:57:55,519 --> 00:57:58,840
Lee Group, a scientific research organization, to do a study,

765
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:01,719
and their study showed that the dust in the building

766
00:58:02,079 --> 00:58:05,920
was World Trade Center dust with a unique chemical signature.

767
00:58:07,239 --> 00:58:11,039
Part of this signature was spherical iron particles, and this

768
00:58:11,159 --> 00:58:15,440
meant the RJ Lee Group said that iron had melted

769
00:58:15,559 --> 00:58:23,559
during the WTC event, producing spherical metallic particles. Iron does

770
00:58:23,599 --> 00:58:28,280
not melt until it reaches twenty eight hundred degrees fahrenheit,

771
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:33,039
which is about one thousand degrees hotter than the fires

772
00:58:33,079 --> 00:58:35,760
in the building could have possibly been under the most

773
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:39,599
optimal optimal circumstances, which did not exist, by the way.

774
00:58:40,599 --> 00:58:43,599
The RJ Lee study also found that temperatures had been

775
00:58:43,639 --> 00:58:49,519
reached at which lead would have undergone vaporization, meaning over

776
00:58:49,599 --> 00:58:54,679
three thousand degrees fahrenheit. Another study was carried out by

777
00:58:54,719 --> 00:58:57,920
scientists at the US Geological Survey, so this is a

778
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:04,320
government agency. Besides also finding iron particles, these scientists found

779
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:08,320
that molybdenum have been melted, even though it has an

780
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:16,039
extremely high melting point almost five thousand degrees fahrenheit. These

781
00:59:16,079 --> 00:59:20,480
two studies proved, therefore, that something had produced temperatures many

782
00:59:20,559 --> 00:59:24,400
times higher than the fires could have produced. Nist Tower

783
00:59:24,639 --> 00:59:28,400
made no mention of these studies, but even this was

784
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:33,320
not the end of its omission of physical evidence. A

785
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:40,000
report by several scientists, including University of Copenhagen chemist Nils Herrott,

786
00:59:40,719 --> 00:59:47,239
showed that the world trade centered dust contained unreacted nanothermite.

787
00:59:47,719 --> 00:59:51,079
Whereas ordinary thermite has been around for over a century

788
00:59:51,519 --> 00:59:57,639
and is an incendiary, nanothermite is a high explosive of

789
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:02,119
very powerful, high exploicity. This report by Herrot and his

790
01:00:02,239 --> 01:00:06,199
colleagues did not appear till two thousand and nine, several

791
01:00:06,239 --> 01:00:10,800
months after the publication of NIS's final report, so they

792
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:14,360
could not have reported about that, but NIS should have

793
01:00:14,519 --> 01:00:17,800
as a matter of routine. Tested the World Trade centered

794
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:23,079
dust for signs of incendiaries such as ordinary thermite and

795
01:00:23,199 --> 01:00:27,960
explosives such as nano thermite, and this is in their manuals.

796
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:32,719
This is standard and particularly when there's any sign of explosion,

797
01:00:33,039 --> 01:00:35,880
you must test. They didn't do it. When asked whether

798
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:39,480
it did, Nis said no. When a reporter asked Michael

799
01:00:39,519 --> 01:00:44,039
Newman and this spokeman, why not, Newman replied, because there

800
01:00:44,119 --> 01:00:48,559
was no evidence of that scratching her head. The reporter said,

801
01:00:49,559 --> 01:00:51,679
but how can you know there's no evidence if you

802
01:00:51,719 --> 01:00:57,000
don't look for it. First, Newman replied, if you're looking

803
01:00:57,039 --> 01:00:59,400
for something that isn't there, you're wasting your time and

804
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:05,480
the taxpayer there is money. I'm really not making it up.

805
01:01:09,039 --> 01:01:12,480
Another case of fabrication is a graphic in NIS report

806
01:01:12,599 --> 01:01:17,519
showing that at five pm there were very big fires

807
01:01:17,559 --> 01:01:22,000
covering much of the north face of floor twelve. They

808
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:24,480
picked out three floors eleven, twelve, and thirteen and they

809
01:01:24,519 --> 01:01:27,119
said these with crucial floors, they're the ones that cost

810
01:01:27,199 --> 01:01:31,599
the collapse. This claim is essential to this explanation as

811
01:01:31,599 --> 01:01:34,880
to why the building collapsed. Just twenty one minutes later,

812
01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:39,320
at five point twenty one this raging, enormous fire. However,

813
01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:42,239
if you look back at NS two thousand and four report,

814
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:46,599
you will find this statement. Around four forty five pm,

815
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:51,320
a photograph showed fires on floors seven, eight, nine, and

816
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:55,800
eleven near the middle of the north face. Floor twelve

817
01:01:56,320 --> 01:02:02,360
was burned out by this time. Other photographs even show

818
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:06,360
that the twelfth four floor fire had virtually burned out

819
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:10,280
by four o'clock, and yet Nist, in his final report

820
01:02:10,719 --> 01:02:13,880
claims that fires were still going strong on that floor

821
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:21,880
at five o'clock. In addition to omitting, falsifying and fabricating evidence,

822
01:02:22,519 --> 01:02:27,199
Nist affirms a miracle. How many scientists in the room.

823
01:02:30,599 --> 01:02:34,760
In addition, you have perhaps seen the cartoon in which

824
01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:38,360
the physics professor has written a big proof on the board,

825
01:02:38,679 --> 01:02:43,840
mathematical equation equal, therefore mathematical equation therefore well, and then

826
01:02:43,880 --> 01:02:49,119
at one point it says, then a miracle happens. Now

827
01:02:49,199 --> 01:02:53,400
this is humorous and particularly to scientists, because in science

828
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:56,960
that's the one thing you absolutely cannot do. You cannot

829
01:02:57,079 --> 01:03:01,320
affirm a miracle, meaning of violation of the fundamental laws

830
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:06,239
of physics. And yet that's what NIS does. I will

831
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:10,320
explain members of the nine to eleven. Truth movement had

832
01:03:10,360 --> 01:03:14,199
long been pointing out that Building seven came down at

833
01:03:14,199 --> 01:03:17,559
the rate of a free falling object, at least virtually felt.

834
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:19,760
In other words, that if you were on the top

835
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:22,599
of Building seven and you felt it start to move,

836
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:28,480
and that knocked a brick out of your hand, and

837
01:03:28,519 --> 01:03:30,760
then the building starts going down, you would go down

838
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:33,920
at the same speed as that brick. That's what freefall is.

839
01:03:34,360 --> 01:03:38,039
Virtual freefall would be very close to it. In this

840
01:03:38,159 --> 01:03:40,880
draft for public comment put out in August two thousand

841
01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:44,920
and eight, it denied this, saying at the time that

842
01:03:45,039 --> 01:03:47,760
the time it took for the upper floors the only

843
01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:50,840
floors that are visible on the video, to come down,

844
01:03:51,039 --> 01:03:56,599
was approximately forty percent longer than the computed free fall

845
01:03:56,760 --> 01:04:03,400
time and was consistent with physical principles. This statement applies

846
01:04:03,960 --> 01:04:07,480
any assertion that the building did come down in freefall

847
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:11,760
would not be consistent with physical principles, meaning the principles

848
01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:16,119
of physics the law of physics. Explaining why not, Sean

849
01:04:16,239 --> 01:04:20,119
Sunder said a free fall time would be the fall

850
01:04:20,239 --> 01:04:23,559
time of an object that has no structural components below it.

851
01:04:24,239 --> 01:04:27,800
The time it took for those seventeen floors to disappear

852
01:04:28,639 --> 01:04:32,840
was roughly forty percent longer than freefall, and that is

853
01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:37,760
not at all unusual because there was structural resistance that

854
01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:42,559
was provided in this particular case, all those eighty two columns,

855
01:04:42,599 --> 01:04:46,480
in all that concrete would offer. If you've ever fallen

856
01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:50,119
through a steel frame concrete building, you know it provides

857
01:04:50,159 --> 01:04:55,159
a little structural resistance to your body. And you had

858
01:04:55,159 --> 01:04:58,280
a sequence of structural failures that had to take place.

859
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:02,280
This is the notion of progressive Call them eighty one,

860
01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:05,480
then call them eighty two, and then keeps going. So

861
01:05:05,760 --> 01:05:09,039
he says you had a sequence of structural failures that

862
01:05:09,119 --> 01:05:15,320
had to take place. Everything was not instantaneous. In saying this,

863
01:05:15,519 --> 01:05:20,920
Thunder was presupposing nis rejection of controlled demolition, which could

864
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:24,800
have produced a free fall collapse by causing all eighty

865
01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:29,519
two columns to fail simultaneously, in favor of niss fire theory,

866
01:05:30,119 --> 01:05:35,639
which necessitated a theory of progressive collapse. In response, high

867
01:05:35,679 --> 01:05:38,760
school physics teacher, and I stress high school because this

868
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:43,519
is not sophisticated physics that you cannot understand. This is

869
01:05:43,840 --> 01:05:50,039
like freshman or eighth grade physics. David Chandler challenged Thunder's

870
01:05:50,079 --> 01:05:54,079
denial of free fall, pointing out that Thunder's forty percent

871
01:05:54,239 --> 01:06:01,000
claim contradicted a publicly visible, easily measurable quantity. And Chandler

872
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:03,519
puts this on YouTube and you can he slows it

873
01:06:03,559 --> 01:06:07,159
down and so you can watch him measuring it. Chandler

874
01:06:07,199 --> 01:06:10,559
then placed this video on the Internet showing that by

875
01:06:10,599 --> 01:06:16,079
measuring this publicly visible quantity, anyone knowing elementary physics could

876
01:06:16,119 --> 01:06:19,760
see that for about two and a half seconds, the

877
01:06:19,880 --> 01:06:26,920
acceleration of the building is indistinguishable from freefall. In this

878
01:06:27,119 --> 01:06:34,760
final report, which came out in November, Nist admitted freefall amazing,

879
01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:39,400
but he did it dividing the building's descent into three stages.

880
01:06:40,519 --> 01:06:44,039
Nist described the second phase as a free fall descent

881
01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:50,599
over approximately eight stories at gravitational acceleration for approximately two

882
01:06:50,679 --> 01:06:54,239
point twenty five seconds. So it's only quibbled with Chandler

883
01:06:54,519 --> 01:06:57,719
was two and a quarter seconds, not two and a half.

884
01:06:59,559 --> 01:07:04,719
Trivial and gravitational acceleration is just a synonym for freefall

885
01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:08,320
mean it's coming down at the rate that gravity pulls

886
01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:13,679
something down with the acceleration of gravity. So, after presenting

887
01:07:13,760 --> 01:07:19,719
over six hundred pages of descriptions, testimonies, photographs, graphs, analyzes

888
01:07:19,800 --> 01:07:23,960
explanations and mathematical formula, and this says, in effect, then

889
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:28,760
a miracle happens. Why would this be a miracle was

890
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:33,159
explained by Chandler, who said freefall can only be achieved

891
01:07:33,199 --> 01:07:39,400
if there is zero resistance to the motion, because if

892
01:07:39,440 --> 01:07:42,400
there's any resistance, the stuff coming down the top floor

893
01:07:43,280 --> 01:07:46,280
uses some of its energy to push the stuff out

894
01:07:46,320 --> 01:07:48,320
of the way, and so it couldn't come down in

895
01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:55,360
free fall. You will have freefall with zero resistance. In

896
01:07:55,400 --> 01:07:58,519
other words, the top floor of the building could come

897
01:07:58,559 --> 01:08:02,519
down in freefall only if all the support in the

898
01:08:02,559 --> 01:08:06,039
lower forty six floors, all that steel, all that concrete,

899
01:08:06,360 --> 01:08:15,039
had been removed simultaneously, and that could only happen with explosives.

900
01:08:15,079 --> 01:08:18,159
If everything had not been removed, and the upper floors

901
01:08:18,159 --> 01:08:21,239
had come down in freefall anyway, even for only a

902
01:08:21,279 --> 01:08:24,439
second or two, even for only a half a second,

903
01:08:25,039 --> 01:08:28,119
a miracle, meaning of violation of laws the physics, would

904
01:08:28,159 --> 01:08:31,640
have occurred. That was what Sunder himself had explained the

905
01:08:31,680 --> 01:08:35,239
previous August, saying that a free falling object would be

906
01:08:35,279 --> 01:08:39,560
one that has no structural components below it to offer resistance.

907
01:08:40,720 --> 01:08:44,199
But then in November, while still defending the fire theory,

908
01:08:45,119 --> 01:08:49,359
NIST admitted that, as an empirical fact, free fall happened

909
01:08:50,399 --> 01:08:52,880
for a period of two point twenty five seconds. NIST

910
01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:56,479
admitted the descent of World Trade Center seven was characterized

911
01:08:56,520 --> 01:09:03,960
by gravitational acceleration free fall. Knowing that it had thereby

912
01:09:04,079 --> 01:09:08,520
affirmed a miracle, NIST no longer claimed that its analysis

913
01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:12,319
was consistent with the laws of physics. In its August draft,

914
01:09:12,359 --> 01:09:15,600
in which it said the collapse occurred forty floorer than freefall,

915
01:09:16,279 --> 01:09:20,199
NIST had repeatedly said that its analysis was consistent with

916
01:09:20,279 --> 01:09:25,319
physical principles. One encountered this phrase time and time again.

917
01:09:26,119 --> 01:09:29,960
In the final report, however, every instance of this phrase

918
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:37,159
was removed. NIS thereby almost explicitly admitted that its report

919
01:09:37,239 --> 01:09:40,239
on World Trade Center seven, by admitting free fall, what

920
01:09:40,439 --> 01:09:44,199
continued to ignite deny that explosives were used is not

921
01:09:44,319 --> 01:09:49,199
consistent with the laws of physics. The science of World

922
01:09:49,199 --> 01:09:54,119
Trade Center seven is therefore settled. This fact is reflected

923
01:09:54,159 --> 01:09:57,680
in the agreement of many hundreds of professionals with various

924
01:09:57,680 --> 01:10:04,479
forms of expertise and engineers, firefighters, physicists, and chemists that

925
01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:08,920
this building was brought down by explosives. This truth has

926
01:10:08,960 --> 01:10:12,079
also been recently recognized by a symposium in one of

927
01:10:12,119 --> 01:10:18,960
our leading social science journals, American Behavioral Scientist, which treats

928
01:10:19,279 --> 01:10:22,079
This symposium treats nine to eleven as an example of

929
01:10:22,119 --> 01:10:30,239
what its authors called scads state crimes against democracy, state crimes,

930
01:10:31,199 --> 01:10:34,279
criticizing the majority of the academic world for its blithe

931
01:10:34,359 --> 01:10:38,720
dismissal of more than one law of thermodynamics that is

932
01:10:38,800 --> 01:10:41,880
violated by the official theory of the World Trade Center collapses.

933
01:10:42,520 --> 01:10:46,640
These authors also criticize the academy for its failure to

934
01:10:46,680 --> 01:10:52,239
protest when Professor Stephen Jones found himself forced out of

935
01:10:52,279 --> 01:10:56,000
a tenured position for merely reminding the world that physical

936
01:10:56,079 --> 01:11:01,479
laws about which there is no dissent what soever. Their

937
01:11:01,520 --> 01:11:09,000
italics contradict the official story. Now, Normally, if a professor

938
01:11:10,039 --> 01:11:14,880
with a tenure position gets removed from his job, the

939
01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:23,880
AAUP American University Association University Professors protests, big protests, not

940
01:11:24,319 --> 01:11:31,159
hardly a peep here, even though, as this document says,

941
01:11:31,199 --> 01:11:35,520
all Stephen Jones as physicists at Brigham Young University. All

942
01:11:35,600 --> 01:11:38,199
he was doing was pointing out that the laws of

943
01:11:38,239 --> 01:11:43,840
Newtonian physics rule out the NIST explanation of World Trade

944
01:11:43,880 --> 01:11:49,720
Center seven, and not anyone in the academy would come

945
01:11:49,760 --> 01:11:54,119
to his defense. Not the official AAUP would not do that.

946
01:11:59,199 --> 01:12:01,600
And now the world can see, if only it will

947
01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:04,640
look that even NIST, in its final report, did not

948
01:12:05,199 --> 01:12:10,640
dissent from these laws of physics. By admitting that Building

949
01:12:10,760 --> 01:12:14,159
seven came down in free fall for over two seconds,

950
01:12:14,239 --> 01:12:18,560
while simultaneously removing its previous claim that its report was

951
01:12:18,600 --> 01:12:24,079
consistent with physical principles, NIS implicitly admitted that the laws

952
01:12:24,119 --> 01:12:27,520
of physics rule out its own non demolition theory of

953
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the building's collapse. NISTS thereby implicitly admitted that explosives were used,

954
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and with that implicit admission, NISTS undermined the al Qaeda

955
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theory of nine to eleven. Why for one thing, the

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straight down nature of the collapse of the twin towers

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in Building seven means that the buildings were subjected to

958
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the type of controlled demolition known as implosion, which is,

959
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in the words of the Controlled Demolition website, by far

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the trickiest type of explosives project. The easiest type has

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just knocked the building over sideways. By far the trickiest

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type of explosive project. Which only a handful of blasting

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companies in the world possess enough experience to perform Okada terraces,

964
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simply wouldn't have had the expertise to do this. Second,

965
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the only reason to go to the trouble of bringing

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a building straight down is to avoid damaging nearby buildings.

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Had the World Trade Center buildings toppled over sideways, they

968
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would have caused massive destruction in Lower Manhattan, destroying dozens

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of other buildings and killing tens of thousands of people.

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Does anyone believe that even if al Kada had had

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the expertise, they would have had the courtesy to bring

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the building straight down. A third problem is that foreign

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terrafts could not have obtained access to the buildings for

974
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all the hours it would have taken to plant explosives.

975
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Only insiders could have done this. The science of the

976
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collapse of World Trade Center seven therefore disproves the claim

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used to justify the war in Afghanistan that America was

978
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attacked on nine to eleven by al Qaeda. It's the

979
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gest instead that nine to eleven was a false flag

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operation to provide a pretext to attack Muslim nations. The

981
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official rationale for a presence in Afghanistan is invalid, and

982
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we are there for other reasons which our political and

983
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military leaders dare not admit. The war is neither legally

984
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nor morally justified. It is in fact an abomination. We

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should demand that our troops be withdrawn as quickly as possible,

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Thank you very much. Listenings of the fact count of

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radio network.

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Speaker 2: Just the facts, mammy, mm hmm.