A Half-Dozen Questions About 9/11 They Don't Want You to Ask

[Wind Dancer]

Who Is Osama? Where Did He Come From? How Did He Escape? What About Those Anthrax Attacks?

By WERTHER

The events of September 11, 2001 evoke painful memories, tinged with a powerful nostalgia for the way of life before it happened. The immediate tragedy caused a disorientation sufficient to distort the critical faculties in the direction of retrospectively predictable responses: bureaucratic adaptation, opportunism, profiteering, kitsch sentiment, and mindless sloganeering.

As 9/11, and the report of the commission charged to investigate it, fade into history like the Warren Commission that preceded it, the questions, gaps, and anomalies raised by the report have created an entire cottage industry of amateur speculation--as did the omissions and distortions of the Warren Report four decades ago. How could it not?

While initially received as definitive by a rapturous official press, the 9/11 Report has been overtaken by reality, not only because of unsatisfying content--like all "independent" government reports, it is fundamentally an apology and a coverup masquerading as an exposé--but because we now know more: more about the feckless invasion of Iraq, more about the occupation of Afghanistan and the purported hunt for Osama bin Laden, more about the post-9/11 stampede to repeal elements of the Bill of Rights, more about the rush to create the Department of Homeland Security, an agency to "prevent another 9/11," which, in retrospect, is plainly about cronyism, contracts, and Congressional boodle.

Many of the amateur sleuths of the 9/11 mystery have based their investigations on microscopic forensics regarding the publicly released video footage, or speculations into the physics of impacting aircraft or collapsing buildings. But staring too closely at the recorded traces of subatomic phenomena involved in a one-time event can deceive us into finding the answer we are looking for, as Professor Heisenberg once postulated. Over 40 years on, the Magic Bullet is still the Magic Bullet: improbable, yes, but not outside the realm of the possible.

more

http://www.counterpunch.org/werther02182006.html

[European Socialist]

1. I won't be satisfied until the collapse WTC#7 in it's own footprint can be

explained.

[Karenina]

2. Here's a few clues...

Whose offices were in that building?
Whose RECORDS were stored there?
What ELSE was stored there?

[ixion]

3. and not just WTC7... ALL THREE OF THEM

collapsed at near the speed of gravity into their own footprint within minutes of each other. Pretty interesting, when you consider the statistical possibility that something like that would happen. And that, on top of all the other statistical anomalies that apparent fired with remarkable precision on that day.