Fantasy:"They came in the name of God. They came bent on murder and martyrdom. It was as if they rode to earth on the fierce breath of Allah himself, for the sacred scriptures that had nurtured these murderous young men {bla bla bla}" (Bill Moyers)
Fact:The keystone of the "official story" on the events of September 11 is that the hijackers were fanatical Islamic fundamentalists, opposed to all products of Western culture. They are presented to us as pure warriors of Allah, prepared not only to kill, but to die for their religion. Their supposed austere and ascetic approach to life and death is presented to us in the will and testament of their leader, Mohammed Atta. We find here a long list of severe admonitions including:
... 9. The person who will wash my body near my genitals must wear gloves on his hands so he won't touch my genitals. 10. I want the clothes I wear to consist of three white pieces of cloth, not to be made of silk or expensive material. 11. I don't want any women to go to my grave at all during my funeral or on any occasion thereafter. ... {etc., etc., etc.}
"Atta's Will Found--Suspected Hijacker Left Strict Instructions," ABCNEWS, October 4, 2001
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/network/personal/attawill.html It could hardly be otherwise; who other than a totally dedicated religious fanatic would be capable of deliberately incinerating himself in such a horrific manner together with several of his closest comrades and thousands of innocent victims?
It was soon discovered that this image was completely false. In fact, most of the hijackers were thoroughly Americanized and enjoyed quite wild, hedonistic lifestyles. Several of the them, including the leader and "suicide pilot" Mohammed Atta, were frequently seen out bar hopping, smoking and getting drunk. They sometimes engaged lap-dancers and prostitutes:
In Boston the night before the hijackings the WTC hijackers tried to engage some prostitutes, but then backed out because they decided it was too expensive:
These are not the actions of Islamic fanatics on their way to die for Allah! It certainly appears that the hijackers did not know that this was a suicide mission, and were not genuine Islamic fundamentalists.
15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis, mostly from wealthy families. In fact, most of the hijackers are typical of the wealthy, high-rolling, hedonistic Saudis who turn up over and over again in covert operations sponsored by the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. and Jr. These scandals include Iran-Contra, the Savings and Loan Scandal (by far the most massive financial rip-off in history), the massive money-laundering that led to the collapse of BCCI, a Pakistani bank with strong ties to the CIA, and, more recently, the Enron scandal. The connection to U.S. intelligence is more than speculative; several of the hijackers had training at secure military installations in the U.S.<2> The locations where the hijackers received training include:
- The Pensacola Naval Air Station
- Lackland Air Force Base
- Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama
- Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama
- The Defense Language Institute in Monterey
"Alleged Hijackers May Have Trained at U.S. Bases--The Pentagon has turned over military records on five men to the FBI," George Wehrfritz, Catharine Skipp and John Barry, NEWSWEEK, September 15, 2001
http://archives.zinester.com/15627/44380.html"Did Bush Know?--Warning Signs of 9-11 and Intelligence Failures," Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, May 18, 2002
http://www.mediamonitors.net/mosaddeq36.html (This is a long file. A string search on "military sources" will take you to the right paragraph.)
There is further compelling evidence that the hijackers were in fact recruits of the CIA based on the manner in which they obtained their visas to live in the United States. The National Review has published a careful study of this question that concludes that the awarding of visas to these applicants is "inexplicable." This is the strong consensus opinion of several government officials with extensive hands-on experience with the process of issuing visas in this part of the world:
All six experts strongly agreed that even allowing for human error, no more than a handful of the visa applications should have managed to slip through the cracks. Making the visa lapses even more inexplicable, the State Department claims that at least 11 of the 15 were interviewed by consular officers. Nikolai Wenzel, one of the former consular officers who analyzed the forms, declares that State's issuance of the visas "amounts to criminal negligence."
"Visas that Should Have Been Denied--A look at 9/11 terrorists’ visa applications," Joel Mowbray, National Review Online, October 9, 2002
http://www.nationalreview.com/mowbray/mowbray100902.asp The great majority of the hijackers' visas, 15 of them, were issued at the U.S. consular office in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Michael Springman, formerly the head U.S. consular officer in Jeddah has shed light on how and why these visas were issued. According to Springman:
"In Saudi Arabia I was repeatedly ordered by high level State Department officials to issue visas to unqualified applicants. These were, essentially, people who had no ties either to Saudi Arabia or to their own country. I complained bitterly at the time there. I returned to the US, I complained to the State Dept here, to the General Accounting Office, to the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and to the Inspector General's office. I was met with silence ...
"What I was protesting was, in reality, an effort to bring recruits, rounded up by Osama Bin Laden, to the US for terrorist training by the CIA. They would then be returned to Afghanistan to fight against the then-Soviets."
"Has someone been sitting on the FBI?," Greg Palast, BBC Newsnight, November 6, 2001
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/events/newsnight/1645527.stmSo it certainly appears that at least 15 of the 19 hijackers were CIA recruits, trained at secure military facilities in the United States, and operating here under the protection and sponsorship of the U.S. government.
The hijackers' drinking and partying is certainly more typical of youthful Westernized military recruits than devout fundamentalist Moslems. It is sometimes claimed that they were just pretending to be Westernized in order to "blend in" and escape detection. This makes no sense at all. Even if they had been seen to be devout Muslims, that would hardly make them terrorists. And they made no attempt at all to hide their really suspicious activities, for example shopping around for crop dusting equipment!
In one incident Mohammed Atta applied for a loan from the Department of Agriculture to purchase a crop duster:
In the first place, it's odd that Atta bothered with a loan at all, since it's clear that the amount of the loan was pocket change to the people funding him. Atta used his real name, and made sure the interviewer spelled it correctly. During the interview, Atta praised bin Laden as "the world's greatest leader," discussed the possibility of blowing up U.S. landmarks, including the World Trade Center, and generally behaved like a raving lunatic. Nice blending in!
In another incident Atta spoke with James Lester of South Florida Crop Care in Belle Glade, Florida regarding the purchase of crop dusting equipment. Again, Atta made sure that he would be remembered:
Far from trying to blend in, Atta operated quite openly and even seems to have deliberately tried to draw attention to himself as a potential terrorist. He acted as though he wanted to build a "legend" as a terrorist, and as though he had guaranteed protection from high inside the U.S. government. Evidence that this was in fact the case will be discussed later.
Tim Howells
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