Some people from the world of politics who have been brave enough to speak out about 11 September 2001.
US elected officials
Ron Johnson
Businessman and politician serving as the senior US senator from Wisconsin, a seat he has held since 2011.
Just one final question since you brought it up: What would you like to know about September 11th, the official story there, Senator?
Well, start with building 7. Again, I don’t know that you can find structural engineers - other than the ones that had the corrupt investigation inside NIST - that would say that that thing didn’t come down in any other way than a controlled demolition. I mean, you just look at that.
You talk about molten steel. Again, you listen to the documentary Bravo 7. There’s an awful lot of questions. You know, who who ordered the removal and the destruction of all that evidence, totally contrary to any other firefighting investigation procedures? I mean, who ordered that? Who is in charge? I think there’s some basic information.
Where’s all the documentation from the NIST investigation? No, there are a host of questions that I want and I will be asking quite honestly now that my eyes have been opened up.
I’ve talked to former Congressman Curt Weldon now. I will work with him to expose what he’s willing to expose as well. Wow. So, we may actually see hearings about this, I think.
Curt Weldon
Politician and educator.
Served as a Republican member of the US House of Representatives from 1987 to 2007.
Was vice-chair of the Armed Services Committee and the House Homeland Security Committee.
Cynthia McKinney
Politician.
Served six terms in the US House of Representatives as a Democrat.
First black woman elected to represent Georgia in the House.
2008 Green Party nominee for President of the United States.
Ran for vice president in 2020 after the Green Party of Alaska formally nominated her and draft-nominated Jesse Ventura for president.
We all need a movement a movement of the people so that we can take our countries back from whatever this is that’s got it.
— Cynthia McKinney
The International Hearings on the Events of September 11, 2001, commonly known as the Toronto Hearings, were held at Ryerson University (now called the Toronto Metropolitan University) on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The Hearings brought together many of the world’s leading 9/11 researchers for four days of presentations on the best evidence accumulated to date contradicting the official account of 9/11. One year later, the Hearings yielded the 9/11 Toronto Report, prepared by the International Center for 9/11 Studies. For more information, visit ic911studies.org.
George Bush today said that justice had been served. We know that justice isn’t going to be served until the people of this country and the people around the world know the truth. We know that justice won’t be served until George Bush and his henchmen are in jail.
Congresswoman McKinney is viewed as a contrarian and I hope someday her views will be considered conventional wisdom.
Everyone now knows that the Bush administration did not tell the truth about many things, including the Iraq war and 9/11. The leaders of the 9/11 Commission told us that. Why must the world continue to live inside a lie? I remain hopeful that we will learn the truth because more and more people around the world are demanding it.
— Leaders’ Lack of Respect for Rule of Law Makes Us All Victims of 9/11 - LewRockwell.com
On July 22, 2005, the first anniversary of the release of the 9/11 Commission Report, McKinney held a briefing on Capitol Hill about the attacks. The day-long briefing featured family members of victims, scholars, former intelligence officers and others who critiqued the 9/11 Commission account of 9/11 and its recommendations.
The four morning panels addressed flaws, omissions, and a lack of historical and political analysis in the commission’s report. Three afternoon panels critiqued the commission’s recommendations in the areas of foreign and domestic policy and intelligence reform.
Historians and researchers who discover glaring errors or omissions in the Commission’s report, or the lack of historical framework to their comprehension of the sources of terrorism can’t be called “contrarians” for unearthing facts that contradict faulty conclusions or assumptions in the official version of events.
This calls for another look at the government’s account of 9/11, which guides so much of what has happened since. Mistakes of fact, intentional or not, have changed and guided America into costly wars and increased insecurity at home. They need to be addressed and scrutinized, not dismissed and used to attack those who discover or raise them.
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In the end, public consideration of important new facts regarding all aspects of the 9/11 tragedy is my responsibility to my constituents, the victims of 9/11, and the oath I took to defend our Constitution.
Mike Gravel
Represented Alaska in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1981 as a member of the Democratic Party.
Ran for president twice: in 2008, and 2020.
As a senator, became nationally known for his forceful, but unsuccessful, attempts to end the draft during the War in Vietnam, and for putting the Pentagon Papers into the public record in 1971.
Played a crucial role in obtaining Congressional approval for the Trans-Alaska pipeline in 1973.
Look at the evidence.
In fact, I’ll say this very categorically: Any reasonable person who looks at the evidence that’s been brought forward has got to come away with the feeling that something has to be done - a real investigation has to be put forward.
Former U.S. senator and presidential candidate Mike Gravel believes the government is lying about what happened on September 11, 2001.
The storyline of the federal government and the investigation that’s been done thus far flies in the face of physics, flies in the face of gravity.
The former senator is launching a campaign designed to get initiatives on state ballots during the 2012 presidential race - initiatives which would create a citizens commission to open a new investigation into 9/11. He worked on a similar ballot initiative in New York City in 2009. 80,000 New Yorkers signed the petition far exceeding the requirement but the City of New York refused to place it on the ballot citing legal problems and the state Supreme Court ruled in the city’s favor.
The government wants to put this over its shoulder for whatever reasons and so you have to go to the people to bring it about.
Gravel says unless initiatives are on state ballots, Congress will ignore information gathered by the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. A spokesperson for the group says the Obama administration is actively trying to curtail their work.
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What would be the effect if there was a false flag operation and leaders of our country were involved in that?
Gravel just returned to Washington D.C. after spending a month in California assessing grass-roots support.
Based upon my investigation in California, it is there. You’ve got truth movements in Britain and France and Germany, Italy, around the world. And then in the Middle East, people that are fed up with American imperialism.
Okay, my last question, Senator: It’s been reported that you will support a new global investigation to the events of September 11th. Do you care to elaborate on that?
Well, as much as I know, that I’ve had several people approach me on that and I said, “I have no problem.” Because every time we had an investigation of the Kennedy assassination, we learned more. And we’ve had several of those investigations and we kept learning more and learning more. And so I don’t think there’s any harm in having additional investigations as to what really happened on 9/11.
Senator Gravel, when you say we don’t know the truth about 9/11, what do you mean?
Government— 90 per cent of what the government does is held secret. It’s a whole cult. And that’s the thing that is really strangling our democracy, that we just don’t know what’s going on. And so you need to rip off the scab and see the wound of what the government is damaging. And so it’s a cult. And I don’t know how I can phrase it. I have written about this subject. When I was—
Here, best example I can give you: When I was 23 years old, I was in communications intelligence service. I was an adjutant of the communications intelligence service. And I was a top-secret control officer. I was 23 years old. Now I’m 42 years old. I’m a United States senator. And I could not go in and take notes and read the Pentagon Papers because they were under guard in the Senate. Now, does it get any stupider than that?
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The sooner we put a president or a vice president or a secretary in jail for crimes that they commit against humanity, the sooner leaders will shape up.
In 2011, experts and scientists from around the world gathered in Toronto, Canada to present new and established evidence that questions the official story of 9/11. This evidence was presented to a distinguished panel of experts over a 4 day period.
Through their analysis and scientific investigations, they hope to spark a new investigation into the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Jesse Ventura
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Politician, actor and retired professional wrestler.
Governor of Minnesota 1999-2003.
Appeared in films such as The Running Man (1987), Predator (1987).
Member of the United States Navy Underwater Demolition Team during the Vietnam War.
Member of Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth.
Appearing on The Alex Jones Show, Ventura said that his initial reaction to 9/11 was much like most people at the time, and he accepted the official story outright, a response he now regrets because he was in a position of power and could have used it to raise a lot of pointed questions.
I kicked myself when it initially happened that the light didn’t go off but I was so shocked that this thing had even taken place that I apologize for not being more aware.
Ventura added that watching Loose Change at the insistence of his son was part of the catalyst for his wake up call. Host Alex Jones is executive producer of Loose Change, the most watched Internet movie of all time. Ventura said he ran through a rollercoaster of emotions when he saw the film.
When I finally did watch it I went through every emotion you could imagine, from laughing, crying, getting sick to my stomach, to the whole emotional thing.
To me questions haven’t been answered and are not being answered about 9/11.
Ventura highlighted the collapse of Building 7, a 47-story tall skyscraper that was not hit by a plane but collapsed in its own footprint in the late afternoon of September 11.
Two planes struck two buildings … but how is it that a third building fell 5 hours later? How could this building just implode into its own footprint 5 hours later - that’s my first question - the 9/11 Commission didn’t even devote one page to that in their big volume of investigation.
Ventura then explored how it was possible that all three buildings could rapidly collapse at almost free fall speed.
How could those buildings fall at the speed of gravity - if you put a stopwatch on them, both of those World Trade Center buildings were on the ground in ten seconds - how can that be?
If you took a billiard ball and dropped it from the height of the World Trade Center in a vacuum it would hit the ground in 9.3 seconds and if you took that same billiard ball and dropped it 10 stories at a time and merely stopped it and started it it would take 30 seconds - if you dropped it every floor of the World Trade Center to the ground, simply stopping and starting it on gravity it would take over 100 seconds to reach the ground.
Having undergone Basic Underwater Demolition Seal training, Ventura is speaking from an experienced standpoint and he unequivocally stated that he thought the buildings were deliberately imploded.
Upon looking at the film in super-slow motion and the way the buildings fell and comparing that to the way that they do like a controlled demolition of a hotel in Las Vegas, they both fell identical.
I did watch the film of Building 7 going down and in my opinion there’s no doubt that that building was brought down with demolition.
Ventura also questioned the lack of wreckage outside of the Pentagon after Flight 77 allegedly struck the building.
When I was watching Loose Change with a friend of mine - he happens to work for a company that helps build the Boeing airplanes and they said that when the engines completely disappeared and were destroyed, his response was, excuse my French - bullshit!
I turned to him and said why and he said because they’re made of titanium steel - they can’t disintegrate.
The thing I question on 9/11 was simply the fact; where were our planes? When all this was going on and planes were being hijacked an hour apart and there were four of them They cover about a six-hour space. At no time, to my knowledge, did we have any fighter planes up in the air. Why? …
In light of the fact that there was a cover-up that got us into the Viet Nam war and there was, in my opinion, a cover-up of John Kennedy’s assassination, I would just say that I don’t believe it’s beyond reason to not at least consider that the government certainly would do things like that.
At first, again, I wanted to believe 9/11, you know. But the problem I have with 9/11 is just a real simple one. I’m trying to figure out — and of course they’re now attempting to answer it somewhat — how we could have failed so miserably in not having air defense. …
And the problem I have with 9/11 is that. Where the heck was our defense? Who was sleeping at the wheel? While all of these planes… I mean, I’ve been to air traffic control when I was Governor, and you’ve got a dozen people there looking at these dials, watching every plane in their sector. They know where it’s going and they know what direction it’s supposed to be going
Now, how is it that these planes were able to be hijacked at half hour intervals, turned directly opposite the way they’re supposed to be going and no bells went off, no emergency sirens went off, no fighter jets were scrambled? Just what the hell happened in that area of time?! And that’s the part that troubles me about 9/11. …
I mean here’s the Pentagon, the head of our military. How was this plane able to circle the city of Baltimore [sic] at least once, picking out a target, and then drive into it, and we didn’t have — nothing up in the air? There wasn’t one scrambled fighter jet up there to defend in any way, shape, or form?
US administration officials
Morgan Reynolds
Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor under President George W. Bush.
Director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis.
Professor Emeritus of Economics, Texas A&M University.
Member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth.
Reynolds was one of the first prominent government officials to claim that 9/11 was an inside job.
I first began to suspect that 9/11 was in inside job when the Bush-Cheney Administration invaded Iraq. … We can prove that the government’s story is false.
— Eight Senior Republican Appointees Challenge Official Account of 9/11 - OpEd News
It is hard to exaggerate the importance of a scientific debate over the cause(s) of the collapse of the Twin Towers and building 7. If the official wisdom on the collapses is wrong, as I believe it is, then policy based on such erroneous engineering analysis is not likely [to] prove to be sound.
— Why Did the Trade Center Skyscrapers Collapse? - LewRockwell.com
Paul Craig Roberts
Economist and author.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan.
William E. Simon chair in economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Associate editor at The Wall Street Journal.
Invested into the French Legion of Honour at the rank of chevalier (knight) for his services to economics.
Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
I find the facts against the official story of the [WTC] buildings’ collapse more compelling than the case that has been made in behalf of the official story. I would like to see the issue debated by independent scientists and engineers.
A real investigation is needed to find an explanation consistent with the evidence, even if it doesn’t reassure the public.
Over the past six years, the ranks of distinguished skeptics of the 9-11 storyline have grown enormously.
The ranks include distinguished scientists, engineers and architects, intelligence officers, air traffic controllers, military officers and generals, including the former commanding general of U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, former presidential appointees and members of the White House staff in Republican administrations, Top Gun fighter pilots and career airline pilots who say that the flying attributed to the 9-11 hijackers is beyond the skills of America’s best pilots, and foreign dignitaries.
Perhaps it is merely a coincidence that just prior to 9/11 Cathleen P. Black, who has family connections to the CIA and Pentagon and is president of Hearst Magazines, the owner of Popular Mechanics, fired the magazine’s editor-in-chief and several senior veteran staff members and installed James B. Meigs and Benjamin Chertoff, a cousin of Bush administration factotum Michael Chertoff. It was Meigs and Benjamin Chertoff who produced the Popular Mechanics report that Griffin has eviscerated.
Barbara Honegger
Served under President Reagan as a high level domestic policy analyst, then moved to the Dept. of Justice.
After leaving Washington, in 1995 she became the senior military affairs journalist for the Naval Postgraduate School.
The US military and intelligence community, not al Qaeda, had the sustained access weeks before 9/11 to also plant controlled demolition charges throughout the superstructures of WTC 1 and WTC 2, and in WTC 7, which brought down all three buildings on 9/11.
A US military plane, not one piloted by al Qaeda, performed the highly skilled, steep, high-speed 270- to 330-degree dive towards the Pentagon that Dulles Air Traffic Controllers were sure was a military plane as they watched it on their screens that morning.
Only a military aircraft, not a civilian plane flown by al Qaeda, would have given off the “Friendly” signal needed to disable the Pentagon’s anti-aircraft missile batteries as it approached the building. Only the US military, not al Qaeda, had the ability to break all of its Standard Operating Procedures to paralyze its own emergency response systems on 9/11.
— “The Pentagon Attack Papers” - Appendix to The Terror Conspiracy by Jim Marrs
Behind the Smoke Curtain - The 9/11 Pentagon Attack by Barbara Honegger - YouTube
Barbara Honegger asserts that the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11 was an inside job, which “has been proven”.
This 3-hour presentation was made in Seattle at the Town Hall on January 12, 2013, on what happened and what didn’t happen at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
What people are saying about Barbara Honegger’s presentation:
“I think you’re the only Pentagon researcher who is both honest and presents a coherent model.”
— Professor Niels Harrit
“This is the very best I’ve seen on the Pentagon attack.”
— Gregory Ziegler, former U.S. Army counterintelligence
“You’ve done a great job and an outstanding service to the 9/11 Truth Community and to our country, tirelessly separating the wheat from the chaff on the Pentagon question. We are all extremely grateful for this.”
— Dr Tim Eastman, Ph.D., plasma physicist
Col. Ronald D. Ray
U.S. Marine Corps.
Highly decorated Vietnam veteran (two Silver Stars, a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart).
Appointed by President George H. W. Bush to serve on the American Battle Monuments Commission (1990–1994), and on the 1992 Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces.
Military Historian and Deputy Director of Field Operations for the U.S. Marine Corps Historical Center, Washington, D.C.
Is it safe to say or is the statement accurate that you smell something rotten in the state of Denmark when it comes to 9/11?
I’m astounded that the conspiracy theory advanced by the administration could in fact be true and the evidence does not seem to suggest that’s accurate. That’s true.
The colonel detailed historical examples of the use of false flag operations carried out by the US government, in particular Israel’s attempted sinking of the USS Liberty, which LBJ allowed to happen in an effort to blame Egypt and kickstart a war.
— Former Reagan Cabinet Member and Colonel Says 9/11 “Dog That Doesn’t Hunt” - Propaganda Matrix
Mary Schiavo
Lawyer.
Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Transportation from 1990 to 1996 under President George H. W. Bush.
Ms. Schiavo and her staff secured more than 1,000 criminal convictions and uncovered billions in waste and abuse at the U.S. DOT.
Since leaving the Transportation Department, has represented passenger and crew families in every major U.S. air crash, as well as pilots and passengers on private planes.
Ms. Schiavo sat in on the commission’s hearing on aviation security on 9/11 and was disgusted by what it left out. “In any other situation, it would be unthinkable to withhold investigative material from an independent commission,” she told this writer. “There are usually grave consequences. But the commission is clearly not talking to everybody or not telling us everything.”
— Stewardess ID’d Hijackers Early, Transcripts Show - The New York Observer
First of all, the question is not ‘What they [the U.S. government] should have known?’ And I believe I can show you in just a few seconds the question is, ‘What did they know?’ And believe me, they knew a lot.
The second thing to emphasize is that in every single aviation disaster, whether there was intervening criminal activity or not, in every single one in the course of modern aviation history it has been followed by, not only were it necessary, a criminal investigation, but also a National Transportation Safety investigation into what went wrong in the aviation system. And the reason for that is so that it never happens again.
This is the first time, and this is the worst disaster, but this is the first time that families have been attempted to be silenced through a special fund, which I believe is about silence more so than about money. Why?
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And from my rounds on the Hill to find these facts and others, I found that the airlines approached members of Congress and the Senate to get their bailout and their immunity and their protection starting on 9/11. They sent their first lobbyist up to the Hill on 9/11. And this has been confirmed to me personally by Senators and members of Congress. Now to me that’s very shocking but to me it raises another question: Why? Why did they have to rush to the Hill to change the law?
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So in the wake of September 11, 2001, when we heard the carriers and governments alike saying, ‘Oh, no one could have foreseen this. No one knew that this was coming. No one knew that there was any risk like this in the world,’ is absolutely false. … In the last thirty years we have had 682 hijackings — 682 — here’s an interesting statistic. When we had the United States saying, ‘Oh, we couldn’t have known this.’
Catherine Austin Fitts
Assistant Secretary of Housing under President George H. W. Bush.
Managing director and board member of Dillon, Read & Co. Inc.
The official story could not possibly have happened. In other words, what the administration has put forward is essentially a conspiracy theory that does not conform to the facts. It’s not possible. It’s not operationally feasible … The Commission was a whitewash.
— 2004 interview by Dennis Bernstein on the Flashpoints radio show
Much has transpired since September 11, 2001.
We have learned that numerous heads of state and foreign intelligence agencies tried to warn us before 9-11;
We have emerged deeply disturbing unanswered questions of 9-11 through global Internet media;
We have worked with Paul Thompson’s 9-11 Timeline and realized that the official explanation of events is conspiracy theory, not conforming to documented fact;
We have watched the US government suppress facts and restrict … the 9-11 Commission’s access to information;
We have watched the 9-11 Commission fail to answer the unanswered questions and concede to official suppression of information;
We have watched the leaders of the national security infrastructure richly rewarded for their failure to protect America on 9-11;
We have noted the material omissions of the corporate media;
Something does not add up. Someone has something to hide.
US diplomats
George Kenney
Served as Yugoslav desk officer at the State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Resigned his commission in 1991 over U.S. policy towards the Yugoslav conflict.
Then served as consultant in residence at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Consultant and commentator on foreign affairs and current events.
We should strive to clearly separate what we know from things we don’t. Thus, we have a reasonably high level of confidence that the Establishment conspiracy narrative is absurd.
The World Trade Center structures came down through controlled demolition. Flight 93 was shot down over rural Pennsylvania. And whatever it was that hit the Pentagon could not have been Flight 77. Further, whatever his peripheral involvement, the planning and implementation of 9/11 did not originate with Osama bin Laden.
— A commentary after a 2007 interview of David Ray Griffin, PhD - Electric Politics
Fred Burks
Also interpreted for Vice Presidents Dick Cheney and Al Gore, Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Madeleine Albright and many others.
How is it possible that our military’s highly touted missile detection systems could not locate Flight 77 in the 42 minutes it was known to be lost before it crashed into the heart of the defense system of the U.S.?
An even bigger question is why isn’t our media asking these questions?
Why isn’t our military spending many millions of dollars to find out why military defense systems failed on 9/11? Why is it that the 9/11 commission budget was far less than the budget allotted to the Challenger Disaster or even the Monika Lewinsky affair? Why aren’t we, the public, asking these questions and demanding answers?
Edward Peck
Career United States diplomat.
Served 32 years in the U.S. Foreign Service (1956 to 1989).
Served as Deputy Coordinator, Covert Intelligence Programs at the State Department.
Later served as Deputy Director of the White House Task Force on Terrorism under President Ronald Reagan.
A 32-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service, also served as U.S. Ambassador and Chief of Mission in Iraq (1977-1980).
Shortly after the release of the 9/11 Commission report, a group of more 100 prominent Americans signed a petition urging Congress to immediately reinvestigate 9/11. The signers included Edward Peck, Fred Burks, six former CIA officials, Melvin Goodman, and Daniel Ellsberg.
The petition stated, in part:
We want truthful answers to questions such as:
Why were standard operating procedures for dealing with hijacked airliners not followed that day?
Why were the extensive missile batteries and air defenses reportedly deployed around the Pentagon not activated during the attack?
Why did the Secret Service allow Bush to complete his elementary school visit, apparently unconcerned about his safety or that of the schoolchildren?
Why hasn’t a single person been fired, penalized, or reprimanded for the gross incompetence we witnessed that day?
Why haven’t authorities in the U.S. and abroad published the results of multiple investigations into trading that strongly suggested foreknowledge of specific details of the 9/11 attacks, resulting in tens of millions of dollars of traceable gains?
Michael Mennard
Among his assignments as a career Foreign Service Officer, served as Regional Public Affairs Officer in India.
Eight U.S. State Department Veterans Challenge the Official Account of 9/11 - OpEd News
I am concerned about the numerous inconsistencies in the official account of 9/11. I support a new investigation regarding the tragic events of that day, the events leading up to it, and subsequent efforts to ignore the whole matter.
Foreign politicians
Andreas von Bülow
German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and writer.
Secretary of state in the German Federal Ministry of Defence (1976–1980) and Minister for Research and Technology (1980–1982).
Was regarded as a “rising star” of German politics at the time.
In the late eighties and early nineties, served on the parliamentary committee on intelligence services (“Parlamentarischer Kontrollausschuss”), which supervises German intelligence agencies and has access to classified information.
Holds a doctorate degree in jurisprudence.
Question: You seem so angry, really upset.
Von Bülow: I can explain what’s bothering me: I see that after the horrifying attacks of Sept. 11, all political public opinion is being forced into a direction that I consider wrong.
Q: What do you mean by that?
Von Bülow: I wonder why many questions are not asked. Normally, with such a terrible thing, various leads and tracks appear that are then commented on, by the investigators, the media, the government: Is there something here or not? Are the explanations plausible? This time, this is not the case at all. It already began just hours after the attacks in New York and Washington and —
Q: In those hours, there was horror, and grief.
Von Bülow: Right, but actually it was astounding: There are 26 intelligence services in the U.S.A. with a budget of $30 billion—
Q: More than the German defense budget.
Von Bülow: —which were not able to prevent the attacks. In fact, they didn’t even have an inkling they would happen. For 60 decisive minutes, the military and intelligence agencies let the fighter planes stay on the ground, 48 hours later, however, the FBI presented a list of suicide attackers. Within ten days, it emerged that seven of them were still alive.
Q: What, please?
Von Bülow: Yes, yes. And why did the FBI chief take no position regarding contradictions? Where the list came from, why it was false? If I were the chief investigator (state attorney) in such a case, I would regularly go to the public, and give information on which leads are valid and which not.
Q: The U.S. government talked about an emergency situation after the attacks: They said they were in a war. Is it not understandable that one does not tell the enemy everything one knows about him?
Von Bülow: Naturally. But a government which goes to war, must first establish who the attacker, the enemy, is. It has a duty to provide evidence. According to its own admission, it has not been able to present any evidence that would hold up in court.
Q: Some information on the perpetrators has been proven with documents. The suspected leader, Mohammad Atta, left Portland for Boston on the morning of Sept. 11, in order to board the plane that later hit the World Trade Center
Von Bülow: If this Atta was the decisive man in the operation, it’s really strange that he took such a risk of taking a plane that would reach Boston such a short time before the connecting flight. Had his flight been a few minutes late, he would not have been in the plane that was hijacked. Why should a sophisticated terrorist do this? One can, by the way, read on CNN (Internet) that none of these names were on the official passenger lists. None of them had gone through the check-in procedures. And why did none of the threatened pilots give the agreed-upon code 7700 over the [Steuerknueppel: STEERING KNOB?] to the ground station? In addition: The black boxes which are fire and shock proof, as well as the voice recordings, contain no valuable data—
Q: That sounds like—
Von Bülow: —like assailants who, in their preparations, leave tracks behind them like a herd of stampeding elephants? They made payments with credit cards with their own names; they reported to their flight instructors with their own names. They left behind rented cars with flight manuals in Arabic for jumbo jets. They took with them, on their suicide trip, wills and farewell letters, which fall into the hands of the FBI, because they were stored in the wrong place and wrongly addressed. Clues were left like behind like in a child’s game of hide-and-seek, which were to be followed!
There is also the theory of one British flight engineer:
According to this, the steering of the planes was perhaps taken out of the pilots’ hands, from outside.
The Americans had developed a method in the 1970s, whereby they could rescue hijacked planes by intervening into the computer piloting [automatic pilot system]. This theory says, this technique was abused in this case. That’s a theory…
Q: Which sounds really adventurous, and was never considered.
Von Bülow: You see! I do not accept this theory, but I find it worth considering. And what about the obscure stock transactions? In the week prior to the attacks, the amount of transactions in stocks in American Airlines, United Airlines, and insurance companies, increased 1,200%. It was for a value of $15 billion. Some people must have known something. Who?
Q: Why don’t you speculate on who it might have been.
Von Bülow: With the help of the horrifying attacks, the Western mass democracies were subjected to brainwashing. The enemy image of anti-communism doesn’t work any more; it is to be replaced by peoples of Islamic belief. They are accused of having given birth to suicidal terrorism.
Q: Brainwashing? That’s a tough term.
Von Bülow: Yes? But the idea of the enemy image doesn’t come from me. It comes from Zbigniew Brzezinski and Samuel Huntington, two policy-makers of American intelligence and foreign policy. Already in the middle of he 1990s, Huntingon believed, people in Europe and the U.S. needed someone they could hate— this would strengthen their identification with their own society. And Brzezinski, the mad dog, as adviser to President Jimmy Carter, campaigned for the exclusive right of the U.S. to seize all the raw materials of the world, especially oil and gas.
Q: You mean, the events of Sept. 11—
Von Bülow: —fit perfectly in the concept of the armaments industry, the intelligence agencies, the whole military-industrial-academic complex. This is in fact conspicuous. The huge raw materials reserves of the former Soviet Union are now at their disposal, also the pipeline routes and—
Q: Erich Follach described that at length in Spiegel: “It’s a matter of military bases, drugs, oil and gas reserves.”
Von Bülow: I can state: the planning of the attacks was technically and organisationally a master achievement. To hijack four huge airplanes within a few minutes and within one hour, to drive them into their targets, with complicated flight maneuvers! This is unthinkable, without years-long support from secret apparatuses of the state and industry.
Q: You are a conspiracy theorist!
Von Bülow: Yeah, yeah. That’s the ridicule heaped [on those raising these questions] by those who would prefer to follow the official, politically correct line. Even investigative journalists are fed propaganda and disinformation. Anyone who doubts that, doesn’t have all his marbles! That is your accusation.
Q: Your career actually speaks against the idea that you are not in your right mind. You were already in the 1970s, state secretary in the Defense Ministry; in 1993 you were the SPD [Social Democratic Party] speaker in the Schalk-Golodkowski investigation committee—
Von Bülow: And it all began there! Until that time, I did not have any great knowledge of the work of intelligence agencies. And now we had to take note of a great discrepancy: We shed light on the dealings of the Stasi and other East bloc intelligence agencies in the field of economic criminality, but as soon as we wanted to know something about the activities of the BND [German intelligence] or the CIA, it was mercilessly blocked. No information, no cooperation, nothing! That’s when I was first taken aback.
Q: Schalck-Golodkowski mediated, among other things, various business deals abroad. When you looked at his case more closely—
Von Bülow: We found, for example, a clue in Rostock, where Schalck organised his weapons depot. Well, then we happened upon an affiliation of Schalck in Panama, and then we happened upon Manuel Noriega, who was for many years President, drug dealer, and money launderer, all in one, right? And this Noriega was also on the payroll of the CIA, for $200,000 a year. These were things that really made me curious.
Q: You wrote a book on the dealings of the CIA and Co. In the meantime, you have become an expert regarding the strange things related to intelligence services’ work.
Von Bülow: “Strange things” is the wrong term. What has gone on, and goes on, in the name of intelligence services, are true crimes.
Q: What would you say determines the work of intelligence services?
Von Bülow: So that we don’t have any misunderstandings: I find that it makes sense to have intelligence services…
Q: You don’t think much of the earlier proposals by the Greens, who wanted to dismantle these agencies?
Von Bülow: No. It is right to take a look behind the scenes. Getting intelligence about the intentions of an enemy, makes sense. It is important when one tries to put oneself into the mind of the enemy. Whoever wants to understand the CIA’s methods, has to deal with its main tasks, covert operations: below the level of war, and outside international law, foreign states are to be influenced, by organising insurrections, terrorist attacks, usually combined with drugs and weapons trade, and money laundering. This is essentially very simple: One arms violent people with weapons. Since, however, it must not under any circumstances come out, that there is an intelligence agency behind it, all traces are erased, with tremendous deployment of resources.
I have the impression that this kind of intelligence agency spends 90% of its time this way: creating false leads. So that, if anyone suspects the collaboration of the agencies, he is accused of the sickness of conspiracy madness. The truth often comes out only years later. CIA chief Allen Dulles once said: In case of doubt, I would even lie to the Congress!
Q: The American journalist Seymour M. Hersh, wrote in The New Yorker, that even some people in the CIA and government assumed, that certain leads had been laid in order to confuse the investigators. Who, Herr Von Bülow, would have done this?
Von Bülow: I don’t know that either. How should I? I simply use my common sense, and— See: The terrorists behaved in such a way to attract attention. And as practicing Muslims, they were in a strip-tease bar, and, drunken, stuck dollar bills into the panty of the dancer.
Q: Things like that also happen.
Von Bülow: It may be. As a lone fighter, I cannot prove anything, that’s beyond my capabilities. I have real difficulties, however, to imagine that all this all sprung out of the mind of an evil man in his cave.
Q: Mr. Von Bülow, you yourself say that you are alone in your criticism. Formerly, you were part of the political establishment, now you are an outsider.
Von Bülow: That is a problem sometimes, but one gets used to it. By the way, I know a lot of people, including very influential ones, who agree with me, but only in whispers, never publicly.
Q: Do you still have contact with old SPD companions, such as Egon Bahr and former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt?
Von Bülow: There are no close contacts any more. I wanted to go to the last SPD party congress, but I was sick.
Q: Can it be, Mr. Von Bülow, that you are a mouthpiece for typical anti-Americanism?
Von Bülow: Nonsense, this has absolutely nothing to do with anti-Americanism. I am a great admirer of this great, open, free society, and always have been. I studied in the U.S.
Q: How did you get the idea that there could be a link between the attacks and the American intelligence agencies?
Von Bülow: Do you remember the first attack on the WorldTrade Center in 1993?
Q: Six people were killed and over a thousand wounded, by a bomb explosion.
Von Bülow: In the middle was the bombmaker, a former Egyptian officer. He had pulled together some Muslims for the attack. They were snuck into the country by the CIA, despite a State Department ban on their entry. At the same time, the leader of the band was an FBI informant.
And he made a deal with the authorities: At the last minute, the dangerous explosive material would be replaced by a harmless powder.
The FBI did not stick to the deal. The bomb exploded, so to speak, with the knowledge of the FBI. The official story of the crime was quickly found: The criminals were evil Muslims.
Q: At the time Soviet soldiers marched into Afghanistan, you were in the cabinet of Helmut Schmidt. What was it like?
Von Bülow: The Americans pushed for trade sanctions, they demanded the boycott of the Olympic games in Moscow…
Q: … which the German government followed…
Von Bülow: And today we know: It was the strategy of the American security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, to destabilise the Soviet Union from neighboring Muslim countries They lured the Russians into Afghanistan, and then prepared for them a hell on earth, their Vietnam. With decisive support of the U.S. intelligence agencies, at least 30,000 Muslim fighters were trained in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a bunch of good-for-nothings and fanatics who were, and still are today, ready for anything.
And one of them is Osama bin Laden. I wrote years ago: It was out of this brood, that the Taliban grew up in Afghanistan, who had been brought up in the Koran schools financed by American and Saudi funds, the Taliban who are now terrorising the country and destroying it.
Q: Even though you say, for the U.S. it was a matter of raw materials in the region, the starting point for the U.S. aggression, was the terrorist attack which cost thousands of human lives.
Von Bülow: Completely true. One must always keep this gruesome act in mind. Nonetheless, in the analysis of political processes, I am allowed to look and see who has advantages and disadvantages, and what is coincidental. When in doubt, it is always worthwhile to take a look at a map, where are raw materials resources, and the routes to them? Then lay a map of civil wars and conflicts on top of that —they coincide. The same is the case with the third map: nodal points of the drug trade.
Where this all comes together, the American intelligence services are not far away. By the way, the Bush family is linked to oil, gas, and weapons trade, through the bin Laden family.
Q: What do you think of the Bin Laden films?
Von Bülow: When one is dealing with intelligence services, one can imagine manipulations of the highest quality. Hollywood could provide these techniques. I consider the videos inappropriate as evidence.
Q: You believe the CIA is capable of anything, [wouldn’t stop at anything].
Von Bülow: The CIA, in the state interests of the U.S., does not have to abide by any law in interventions abroad, is not bound by international law; only the President gives orders.
And when funds are cut, peace is on the horison, then a bomb explodes somewhere. Thus it is proven, that you can’t do without the intelligence services; and that the critics are nuts, as Father Bush called them, Bush who was once CIA head and President.
You have to see that the U.S. spends $30 billion on intelligence services, and $13 billion on anti-drug work. And what comes out of it?
The chief of a special unit of the strategic anti-drug work declared, in despair, after 30 years of service, that in every big, important drug case, the CIA came in and took it out of my hands. (Rosalinda: Michael Levin)
Q: Do you criticise the German government for its reaction after Sept. 11?
Von Bülow: No. To assume that the government were independent in these questions, would be naive.
Q: Herr Von Bülow, what will you do now?
Von Bülow: Nothing. My task is concluded by saying, it could not have been that way [according to the official story]. Search for the truth!
— Former Top German Minister Rejects Official Story Of 9/11 Attacks - Tagesspiegel, 15 January 2002
Von Bülow is the author of The CIA and 11 September (German: Die CIA und der 11. September) which has sold more than 10,000 copies.
Giulietto Chiesa
Italian journalist, author, lecturer and politician.
Member of European Parliament.
Vice-President of the European Parliament Committee on International Trade and a member of two Extraordinary Committees inside the European Parliament: the Extraordinary Renditions Committee and the Climate Change Committee.
Member of Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth.
Four years ago, an enormous media event changed the course of the world. Billions of people were given only one explanation for that, which is entirely false. Therefore everyone who dares to question it is treated as if he was a fool. … Media are silent. I believe you know what event I am speaking of: September 11.
Michael Meacher
British politician who served as a government minister under Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Tony Blair.
The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination.
There is evidence of foreign intelligence backing for the 9/11 hijackers. Why is the US government so keen to cover it up?
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Iranian politician.
President of Iran 2005-2013.
Engineer and teacher.
The speech triggered many countries’ United Nations representatives to walk out, and US President Barack Obama described the claims as “inexcusable”, “offensive” and “hateful”.
B) The Global Management and Ruling Structures
The League of Nations and, then, the United Nations were established with the promise to bring about peace, security and the realization of human rights, which in fact meant a global management.
One can analyze the current governance of the world by examining three events:
First, the event of the II September 2001 which has affected the whole world for almost a decade.
All of a sudden, the news of the attack on the twin towers was broadcast using numerous footages of the incident.
Almost all governments and known figures strongly condemned this incident.
But then a propaganda machine came into full force; it was implied that the whole world was exposed to a huge danger, namely terrorism, and that the only way to save the world would be to deploy forces into Afghanistan.
Eventually Afghanistan, and shortly thereafter Iraq were occupied.
Please take note:
It was said that some three thousands people were killed on the II September for which we are all very saddened. Yet, up until now, in Afghanistan and Iraq hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, millions wounded and displaced and the conflict is still going on and expanding.
In identifying those responsible for the attack, there were three viewpoints.
That a very powerful and complex terrorist group, able to successfully cross all layers of the American intelligence and security, carried out the attack. This is the main viewpoint advocated by American statesmen.
That some segments within the U.S. government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy and its grips on the Middle East in order also to save the Zionist regime.
The majority of the American people as well as other nations and politicians agree with this view.
It was carried out by a terrorist group but the American government supported and took advantage of the situation. Apparently, this viewpoint has fewer proponents.
The main evidence linking the incident was a few passports found in the huge volume of rubble and a video of an individual whose place of domicile was unknown but it was announced that he had been involved in oil deals with some American officials. It was also covered up and said that due to the explosion and fire no trace of the suicide attackers was found.
There remain, however, a few questions to be answered:
Would it not have been sensible that first a thorough investigation should have been conducted by independent groups to conclusively identify the elements involved in the attack and then map out a rational plan to take measures against them?
Assuming the viewpoint of the American government, is it rational to launch a classic war through widespread deployment of troops that led to the death of hundreds of thousands of people to counter a terrorist group?
Was it not possible to act the way Iran countered the Riggi terrorist group who killed and wounded 400 innocent people in Iran. In the Iranian operation no innocent person was hurt.
It is proposed that the United Nations set up an independent fact-finding group for the event of the II September so that in the future expressing views about it is not forbidden.
I wish to announce here that next year the Islamic Republic of Iran will host a conference to study terrorism and the means to confront it. I invite officials, scholars, thinkers, researchers and research institutes of all countries to attend this conference.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday defended his remarks at the United Nations in which he claimed most people in the world believe the United States was behind the September 11, 2001 attacks.
At a New York news conference, Ahmadinejad again challenged the U.N. to set up a commission to probe the attacks.
What I raised is a very clear discussion and a precise one. An event occurred and under the pretext of that event, two countries were invaded and up until now, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed as a result. Don’t you think that that excuse needs to be revised? Don’t you feel that if a fact-finding mission was present from the start to explore the true reason behind September 11 that we would not see the catastrophes in Afghanistan and Iraq? Why do you assume that all nations should accept what the US government tells them?
You see, if I had raised this question, this issue, three years or five years ago, it would have been done the same way. Now I’ve said this in different ways before as well in New York, in the first year I travelled here. I raised this question. Why must we not find the causes of 9/11 if five, 10 or 50 people who are responsible for an event. It must be exactly clear and we must all make an effort to punish those 10, 15, 50 people, but not to occupy the entire Middle-East to say that the Middle-East is a terrorist, to say that all Muslims are terrorists, to plunder the wealth, home and dignity of all of them, to go to Afghanistan, to bomb a wedding party and kill 800 people in a wedding party, to annihilate an entire village just because one terrorist is hiding.
— Ahmadinejad subsequently holds press conference in New York
Iranian leader wants ‘fact-finding mission’ into causes of 9/11 attacks
Deciphering the events of 11 September, 2001 will be the key to an understanding of all political events and processes in the sphere of global security over the past 70 years, and this will pave the way for us all to a better world.
When the terrorist attack took place, I announced to the United Nations the need to create a consolidated investigative group to establish all the circumstances of the incident and to find the culprit, and said that the Americans themselves were investigating this incident, holding court themselves, deciding everything themselves and fighting wars in other countries on this basis, not allowing anyone to comment on what is happening.
I remember at this time the United States was very angry with me. But all I said was that there was a need for an international investigation, so that the whole world could know who carried out these attacks, and what connections [the attackers] could have to US intelligence and the American security apparatus to be able to break through all defensive barriers and destroy two towers in the very heart of the American nation.
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World Needs Fundamental Changes
Ahmadinejad expressed certainty that the current world order is unsustainable and is in need of “fundamental changes”.
Over the past 100 years, it has spawned hundreds of wars, assassinations, arms races, broad class divisions, poverty and social constraints for nations. I believe that we must all join hands and build a new world – a world in which all people will be free and respected – and where justice is central. And I believe that the noble people of Russia can play a very important role in this process.