- In January 2000, Bob Gipson of El Dorado County, California,
wrote his congressman expressing his fear that the U.S. government would
orchestrate a terrorist attack on "certain" U.S. cities and blame
the attacks on "Islamic terrorists." Gipson told Rep. John T.
Doolittle (R-Ca) he thought the "operation" would be a platform
for declaring martial law in the U.S.
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- When the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks occurred
on September 11, 2001, Gipson had a sickening feeling this was the event
he feared.
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- Gipson is among a growing number of Americans who doubt
the official U.S. story of what happened September 11. More than 9,000
people have signed an on-line petition asking the U.S. Senate to investigate
the "oddities" surrounding the attacks.
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- In January, a delegation of peace and human rights activists
met in San Francisco with the staffs of California Senators Dianne Feinstein
(D) and Barbara Boxer (D) to push for a congressional inquiry into September
11.
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- "Horrified as I was by the events of 9-11, I was
more shocked by the words of the government and the media in the aftermath,"
says Carol Brouillet of the Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom who organized the delegation. "The cries for war were deafening,
and the evidence against the 'terrorists' seemed utterly fabricated, bizarre,
and unbelievableólike a passport floating out of the pocket of a
hijacker on a domestic flight, from that inferno to the streets of New
York."
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- At the San Francisco meeting, Kevin Danaher, Public Education
Director of Global Exchange, said citizens he has met while speaking throughout
the country had questions about the events of September 11 and deserved
to know the truth.
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- Questioning the events surrounding September 11 is a
burgeoning interest on the Internet. Independent researchers are providing
information that throws in doubt the U.S. government's official story about
the September 11 attacks. Mainstream media in the U.S. has side-stepped
reporting or investigating these issues.
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- Created by Fallout Shelter News and hosted by www.PetitionOnline.com
, the on-line petition asks the U.S. Senate to investigate issues that
include George W. Bush's possible knowledge of the terrorist attacks; the
role of Unocal and the Carlyle Group in the oil pipeline across Afghanistan
(former President George Bush is a paid advisor to the Carlyle group, a
$12 billion equity group with defense contract holdings); the abnormally
high purchase of put options on United and American Airlines immediately
before September 11; the. black box recordings from the four planes which
crashed on September 11, and the role of remote-controlled software technology
in the hijackings.
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- In the petition, B. Carlton of Olympia Washington wrote,
"For the sake of the victims' families and the American people, please
investigate."
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- Janet of Pasendena, California urged the Senators, "Have
no fear! Investigate!!
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- B. Marie Clark of West Palm Beach, Florida, commented,
"Let not my people perish by lack of knowledge."
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- Appropriately named, Jane Sunshine from Woodstock, New
York, asked, "Is there any reason the public cannot be told the truth?"
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- Diane Noland, from Capitola, California, wrote, "Such
an atrocity and no investigation. How /why was this allowed to happen in
American? An abomination, I will never feel safe here again if our government
does not care enough to seriously and thoroughly investigate this issue."
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- Earlier this month, Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fl) announced
joint House-Senate intelligence committee hearings to begin around May
1. Rather than address the on-line petition and activists' concerns, an
agreement by congressional leaders and the White House will focus the hearings
on the failure of U.S. intelligence agencies to stop the September 11 attacks.
The hearings will also study what can be done to prevent future terrorist
attacks. The committee hired L. Britt Snider, a former CIA Inspector General
and former special counsel to CIA Director George Tenet, to head the hearings.
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- "Allowing ex-CIA Snider to investigate 9-11 is like
allowing ex-CEO Ken Lay to investigate Enron," says Brouillet ."The
9-11 disaster has been used to justify a 'war on terrorism' which endangers
the lives and liberties of millions of people everywhere. Why is there
no search for the truth about the crime of the century?"
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- A congressional investigation cannot come soon enough
for Bob Gipson. Now, he has renewed dread that his government is planning
another attack on U.S. citizens, this time leaving Saddam Hussein's fingerprints
as a pretext to garner public support to attack Iraqi citizens. "A
bio-chemical attack could come at Easter time," he said. "That
would feed the Islamic versus Christian drama the government is creating."
_____ Joyce Lynn is an independent journalist living in the Bay Area. She
was a political journalist in Washington, D.C., covering social welfare
issues. Her articles have appeared in numerous national and local publications,
including Ms., Intuition Magazine, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Women's Feature
Service, Northern California Jewish Bulletin, and the Pacific Sun. She
edits the eZine, Political Diary.
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