- Late on the night of August 23, 2001, at about 3 a.m.
security cameras in the parking garage of the World Trade Center captured
the arrival of two or three truck vans.
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- Visual examination determined the vans were separate
and unique from trucks used by janitorial services, including different
colors and devoid of markings. More curious, all the janitorial trucks
had pulled out of the Towers by about 2:30 a.m-about half an hour before
the second set of vans arrived.
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- According to my high level State Department source with
a top security clearance, who disclosed the unusual nightly activity, no
vans matching that description had entered the World Trade Center at such
an hour in any of the weeks or months prior to that date. It was
a unique event.
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- Security cameras caught the vans leaving the Towers at
approximately 5 a.m-before the first wave of AAA personality types on Wall
Street, driving Mercedes and BMWs, arrived to track the markets.
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- For the next 10 to 12 nights, the same mysterious truck
vans arrived at the World Trade Center at the same mysterious hour--- after
the janitorial crews had left the building and before the most fanatic
robber barons on Wall Street showed up for work. The vans appeared
at the World Trade Center from approximately August 23, 2001 until September
3 or 4, 2001. After that last night, they never appeared at the Towers
again.
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- The vans were never heard of again, either. The 9/11
Commission was never informed of their surprising presence in the Towers
three weeks before the 9/11 attack. Most of the 9/11 Truth Community has
no knowledge of this extraordinary nightly activity, either.
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- For all the public's ignorance, video from the security
cameras could be the most significant missing part of the 9/11 puzzle.
This State Department source was convinced the mysterious trucks were used
to transport explosives into the building, and that an unidentified orphan
team wired the World Trade Center for a controlled demolition in those
late night hours. He has stayed quiet to protect his job, his retirement
pension and his reputation-knowing that others who spoke up have gotten
fired or thrown in prison (myself included).
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- Controlled Demolition
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- Other evidence supports a controlled demolition of the
Towers, as a supplement to the hijackings. Firefighters and maintenance
crews reported hearing explosions popping through the Towers on 9/11. And
previous reports indicate that dust from the World Trade Center tested
positive for "thermate explosives--" a derivative of a thermite
bomb.
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- A thermite reaction involves a mixture of iron oxide
and aluminum, while thermate adds an element of sulfur. When the iron oxide-aluminum
mixture is ignited, a super vigorous reaction occurs, creating molten metal-and
dust, in the case of thermate. The reaction is extremely exothermic, meaning
that a great deal of heat is given off, making for an incredibly powerful
reducing agent.
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- Even so, as the 10 year anniversary of the 9/11 attack
approaches, the majority of Americans continue to be confused as to how
a controlled demolition scenario fits with the airplane hijackings and
aerial strike on the World Trade Center-which the whole world witnessed
on play back over and over in the media, until the image was seared like
a brand on our collective consciousness.
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- Until now, there has been a false dichotomy that only
one or the other style of attack could have occurred, but never both together.
Some parts of the 9/11 Community itself vigorously dispute that both could
have occurred as synchronized events. And most of the corporate media refuses
to acknowledge the controlled demolition theory whatsoever.
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- When the public understands 9/11 as a series of Real
Time events throughout the month of August, 2001, the unfolding sequence
of this tragedy makes a lot more sense.
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- The difficulty is throwing out everything the public
has been taught about 9/11-created for the convenience of politicians and
corporate media, who simplified the story for public consumption.
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- First and foremost, contrary to all media reports and
official claims, U.S. and foreign intelligence absolutely expected the
9/11 attack to occur--- citing airplane hijackings and a strike on the
World Trade Center. Even the time frame was identified precisely-known
to be late August through mid-September.
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- I relate here my own experience as evidence. It has been
corroborated in courtroom testimony by Parke Godfrey, a computer science
professor at York University in Toronto. He delivered his statement under
oath in the Federal Courthouse of the Southern District of New York-1000
yards from where the World Trade Center once graced the skyline.
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- On August 2, the date of Robert Mueller's Senate confirmation
hearings to become Director of the FBI, my CIA handler, Dr. Richard Fuisz
warned me not to travel to New York because the attack on the World Trade
Center involving airplane hijackings was "considered imminent,"
with the potential for "mass human casualties" and a "possible
miniature thermo-nuclear device" (thermite).
- Our team aggressively tried to block the conspiracy.
But not everyone was on board.
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- Threats to Iraq
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- As far back as April and May of 2001, a decision had
been made at the top levels of the government that War with Iraq would
be in play in the aftermath of a 9/11 scenario.
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- As the primary Asset covering the Iraqi Embassy in New
York, I myself was ordered to threaten Iraqi diplomats with War, if it
was determined that Iraq possessed actionable intelligence about the airplane
hijacking conspiracy and failed to hand it over through my back channel.
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- After initially balking at the message, I was informed
the threat originated at the highest level of government, above the CIA
Director and Secretary of State. That could only be President George Bush,
Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
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- Iraqi diplomats threw up their hands: They had nothing
to give us, they said. But go ahead, they told me. "Send your FBI.
They are welcome in Baghdad. We want peace with America. And maybe they
will find something." For all the brouhaha after 9/11, the fact remains
that George Bush took no action on Iraq's invite.
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- There was chatter about the 9/11 conspiracy throughout
the Intelligence Community all summer long. The greatest part of the Intelligence
Community abhorred the scenario. My own Intelligence team, triangulating
the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency pushed and pushed for actionable
intelligence from Baghdad. However, though we could not understand what
the hell was going on, our efforts kept running into a wall of interference
from the Justice Department, with only superficial outward support.
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- For the integrity of history, Americans and the world
community have a fundamental right to understand what actions the Intelligence
Community did undertake prior to the attack-because it exposes the high
level opposition running interference.
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- August Timeline
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- On Thursday, August 2, 2001--- my CIA handler, Dr. Richard
Fuisz and I discussed over the telephone our belief that the attack would
be imminent.
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- On Saturday, August 4-- I visited the Iraqi Embassy in
New York for the final time before 9/11, pushing for any fragment of actionable
intelligence from Baghdad that could pinpoint the conspiracy.
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- On the weekend of August 4-5-spooky NSA types "visited"
the office where I had a part time consulting job. Of course the office
was closed for the weekend, and I won't speculate how they got inside.
However, while snooping, they took a "proof of life," for want
of a better expression. It is a physical copy of the Wall Street Journal
dated July 30, 2001-the same week as my conversation with Dr. Fuisz- addressed
to the company, with the street address and name of the man I had been
working for.
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- The copy of the July 30, 2001 Wall Street
Journal surfaced on my desk at home-Nine Years after the attack- while
I was traveling in Japan on a speaking tour for the advance release of
my book, "Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act
and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq," which features a detailed analysis
of our team's 9/11 warnings, the 9/11 investigation and a comprehensive
peace framework developed with Iraqi diplomats. Given the upheaval in my
life throughout the intervening decade-including a year's stint in prison
on a Texas military base, while the government covered up my team's 9/11
warnings and the true facts of Iraqi Pre-War Intelligence- there's no way
a copy of the Wall Street Journal could have survived as desk clutter.
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- Other Intelligence officers will recognize the significance
at once. That hard copy of the Wall Street Journal proves beyond any question
that other spooks were tracking our team's conversations about the conspiracy
in "real time" fully 6 weeks before 9/11 occurred. A newspaper
would have been thrown out of an office weeks before the attack. Somebody
had to grab it up almost immediately after my conversation with Dr. Fuisz.
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- See? Other teams tried to put together the attack
scenario, too.
- All of it points to the frenetic activity in advance
of 9/11. There was a lot of action behind the scenes. And Intelligence
folk are anything but passive individuals. Quite the opposite, there's
a lot of creative risk-taking and proactive problem solving. None of these
people sit on their hands.
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- Americans still don't know that:
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- On Monday, August 6, I met with Dr. Fuisz and we hammered
out a plan of action for alerting the White House that this hijacking conspiracy
should move to "emergency status."
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- That same Monday, August 6, the CIA handed President
Bush a memo warning about an expected terrorist conspiracy involving Al
Qaeda. Though I could be mistaken, I have always believed Dr. Fuisz contributed
to that report. If not, it proves again that a broad spectrum of U.S. intelligence
was moving to high alert status, far enough in advance to block the attack.
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- Following instructions from Dr. Fuisz, on Tuesday, August
7 or Wednesday, August 8, I placed an emergency call to the private staff
of Attorney General John Ashcroft. Identifying myself as the Chief U.S.
Intelligence Asset covering Iraq and Libya at the United Nations, I delivered
our warning about a conspiracy involving airplane hijackings and a targeted
strike on the World Trade Center.
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- I requested an emergency broadcast alert through all
Federal Agencies seeking any fragment of intelligence involving airplane
hijackings and a strike on the World Trade Center. I warned the attack
was "imminent" with expectations of "mass casualties,"
and that it should be regarded as Emergency Status.
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- Attorney General John Ashcroft's private staff immediately
gave me a telephone number at the Office of Counter-Terrorism, and told
me to repeat what I had just told them to the person at that number. Immediately
I complied.
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- Later that week on August 9 or 10, I drove over to the
Arlington, Virginia home of my second cousin, Andrew Card--- Chief of Staff
to President George Bush- ready to deliver the same message. I waited two
hours in my car outside of his home. Occasionally neighbors peeked outside
their curtains, while I chain smoked cigarettes in the hot car. (Yes, I
have quit smoking.) Driving away, I remember thinking that I might be making
the greatest mistake of my life.
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- My Own Private Hell during the Cover Up
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- I am extremely proud of our team efforts before 9/11
and throughout the 9/11 investigation. For all that, Americans are learning
about this very late because I got into great big, bad trouble with the
Feds when I tried to talk. I suffered five (5) years of indictment on the
Patriot Act and one year of prison on a military base without a trial,
when Republicans decided to reinvent the facts about 9/11 and Iraqi Pre-War
Intelligence, denying Iraq's contributions to the 9/11 investigation and
the existence of a comprehensive peace framework.
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- Our relationship soured as I became convinced Republicans
at the top echelons allowed 9/11 to happen, killing thousands of innocent
Americans and international citizens, so they could build a phony case
for War against Iraq and Afghanistan.
- I was outraged that the American government has done
this to itself-as a pretext for military aggression and massive deficit
spending in support of the military industrial complex, which is bankrupting
the Middle Class. And I was quite vocal in expressing my belief that Americans
have a right to full disclosure about our activities before 9/11 and the
Iraqi War. And the devil take politicians!
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- Without question I posed a grave threat to political
grandstanding on 9/11 and the myth of Washington's "outstanding leadership
performance on terrorism." Many times I have thought of myself
as Dorothy in the Land of Oz pulling back the curtain on the Wizard, and
exposing his deceit before the hapless, trusting Munchkins.
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- In truth, the spooks did a great job before 9/11. Everything
moved with lightning speed ahead of the threat. We could have stopped 9/11
easily if the Justice Department had fulfilled requests for inter-agency
cooperation. There was plenty of time to alert NORAD or post an anti-air
craft battery on top of the World Trade Center buildings.
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- That's why the GOP leadership had to take me out-because
I refused to back off that point. If I had been free, the American people
and the world community would have learned the truth much sooner.
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- Controlled Demolition
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- Unhappily for all of us, because of private conversations
with sources like my State Department colleague, I have reached additional
conclusions that our team was not the only one at work before 9/11.
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- Though none of us expected this to happen, I have come
to believe that our efforts collided with a force of equal resistance,
in the form of an orphan team also watching the events unfolding like us.
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- As a long-time participant in multiple terrorism investigations,
I have personal knowledge that most terrorist attacks are noisy, smoky
and chaotic--- without achieving maximum destruction of the target. The
1993 World Trade Center attack by Ramzi Youseff and Sheikh Abdul Rahmon
of Egypt killed 5 people. The bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in the Port of
Aden, Yemen killed 12 people. Without extra push, this 9/11 attack would
never have killed so many people either-100 people at the very most.
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- Add to that a recipe of incompetent pilots--- who functioned
as Intelligence Assets themselves in a few cases--- Again from personal
experience, I know that Assets are heavily scrutinized at all times by
handlers from multiple agencies. I am convinced that an inner circle anticipated
the event, and saw that their boys flying those planes could not achieve
maximum damage sufficient to achieve their War agenda in Iraq.
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- I cannot blame Americans for feeling overwhelmed, even
heart-broken by these revelations. But bottom line jet fuel fires could
not have collapsed both of those Towers, or Building 7, pretty much evaporating
the entire steel frame of the buildings into dust and molten steel. Add
to that the CIA's urgent reports that a miniature thermo-nuclear device
would be used in the attack---and that's why I had to stay out of New York
City.
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- The strange nightly activity at the World Trade Center
three weeks before the attack clinched it for me. I am 100 percent convinced
those Towers were wired for explosives.
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- Yes, hijacked airplanes struck the towers. But bringing
down the Towers to secure War with Iraq required some extra umph.
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- I cannot speculate who wired the towers with explosives.
I could make a guess, but my training as an Asset requires me to stay focused
on what I have observed first-hand, and to recognize my own limitations.
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- So why should the world care? At this point, it is most
critical for Americans to stop politicians in Washington from using 9/11
for grandstanding and personal ambitions. The War on Terrorism has perpetrated
a fraud on all of us. Those who support the War on Terror are destroying
our fiscal economy and our Middle Class.
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- That's why Americans must learn the truth about 9/11.
It's reached a crisis point where we must get off this merry-go-round of
defense spending. We must end the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Otherwise
this fraud of 9/11 is going to ruin our great country for all time.
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- I only hope it isn't too late already.
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- This article may be republished in whole or part with
attribution to the author.
- Susan Lindauer is the author of "Extreme
Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of
9/11 and Iraq."
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