THE MISSING SECURITY TAPES FROM THE WORLD
TRADE CENTER
By Susan Lindauer, 080111
Note: Susan Lindauer is a former U.S. Asset and 9/11
Whistleblower
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Controlled Demolition
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Threats to Iraq
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
August Timeline
■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.
■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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Americans still don’t know that:
■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.”
■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.
■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.
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.
■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.
■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.
My Own Private Hell during the Cover Up
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Controlled Demolition
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, hijacked airplanes struck the towers. But bringing down the Towers to
secure War with Iraq required some extra umph.
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.
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.
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.
I only hope it isn’t too late already.
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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