A Rat In The Wood
Pile Maintaining Hijackers And Box-Cutters
As The Official Story NewsFocus Op/Ed, by Tim Watts - 091511
Conspiracy theory: Did 19 Saudi hijackers with box-cutters defeat
the entire U.S. air defense system?
As the old saying goes, "Be careful what you wish
for." The 9/11 Truth movement has been calling for a new investigation of
9/11 for a decade now. If the John F Kennedy assassination case is any
indicator, the movement will more than likely get its wish, albeit maybe not the
real
investigation that they have been calling for.
Former U.S.
Senator Bob Graham, the Florida Democrat and former chair of the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence
during 9/11, who also helped co-chair the Congressional Joint Inquiry
into the attacks, said the FBI
never shared key pertinent details of the investigation with him, nor with other
members of the Congressional Committee. Graham alleges that he knew
nothing of a wealthy young Saudi couple who were said to have fled their home in
a gated community in Sarasota, Florida, shortly before 9/11, leaving behind all
of their possessions. He claims that his Congressional commission was not privy
to specific knowledge of Saudi involvement.
Seriously? Even when the hijackers were alleged to be Saudis?
So much for being the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence.
This is the same Bob Graham who just happened to be meeting with
Pakistani ISI director General Ahmed on the morning of 9/11, the man who reportedly
had wired $100,000 in alleged operation money to Mohamed Atta before 9/11. (Porter
Goss was also in attendance during that meeting on 9/11.)
Much to the delight of the 9/11 Truth movement, Graham is now
calling on President Obama to open a new 9/11 investigation, however, when all
is said and done, this could very well be to the dismay of the truth movement.
The John F. Kennedy investigation took years before it ever
received a second look following the horribly flawed Warren Commission. The U.S.
House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was
established in 1976 to investigate the JFK assassination, along with the Martin
Luther King, Jr. assassination. The Committee investigated until 1978. In 1979
they issued their final report, concluding that President Kennedy was more than
likely assassinated by a conspiracy, but that was the extent of it. Nothing more
was done. No ensuing criminal investigation, nor any prosecutions ever followed.
So much for a follow-up investigation.
This is why we should all be concerned about a new 9/11
investigation. The truth movement doesn't just need a new investigation. It
needs a real investigation, with prosecutions to follow.
After all, the 9/11 Commission took President George W. Bush 441
days to form. Red flag number one. The commission was highly questioned right
from the start.
Let's review...
Bush originally nominated Henry Kissinger to head the
commission, an appointment that did not set well with 9/11 family members. As it
turned out, Kissinger and his legal firm had a close business relationship with
the bin Laden family. That was red flag number two.
Red flag
number three came when former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean was
named as a co-chair of the commission, in Kissinger's place. It was
then quickly
discovered that Kean sat on the board of directors of a company
having business dealings with financier Khalid bin Mahfouz. Kean
was a director of Amerada Hess Corporation, which did business
with a company that was owned in
part by Mahfouz, Delta Oil of Saudi Arabia.
The real kicker was
that Mahfouz's sister just so happened to be married to Osama bin
Laden. This is officially called "conflict of interest."
George W. Bush also had business ties
with Mahfouz during his Arbusto Oil days. Bush and bin Mahfouz were
also notoriously implicated in the Bank of Commerce
International scandal.
The next affront to a proper investigation came with the naming
of the commission members. Five of those ten members just happen to be members
of the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as its Director, Phillip Zelikow.
The commission co-chairs, Lee Hamilton and Thomas Kean, are also CFR. In all, six members
of the 9/11 Commission are affiliated to the CFR.
This is something which concerns many, since the CFR
is often linked to the new world order agenda, for which 9/11 has been a major
catalyst. For those keeping track, this would be red flag number four.
I think you can start to see some of the problems
inherent with the 9/11 Commission.
One original member from the commission saw right from the start
that its effort
was not about a thorough investigation, as much as it was about a thorough
cover-up.
Former Georgia Senator Max Cleland, resigned from the commission
saying,
"Bush is scamming America." After the commission gave in to limited access
of CIA reports to the White House, reports that might have indicated
advance knowledge on the part of the Bush-Cheney administration, Cleland
remarked, "This
is a scam. It's disgusting. America is being cheated."
A decade later, we have Bob Graham calling for a new
investigation. The timing of the recent call is very curious. It
came quite coincidentally just three days before the ten year anniversary of
9/11. It also comes at a time when arguably one of the most powerful bullets in
the 9/11 truth arsenal has been fired, the release of the damning new documentary
"Explosive Evidence: The Experts Speak Out,"
produced by the 1,500
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.
Add to this the fact that 81% of Americans now believe
that the U.S. government is hiding something in regards to 9/11. So It would appear
damage control is in order, PDQ, thus the impetus to clear up some loose ends with
another sham investigation.
Democracy Now interviewed Graham, yet
somehow they missed some very pertinent questions in the process, like how could we
revisit the alleged Saudi link, when it has already been proven that the
hijacker list is very questionable and quite suspect in itself?
For instance... Mohamed Atta's father said that his son had called him the day
after 9/11, but that he hasn't heard from him since. Also, at least five to six
terrorists have been verified as still being alive after 9/11. Some press reports
have identified as
many as
9 of
the 19 alleged hijackers as being alive and well in the Middle East.
So how
was it that our intelligence services were able to immediately
identify these alleged middle-eastern hijackers when their names
were not on the official passenger lists?
Remember the alleged hijacker
passport that amazingly survived the huge fireball and was found conveniently on the sidewalk below the
world trade center, amidst the tons of rubble and debris? As it
turns out, this alleged hijacker was also found to still be alive, so
a huge question has loomed; if this person was not involved, who
went out of their way to fake that passport and then make sure it was
found on the sidewalk?
Why
target those particular identities?
Who had a vested interest in setting up Middle-Eastern Muslims
as alleged hijackers?
So the outstanding question is, if these Saudis are
still alive, who actually pulled off the 9/11 attacks?
Many suspect that these alleged
Saudi hijackers were nothing more than patsies.
And so, with the call from Graham for a renewed 9/11
investigation, it would appear that a concerted effort is about to
be made to re-connect the Saudi hijacking link with the public, along with its
asinine box-cutter theory.
Having learned from the President Kennedy assassination, one
could speculate that no matter where a new investigation might possibly lead, those who are responsible for the 9/11 attacks have already
set up their alibi, as well as a potential fallback position (IE: Larry "Lee Harvey" Silverstein).
Arguably the most concerning comment from Graham came when he
was asked by Democracy Now, who should oversee a new 9/11 investigation. Mr. Graham
stated unequivocally that the White House is the sole authority that should run a new 9/11
investigation.
Seriously?
Excuse me for pointing out the obvious, but we've
ridden that horse already.
This outrageous comment from Graham should be yet another red flag in the 9/11
merry-go-round.
So don't get too excited about CFR member Graham calling for a
new investigation of 9/11. The whole effort may very well be nothing more than
round two of a designed disinformation campaign to knock down that 81 percent
who feel the U.S. government is hiding something, and to cover the tracks of those
that are truly guilty for the 9/11 attacks.
Given the source calling for a new inquiry, I'm a little
skeptical about the intent.
Once again, be careful what you wish for.
CFR Member Bob Graham On Democracy Now!
9/11 Commission Director and CFR member Phillip Zelikow
Discusses 9/11
About The Author:
Tim Watts is a veteran San Francisco
broadcaster with 25 years experience in the industry as
an on-air talent, Program Director, and consultant. He
is the creator and sole author of the websites
NewsFocus.org, and
TheAmericanTruthNetwork.com. He has been
writing about U.S. corruption over the last decade, while also investigating 9/11 from the moment that the first tower
fell. He has documented his 9/11 research on a website
called
A September Coup.