The New Pearl Harbor and 9/11
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In The New Pearl Harbor, Professor David R. Griffin lays out a lot of disturbing facts concerning events surrounding 9/11 which are difficult to reconcile with the official version of the story. Particularly intriguing are the events he documents in Chapter 2 concerning the attack on the Pentagon. One disturbing fact is that although Flight 77 went significantly off course 26 minutes after takeoff, came back on course, lost radio contact 10 minutes later, then the transponder went off, no fighter jets were scrambled (Griffin, 2004, 25). Twenty-nine minutes later, Dulles Airport reported a fast moving plane headed toward the White House, but again, no military jets were scrambled. A few minutes later, radar showed the plane headed for the Pentagon, and still no military jets were scrambled. Yet in the past couple of months, when small aircraft wandered into Washington air apace, military jets were immediately scrambled and escorted them to the ground. It is standard procedure for military jets to be scrambled when unauthorized planes enter Washington airspace. There is no explanation why the PentagonÆs own anti-aircraft defense system failed to stop the plane from approaching the building (32). Next is the question of whether or not Flight 77 actually struck the Pentagon (Griffin, 2004, 28). Evidence provided by photographs taken immediately after the crash, before the front of the building collapsed, show a hole in the building between 15 and 18 feet in diameter (
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the deal, and the US became more hostile towards them (Griffin, 2004, 90). They tried to negotiate a power sharing deal, and according to a Pakistani representative, one American said, ôeither the Taliban behave as they ought to...or we will use another option...a military operationö (90-91). Another American is reported to have said to the Taliban, ôEither you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombsö (91). Senior Americans officials then declared that military action against Afghanistan would take place in October, ôBefore the snows start falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October at the latest.ö The United States began bombing Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. 9/11 gave them the excuse they needed: the so-called War on Terror. A report in an Israeli newspaper shows that if you look at a map of large American bases in Afghanistan, they lie along the projected route of the oil pipeline to the Indian Ocean (92). Both Hamid Karzai and BushÆs special envoy to Afghanistan, Zalamy Khalilzad, were previously on UnocalÆs payroll.
Similarly, the plans to attack Iraq were made long before 9/11 (Griffin, 2004, 92). A document called Rebuilding AmericaÆs Defenses: Strategy, Forces, and Reso
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