The 9/11 Conspiracy

by Larry Smith

"This is the 5th anniversary of the lie that bases all of our foreign and domestic policy...America has been hijacked." -- 9/11 conspiracy theorist

"That's the problem with dipping one's toes into the waters of conspiracy theories. One might just sink to its bottomless depths." -- Cinnamon Stillwell, SFGate

Tough Call entertained a pair of Canadian college students over the summer. Cousins of West Indian descent, they came from a solid middle class background - born in Canada, well-educated, well-spoken and (thankfully) well-behaved.

During one conversation, the approaching fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington came up. And it was clear that these two level-headed students from Toronto were convinced that the attacks were not the work of radical Islamic terrorists, but of the US government itself.

"Haven't you seen 'Loose Change'?" They asked smugly. No, we hadn't. So a little research was in order - starting with Wikipedia (http://www.skepticwiki.org/wiki/index.php/9/11_coverup).

Turns out there is a veritable cottage industry of conspiracy theories swirling around the 9/11 disaster, and a multitude of debates about the collapse of the three World Trade Centre buildings, the explosion at the Pentagon, and the crash of United's flight 93 in Pennsylvania. It is the current generation's JFK assassination plot.

Countless conspiracy web sites litter the Internet, and polls show that more than 40 per cent of Americans and 60 per cent of Canadians flatly discount the official 9/11 story. Hollywood has cranked out at least two major films on the disaster in time for next week's anniversary.

But director Oliver Stone's big-budget movie cannot begin to compete with a $6,000 video produced by 22-year-old Dylan Avery, from Omeonta, New York (population 13,000) called 'Loose Change', which has been downloaded over the Internet millions of times.

The hour-long documentary is now into its second edition, and working on a third. You can find it on Google Video. It uses actual news footage, interviews and speculation to piece together a variety of conspiracy theories and makes a plausible case on a casual viewing.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were the worst in recorded history. According to the 9/11 Commission report, more than 2,600 people died in New York; 125 died at the Pentagon; and 256 died on the four hijacked planes. The death toll surpassed that at Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

In a recent article, Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales said, "Nine-eleven conspiracy theories have been circulating for years, producing millions of Web links, scores of books, and a nationwide collection of doubters known as the '9/11 Truth' movement....For those who can't find information about the alleged cover-up on the nightly news, there is 'Loose Change', which just might be the first Internet blockbuster."

What, for example, were the explosions some witnesses heard after the towers were hit by planes? How could the towers collapse on themselves and fall so fast unless explosives were involved? And why was the site of the collapse not treated as a crime scene?

Why were the black boxes from American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 never found, when the passport of one of Flight 11's alleged hijackers turned up unscathed a few blocks from the World Trade Centre?

How did American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon, disappear into a small round hole, leaving no trace of its 124-foot wingspan on the building? And what about all the forewarnings that the government ignored?

For conspiracy buffs, the official accounts are improbable, so the whole affair was a "Neo-con, Zionist, right-wing conspiracy". Most of these folks believe the twin towers were brought down by explosives in a controlled demolition, that a cruise missile hit the Pentagon, and that United Airlines Flight 93 was shot down by US fighters over Pennsylvania.

Although it has been suggested that New York realtor Larry Silverstein, who took over the WTC lease just six weeks prior to the attack, benefitted from a $2 billion-plus insurance payout, the chief culprit in these theories is the Bush administration, backed by the neo-conservative think tank, Project for a New American Century. The alleged motive was to end division over a contested election and ensure American control of the world.

But don't think that the 9/11 doubters are all leftwingers - many of the same conspiracy theorists also deny that the Holocaust took place. And the 'Loose Change' video cites a newspaper called the American Free Press as a reference (http://www.americanfreepress.net/). That far-right publication describes itself as "maverick, independent and grass-roots", but many consider it simply anti-semitic.

Although they draw huge conclusions, conspiracy theorists tend to rely on a handful of anomalies to discount well-established fact: "This is at the heart of all conspiratorial thinking," wrote Michael Schumer in Scientific American recently. "Such notions are easily refuted by noting that scientific theories are not built on single facts alone but on a convergence of evidence assembled from multiple lines of inquiry."

For example, Popular Mechanics magazine researched an article last year (which became a book) that reviewed 300 sources and consulted more than 70 experts to deal with a number of common points that 9/11 conspiracy theorists like to focus on... such as the steel failure in the WTC towers
(http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/defense/1227842.html).

"Some of these misconceptions arise from the source material, which is often video or photos on the Internet - and from that people spin these wild theories. When you put conspiracy theory data - which might be footage of a building not coming down the way they might expect - in opposition to the (10,000-page) National Institute of Standards and Technology report, which tested 236 pieces of steel in controlled laboratory conditions, there's a total mismatch."

And, of course, the real world is always far more chaotic than the way conspiracists portray it, because emergencies and disasters are uncontrolled events - and as in the case of the WTC collapse, often unprecedented events. So it is all the more important not to confuse coincidence with causation.

Conspiracists like to ascribe superhuman powers to the US government. Some say this is due to the influence of movies and television where the emergency is always solved before the show ends. But we are left to ponder how the Bush administration can be "one of the most incompetent organizations in the history of public service while simultaneously committing, and then successfully hiding its involvement in, what would have to be the largest and most complex conspiracy in recorded history."

Or, as this exchange in a conspiracy blog put it: "How can Dubya be an incompetent fool and a brilliant mastermind at the same time? Answer: Because he isn't really in charge. He is just a puppet leader. It is the Jewish bankers where the real power lies."

This brings up another disturbing aspect to 9/11, the belief that the attacks were directed by Israel because Jews were told to avoid the World Trade Centre on that day. The African-American Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is part of this group, as were many Muslim religious leaders and intellectuals around the world. But the fact is that the population of New York City is about 12 per cent Jewish and, as would be expected, 15 per cent of the WTC victims were Jews.

Stranger still is the fact that this Jewish conspiracy can be credible to some even though Osama bin Laden publicly took responsibility for the attacks in a taped statement broadcast over the Arab television channel, Al Jazeera, in 2004. In the tape, bin Laden presents 9/11 as an act of revenge for US support of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982:

"As I looked at those demolished towers in Lebanon, it entered my mind that we should punish the oppressor in kind and that we should destroy towers in America in order that they taste some of what we tasted and so that they be deterred from killing our women and children," he said, according to an Al Jazeera transcript.

That's the problem with conspiracy theories, they tend to grow like topsy. As the editors at Popular Mechanics noted: "It's interesting how often a minor mistake keeps getting repeated, even after it is addressed. It's an amplification effect - one theory leads to another: from explosives, to molten steel, which means an incendiary device, to the idea that thermite was involved (in the destruction of the WTC towers)."

In fact, they said, within hours of the magazine's publication in March 2005, Popular Mechanics had become part of "the CIA/Haliburton/Bush conspiracy in the minds of some without any effort to consider the basic factual reporting that we had done. It doesn't really matter if it's true once it gets the right reaction, which makes conspiracy theorists hard to argue against...you just get the same 'facts' thrown back at you all the time."

And on reflection, it is certainly naive to think that a vast group of conspirators would happily go along with such a stupendous plot and no-one would ever talk about it. That didn't happen with Watergate and it's difficult to imagine any scenario in which that could happen. It assumes that the conspiracy has virtually unlimited resources, in terms of both money and personnel. How reasonable is that?

Individuals may promote such theories in support of their convictions. Or they may just be ignorant or lack the ability to think clearly. But we should remember here that totalitarianism of both the right and the left was founded on conspiracy theories like these. The Nazis believed the Jews controlled the world, and Marxists believed in a ruling class of capitalists. And both conceived themselves as a secret revolutionary vanguard.

So the casual acceptance of preposterous theories by a couple of normal Canadian college students on the strength of a homemade video watched on the Internet is perhaps more of a cause for concern than might at first be imagined.

One thing is certain about 9/11 - the impact it had on global economic growth, which was cut in half as a direct result of the terror attacks. The Bahamas, heavily dependent on air travel, was severely affected: fewer visitors, lower room revenues, job losses, sales declines and slumping government revenues. And all that was combined with the need for extra spending on tourism promotion and new security measures. We did not begin to recover until 2003-2004

If there is another attack on a similar scale the global economy will contract and we will again suffer years of painful recession.

Comments

[Mike Alexiou]

The persons that suffered the most after 9/11 were the poor children in Africa who died by the thousands of starvation due to the major downturn of their economies.

As we are seeing in the news today, the final death toll of 9/11 cannot be counted yet as people are now starting to die from illnesses directly related to being at the site shortly after the event. What is the fall-out to anyone struggling to save people from destroyed buildings? Is the dust around WTC different than the dust of a bombed out building in Lebanon or Israel? – the cost goes on and on – for how long no one knows – not even talking of the unexploded cluster bombs.

[Chris Armaly]

Good article. I assume the video of the plane flying into the towers war forged as well?

Some people are just so anti-American that regardless of the facts it is the yanks/Bush's fault.

I will tell you something about Canadians-It is always America's fault. I went to school there for 10 years so I know them quite well. I will say they are some of the friendliest people in the world. However, their universities have been hijacked by professors of the radical left. Here is how my conversation went with my friends up there after summer break:

"Hey Chris How was your summer"
"Well I worked in the family business, did some boating, fishing which of course entails drinking etc. How was you summer up here?"

" Well the Americans did this, that and the other"
"No I asked how was your summer"
"Chris you don't understand the Americans, those ignorant Americans etc."
" Let me try this again, what did you do this summer?"
"Well the Americans…americans etc., etc."

Enough said. I swear at the return of the school year each and every year for 10 years it was the same old story. Always complaining about the Americans and no time to discuss themselves. I guess it is an identity crisis.

[Ed cOOK]

People may be searching for a deeper spiritual meaning for their lives by studying and promoting 911 conspiracies. Such an understanding of these people may explain why many of these individuals may refuse to admit sound evidences that prove this theory wrong. The following is a legitimate spiritual message about 911 and Iraq coming from the Bible which is not spun nor manipulated out of true context. Today Iraq sits directly on the sight of ancient Babylon which was once the domain of the
famous King Nebuchadnezzar. The King saw 911 in a dream and recorded the entire event inside the Bible for all to read.
If you are a conspiracy buff I dare you to prove this evidence wrong! No one can legitamately nagate such evidence because
the evidences are so overwhelming that honest people will recognize that it is a 911 message from the Bible.

Nebuchadnezzar had more than one dream. The worlds most renowned theologians have missed an extremely important clue about these dreams. (Daniel 2:1.) Daniel plainly reveals the fact that this king's deepest concerns were not intended for his present day kingdom, but, his true concern was to preserve his kingdom far into the future. "Thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he (God) maketh known to the king what should come to pass in the latter days. (Daniel 2:28-29.)

What a huge mistake! Christians have long overlooked vital clues and ignored important instructions as they have tried to interpret Daniels prophecies as being applicable within his own time. No wonder so many Christians are confused about the book of Daniel. Nebuchadnezzar is very much like many politicians today and he was more concerned about his legacy than his current kingdom's status. God answered this king's concerns with prophetic dreams which could only be understood after the prophecies for our day came to pass. This is why God sealed the entire book of Daniel until the time of the end. "Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end." (Daniel 12:9.)

This explains why Daniel repeatedly emphasized the fact that no one could possibly understand, or interpret the entire meaning of Gods clues. Certain prophetic events would have to occur in our time for the book of Daniel to make sense within its true context. Until these latterday prophecies came to pass, no person could possibly understand their true meaning. This means Christians today must unlearn what they have supposed themselves to understand about these prophecies. The frosting was not to be placed on the cake until something extremely important happened to the people of this generation. Daniel again makes it abundantly clear that Gods message was not given for anyone who was living in that time, but for the sake of those living in the latter days.(Daniel 2:30 )

Daniel makes another shocking statement by suggesting that his entire mission into Babylon was to deliver a message intended for the people of our day.

"Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days.(Daniel 10:14.)

" King Nebuchadnezzar's entire life was a type of puppet show which only became benificial when it connected important parallel events intended for our day. Everything Nebuchadnezzar did in regards to Daniel or Babylon, which included his huge golden statue, were clues about events in the latter days. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abindego were also types and shadows of understanding for specific parallell events occuring in our day. The fierry furnace was to become a latter day event! Gods deliverance of His people by speaking to Moses from the burning bush also has a paralell in Babylon. Israel being delivered from Egyptian bondage also becomes a type for Babylon. God establishes two clues about these deliverances using the terms "bush, and also eagle's wings".

"Yee have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagle's wings, and brought you to myself." (Exodus 19:4.)
The burning bush and eagle's wings became a prophetic symbolism for delivering branches of Israrel to salvation and freedom. Such indicates living branches which burn and are not consumed, but are delivered from the fire. Is this not like unto a "baptism by fire" burning away the sins from Israelite branches (Gods people)? Israelites were carried to freedom upon eagle's wings (Gods power) and gathered to one place in order to witness God's fire within a bush, another type for the the tree of life which represents Jesus Christ..

Another clue is apparent when Nebuchadnezzar imitated Moses by gathering all of the gentile nations to one place to worship Babylon's god. Nebuchadnezzar orders three Hebrews to be cast into the fiery furnace after they refused his command to "fall down and worship his golden image." They were defying his political authority, which was like rejecting god himself. Three Israelite branches were then cast into this furnace. Suddenly, he who dwelt in the bush, who is "like unto the son of God," appears inside the flames. Man's fire is changed into God's fire in the burning Bush.

This powerful event demonstrated to each gentile present in Babylon that God's only son represents the root branch of Israel while Shadrach, Meshach, and Abindego were the Israelite branches gathered to the burning bush unto healing wings of deliverance.
These branches were not consumed by fire because the son of God's representative dwelt in the bush with healing in his wings.. This same God came to Babylon inside Iraq, demonstrating Gods future plans to gather gentiles to the Bush as before. God symbolizes Nebuchadnezzar as a "Lion having eagle's wings.(Daniel 7:3 ) Nebuchadnezzar was trying to gather his zion by the use of political type wings which immitated God's wings for eagle's freedom. Nebuchadnezzar's political wings were plucked off when God removed Nebuchadnezzar from his kingdom for a seven year period. "Dan.7: 3."

When Nebuchadnezzar later repented of his pride he then had a second dream where he witnessed true eagle's feathers growing from within his old political wing's roots. Metiphorically he was being transformed from a cruel lion nature to the true freedom of an eagle, which wings represented Godly freedom and redemption..(Daniel 4:33.) Remember, this Babylonian king was a prophetic puppet for events to transpire in our day. The gentile Christians of our day were delivered to America's freedoms, another symbol of eagle's wings.

A modern Bush is currently delivering Iraq upon these American eagle's wings obviously doing Gods will by delivering Nebuchadnezzars ancient land from another evil captivity. When Nebuchadnezzar repented, God commanded that Nebuchadnezzar's gentile family tree be cut down to a stump, which symbolizes his family tree be humbled and left in the earth. (Daniel 4:23.) God then commands that these roots be kept alive and watered for a future purpose in Iraq. (Daniel 4.26)

God then commands this symbolic tree stump be bound until a future time. (Daniel.4.) Just take Gods obvious clue as it stands inside your Bible. If you cut down a tree and keep the stump watered what will it someday become? A Bush! Why a bush?
The tree trunk cannot possibly grow back again as before, but new branches certainly will grow in time. The stump is transformed into a freedom bush, or a gathering of eagle's wings, which explains why eagle feathers grew out from Nebuchadnezzar's heart within his famous gentile dream.(Daniel 4:33.)

Nebuchadnezzar's life was used as a puppet for a modern day Iraq, wherein God would revive ancient Babylon again as a result of His promises through Daniel's interpretations of Nebuchadnezzar's dreams. Iraq is being transformed into a democracy following the image of the eagle and its modern deliverer named George Bush. A type of God's deliverance for freedom today like a Bush
consistantly on fire from Babylon's liberal criticism but never consumed.

How many Hebrews were cast into the furnace of fire in ancient Babylon? Was it not three! Why were they cast into that fire? They stood up for religious freedom, did they not! Is this not the very reason America came into existence by declaring religious liberty above an evil King? Were Shadrach, Meshach, and Abindego not symbols of the modern eagle called America? Were they not willing to die for their religious freedom? How many American eagle's (planes) were cast into the firey furnace on 9 - 11? Were there not three seperate planes? Did the trade center and the Pentagon not become a modern fiery furnaces made many times hotter because of the jet fuel, paralleling the ancient Babylons fire?

Why else did Nebuchadnezzar order Shadrach and the other two men to pack all of their clothes into a kind of "suit case" before being cast into the fire? Why were Shadrach, Meshach, and Abindego cast into the fire after being bound with all their specific clothing? (Daniel 4:21 ) Was this not a twin prophecy matching 9 - 11 when people entered modern planes being bound with their clothing in suit cases? Were they not likewise cast into the fiery furnace along with all of their clothing on board the planes? We could literally name each plane on 9 - 11 after Shadrach, Meshach and Abindego.

Was there not a fourth eagle (jet plane) which unexpectedly came on the scene? Was this not the climax of the entire 9 - 11 event?
Did the 4th plane called flight 93 not sacrifice itself by coming down from heaven to the earth in order to save others from a terrible fate? When the press and fire trucks arrived at flight 93's crash site, they discovered an empty hole in the earth with no trace of a plane inside it? "Where is flight 93?" they cried! The fourth eagle, which came down to earth from heaven created an empty tomb! When Christ's followers ran to his tomb it was found empty. Flight 93 truly represents a touching sacrifice for others in a true American memorial. "I see a fourth.. who is like unto the son of God. (Daniel 3:25.)

Can you now begin to understand why it is a mistake to interpret the book of Daniel for Daniel's day alone? The complete message is now unsealed. It was published in a new book titled "Bible Prophecies of 9 - 11." www.eternaltruth.net You are about to witness actual biblical prophecies fulfilled in a way that could not posssibly be a manipulation of context. Daniel the prophet just sent you direct messages from God about 9 - 11 and Iraq. Become a living witness today! The book is powerfull beyond words! There are hundreds of 9 - 11 and Iraq witnesses within this 340 page book. Please verify this biblical claim for yourself and share the news with everyone you can!

Analysts are already predicting a huge sweep of leftists coming into both houses of congress along with the white house this fall. These leftists openly consider Christians the enemies of the state, and even above the terrorists. These people are itching to pass the fairness doctrine to put an end conservative talk radio. They are already targeting hate legislation aimed directly against all Christian patriots. They plan a massive overhaul of the judicial system to impose legislation against 1st and 2nd amendment rights.

McCain will make the Iraq war the central issue of this campaign because Obama promises to withdraw our troops regardless if the terrorists declare victory. Christians may have one last chance to grandstand against another Vietnam and the establishment of an anti Christian socialistic state in America. But there is now a new hope!

A new biblical discovery has just hit the market, bringing a miraculous prophecy about Iraq. There have been a large number of related biblical scriptures which have passed silently under the radar.

Iraq is to be freed by a great eagle's wings in the latter days! This is welcome news coming straight from the Bible just before the election.

If the war in Iraq represents Gods will as predicted in Bible prophecy, this may be our chance to unify Christian patriots before this critical election takes place. Obama claims to be a Christian. Could he now be exposed publically for opposing America or "the great eagle" freeing Iraq in Bible prophecy? A Salem Christian group published an important press release concerning this true Biblical discovery! This stunning declaration comes from one of the most reputable Christian Publishers in America.
www.eternaltruth.net/bpo911.html

One critic asked the author how he could possibly announce he had discovered 9/11 and Iraq in Bible prophecy?
"Aren't you exploiting thousands of American deaths in both this current war and 9/11 just sell a book?"

Author.." "That is my greatest consolation! As we speak many people including veterans are purchasing this book witnessing the very references which prove this book's biblical promises. People are witnessing biblical prophecies as they unfold before their eyes concerning 9 - 11 and Iraq freed by a modern eagle. Amazon.com just announced upon their web sight that they have sold out the book and must now order more!"

"There are no unsatisfied customers who complain having not received anything less than what was promised by the author. There are steady reports of people who find far more than what they expected possible. It would be unforgivable for any author to promise people such to exploit a national tragedy just for book sales. Many lives are lost and many families with children grieve after having lost their parents. I am not letting those people down who purchase this book in good faith. We are delivering a true message from biblical prophets that was meant for our time. "I have four children of my own, if my book were to become exposed as a manipulation of biblical text such would forever mark my children's name as well as my own. I have been blessed to have discovered a message placed into the Bible, which could unite believers together before this election. The media does not want people tp hear this message."

Author of this book,
Paul Gregersen

Listen likewise to an educated critics expert opinion regarding this miraclulous book.

"Reading this particular book has made me aware of how christians have come to accept biblical spin and less than honest interpretations when reading books on Bible prophecy." When I started reading "Bible prophecies of 9 - 11" the whole idea of 9 - 11 and Iraq being in Bible prophecy admittedly was quite appealing to me.

But it seemed very far fetched and I fully expected to discover another fiction story cleverly masked behind a another "new" biblical declaration. I fully expected to see the familiar hand picking of quotes deliberately coming from the authors’ selection of unrelated texts to manipulate the meaning of Bible text. I've learned that it is a common trick to cleverly combine unrelated verses from separated biblical context in order to stretch readers’ perception beyond the original focus toward the authors’ conclusions, creating the appearance that authors conclusions are also supported by the Bible.

My first surprise while reading this book was to see this author approach things quite differently by laying a biblical foundation from Adam and Eve with the tree of life story, establishing common threads for his entire biblical claim. As the first chapters began to build solidly on biblical themes I quickly realized this particular author was either seriously attempting to link legitimate patterns of bible prophecy, or he was using an even more clever deception to mislead me. This author surprisingly understood the procedure to outline proper types and shadows and stay within one context while linking proper biblical themes. Since the author was not spinning I suspected that he would postpone taking of his liberties until he would be forced into a corner having to demonstrate 9 - 11 towers falling and eagle's wings into modern Iraq. He did not do this and remained true to following biblical context while 911 and the Iraq war appeared true to form from the pages of my Bible. See new youtube movies explaining thids new discovery. www.eternaltruth.net