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| Iran and 9/11: Involved up to their eyeballs | ||
| 2011-09-10 | ||
| It has taken nearly ten years, but the real story of Iran's direct, material involvement in the 9/11 conspiracy is finally coming to light. And it's being revealed not by the U.S. government or by Congressional investigators but by private attorneys representing families of the 9/11 victims in U.S. District Court. Just one week before the 9/11 Commission sent its final report to the printers in July 2004, diligent staffers discovered a six-page classified National Security Agency analysis summarizing what the U.S. intelligence community had learned about Iran's assistance to the 9/11 hijackers. They happened upon the document by chance. It had been tucked away at the bottom of the last box in the last stack of classified documents they were reviewing.
The page and a half section that made the final cut details repeated trips to Iran by 8-10 of the "muscle" hijackers between October 2000 and February 2001. Flying in from Saudi Arabia, Damascus, and Beirut, the future hijackers were accompanied by "senior Hezbollah operatives" who were in fact agents of the Iranian regime. The information was so explosive that the CIA lobbied hard to get it expunged from the final report, in part because they had detected some of the movements as they were occurring but failed to appreciate their import. "They saw them as travel through Iran, not travel to Iran," a senior 9/11 Commission staffer told me at the time. By the time the staffers had read into the 75 source documents on a Sunday morning out at NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, MD, the Commission was pushing up against the end of its mandate and could not do any additional work. The information was so serious and had such clear geopolitical import that it "requires further investigation by the U.S. government," they concluded. Many of the Commissions and senior staff who were aware of the document find assumed someone else would pick up the ball. But as attorney Thomas Mellon, Jr. and his colleagues representing Fiona Havlish and other 9/11 widows and family members discovered, no such investigation was ever carried out. Not even the Congressional intelligence committees would go near the subject, despite direct appeals from the Havlish plaintiffs and a review of many of the original still-classified documents cited in the report.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 I think you will find Pak army and the Saudis were behind 9/11. You left off the multiple exclamation points on your meme, vato. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-09-10 22:02 |
| #5 It is interesting that George W. referred to the Axis of Evil (Iraq, Iran, and N. Korea) in his State of the Union address in 2002. And not only did the CIA completely miss it, but they worked like frantic beavers on crack to cover up the results, so their miss wouldn't be noticed. T.W. your opinion is most likely correct. Given that it is true I find it unconscionable that our intelligence agencies would put CYA above country. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-09-10 18:31 |
| #4 Can we bomb the bastards now? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2011-09-10 13:08 |
| #3 I think you will find Pak army and the Saudis were behind 9/11. This article shows it that it was a group project, Pablo. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-09-10 11:05 |
| #2 I think you will find Pak army and the Saudis were behind 9/11. |
| Posted by: Pablo 2011-09-10 04:20 |
| #1 It seems just about every Muslim in the world, including in the US, knew something big was coming. |
| Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 2011-09-10 01:03 |