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STRANGER THAN FICTION
AN INDEPENDENT
INVESTIGATION OF 9-11 AND THE WAR ON TERRORISM
By: Dr. Albert D. Pastore Phd.
(Appeared in Truth Campaign issues 27 and 28 - then
attributed to 'Anonymous'.)
Author hereby grants full permission to reproduce and mass
distribute this paper for non-commercial use. “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second
it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as
self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher, 1788-1860 "History is indeed little more than the register of crimes, follies, and
misfortunes of mankind - Edward Gibbon British historian, 1737-1794 From Decline and Fall of
Roman Empire
OPENING STATEMENT
Every news story you are about to review in this research paper is true and easily verifiable. This investigation represents 10 months of careful study, research, analysis, source verification and logical deduction. Every event and quote presented here is 100% accurate. There are about 200 detailed footnotes which I encourage, no, urge, readers to explore and verify for themselves. The Internet version of this paper will allow users to obtain instant verification for each and every footnote by clicking on the footnotes/links. Others can obtain easy verification by entering the key search words (provided at the end of the paper) into the Yahoo or Google.com search engines. Due to the fact that well organized efforts are under way to suppress these facts, some of these news links are mysteriously disappearing even as we speak. Fortunately, this information has all been transcribed by many websites and has therefore been preserved from the censors. These footnote searches will take you directly to the news sites of many well known established media organizations throughout the world as well as opening up doors to a world of knowledge and information that has been concealed from you. With just a little common sense and a few clicks of a mouse, Google and Yahoo now enable anyone with an ounce of curiosity to become a Sherlock Holmes.
This is no opinion piece. Rather it is a collection of buried, but undeniable facts, events, and quotes which, when assembled in one place, will state their own conclusions. In putting together this research in a logical and sequential format, great care was taken to confirm, double confirm, and triple confirm every piece of information. Any and all questionable data which could not be independently verified to this author’s satisfaction was discarded.
Taken individually, each story, quote and event may not amount to a full
case. But when taken collectively, this mountain of facts should hammer home the
truth to even the most skeptical reader. There are of course those who have
fallen under the hypnotic spell of the TV talking-heads and "experts" whom they
worship as authority figures. Unaccustomed to thinking for themselves, no amount
of truth can sway them from their preconceived prejudices. They will even
deny that which they see with their own eyes. They are victims of a
psychological affliction known as "the lemming effect". Lemmings are small
rodents who have been observed to follow each other as they charge to their
deaths into raging rivers or even off of cliffs. Lemminghood is an innate
psychological phenomenon, present in most mammals and observable in common
people as well the most sophisticated and educated elites. Lemminghood is not an
intellectual phenomenon - it is psychological. As such, no socio-economic
class is immune to its strangulating effect. A grant- seeking university
scientist can be a lemming just as much as a fashion obsessed teen-age girl. One
blindly follows the latest trendy theory while the other follows the latest
clothing style. What's the difference? Neither can resist the force of nature.
The power to fit in with one's social peers can be irresistible. To a human lemming, the logic behind an opinion doesn't count as much as the power and popularity behind an opinion. Man, like lemming, behaves collectively. And it could be no other way. Naturally, the individual must be equipped with this trait. Otherwise, the smallest steps toward civilization could never have been made. Lemminghood is a survival trait, an inborn instinct in the majority of people. However, as with all natural phenomena, this tendency can be manipulated and used for harmful purposes. It is this lemming effect which enables entire segments of a society to lose their sense of judgment all at the same time.
This research paper will likely be wasted on many lemmings. For lemmings,
denial is a basic psychological defense mechanism used to not only shield
themselves from unpleasant realities, but also to
reassure themselves that they will still fit within the acceptable range of
opinion held by their peer group. Lemmings are absolutely terrified at the
thought of being labeled as an "extremist" or a "conspiracy theorist". At all
costs, their beliefs must always be on the “right” side of the issue and conform
within the boundaries of their lemming peers. Lemmings simply cannot bear the
burden of responsibility, or the social discomfort, which comes with thinking
independently. They will resist any efforts to change their misguided beliefs
with all their mental energy. We can try to open their closed minds and free
them from their self-imposed blindness, but it’s not easy fighting the force of
human nature. The chains of ideological conformity have too strong of a grip,
and breaking them is a difficult task. With the limited resources at our
disposal, it is next to impossible to compete with the media lemming-masters.
The lie of the emperor is always believed before the truth of the peasant.
Nevertheless, some of us must make the meager attempt, and thus lay the
foundation upon which the truth might one day rise again.
There are those few among us who do possess both the courage and intellectual capacity to break free of the shackles of lemminghood and accept the truth when it is presented in a clear and logical sequence. To those open minded and independent thinkers I wish to state clearly and unequivocally. I intend to set forth in this paper an overwhelming body of evidence which should forever destroy the ridiculous notion that some Saudi Arabian caveman and his band of half-trained, nerdy Arab flight school attendees, orchestrated the most sophisticated terror operation in world history. The very idea is utterly laughable. And yet, due to the blithering barrage of bullshit dished out by the government/media complex, millions of "patriotic" Americans have accepted this fantastic fairy tale, this moronic mendacity, this silly superstition, this dangerous delusion, with a religious conviction bordering on insanity. As an admittedly useless public service to my helplessly misinformed countrymen of today, and as a gift to a posterity which will hopefully be more enlightened than my bewildered contemporaries, I have published this research so as to liberate as many people as I can from the oppressive yoke of media brainwashing and state sponsored lies. Do you have what it takes to break free from the lemming mob? If so, read on!
This information was compiled by a reader of What Really Happened. It is hosted at http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/911-beginners.php. The author asks that it be distributed as widely as possible.
The CORE of the matter.
Let us assume FOR THE SAKE OF ARGUMENT that 9-11 fires caused WELDED AND BOLTED steel trusses to weaken and the floors to pancake. Pray tell, what on earth happened to the solid steel cores of the two towers? ???
JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THIS MASSIVE CORE OF THE TWIN TOWERS! Look at this photo!
The core was to the towers what a wooden, no, make that steel, Popsicle stick would be to an ice-cream bar. You could crush the melting ice cream with your hand, but the inner core (the stick) would provide a more resistance to the collapsed than the softer ice-cream. Common sense, but basic physics as well. No? And imagine if that stick was made of solid steel!
This was written by Michael Rivero and originally appeared on What Really Happened.
A videotape purportedly showing Osama bin Laden confessing to the 9/11 attacks was made public on December 13, 2001:
| The tape bore a label indicating it was made on November 9. Administration officials wouldn't reveal exactly how or when they got it, except to say it was found in a house in Jalalabad after anti-Taliban forces moved in. [Online NewsHour] |
The videotape was supposedly physically located.
| The size of a standard VHS videotape is 7.5 inches wide by 4.2 inches deep by 1 inch high - if you look in
a video cabinet you'll see they're not very big. The satellite photograph on the right shows Jalalabad - it is
very big and it contains a lot of buildings (not all single storey). Don't you find it somewhat fortuitous that a very small video tape of Osama confessing to the 9/11 attacks was found in this very big city? Were squads of video watchers sent in to view every tape found just in case one showed Osama confessing? Here's what was said of the "lucky find": |
| "For those who see this tape, they'll realise that not only is he guilty of incredible murder, he has no
conscience and no soul, that he represents the worst of civilisation," said President George W Bush. US Senator Ron Wyden, who has also seen the tape, says he hopes it will remove suspicions in countries such as Pakistan that the 11 September attacks were an Israeli plot aimed at drawing the US into a war with Islamic countries. [BBC News] |
The video was very effective in diverting media attention away from the deportation of five Israelis who danced as the twin towers burned - "Osama" certainly picks his moments to appear.
Details of the videotape - includes full video and transcript. |
The quality of the video was very poor and the authenticity of the tape was questioned. This annoyed President Bush:
| "It is preposterous for anybody to think that this tape is doctored," he said during a brief photo opportunity with the prime minister of Thailand. "That's just a feeble excuse to provide weak support for an incredibly evil man." [CNN] |
To be perfectly honest it is preposterous to suggest this videotape could be authentic, but lets have a look at it anyway. Here's 5 Osamas - which is the odd one out?
Even Mr Magoo would have to say that Osama 'E' stands out like a sore thumb, and this is the man confessing on the "lucky find" tape. Between the nose and the cheeks it is clear that this man is NOT Osama.
In the video Osama 'E' appears to write notes with his right hand, yet the FBI's description of Osama indicates he is left-handed. Osama 'E' wears a ring on his right hand which does not appear on other confirmed photos of Osama (e.g. Osama 'B'). Another man is seen wearing a large gold ring in the video. Since the wearing of gold rings is forbidden by Islam it shows neither he nor Osama 'E' has any devotion to this faith.
On December 27, 2001, a second video containing the pale skinned and very real Osama 'C' was broadcast on al Jazeera.
| The "Gaunt Tape," so named because bin Laden is haggard and doesn't move his left arm, is believed to have been recorded around Nov. 19, 2001. In the tape, bin Laden refers to the U.S. bombing of a mosque in Khost "several days" earlier. The U.S. bombed a mosque in Khost on Nov. 16. Bin Laden does not move his left arm and his appearance is both gaunt and pale. [MSNBC] |
So, this tape was made around ten days after the "lucky find" tape was reportedly made. Are we to believe that Osama's skin, hair and beard changed color in ten days?
The broadcast of the tape caught the US government completely off-guard:
| The recording was dismissed by the Bush administration ... as sick propaganda possibly designed to mask the fact the al-Qa'eda leader was already dead. "He could have made the video and then ordered that it be released in the event of his death," said one White House aide. [Telegraph] |
This was a very telling response.
Also, his comments caused quite a stir because because they contradicted the "confession" video:
| American officials argued that bin Laden's frequent references to US support for Israel were a bogus justification for his terrorism because in the "dinner party" tape of a private conversation there was no mention of the Middle East. [Telegraph] |
This is very odd indeed because in bin Laden's September 28, 2001 denial of involvement in the 9/11 attacks he had plenty to say about the US and Israel:
| This system is totally in control of the American-Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United
States. It is clear that the American people are themselves the slaves of the Jews and are forced to live
according to the principles and laws laid by them. So, the punishment should reach Israel. In fact, it is
Israel, which is giving a blood bath to innocent Muslims and the U.S. is not uttering a single word. [Public Action] And his views were the same in 1998: "We say to the Americans as people and to American mothers, if they cherish their lives and if they cherish their sons, they must elect an American patriotic government that caters to their interests, not the interests of the Jews." [American Free Press] |
Not only do the real Osama and the "lucky find" Osama look totally different, they also write with different hands and have different faiths and priorities.
It does not get any more obvious than this.
There is clearly good reason to doubt the November 9 tape. There is excessive noise on the audio track, making it impossible to really hear what is being said. Given that the tape was recorded in an area supposedly devoid of audio urban signature, there should have been little ambient noise, yet the speech is masked with a great deal of noise.
But there are very good reasons to suspect that the tape is not what the US Government claims it to be. In the tape, Osama supposedly states that he knew of the attack on the WTC 5 days in advance, yet we know from the preparations inside the United States that the plan had been in existence for much longer than that. The records of those flight schools where the hijackers supposedly trained have been confiscated under the watchful eye of Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida and brother to the President. Will the Bush administration now claim that the hijackers learned to fly a passenger jet in just 5 days?
Likewise, The translation of the Osama tape has him stating that the hijackers did not know they were about to die, yet letters the FBI claim to have found written by the hijackers indicate the exact opposite.
Finally, this was not the first video tape claiming to show Osama confessing, and claims made in the earlier "confession" tape, including a claim that Osama had nukes, were created by the translator, not actually stated by Osama.
This never-to-be-seen video also appeared right on cue:
| Emergency powers to imprison suspected international terrorists indefinitely using special closed courts will be announced this week. The measure, which will require exemption from human rights legislation, will be used to round up about 20 suspects hiding in Britain beyond the reach of existing laws. [Telegraph 11/11/2001] |
Even hard line secular Pakistanis were unconvinced by the released bin Laden video tape. Iqbal Haider, a former senator from the party of ousted prime minister Benazir Bhutto, said he found it hard to believe that bin Laden would allow himself to be filmed confessing to the crime. "It is hard to believe that a man who masterminds the September attacks with such secrecy and finesse could be that stupid and imprudent," he said. "I hate Osama and the Taliban because they inflicted incalculable damage on Muslims ... but it is hard to digest that he can be such a fool."
| When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on Bin Laden’s Most Wanted web page, [Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI] said, “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.” ... The Muckraker Report attempted to secure a reference to the U.S. government authenticating the Bin Laden “confession video”, to no avail. However, it is conclusive that the Bush Administration and U.S. Congress, along with the dead stream media, played the video as if it was authentic. So why doesn’t the FBI view the “confession video” as hard evidence? [Muckraker Report] |
You are being lied to by the US Government. They are using deception to trick you into surrendering your freedoms, money, and the lives of your children for a phony "War On Terror".
Some of you may be aware of the Israeli art student scandal, but odds are against it. There is a reason for that.
Shortly after the infamous attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, FOX News broadcast a four-part series about a massive espionage ring that had infiltrated the highest levels of government. It was scrubbed from their website within days, but you can read the transcripts here (Part 1, 2,3, 4) or search The Memory Hole for the video.
In the words of Morpheous, “Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.”
Yes, I actually own a piece of the infamous Israeli art. When I first heard the story, the picture was hanging next to a bookcase that held numerous volumes on intelligence, terrorism, and Cold War politics on its shelves. Just a few feet away from the frame was my copy of “By Way of Deception: The Secret History of the Mossad.”
As you can see, it is not the prettiest painting, but for a brief – very brief moment, it had some sort of meaning, which is why I purchased it back in November of 2000.
On the Tuesday prior to Thanksgiving, I was hanging out at a coffee shop in Scottsdale, Arizona. I had met the owners the prior week while working a booth for a holiday turkey drive at their store. They invited me back the next week, promising to teach me how to make a real cappuccino and get my feet wet behind the bar. The elderly owners needed a day off from their 7-day a week business and hoped that I could fill in once a week.
About 9 a.m., a man claiming to be an Israeli art student came in with some unstretched canvas paintings he did in art school. He was here in the United States, hoping to sell some art to pay for his trip.
The paintings were mediocre, like the original artwork you can pick up for $19.99 at some “art expo” held at the Holiday Inn.
I was a little skeptical when he mentioned he was from Israeli, wondering if he was sympathetic to the Palestinians, whose plight is worse than Black South Africans under apartheid, according to Desmond Tutu. I despise Zionism.
He pointed to a painting of two blue elephants with a message of peace written in Hebrew scrolled around the border. He did a song and dance routine about peace with the Palestinians and peace with the world. Maybe it was because he saw the “My karma ran over your dogma” bumper sticker on my car. The Volvo was one of two cars in an otherwise empty lot.
It was enough for me. I think I gave him twenty bucks because I liked the message coming from an Israeli. It gave me hope.
Hope was a fleeting moment.
He offered to put me in touch with a framer who had a store in Scottsdale and was offering a generous discount on framing, but the art student could not remember the number and offered to call me with the information, so out of forced politeness, I gave him my business card. It only had my mobile number – no address. I wasn’t about to visit a framer in Scottsdale. I’d just wait for a coupon from Michaels’, as the frame was worth more than the painting.
I forked over the twenty, ready to get back to the conversation with the coffee shop owners. Then it got weird. He kept hanging around, so to fill an awkward moment of silence, I asked him something about a paint medium and it right then it became obvious that he hadn’t picked up a paint brush since elementary school. I made a flip comment and he then admitted that he was traveling with friends who were art students from Israel. He was helping them to sell their paintings. He had an accent and his English wasn’t perfect - or perhaps it was and it was merely a facade, I thought to myself. I shrugged it off, but I was already uncomfortable.
He spent the next two hours there, nursing one cup of coffee and talking on his cell phone in Hebrew or Yiddish, which I seem to think of as one in the same. He tried to engage us in conversation, stating that he had taken a bus there and was waiting for his friend to pick him up. He didn’t approach the other customers with his work. It was kind of odd that he would remain there caught in a lie.
He left shortly after 11 a.m. and the owners and I breathed a sigh of relief. Still, the painting had the message of peace, though I wondered if it hadn’t been just a scam. I just shrugged it off.
The next day I received a call from the framer, who it turned out did not have a store in Scottsdale. He framed out of his car. I politely told him that I wasn’t ready to frame it. He kept insisting that he knew the perfect frame for the painting, that he knew the artist who painted it and what a special paint it was, yada, yada, yada. He then said that he operated out of the van (first it was car) because it was best to drive to someone’s home to match the frame with the décor of the room. I said that I wasn’t about to let some strange man into my house, and hung up the phone.
Later that evening, the art student poseur called, asking if I had gotten in touch with his friend. I explained to him the lie, and that I didn’t need or want the “art” framed. He became aggressive, suggesting that I had to use his friend’s services. I started yelling at the guy, telling him to stop calling me.
The following day – Turkey Day!, I received yet another phone call from the “framer”, insisting he come over and frame the painting. He said he needed money. I was screaming into the phone, asking him with a tone of incredulous facetiousness why he would be calling on Thanksgiving morning (around 11) demanding to come over right then to frame a cheap piece of art! My voice was getting a little shaky because it’s not in my nature to scream at people, at least not out loud. I told him that I would not let a stranger in my house and to stop calling me. I only wish that I could have slammed the phone down for him to feel my anger. My husband said he would answer the phone if the guy tried to call back, but the psycho got the message. No more calls.
Flash forward to early October 2001. Fox News aired the story of the Israeli spy ring, claiming that agents were approaching DEA personnel in hopes of gaining access to federal buildings. Phoenix was not listed as a target city, though there was a kiosk selling toy airplane doodad things at the mall nearest my house. Also, the story said the art students were seen in the spring, though a couple of these guys had been in Phoenix back in 2000, as was evidenced by my painting, now appropriately hanging next to the military strategy and intelligence books.
I thought back to my conversations with these men, wondering why they would have been so vociferous about entering my home. Would there have been a transmitter in the frame? My husband and I had security clearances, but that was over a decade ago. I called the local FBI office, but no one returned my call. Of course not, because no Mossad agent would ever conspire against America.
Was I targeted? Perhaps, or maybe it is just another in a weird occurrence in a long stream of coincidences. Who knows? I had to laugh when I discovered that the company that provides billing and directory assistance for 90% of the phone companies in the United States is owned by an Israeli company, and not only that, their main computer billing center is in Israel. Here I was happy they didn't have my address,and yet they could have had so much more. This is the ultimate intelligence collection tool, allowing Israelis better access than even the NSA.
And the Israelis do have access. All wiretaps in the United States are made and installed by an Israeli company, Comverse Infosys.
Are the Israelis spying on us? The Starr report indicated that President Clinton told Monica Lewisnky that their calls were probably recorded. Shortyly thereafter, he called off the FBI investigation of the Israeli mole, “Mega”, who had penetrated the highest office in the United States.
With all this access to phone conversations, it is quite easy for a foreign power to blackmail just about any official. Having an affair? Calling a bookie? Talking with the enemy? No wonder why Israel has become the spoiled golden child!
After giving this serious consideration, serious as a maragrita might provide, I have decided to transform my symbol of Israeli intelligence into something better. The two elephants with their trunks interlocked will serve as my campaign symbol in my write-in campaign for Presidency of the United States. I am up to ten committed votes, and possibly eleven provided I get off my butt and e-mail my platform to my campaign manager in Arizona. The people need answers and I can provide them, albeit in a tangential fashion. You can vote for the lesser of two evils, or you can use your voice to let people know you want something better. There is no knight in shining armor ready to swoop us away to fantasyland. A better future starts with following your conscience, even if you stand alone in the crowd.
