Summary/Thesis David Ray Griffin’s “The New Pearl Harbor” focuses on the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. On the morning of that fateful day, with no practical warning from intelligence agencies, four planes were hijacked by terrorists. Two of them crashed into the Word Trade Center, thereby causing them to collapse, and within a short time, a third plane crashed into the Pentagon. The last plane was forced to crash-land in Pennsylvania after a struggle between passengers and hijackers. The air forces arrived rather too late to prevent any of the catastrophes. In his book “The New Pearl Harbor”, David Ray Griffin presents a collection of documents that highlights the falsehood present in the whole of the official story and suggests that there must be some factor to explain the inconsistencies and contra-factual assertions therein. The book starts with a sharp focus on the events that happened on September 11, 2001 and the order in which they happened. During this section, Griffin questions how it is possible for an airplane to come near the World Trade Center without being intercepted as usual procedures require interception of airplanes that are off track or are anomalous in nature. Griffin points out that various agencies such as the FAA, NORAD, and the NMCC (National Military Command Center at the Pentagon) did not operate as per regular standards on that particular day. While listing these flaws, Griffin also unravels the official excuses given for the failure. By the time the second plane hit the WTC, it was well known that three planes had been hijacked and were heading back eastward; Griffin questions the omission to send any protective aircraft. Even after the second plane attacked and it was known that the third plane was heading for Pentagon, nothing was done counter such an attack. The entire nation merely watched it on television. Even though Cheney and Rice were taken to safety, no protection aircraft was arranged immediately to counter the attacks. The protection aircraft arrived too late to be of any help. Griffin, after studying the official statements concludes that the air defense system was ordered to stand down from its normal protective procedures during this crisis, and he questions who could have made such an order. Griffin next discusses in detail the collapse of the WTC. He says that the pattern of destruction suggests air attacks along with controlled demolitions. He arrives at this conclusion after analyzing notes from firefighting and architectural sources. According to Griffin, only explosions can cause ejection of powdered concrete and building parts, as occurred during the collapse of the towers. This argument is supported by time, temperatures, visual and seismic evidence. Moreover, molten steel was found at sub-basement levels which could not have been due to attacks on the top floors. The debris of the collapsed buildings was immediately cleared so that no forensic evidence was left behind for analysis. Griffin asks what could be the need for the hurry to clear the debris so swiftly when there were no survivors trapped in the debris. Along with these details Griffin also presents the fact that Marvin P. Bush, the president’s younger brother, was a director for a security company, Securacom which was involved in three of the four attacks. WTC personnel have testified that five days before 9/11, heighte