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Titolo: Fifty questions on 9/11

              ASIA TIMES
                 THE ROVING EYE
                              Fifty questions on 9/11
                              By Pepe Escobar
                              It's September 11 all over again - eight years 
on. The George W Bush administration is out. The "global war on terror" is 
still on, renamed "overseas contingency operations" by the Barack Obama 
administration. Obama's "new strategy" - a war escalation - is in play in 
AfPak. Osama bin Laden may be dead or not. "Al-Qaeda" remains a catch-all 
ghost entity. September 11 - the neo-cons' "new Pearl Harbor" - remains the 
darkest jigsaw puzzle of the young 21st century.
                              It's useless to expect US corporate media and 
the ruling elites' political operatives to call for a true, in-depth 
investigation into the attacks on the US on September 11, 2001. Whitewash 
has been the norm. But even establishment highlight Dr Zbig "Grand 
Chessboard" Brzezinski, a former national security advisor, has admitted to 
the US Senate that the post-9/11 "war on terror" is a "mythical historical 
narrative".
                              The following questions, some multi-part - and 
most totally ignored by the 9/11 Commission - are just the tip of the 
immense 9/11 iceberg. A hat tip goes to the indefatigable work of 
911truth.org
; 
whatreallyhappened.com
; architects and engineers for 9/11 
truth; the Italian documentary Zero: an investigation into 9/11; and Asia 
Times Online readers' e-mails.
                              None of these questions has been convincingly 
answered - according to the official narrative. It's up to US civil society 
to keep up the pressure. Eight years after the fact, one fundamental 
conclusion is imperative. The official narrative edifice of 9/11 is simply 
not acceptable.
                              Fifty questions
                              1) How come dead or not dead Osama bin Laden 
has not been formally indicted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 
as responsible for 9/11? Is it because the US government - as acknowledged 
by the FBI itself - has not produced a single conclusive piece of evidence?
                              2) How could all the alleged 19 razor-blade 
box cutter-equipped Muslim perpetrators have been identified in less than 72 
hours - without even a crime scene investigation?
                              3) How come none of the 19's names appeared on 
the passenger lists released the same day by both United Airlines and 
American Airlines?
                              4) How come eight names on the "original" FBI 
list happened to be found alive and living in different countries?
                              5) Why would pious jihadi Mohammed Atta leave 
a how-to-fly video manual, a uniform and his last will inside his bag 
knowing he was on a suicide mission?
                              6) Why did Mohammed Atta study flight 
simulation at Opa Locka, a hub of no less than six US Navy training bases?
                              7) How could Mohammed Atta's passport have 
been magically found buried among the Word Trade Center (WTC)'s debris when 
not a single flight recorder was found?
                              8) Who is in the possession of the 
"disappeared" eight indestructible black boxes on those four flights?
                              9) Considering multiple international red 
alerts about a possible terrorist attack inside the US - including former 
secretary of state Condoleezza Rice's infamous August 6, 2001, memo - how 
come four hijacked planes deviating from their computerized flight paths and 
disappearing from radar are allowed to fly around US airspace for more than 
an hour and a half - not to mention disabling all the elaborate Pentagon's 
defense systems in the process?
                              10) Why the secretary of the US Air Force 
James Roche did not try to intercept both planes hitting the WTC (only seven 
minutes away from McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey) as well as the 
Pentagon (only 10 minutes away from McGuire)? Roche had no less than 75 
minutes to respond to the plane hitting the Pentagon.
                              11) Why did George W Bush continue to recite 
"My Pet Goat" in his Florida school and was not instantly absconded by the 
secret service?
                              12) How could Bush have seen the first plane 
crashing on WTC live - as he admitted? Did he have previous knowledge - or 
is he psychic?
                              13) Bush said that he and Andrew Card 
initially thought the first hit on the WTC was an accident with a small 
plane. How is that possible when the FAA as well as NORAD already knew this 
was about a hijacked plane?
                              14) What are the odds of transponders in four 
different planes be turned off almost simultaneously, in the same 
geographical area, very close to the nation's seat of power in Washington, 
and no one scrambles to contact the Pentagon or the media?
                              15) Could defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld 
explain why initial media reports said that there were no fighter jets 
available at Andrews Air Force Base and then change the reports that there 
were, but not on high alert?
                              16) Why was the DC Air National Guard in 
Washington AWOL on 9/11?
                              17) Why did combat jet fighters of the 305th 
Air Wing, McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey not intercept the second 
hijacked plane hitting the WTC, when they could have done it within seven 
minutes?
                              18) Why did none of the combat jet fighters of 
the 459th Aircraft Squadron at Andrews Air Force Base intercept the plane 
that hit the Pentagon, only 16 kilometers away? And since we're at it, why 
the Pentagon did not release the full video of the hit?
                              19) A number of very experienced airline 
pilots - including US ally Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a former 
fighter jet pilot - revealed that, well, only crack pilots could have 
performed such complex maneuvers on the hijacked jets, while others insisted 
they could only have been accomplished by remote control. Is it remotely 
believable that the hijackers were up to the task?
                              20) How come a substantial number of witnesses 
did swear seeing and hearing multiple explosions in both towers of the WTC?
                              21) How come a substantial number of reputed 
architects and engineers are adamant that the official narrative simply does 
not explain the largest structural collapse in recorded history (the Twin 
Towers) as well as the collapse of WTC building 7, which was not even hit by 
a jet?
                              22) According to Frank de Martini, WTC's 
construction manager, "We designed the building to resist the impact of one 
or more jetliners." The second plane nearly missed tower 1; most of the fuel 
burned in an explosion outside the tower. Yet this tower collapsed first, 
long before tower 2 that was "perforated" by the first hit. Jet fuel burned 
up fast - and by far did not reach the 2000-degree heat necessary to hurt 
the six tubular steel columns in the center of the tower - designed 
specifically to keep the towers from collapsing even if hit by a Boeing 707. 
A Boeing 707 used to carry more fuel than the Boeing 757 and Boeing 767 that 
actually hit the towers.
                              23) Why did Mayor Rudolph Giuliani instantly 
authorized the shipment of WTC rubble to China and India for recycling?
                              24) Why was metallic debris found no less than 
13 kilometers from the crash site of the plane that went down in 
Pennsylvania? Was the plane in fact shot down - under vice president Dick 
Cheney's orders?
                              25) The Pipelineistan question. What did US 
ambassador Wendy Chamberlain talk about over the phone on October 10, 2001, 
with the oil minister of Pakistan? Was it to tell him that the 1990s-planned 
Unocal gas pipeline project, TAP (Turkmenistan/Afghanistan/ Pakistan), 
abandoned because of Taliban demands on transit fees, was now back in 
business? (Two months later, an agreement to build the pipeline was signed 
between the leaders of the three countries).
                              26) What is former Unocal lobbyist and former 
Bush pet Afghan Zalmay Khalilzad up to in Afghanistan?
                              27) How come former Pakistani foreign minister 
Niaz Niak said in mid-July 2001 that the US had already decided to strike 
against Osama bin Laden and the Taliban by October? The topic was discussed 
secretly at the July Group of Eight summit in Genoa, Italy, according to 
Pakistani diplomats.
                              28) How come US ambassador to Yemen Barbara 
Bodine told FBI agent John O'Neill in July 2001 to stop investigating 
al-Qaeda's financial operations - with O'Neill instantly moved to a security 
job at the WTC, where he died on 9/11?
                              29) Considering the very intimate relationship 
between the Taliban and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and 
the ISI and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is Bin Laden alive, dead 
or still a valuable asset of the ISI, the CIA or both?
                              30) Was Bin Laden admitted at the American 
hospital in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates on July 4, 2001, after flying 
from Quetta, Pakistan, and staying for treatment until July 11?
                              31) Did the Bin Laden group build the caves of 
Tora Bora in close cooperation with the CIA during the 1980s' anti-Soviet 
jihad?
                              32) How come General Tommy Franks knew for 
sure that Bin Laden was hiding in Tora Bora in late November 2001?
                              33) Why did president Bill Clinton abort a hit 
on Bin Laden in October 1999? Why did then-Pakistani president Pervez 
Musharraf abort a covert ops in the same date? And why did Musharraf do the 
same thing again in August 2001?
                              34) Why did George W Bush dissolve the Bin 
Laden Task Force nine months before 9/11?
                              35) How come the (fake) Bin Laden home video - 
in which he "confesses" to being the perpetrator of 9/11 - released by the 
US on December 13, 2001, was found only two weeks after it was produced (on 
November 9); was it really found in Jalalabad (considering Northern Alliance 
and US troops had not even arrived there at the time); by whom; and how come 
the Pentagon was forced to release a new translation after the first 
(botched) one?
                              36) Why was ISI chief Lieutenant General 
Mahmud Ahmad abruptly "retired" on October 8, 2001, the day the US started 
bombing Afghanistan?
                              37) What was Ahmad up to in Washington exactly 
on the week of 9/11 (he arrived on September 4)? On the morning of 9/11, 
Ahmad was having breakfast on Capitol Hill with Bob Graham and Porter Goss, 
both later part of the 9/11 Commission, which simply refused to investigate 
two of its members. Ahmad had breakfast with Richard Armitage of the State 
Department on September 12 and 13 (when Pakistan negotiated its 
"cooperation" with the "war on terror") and met all the CIA and Pentagon top 
brass. On September 13, Musharraf announced he would send Ahmad to 
Afghanistan to demand to the Taliban the extradition of Bin Laden.
                              38) Who inside the ISI transferred US$100,000 
to Mohammed Atta in the summer of 2001 - under orders of Ahmad himself, as 
Indian intelligence insists? Was it really ISI asset Omar Sheikh, Bin 
Laden's information technology specialist who later organized the slaying of 
American journalist Daniel Pearl in Karachi? So was the ISI directly linked 
to 9/11?
                              39) Did the FBI investigate the two shady 
characters who met Mohammed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi in Harry's Bar at the 
Helmsley Hotel in New York City on September 8, 2001?
                              40) What did director of Asian affairs at the 
State Department Christina Rocca and the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan 
Abdul Salam Zaeef discuss in their meeting in Islamabad in August 2001?
                              41) Did Washington know in advance that an 
"al-Qaeda" connection would kill Afghan nationalist commander Ahmad Shah 
Massoud, aka "The Lion of the Panjshir", only two days before 9/11? Massoud 
was fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda - helped by Russia and Iran. According 
to the Northern Alliance, Massoud was killed by an ISI-Taliban-al Qaeda 
axis. If still alive, he would never have allowed the US to rig a loya jirga 
(grand council) in Afghanistan and install a puppet, former CIA asset Hamid 
Karzai, as leader of the country.
                              42) Why did it take no less than four months 
before the name of Ramzi Binalshibh surfaced in the 9/11 context, 
considering the Yemeni was a roommate of Mohammed Atta in his apartment cell 
in Hamburg?
                              43) Is pathetic shoe-bomber Richard Reid an 
ISI asset?
                              44) Did then-Russian president Vladimir Putin 
and Russian intelligence tell the CIA in 2001 that 25 terrorist pilots had 
been training for suicide missions?
                              45) When did the head of German intelligence, 
August Hanning, tell the CIA that terrorists were "planning to hijack 
commercial aircraft?"
                              46) When did Egyptian President Mubarak tell 
the CIA about an attack on the US with an "airplane stuffed with 
explosives?"
                              47) When did Israel's Mossad director Efraim 
Halevy tell the CIA about a possible attack on the US by "200 terrorists?"
                              48) Were the Taliban aware of the warning by a 
Bush administration official as early as February 2001 - "Either you accept 
our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs?"
                              49) Has Northrop-Grumman used Global Hawk 
technology - which allows to remotely control unmanned planes - in the war 
in Afghanistan since October 2001? Did it install Global Hawk in a 
commercial plane? Is Global Hawk available at all for commercial planes?
                              50) Would Cheney stand up and volunteer the 
detailed timeline of what he was really up to during the whole day on 9/11?
                              Pepe Escobar is the author of Globalistan: How 
the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007) and 
Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge. His new book, just 
out, is Obama does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009)

                               By Pepe Escobar
E siamo di nuovo a berci questa fuffa già a suo tempo, e più volte,
smontata?

 list happened to be found alive and living in different countries?
La risposta � la stessa: � prassi comune dei terroristi impossessarsi di 
identit� di persone innocue, che possono benissimo essere vive e all'oscuro 
di tutto da tutt'altra parte.
Un tanto basta a rimettere nella discarica da cui provengono anche le altre 
48. 

48. 
Visto che sei un esperto, sai dirmi cosa ci facevano 5 israeliani su
un furbone bianco, che ridevano, ballavano e soprattutto battevano le
mani?

Donato Pecorella ha scritto:
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Un ballo tipico ?

 Un ballo tipico ?
quale? Perchè non rispondi, eh, eh? Hai qualcosa da nascondere, vero?
Dov'eri tu l'11/9? Eri sotto il furgone a suonare? Signori della
corte, come vedete l'imputato non risponde. (qui ci va un insulto in
ebraico stretto, e l'imputato fa per rispondere, ma si trattiene) E
non può rispondere--scusi, agente, può avvicinarsi all'imputato e
togliergli la maschera?--perchè il Filisteo è ....
SUSPENCE....
Ariel Sharon!!! Ancora una volta, la giustizia ha fatto il suo corso.

 Dov'eri tu l'11/9? 
Ovviamente non me lo dimenticher� mai: teatro Sociale di Mantova, prove 
di Andrea Chenier, entra in scena all'improvviso il regista Beppe De 
Tomasi e con gusto da teatraccio verista, peraltro intonato alla 
produzione, annuncia stentoreo "� scoppiata la terza guerra mondiale, si 
parla di 30.000 morti a New York !!"

 Ovviamente
ovviamente sei Sharon, ma questo lo sapevamo già....come avete
organizzato il tutto?

 mani?
Ma tu ci credi a queste bufale?

 Ariel Sharon!!! Ancora una volta, la giustizia ha fatto il suo corso.
Ti consiglio una camomilla prima di andare nel tuo lettino. Vedrai che dormi 
meglio. 

Ma tu ci credi a queste bufale?
Questa sarebbe una bufala?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkG2dkr6kfM&feature=fvw

 Questa sarebbe una bufala?
Veramente hai bisogno di conferma? 

 Ti consiglio una camomilla
dopo che ti sarai fatto una cura di fosforo per capire l'ironia

 ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:b205fd6d-a318-4a5d...@m25g2000vbi.googlegroups.com...
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Ti porgo le mie scuse ed ammetto, contrito, che non avevo capito che stavi 
facendo dell'ironia. A mia parziale discolpa posso solo ricordare le molte 
altre, ehm, stranezze che scrivi pi� o meno ogni pochi minuti. Comunque 
complimenti per l'ironia. 


#_Domande validissime alle quali credo che mai nessuno rispondera`.