9/11 Revealed: The Unanswered Questions

I was browsing Border's the other week. Being a 9/11 Truth activist the past six months, I saw "9/11" on the cover of this book naturally stopped and picked it up. I am well aware that David Ray Griffin's two books are available at the mainstream bookstores, but I figured that they were pretty much the only ones in which US Government complicity is entertained. Oh, and Michael Ruppert's "Crossing the Rubicon." Anyway, I opened this book and was pleasantly surprised to find that is indeed a 9/11 Truth book, dedicated to activists of the 9/11 Truth Movement. The book is rich with color pictures, like Eric Hufschmid's "Painful Questions." Unlike "Painful Questions," however (which isn't available in stores), this is an umbrella book which exposes the neophyte to the entire spectrum of 9/11 issues within the 9/11 Skeptics Movement, the label the authors use for the movement. It explores the absence of F-16s intercepting the hijacked planes, the war game exercises Dick Cheney was conducting on the morning of 9/11 to deliberately confuse/paralyze NORAD, the physics of the Tower collapses/implosions, the Northwoods Documents, and many others. What's interesting to note is that the "official story" itself has two basic versions, the first of which is essentially obsolete. This version was that such an evil attack as 9/11, such a crime against humanity, was unthinkable, so unthinkable that the government had no idea that terrorists could ever conceive of such an attack! This was the version the American public accepted when it was paralyzed by fear and nationalism. However, the 9/11 Commission Report in 2004 gives us Version Two of the official version. This version holds that the US government screwed up big-time, failed to connect the dots, and needs to really learn from its mistakes. This version tacitly acknowledges that 9/11 could indeed have been prevented. Then there are two alternative theories: LIHOP and MIHOP. Let-it-happen-on-purpose, and Made-it-happen-on-purpose. There is really not much difference between the two except that in MIHOP, there could be an X-team of clandestine operatives who carry out operations designed to give the A-team exactly what it wants. In this case, an example of an X-team would be the crew who rigs the Towers with explosives. Another example could be the individuals who are remotely piloting any of the planes (original or drone). These X-team operatives insured that the Pentagon was hit in the empty section. MIHOP proponents argue that the risk of pure LIHOP would be too great; for example the hijackers could crash into Rumsfeld's office, or strike a nuclear power plant instead, which would have rendered much of the country uninhabitable. Flight 93 mysteries are also explored, from the Cleveland Airport mystery (Did flight 93 make an emergency landing?) to the possibility of a USAF shoot-down. I think that whatever object was flying over PA was shot down, whether it was the original plane or a

The Pentagon planned fake terror in the 1960s. According to the Daily Mail (UK), August 6 2005, "The plot by America's military bosses was devilish in both design and intent - to fabricate an outrage against innocent civilians, fool the world and provide a pretext for war...This `agent provocateur' plan - code named OPERATION NORTHWOODS and revealed in official archives - dates from 1962 when the Cold War was at its height." The CIA's Operation Gladio involved bombs in Italy in the 1970s. 9 11 appears to be similar to previous Pentagon plots. According to the Times (UK,)4 September 2005,'The authors of Revealed, both radical journalists, have subjected the official version of what happened to intense scrutiny and found huge gaps.' For example, experts say it is all but impossible to make a mobile phone call above 8,000 feet - let alone four times that altitude, as the jet passengers are alleged to have done. So how were these calls on which so much of the 9/11 narrative has been built ever made? The plane that hit the Pentagon was seen to swerve at the last minute and hit an area of the building that was largely unoccupied - and which had just been fitted with reinforced external walls and blast-resistant windows. A crash into the other side would have killed and maimed many thousands instead of just 125. Bin Laden was in an American hospital just prior to 9 11 (according to Le Figaro and French radio). The bin Laden family have close financial ties to a lot of top Americans. Five of the alleged hijackers had the same names as people trained at US military bases (Newsweek). Read this book and you will be an expert on all aspects of 9 11. There are lots of photos and the text is easy to read.

Although I may not agree with some of the ideas of this book, it does bring up some points that should be looked at. The government needs to do a number of things to show the public what it knows--such as--1)release all of the available video from the Pentagon.2)release the information from the black boxes that they claim were not recovered.3)Have somebody be held accountable for this tragedy and cover-up. The 9/11 Commission failed because they did not look at all of the evidence and eyewitness accounts. There is more to the story than we were told.

First a comment to the reviewer Hoax Buster on the subject of the five Pentagon frames. Hoax Buster writes that the five frames are a poison pill. For who? The only entity the five frames are a poion pill for is the Pentagon, because the Pentagon is on record recognizing the frames as legitimate. If they aren't, the Pentagon has some 'splaining to do! As far as reviewers Hoax Buster and 911 Researcher are concerned on the subject of the pod attached to flight 177, the proof that a pod exists is that the pod casts a shadow on the bottom of the fusalage. Because the bottoms of civilian airliners have no appendages or bulges hanging down (except when the landing gear deploys), no shadow should be present. Note the shadows the engines cast AND a third shadow located near dead center of the bottom of the plane? While Morgan and Henshall certainly do throw into the mix rediculous explanations for some of the odd things that happened on 9/11 (such as "explosives pre-placed in the towers" as standard operating procedure for the construction of sky scrappers), the authors then demolish (no pun intended) those explanations as they did with the "explosives pre-placed in the towers" theory. As I see it, I prefer a book that gives all the theories (absurd/official account or Nine-Eleven Truth Movement accounts) for the many discrepencies that occurred on 9/11, and then puts each theory under rigorus examination, which the authors do. Morgan and Henshall manage to bring some new information into focus in 9/11 Revealed. If you've bought The New Pearl Harbor by David Ray Griffin or 9/11 Snythetic Terror by Webster Tarpley and think there's nothing new to learn about 9/11, you're wrong. 9/11 Revealed has some interesing novel tid-bits. One item I didn't know about, and is discussed in the book, is the fact that none of the pilots or co-pilots made verbal radio announcements that their respective plane was being hijacked?

I found this book to be a very good summary of the alternative 9/11 theories. The book is very well written and also includes many color photographs along with the text. This book, unlike other alternative theory 9/11 books, has the potential to break into the mainstream for many reasons. The book is inexpensive, is a handy size, and it is packed with information. The publisher is mainstream and the authors write from a journalistic perspective within the context of the still unanswered questions surrounding 9/11. The authors present the various alternative theories without demanding that the reader accept them. They simply ask the right questions, search for the right answers and conclude that more investigation is necessary. The reader is allowed to think for herself and will most likely agree with them. If you want a good introduction to the still unanswered questions about 9/11 then this is the book to read. Even if you are already familiar with the alternative theories (as I am) this book is still a must read.