{"id":187891,"date":"2023-09-24T17:12:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T21:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=187891"},"modified":"2023-09-24T17:14:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T21:14:40","slug":"what-really-happened-on-9-11-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=187891","title":{"rendered":"What Really Happened on 9\/11?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Al-Qaeda carried out four suicide terrorist attacks against the US on September 11, 2001, killing nearly 3,000 civilians. At least that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve been told.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more-->DR. JOSEPH MERCOLA<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OCzy9i4tIHU?si=mgr4IbfPglMyzEwn\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"expanderHead\" data-jsid=\"expanderHead\">Story at-a-glance<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0\">According to the official narrative, on September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda carried out four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks against the United States, killing 2,750 civilians in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon and 40 airline passengers whose plane crashed in Pennsylvania<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1\">The 9\/11 Commission Report was published July 22, 2004, but 28 pages of the report detailing the role of Saudi Arabia remain classified<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2\">Evidence suggests the Saudi government may have been involved in the 9\/11 attacks, but the U.S. government, FBI and CIA covered up the connection<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3\">Two of the 9\/11 hijackers \u2014 Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar \u2014 were Saudi nationals whom high level sources claim were recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation. The CIA refused to share information about the recruits with the FBI, thereby preventing the FBI from launching a criminal investigation that could have stopped the terrorist plot<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4\">Other evidence points to an even more sinister possibility, namely that U.S. authorities not only knew about the potential for an attack beforehand, but were part of it<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda carried out four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks against the United States, killing 2,750 civilians in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon and 40 airline passengers whose plane crashed in Pennsylvania.<sup><span id=\"edn1\" data-hash=\"#ednref1\">1<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0At least, that\u2019s what we\u2019ve been told. But is that really what happened?<\/p>\n<p>The video above is a five-minute rapid-fire summary by investigative journalist James Corbett of the official narrative and the main problems with the \u201cterrorist attack\u201d narrative.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Corbett published a \u201c9\/11 Suspects\u201d video series in which he dissected the alleged attacks and reviewed potential suspects. Four years later, he re-released the series as an hour-long documentary,<sup><span id=\"edn2\" data-hash=\"#ednref2\">2<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0embedded below for your convenience. As noted by Corbett in the documentary:<sup><span id=\"edn3\" data-hash=\"#ednref3\">3<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201c9\/11 was a crime. This should not be a controversial statement, but given how 9\/11 was framed as a terrorist attack or even an \u2018act of war\u2019 from the very moment that it occurred, it somehow is. If we lived in a world of truth and justice, 9\/11 would have been approached as a crime to be solved rather than an attack to be responded to \u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Like a prosecutor trying to bring down a mafia kingpin, it is unlikely that such an investigation would start by bringing the suspected mastermind of the plot to trial.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Such a vast and intricate operation would be picked apart from the outside, starting with people on the periphery of the plot who could be forced to testify under oath and who could provide leads further up the ladder.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>As more and more of the picture was filled in, the case against the inner clique who ran the operation would begin to strengthen, and, gradually, more and more central figures could be brought to trial.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>We may not live in a world where such a criminal investigation is taking place, but we are trying the crimes of 9\/11 in the court of public opinion \u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Over the course of The Corbett Report\u2019s existence, I have looked at many figures who no doubt feature more prominently in the 9\/11 plot itself from an operational standpoint: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Larry Silverstein, Dov Zakheim, Paul Bremer, Richard Armitage.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>[In the documentary] we will look at some of the other suspects in that crime; not ringleaders or masterminds, not even people who were likely to know about the plot ahead of time. But those who helped cover up those crimes for the real perpetrators.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Characters featured in Corbett\u2019s film are former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman, executive director of the 9\/11 commission Philip Zelikow, former CIA case officer Robert Baer and general Ralph Eberhart.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-rwd has-figcaption\">\n<figure class=\"op-interactive aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"iFrameResizer0\" class=\" mlazyloaded\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corbettreport.com\/?powerpress_embed=35215-podcast&amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-video\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mlazyload-src=\"https:\/\/www.corbettreport.com\/?powerpress_embed=35215-podcast&amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-video\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><figcaption class=\"op-large op-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.corbettreport.com\/911suspects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video Link<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Was Saudi Arabia Involved?<\/h2>\n<p>As noted by Corbett, it took President Bush 441 days to establish a commission to investigate the events of 9\/11, and even then he didn\u2019t do it willingly. Bush reportedly resisted the idea of conducting an investigation, and even asked Senate majority leader Tom Daschle to limit Congressional inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>Commission chairman Thomas Kean also later stated the commission members felt they\u2019d been \u201cset up to fail,\u201d as the investigation was underfunded and rushed. Curiously, Zelikow, the executive director of the commission, had also authored the Bush administration\u2019s 2002 national security strategy, which included the use of a \u201cpreemptive war\u201d strategy against Iraq, which would seem a rather severe conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p>The 9\/11 Commission Report<sup><span id=\"edn4\" data-hash=\"#ednref4\">4<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0was published July 22, 2004, but to this day, 28 pages of the report detailing the role of Saudi Arabia remain classified. In April 2016, the editorial board of the New York Post called on then-President Barack Obama to declassify the sealed pages, stating \u201cAmerica deserves the truth about the Saudis and 9\/11.\u201d According to the New York Post:<sup><span id=\"edn5\" data-hash=\"#ednref5\">5<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cAs early as 2003, a U.S. official who\u2019d read the pages told the Los Angeles Times they linked \u2018direct involvement of senior Saudi government officials in a coordinated and methodical way directly\u2019 to the terrorists \u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Paul Sperry has been writing in The Post about this for over three years, reporting that Riyadh\u2019s involvement \u2018was deliberately covered up at the highest levels of our government.\u2019 Federal investigations were quashed and leads ignored \u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Riyadh actively funded al Qaeda and other Islamist extremists for decades \u2014 officially stopping only after they turned on the Saudi kingdom. How many of the perfidious princes kept it up anyway?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Only the 9\/11 commissioners have dared pursue that question. The rest of official Washington shied away, for fear disclosure would threaten the US-Saudi relationship.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In another 2016 New York Post article, Sperry wrote:<sup><span id=\"edn6\" data-hash=\"#ednref6\">6<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201c\u2026 the kingdom\u2019s involvement was deliberately covered up at the highest levels of our government. And the coverup goes beyond locking up 28 pages of the Saudi report in a vault in the U.S. Capitol basement. Investigations were throttled. Co-conspirators were let off the hook.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Case agents I\u2019ve interviewed at the Joint Terrorism Task Forces in Washington and San Diego, the forward operating base for some of the Saudi hijackers, as well as detectives at the Fairfax County (Va.) Police Department who also investigated several 9\/11 leads, say virtually every road led back to the Saudi Embassy in Washington, as well as the Saudi Consulate in Los Angeles.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"a124987f279ada0338469db0cf4fd76e\" data-index=\"9\">\n<div id=\"as4094\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ad.style\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">native advertising<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Yet time and time again, they were called off from pursuing leads. A common excuse was \u2018diplomatic immunity.\u2019 Those sources say the pages missing from the 9\/11 congressional inquiry report \u2026 detail \u2018incontrovertible evidence\u2019 gathered from both CIA and FBI case files of official Saudi assistance for at least two of the Saudi hijackers who settled in San Diego\u00a0\u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u2018The Saudi ambassador funded two of the 9\/11 hijackers through a third party,\u2019 [former FBI agent John] Guandolo said. \u2018He should be treated as a terrorist suspect, as should other members of the Saudi elite class who the U.S. government knows are currently funding the global jihad.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>At Least Two 9\/11 Hijackers Were CIA Recruits<\/h2>\n<p>Even more disturbing is the declaration<sup><span id=\"edn7\" data-hash=\"#ednref7\">7<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0of Donald Canestraro, an investigator with the Office of Military Commissions, the legal body overseeing the cases of 9\/11 defendants, who in July 2016 launched an investigation into the possible involvement of both the Saudi Arabian government and the CIA in events leading up to 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>According to Canestraro, at least two of the 9\/11 hijackers \u2014 Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar \u2014 were Saudi nationals who had been recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation. Hazmi and Mihdhar also lived with an FBI informant.<\/p>\n<p>Canestraro\u2019s declaration confirms previous suspicions that the CIA knew far more about the hijackers than they admitted,<sup><span id=\"edn8\" data-hash=\"#ednref8\">8<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0and may in fact have been working with them at the time of the attacks. As reported by The Grayzone:<sup><span id=\"edn9\" data-hash=\"#ednref9\">9<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWhen originally released in 2021 on the Office\u2019s public court docket, every part of the document was redacted except an \u2018unclassified\u2019 marking. Given its explosive contents, it is not difficult to see why: as Canestraro\u2019s investigation concluded, at least two 9\/11 hijackers had been recruited either knowingly or unknowingly into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation which may have gone awry.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>In 1996, Alec Station [a special CIA unit tasked with tracking the activities of Osama bin Laden] was created \u2026 The initiative was supposed to comprise a joint investigative effort with the FBI. However, FBI operatives assigned to the unit soon found they were prohibited from passing any information to the Bureau\u2019s head office without the CIA\u2019s authorization \u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>In late 1999, with \u2018the system blinking red\u2019 about an imminent large-scale Al Qaeda terror attack inside the U.S., the CIA and NSA were closely monitoring an \u2018operational cadre\u2019 within an Al Qaeda cell that included the Saudi nationals Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar. The pair would purportedly go on to hijack American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon on 9\/11.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>January 15th, Hazmi and Mihdhar entered the U.S. through Los Angeles International Airport \u2026 Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi government \u2018ghost employee\u2019 immediately met them at an airport restaurant. After a brief conversation, Bayoumi helped them find an apartment near his own in San Diego, co-signed their lease, set them up bank accounts, and gifted $1,500 towards their rent \u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Bayoumi alleged his run-in with the two would-be hijackers was mere happenstance\u2026 The Bureau disagreed, concluding Bayoumi was a Saudi spy, who handled a number of Al Qaeda operatives in the U.S. They also considered there to be a \u201850\/50 chance\u2019 he \u2014 and by extension Riyadh \u2014 had detailed advance knowledge of the 9\/11 attacks \u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Bureau special agent, dubbed \u2018CS-3\u2019 in the document, stated Bayoumi\u2019s contact with the hijackers and support thereafter \u2018was done at the behest of the CIA through the Saudi intelligence service.\u2019 Alec Station\u2019s explicit purpose was to \u2018recruit Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar via a liaison relationship,\u2019 with the assistance of Riyadh\u2019s General Intelligence Directorate.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>FBI-CIA Coverup<\/h2>\n<p>According to high level sources that spoke to Canestraro, it was highly unusual for Alec Station to recruit human assets. The unit consisted of CIA analysts whose job it was to collect intelligence on Osama bin Laden and warn policymakers about his activities. Alec Station was not equipped to handle covert operations.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, if the CIA had recruited or even was just monitoring Hazmi and Mihdhar in the U.S., they were likely in violation of the CIA\u2019s charter, as they\u2019re not allowed to carry out operations on U.S. soil.<\/p>\n<p>CIA case officers within Alec Station also admitted to other violations, such as directing field officers \u2014 over whom they had no legal authority \u2014 to carry out tasks for the unit. In the aftermath of 9\/11, both Alec Station and the FBI suppressed investigations into the unit\u2019s operation to recruit Hazmi and Mihdhar.<\/p>\n<p>One key takeaway from the Grayzone\u2019s extensive writeup about this affair is that the FBI could have stopped Hazmi and Mihdhar, if only the CIA unit had actually shared information with the FBI, as it was supposed to, as the FBI had already linked the pair to Walid bin Attash, another al-Qaeda terror suspect. As noted by Grayzone:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cAlec Station\u2019s tireless efforts to protect its Al Qaeda assets raises the obvious question of whether Hazmi and Mihdhar, and possibly other hijackers, were in effect working for the CIA on the day of 9\/11.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>The real motives behind the CIA\u2019s stonewalling may never be known. But it appears abundantly clear that Alec Station did not want the FBI to know about or interfere in its secret intelligence operation.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>If the unit\u2019s recruitment of Hazmi and Mihdhar was purely dedicated to information gathering, rather than operational direction, it is incomprehensible that the FBI had not been apprised of it, and was instead actively misdirected.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A question then arises. Had Alec Station gone rogue? It\u2019s unlikely, considering no Alec Station member has ever been punished for the intelligence failures that allowed 9\/11 to occur.<\/p>\n<h2>Was It an Inside Job?<\/h2>\n<p>As bad as all of that may seem, other evidence<sup><span id=\"edn10\" data-hash=\"#ednref10\">10<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0points to an even more sinister possibility, and that is that U.S. authorities not only knew about the potential for an attack beforehand, but that they were part of it.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, it may have been a false flag event, orchestrated to justify the implementation of the Patriot Act, which brought with it massively increased surveillance and reduced freedom, and the launch of the war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Just how and why did World Trade Center building 7 collapse? No planes struck it, and it wasn\u2019t on fire. Speaking of fire, more than 3,000 architects and engineers have gone on record saying fire, even if fueled by jet fuel, couldn\u2019t possibly cause a skyscraper to collapse into its own footprint, let alone a skyscraper that was undamaged.<\/p>\n<p>According to Architects &amp; Engineers for 9\/11 Truth,<sup><span id=\"edn11\" data-hash=\"#ednref11\">11<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0the evidence clearly points to the three buildings being destroyed by explosives placed at strategic locations within the buildings, which means they had to have been planted well beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>Was it pure coincidence that war games and terror drills were being conducted that very same day, allowing air defenses to be circumvented? Was it also pure coincidence that whatever hit the Pentagon vaporized the budget analyst office and its contents, which was trying to figure out where $2.3 trillion of the Pentagon\u2019s budget had disappeared to?<\/p>\n<p>And what\u2019s the likelihood of finding an undamaged passport on the streets of New York City, identifying one of the hijackers, when the plane and the entire building had been turned to ash?<\/p>\n<p>These and many other questions have been asked by 911truth.org,<sup><span id=\"edn12\" data-hash=\"#ednref12\">12<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0which today, 22 years later, is still working to get answers. You can delve deeper into these questions on 911 Truth\u2019s Case for Complicity page.<sup><span id=\"edn13\" data-hash=\"#ednref13\">13<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0The Journal of 9\/11 Studies<sup><span id=\"edn14\" data-hash=\"#ednref14\">14<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0is another resource. It\u2019s a peer-reviewed electronic-only journal that covers any and all research related to the events of 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/takecontrol.substack.com\/p\/what-really-happened-on-9-11\">https:\/\/takecontrol.substack.com\/p\/what-really-happened-on-9-11<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Qaeda carried out four suicide terrorist attacks against the US on September 11, 2001, killing nearly 3,000 civilians. 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