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Page 1: 9-11 Total suprise or clever public policy?. Agenda Presentatie 25 min Discussie Video en audio bronnen Actie perspectief Vinden van meer informatie

9-11

Total suprise or clever public policy?

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Agenda

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Why critical on 9-11?

Used as 'reason' to start two wars so far Suspension of civil liberties globally Massive violations of Geneva convention Attacking Iran in 2006?

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Historical background 1

1953: Iranian democratic governement is deposed by CIA coup – anti-communist Shah rules with iron hand

1979: Religious revolution in Iran, Khomeiny assumes power

1979: Saddam assumes power in Irak 1980-1988: With support from the west Iraq

wages war against Iran 1980-1990: CIA creates Al-Quada in

Afghanistan to combat Sovjets, Osama Bin Laden receives training, weapons and intel

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Historical background 2

1988: Saddam uses chemical weapons against kurds. No intervention from anyone.

1991: Saddam invades Kuwait, US defeats Iraqi army but leaves Saddam in power.

2000: G.W. Bush assumes power in the US after massive election fraud.

2003: US invades Iraq to prevent Iraqi use of WMD's, these turns out not to exist. This was known beforehand to the US and UK.

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The Downing street memo

From: Matthew RycroftDate: 23 July 2002S 195 /02

cc: Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Attorney-General, Sir Richard Wilson, John Scarlett, Francis Richards, CDS, C, Jonathan Powell, Sally Morgan, Alastair Campbell

C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.

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Oil, Dollars and Euro's

2002: Iraq announces plans to sell it's oil for Euro's. The monopoly of the dollar as oil currency comes under pressure.

2003: New government in Iraq. 2004: Iran announces that is will demand

Euro's for it's oil as of march 2006. 2004: US focusses attention on Iran's nuclear

program 2005: Pentagon ask for nuclear option in pre-

emptively striking suspected WMD strikes

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PNAC

www.newamericancentury.org Publications 1997, “Rebuilding America's

defenses” “ ... to create public support for increased use of

the US military a Pearl Harbor-like event is required ...”

Signitories: Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Steve Forbes, Dan Quayle, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz

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These are all facts

Everyting up to here is publicly documented and not up for debate as fact

Interpreting these fact is were opinions may diverge

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(holes in) the official theory

19 muslim fundamentalists hyjack 4 airliners simultaniously armed only with boxcutters

They defeat the US air defense systems and escape interception for over 100 minutes

They succesfully attack the Pentagon, the world's best defended building

The passport of Al Suqami is found undamaged below the WTC tower by an FBI agent

Three steel skyscrapers collapse due to fire (one was not hit by an airliner)

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9-11, let it happen ...

George Bush was at a known place on 9-11, after the second plane hit he remained at the school for 25+ minutes. Why?

FBI agents that arrested the so-called 20th hyjacker were not allowed to research the data on his laptop untill late on 9-11.

Cheney issues stand-down order a few months before 9-11.

And so on ...

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9-11, made it happen

WTC-7, the smoking gun? Collapse WTC-1 & WTC-2 Mobile phonecalls from 10.000+ mtr? Wat happened at the Pentagon ? and dozens of other questions ...

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Possible theories

1. 9-11 was a total suprise that could not be forseen.

2. 9-11 could have been prevented but was not. because of interagency rivalry and clumsiness

3. 9-11 happened with foreknowledge of US officials

4. 9-11 was orchestrated from inside the US

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Now what?

Intense emotional resistance in facing facts and evidence (you've been cheated!)

Complex story, complex evidence, does not fit in a soundbite

Organise viewings Write to your newspaper Write to your MP www.onderzoek911.nl

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