The New Pearl Harbour: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11
David Ray Griffin
Northampton, Mass.: Olive Tree Press/Interlink 2004, $15.00, p/back
available at </www.interlinkbooks.com>
Putting this out in America took some courage. Most of the content of this book is so far off the mainstream radar as to be invisible. A professor of the philosophy of religion, the author has used normal academic methods to pull together and examine the anomalies in the 9-11 story. And there is a ton of them. (1)
- the non-interception of the planes;
- the hole in the Pentagon apparently too small to have been made by the plane said to have done it;
- the strange collapse of the buildings themselves;
- the hijacker passport being found, intact, in the rubble;
- the financial speculation just before the events;
- the torrent of advance warnings; and so forth
He considers them all and finds most of them substantial – even the collapse of the buildings. His section headed ‘Problems for a coincidence theory’ runs to almost 4 pages and 38 separate points. He doesn’t know what happened but, he concludes, the paranoids are essentially correct: something stinks in the court of Denmark.
Notes
1 My current favourite is discovery of apparent ‘bumps’ – fuel tanks? explosives? optical illusions? – on the fuselage of one of the planes. Go to <www.amics21.com/911/index.html> and look at the ‘bumps’ section.
The author, Griffin, was interviewed in The Independent in May at <http://independent.com/news/news906.htm>