I’m not following the story closely enough to summarise developments since the last Lobster – it would be a near full-time job to do so – but there are some items of interest, not all pointing in the same direction, worth noting. Retired US Lt.-Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, quoted in this issue in the piece about Iraq, wrote a commentary on the report of the 9-11 Commission which included this rather pregnant paragraph.
‘The report refers to the many cell phone calls that were made from the speeding airplanes, yet most people who have tried to do this find that reception, cell switching software, and other factors often prevent even a connection, much less a conversation. The 9/11 Commission should have taken the opportunity to clear up that technological debate. It did not.’
Here and elsewhere in her comments at <www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski88.html> Kwiatkowski is dropping broad hints that, in her view, there is something fishy here.
In ‘Pakistan and 9/11’, at <www.saag.org/papers11/paper1069.html> B. Raman, a former Indian intelligence officer, discusses advance knowledge of 9-11 among Pakistan’s intelligence community and concludes:
‘It is, therefore, impossible that the Pakistani authorities would not have known of Al Qaeda’s plans for the 9/11 terrorist strikes from their officers working as advisers to the Amir of the Taliban.’
Reports of the US military doing hijack ‘drills’ on 11 September 2001 are at <http://inn.globalfreepress.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=387> where Michael Kane includes this quote from Michael Ruppert:
‘I have an on-the-record statement from someone in NORAD that on the day of 9/11 the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Richard B. Myers) and NORAD were conducting a joint, live-fly, hijack Field Training Exercise (FTX) which involved at least one (and almost certainly many more) aircraft under US control that was posing as a hijacked airliner’.
<www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2004/130904hiltontranscript.htm> is the transcript of an interview with Stanley Hilton, a Californian lawyer who is trying to bring a civil law suit against Bush, Cheney et al for organising 9-11. Hilton is some time chief of staff for Republican presidential candidate Senator Bob Dole.
Kevin Ryan, the head of the Environmental Health Laboratory Div. of Underwriter´s Laboratory, wrote a letter pointing out that the steel in the Twin Towers, which his company had tested, prior to construction, would not melt at 2000 degrees F, as per official government theory of the incident. For this he was fired in mid-November 2004. <www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041112144051451>