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Sisyphus Press -- P.O. Box 10495 State College, Pa. 16805-0495 Inside Job: Unmasking the 9/11 Conspiracies by Jim Marrs |
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Review: Victor Thorn Jim Marrs once wrote, “Always question authority – and the higher the authority, the harsher the questions!” These words are especially relevant in regard to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 which rocked this nation – and the world – to its very core. But, considering how this horrendous event was the most defining and traumatic moment of the 21st century, and also how it set the stage for multiple wars and invasive legislative acts, it is curious how little true investigative work has been presented to the American public from our mainstream media. Likewise, these same corporate-controlled reporters have absolutely refused to connect-the-dots when verifiable information has been made available to them about 9-11. Their refusal to tackle this subject matter is a blatant example of cowardice at its very worst, and every journalist and talk show host who has participated in this treasonous cover-up should not only be ashamed of themselves; they should also realize that they have surrendered a large part of their soul for not having the courage to expose those who were really behind this atrocity. Luckily, there are writers and researchers like Jim Marrs who are unafraid to lay-out the grisly facts about 9-11. And yes, this alternate version of events that unabashedly contradicts the government/mainstream media/9-11 commission’s whitewash is quite sobering and troublesome. But we can never forget what happened that fateful morning; and even more importantly, we should pay heed to Jim Marrs’ words about questioning authority. These inquiries are precisely what the powers-that-be (who were ultimately behind the 9-11 attacks) do not want to confront. Rather, they prefer to behave in exactly the same way that they did with the Gulf of Tonkin, Pearl Harbor, Israel’s unprovoked attack on the U.S.S. Liberty in 1967, TWA Flight 800, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and the Lusitania’s sinking – by avoiding, denying, marginalizing, and disseminating disinformation to prevent people from seeing what actually happened. As a testament to his fortitude and sense of justice, Jim Marrs has not allowed the guilty parties to sweep this matter under the rug, for Inside Job: Unmasking the 9/11 Conspiracies takes an unblinking look at the deep dark underbelly of State-sponsored terrorism. Rather than accepting the cock-and-bull cover-story of 19 Afghani cave-dwellers who hijacked four jumbo jetliners and traversed the eastern seaboard while our military was conveniently asleep at the wheel (the “incompetence” ruse), Marrs pierces the Air Force stand-down, exposes the implausible Pentagon fallacy, and hammers away at every other element of this grand illusion which has more holes in it than a block of Swiss cheese (including the insider stock trading, shooting down of Flight 93, explosives in the World Trade Center towers, and how many of the supposed ‘suicide hijackers’ are still alive and well). If these notions trigger a feeling that something (or many things) about the official version of 9-11 don’t add up, then by all means dive into this book and read it from cover-to-cover. By the time you reach the final page, you’ll realize full-well the extent to which we’ve been collectively bamboozled, and the horrific crime that has been committed against us by those we’re most supposed to trust. Thankfully there is no more thorough researcher to bring it all out into the open then the author of Inside Job. Considering the body of work he has produced during his career, Jim Marrs is a national treasure. I only wish there were more people like him in the world, and even more so, more people in the media who had the courage to report his findings to the American public. SUMMARY OF JIM MARRS' KEY FINDINGS ABOUT 9/11: Excerpted from Jim Marrs' Inside Job • A wide variety of standard defense mechanisms designed to prevent such an attack systematically failed on 9/11. Especially notable are the atypical failures which occurred simultaneously within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the National Military Command Center (NMCC), and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), all charged with protecting US airspace. • Interceptor jets were not scrambled for more than thirty minutes after it was obvious that four airliners had gone off course and were presumably hijacked. In the case of Flight 77, which reportedly slammed into the Pentagon, an hour and forty-five minutes elapsed with no interception. • Missile batteries designed to protect Washington, DC, failed to stop the strike on the Pentagon, one of the world's most protected structures, and fighter jets on constant alert at Andrews Air Force Base just twelve miles away were never scrambled. • By a "bizarre coincidence," two government homeland defense agencies (NORAD and the NRO) were practicing war games on the morning of 9/11. The games simulated responses to a scenario in which hijacked planes were crashed into buildings. This fact could explain the government's lack of rapid response to the real hijackings, yet this plausible alibi has never been brought to public attention. One also wonders: How did the hijackers know the time and date of these war games in order to time their attacks to coincide with them? • President Bush proceeded with a photo op at a Florida elementary school even after he and his aides knew that three planes had been hijacked. He lingered in the classroom for nearly twenty minutes after being informed that a second plane had struck the World Trade Center (WTC). • Not one steel-framed high-rise building in history has collapsed solely due to fire. The free-fall speed collapse of the Trade Center towers, with attendant melted steel and powdery dust, exhibited all the characteristics of a controlled demolition. • Just such a controlled demolition apparently occurred about 5 p.m. that same day when, according to the leaseholder of the WTC complex, the 47-story Building 7 was "pulled," i.e., intentionally demolished. • Vital evidence, including the buildings' structural steel, was destroyed through rapid removal and destruction by US government officials with no investigation. This is only one of the many reasons why Fire Engineering magazine called the official investigation "a half-baked farce." • An eight-mile-long debris trail indicated that Flight 93 was destroyed in the air rather than in the Pennsylvania crash reportedly caused by an onboard struggle between the hijackers and passengers. • More than a dozen countries firmly warned US authorities that an attack on American soil was imminent, some only days before the events. • Strong evidence points to complicity in the attacks by senior intelligence operatives from Israel and Pakistan who are closely aligned with American intelligence agencies. • A classified Congressional report incriminates senior officials in the Saudi Arabian government, showing that they had close ties to the hijackers. The Saudis enjoy long-term business and social ties to the Bush family and close political ties to the US government. • The US government expedited the swift departure of over 100 Saudis from the country, even as the American public had been denied the right to fly. Two dozen members of bin Laden's own family, presumably potential witnesses, were allowed to leave the country without interrogation. • Insiders with foreknowledge of the events to come engaged in massive and highly profitable short-selling of shares in American Airlines and United Airlines, as well as other stocks readily affected by the disaster. The public has still not been presented with the final results of official investigations into these transactions-if there are any. • A growing number of whistleblowers from within the federal government have pointed to evidence that various agencies were well aware of the possibility of attack, and were prevented by seniors officials from mounting full investigations. • Far from being a mere reaction to 9/11, evidence now proves that the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were the culmination of long-standing plans which only awaited a provocation such as 9/11. • The official explanations for the invasion of Iraq, such as the need to capture weapons of mass destruction, and to "bring democracy" to the country, have proven false. • Within a few hours, the FBI released names and photos of the suspected hijackers although later many of those named turned up alive in the Middle East. • Also within hours of the attacks, FBI agents were scouring the houses, restaurants, and flight schools they frequented. If no one had foreknowledge of the hijackers or their activities, how did they know where to look? • Far from ordering a full and objective investigation to determine who was responsible for the 9/11 tragedies, the Bush administration dragged its feet and actually took actions to impede a swift and truthful probe into the events of that day. It was nearly two years after the events that mounting pressure from the public, led by families of 9/11 victims, finally forced the creation of an "independent" investigatory commission. • No one in government has been reprimanded or even scolded for what we are told was the greatest intelligence and homeland-defense failure in US history. In fact, the very agencies which failed the nation watched their budgets increase dramatically, and some of the officials ostensibly at fault were actually promoted. • No person in government, other than former National Security Council counterterrorism chief Richard A. Clarke, has felt the need to apologize to the American people for the 9/11 security failure. • President Bush himself declined to apologize for the 9/11 tragedy to either the American public or to victims' families during an April 2004 press conference, despite being presented with the opportunity to do so at least three times. Table of Contents Preface by Ellen Mariani Publisher's Preface Introduction 1. The Events of September 11, 2001 2. A Chronology of Events 3. Unresolved Questions Abound 4. What Did President Bush Know? 5. Did War Games Aid the Terrorists? 6. Bush Creates the Premise for a War on Terrorism 7. Who Authorized the bin Laden Evacuation? 8. What About the Hijackers Themselves? 9. What Really Happened at the Pentagon? 10. Explosions at the World Trade Center? 11. Firefighters Thought the Fires Were Controllable 12. What Caused the Collapse of Building 7? 13. FEMA's Report: Cause of WTC Collapse Unknown 14. Tracks of Foreknowledge Revealed 15. The FBI Couldn't, or Wouldn't, Connect the Dots 16. Missed Opportunities at the CIA 17. Selling Stocks Indicates Foreknowledge 18. What About Israeli Foreknowledge? 19. Remote Controlled Aircraft A Reality 20. The 9/11 Inquiry: Another Warren Commission? 21. Where Are We Now? Preface by Ellen Mariani This preface is an open letter to the American people, and it comes straight from my heart. I ask that you read this book and discover for yourself why the attacks of September 11, 2001, were, in fact, an inside job. Jim Marrs makes that case in his book; I intend to prove it in a court of law. My husband, Neil Mariani, was killed in the attacks. He was a passenger on United Airlines Flight 175, the second of two planes to crash into the World Trade Center. On the awful day, my husband and I were on our way to our daughter's wedding in California from Boston's Logan airport, but we were booked on separate flights. We took separate flights because we were not sure at first that he could afford to fly to his stepdaughter's wedding. So sometime after I had booked my trip, we held a garage sale, and raised just enough money to purchase a flight for him two hours later than mine. I will never forget the very last moment I saw him at the airport as I departed to my gate. Today I am a bereaved widow, but I am a determined one. I am one of about 75 families that did not file for a settlement from the so-called September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, which consisted of taxpayers' money paid out directly from the US Treasury for the first time in history. Rather than accept about $500,000 to be paid to my husband's estate in compensation for my husband's life, I decided to retain my right to speak out. But I don't want this money; I just want answers. By taking money from that fund, which I call the "shut-up and go-away fund," I would have given up my right to sue United Airlines and the federal government. Once I finally overcame my grief for Neil, which took many hard months, I came to believe that the only way I can get information about what happened to him is through the courts. I became the first family member of a victim of 9/11 to file a lawsuit against the government. My suit is based on the RICO Act, and it is aimed at proving that the September 11 terrorist attacks were no surprise to the government. I believe that many of the highest officials in the federal government were aware the attacks would take place--in fact I am 100 percent sure that they knew. It was difficult to get a lawyer to take my case. Absolutely no one dared take my case against the government. But then I found a courageous man named Phil Berg, a former deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania. Our lawsuit is directed against President Bush and a number of other administration members. As Phil Berg has written in the Complaint, the suit "is based upon prior knowledge of 9/11; knowingly failing to act, prevent or warn of 9/11; and the ongoing obstruction of justice by covering up the truth of 9/11; all in violation of the laws of the United States." In addition to President George Bush, we named Vice President Dick Cheney, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice as defendants, among others. The suit also names the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and the Council on Foreign Relations, among other agencies. Phil Berg and I have agreed to allow Origin Press, the publisher of Inside Job, to print highlights of our Complaint in the appendices to this book. Please read this material, including Ellen Mariani's Open Letter to Mr. Bush--and please support us. I also ask you to read very closely the 23 Questions of the Family Steering Committee that are also reprinted in the appendices. These 23 queries are among the key questions I seek to have answered in a court of law--and that Jim Marrs so effectively puts forth in this courageous book. Our lawsuit cannot bring back my husband or the other victims of 9/11. But I believe it can and it will bring forward the truth and justice that is so badly needed at this time, in this country. When you read this book by Jim Marrs, you will surely see why. Ellen Mariani (widow of Louis Neil Mariani) Derry, New Hampshire May 10, 2004 ======================================================================================= "This sobering book is vital reading for every American patriot. Jim Marrs raises so many important and unanswered questions that, whether or not you believe 9/11 was an inside job, there can be no doubt about the need for us to fight to win our country back from these thieves and criminals in high places. This is hair-raising journalism from a fellow Texan populist." Jim Hightower, activist, radio commentator, and author of Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush "Jim Marrs is one of our most courageous investigative journalists, one who is willing to ask the many unanswered questions about 9/11 that we all want answered, and to keep asking them until he gets to the truth. To heal the wounds of 9/11--as with any deep emotional wound--it is essential that we ask these questions and come to know the complete truth about what really happened. It is only then that the heart of America can be healed, and only then can we move beyond fear to create a world of peace at this historic time. Inside Job is an essential contribution to that effort. Read it and share it with your friends." John Gray, author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus ========================================================================================== Jim Marrs takes on the 911 Commission and most of the rest of the beltway boys in this hard hitting examination of what they HAVEN'T told us about the most terrible sneak attack in American history. Fasten your seatbelts for this one. ========================================================================================= The official story about 9/11 is discredited. That is the sobering conclusion reached by millions of Americans, all across the political spectrum, who have sifted through the evidence uncovered by hundreds of independent researchers. Many honest citizens are now forced, with sadness and reluctance, to make an almost unthinkable inference: Powerful US officials must have had foreknowledge of the planned attacks, and then acted from the inside to: thwart efforts to prevent 9/11, remove or cover up criminal evidence, and hamper inquiries into what happened. Were the horrific events of September 11, 2001 truly an inside job? This book will help you decide for yourself. In this work, world-renowned conspiracy theorist Jim Marrs makes a compelling case that 9/11 marks the intersection of several conspiracies at once, each based on overlapping political agendas. Support for his thesis comes from this sampling of the many disturbing anomalies, cited by Marrs: • Standard air defense mechanisms systematically failed, simultaneously. • Interceptor jets were scrambled too late, too slowly, and from the wrong locations. • President Bush proceeded with a "photo op" long after he knew we were under attack. • Fires could not have caused the free-fall collapse of the World Trade Center towers. • The collapse of Building 7 in the complex was later admitted to be a demolition. • Vital physical evidence was either removed or has never been released to investigators. • Key officials claimed warnings never came, despite massive evidence to the contrary. Inside Job is the definitive journalistic account of the hidden role of the Bush administration in failing to prevent the 9/11 attacks. The author provides heavy documentation of his findings, plus extensive appendices that include perspectives from families of 9/11 victims, and excerpts from the RICO Act lawsuit filed by 9/11 widow Ellen Mariani. ========================================================================================== |
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