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Excerpts from Days Of Deception by William Thomas ( Fully updated for 2009)


For The Victims Of 9/11 - Then And Now

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I

Pearl Harbor Prelude...........................................................................1

Chapter 1: NORDO .........................................................................13
Chapter 2: We Have A Problem Here..............................................  41
Chapter 3: “I See Buildings” ...........................................................  63
Chapter 4: Manhattan ...................................................................... 85
Chapter 5: Commanders and Chiefs .............................................    115
Chapter 6: The Pentagon ...............................................................  139
Chapter 7: Shootdown ...................................................................  165
Chapter 8: Shanksville ...................................................................  189

PART II
Chapter 9: Qui Bono...................................................................... 221
Chapter 10: Cover-Up....................................................................255
Chapter 11: Afghan Adventure ......................................................287
Chapter 12: Berserkers .................................................................319
Chapter 13: The Magnificent Four .................................................345
Chapter 14: Wake Up America .....................................................385
Chapter 15: Trial and Tribulation ................................................... 419

PART III
Chapter 16: What Now? ..............................................................449
Chapter 17: What We Can Do .....................................................485

ADDENDUM: Pot Shots


References
Days Of Deception: Ground Zero and Beyond by William Thomas

“Everything that the Japanese were planning to do was known to the United States...”

-U.S. Army Board of Inquiry 1944
PRELUDE: PEARL HARBOR

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto returned his yeoman's salute and scanned the J-19 message without revealing his dread and anticipation. The risky raid on the U.S. Navy's mighty Pacific Fleet was going ahead! According to the decrypted text, the opening salvo of a coordinated naval offensive set to sweep from Hawaii to the Philippines would be signaled by Radio Tokyo weather report forecasting “east rain”. i
Swinging at anchor in foggy Hitokappu Bay on November 19, 1941, the remote Kurile Islands afforded Yamamato's Kido Butai “Striking Fleet” apparent security, as well as a shortened Great Circle course to Oahu. But Japan's top admiral would have been less sanguine if he'd known that a Dutch submarine had tracked his fleet here. Fortunately for Yamamoto, a newly elected American administration secretly bent on war never relayed the allied sighting report to the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Hawaii...
       No one responsible for this desperate gamble suspected that the Americans had recently broken Japan's obsolete naval codes. facing the open Pacific above Kaneohe Bay, a radio intercept facility dubbed “Station H” immediately intercepted Yamamoto's sortie order to Admiral Nagumo. U.S. Navy decrypters on Oahu quickly forwarded the decoded message to Washington.
      The British were also listening in on November 25. At three in the morning Washington time, Winston Churchill cabled urgent word to the White House that a Japanese fleet was steaming east toward Hawaii. iii
         FDR tersely telexed back: Negotiations off. Services expect action within two weeks. iv

“Everything that the Japanese were planning to do was known to the United States...”

-U.S. Army Board of Inquiry 1944

“Everything that the Japanese were planning to do was known to the United States...”

-U.S. Army Board of Inquiry 1944
Admiral Yamamoto led Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Chapter 1: NORDO

Early on a day that will unleash perpetual retribution upon the world, an unremarkable man just hours away from becoming its most scrutinized leader begins his customary four-mile morning jog. Visiting Florida for a photo-op to push an education initiative, George Walker “Dubya” Bush is accompanied by his ever-watchful Secret Service detail as he begins circling the golf course at the Colony Beach and Tennis Resort. Renowned for its 21 tennis courts and beachfront views overlooking the blue Caribbean, the “Colony” as staff and habitués call it, has been spruced up for the presidential visit with a special White House detail shouldering surface-to-air missiles on the roof. xx
 Located on exclusive Longboat Key, this faux-tropical beachfront resort is a pampered place for wealth and privilege to relax. But not for Bush's guardians. On this flawless Florida morning, the Secret Service stops a van pulling up to the Colony's entrance. Inside the vehicle, a Middle Eastern “film crew” claim to have a “poolside” interview with the President. xxi
No such appointment is scheduled for September 11, 2001. But just two days previously a similar gambit saw suicide bombers posing as a TV crew blow themselves and Afghan leader Ahmed Massoud into the arms of Allah with a bomb-laden camera. Whether the recording gear belonging to the men in the van contains videotape or Semtex remains unknown. For some reason, never satisfactorily explained, the suspicious foreigners seeking close proximity to the President are turned away without being questioned or searched.

Trouble is brewing on the soft Carib breeze...

OPERATION LOOK THE OTHER WAY

Today, no Japanese Zeroes are expected over Long Island. Instead, Lieutenant Colonel William Glover and his battle staff inside the Pentagon's National Military Command Center are looking for simulated Soviet missiles and bombers coming in over the North Pole. Foreheads aglow with flowing colored tracks from four big overhead screens, his battle staff intently scans banks of monitors, sniffing for simulated trouble. xlvi
They are about to find plenty. But it will not be a drill...

Earlier visa applications for 15 Saudi conspirators should have raised some official eyebrows. Described as “incomplete and often incomprehensible,” none had been filled out properly. Saudi brothers “Wail” and “Waleed al-Shehri” had applied together in October 2000. Under “occupation” Wail wrote “teater”. Brother Waleed claimed “student”. The name and address of their employer and school was listed as “South City”-their U.S. destination: “Wasantwn.”

Both visas were approved.

“Abdulaziz al-Omari” was one of three co-conspirators who obtained visas in the Kingdom of Saud through a program put in place just four months earlier to expedite U.S. visa applicants by arranging their paperwork through a travel agency. According to ABC News, Abdulaziz “claimed to be a student but didn't name a school; claimed to be married but didn't name a spouse; under nationality and gender, he didn't list anything.”
Visa approved.

Linked directly with the Vigilant Guardian exercise, this year's practice Apocalypse was originally booked in March 2001 to take place from October 22 to October 31, 2001. But Vice-President Dick Cheney, acting on the direct authority of George Bush, had rescheduled both exercises for September 11, 2001.
This is compelling, because as 9/11 researcher Paul Thompson points out, ever since 1998 STRATCOM has incorporated a computer network attack into Global Guardian. This mock assault uses STRATCOM “Red Team” members and pretend “enemy agents” from other organizations to “hack” computer-dependent U.S. defenses after a traitorous “insider” divulges the passwords to key command and control systems...

Chapter 2


“WE HAVE A PROBLEM HERE”
Flight 11 has not begun to climb as requested. But the Boeing “seven-six” is still on course, its radar blip heading west-northwest between Albany and Lake George, New York. xci

0820:
American Airlines Flight 77 is running 19 minutes late when it departs Dulles International Airport, about 30 miles west of the White House. Bound for Los Angeles International Airport, the fuel-efficient twin-engine jet is carrying 11,489 gallons of fuel. Rated at a maximum capacity of 200 passengers, today's flight is later reported to have embarked 58 passengers, four flight attendants and two pilots. But one published manifest lists only 56 souls onboard. xcii
As Captain Charles Burlingame and First Officer David Charlebois clean up Flight 77's flaps and gear and begin climbing out over Washington D.C., Flight 11's transponder suddenly switches off...

0832:

As the presidential motorcade pulls out of Longboat Key heading for the Emma E. Booker Elementary School, high over Massachusetts Amy Sweeney is still trying to rally help on the ground. “Listen, and listen to me very carefully,” she tells Mike Woodward. “I'm on Flight
11. The airplane has been hijacked.” cviii
A short time later, Sweeney adds, “A hijacker cut the throat of a business-class passenger.” Later identified as Daniel Lewin, he “appears to be dead.”
She next says that the hijackers have brought a bomb into the cockpit.
“How do you know it's a bomb?” Woodward asks.
“Because the hijackers showed me a bomb,” Sweeney replies.

Chapter 4


MANHATTAN

As Ted Olson speaks with his spouse and NEADS tries to confirm the unthinkable, in offices throughout Tower Two strobe lights start flashing. Just like a normal fire drill, Brian Clark thinks. Then the alarm gives the little whoop whoop that presages an announcement.
A familiar Port Authority voice comes over the PA saying, “Building Two is secure. There is no need to evacuate Building Two. If you are in the midst of evacuation, you may return to your office by using the re-entry doors on the re-entry floors and the elevators to return to your office. Repeat, Building Two is secure...

  OTIS

Two more fighters launch from Otis around this time. Instead of being sent to reinforce “The City”, they continue out over the Atlantic for their scheduled practice mission.

NEADS
Inside the Northeastern Air Defense Sector ops center, patiently spinning tapes record near bedlam as shouts, queries and conversation fill the room. To diffuse the tension, Major Nasypany makes a joke: “Think we put the exercise on the hold. What do you think?"
NEADS operations center

  NORTH TOWER 98th FLOOR

Patricia Massari was speaking to her husband from the 98th floor of Tower One when Flight 11 hit her floor. “Oh, my God,” she said. Now the last words Louis Massari hears from his wifes are, “We need air..”

“ALL THESE EXPLOSIONS”
Luckily, Cacchioli and the other heavily laden firefighters in the elevator aren't caught between floors. When they pry the doors back open, people are “going crazy,” yelling and screaming. Cacchioli starts low crawling. Making his way in the dark with a flashlight to the staircase, he thinks that Tommy is right behind him.
        Elsewhere in the building, paramedic Daniel Rivera also hears a succession of loud “pops” and immediately thinks of a professional demolition.
Down in the parking garage, arriving firefighter Richard Banaciski also hear the succession of explosions. It sound like what he's seen on TV, when “they blow up these buildings. It seemed like it was going all the way around in a belt, all these explosions.” cclxix
World Trade Center burning

  HUNTRESS

Initially sent toward the ocean, before being vectored toward a phantom Flight 11, the three Langley fighters are still about 150 miles out-further away from the Pentagon than the base from which they originally took off. Meanwhile, almost in sight of the Pentagon while still sitting on the airbase apron, both armed interceptors on strip alert at Andrews might just as well be converted into garden planters. ..

ACES AND AMATEURS
       Veteran pilots on the ground in the vicinity of the Pentagon watch slack-jawed as a Boeing jetliner peels off like a fighter into a high-speed descending turn. No one watching doubts that an ace military pilot is at the controls...
Hole in the Pentagon, 9/11

  THE NAVAL ANNEX

Approaching from the west, American Airlines Flight 77 skims a low hill and the five-story Navy Annex overlooking the Pentagon. Defense Protective Service officer Mark Bright is manning the guard booth at the building's mall entrance when the oncoming jetliner pops up low over the Navy Annex, only a few hundred yards away. Watching it knock down streetlights, he knows it is going to hit the building. Just before it does, Bright hears the plane power-up.
       Frank Probst calmly observes that the plane has its landing lights off. The wheels are up, and the nose is down. Seeing the big jet accelerate directly towards him, Probst freezes. He knows he is already dead. Damn, he thinks. My wife has to go to another funeral. I'm not going to see my two boys again.
       Then instinctual self-preservation kicks in. Probst dives to his right as one of the plane's gaping turbines passes just feet away. The plane's right wing cuts right through a nearby generator trailer “like butter,” Probst later recalls. The starboard engine almost takes his head off before hurtling past to hit a low cement wall and blow apart.
      Dan Creed and two colleagues from Oracle software are stopped in their car near the Naval Annex when they see an oncoming airliner dive down and level off. No more than 30 feet off the ground, the big jet “was just screaming,” Creed will later recall. “I can still see the plane. I can still see it right now. It's just the most frightening thing in the world, going full speed, going full throttle, its wheels up.”
In his peripheral vision, James Cissell sees the plane coming in. It is low. And dropping lower. Cissell will later say, “If you couldn't touch it from standing on the highway, you could by standing on your car.”
      Dozens of impressions flash through his mind: This isn't really happening. That is a big plane. Then he sees the terrified faces of the passengers onboard...

 GOING DOWN
 0959:

As a cloud of white smoke and dust bursts from the base of the South Tower, a Fox 5 anchorwoman reports, “There is an explosion at the base of the building... white smoke from the bottom... Something happened at the base of the building-then another explosion! Another building in the WTC complex.” cdlvii
 Slow-motion video will later show telltale puffs of explosive debris blowing out in succession below the plunging floors. Police will later tell reporters that the collapse resembled “a planned implosion.” cdlx

 STINGERS
Though the Stingers are not officially airborne until after Flight 93 is down, eyewitnesses waiting for commercial flights at the Toledo terminal emphatically report that F-16s from the 180th Fighter Wing took off from the airport's main runway around 0900. cdlxix
The man who knows for sure is the base Commander of Operations. Pete Raffa, 44, will die unexpectedly of a heart attack on December 2, 2001...
A jet like this one shot down Flight 93 with a Sidewinder missile

                  Chapter 9


QUI BONO

On the morning of September 11, software super-salesman Richard Grove is driving his convertible to the WTC for a showdown on the 98th floor of Tower One.
Grove works for SilverStream, a company that has built innovative Internet-based financial transaction portals and trading platforms for Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Banker's Trust, Alex Brown, Morgan Stanley, Marsh & McLennan and AIG-“pretty much the major players involved in the financial aspect of the 9/11 fraudulent trading activity,” he will later realize.
The North Tower's 98th floor is the Marsh & McLennan headquarters. Grove calls the world's largest insurance brokerage his “Gordon Gekko” client. In October 2000, Grove had helped identify about $10 million in suspicious purchase orders by vendors who appeared to be overcharging Marsh. But when he had brought his concerns to his client, an executive there had urged him to keep quiet and mind his own business.
Terminated on June 5, 2001 over his persistent protests, a colleague inside Marsh & McLennan has arranged for Grove to slip into a staff meeting, which will be on break when he arrives in a few minutes. Along with several allies similarly concerned about the illegalities he's uncovered, Grove intends to confront “the suspiciously unconcerned executive...

                     Chapter 10

                    COVER-UP

On the evening of September 12th, in the tiny borough of New Baltimore located more than eight miles from the main Flight 93 crash site in Somerset County, three-year-old Hunter Stoe is helping his father with the trash when he spots a slip of paper on the grass near the trashcan.
Before tossing it into the garbage, Andy Stoe glances at the paper. It's a charred payroll check made out to a man in San Jose, California. Combing the yard, the Stoe family finds more singed papers and other debris from the downed airliner, including pages from United's in- flight magazine Hemispheres.
Federal authorities insist that the debris in the Stoe's yard do not exist because they could not have come from the principal crash site miles away. FBI agents also deride Delasko's report of “confetti” falling from the stricken Flight 93.
John Fleegle insists that he had climbed up on the roof of an abandoned cabin to toss down a burning seat cushion from the plunging airliner. But his claims of debris in the lake some two-and-a-half miles from the main crash site are similarly dismissed by the FBI.
The job of Special Agent William Crowley is not to investigate the terrorist attacks, but to divert media attention away from eyewitness accounts of Flight 93 being hit by a missile and leaving a swath of debris miles from the eventual crash site.

Chapter 13


THE MAGNIFICENT FOUR

Two years after the attacks, the only reason why the Bush administration has finally agreed to a formal inquiry into September 11 are a pride of tigresses they never anticipated: 9/11 widows and moms.

“The 9/11 Commission wouldn't have happened without the four moms,” states the New York Observer. A “workers” website more fully explains: “The White House backed down only in the face of protests by the families of September 11 victims, which threatened to embarrass the administration in the weeks before the November 2002 congressional elections.”

Palestinian peace vigil for victims of 9/11

      Chapter 16

WHAT NOW?

What are we going to do while awaiting whatever comes next? With cheap oil running out, Gaia's gravest ecological thresholds already behind us, and fundamentalist lunatics armed with weapons of unholy destruction echoing each other's twisted intolerance, we gaze down at the abyss between our curled toes and realize as a species that only two options remain:
       F all or… Fly.
      We are talking transformation, of course. And why not? We are here to get the lessons we have arranged for ourselves. And we have attracted some doozies...

INTENT

The power of intention trumps laziness and inattention every time. Which is why people dedicated to destruction are initially so successful. And why massed public intention can stop them every time. “When you say something with your whole being, not just with your mouth or your intellect, but with your whole being, it can transform the world,” says Thich Nhat Hanh. This can only mean that when 10 million people speak as one from their hearts, the world is already transformed.

          Chapter 17


WHAT WE CAN DO
Can we do it? Will we transform our societies and ourselves in time to avoid the most unpleasant consequences of sudden Climate Flip and the current Sixth Great Extinction Event?

We already are, asserts Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self and The Dharma of Natural Systems. “New values must arise now, while we still have room to maneuver. And that is precisely what is happening. They are emerging at this very moment, like green shoots through the rubble. It's not in the headlines or the evening TV news, but if you open your eyes and fiddle a bit with the focal length, you can see it.

May 2009 Updates

POT SHOTS

Now that I have taken considerable time and trouble to research, write and fact-check this book - and you have invested time, money and attention in downloading and reading a book that does not subscribe to two of the most widely held “conspiratorial” views of 9/11 - let's see if we can poke some holes in it.

THIS CALL'S FOR WHO? With so many arguments against the technical feasibility of conducting even brief conversations over ordinary cell phones from airliners at typical cruising altitudes, why did I include such riveting testimonies in Days Of Deception?...

THOSE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING PLANES What about the lack of large pieces wreckage - including the tail section and wings - outside the Pentagon's reinforced walls? What about that “tiny” hole in the side of the Pentagon... ?
FLEET PREPAREDNESS EXERCISE 191
Even though these warnings, and many others were deliberately kept from him, America's top naval commander in Hawaii was determined to keep the islands' approaches clear. Acting on a hunch, Admiral Kimmell dispatched two aircraft carriers and a fleet of heavy escorts to a conspicuous seamount northwest of the Big Island, where he correctly assumed that any oncoming Japanese fleet would use to assemble. v
The two forces nearly collided. But instead of warning Admiral Kimmell of the Japanese strike force approaching his scouting fleet's position, the White House complained that Kimmell's Fleet Preparedness Exercise 191 was “complicating the situation,” and ordered him to return his ships immediately to Pearl Harbor. All U.S.

commercial ships transiting the North Pacific were also directed to take the southern route so that, as Admiral Turner later told Congress, “the track of the Japanese task force would be clear of any traffic…” that might radio a warning...
TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was about to get the war he wanted. After meeting with the President on November 26, Secretary of War Stimson recounted, “In spite of the risk involved, however, in letting the Japanese fire the first shot, we realized that in order to have the full support of the American people it was desirable to make sure that the Japanese be the ones to do this so that there should remain no doubt in anyone's mind as to who were the aggressors.”
As retired U.S. Navy Commander Robert Stinnett later documented in Day of Deceit, from which this book deliberately takes its title, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was provoked and facilitated by Washington in accordance to a plan drawn up by Lieutenant Commander Arthur McCollum in the Office of Naval IntelligenceIn his voluminous Naval History, author Daryl Borgquist relates how Don Smith, director of the War Service for the Red Cross, told his daughter that President Roosevelt had called him to the White House for a Top Secret meeting shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor:
At this meeting the President advised my father that his intelligence staff had informed him of a pending attack on Pearl Harbor, by the Japanese. He anticipated many casualties and much loss; he instructed my father to send workers and supplies to a holding area at a POE [port of entry] on the West Coast where they would await further orders to ship out; no destination was to be revealed. He left no doubt in my father's mind that none of the Naval and Military officials in Hawaii were to be informed and he was not to advise the Red Cross officers who were already stationed in the area. When he protested to the President, President Roosevelt told him that the American people would never agree to enter the war in Europe unless they were attack[ed] within their own borders.
  PURSUIT
A flight controller in New Hampshire tracks the subsequent pursuit on his radarscope: “An F-16 fighter closely pursued United Airlines Flight 93,” he will later tell reporters...

FOX ONE
1003:
Locking onto the heat signature from one of two big turbines attached to the Boeing's broad wing, the pursuing Fighting Falcon fires a heat-seeking missile. In deference to anyone listening in, its pilot refrains from making the traditional call of a homing missile leaving its launch rail: “Fox One!”
In development since downing the first Chinese MiGs over Vietnam, the highly evolved air-to-air missile leaves no smoke trail. Flying supersonic, the nine-and-a-half-foot, rocket-powered lance flies right up the exhaust of Flight 93's right-side engine. Sensing the pow- erplant's mass, a laser proximity fuse triggers the detonation of the Sidewinder's “improved” 28-pound warhead. Tumbling at high velocity, two layers of solid rods rip through delicate, fan-shaped turbine blades spinning in a screaming blur.
 EDWARD FELT
In a washroom onboard Flight 93, Edward Felt's fingers shake as he dials 911.
Philadelphia operator Glen Cramer takes his call. Speaking for less than a minute, Felt screams, “We're being hijacked, we're being hijacked!”
       Just before contact is broken, he reports hearing an explosion. Felt says white smoke is pouring from the plane. “We're going down!”
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