The Kingdom's Phone

The Kingdom’s Phone – Dialing 9/11

On April 24, 2002, Saudi Prince Abdullah arrived at Ellington Air Force base in Houston, Texas. He was there to visit President Bush at his Crawford ranch. One person in his entourage was wanted by U.S. law enforcement and two people in his entourage were on a terrorist watch list.


Osama Basnan showed up in Houston at the same time. He met with a high Saudi prince who has responsibilities for intelligence matters and is known to bring suitcases full of cash into the United States. A Houston police report obtained by NEWSWEEK shows that Basnan complained he had been robbed of his Saudi passport and $400. It is dated April 25, the same week the crown prince was in town to visit President Bush.
28 pages were redacted from the 2002 Joint Inquiry that investigated the 9/11 attacks. The report was finished in December 2002.
President Bush redacted the pages showing evidence of Saudi government involvement with the 9/11 hijackers and plotters.

The 28 pages were released on July 15, 2016.


One of the suspects mentioned in the 28 pages is Abu Zubaydah. You may remember him from the President’s Daily Brief (PDF), presented to President Bush on August 6, 2001.

The PDF was titled “Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US”. It was approved for release to the public on April 10, 2004. Abu Zubaydah is mentioned twice on the first page.


On August 24, 2001, a foreign intelligence report was issued with the title: “Consideration by Abu Zubaydah to attack targets in the United States”.

President Bush has been widely criticized for ignoring the warnings before 9/11 and not taking appropriate action.


Zubaydah was captured on March 28, 2002. On October 14, 2002, Bush called Zubaydah "one of the top three leaders” in al-Qaeda.

An alternate spelling of Zubaydah is Zubaida. This is the spelling most used in the 28 pages.

Abu Zubaida is mentioned on pages 418, 419, 428, 437, 438, 441, and 442.

Page 428 - The telephone book of Abu Zubaida was retrieved by coalition forces on March 28, 2002. One of the numbers in Zubaida’s book is unlisted and subscribed to by the ASPCOL Corporation in Aspen, Colorado. ASPCOL is the umbrella corporation that manages the affairs of the Colorado residence of Prince Bandar. The number is not listed in any phonebook and is not easily locatable. Due to the sensitivity of the matter, the FBI decided to hold their investigation in abeyance until they received guidance from FBI headquarters.

Page 428 – Another phone number in Zubaida’s book has a link to a home in Mclean Virginia owned by Prince Bandar. (This paragraph is very heavily redacted and much of the information is blacked out.)

Page 429 – Another Virginia phone number was found at a Usama Bin Ladin safe house in Pakistan. It belonged to a man who provided services to a couple who are personal assistants to Prince Bandar.

Osama Basnan, the 9/11 suspect who was in Houston when Prince Abdullah visited Bush, is mentioned in the 28 pages. There are numerous allegations and references to him, but I will highlight only a few of the more significant ones. The alternate spelling (Bassnan), is used in the 28 pages.

Page 426 “Bassnan made a comment to an FBI source after the 9/11 attacks suggesting that he did more for the hijackers than al-Bayoumi did.”

Page 427 – Bassnan’s wife received 31 cashiers checks from Princess Haifa, (Prince Bandar’s wife), totaling $74,000. They were allegedly for nursing services but there is no evidence that nursing services were provided.

Page 427 – Bassnan received at least one check directly from Prince Bandar for $15,000.

Page 428 – FBI assistant director D’Amuro commented on the money that came from Bandar’s wife: “What the money was for is what we don’t know.”

Page 428 – Bassnan hosted a party for the Blind Shaykh at his house.

Page 428 – Bassnan spoke of Bin Ladin “as if he were a god”.

Page 428 – Bassnan stated to an FBI asset that there are already enough Muslims in the United States to destroy the United States and make it an Islamic state within ten to fifteen years.

It should be noted that the money Bassnan received from Bandar and his wife are not just allegations. Proof was found when Bassnan’s residence was searched (page 427).

There was a lack of cooperation between the Saudis and U.S. agencies before and after 9/11. This was documented on pages 437-440.

The Saudi financing of terrorists was discussed on pages 435-436. There was a very similar narrative in a cable (originally marked SECRET/NOFORN) written by Secretary Clinton in 2009. She said “Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, LeT, and other terrorist groups, including Hamas, which probably raise millions of dollars annually from Saudi sources, often during Hajj and Ramadan.”


On July 15, 2016, USA Today published an article titled “Declassified 9/11 pages show ties to former Saudi ambassador” (Prince Bandar)


I had previously found other evidence connecting Prince Bandar and Abu Zubaida. I have not published it before, but I will now.

I found the video by accident. It’s a sidewalk interview between two independent researchers and Robert Baer, the well-known former CIA case officer who was assigned to the Middle East. He has appeared on CNN as an analyst. He's written two best sellers, including "Sleeping with the Devil", revealing a convenient relationship between the Saudi royal family and the United States. His book was censored by the CIA. He has the credentials to know a lot of secrets.

And there he was, on a sidewalk, discussing 9/11. He had just participated in another discussion at the Hammer Museum in LA on October 16, 2008. As he was leaving the event, he allowed two citizens interested in 9/11 to interview him. The interview is in the middle of a video they posted.

After answering several questions, Mr. Baer said something no one had ever heard before. This was years before the 28 pages were released.

He said “Look, Abu Zubaydah, one of the key guys, called Bandar in Aspen right up until the tenth of September, and then started calling him again on the sixteenth of September.”

The interviewers didn’t realize how important this statement was and didn’t ask any follow up questions.

Robert Baer has written extensively about the Saudi royal family, but some of his narrative was censored. He has the credentials to know a lot of secrets. He blurted one out on a sidewalk in LA in 2008 and no one censored him. No one destroyed the video. He made another profound statement on that sidewalk. He said “I’m just talking about the facts. I don’t do conspiracy.”



Robert Baer wrote an article for “Time” in 2007. He said CIA Director Michael Hayden has admitted the CIA destroyed interrogation tapes of Abu Zubaydah. Also in the article, Mr. Baer said Zubaydah had two ATM cards on him when he was captured. One was issued by a bank in Saudi Arabia, with ties to the royal family. Telephone records found in Zubaydah’s house included calls to the United States. The calls stopped on the tenth of September, and resumed again on the sixteenth of September. Those are the same dates he mentioned in the sidewalk interview.


As far as I knew, Mr. Baer had never revealed who Zubaydah was calling in the United States, until that moment on the sidewalk. The Bandar he was referring to is Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005. I knew it was him because he had a home in Aspen, Colorado in 2001. It was a 32 room mansion built in 1991 and sold in 2012. Mr. Baer specified “Bandar in Aspen”.

Prince Bandar is a longtime friend of the Bush family, nicknamed “Bandar Bush”. He tutored George W. Bush on foreign affairs. He was very involved with the official business of the Bush administration.

There is a famous photo of Prince Bandar relaxing at the White House on September 13, 2001. He is sitting next to Dick Cheney, across from Condi Rice and President Bush. He has his legs stretched out and looks relaxed. And, according to Mr. Baer, he had just received a phone call from Abu Zubaydah three days earlier, one day before 9/11. The evidence in the 28 pages supports Mr. Baer’s statement and explains how the phone calls occurred.



A 2008 New York Times op-ed, titled “Stonewalled by the CIA”, written by 9/11 Commission Chairmen Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton confirmed that interrogation tapes were never given to the 9/11 Commission. They wanted to question Abu Zubaydah directly, but CIA director George Tenet told them point blank that they would have no such access. Zubaydah’s interrogation tapes were destroyed by the CIA in 2005.


An April 15, 2004 CBS article revealed that Prince Bandar was shown the top secret Iraq war plans.

Here are excerpts from the article:

Journalist Bob Woodward calls his new book, "Plan of Attack," the first detailed, behind-the-scenes account of how and why the president decided to wage war in Iraq.

"Saturday, Jan. 11, (2003) with the president's permission, Cheney and Rumsfeld call Bandar to Cheney's West Wing office, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Myers, is there with a top-secret map of the war plan. And it says, 'Top secret. No foreign.' No foreign means no foreigners are supposed to see this," says Woodward.

"They describe in detail the war plan for Bandar. And so Bandar, who's skeptical because he knows in the first Gulf War we didn't get Saddam out, so he says to Cheney and Rumsfeld, 'So Saddam this time is gonna be out, period?' And Cheney - who has said nothing - says the following: 'Prince Bandar, once we start, Saddam is toast.'"

After Bandar left, according to Woodward, Cheney said, "I wanted him to know that this is for real. We're really doing it."

But this wasn't enough for Prince Bandar, who Woodward says wanted confirmation from the president. "Then, two days later, Bandar is called to meet with the president and the president says, 'Their message is my message,'" says Woodward.

Prince Bandar enjoys easy access to the Oval Office. His family and the Bush family are close. And Woodward told 60 Minutes that Bandar has promised the president that Saudi Arabia will lower oil prices in the months before the election - to ensure the U.S. economy is strong on election day.


On April 25, 2004, an Associated Press article outlined the importance of Saudi Arabia in the Iraq war. This article also states that Bandar was shown the war plans. According to the article, some lawmakers have demanded to know why a foreigner (Prince Bandar) was brought in on private war planning.


Here is what can be proven.

President Bush and Vice President Cheney tried to stop the 9/11 Congressional investigation before it started. They wanted NO investigation into the events of 9/11. I documented this on my blog page titled “No Pages”. Their efforts were unsuccessful and there was a Congressional Inquiry.

The 28 pages linking Prince Bandar with Zubaida and Bassnan were redacted from that Inquiry by President Bush in December 2002.

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Myers would have read or known what was in the 28 pages. They would have known about the Prince Bandar allegations.

A month later, in January 2003, knowing what they knew, they invited Prince Bandar to review the top secret war plans.

It is possible that some of the allegations had innocuous explanations.

It is impossible that all of them could have been thoroughly investigated and explained in such a short time.

It would have been hard to explain a $15,000 check from Bandar to Bassnan. It would have been hard to explain how Zubaida got the unlisted private number to Bandar’s corporation in Aspen.

No one has ever asked Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Myers why they trusted Bandar after reading the serious allegations in the 9/11 Congressional Inquiry.

They weren’t just protecting the Saudis because they needed them to launch the Iraq war. They trusted an individual 9/11 suspect, Prince Bandar, enough to show him the war plans.

Here are the facts known so far:

Bush and Cheney did not want any 9/11 investigation.

In 2002, evidence showed that Prince Bandar had contact with two 9/11 suspects. Other evidence showed connections between 9/11 suspects and other Saudi government officials, including three Saudi Naval officers.

That evidence was hidden from the public by President Bush.

A month later, Bandar was shown TOP SECRET NOFORN war plans.

Both Bush and Bandar wanted to take out Saddam Hussein.

In 2003, because of Bush administration statements and insinuations, 69% of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 attacks. No evidence has ever surfaced connecting Iraq or Saddam Hussein to 9/11.


Many of you may be thinking that this is the smoking gun proof that inside job conspiracy theorists have been looking for. It may be the proof that Bush allowed 9/11 to happen with the help of the Saudi government.

I think it is the proof. It’s not a conspiracy theory anymore. Everything is documented and cross referenced. Everything fits together like a puzzle. The puzzle has been solved.

We know who was on the Kingdom’s phone on September 10, 2001. It was Abu Zubaydah.

Everyone is still free to deny it, though. Bush and Bandar will.

I only wish there could be some kind of justice for the families of the 9/11 victims.

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Secrets

I studied 9/11 for seven long years. I found a lot of cross-referenced information that is not in the 9/11 Commission Report. Some information is not in any book.

I discovered many facts that few people know about. I know a few secrets that no one knows about.

I was able to debunk some of the conspiracy theories. I'm not interested in conspiracies. I am interested in the truth.

There is an on-going cover-up of the truth. There is overwhelming evidence that elements of the Saudi government were involved in supporting the 9/11 hijackers. Some of the evidence is in the 28 unreleased pages from the 2002 Congressional Inquiry. The 9/11 Commission chairmen and the CIA director have recently distributed misinformation about the 28 pages. 

There also may be a cover-up of an FBI investigation in Sarasota, Florida. Other facts concerning the attacks may be hidden from the public.

I would like to dedicate this blog to the families of the victims. They deserve to know the truth.

The purpose of this blog is to share information. It's part of an ongoing investigation.

A raptor is a bird of prey. There was a NORAD exercise named for a raptor, a falcon, a predator, a precursor to the 9/11 attacks. Few people know about it.

The exercise took place on November 6, 1999. It involved a plane flying coast to coast from LA to JFK. It was to be hijacked by five terrorists with the intention of crashing into the UN building. 

I got the information from the GPO, the United States Government Publishing Office. You know the U.S. government; lots of paperwork, secrets in the basement, big secrets.

I search for secrets. The government won’t let me in their basement, though. Anyone who is permitted to go down there is not allowed to take notes. They’re not allowed to tell what they saw.

I am allowed to tell what I do know, though. I’ve decided not to keep any secrets.

For seven long minutes, George W. Bush continued to read to school children on the morning of 9/11 after he was informed that "America is under attack". That's not a conspiracy. That's the truth. The final words of that reading lesson were "more to come".


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Saudi Secrets

As far as I know, Donald Trump is the only presidential candidate who has questioned the story of 9/11. In February 2012, he was at a campaign event in Bluffton, South Carolina.

He said "You will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center because they have papers out there that are very secret. You may find it's the Saudis, okay? But you will find out. But it wasn't Iraq."

Click on my "Recent Links" tab above to read the latest information about the Saudi secrets.

As you know, Bush and his administration misled the American people to believe that Iraq was behind 9/11.

The Saudi involvement has been covered up. Could there be any other secrets? I know there were other lies.

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Signs

Before I tell the story of the raptor, I need to tell another story.

There is a realty company in my city named Northwood. Every time I pass a house for sale and see one of their signs, I think of the Northwoods. I think of the plans, the secret plans.

I’m reminded of Operation Northwoods.

There is a memo from the Joint Chiefs of Staff dated March 13, 1962. It’s titled “Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba”. It has the markings TOP SECRET, SPECIAL HANDLING and NOFORN.

There are fifteen pages detailing what the military could do to justify war with Cuba. Many proposals and suggestions are listed.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara would later intentionally mislead and deceive Congress and the public about the Gulf of Tonkin incident. That incident was used to justify US military escalation in Vietnam. But McNamara didn’t approve any of the Northwoods proposals. None of them were approved by President Kennedy.

The memo proposed a series of incidents that would give the genuine appearance of being done by hostile forces. The incidents included starting rumors (many), staging attacks, burning aircraft, conducting funerals for mock victims and sinking a boatload of Cubans (real or simulated).

It suggested blowing up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blaming it on Cuba. It proposed hijacking attempts and a fake shoot down of a chartered civil airliner. It stated “The passengers could be a group of college students off on a holiday”.

The memo describes in great detail how everything would be carried out and how the public would be deceived. Even military personnel involved in the incidents would be deceived.

It stated “Casualty lists in US newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation.”

A terror campaign was suggested. It could take place in Florida and Washington. A few bombs could be exploded in carefully chosen spots. Prepared documents would substantiate Cuban involvement.

Operation Northwoods has nothing to do with 9/11, but it’s understandable how this document has fueled 9/11 conspiracy theories. It shows how deceptive the US military was willing to be in order to justify a war.

These deceptions weren’t proposed by rogue commanders. They were proposed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The public was never supposed to learn about this. As I said before, the government has a lot of secrets, big secrets. This one got out.

I have great respect for the members of the US military, but some of the leaders past and present, I'm not so sure about.

If you would like to read the Northwoods document, I have provided links.

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A direct link to the pdf file

The National Security Archive




Raptor or Guardian?

(This post contains only documented facts. It’s not a conspiracy theory.)

A falcon is a raptor, a bird of prey, a hunter. Many rich Arabs from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates engage in falconry.

The falcon is mentioned in the Quran, according to one English translation. Verse 5:4 "Lawful for you are all good things, including what trained dogs and falcons catch for you. You train them according to GOD's teachings. You may eat what they catch for you, and mention GOD's name thereupon.”

Bill Clinton missed a few chances to kill Osama bin Laden. One of those opportunities was at a rural Afghanistan hunting camp. It was February 1999. The strike was called off because Osama was hunting with United Arab Emirate princes.

Clinton didn’t want to kill the royalty hanging out with bin Laden.

Later that year, on November 6, 1999, NORAD conducted an exercise. It involved a plane flying coast to coast, west to east, from LA to JFK. It was to be hijacked by five terrorists. If not intercepted, the hijacked aircraft intended to crash into the United Nations building.

The name of the exercise was Falcon Indian. It was surprisingly similar to 9/11. 

The flights on 9/11 were scheduled to fly coast to coast, from east to west.

There were five terrorist hijackers on each 9/11 plane that hit a target. There were five hijackers in the Falcon Indian exercise.

The Falcon Indian plane intended to crash into a building. Three of the 9/11 planes DID crash into buildings.

Two other Falcon Indian exercises were conducted by NORAD on June 5, 2000. One hijacked plane intended to crash into the Statue of Liberty. The other intended to crash into the White House.

NORAD trains so they know what to do if something happens. That’s why the Falcon Indian exercises were implemented. But on 9/11, NORAD was ineffective. They didn’t even fly alongside the hijacked aircraft. One purpose of the training, according to General Richard Myers, was to practice “hijack shadow and/or escort procedures”. Those are the general’s own words.

NORAD conducted two other exercises in 2000. One was on October 16 and one was on October 23. Each exercise involved a plane crashing into the UN building. These exercises were named Vigilant Guardian.

On September 11, 2001, NORAD was again conducting exercises named Vigilant Guardian. It was a coincidence that they were carrying out hijacking exercises on the exact day of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

A military magazine named “Space Observer” listed the date for the exercise in its March 23, 2001 issue. Global Guardian, which includes Vigilant Guardian, was scheduled for October 2001. That would make sense, since the 2000 Vigilant Guardian exercises were held in October.

No one knows when or why Vigilant Guardian was moved up to September 11, 2001. We do know that it caused a lot of confusion that day. It was difficult for the military personnel monitoring the hijacked planes to tell the difference between the simulated hijackings and the real ones. There was a disturbing question asked by one of them on that morning: “Is this real world or exercise?”

The training exercises being conducted on 9/11 received very little media attention. No one knows if the attacks could have been stopped if Global Guardian had taken place on any other day, or in October, when they were originally scheduled.

We know the public was lied to.

On page 17 of the 9/11 Commission report it says “The threat of terrorists hijacking commercial airliners within the United States – and using them as guided missiles – was not recognized by North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) before September 11”.

This is a lie. The Commission report was issued on July 22, 2004. NORAD’s Falcon Indian took place on November 6, 1999. The information about it came out, probably by accident, in August, 2004. It’s available for anyone to read on the US government’s printing office website.

General Myers or his office was the source of the information. It was included in the written questions section of the transcript of “Hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, August 16 and 17, 2004”.

On October 23, 2001, General Richard Myers was discussing the 9/11 attacks and said “You hate to admit it, but we hadn’t thought about this.”

In June, 2004, General Ralph E. Eberhart of NORAD made a statement to the Commission: “We considered flights taking off within the U.S. and Canada as friendly by origin.”

He also said “We had procedures for potential air hijackings, which were based on the premise that a hijacked aircraft would be used for ransom or political purposes, not as a weapon.”

Here is the exact wording used to describe Falcon Indian:
Exercise Name: Falcon Indian 00-1
  Exercise Date: 6 Nov 99
  Participants: CONR/Sectors
  Scenario: China Air from Los Angeles to JFK airport hijacked east of Colorado Springs by five terrorists. If not intercepted, intends to crash into United Nations building.
  Synopsis of actions: Cross-sector hand over. Exercised command and control, coordinated with external agencies and followed hijack checklists.

From August 1998 to February 2000, General Myers was Commander in Chief of the North American Aerospace Command (NORAD).

General Eberhart became Commander in Chief of NORAD in February 2000.

Generals Myers and Eberhart both lied. There is no doubt that they lied about the NORAD training exercises conducted before 9/11. Only they know why.

John Farmer, senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission, claims that military officials also lied about their response to the attacks on 9/11. He stated that what they told Congress, the media and public “was almost entirely and inexplicably untrue”. He wrote a book about the lies after the Commission report came out.

Was NORAD playing the part of raptor or guardian?   

Here is a link to the NORAD exercises. You have to scroll way down almost to the end.


There is more to the story. Another part of the military, the JFIC, named the EXACT targets of 9/11. They discussed them in a briefing in the summer of 2000.

Bush continued reading to school children on 9/11 after he was told “America is under attack”. The story ended with the phrase “more to come”.

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Media vs Truth

This posting contains additional information associated with the previous post, "Raptor or Guardian?", and documents the lies told by the mainstream media and the 9/11 Commission.

The Falcon Indian exercises were never reported in the mainstream news media. You don’t find a lot of information when you google them. Very few independent researchers have written about them. My blog now appears on page one of a google search for “Falcon Indian”.

Two mainstream news outlets did publish information on NORAD exercises.

CNN published a vague article on April 19, 2004, titled “NORAD Exercise Had Jet Crashing Into Building”
Very little details were revealed in the article, but it did quote military officials who emphasized that the exercise “involved an airliner being hijacked as it flew into U.S. airspace from abroad.”


USA Today published a similar article on April 18, 2004 titled “NORAD Had Drills of Jets as Weapons”. Little detail was offered in the article, but it stated that “the planes in the simulation were coming from a foreign country.”


NORAD officials were very consistent in insisting that their only purpose was to guard against planes coming into U.S. airspace from other countries. They obviously wanted the public to believe that they were still only watching out for Russian planes flying in from overseas. That was a legitimate concern for NORAD during the Cold War.

The fact is, their training before 9/11 included scenarios of planes taking off within the United States and being hijacked in the skies over the U.S. by terrorists.

In the Falcon Indian exercises, the participants are listed as CONR/Sectors. CONR stands for Continental U.S. NORAD Region, as in continental United States.

The hijacking exercise on November 6, 1999 involved China Air. It was a flight from LA to JFK, hijacked by five terrorists with the intention of crashing into the UN building. 

China Airlines made that exact flight on May 30, 2016, just as they had many times before. It was China Airlines Flight 9612. It departed LAX at 3:26 PM and arrived at JFK at 11:45 PM.

NORAD patterned at least one of its training simulations after a real domestic flight. This was not a bomber flying in from Russia.

No one knows why NORAD lied. The lies were repeated in the mainstream media and in the 9/11 Commission Report. As I stated in my previous post, the Commission repeated the lie on page 17. They also repeated it on pages 346 and 352.

Page 346 states “since such aircraft would be coming from overseas, they would have time to identify the target and scramble interceptors.”

Page 352 states it very clearly: “NORAD’s planning scenarios occasionally considered the danger of hijacked aircraft being guided to American targets, but only aircraft that were coming from overseas.”

Some of the Commission members knew that wasn’t true.

They had a list of NORAD training exercises from 1998 to 2001. The pages were marked “Commission Sensitive”. There were 28 NORAD exercises listed. They were different from the ones listed in the Senate Hearing transcript. They were marked inside inside or outside inside, indicating the origins and destinations. Inside meant inside the U.S. and outside meant outside the U.S.

26 of the NORAD exercises involved a hijacking.

Six of the exercises were marked “inside inside”. That meant the simulated hijacked plane did not originate outside of the U.S. Its departure and destination was inside the U.S.


It’s not very often that you can document a lie by the government so thoroughly. It usually has to fall into the realm of “conspiracy theory”. People can then discredit your theory or try to.

They can’t discredit this documentation. I’m blogging about facts that can’t be discredited.

If the 9/11 Commission Report contains proven lies, everything in there can and should be suspect. It’s obvious that it was a flawed, rushed and underfunded investigation. It's obvious that is does not tell a full and truthful story.

As for the Vigilant Guardian exercise being held on September 11, 2001, the mainstream media didn’t report it. They certainly never questioned the coincidence that it was scheduled on 9/11 and there is evidence that it was originally scheduled for October.

The Commission Report mentioned the exercise in a tiny footnote: Chapter 1, footnote 116. According to General Eberhart, “it took about 30 seconds” to make the adjustment to the real-world situation.

Really, General, why would anyone believe you after you have been proven to be a liar? Some of your statements to the Commission on June 17, 2004 were proven false. As I said before, I have enormous respect for the members of the U.S. military, but not for some of the generals.

There were even more lies.

Some of the Commissioners concluded that the Pentagon deliberately lied about their response on 9/11. They debated the possibility of pursuing a criminal investigation.

Thomas Kean, co-chairman, said that NORAD told them a story that was far from the truth. He was talking about their response on 9/11, not the additional lies they told about their training.



The mainstream media did cover the assertions by Commissioners that they were lied to. No one knows why the Pentagon and NORAD lied. It would be speculation to offer an explanation. It would be speculation to suggest that they lied to cover-up their botched response to the attacks. They never admitted to anything.

Not even one fighter jet intercepted any of the hijacked planes. NORAD could be forgiven if they tried and failed. It’s the lies that can’t be forgiven or forgotten.

In 2012, NORAD named a building after General Eberhart, the commander of NORAD on 9/11. He was in charge on the day the buildings fell. Now he has a building named after him.

During my 9/11 studies, I noticed a pattern. Those who failed to keep us safe before and during 9/11 have been rewarded. Anyone who comes forward with uncomfortable facts is discredited, demoted and punished.


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Iron Man DO5

Iron Man is not his real name. It’s the name given to him by the U.S. government. The mainstream media never mentioned him or told his story.

I have copies of his documents, originally marked SECRET/NOFORN.

He was a Counter-Terrorism/Counter-Intelligence Analyst for Naval Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS). He was assigned to Joint Forces Intelligence Command (JFIC) from April 1998 to June 2001.

He served as the Deputy of JFIC’s Asymmetric Warfare Branch (DO5), and served as the acting Branch Chief from late 2000 to June 2001.

Iron Man is the only person who has come forward with this information. He just wanted to tell the truth.

He wanted others to tell the truth.

On May 8, 2006, he filed a formal complaint with the Department of Defense (DOD) Inspector General. He stated that in May 2002, in response to a Congressional Inquiry, the JFIC falsely reported information related to al-Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks. As a result, DOD officials reported false information to Congress.

Iron Man indicated that he was personally involved in JFIC intelligence activities related to al-
Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks and had first-hand knowledge of circumstances surrounding that false reporting to the Office of Secretary of Defense and Congress.

In 2008, the DOD Inspector General issued a 37 page report in response to Iron Man’s complaint. The report states “We found no evidence that the JFIC misled Congress by withholding operational information in response to the 9/11 Commission.”

It should be noted that the DOD response was not even accurate. They named the 9/11 Commission. Iron Man’s complaint was directed at the 2002 Congressional Inquiry, not the 9/11 Commission.

It’s interesting that a complaint aimed at the DOD was investigated by the DOD.

There is no reason to doubt Iron Man, and I believe him. He had nothing to gain by lying about this. No one even knows his real name. He hasn’t gained any fame or fortune. In fact, he was falsely accused of leaking classified information. He risked being falsely imprisoned just for coming forward.

Iron Man filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to obtain a copy of his original complaint. He filed it on September 11, 2006 and it was granted on April 8, 2011. The document was released with minimal redactions, mostly hiding the names of those involved and is available for anyone to read.

Here are the facts as stated by Iron Man:  

There was a DO5 briefing in the summer of 2000, given to Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) senior staff.

The briefing indicated that World Trade Centers #1 and #2 were the most likely buildings to be attacked in the U.S., followed closely by the Pentagon.

The briefer indicated that the worst case scenario would be one tower collapsed onto the other.

The possibility of planes striking the buildings was discussed in the red cell analysis leading up to the briefing.

The acting deputy of DO5 proposed that the building could be struck by a jetliner.

Discussion followed on contacting World Trade Center security and engineering/architectural staff, but the idea was not further explored because of a command climate discouraging contact with the civilian community.

However, JFCOM J3 directed that the national military terrorism exercise for FY 02 be based on a New York worse-case scenario. They couldn’t do it in 2001, because the military was already committed to another exercise.

The JFIC routinely prepared analytical reports and supplemented national agencies with original intelligence on UBL and Afghanistan. (Osama bin Laden was sometimes referred to as Usama bin Laden or UBL for short).

Iron Man stated that the last JFIC commanding officer he served under was adamantly opposed to JFIC conducting any original analysis on al-Qaeda and directed such work be stopped in late 2000-early 2001.

Here is my analysis:

The JFIC was told to stop tracking Osama bin Laden at the exact time when the 9/11 attacks would have been in the final planning and preparation stages.

There were other events in late 2000 and early 2001.

On October 12, 2000 there was a terrorist attack on the USS Cole that killed seventeen sailors. This was certainly not a good time to cut back on analysis of al-Qaeda. The JFIC should have been ordered to increase their analysis on al-Qaeda, not eliminate it.

In 1999, NORAD conducted an exercise named Falcon Indian that involved five terrorists hijacking a jetliner with the intention of crashing into the UN building. The plane in the exercise was flying coast to coast. Similar hijacking exercises involving jetliners crashing into buildings were conducted until at least October 2000.

In 2000, according to five witnesses, Mohamed Atta’s picture was on a chart created by the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). It was part of a classified military planning effort named Able Danger. Three other 9/11 hijackers were identified on the chart.

In 2010, one of the witnesses, Lt. Col. Shaffer, published a book. The DOD purchased and burned 9,500 copies of the book. The DOD claimed it revealed too many secrets.

The CIA had tracked future hijackers Nawaf Alhamzi and Khalid Al-Midhar to San Diego after the men were photographed at an al Qaeda planning meeting in Malaysia in January 2000. The CIA never informed the FBI. 9/11 may well have been prevented if they had.

It has been leaked that the 28 pages outline Saudi government support for these same two hijackers.

These two known terrorists were not put on a watch list until August 23, 2001.

It was too late. According to ABC news, the State Department, unaware that Al-Midhar was a suspected terrorist, had issued him a new multi-entry visa two months before. Alhamzi was already in the country. These two terrorists were listed as hijackers on the plane that hit the Pentagon.

President Bush was elected in late 2000 after a long dispute over the vote totals. He was sworn in on January 20, 2001. According to multiple sources, he did not put a high priority on terrorism threats.

Within days of President Bush taking office, his top terrorism expert on the National Security Council, Richard Clarke, urged National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to resume drone flights to track down bin Laden. The Predators, however, were not put back in the air before Sept. 11.

In May 2001, Visa Express was implemented. This policy made it easy for Saudi Arabian nationals to get a visa and come to the United States. Fifteen of the hijackers were Saudis and some of them used Visa Express to enter the country. In 2002, a reporter, Joel Mowbray, was detained and questioned by the State Department after publishing articles about the policy. It wasn’t cancelled until July 19, 2002.

Attorney General John Ashcroft stopped flying on commercial jets in the summer of 2001.

NORAD was conducting hijacking exercises on 9/11 and those exercises had been moved up from October to the exact day of the 9/11 attacks. The fake hijackings appeared on radar along with the real ones.

Speaking of radar, the plane that hit the Pentagon flew through a radar gap. It disappeared from radar screens for a half hour or more. No one knows how the terrorists could have known where the radar gap was. It helped to make the attack on the Pentagon successful.

The Pentagon was hit, just like the DO5 predicted, but it was hit in a reinforced section, minimizing casualties, and in an area far away from where military commanders had their offices.

The Pentagon had been conducting MASCAL (Mass Casualty Plan) exercises in the months before 9/11. This training also minimized casualties. Everyone knew exactly what to do after the plane hit.  

In a Pentagon article, written shortly after the attacks, General Myers is quoted as saying “We hadn’t thought about this”.

The truth is, they thought about all of it.

They had the exact targets. They named both World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon. They named the method of attack; a jetliner. They had some of the exact faces and names on a chart, including Atta, the ringleader. NORAD conducted an exercise involving five hijackers, the exact number of hijackers on each 9/11 plane that hit a target. The plane in the exercise was traveling from coast to coast, just like the 9/11 planes.

The entire attack was predicted. The only detail the military got wrong was that one tower did not collapse onto the other. They both came straight down.

During the 9/11 Commission hearings, all military and government officials insisted that they could never have envisioned anything like 9/11.

Condi Rice was one of those officials. In one of her statements to the 9/11 Commission, she said “No one could have imagined them taking a plane, slamming it into the Pentagon ... into the World Trade Center, using planes as a missile.”

One of the 9/11 widows wrote a scathing letter to Condi Rice. She asked her to “please stop lying”. The letter is titled: “Condi Rice: Here’s Your 9/11 Smoking Gun”.

She told Condi: “Many of the teams tracking these terrorists were inexplicably thwarted, blocked, and ordered to STOP their surveillance, investigation, and analysis of the 9/11 terrorists who went on to kill 3,000 innocent people like my husband.”

As a side note, there would not have been a 9/11 Commission if it weren’t for the efforts of this 9/11 widow and other 9/11 family members. Bush and Cheney did not want an investigation.

Here is a link to Iron Man’s documents.

Here is a link to the 9/11 widow’s letter.

My next post will discuss Iron Man’s reason for filing his complaint and the other member of the DO5 mentioned in his complaint. That man is no longer with us and can’t complain about anything. 

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