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PRISON PLANET.com News Archive: 9/11 Prior Knowledge and Government Complicity

Top Pentagon officials were warned and cancelled flights on September 10th NEWSWEEK has learned that the state of alert had been high during the past two weeks, and a particularly urgent warning may have been received the night before the attacks, causing some top Pentagon brass to cancel a trip.

Pentagon officials cancelled September 11 flying plans day before: On Sept. 10, NEWSWEEK has learned, a group of top Pentagon officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns.

Agency planned exercise on Sept. 11 built around a plane crashing into a building: In what the government describes as a bizarre coincidence, one U.S. intelligence agency was planning an exercise last Sept. 11 in which an errant aircraft would crash into one of its buildings. But the cause wasn't terrorism — it was to be a simulated accident.

NSA Intercepts On Eve of 9/11 Sent a Warning: The National Security Agency intercepted two messages on the eve of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon warning that something was going to happen the next day, but the messages were not translated until Sept. 12, senior U.S. intelligence officials said yesterday.

US Heard 'Tomorrow Is Zero Hour' on Eve of Attacks: U.S. intelligence intercepted two messages the day before the Sept. 11 attacks that indicated an event was planned the following day, but the communications were not translated until Sept. 12, government sources said on Wednesday.

A Big Warning: The National Security Agency intercepted and secretly recorded at least one conversation in Arabic before the Sept. 11 attacks in which the participants spoke about something big that was going to happen on that day, ABCNEWS has learned.

NSA didn't share key pre-Sept. 11 information, sources say: A secretive U.S. eavesdropping agency monitored telephone conversations before Sept. 11 between the suspected commander of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks and the alleged chief hijacker, but did not share the information with other intelligence agencies, U.S. officials said Thursday.

Condoleezza Rice Warned Sept. 6 About Imminent Terror Attack: Five days before Sept. 11, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice was warned that a terrorist attack inside the United States was imminent, a former U.S. senator who headed up a blue-ribbon commission on terrorism revealed late Tuesday.

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT - U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE - 7TH SEPTEMBER (SAYING BIN LADEN WAS ABOUT TO ATTACK): "We are also concerned about information we received in May 2001 that American citizens may be the target of a terrorist threat from extremist groups with links to Usama Bin Ladin's Al-Qaida organization."

German police confirm Iranian deportee phoned warnings: German police have confirmed an Iranian man phoned US police from his deportation cell to warn of the planned attack on the World Trade Centre.

FBI 'ignored leads': The German authorities have rejected reports that an Iranian man detained in Hanover could have helped avert Tuesday's devastating attacks on New York and Washington.

Some Got Warning: Don't Go Downtown on Sept. 11: Federal investigators have received evidence that some Middle Easterners in the New York area were warned ahead of time to stay out of lower Manhattan the morning of Sept. 11, the Daily News has learned.

Prior Knowledge of Sept. 11 Not Just Urban Legend: "Do you see those two buildings?" he asked while pointing toward the World Trade Center. "They won't be standing there next week." It was noon, Sept. 6, 2001.

Police: Student spoke of attacks before Sept. 11: Authorities are tracking numerous leads that some people, including members of the Arab-American community, heard rumors of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington in the days leading up to the hijackings, law enforcement sources say.

Trade Center warning baffles police: I went to Brooklyn this week in search of an “urban myth” about the World Trade Center attacks. What I came back with was no longer a myth — it was cold, chilling fact. But it didn’t clear anything up for me; that the “myth” was true only made matters murkier. Was word of the attacks on the street beforehand? I wanted to find out.

EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER 01-261 (Jeb Bush declares martial law 4 days before September 11th):

Bin Laden's Trail - Rushdie Air Ban (banned from flying from September 3rd): THE author Salman Rushdie believes that US authorities knew of an imminent terrorist strike when they banned him from taking internal flights in Canada and the US only a week before the attacks.

German firm probes final World Trade Center deals German computer experts are working round the clock to unlock the truth behind an unexplained surge in financial transactions made just before two hijacked planes crashed into New York's World Trade Center on September 11.

Mystery of terror 'insider dealers': Share speculators have failed to collect $2.5m (£1.7m) in profits made from the fall in the share price of United Airlines after the 11 September World Trade Centre attacks.

Supressed Details of Criminial Insider Trading Leads Directly Into The CIA's Highest Ranks: Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U.S. media, there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

PROFITS OF DEATH - INSIDER TRADING AND 9-11: Additional companies hit hard by the insider trading included Axa Re(insurance) and Munich Re as well as American investment giants Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley.

PROFITS OF DEATH - PART 2 - TRADING WITH THE ENEMY: A disclosed in Part I and in previous stories by FTW, an abnormal amount of “put” options – bets that a stock price would suddenly fall – were placed on United Air Lines and American Airlines in the days before the attacks of September 11th.

PROFITS OF DEATH - PART 3 - ALL ROADS LEAD TO DEUSTCHEBANK AND HARKEN ENERGY: Now in Part III, we conclude this series by revealing a devastating conflict of interest in investigating these leads on the part of President George W. Bush by virtue of his own past insider trading through Harken Energy in Bahrain and Kuwait.

SHADY TRADER EYED FOR 9/11 TIP: An accused inside-trader made suspicious stock trades on Sept. 10, leading investigators to believe he might have known about the terror attacks a day later, a federal prosecutor said yesterday.

Lawyer: Accused Man Knew of Attacks: An Egyptian-born financial analyst charged in a nationwide stock swindle may have known about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and tried to profit from them, a federal prosecutor said Friday.

What did 'Tony' know on September 10? THE question on every Wall Streeter’s lips this week is this: what did Amr Ibrahim Elgindy — otherwise known as “Tony” — know on September 10?

Feds: Ex-Agent Had Key Data: In a criminal case with a specter of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, prosecutors disclosed yesterday that classified information had been found during a search of possessions of a former FBI agent allegedly part of an insider trading conspiracy.

Still Silence From 9-11 Stock Speculation Probe: Within a month of 9-11, the SEC, acting in concert with the Department of Justice, distributed a target list of 38 stocks to securities firms around the world looking for information about who might have profited by at least apparent pre-knowledge of the aerial attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Stock trader targeted in Sept. 11 probe agrees to return to New York: An Egyptian-born financial analyst who prosecutors said may have had prior knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks agreed Tuesday to be returned to New York to face charges of using confidential FBI information to manipulate stock prices.

TRIPOD II AND FEMA Michael Rupert | June 5 2004 The "Tripod II," joint New York City-Department of Justice biowarfare exercise, scheduled for Sept 12th 2001 at New York's Pier 29, and revealed in testimony by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani at the 9/11 Commission, may become one of the single most important disclosures of 9/11.

Found: The 911 "Stand Down Order"? Jerry Russell | March 31 2004 Jim Hoffman has discovered a document which I believe may be very important to the 911 skeptic movement. This document superseded earlier DOD procedures for dealing with hijacked aircraft, and it requires that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld is personally responsible for issuing intercept orders.

Atlantic City F-16 Fighters Were Eight Minutes Away From 9/11 Hijacked Planes: Why? Why weren't they alerted? And even if they had been told about the hijackings, what could they have done? The jets weren't armed to shoot down another plane. Their mission was bombing drills. Why?

35 USAF Bases Within Range On 911: The 7 Air Stations On Full Alert Covering The Continental United States And 28 More Air Stations That Were In Range Of The 4 Airliners On 911: The following list were the seven Air Stations that were armed and on full alert to protect the continental United States on Tuesday September 11, 2001.

Guilty For 9/11: Bush, Rumsfeld, Myers On 11 September Andrews had two squadrons of fighter jets with the job of protecting the skies over Washington D.C. They failed to do their job. Despite over one hour's advance warning of a terrorist attack in progress, not a single Andrews fighter took off (or scrambled) to protect the city.

FAA Delay in Reporting 9/11 Hijackings Probed: The independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks grilled the former chief federal aviation regulator yesterday in a tense public exchange over whether the government bungled its response that day.

Did hijackers fly through holes in U.S. air defense? Did terrorists exploit a flawed, outdated concept of continental air defense in Tuesday's terrorism attacks? Or did a breakdown in military-civilian communication lead to a fatal delay in fighter-jet interception?

Were Stand-Down Intercept Orders Given On Morning Of 911? Crucial information was conveyed to us, related specifically to the entire matter of IF or WHEN FAA/ATC personnel alerted appropriate Air National Guard/Air Force units, that four large passenger jets were significantly off course and that all standard communications with these craft had been broken.

In Addition To Jets, Were SAMs And AA Also Stood Down On 911? So, why was it that the SAMs were not launched (on 911)?

Air Defenses Stood Down On 911 AFTER ATC Alerts Given: There is now irrefutable evidence which proves massive complicity on the part of the highest levels of government -- along with numerous accomplices and co-conspirators in the military, intelligence and administrative sectors -- in the September 11 atrocities perpetrated against the American people.

Scrambled Messages: Yet the most amazing feature of the U.S. government’s response to these events was the almost complete absence of it. Jared Israel on his website www.tenc.net has blazed a trail with fascinating and meticulous research.

Official Bungling Claimed in 9-11 Intelligence: Why did the military fail to scramble planes over Wash ington when the second explosion at the World Trade Center made it obvious that that a terrorist attack was under way?

FAA alerted Military Immediately; AF Prevented From Responding: The Air Force spokesman confirmed that after alerts and requests for intercepts of the aircraft were received from FAA/ATC, orders from the HIGHEST LEVEL of the federal government demanded that the Air Force stand down and NOT follow through with established scramble/ intercept procedures until further notice!

A Pilot Answers 911 Questions JCS General Myers Wouldn't: The vital perspective provided by this pilot raises as many questions as it answers on - "Where Was The U.S. Air Force When We Needed It On 9-11?"

Fighter jets from Andrews AFB escort 'hijack hoax' plane - why weren't these fighters scrambled to intercept Flight 77 and protect Washington on 9/11? Two F-16 jets from Andrews Air Force Base were sent to intercept and escort the Airbus A319, said Maj. Ed Thomas of the North American Aerospace Defense Command.

Where were they on 9/11? Andrews AFB intercept jet near White House: The plane apparently strayed within the Air Defense Identification Zone, roughly a 23-mile radius around Washington, according to Les Dorr, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.

Compare the reaction of the FAA to the Payne Stewart incident to that of 9/11: We are presenting this article from USA TODAY as a comparison of how the FAA reacted in this case (which is mandated under FAA rules and regulations) as opposed to how they did not react on 9-11.

9/11 Flight Controller: "Is This Real World or an Exercise?" Paul Joseph Watson for Alex Jones' Prison Planet | July 22 2004 On a BBC video report which focuses on the 'hijacker screening video', a clip is played from the voice of a 9/11 flight controller, in which he responds to news of a hijacked flight heading towards New York with the words, "is this real world, or an exercise?'

Wargames Were Cover For the Operational Execution of 9/11 Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson | Updated September 20 2004 No single smoking gun has yet been forwarded to explain why air defenses categorically reversed Standard Operating Procedure and failed to respond to hijacked jetliners. Until now. More and more individuals are looking at the facts and highlighting exercise drills that took place on the morning of 9/11.

FNMCC ops director asked substitute on 9-10 to stand his watch on 9-11 Tom Flocco | June 18 2004 According to the personal written statement of Navy Captain Charles J. Leidig, Jr....on September 10 he was asked by Brigadier General Montague Winfield to stand a portion of his duty as Deputy Director for Operations for the National Military Command Center (NMCC), which would require supervision and operation of all necessary communications as watch commander.

Doubt On 9/11 Shootdown Order New York Post | October 5 2004 This makes Cheney's 'the orders still stand' comment when he was in the White House bunker all the more interesting.

Scrambled F15’s From Otis Air Force Base: Mach 1.5 or Cruise Speed? Karen de Vries | October 21 2004 Why did General Myers initially state that no military aircraft was scrambled until after the Pentagon was hit? Why did Major Gen Arnold contradict that statement a few days later? Why did Major Gen Arnold state that they flew at mach 1.5, when it is obvious they didn’t? Why didn’t the F-15’s accelerate to mach 1.5 or higher?

Representative Cynthia McKinney Grills Rumsfeld On Dyncorp Sex Rings, Missing Pentagon Trillions & 9/11 Wargames C-Span | March 24 2005 Rumseld and Myers forced to shuffle uncomfortably and fumble for words as McKinney gets in their face about three issues seldom mentioned in official circles.

Dark Doppelganger of Delta 1989 Total 9/11 Info | January 25 2005 Delta 1989 had a dark doppelganger, not only when it landed at Cleveland Airport, but when it was flying, too. This doppelganger started probably in Boston, too. It was part of the wargames which were taking place on this day. It was a "live-fly exercise".

Hijack 'suspect' alive in Morocco A Saudi-Arabian aircraft pilot who was named as one of the 19 hijackers, has turned up alive and well in Morocco.

Father insists alleged leader is still alive: The father of Mohammed Atta, the alleged ringleader of the September 11 attacks, said in an interview published yesterday that his son was still alive.

Hijack 'suspects' alive and well: Another of the men named by the FBI as a hijacker in the suicide attacks on Washington and New York has turned up alive and well.

Saudi Suspects in U.S. Attacks Were Not in the U.S.: U.S. officials in Riyadh offered Abdul Rahman Said al-Omari an official apology in the presence of Saudi interior ministry officials for including his name among the list of suspects in the U.S. terrorist attacks, news agencies reported Monday.

Seven of the WTC Hijackers found alive! Some of the men the FBI claims hijacked planes on Sept. 11 and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon, and Stony Creek Township, Pennsylvania are still alive.

FBI Denies Mix-Up Of 9/11 Terrorists: The reports suggested at least six of the men the FBI claimed were hijackers on the planes were in fact alive. They didn't survive the crashes, of course, but never boarded the planes.

THE PERPLEXING PUZZLE OF THE PUBLISHED PASSENGER LISTS

Atta's Father Still Insists His Son is Alive Associated Press | September 11 2004 Mohammed al-Amir Atta no longer practices law, but when it comes to his son, he can still put up a spirited defense.

New Questions About Real Identity of 9-11 Hijackers American Free Press | March 21 2005 He sat silent for years, keeping a secret Americans were dying to hear. Not able to talk, there were days he cried uncontrollably, days he pounded his fists on the table like a madman, wondering if he could have prevented so many people from dying the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

NNBC: FDNY Chief of Safety Reported Bombs Both Within the Towers and on the Planes on 9/11 Paul Joseph Watson/Dan Perez | May 5 2004 What you will hear is a clip from NBC reporter Pat Dawson on the morning of 9/11. In it he discusses the comments of Albert Turi, the Chief of Safety for the New York City Fire Department.

When The Explosives Were Placed: WTC South Tower Upper Floors Closed on 9/8 & 9/9 San Francisco Indymedia | April 23 2004 NYC firefighters remarked that day that it seemed like bombs were going off in the buildings, just prior to the tower's collapse. One glaring question remains unanswered: exactly how and when could such a monumental undertaking be accomplished. Read on for the answer...

9/11 Firefighter Observes: "The Building Collapsed to Dust" Prison Planet | May 14 2004 "You have two hundred and ten story office buildings. You don't find a desk. You don't find a chair. You don't find a telephone, a computer. The biggest piece of a telephone I found was half of the keypad. The building collapsed to dust."

CBS News Channel Eyewitness Describes 'Secondary Explosions' in WTC Prison Planet/Dan Perez | April 27 2004 The following clips originate from CBS Channel 2 in New York. The reporter is in a helicopter as the WTC Towers collapse.

New York Firefighters Discuss Bombs in WTC Towers www.Prisonplanet.com - 03/24/04 In this clip you will hear a discussion between New York Firefighters from September 11 where they describe the WTC and the fact that it looked like detonators were planted in the towers.

WTC 7 Imploded by Silverstein, FDNY and Others various sources - 01/19/04 It has now been admitted with little or no press coverage that WTC7 was brought down by explosives inside the building. This is simply the biggest 9/11 revelation since the event and proves there is a press blackout in operation.

The very strange collapse of 7 World Trade The strange collapse of WTC 7 has never been reported ANYWHERE in the mainstream media. If these suggestions are true then the implications are massive.

Steel Not Seen As Factor in WTC Collapse: Early tests on steel beams from the World Trade Center show they generally met or were stronger than design requirements, ruling them out as a contributing cause of the collapse of the towers, federal investigators said Wednesday.

WTC 7: First large building ever to collapse from fire alone (no debris impact)

The Firefighters' Tapes - Tapes reveal that fires were under control not raging infernos: A lot of the portions of the tapes have been classified. This portion lasts an hour and thirteen minutes, we have highlighted the interesting parts below with full transcripts.

Where's the inferno? The reason given for the collapse of the twin towers is floor trusses at the aircraft impact level failed due to an inferno generated by aircraft fuel which turned the impacted floors into an 800ΊC furnace capable of casting aluminum and glazing pottery.

Experts says explosives brought down the towers - then strangely changes his mind days later: Televised images of the attacks on the World Trade Center suggest that explosives devices caused the collapse of both towers, a New Mexico Tech explosion expert said Tuesday.

More Photographs Unearthed to Suggest Bombs in the Twin Towers

An Eye-Witness Account of the World Trade Center Attacks (bombs in the towers)

Unasked Questions about bombs in the World Trade Center on September 11 2001: One (or more) eyewitness reported hearing a series of at least about "five" explosions in at least one of the buildings just before it came down.

Eyewitness Reports Persist Of Bombs At WTC Collapse: Despite reports from numerous eyewitnesses and experts, including news reporters on the scene, who heard or saw explosions immediately before the collapse of the World Trade Center, there has been virtual silence in the mainstream media.

Eyewitnesses tell of horror - "I heard the bomb"

Full horror of WTC attack on FBI tape - "Then comes a longer and much louder explosion."

New York Firefighters’ Final Words Fuel Burning Questions About 9-11: Evidence that could debunk the official explanation for the collapse of the World Trade Center is being kept secret by the Department of Justice on a flimsy pretext.

WTC 7 Professional Demolition Footage (be patient while this GIF image downloads)

ENGINEERS ARE BAFFLED OVER THE COLLAPSE OF 7 WTC: Almost lost in the chaos of the collapse of the World Trade Center is a mystery that under normal circumstances would probably have captured the attention of the city and the world. That mystery is the collapse of a nearby 47-story, two-million-square-foot building seven hours after flaming debris from the towers rained down on it, igniting what became an out-of-control fire.

Rescue Fireman Louie Cacchioli - "We think there was bombs set in the building": I was taking firefighters up in the elevator to the 24th floor to get in position to evacuate workers. On the last trip up a bomb went off. We think there was bombs set in the building.

Unexplained 9-11 Explosion at WTC Complex: Despite the fact that the horrible events of Sept. 11 occurred in broad daylight and were widely photographed, significant aspects of the attacks have been completely suppressed by a media blackout.

Former German Defense Minister Confirms CIA Involvement in 9/11: Alex Jones Interviews Andreas Von Buelow Alex Jones Show - 02/08/04

Alex Jones Interviews Col. Donn de Grand-Pre The Alex Jones Show - 02/29/04 This is the full MP3 audio of Alex's explosive interview with Col. Donn de Grand-Pre, U.S. Army (ret.). de Grand-Pre outlines how 9/11 was carried out by order of an inside group of Neo-Cons. de Grand-Pre knows personally the pilot who shot down Flight 93.

No Hijackers For 911: Repentant arms dealer reveals disgruntled U.S. military on the verge of revolt John Kaminski - 02/29/04 Back in May 2003, a journalist in Portugal reported on a sensational, marathon meeting of a group of U.S. pilots that issued a report concluding that the story told by the U.S. government about what happened on Sept. 11, 2001 was improbable and unlikely.

9/11 DVD Censored! Image of Strange Flash as Flight 11 Hit North Tower Missing From Footage: In the televised version of the plane hitting the North tower there is a frame containing a huge bright flash of light that has been digitally removed from the DVD version.

Planes of 911 Exceeded Their Software Limits - only remote controlled Boeings could have performed high G turns on 9/11: The Boeing 757 and 767 are equipped with fully autonomous flight capability, they are the only two Boeing commuter aircraft capable of fully autonomous flight. They can be programmed to take off, fly to a destination and land, completely without a pilot at the controls.

September 11 - US Government accused: A group of military and civilian US pilots, under the chairmanship of Colonel Donn de Grand, after deliberating non-stop for 72 hours, has concluded that the flight crews of the four passenger airliners, involved in the September 11th tragedy, had no control over their aircraft.

Hijackology 101-Did NORAD send The "Suicide" Jets on 911? Carol Valentine has managed to purge the truth from the massive lies and propaganda concerning the World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks on 9-11 and the reasons behind these crimes.

Home Run 2 - Hijackology 101-Did NORAD send the "Suicide" Jets on 911? The main point of this report is to take you up for a flight in a high performance fighter jet, tasked with intercepting a “rogue” aircraft apparently off track and threatening a major city.

Landing by remote control doesn't quite fly with pilots: The military has been flying planes and landing them safely by remote control for years, but airline pilots say questions about security must be answered before that technology is used aboard commercial jetliners to thwart hijackers the way President Bush suggested Thursday during a speech in Chicago.

Anomalies in new 9/11 footage: New footage of the WTC planes has been released. Apparently the man who made the video didn't realise what he had. The New York Times has released a redacted version of the footage, but one of the frames is very intriguing.

911 Redux: American Airlines Flight 11, Reexamined: Although many questions remain unanswered, regarding the suspicious circumstances of 911, none seems more dubious and disturbing, than that of the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 11.