Military officer April Gallop, who survived the 9/11 terrorist attack at the Pentagon, has charged Bush administration officials with conspiring to carry out the event. Tomorrow, her case will be heard in Federal Court:

Top Secret Military Specialist April Gallop saw disturbing things up close that have not been reported in the media.

 

On the morning of September 11, 2001, she was ordered by her supervisor to go directly to work at the Pentagon, before dropping off her ten-week-old son Elisha at day care...

Escaping through the hole reportedly made by Flight 77, she saw no signs of an aircraft – no seats, luggage, metal, or human remains.  Her watch (and other clocks nearby) had stopped at 9:30-9:31 a.m., seven minutes before the Pentagon was allegedly struck at 9:38 a.m.

The 9/11 Commission reported that "by no later than 9:18 a.m., FAA centers in Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Washington were aware that Flight 77 was missing and that two aircraft had struck the World Trade Center."

Why then were there no anti-aircraft defenses, Gallop asks, or alarm warnings inside the Pentagon?

 

...On April 5th, 2011, at 11 a.m., at the Federal Courthouse at 141 Church Street in New Haven, Connecticut, the case of Gallop v. Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Myers will be heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit.

Gallop's case will bring legal scrutiny upon many Bush administration claims about the attacks which were previously assumed to be fact.

Ms. Gallop will, through photographic and other physical evidence, as well as the testimony of a multitude of military and civilian survivors, demonstrate the impossibility of her having lived through the attack on the Pentagon if it had taken place as the government and the defendants claim...

 

"No independent court has applied legal procedures to review the available evidence on who was responsible for the attacks."

 

Also, that "it is not acceptable for a constitutional state...to declare war, bomb a foreign country, and place it under military occupation," without first identifying suspects.

 

Dieseroth also said the U.S. "was under burden of proof" that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the attacks, yet the FBI admits it has no evidence presentable in court to back this up.

In parts one, two, and three a narrative was formed around covert right wing activities stretching from the end of World War 2 up until the start of the War on Terror. In a nutshell, a giant horde of stolen riches known as the ‘Black Eagle Trust’ were used to fund a shadow American empire tucked under the meme of anti-communism.

At the end of the Cold War, a large number of ‘off-balance sheet’ securities were issued by banks such as UBS and Deutsche Bank against this wealth and funneled into the USSR.

In September 1991, George H. W. Bush and Alan Greenspan, both Pilgrims Society members, financed $240 billion in illegal bonds to economically decimate the Soviet Union and bring Soviet oil and gas resources under the control of Western investors, backed by the Black Eagle Trust and supported later by Putin who for the right price purged certain oligarchs.

After the Soviet Union fell, the cabal in possession of these resources made plans to cycle them into the legal economy and cover-up the dirty deeds that they were associated with. The original 10 year Brady bonds, set to mature in September 2001, were destroyed in the attack on the World Trade Center. The firm that held the securities was Cantor Fitzgerald, which suffered catastrophic losses including the death of every employee.

Under a suspension of regular rules by the SEC, the illicit bonds were cleared by the Bank of New York and added to the capital reserves of banks holding ‘Black Eagle’ gold including Chase, Citibank, Credit Suisse, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, and UBS. To obfuscate its trail, the money was quickly shifted into the mortgage market, where the demand for subprime loans would rise by $246 billion.

Loans that require little or no documentation of income soared to $276 billion, or 46 percent, of all subprime mortgages last year from $30 billion in 2001, according to estimates from New York- based analysts at Credit Suisse Group. Homebuyers with those loans defaulted at a 12.6 percent rate in February, compared with 1.5 percent of fully documented prime mortgages, said San Francisco- based First American LoanPerformance, a mortgage consulting group.

The global financial crisis, like the massive pyroclastic clouds flowing through the streets of New York on 9/11, has served as a smokescreen for the criminal syndicate which inherited Golden Lily’s loot to get away...

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In parts one and two, an outline was given how trillions in stolen loot buried during the second world war were confiscated by intelligence officers and funneled into a covert action fund under the auspices of fighting communism.  Still, the early riches recovered by Lansdale and his affiliates comprised no more than one-sixth of the total that was hidden.

Many of the 176 vaults in and around the city of Manila would not be dug out until much later. The president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, began excavating these in the mid 1970s.

After World War II, Ferdinand Marcos learned of gold recoveries in Luzon by some of his Ilocano constituents, and made a claim on them. Thereafter he made deals with Japanese to carry out joint recoveries. In 1975 he hired Nevada mining engineer Robert Curtis to excavate a major loot burial site at Teresa... this site was worth around $190 billion. Curtis figured out the Japanese map codes and excavated half the site, from which Marcos removed the contents. Curtis built Marcos a smelting factory at Subic Bay to recast the gold and disguise its metallurgical fingerprint, so that the bullion could be moved into the world gold market without arousing suspicion about its provenance.

Marcos personally obtained $14 billion from the excavation, which was moved into Swiss accounts. In addition to his wealth, he counted several well-known Americans among his friends, including the governor of California.

Certainly in 1980, Marcos was in Reagan's camp. They had been friends for years, since 1969 when President Nixon assigned Reagan to represent the United States at the gala opening of Imelda Marcos's multi-million-dollar cultural center in Manila. Reagan charmed the Philippine president and his wife as the former beauty queen danced with the former actor.

In 1980, Marcos also was annoyed by Carter's nagging about human rights and frightened by Carter's inability to protect another despot, the shah of Iran, from ouster and a humiliating exile. As U.S. president, Reagan would drop the human rights lectures, look the other way on Marcos's renowned corruption, and defend Marcos as an important Asian ally. Vice President George Bush would even toast Marcos for his "adherence to democratic principles."

Documentary evidence about the alleged Marcos-to-Reagan payoffs first surfaced after Marcos was ousted by a revolution in March 1986. As Marcos's fall neared, Reagan arranged for the dictator to be flown to Hawaii. Marcos's opponents then ransacked government files and found a Feb. 17, 1986, letter signed by a senior Marcos aide, Victor Nituda.

In the letter, Nituda warned Marcos that Reagan's emissary, Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., was demanding that sensitive files, including ones listing the 1980 transactions, be turned over to the Americans before Marcos could go to Hawaii. Nituda's letter specifically cited accounts set up for Reagan and his 1980 campaign manager William J. Casey, who, in 1986, was Reagan's CIA director.

However when Ferdinand refused to lend Ronnie his gold, the Gipper turned on him.

Given the concurrent attempt to blackmail Tokyo over the Showa Trust, Reagan's advisors – particularly Casey – argued that Marcos had gone too far. The time had come to depose him, and in the process divest him of the mass of bullion he still had salted away. Casey swung into action. In the months that followed, People Power took to the streets of Manila, mobs demanding that Marcos step down.

As popular clamor increased in the streets, Casey is said to have flown to Manila with Treasury Secretary Regan, CIA economist Professor Frank Higdon , and attorney Lawrence Kreagar. The purpose of the meeting, according to a Marcos aide, was to convince Ferdinand to turn over 73,000 metric tons of gold. Casey and Regan were giving Marcos a last chance. Regan reportedly told Marcos that he must sign over the gold in return for 80 percent of the value in U.S. Debt instruments, 20 percent in cash. Sensing that the end was nigh, Marcos wanted 80 percent in cash, only 20 percent in debt instruments. When haggling proved fruitless, Professor Higdon is said to have told Marcos he would be out of power 'in two weeks'. Indeed, weeks later Marcos was in Hawaii, effectively under house arrest.

Vice President "Poppy" Bush went on to use a shell mining company, Barrick Resources Corporation, to process the stolen gold out of the Philippines. Upon leaving his one term as president, George H.W. became an international consultant for the company. It's owner Peter Munk, a tycoon with ties to the mafia, gave more than $100,000 to Junior Bush's presidential campaign. Once George W. took office in 2001, one of his first acts was to send a team to Manila.

George W. got into the act in March 2001, sending Navy SEAL commandos to the Philippines to recover a portion of General Yamashita's gold. Bush was privately in the market to buy some of the bullion that was being recovered. His representative was William S. Parish, his nominee as ambassador to Great Britain, and the manager of his blind trust.

As the Fall of 2001 approached, Junior faced a conundrum. The enormous trove of 10 year bonds which his father had covertly borrowed to flush out the Soviet economy in 1991 were coming due. Yet, the collateral pledged against the notes were being held in the illegal Black Eagle Trust, sourced from stolen war loot. The secrecy of the funds could be compromised if they were used to pay off the securities, which were held by Cantor Fitzgerald in vaults beneath the World Trade Center.

According to an unofficial analysis based on documents released by the Office of Naval Intelligence, this circumstance may have provided a strategic rationale for the WTC attacks.

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In part one, it was revealed how $3 trillion in treasure plundered from Asia by Japan in the WW2 operation 'Golden Lily' was confiscated by the United States and funneled into a covert fund used by the CIA to fight communism.

This ‘Black Eagle Trust’ would bankroll numerous secret actions taken by the U.S. throughout the second half of the twentieth century.

One of the hidden accounts, called the ‘M-Fund’, was used to purchase political influence in Japan. It allowed the country to illegally rebuild their army while the U.S. moved troops to Korea. Richard Nixon repeatedly dipped into the fund as vice president to buy influence in the region. As president in 1971, he sent $35 billion to Japanese Prime Minister Kishi, an indicted war criminal.

In addition to foreign activity, the black accounts were used to fund operations within the United States. Nixon’s Japanese fascist friends, elements of what would become the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), are believed to have participated in the Kennedy assassination. This event was part of the larger war on the American Left known as COINTELPRO. The WACL went on to back Latin American death squads under President Reagan.

However, the greatest achievement of the ‘Black Eagle Trust’ would come under his successor, President George H.W. Bush. He would reach the ultimate goal, destruction of the U.S.S.R.

In 1989 President George H. W. Bush began the multi-billion dollar Project Hammer program using an investment strategy to bring about the economic destruction of the Soviet Union including the theft of the Soviet treasury, the destabilization of the ruble, funding a KGB coup against Gorbachev in August 1991 and the seizure of major energy and munitions industries in the Soviet Union. Those resources would subsequently be turned over to international bankers and corporations…

Project Hammer was staffed with CIA operatives and others associated with the National Security apparatus. Covert channels were already in place as a result of other illegal Bush activities. Thus, it was a given that the project would use secret, illegal funds for unapproved covert operations, and that the American public and Congress would not be informed about the illegal actions perpetrated in foreign countries. The first objective was allegedly to crush Communism, a growing political philosophy and social movement that was initially funded by the usual group of international bankers who now supported their demise. To this end, the "Vulcans" under George H. W. Bush, waged war against the Soviet Union…

During the process of accomplishing the main objective of destroying the Soviet Union, the operatives made massive profits. In September 1991, George H. W. Bush and Alan Greenspan, both Pilgrims Society members, financed $240 billion in illegal bonds to economically decimate the Soviet Union and bring Soviet oil and gas resources under the control of Western investors, backed by the Black Eagle Trust...

Herein lays the rub. With the removal of the world’s greatest purveyor of communism, the mission of the ‘Black Eagle Trust’ was complete. Nevertheless, it would be necessary to cover up its existence. Records of the Brady bonds, borrowed against illicit holdings, remained in the offices of Cantor Fitzgerald in New York City.

From early 2000 to June 2001, several workshops were held between the Naval War College and Cantor Fitzgerald at the top of the North Tower to discuss “globalization’s future and the threats that could derail it” One day before the 10 year bonds reached maturity, the attack on the trade centers struck directly below Cantor, killing all of its employees and destroying all documents.

The final step to bury evidence of the great stolen treasure was to target outsiders who had touched the Black Eagle Trust. The CIA had used money laundering schemes through dictators such as Saddam Hussein and dirty banks like the B.C.C.I. With the advent of the War on Terror, every rogue agent affiliated with the trust could be targeted...

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One of the darkest episodes of the second world war was the brutal slaughter of 30 million people in East Asia by the Japanese. The death rate of Allied POWs in this region was a staggering 30% (more than 7x higher than the death rate in Nazi camps). Yet, there is little discussion today of these war crimes. In fact, every member of the imperial family was exonerated. Why were Japanese royalty let go, while Germans were prosecuted? The grotesque answer lies with riches that were looted from the Chinese, Koreans, and Burmese during the conflict.

When Allied forces blockaded the Japanese, much of their stolen treasure was buried in the Philippines. Upon their surrender, General Yamashita was taken into custody along with his surrogates. His driver, Major Kojima Kashii, was tortured to reveal the booty’s location.

Since Yamashita had arrived from Manchuria in October 1944 to take over the defense of the Philippines, Kojima had driven him everywhere. In charge of Kojima’s torture was a Filipino-American intelligence officer Severino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana, a man of many names and personalities, whose friends called him ‘Santy’. He wanted Major Kojima to reveal each place to which he had taken Yamashita, where bullion and other treasure were hidden.

Supervising Santy, we learned, was Captain Edward G. Lansdale, later one of America’s best-known Cold Warriors. In September 1945, Lansdale was 37 years old and utterly insignificant, only an advertising agency copywriter who had spent the war in San Francisco writing propaganda for the OSS. In September 1945, chance entered Lansdale’s life in a big way when President Truman ordered the OSS to close down. To preserve America’s intelligence assets, and his own personal network, OSS chief General William Donovan moved personnel to other government or military posts. Captain Lansdale was one of fifty office staff given a chance to transfer to U.S. Army G-2 in the Philippines. There, Lansdale heard about Santy torturing General Yamashita’s driver and joined the torture sessions as an observer and participant.

Early that October, Major Kojima broke down and led Lansdale and Santy to more than a dozen Golden Lily treasure vaults in the mountains north of Manila, including two that were easily opened.

$100 billion in wealth (in 1945 prices) was estimated to be buried in the Philippine hills, including tens of thousands of tonnes of gold. Adjusted for inflation, its worth is valued at about $3 trillion. After being briefed of the situation, the Truman administration decided to keep the treasure a state secret. The loot would be funneled into a covert political action fund to fight communism. It was called the Black Eagle Trust.

According to [CIA Deputy Director] Ray Cline and others, between 1945 and 1947 the gold bullion recovered by Santy and Lansdale was discreetly moved by ship to 176 accounts at banks in 42 countries. Secrecy was vital. If the recovery of a huge mass of stolen gold became known, thousands of people would come forward to claim it, many of them fraudulently, and governments would be bogged down resolving ownership. Truman also was told that the very existence of so much black gold, if it became public knowledge, would cause the fixed price of $35 and cause the fixed price of $35 an ounce to collapse...

Documents do show that between 1945 and 1947 very large quantities of gold and platinum were deposited in the world’s biggest banks, including Union Banque Suisse and other Swiss banks, which became major repositories of the Black Eagle Trust.

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After George W. Bush allowed the most devastating attacks on United States soil in history, he went on to exploit the American people by dividing us along religious and cultural lines. He launched a ‘crusade against terror’ that acted as a force multiplier, feeding into the darkest emotions of a fearful population. A rabid red-necked sect was spawned with newfound power.

Alas, this adrenaline high could not be sustained. The gun totin’ wild west hero who promised to bring home the evil, dark-skinned villain ‘dead or alive’ failed on both counts. The swooning ecstasy of inevitable victory devolved into melancholy, leaving empty shells amongst the right wing.

Like unrepentant junkies unable to cope with their addiction, Islamophobes have leapt at the opportunity to fill their bin Laden-less void. When conservative blogger Pam Geller served up the brown Muslim face of the Imam, her cohorts snapped it up like shark bait.

It matters not that the mosque is not a mosque.

It matters not that it’s not on Ground Zero.

The bodies rot and what matters, ist Hass.

The terror plot will not have a hero.

The latest relapse of anti-Muslim mania masks the cold underlying fact that no party has stood trial for the heinous acts of 9/11. Despite the decrees issued by the news ticker that Fox launched during the attacks, no suspect has faced the scrutiny of an unbiased jury, no prosecutor has presented evidence to the public, and no witnesses have testified, let alone been cross-examined.

The question of constitutionality should not only refer to religious freedom but to the right to face one’s accuser. As we’ve seen in the Pat Tillman saga, the Bush administration was perfectly capable of fabricating a narrative from whole cloth. For any who believe that the corporate news media is not willing to facilitate such a large scale hoax, I would suggest taking a look at the fake Russian invasion broadcast earlier this year to Georgian viewers.

As some final food for thought the documentary “Zero”, produced by a European member of parliament, explores how the amount of physical evidence supporting the legal prosecution of Osama bin Laden for 9/11 is so slim that the FBI itself does not list him as a suspect.

The Pentagon's desire to create a modern threat rivaling the Soviet-era 'Red Menace' is inherent to its own survival. Without an enemy to fire it's weapons at, the DoD in its massively bloated form would cease to exist. In the pursuit to feed the beast, however, the soulless war machine has committed unspeakable sins.

It's becoming clearer by the day that the mythical bin Laden unicorn will never be found and a carousel of Osama wannabees will be endlessly spun by the military-industrial-media complex to justify the War on Terror from now until the Nuclear holocaust.

The Washington Post recently uncovered the incredible fact that the CIA has been fabricating bin Laden videos:

The agency actually did make a video purporting to show Osama bin Laden and his cronies sitting around a campfire swigging bottles of liquor and savoring their conquests with boys, one of the former CIA officers recalled, chuckling at the memory. The actors were drawn from “some of us darker-skinned employees,” he said.

This revelation is buttressed by the Der Spiegel report which tells us that every terror tape has been produced by one of two CIA contractors.

Whereas the free American press could have once been expected to follow up on this bombshell, the modern corporate news media is so utterly beholden to the terror-industrial complex that any further revelations could result in perp walks for the senior executives at ABCNNBCBSFOX.

Thus, the open question remains: How deeply has the media deceived us? For years, supposedly unbiased “senior military analysts” have used these terror dictations to rationalize the need for Americans to sacrifice their liberties and send their children to die in the Middle East.

As long as our troops remain in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is fair game to probe the rabbit hole all the way back to that forbidden place - the world as it existed pre-9/11. In this fantasy wonderland the Terror Jabberwocky had not yet shred the Constitution, the Red Wall St. Queen failed to swallow the middle-class, and the Humpty-Dumpty budget surplus sat peacefully on the wall of Congress.

Before professional military propagandists inserted their evil al-Qaeda spell into the public mindset, a few glaring facts stood out about the events of Sept. 11th, 2001.  These fit into a shocking narrative Alice would see after walking through the looking glass.

Our story begins when the military meets in June, 2001 to train for threats to the country's air defenses. The primary antagonist featured on the program's cover is none other than Osama bin Laden. He has acquired a cruise missile and will launch it from a barge off the East Coast of the United States.

Many features of the missile deployed (i.e. JASSM) are similar to that of a small plane. It contains wings, a vertical tail, a turbojet engine, and even a GPS navigation system. However, this flying object wears a dense nuclear coat which allows it to penetrate hard, grounded structures...

During their military exercise, the soldiers are positioned like chess pieces on a board. NORAD Knaves are placed on the “blue team”, set to defend the country while Rumsfeld the Rook and Castle Cheney flank the rogue Red King.  The actors are told to “train like they're going to fight” in order to increase the sense of realism.

Three months later, on the 11th of September another drill is taking place whereby the “red team” has scrambled all of NORAD's incoming signals. Suddenly, the chess pieces become animated: “This is not an exercise.”

As the ID techs try to discern what information is real and what is part of their war game scenario, television stations run a "live" broadcast of downtown Manhattan.  The surreal pixelated portrait looks like a crude version of Virtual Earth. A timely zoom-in reveals an eerie silohouette shooting across the middle of the screen...

It was announced last month that the chief of the super-secret National Security Agency has been confirmed to head a new US military branch termed the 'Cyber Command'.

The US government, after some delay, has formally confirmed in post the head of its now-forming military Cyber Command. Keith B Alexander, head of the NSA, has been promoted to four-star general* and will now head the new cyber forces as well as his current agency.

The Cyber Command will be based alongside the NSA, perhaps the world's most powerful crypto and intercept agency, at Fort Meade in Maryland.

The new command, which will be subordinate to US Strategic Command (STRATCOM), was created last June and it was hoped that Alexander would be in post before now. However, in the USA top jobs of this sort must be confirmed by Congress and in this case the legislators took their time. Many expressed concerns over control of the possible offensive capabilities of the nascent US military cyber forces, or worried that they might present threats to Americans' privacy or civil liberties.

Concerns over intrusions into personal liberties have not been alleviated by the concurrent fearmongering over 'cyberwar' threats and lucrative contracts with the Pentagon through notoriously unscrupulous war provocateurs such as Booz Allen Hamilton.

So who is the target of the 30,000 troops deployed to the front lines of this 'cyberwar'? Furthermore, what party stands to gain in this conflict?

Unsurprisingly, there appears to be a cloaked corporate agenda behind these maneuvers. Secret negotiations have been taking place to hash out a global treaty to prosecute violations of copyright laws. While this may sound somewhat innocuous, the draconian punishments include preemptive termination of internet access for anyone who is even suspected of having violated this treaty.

How deep does the rabbit hole go? It must be recalled that the NSA was at the center of the domestic spying and warrantless wiretapping scandal. Despite the common national security argument that individual rights should be swept away because 'the world has changed since 9/11', the fact is that reports of dragnet domestic spying by the NSA have been surfacing since the late 90's. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act itself came about in 1978 after revelations of abuses by the Nixon administration, which included Neocon desciples Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.

The modern Neocon spying operation is so extensive it has been compared to the East German secret police.

Increasingly, it is appropriate to characterize the Bushcon spy operation as an all-American version of Stasi (Staats Sicherheitsdienst), the feared East German secret police. As it turns out, the neocon Stasi engaged in spook activity not only against American citizens, but government bureaucrats and fellow spooks as well. "NSA spied on its own employees, other U.S. intelligence personnel, and their journalist and congressional contacts," reports Wayne Madsen. "WMR has learned that the National Security Agency (NSA), on the orders of the Bush administration, eavesdropped on the private conversations and e-mail of its own employees, employees of other U.S. intelligence agencies—including the CIA and DIA—and their contacts in the media, Congress, and oversight agencies and offices," behavior fitting of the Committee for State Security, or the Soviet era KGB, responsible for the liquidation of anti-Soviet and counter-revolutionary organizations.

What are the Neocons so afraid of being revealed that they must put their own minions under permanent surveillance? According to Wayne Madsen, a secret NSA subdivision called the 'Q Group' has been tasked with targeting journalists and whistle-blowers who reveal information about 9/11, a practice encouraged by Obama adviser Cass Sunstein.

The US government has allegedly set up a special security wing with the sole task of distancing Washington from any involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen claims the group has since grown into a disproportionate counter-intelligence force, mainly targeting journalists and prosecuting whistle–blowing security officials.

According to Madsen, this group is fully operational and is called the “Q Group” of the National Security Agency and its headquarters are within the headquarters of NSA at Fort Meade, Maryland. Q Group works in close cooperation with the FBI counter intelligence officers, as well as local police department intelligence units.

Madsen insists that the group is very large and approximately 1,000 agents and informers are employed by this secret agency within the already secretive NSA.

“Under Obama there has been no effort to curtail this organization. Unfortunately, the NSA’s power is growing because the Obama administration is now giving them new powers to conduct surveillance in cyberspace, placing cyber command under the control of NSA,” said Madsen.

One the great tragedies resulting from the Sept 11, 2001 attack on the WTC towers in New York City was the plight of the heroic rescue workers who saved thousands of lives on that day. A study published last month found that about 20% of the 14,000 responders have suffered permanent lung damage.

Researchers measured the lung function of about 92 percent of the almost 14,000 New York City firefighters and emergency medical services (EMS) workers who responded to Ground Zero in the wake of the terrorist attacks.

In the year after their exposure to such pollutants as burning jet fuel and pulverized building materials, firefighters and EMS workers experienced a steep drop in average lung function. Non-smoking firefighters were especially hard hit, according to the study in the April 8 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

About 18 percent of firefighters who had never smoked had abnormal lung function for their age after one year, compared to 3 percent prior to the exposure. Among EMS workers, 22 percent had abnormal lung function after one year, compared to 12 percent prior to exposure, according to the study. 

The blame has been placed on 'toxic dust' clouds which engulfed the area surrounding the towers. While there is little question that particulate matter such as pulverized concrete impacted the health of those who were standing in the blast radius of the falling towers, the huge number of responders who contracted illnesses including rare cancer types suggest circumstances more akin to those who survived the nuclear blasts in Japan.

The fact that 8,500 recovery workers have already banded together to sue... with 400 total cancer patients among their number—leads many experts to predict that these figures are likely to grow, meaning a possible death toll in the thousands.

In many ways, these illnesses suggest the slow but deteriorating health issues that faced the atomic-bomb survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where thousands died in the years and decades that followed the United States' use of nuclear weapons.

But how does this comparison make any sense? After all, we know that the city of New York was hit with planes, not a nuclear missile. Well, it turns out that one of the dirty little secrets of the 9/11 terror attack was that the passenger planes may have contained a large quantity of depleted uranium.

The recent crash of a Boeing 747 in Halifax, Canada, raises a number of questions about the use of depleted uranium (DU) in airplanes, public health concerns and the 9-11 attacks.  When a Boeing 747 crashed and burned on takeoff at Halifax International Airport in Nova Scotia, Canada, on Oct. 14, an official accident investigator said the aircraft probably contained radioactive depleted uranium.

Bill Fowler, an investigator with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, said the plane was likely equipped with DU as counterweights in its wings and rudder.

“A 747 may contain as much as 1,500 kilograms [3,300 lbs.] of the material,” the Canadian Press reported.

This little-known fact explains a great number of anomalies present in the analysis of how the towers fell. One of the common questions that has puzzled many independent observers was how jet fuel, which burns in open air at about 300 deg C, was able to comprimise the integrity of steel, which melts at 1,000 deg C. The presence of depleted uranium settles this conundrum.

In 1988, American physicist Robert L. Parker wrote that in the worst-case scenario, the crash of a Boeing 747 could affect the health of 250,000 people through exposure to uranium oxide particles. “Extended tests by the Navy and NASA showed that the temperature of the fireball in a plane crash can reach 1,200 degrees Celsius. Such temperatures are high enough to cause very rapid oxidation of depleted uranium,” he wrote.

Another riddle presented in analyzing the events is how the planes were able to penetrate the steel walls of the towers. They cut through not only the outside grid but the entire length of the building and the opposite wall all in a fraction of a second.

With a density of more than 2x that of steel, depleted uranium makes a potent weapon, slicing through tanks and armor like butter. For this reason it is coveted by the American military and is credited with the swift victory in Operation Desert Storm.

On the "Highway of Death," 11 miles north of the Kuwait border, a collection of tanks, armored personnel carriers and other military vehicles are rusting in the desert.

They also are radiating nuclear energy.

In 1991, the United States and its Persian Gulf War allies blasted the vehicles with armor-piercing shells made of depleted uranium -- the first time such weapons had been used in warfare -- as the Iraqis retreated from Kuwait. The devastating results gave the highway its name.

According to Rudy Giuliani, the fires raged at ground zero 'for a hundred days' after the towers were hit. The presence of a high-energy compound such as DU helps explain how this was sustained long after the jet fuel would have been gone and how the health of so many 9/11 responders was devastated.

The act of state-sponsored terror by Mossad against Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai shatters the common notion portrayed in the corporate media that terrorism is a tactic limited to Islamic jihadists. 

This was only one in a recent series of terrorist acts sponsored by Israel, including the bombing of a tourist bus in Damascus which allegedly carried members of Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. The use of remotely controlled explosives also raises doubt to the knee-jerk explanation of such events as ‘suicide bombings’, which implies the guilt of Islamic fundamentalists and removes the impetus for criminal investigation.  

These events contrast the belief sworn to by neoconservatives that the war on terror simply pits a radical Middle Eastern group of ideologues against Western ‘freedom’. It also puts into question the role of Israel in the war on terror. It is a country that has a well-known distate for its Islamic neighbors. A closer examination reveals that Israeli security agents have been present and complicit for a number of other high-profile terror events.

For example ICTS, the Israeli security firm established by Shin Bet agents, was responsible for allowing the Nigerian crotch-bomber onto his flight in Amsterdam. It is the same firm which ran security at Logan, Newark, and Dulles airports on September 11, 2001.

In addition to having accomplices inside airport security, the 9/11 planners were able to obtain prior knowledge that simulated terror attacks would be staged by NORAD on that day, providing a crucial smokescreen for the operation. This information would only have been available to those who could tap into US intelligence networks. Israel had access through its communication company Verint, formerly Comverse Infosys, which is the biggest provider and servicer of wiretapping equipment to the US government.

An Israeli spy ring consisting of hundreds of agents posing as art students was uncovered in the US in 2001. Three weeks prior to 9/11, the New York Times reported that art students had illegally installed a balcony at the World Trade Center on the 91st floor, of which 8 photographs were taken showing ‘a lone figure dressed in a white jacket, standing in a lectern-size box’ on the eastern facade. In "Accounts From the North Tower", survivor Mike McQuaid said that immediately below the plane’s impact the 91st floor was only 25% occupied, because WTC leaseholder Larry Silverstein was taking it over. He said that ‘some kind of artists’ had been placed in a ‘big open area’ on that floor. It would be the highest point from which the stairway remained accessible and provided for the perfect vantage point to confirm that the North Tower was hit.

Israel is the world’s leader in remote controlled aviation, producing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) the size of Boeing 737’s.

Mossad, the planet’s biggest perpetrator of passport fraud, had agents positioned near the location that the passport of hijacker Satam al Suqami was ‘discovered’.

An Army study published on Sept. 10, 2001 said that Mossad has the capability of targeting US forces, framing Arabs.