A spectacular attack on the United States was on the wish list of Zbegniew Brzezinski as far back as 1997, without it, there would be no internal support within the United States for the sacrifices needed to implement his plans for American hegemony. In his book “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives”, Mr. Brzezinski writes:

Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.

The Project for a New American Century, a Washington think tank that took the reins at the Pentagon and the Bush White House, was just as convinced of the importance of the “spectacular attack” as the catalyst for their plans, which mirrored Brzezinski’s, that they felt the need to convey it in their September 2000 white paper, Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century, thusly 

Furthermore, the process of transformation [rebuilding America’s Defenses], even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.

These expansionist policies affecting Central Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, and the military support they require, can only be accelerated and such acceleration acceptable to the American public if there were a new Pearl Harbor and the public felt a continuous outside threat of unpredictable catastrophic attacks.

As men of planning, and since those documents were published, clearly men of action in the Bush administration, did they sit and wait for the “Terrorism Fairy” to grant them their wish, the new Pearl Harbor in the form of the 9/11 attacks, or did they lend a covert hand and made those attacks possible?

From the early days after 9/11, American and International truth movements believed that the U.S. government is complicit in the attacks. Since some within the movements held what might be considered as extreme beliefs, it became easier for the government and mainstream media to brush off legitimate concerns with the wide and indiscriminate strokes of the conspiracy theory defense.

Recently though, these concerns have forced their way into mainstream through mainstream politicians such as French Housing Minister Christine Boutin and former German minister Andreas von Bulow, and public figures such as Rosie O’Donnell and Charlie Sheen.

Still, because of the wide variety of issues and questions raised by the 9/11 truth movement, concerned citizens – According to a Zogby poll 66% or New Yorker (56.2% overall) called for another full investigation – yet find it difficult to follow and stay focused on so many complex issues.

What is needed is to simplify and focus on the weakest links in the official story. A focus on the issues that are simple, easy to investigate, where the evidence is readily available and strongest, and most importantly on issues that any person, regardless of affiliation, could rally behind and generate the strongest call for a new and transparent international investigation into the attacks on 9/11 and the wars that followed.

The weakest links are the collapse of the building known as WTC 7 located at a The World Trade Center in New York, and, the “Bin Laden Confession Tape”, released by the Pentagon on December 13, 2001, as proof of Bin Laden’s complicity in the 9/11 attacks.

WTC 7 is a building that did not suffer any direct hit, that collapsed in its own footprint, a hallmark of controlled demolition. There is ample evidence that the collapse was the result of a controlled demolition and there should be a concerted effort to make such evidence part of the mainstream public discourse until all the facts are established.

If the facts establish that WTC 7 was intentionally demolished, and the method was controlled demolition, logic forces us to strongly consider the possibility that WTC 1 and 2, the twin towers, were also brought down in the same manner; controlled demolition. After all, a controlled demolition of those towers would result in a predictable and quantifiable loss level that would be limited to their footprint.

Proof of controlled demolition of those buildings would be proof that the U.S. government, knew about the attacks in advance, very likely aided in their execution, minimized the loses, and capitalized on them as the cornerstones of its future foreign policy and geopolitical ambitions.

The other weak link is the “Bin Laden Confession Tape”. It is probably the weakest since the evidence is still available to the general public, mainstream media, law enforcement, and international investigative bodies, to probe and analyze and quickly reach the following narrative: 

“The Bin Laden Confession Tape” is the product of a two-part sting operation run by U.S. intelligence with the help of Saudi intelligence. “Part One” of the sting was to tape Bin Laden confessing to his involvement in the attacks on 9/11; this part was conducted on September 26, 2001, ten days prior to the invasion of Afghanistan, in a village in Ghazni province where Bin Laden’s family lived.

For “Part One”, U.S. intelligence had at least 4 days advanced notice of the date of the meeting; 24 hours advanced notice of its exact location, and knew that Bin Laden would be at that location for at least 3 hours, and possibly in the village overnight to visit with his family.

“Part Two” of the sting was his capture and that came with little notice and no control over the capture parameters. For ‘Part Two”, a Saudi operative was left behind after the taping and his task was to alert U.S. Special Forces of Bin Laden’s return to the village. Bin Laden returned on November 2, 2001, a bad weather day - freezing rain.

That evening, around 11 pm Afghan time, two Special Forces helicopters, a Predator drone, and an unknown number of F-14 fighter jets converged on that village.

What we know is that the Predator collided with one of the helicopters and they both crashed. The second helicopter rescued the crew of the first, and an F-14 bombed the wreckage in order to conceal evidence of the capture operation. The Pentagon reports the two incidents as separate incidents attributed to bad weather but the Pentagon also inadvertently provided photographic evidence that these two aircraft collided.

In my earlier reporting on this crash, I ducked the conspiracy theory defense by accepting what I had proof of, video proof of frozen rain and sleet precipitation in that village, and video of intermingled helicopter and Predator parts. Back in February of 2007, the intelligence source that confirmed the Predator engine identification objected to my conclusion and insisted that the Predator purposely rammed the helicopter in order to sabotage the mission while bad weather was used as a cover.

Either scenario could be easily proven if there were to be a transparent investigation. Even though the implications of the two scenarios are very different, the net result of this collision is the same; it is a fact that the capture mission failed and Bin Laden is still a free man.

To be fair to the intelligence source, the next event in this chain strongly supports the assertions the source made. On December 13, 2001, the Bush administration, after what we were told was ample deliberation at the White House and Pentagon, decided to release the product of the “Part One” of the sting; The Bin Laden Confession Tape.

The tape, which Bin Laden would eventually view, would reveal to him that it was taped covertly by intelligence services, that intelligence operatives had full control of the taping location, and that they could have captured him or killed him if they had chosen to; the release of the tape exposed the sting and made it so much more difficult to get that close to Bin laden again.

Such a gift to Bin Laden could only be possible because of a controversial practice by the Bush administration, the declassification of intelligence material for political purposes; in this case, they declassified a sensitive by-product of a failed intelligence operation.

The laws that were broken as a result of this sting operation targeting Bin Laden and the acts that followed, one of which is the illegal war against Afghanistan, span many jurisdictions, from laws covering the locality of Manhattan, NY, to International Law, and those crimes are quite easy to prove.

There is a need to focus on what is easy to prove in order to prevent similar acts that might be coming upon us very soon. Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum predicted on July 7, 2007 that a terrorism attack would take place prior to November. On July 10, by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff who informed us that he had a “gut feeling” that such an attack will take place this summer. Will their wishes come true or is it that the Terrorism Fairy would be allowed to strike again?

It is common knowledge that since 9/11, the American military is only weaker, the American coffers emptier, very few of the 9/11 commission recommendations implemented, and Homeland Security under Chertoff is highly understaffed to the tune of 500 mid and senior level positions. Since 9/11, the only successful war waged by the Bush Administration is the war on civil liberties and Bush’s recent executive order is just another nail in the coffin. Is that how a country is secured or is it that the country is purposely left vulnerable in order to secure future plans?

Many old hands under Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, and even Carter himself, are wondering where Bush is taking the U.S. and the world.

The answer, if we add to the above Seymour Hersh’s revelations that the U.S. government, through surrogates, is currently financially supporting Muslim extremists and supplying them with weapons, Bolton’s support for a new round of civil war in Lebanon, and add to that the recent U.S. position vis a vis Musharraf’s Pakistan, a clear picture emerges; a symbiotic relationship between the Bush administration and Bin Laden, nurtured by the president and the neo-cons, with congressional and senate approval, has developed and bent on destabilizing a whole region.

By actively radicalizing Muslims worldwide, a process that parallels the radicalization of the West Bank and Gaza in Palestine, and pushing them into the arms of Al-Qaeda and other similar organizations, the Bush administration is creating a large, contiguous, and highly unstable, swath of land between Pakistan and Lebanon that will be perceived by the American public as the hotbed for hatching future spectacular and unpredictable terrorism plots against the U.S.; a new and lasting cold war would be achieved. When nuclear weapons are added to this mix, another World War is not too far away.

Again, it is left to the average person who is looking for sanity to prevail to focus on what is easy to prove, the Terrorism Fairy cannot be allowed to strike again, there is no time to waste.

Note to the reader: please sign the petition and try to get involved in the national action (also found at http://www.mydemocracy.net/misprision_of_treason.htm) of informing federal Judges of these treasonous acts.