Just a few points about our great President and the US attack on 9-11...

OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM WAS PLANNED YEARS AGO
Citing multiple documents including a congressional hearing in which leading oil executives urged members of congress to "stabilize" Afghanistan so that they could construct an oil pipeline from former Soviet republics in the Caucuses to the Caspian Sea, Ahmed demonstrates that the U.S. planned to occupy Afghanistan for years and that the invasion was to take place sometime in the fall of 2001.

THE US PROPPED UP THE TALIBAN
Again citing congressional documents, Ahmed demonstrates that the Taliban domination of Afghanistan was the direct result of American arms and logistical support. He further demonstrates that the U.S. hoped the harshly repressive Taliban would "stabilize" Afghanistan and did not count on them turning against the U.S. for ideological reasons.

BIN LADEN'S FAMILY OWNED 5% OF BUSH'S FIRST OIL COMPANY
An individual named Bath invested the money of his Saudi friends/clients, including the brother of one of Usama Bin Laden's wives, in George W. Bush's first oil company, Arbusto. In fact, Bush Jr. and Bush Sr. have had considerable dealings with the Bin Laden family that they have gone to great lengths to conceal.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE WAS IGNORED
Intelligence agencies from France, Russian, Britain, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, and others strenuously warned the Bush administration of the September 11th plot in detail. The Bush administration did not act on this information.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE WAS THWARTED AND SURPRESSED
Prior to September 11th, dedicated FBI and CIA agents had not only uncovered the details of the September 11th plot but also had desperately attempted to get their superiors to act on this information. These agents were reigned in by their superiors, and in some cases they were threatened with retaliation if they went public or testified to congress about this information. After September 11th, intelligence agents were not allowed to pursue leads in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan, even though the majority of clues pointed to those locations. Instead, their superiors (mostly Bush administration appointees) ordered them to focus on Germany.

THE AMERICAN SUPPORTED ISI GAVE MONEY TO MOHAMED ATTA
A leader of the American supported Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence Agency (ISI) personally ordered a subordinate to wire money to Mohamed Atta. He was subsequently forced into early retirement but never investigated.

THE TERRORISTS TRAINED ON AMERICAN AIRFORCE BASES
Records indicate that several of the September 11th terrorists trained in U.S. Air Force bases as part of a longstanding program to train Saudi pilots. The Air force explained this by saying that the records merely revealed individuals with the same names as the terrorists trained received Air Force training. When pressed to verify this fact by producing even one of these individuals for an interview, the Air Force refused.

THE U.S. REFUSED BIN LADEN EXTRADITION OFFERS
Both before and after September 11th, the U.S. refused offers, first from the Sudan and then from Bin Laden himself in Afghanistan, for Bin Laden's extradition.

STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES WERE NOT FOLLOWED ON 9/11
The most powerful 9/11 myth to date is that the Air Force cannot intercept stray aircraft without presidential authorization. The Air Force cannot shoot down stray aircraft without presidential authorization, but they routinely intercept stray aircraft as a matter of published standard operating procedures that are documented on military Web sites and which this reviewer has read. Several sources indicate that 9/11 was not new in the sense that aircraft frequently go off course or lose radio contact with ground control and the Air Force intercepts them as a matter of routine. In the case of golf professional, Payne Stewart's aircraft, for example, it was immediately tracked, and intercepted within minutes of going off course. Astoundingly, Air Force planes were not launched until after three of the four hijacked aircraft had hit their targets and instead were grounded in an unprecedented manner.

THE PRESIDENT'S PERSONAL EXPLANATION IS HIGHLY CONTRADICTORY
President Bush frequently changed his explanation of what he knew and when he knew it. Ahmed's sources indicate that prior to aircraft striking the first World Trade Center tower, the president had been informed that an aircraft had been hijacked and diverted toward New York City.

THE PRESIDENT AND OTHER'S RESPONSE WAS INEXPLICABLY SLOW
Astoundingly, by his own admission, after the president learned that an aircraft had struck the first World Trade Center tower, he continued reading to school children in Florida. Similarly, the Vice President simply continued his meeting with Senator Max Cleeland, and the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff and his immediate Air Force subordinate did nothing. By their own published admissions, in the face of an unprecedented national emergency, the leaders who were most empowered to act simply stuck to their planned routines for that day.