The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 [Paperback]

Griffin manages to cover all of the key concerns that have been raised in other books and Web sites that examine the events of 9/11. For example, why weren't the attacks prevented in spite of repeated warnings that the U.S. received in the months beforehand? Why were FBI agents blocked from investigating the men who later became the hijackers on 9/11? Why did the standard procedure of sending up fighter jets to intercept off-course planes fail to occur successfully four times in a row on 9/11? Why did the president continue with a relatively trivial appointment to listen to some schoolchildren reading, in spite of knowing that the first WTC tower had been hit before he entered the school? The list of questions goes on.

Griffin even examines some of the more controversial claims made by critics of the official 9/11 story. For example, was it really Flight 77 that hit the Pentagon? Photos taken that day appear to show damage far too small to have been made by a Boeing, and the lawn in front of where the plane is meant to have hit appears intact, with no scorch marks or signs of gouging.

Griffin is braver than most in his ability to examine these questions in a balanced and rational way. He presents a strong case for a far more in-depth investigation of the attacks of September 11 than those that have so far been conducted.

Anyone who cares about peace and democracy ought to read this book.

This is simply the most comprehensive and authoritative source available of any kind. It provides a complete review of all the most important and reliable evidence for and against the official version of events, and covers all of the most important questions. It is 100% guaranteed to leave you in no doubt whatsoever that there are genuine and fundamental problems with the official account of 9/11.

If you sincerely care about what happened that day, or truly wish to prevent it from happening again, I strongly recommend this book to you.

Indeed there are so many unanswered questions about the conduct of the Bush administration, the CIA and FBI both in the run up to 9/11 and afterwards that it is quite incredible that the independent commission into the disaster has been obstructed by the American Government at every turn. How many of us were aware that it is normal US practice to scramble fighters to investigate any commercial airliner that suddenly changes course without warning? And yet on September 11th 2001, not only were the fighters not scrambled until far too late to protect New York and Washington, they were ordered from distant bases rather than the much nearer McGuire and Andrews bases respectively! And instead of flying at maximum speed (1,500 to 1,850 miles an hour), they only flew at 300 to 700 miles an hour which meant they arrived well after the disasters had occurred.

And how many of us knew that demolition experts in the US have grave concerns about the real cause of the collapse of the Twin Towers? That all the evidence about the construction of the buildings militates against the airliners being responsible and that the buildings' collapse exhibited all the signs of controlled demolitions: molten steel, seismic shocks and fine dust? Not only that but US Government agencies had the debris, including the steel, removed without investigation and sold on the world market! Then there is the circumstantial but compelling evidence that Flight 77 did not crash into the Pentagon as reported but that it crashed in Kentucky or Ohio. And that a much smaller aircraft or missile hit the Pentagon! And that Flight 93 was shot down by a missile when it became evident that the passengers were going to gain control over the hijackers.

I know it all sounds too incredible to be taken seriously. But the author has painstakingly collected together enough questions about 9/11 to seriously call into question how much the Bush administration knew in advance of what was going to happen - and why the collective failure of the most powerful country in the world to protect itself could itself have been deliberate. What better excuse for the 'war on terror' to protect the US oil interests could there ever be than 9/11? Echoes of Pearl Harbor when it was suspected that President Roosevelt knew in advance about the Japanese attack but didn't do anything about it - because he wanted to goad the American public into going to war against the Nazis!