Introduction to 9/11 for Those Who Still Believe the Official Story

The administration's claim that terrorists crashing planes into buildings was not foreseeable is flatly disproven by the following evidence:

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the military air defense agency responsible for protecting the U.S. mainland, had run drills for several years of planes being used as weapons against the World Trade Center and other U.S. high-profile buildings, and "numerous types of civilian and military aircraft were used as mock hijacked aircraft". In other words, drills using REAL AIRCRAFT simulating terrorist attacks crashing jets into buildings, including the World Trade Center, were run.

Indeed, on the morning of September 11, 2001 itself, the government was running a simulation of a plane crashing into a building.

The military had also conducted drills of planes crashing into the Pentagon. For example, see this official military website showing a military drill conducted in 2000, using miniatures.

Moreover, a 1998 report forwarded from the FBI to the Federal Aviation Administration concluded that "a group of unidentified Arabs planned to fly an explosive-laden plane . . . into the World Trade Center"

The CIA Director had also warned Congress shortly before 9/11 "that there could be an attack, an imminent attack, on the United States of this nature. So this is not entirely unexpected" according to a broadcast on National Public Radio

Indeed, it was widely known within the FBI in the weeks before 9/11 that an imminent attack was planned on lower Manhattan.

And an employee who worked in the south tower stated "How could they let this happen? They knew this building was a target. Over the past few weeks we'd been evacuated a number of times, which is unusual. I think they had an inkling something was going on"

In addition, a guard who worked in the world trade center stated that "officials had recently taken steps to secure the towers against aerial attacks"

And Sibel Edmonds -- the former FBI translator who Senators Leahy and Grassley, among others, have claimed is credible, and who the administration has gagged for years without any logical basis -- has stated that the government did have fairly specific foreknowledge of the time frames of the attacks.

This is in addition to the numerous warnings from foreign intelligence services of an imminent attack on the U.S, and the known history of plans to use planes as bombs.

And remember the supposed Al-Qaeda statements of 9/10 that"tomorrow is zero hour" and "the match begins tomorrow"? The government claims these intercepts were not translated by the intelligence services until after 9/11. But given the administration's lies about pre-war intelligence on Iraq, and given that Sibel Edmonds also testified that the government pressured her to CHANGE THE DATE of her translations of pre-911 intelligence, do you buy that?

Given these facts, the government clearly possessed foreknowledge of at least the basics of the 9/11 attacks, including the general targets and timeframe.

This essay discusses only foreknowledge, and not who actually carried out the 911 attacks, or why they were carried out. If you have now learned for the first time that the government had foreknowledge, we invite you review the fuller story of 9/11 for yourself by clicking here