Layer after layer...

It's amazing to me, how complex 9/11 was. Reading Tarpley's book really opens up the scope of the thinking behind it all, the history of it. According to him, these rogue military and private networks go back to JFK's assassination, MLK, RFK, the OKC bombing, and the 1993 WTC bombing. What I find incredible is how secret the whole thing is. It's almost beyond belief that (assuming that these assertions are true) everyone involved in these operations is so loyal to the neocon ideology that nobody from within ever comes forward with information, or makes a big enough mistake that their plans get noticed beforehand. And you'd have to have so many people involved in the thing...people to plant charges in the buildings, a base with people working on the dummy planes, a command center where the flights were controlled from, complicit military and government employees, politicians...how did they pull it off?

I was just reading in Tarpley's book about Giuliani and his political maneuvers on 9/11 and afterward, making sure that the WTC site was cleaned up quickly, stirring up discord among the firefighters - a big group of eyewitnesses who could have revealed information about controlled demolition charges, explosions going off, etc. Somehow, the firefighters were discredited, marginalized.

So, was Giuliani involved in the planning for the attacks? And Larry Silverstein, the owner of the WTC lease, who mentioned "pulling" WTC Building 7? Why aren't they being investigated and questioned, if the evidence points clearly toward their complicity?

I can't help wondering what would have happened if someone had videotaped events at Logan Airport that morning - people boarding the planes, shots of the planes themselves...that would be some damning evidence. Also, video of the people who planted the charges in the WTC over the weekend of 9/8 to 9/9, when there was a "power down" of floors 50 and above in the north tower.

But no such luck, I guess.

One of the most disturbing assertions in the book is that Bush essentially capitulated to the rogue network when he started to mention Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda after the attacks. Supposedly, that was what the network wanted, to start a "clash of civilizations" against the Arab world, so that the U.S. could maintain its dominance for the next however many decades or more. Also, this network is in a position to threaten the current Administration because it has access to all sorts of weaponry. So, that means the Bush Administration is being blackmailed by these guys. Whenever Bush states publicly, as he did today, for example, that he's not going to withdraw troops from Iraq, he's basically saying to this network, "Don't worry, we'll keep up this clash of civilizations as long as you want us to."

Can that really be what's happening here?